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Photos from Official Events on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019

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Scenes from the opening ceremony marking Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem, 01 May 2019.

The IDF Paratroopers’ Guard of Honor during the ceremony
Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate lights the Memorial Torch at the beginning of the ceremony
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the opening ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Holocaust survivor Bela Eizenman lights one of the six torches at the ceremony
Holocaust survivor Shaul Lubovitz lights one of the six torches at the ceremony
Holocaust survivor Fanny Ben-Ami lights one of the six torches at the ceremony
Holocaust survivor Menachem Haberman lights one of the six torches at the ceremony
Holocaust survivor Sara Shapira lights one of the six torches at the ceremony
Holocaust survivor Yehuda Mimon lights one of the six torches at the ceremony
Zipora Granat gives the address on behalf of the survivors at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day
The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau recites psalms
Singers Miri Mesika and Idan Rafael Haviv at the ceremony
The audience during the ceremony
The IDF Paratroopers’ Guard of Honor during the ceremony