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Wounded Israeli soldiers bring resilience to UCLA amid canceled Holocaust event

Israel Hayom - 03:37 May 07, 2024

In the solemn halls of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an annual ritual meant to honor the victims of the Holocaust was conspicuously absent this year. The school's traditional Holocaust Day ceremony, typically held at the iconic Powell Library plaza, was abruptly canceled amid escalating tensions and fears of unrest on campus. […]

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Columbia University cancels main commencement ceremony after protests

Israel Hayom - 03:30 May 07, 2024

Columbia University on Monday canceled its main, university-wide commencement ceremony scheduled for May 15 in favor of smaller, school-based events, a decision that follows weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the Ivy League school. "We have decided to make the centerpiece of our commencement activities our Class Days and school-level ceremonies, where students are […]

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Singing 'Hatikvah' in Harvard Palestinian stronghold, Jewish students fight back

Israel Hayom - 03:22 May 07, 2024

Amidst a wave of protests by pro-Palestinian students across the US, Jewish students have decided to launch a counterattack against displays of antisemitism. Liat (not her real name), a doctoral student at Harvard University, was one of the central activists on campus. Together with other students, she entered the anti-Israel lion's den on campus […]

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Harvard President threatens to expel student protesters from campus

Israel Hayom - 03:18 May 07, 2024

Breaking his silence on the pro-Palestine protest encampment, Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber issued a university-wide email on Monday morning, threatening "involuntary leave" for demonstrators who persisted in controlling Harvard Yard. "I write today with this simple message: The continuation of the encampment presents a significant risk to the educational environment of the […]
Gov't decides to continue with Rafah measures despite potential breakthrough

Israel Hayom - 03:00 May 07, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his War Cabinet approved continuing an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages and achieve the country's other war goals. "The war cabinet unanimously decided that Israel continue the operation in Rafah to exert military pressure on […]

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Report: US pauses weapon shipment to delay Israel from entering Rafah

Israel Hayom - 02:05 May 07, 2024

The Biden administration has delayed the sale of thousands of precision weapons to Israel, raising questions about whether the US is deliberately slowing the delivery of arms to its top Middle East ally amid growing domestic political pressure. The administration faces pressure from a growing number of Democratic lawmakers to cut back arms supplies […]

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Hamas says it accepts ceasefire proposal of Egypt, Qatar

Israel Hayom - 16:43 May 06, 2024

Hamas said in a statement on Monday that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar. The Islamist faction said in a statement that its chief, Ismail Haniyeh, had informed Qatar's prime minister and Egypt's intelligence chief of its acceptance of their proposal. Earlier on Monday, US President Joe Biden pressed […]

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US reportedly worried over Israel 'speeding up' Rafah assault

Israel Hayom - 16:39 May 06, 2024

A senior US official has told Politico that the Biden administration is concerned Hamas' rocket attack over the weekend has led Israel to accelerate plans for a potential military operation in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza. "The rocket attack confirms their fear, you still have this pocket there that gone unchecked or left […]

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Have Israeli Holocaust Historians found the elusive smoking gun on Hitler?

Israel Hayom - 16:15 May 06, 2024

The world is witnessing a deeply disturbing resurgence of antisemitism on a scale unparalleled since the Nazi atrocities of World War II. Holocaust deniers, once relegated to the fringes of society, are reemerging and propagating falsehoods. While the historical record unequivocally establishes Adolf Hitler's direct, personal orchestration of the Final Solution and the genocide […]
Gov't decides to continue with Rafah measures despite potential breakthrough

Israel Hayom - 16:00 May 06, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his War Cabinet approved continuing an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages and achieve the country's other war goals. "The war cabinet unanimously decided that Israel continue the operation in Rafah to exert military pressure on […]

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Diplomatic source voices concern Biden could 'throw Israel under the bus'

Israel Hayom - 15:41 May 06, 2024

US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call Monday during which the American leader demanded clarifications regarding the Israeli upcoming incursion into Rafah amid reports that the IDF had ordered residents in the city to evacuate. The two spoke for about half an hour in what was described as […]
Paul Auster was a novelist who saw life as literature

Israel Hayom - 14:20 May 06, 2024

While Paul Auster was commonly regarded as a New York novelist, more discerning critics would aptly characterize him as a "Brooklynite" writer. "I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn to me," testifies his character, Tom Wood, in the opening of his 2002 novel, "The Brooklyn Follies." Auster became the […]
Items of children murdered in Holocaust displayed at Supreme Court exhibit

Israel Hayom - 13:46 May 06, 2024

A new exhibition displaying the personal items of children murdered in the Holocaust opened Sunday at the Supreme Court. The installation, named "Yellow Patch," serves as a heartbreaking memorial to the young lives tragically cut short during the Nazi genocide. The exhibits on display were retained from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in former Czechoslovakia. Established by […]

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Yad Vashem uses AI to find more Holocaust victims

Israel Hayom - 12:40 May 06, 2024

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to identify and record the names of Holocaust victims previously lost in the vast archives of World War II documentation. The renowned memorial and museum houses a staggering 230 million pages of text documents and over 500,000 photographs […]

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'In such a difficult year for the Jewish people, I will march proudly'

Israel Hayom - 11:13 May 06, 2024

At the former Nazi extermination camp of Birkenau, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during World War II, thousands gathered Monday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by singing the Israeli anthem in a deeply symbolic act of defiance and resilience. This year's March of the Living, an annual educational program that brings […]
March of the Living remembers 6 million who perished in Holocaust

Israel Hayom - 11:05 May 06, 2024

At the place where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered and which became one of the symbols of the Nazi extermination machine – Birkenau camp in Nazi-occupied Poland – the March of the Living takes place once again, for the 36th time. This was the peak of the Holocaust Remembrance Day events, […]

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Netanyahu makes rare pledge in English at Holocaust Remembrance Day event

Israel Hayom - 18:40 May 05, 2024

Netanyahu delivered an English message during his speech at the start of the Holocaust Remembrance Day events in Jerusalem, speaking amid the ongoing war with Hamas, which we has accused of being the modern-day Nazis. The speech took an unusual turn when he shifted language since Netanyahu normally does not use this forum to […]

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PM vows to fight Hamas, destroy 'Nazi monsters' at Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

Israel Hayom - 17:53 May 05, 2024

Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day commenced Sunday with the official opening ceremony held at the Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered remarks at the ceremony. Yad Vashem Council Chairman and Holocaust survivor Rabbi Israel Meir Lau lit the memorial […]
They survived Hamas' massacre; now they are in Europe for March of the Living

Israel Hayom - 17:42 May 05, 2024

Israel's Holocaust commemorations this year have a searing significance for six elderly survivors now deeply scarred by the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that sparked the ongoing Gaza war. The killing and kidnapping spree by Palestinian terrorists on a Jewish holiday morning shook the sense of security of Israelis – not least, those who […]
'People are astounded that around a million names of Holocaust victims are missing. 6 million is probably 5.8 million'

Israel Hayom - 14:22 May 05, 2024

Q: You've served as director of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem – the world Holocaust remembrance center – for nearly 30 years. You told me before, that the preoccupation with names and the stories of the victims in the Pages of Testimony collection fascinates you. On a deeper level, what does this […]

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