Victory Photo from the Six Day War

In 1967, Israeli paratroopers broke through Jerusalem in the 6-day-war ending decades of oppression against Jews in the Holy City. In this iconic picture, the three paratroopers who were photographed standing at the Western Wall are pictured together again 50 years later. #jerusalemday Photos: David Rubinger Government Press Office/ Sharon […]

Golda Meir

Born Golda Mabowitz on May 3, 1898 in Kiev, Ukraine. Golda Meir was a teacher, an Israeli politician who was amongst the founders of the State of Israel and the State’s fourth prime minister – Israel’s first and the world’s third woman to have served in this position. Here is […]

Historic!

Watch this unprecedented event, Thursday January 23, 2020. Over 45 world leaders and Heads of State gather at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the 5th World Holocaust Forum, under the banner: “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism.” The forum includes addresses from a number of world leaders, short video […]

Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel

Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel! Born in Krakow, Poland, Saul was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Shoah. He survived the Kraków ghetto and several concentration camps, including Plaszów, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Linz. After the war, Saul was sent to a […]