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


Palestinian Journalists Syndicate expels member for normalizing ties with Israel

The decision to expel Mismar was taken because of her participation in the Joint Memorial Day Ceremony, which took place last month.

Palestinian Journalist Syndicate

Netzach Yehuda Memorial day

Last night an emotional evening was held in Heichal Shlomo synagogue in Jerusalem, in memory of the Charedi IDF soldiers who fell on duty.

 Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem - Harav Shlomo Moshe Amar

Row by row, Israel remembers its fallen heroes

24,068 IDF soldiers, police officers, prison wardens, Shin Bet security service and Mossad agents have been killed since 1860.

Remembrance Day 2022

From grief to joy: Why Israel marks Remembrance Day the day before Independence Day

The sudden transition from mourning to celebration is tied to events that marred the birth of the state, historians reveal

Yom Hazikaron ceremony

'My soul died with my son' - Israelis, Palestinians on Remembrance Day

The 17th annual Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day Ceremony was held simultaneously in Tel Aviv and in Beit Jalla.

 Palestinians, Israelis and politicians attend a memorial ceremony commemorating the long Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2022, as Israel marks the annual Remembrance Day, on May 3, 2022.

Bennett urges unity as Israel marks Remembrance Day

The prime minister lamented that "our people carry on their bodies the scars of the gene of divisiveness from our ancestors."

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Yad Labanim Memorial Day ceremony in Jerusalem, May 3, 2022

For Jews, Christians: Is there a chance for reconciliation in the future?

Opinion: "At the end of days the love between the two brothers – Yaakov and Eisav – will return.” 

 Toby Klein Greenwald hold Yanai in 2021

Waze maps 250 memorials for fallen soldiers and terror attack victims

Some of the memorials have never been mapped before, so now drivers should be able to find them more easily.

 The Yizkor symbol on Waze.

The story of the daring pilot Zahara Levitov

Zahara Levitov was a Palmach fighter and among the first women to fly planes in the newly established IDF, but her service was cut short by a tragic crash.

 Zahara Levitov

56 IDF soldiers and security personnel died in 2021 - Defense Ministry

56 IDF soldiers and security personnel died in 2021, while 84 IDF disabled veterans died from their disabilities over the same period.

Gush Etzion memorial service for Yom Hazikaron