Articles in "Yad Vashem"

‘An Unwelcome Figure in Our Country’: Israel Slams Brazilian President’s Remarks

In response to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's recent comments comparing the Gaza war to the Holocaust, Israel's Foreign ...

Former High Court Justice to Chair Righteous Among the Nations Commission

Retired deputy Supreme Court President Hanan Melcer was appointed Chairman of the Committee to Commemorate the Righteous Among the Nations ...

Mahmoud Abbas’s Antisemitic Rant Draws Condemnations

Mahmoud Abbas, who is at the same time president of the Palestinian Authority, chairman of the PLO and chairman of the Fatah movement, ...

Yad Vashem Using AI to Restore Memory of Holocaust

Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem announced Sunday that it has started using state-of-the-art AI technology including a ...

Yad Vashem Unveils ‘New Book of Names’ with 4.8 Million Holocaust Victims Listed

(Photograph: President Herzog posts the "Book of Names" at Yad Vashem.) Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum and memorial in Jerusalem is ...

United Arab Emirates Embraces Holocaust Education in Arab First

A few years ago, the likelihood of Arabs and Israelis meeting online to discuss Holocaust education would have been unthinkable. But on ...

Father Czapran of Poland Posthumously Recognized as Righteous Among the Nations

Holocaust survivor and decorated retired US Naval Officer Andrew Jampoler, who was rescued during WWII along with his mother and cousin, ...

New PM Lapid Visits President’s Residence and Yad Vashem, Promises Late Father to ‘Always Keep Israel Strong’

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog met Thursday with Incoming Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Mrs. Lihi Lapid at the ...

Historic Meeting: Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan Meets Pope Francis in the Vatican

On Thursday, Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan met for a rare private audience with His Holiness Pope Francis in the Vatican. At the meeting, ...

Belarussian Couple Posthumously Recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for Saving 6 Jews in Holocaust

Israel honored the late couple Kondratiy and Anna Lakotko of Belarus for saving six Jews during the Holocaust and bestowed upon him the ...