Plan your Visit To Yad Vashem
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Sun-Thurs: 08:30-17:00
Fridays and holiday eves: 08:30-14:00
Saturday and Jewish holidays – Closed

Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

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Visits of U.S. Presidents to Yad Vashem

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President Richard Nixon during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, June 1974
President Jimmy Carter during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, March 1979
President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, October 1994
From left to right: President George W. Bush accompanied by Israeli President Shimon Peres, Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate in the Holocaust History Museum, January 2008
President Barack Obama listens to an explanation in the Hall of Names by Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Mr. Avner Shalev, March 2013
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance. Also pictured: Cantor Shai Abramson, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, Avner Shalev
President Richard Nixon during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, June 1974