![The Opening Ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_5328.jpg?itok=UL28eTTM)
(from right to left)
Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin and his wife, President of the Supreme Court Dorit Beinisch and her husband
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![The Opening Ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_5328.jpg?itok=qAt3jTRT)
![Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, lights the Memorial Torch during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_5337.jpg?itok=mOBqicdc)
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, lights the Memorial Torch during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_5337.jpg?itok=J-AiLIdE)
![President Shimon Peres gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2010](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_5353.jpg?itok=o8doK1yz)
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![President Shimon Peres gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2010](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_5353.jpg?itok=lyct7IJW)
![Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_5377.jpg?itok=8oq921qN)
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_5377.jpg?itok=61JtDvXa)
![Jakob Zim lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_5472.jpg?itok=Q9rNiRqR)
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![Jakob Zim lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_5472.jpg?itok=itbGDGge)
![Chana Weiss gives the address on behalf of the survivors at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_5490.jpg?itok=Ofx4HQzn)
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![Chana Weiss gives the address on behalf of the survivors at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_5490.jpg?itok=DdXoPemJ)