Vilna gaon

Vilna Jewish leadership betray their heritage - opinion

Vilna was the center of the Zionist movement in the Soviet Union, hosting the Hibat Zion movement, Poalei Zion Party, and Chovevei Zion conventions.

 Vilnius, Lithuania
 ILAN RAMON in front of an F16 aircraft.

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  BAR-ILAN University’s first graduation ceremony, 1959. R: Ogden Reid, US ambassador to Israel.

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Lithuania to release Euro coin honoring the Vilna Gaon

According to the website of the Bank of Lithuania, the commemorative 10-Euro coin will be released in the second quarter of 2020.

Euro (illustrative)

Archaeologists find inscriptions in destroyed Vilna synagogue - watch

In addition, during the excavation a prayer book survived the Holocaust, hundreds of coins from the 16th to 20th centuries and buttons of Napoleon's army, which passed through Vilna.

Hebrew inscriptions found in Vilna Great Synagogue from 200 years ago

Visiting Vilnius, the home of the Vilna Gaon

2018 marks an auspicious time to visit Vilnius.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Netanyahu praises Lithuania for help in balancing EU

PM arrives in Vilnius, "Jerusalem of Lithuania," for his first official visit.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah take off from Ben-Gurion Airport to Lithuania, Agust 23rd, 2018

Anger flares over Lithuania sports complex planned over Jewish graveyard

"The many thousands buried here have no descendants or relatives to stand up for the integrity and dignity of their graves precisely because of the Holocaust," says a Vilnius-based scholar.

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

I came here by choice!

The Jerusalem Post