![Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, lights the Memorial Torch](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/_DSC2328.jpg?itok=WPrDH5Tt)
![Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, lights the Memorial Torch](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/_DSC2328.jpg?itok=feyAywtj)
![President Shimon Peres speaks at the opening ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_7528.jpg?itok=PkeJWA6I)
![President Shimon Peres speaks at the opening ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_7528.jpg?itok=XCxL5D-h)
![Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9509.jpg?itok=zyP1vE68)
![Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9509.jpg?itok=l5ZwUQ7l)
![Shalom Eilati gives the address on behalf of the survivors](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/_DSC2566.jpg?itok=R5HGfX9p)
![Shalom Eilati gives the address on behalf of the survivors](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/_DSC2566.jpg?itok=lsWkbLkZ)
![The IDF Paratroopers’ Guard of Honor during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_7515.jpg?itok=Sdonn5VY)
![The IDF Paratroopers’ Guard of Honor during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_7515.jpg?itok=N1Bwg98O)
![Holocaust survivor Asher Aud lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9598.jpg?itok=4xNQIj2S)
![Holocaust survivor Asher Aud lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9598.jpg?itok=cgppQEX-)
![Holocaust survivor Zvi Michaeli lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9619.jpg?itok=Q4dx5wb3)
![Holocaust survivor Zvi Michaeli lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9619.jpg?itok=NaE4nww-)
![Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9641.jpg?itok=Sge1cPTy)
![Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9641.jpg?itok=-Iwx1rHF)
![Holocaust survivor Chayim Herzl lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9659.jpg?itok=dFybA7qB)
![Holocaust survivor Chayim Herzl lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9659.jpg?itok=3xiADtVm)
![Holocaust survivor Hinda Tasman lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9665.jpg?itok=xtxcOc4p)
![Holocaust survivor Hinda Tasman lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9665.jpg?itok=AlrZLRye)
![Holocaust survivor Itzchak Biran lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9693.jpg?itok=O_9QcW3Y)
![Holocaust survivor Itzchak Biran lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9693.jpg?itok=TSCEVo_A)
![The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau recites psalms](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9717.jpg?itok=z-DF-iGy)
![The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau recites psalms](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9717.jpg?itok=dBdyvPn5)
![Singers Hagit Yasso and Idan Amedi](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_9713.jpg?itok=r3kJX7BP)
![Singers Hagit Yasso and Idan Amedi](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_9713.jpg?itok=_t_JoiyB)
![The audience during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_6151.jpg?itok=vpw24qmh)
![The audience during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_6151.jpg?itok=QonJhWuy)
Sunday to Thursday: 09:00-17:00
Fridays and Holiday eves: 09:00-14:00
Yad Vashem is closed on Saturdays and all Jewish Holidays.
Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is not permitted for children under the age of 10. Babies in strollers or carriers will not be permitted to enter.