Yad Vashem

Honoring courage in the face of evil and indifference - opinion

To date, Yad Vashem has recognized around 30,000 Righteous Among the Nations.

THE WALL of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem.
Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2026, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israel to mark Holocaust remembrance, but ceremonies disrupted by Iran war

THIS YEAR’S eight survivors carry within them an enormous sweep of Jewish history: ghettos, pits, forests, camps, cattle cars, shootings, hiding places, and then, after all that, lives rebuilt in Israel. Here, President Isaac Herzog stands beside the memorial torch at Yad Vashem.

Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony

(L-R): MEIR HIRSCHFELD, 1936. IDIT PAPA, 1942

Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem


Israel finds support among visiting German influencers

President Herzog hosted nearly 200 German influencers seeking to strengthen ties with Israel.

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Septemeber 14, 2025.

Risking threats, NYC Sheikh leads Muslim interfaith visit to Israel

Rowe, who has engaged in interfaith dialogues in the UK, said it was necessary to find deeper commonalities than just rejection of violence.

New York City Sheikh Musa Drammeh, Shireena Drammeh, Aish U project president Rabbi Daniel Rowe, and Aish CEO Rabbi Steven Burg at a panel during an interfaith dinner with the Muslim leaders, Aish Hatorah leadership, and World Zionist Congress Aish Ha'am slate delegates.

Names of five out of six million Jews killed in Holocaust now identified, AI can help identify more

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan said reaching the five million milestone was a reminder of an unfinished obligation.

Visitors tour an exhibition, ahead of Israel's national Holocaust memorial day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem April 23, 2025.

JPost Headlines: Syrian FM accuses Israel, Four people shot at Lincoln University

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Shifra Jacobs—the top stories, clear and concise. 

A screengrab from a handout video shows an Israeli military vehicle moving barrier blocks to mark the "Yellow Line", in location given as Gaza, released on October 20, 2025.

Yad Vashem’s ‘Living Memory’ exhibition brings Holocaust stories into the present

Living Memory: Yad Vashem Collections Between Past and Future showcases hundreds of Holocaust-era artifacts, artworks, and personal items – many displayed publicly for the first time.

THE SPOON of Arthur Poznanski.

Holocaust survivor and 'Librarian of Auschwitz' Dita Kraus dead at 96

In her 96 years Dita Kraus has been an artist, a librarian, a guide and an inspiration.

Dita Kraus 'Librarian of Auschwitz'

Yad Vashem director condemns Ukraine ambassador's use of Holocaust comparison

Dani Dayan, director of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem museum, decried the widespread use of the Holocaust as a political tool.

Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan seen during a visit of Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial's museum in Jerusalem on September 11, 2023.

Why is Yad Vashem silent on claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza? - opinion

One might have expected Yad Vashem to make a powerful rebuttal to claims of genocide in Gaza, but no such statement has been made.

A WOMAN walks past graffiti depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with text reading ‘Wanted: Netanyahu For Criminal Genocide,’ in Barcelona. The writer asks: Why does Yad Vashem stay silent?

Israel's real strength: Defeating Hamas without surrendering its values - editorial

There is a quiet but powerful moral challenge in this. Dayan is not excusing the devastation in Gaza, nor is he minimizing Israeli trauma.

Consul General of Israel in New York Dani Dayan

Yad Vashem: Israel's war in Gaza is not genocide, but we must act morally - exclusive

To equate the IDF, fighting to protect Israeli citizens from a terrorist army that embeds itself within civilian areas, with the Nazis, is not only false, but morally reprehensible.

Palestinian journalists report on the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025