Yom HaShoah 5786 marked at Yad Vashem

Israel observed Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day with the state opening ceremony at Yad Vashem on the evening of April 13, 2026, where six survivors lit six torches in memory of the six million murdered Jews. Survivors Saadia Bahat, Miriam Bar Lev, Ilana Fallach, Moshe Harari, Avigdor Neumann, and Michael Sidko, whose lives span Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Libya, and Ukraine, represented the breadth of Jewish suffering and Israel's role as the gathering place of the exiles. At 10 a.m. the next morning, sirens sounded nationwide and the entire country stood in silence.