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Friday Features: Israel Marks Yom Hashoah at Yad Vashem, 03 May 2019

“The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as a have a contrite spirit.”- Psalm 34:18

Israel Marks Yom Hashoah at Yad Vashem
Netanyahu’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Speech Attacks Antisemitism

Three weeks after his big election win, Prime Minister Netanyahu delivers a blistering speech on Antisemitism at the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony at Yad Vashem.

NETANYAHU ADDRESSES IRAN, CALIFORNIA SHOOTING, ‘NYT’ AT YAD VASHEM

– By Herb Keinon, Jeremy Sharon- The Jerusalem Post 

Jew hatred is the one thing the extreme Right, extreme Left and radical Islam have in common, but Israel has learned from the past and will not “extend its neck for slaughter,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday evening at Yad Vashem at a ceremony marking the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“To those who seek our destruction, I say precisely from this place: We have returned to the stage of history, we have returned to the front of the stage, we have defeated our oppressors in the past, and – with God’s help – we will defeat you as well,” he said.

The prime minister spoke in the presence of President Reuven Rivlin, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and the two chief rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Rabbi David Lau, along with other dignitaries.

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With Shoah speech attacking Iran and NY Times, PM displays post-election resolve

– By David Horovitz, the Times of Israel 

In a fiery, spellbinding performance of less than 20 minutes on Wednesday night, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showcased the oratorial mastery that helped him win reelection just three weeks ago, and showcased, too, his personal conviction that he is uniquely qualified to lead the Jewish state.

Addressing the nation at the start of the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu delivered an address that built from astonishing stories of Holocaust suffering and heroism, as told to him by a group of survivors with whom he had met on Tuesday, to a resounding assertion of Israel’s legitimacy and denunciation of its critics.

Speaking at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem to a large audience that heard him in absolute silence, and to a nation watching on TV, the prime minister hailed survivors such as Fanny Ben-Ami, who as a 13-year-old led a group of children to safety in Switzerland from France but who turned back when she realized that a three-year-old girl in their group had been left behind in the demilitarized zone. “Fanny went back to get her,” the prime minister marveled; she “zig-zagged under gunfire” to bring the toddler to safety: “An angel of salvation, aged 13.”

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Today’s news was written and compiled by Lily Sironi.

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