Yom Hazikaron
Tomer Miller eulogises fallen soldier Ido Baruch. Photo: Rotem Etrogi
May 16, 2024, 8:00 am
An extra poignant event
"If you want to appreciate the numbers that we lost, look around the shule and you will see 1600 people," says Rabbi Levi Wolff.
By Gareth Narunsky
Michael McDonogh, the great-great-grandson of Aboriginal leader William Cooper. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 16, 2024, 8:00 am
Yom Hazikaron unaffected by protests
People inside the hall heard harrowing stories from several people who were caught up in the events of October 7, and there were siongs from the Halev choir.
By Bruce Hill
Members of a Pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Photo: AAP Image/Joel Carrett
May 9, 2024, 8:00 am
Demo planned for Yom HaZikaron event
A social media account run by pro-Palestine activists at Monash University announced they will be demonstrating on campus before the event at 7pm on Monday evening.
By Bruce Hill
The scene of the car-ramming in Jerusalem. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
May 3, 2023, 7:23 am
Five wounded in car ramming
... video footage showed an armed civilian shooting into the car's window as a wounded man lay on the hood of the vehicle. Several other victims were seen strewn across the street.
By Emanuel Fabian
Rabbi Yossi Friedman led the dawn service in Coogee on Anzac Day.
April 27, 2023, 12:01 pm
Rabbi Yossi ‘honoured’ to lead Coogee dawn service
"We're all united in service of our country, and our nation is only as strong as all of us are, provided we're united and working towards the same goals with the same values,"
By RACHEL TREISMAN
Jonathan Goldberg lights a candle for IDF 1st Sergeant Amit Ben Yigal, who was killed in a stone-throwing attack in 2020. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 27, 2023, 11:19 am
Honouring Israel’s fallen
'We all wrap ourselves in silence and from every direction we hear the whispers of weeping and the wiping of tears'
By Peter Kohn
April 27, 2023, 9:58 am
Israel at 75
Israel's 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 25. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
April 27, 2023, 9:52 am
A fractured nation mourns and celebrates
Israel at 75: Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut
By TOI STAFF, Emanuel Fabian, Ash Obel and MICHAEL HOROVITZ
An Israeli soldier places flags, flowers and candles on graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, April 23, 2023, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 24, 2023, 8:12 pm
Coalition ministers withdraw from Memorial Day events amid protests
Amid inflamed social divisions some bereaved family members have publicly called for government members who did not serve in the IDF to avoid attending the events.
By Ash Obel
Rabbi Leo Dee holds a press conference in Efrat, on April 10. Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90
April 24, 2023, 11:08 am
Leo Dee to read Yizkor memorial prayer
As Israel moves from Yom Hazikaron into Yom Ha'atzmaut, Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife and two of his daughters in a terror attack earlier this month, will read the Yizkor memorial prayer in honour of fallen soldiers and terror victoms.
Karin Namer speaking at the Yom Hazikaron service at Moriah College. Photo: Giselle Haber
May 5, 2022, 9:41 am
‘Today is special because you share our pain’
"Asaf was my baby brother, but now he is the country's hero..."
By Shane Desiatnik
Hilary Friedland lights a candle for Eliyahu David Kay. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 5, 2022, 9:39 am
Yom Hazikaron memorial
Melbourne's Jewish community remembered and honoured fallen soldiers and victims of terror at a moving commemoration for Yom Hazikaron.
By AJN STAFF
A ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Kotel. Photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90
May 4, 2022, 8:58 am
‘Arguments fall silent in cemeteries’: Herzog calls for unity in Memorial Day speech
Siren sounds nationwide to begin day of mourning for country’s 28,284 fallen soldiers and terror victims, including 177 from past year; IDF chief: ‘We defend the right to life’.
By TOI STAFF
Evie Sidhu (left) and Juliet Kacen enjoy last year's Yom Ha'atzmaut carnival. Photo: Gareth Narunsky
April 28, 2022, 9:45 am
From grief to celebration
Next week, the Jewish community in Sydney will come together to mark Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut.
By AJN STAFF
A previous Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration in Melbourne.
April 26, 2022, 11:30 am
All set for Israel’s yoms
Melbourne's Jewish community will pause to reflect on those who have fallen in defence of Israel on Yom Hazikaron before celebrating Israel's 74th birthday on Yom Ha’atzmaut.
By AJN STAFF
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