Memorial day

Bar Timor: 'We don't forget, we will continue carrying the memory with us'

Hapoel Tel Aviv marked three years since Oct 7. Yannay: "We brought joy." Ginat: "We thought about the fallen then, and we think about them today."

“Together Forever” marking Black Saturday on October 7.
IDF soldiers lower Israeli flags to half-mast at the President's Residence in Jerusalem to commemorate the October 7 massacre, October 5, 2026.

From North to South: Israel bows its head in remembrance of October 7 massacre

 Local Modi’in children visit the path honoring Yonah Betzalel Brief.

Modi’in project with Rochester Jewish community turns fallen soldiers' stories into memorials

Yahav Shorer, advocate

For the first time: Israeli law recognizes a Family Memorial Day as a protected leave day


The coronavirus chronicles

One day when the coronavirus threat recedes and things return to normal, if I begin to forget what life was like during this bizarre period, I may want to look back at some of my diary entries...

ON APRIL 18, the writer’s birthday, her granddaughter makes her a cake and the grandkids sing happy birthday from the other side of the garden fence.

Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day – a confused message

The joint ceremony staggers under the weight of its own confused message as a manifestation of grief.

Aisha El-Rabi’s husband Yaakub speaks at the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony

Israel, Dutch philharmonic orchestras to perform joint memorial concert

The performance will be available, at 1 p.m., on the Facebook pages and other digital platforms of both orchestras.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Coping with Remembrance Day, comparing the day before, the day after

The sirens can be heard across the land from one end to the other. It does not change the gravitas of the unique silence of Remembrance Day.

A Haredi soldier honoring the memory of those who died in the wars of the nation

Palestinian terror victim: Her white dress was black with grief

“At once everything turned over and I knew nothing would ever be the same. That terrible moment stole my happiness and that of my children and all my family,” said El-Rabi.

Aisha El-Rabi’s husband Yaakub speaks at the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony

Israel marks Remembrance Day from a distance

Official Har Herzl ceremony lasts moments, Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks from his office

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi marks Israel's Yom Hazikaron ceremony for fallen soldiers, Har Herzl, Jerusalem April 28, 2020

Coronavirus gave us Israelis a more frightening Remembrance Day – opinion

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to stay at home. The cemeteries will remain empty. Families are not allowed to visit the graves of their loved ones.

bereaved families visit the graves of their fallen loved ones ahead of Israel's Memorial Day

Ashkenazi holds Zoom meeting to honor First Lebanon War's fallen

Ashkenazi, former IDF chief of staff, spoke of friends who died during the battle of Beaufort Castle.

Blue and White MK Gabi Ashkenazi holds a Zoom meeting to remember those who died during the Lebanon War

Benny Gantz on Remembrance Day: Time to seek peace

MK cries over soldier brother who died

Blue and White MK Michael Biton

WATCH: Israelis sing Hatikvah from balconies, usher in Remembrance Day

"Go out to your balconies, stand by your windows, and we'll all sing the national anthem together as one," he said, addressing bereaved and families, and citizens of the State of Israel.

Residents of Afula sing Hatikvah from their balcony for Memorial Day