Each year for two minutes, the standstill takes over Israel. Then only the siren can be heard, howling throughout the country. The six million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis are being remembered. The button for the commemorative siren was triggered by a survivor. Following the minutes of remembrance, ceremonies are held everywhere to remember Holocaust victims. The start of Yom Hashoah was marked by the central commemoration ceremony on Wednesday evening at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (lit. “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day”), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as a national memorial day. The first official commemorations took place in 1951, and the observance of the day was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (which falls in April or May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day. In 2021 it happened on the 28th of April.
The global group of senior leaders from IJCI and WEA were on their were from the audience with the President of Israel to their two days dialogue conference in the Jerusalem headquarter of ADF.
The photos show buses standing still, the group of global Jewish and Evangelical leaders, Siegfried Fietz and the Senior advisor on Archaeology and History of the Bible to the Secretary General of WEA, Alexander Schick, with the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of Israel, Harry Tees, and with the Chair of IJCIC, Rabbi Ravid Sandmel.
