Leading religious-Zionist Rabbi Chaim Druckman, a Holocaust survivor, is a guest this year. He has 10 children, 80 grandchildren and 70 great-grandchildren!
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@gantzbe - both of his parents were Holocaust survivors. They met on a ship to Israel and were among the founders of Kfar Ahim, a Moshav founded by survivors.Show this thread -
New Yisrael Beytenu MK Evgeny Sova talks about the Jews who fought against the Nazis in the Red Army, including his great-uncle, and says it's a story of heroism that we should all remember.
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@PresidentRuvi is reading the names of relatives of his wife Nechama, who had participated in the ceremony in the past, but is currently in a coma.Show this thread -
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@netanyahu reads poetry by his father in-law, Shmuel Ben-Arzi, whose family perished in the Holocaust.Show this thread -
I think Supreme Court President Esther Hayut just called the Nazis "Amalek" before reading names of her relatives who were murdered by them.
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Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon is talking about the Holocaust of Libyan Jewry, reads names of children murdered in the Benghazi and Giado concentration camps.
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URP leader Rafi Peretz reading names of Jews from Morocco who were murdered by the Nazis, and Labor leader Avi Gabbay read names of Jews from Tunisia.
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A lot of freshman MKs, sworn in 2 days ago, are participating in the Yom Hashoa ceremony. I think there's something poignant about one of the first things they're doing as MKs is a reminder of how privileged we are to have a Jewish State, to be able to defend ourselves.
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I will never forget!! I am a gentile, now an evangelical Christian. Despite the things the mainline protesant denomination that I attended as a kid did, I was raised to love & resoect the Jewish people. My husband was, as well & we raised our son the same. We advocate 4 Israel,
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