Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Remembrance Day) An evening for remembering Israeli fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Every country has its day of remembrance, and Israel—whose creation and survival as a state has been marked by so many losses—decided to designate the day preceding Yom Ha’atzma’ut, Independence Day, as its day of commemoration for the fallen. On this day, we recall and mark the pain of our recent, and not so recent, losses in public and in private. Originally, and essentially,…