Israel honoured the memories of the victims of the Holocaust by observing two minutes of complete silence.
The Nazis killed approximately six million Jews during the Holocaust. (AFP pic)
JERUSALEM: Israelis came to a halt throughout the country on Thursday to observe two minutes of solemn silence as a siren blared, marking the annual remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Motorists exited their vehicles and students at schools stood in ceremonies beginning with the sounding of the siren.
Outside shops and offices, Israelis stood still, many with heads bowed.
At a Wednesday night ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of the murderous Nazi aggression that was not sufficiently challenged by Western powers, comparing it to Iran.
“Today, too, there’s an extremist regime that’s threatening us, threatening the peace of the entire world,” Netanyahu said of Iran. “That regime explicitly declares that it intends on destroying us, the Jewish state.”
Holocaust survivors lit six torches at the Wednesday memorial to mark the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War Two.
A wreath-laying ceremony took place at Yad Vashem with participation by dignitaries, survivors, and delegations from throughout Israel.
An hour after the siren, members of the public were to recite names of Holocaust victims in the “Unto Every Person There Is A Name” ceremony at Yad Vashem, as well as in the Israeli parliament.
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Sumber Israel comes to a halt to remember Holocaust victims