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Temple Mount sifting project co-founder Gabriel Barkay dies after decades of biblical research

Israeli archaeologist Prof. Gabriel Barkay, who co-founded the Temple Mount Sifting Project and made key discoveries in Jerusalem, has passed away at 81, remembered for his contributions.

Prof. Gabriel (Gabi) Barkay
The Holocaust Memorial in Hyde Park, London.

After 10 years of dispute, UK Holocaust memorial may finally break ground

Soon, memory of the Holocaust will rely not on firsthand accounts but on documentation, interpretation, and increasing technological forms of representation.

AI and fading survivors reshape how we remember the Holocaust - analysis

FATHER OF Ahmed el Ahmed, who tackled one of the gunmen in a deadly mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, attends the 'Light Over Darkness' vigil honouring victims and survivors of the shooting incident in Sydney, Australia, December 21, 2025.

Sydney lights Hanukkah candles in honor of Bondi victims, introduces 'mitzvah' campaign


A joint memorial service is needed this year more than ever - opinion

Change starts with the ability to hear, feel, and acknowledge the pain of the other. This is our mission in the Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, this year more than ever.

 A RECORD crowd of over 15,000 attended last year’s 18th Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial event, held in Tel Aviv.

Secret chess pieces found at Auschwitz camp tell a story of prisoner life

This discovery adds a significant layer to the museum's collection that already includes items like wooden miniature chess pieces and bread-made figures.

 A set of handmade chess pieces hidden beneath the floor at the Auschwitz camp.

Israel establishes an annual commemoration of the Oct. 7 attack — but not on Oct. 7

When Israel’s governing coalition convened on Sunday to set an annual memorial day to commemorate the tragedy, it didn’t choose October 7 or any date on the Gregorian calendar.


UN chief Antonio Guterres to sit out of Holocaust event for first time in 10 years

Guterres’ absence from the event will come after facing heavy criticism from Israel and its supporters for his response to the war.

 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres waits for the arrival of French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in the Gaza Strip at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., January 23, 2024.

Candle memorial at the Kotel to mark 100 days since Oct. 7

Over the past 100 days, dozens of moving and unifying prayer events have taken place, with thousands of attending worshippers.

People light the Hanukkah candles for the release of Israelis kidnapped in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists at the Western Wall, December 7, 2023.

Grapevine January 7th, 2024: First-hand information of living nightmare

Their accounts detailed over 10 hours of a life-threatening race: escaping by car and foot, seeking improvised shelter, and ducking from gunfire.

 WUJS students with Supernova music festival survivors

Visits to Auschwitz Memorial Museum up 41% in 2023

Over 1.67 million people visited the museum in 2023, which is a significant rise from the 2022 numbers which were limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Grapevine january 5 2024: 'Never Again' - No more than lip service

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FLOWERS ARE laid at the sculpture 'Trains to Death' by Frank Meisler and Arie Ovadia at Friedrichstrasse train station in Berlin.

DJ honors victims of Nova festival by performing at empty massacre site

Israeli DJ RIMO pays tribute to lives lost at the Nova music festival, by performing on the stage at the site of the massacre in front of a field filled with the pictures of victims.

 Pictures of the participants of the Nova party who were murdered and kidnapped by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023 are displayed while an artist play music, at the site of the Nova music festival massacre, in Re'im, near the Israeli-Gaza border, November 28, 2023

At memorial for Vivian Silver, grief and a determination to pursue peace

Many speakers from diverse backgrounds described their immense pain at Silver’s death, and determination to pursue the causes to which she was devoted: peace and feminist activism.

 Family and friends attend the funeral of peace activist and one of the founders of the "Women Wage Peace" movemenet, Vivian Silver at Kibbutz Gezer, central Israel. November 16, 2023.