Yad Vashem
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Trial of Olmert's travel coordinator gets underwayAmong the organizations that were billed were: Akim - the Association for the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Handicapped, Israel Bonds, Yad Vashem, the Wiesenthal Center, the March of Life, the World Jewish Congress and others. It is... In this article: Ehud Olmert, Rehabilitation, World Jewish Congress, Wiesenthal Center, Likud, Ariel Sharon, Yad Vashem, and Jerusalem |
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | 5 days ago
German-Israeli relations: 'Merkel Should Get More Engaged in the Peace Process'
'Merkel Should Get More Engaged in the Peace Process' Dalia Itzik at the Yad Vashem memorial, on Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2007. This week Guido Westerwelle makes his first visit as German foreign minister to Israel. Next week the...
In this article: Dalia Itzik, Angela Merkel, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Guido Westerwelle, Kadima, and European Union
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | 6 days ago
German FM to arrive on first trip in post
...official said at the time - to "distance himself from the stench of anti-Semitism" that was dogging his party. During a visit to Yad Vashem at the time, Westerwelle wrote the following in the visitors' book: "History does not end with a new...
In this article: Guido Westerwelle, Juergen Moellemann, Israel, Ariel Sharon, Teheran, and Jerusalem
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Another Tack: Yad Vashem with an air force
One of this country's prominent professional talking heads, who also happens to be a longtime friend, opined in all earnestness when we met the other day that "the most pivotal recent political development" was Tom Friedman's op-ed in The...
In this article: Israel, Democracy, Pro forma, Neville Chamberlain, and Binyamin Netanyahu
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Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | November 20, 2009
89% Defamation
...Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyaEUR�, about the un-proportional influence the Israel lobby in Washington enjoys. Yoav visits Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, the must stop for all world leaders on their...
In this article: Israel, Jerusalem, Expansionism, John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt, Netflix, Norman Finkelstein, and Current TV
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National Post | November 18, 2009
Tarek Fatah: The ethnic politics behind Harper's Golden Temple visit
...by Mr. Harper, and before him Jean Chretien, is equivalent to meeting the Pope while visiting the Vatican or paying homage at the Yad Vashem while visiting Israel. However, there is a huge difference. The Vatican is a Catholic state on...
In this article: Stephen Harper, India, Jean Chretien, Liberal Party, Canada, Jack Layton, Banaras, Amritsar, and The Vatican
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AP Online | November 17, 2009
Academics withdraw support for Holocaust center
...of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, David Bankier, head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, journalist and Wiesenthal biographer. Bauer, who was...
In this article: Yehuda Bauer, E mail, Vienna, and University of Salzburg
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Yad Vashem (יד ושם also spelled Yad VaShem; "Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority") is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse: "And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (Yad Vashem) that shall not be cut off." (Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5). (A note on orthography: the two nouns in Hebrew, yad [memorial/hand] and "shem" [name] are often capitalized in English transliterations; similarly, the Hebrew sign for "and" ["v"] is sometimes lowercased.)
Located at the foot of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem is a 45 acre complex containing the Holocaust History Museum, memorial sites, such as the Children's Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance, The Museum of Holocaust Art, sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, archives, a research institute, library, publishing house and an educational center, The International School for Holocaust Studies. Non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at personal risk, are honored by Yad Vashem as "Righteous Among the Nations."
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