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Finnish FM visits Jerusalem for first time since 2016, discusses regional issues with FM Sa'ar

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosted Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen in Jerusalem, marking the first such visit in nearly a decade amid EU discussions on Israel.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosting his Finnish counterpart, Elina Valtonen, at the Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem, February 15, 2026.
Layla Blenden.

Layla Blenden: Jewelry of kindness

HESSY TAFT poses holding a photograph of herself taken in 1935 by well-known German photographer Hans Ballin during an interview with Reuters July 9, 2014.

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

President Isaac Herzog (C) flanked by Dayan and IHRA Secretary-General Michaela Küchler at the IHRA plenary

At the crossroads of Holocaust remembrance


Survive, in Order to Create: Exhibiton launched in Ma'ale Adumim art museum

“The Destroyed World” hall presents the destroyed Jewish life. Apart from the killing of millions of people, the Holocaust involved the destruction of of a whole world of Jewish spirit and identity.

 ‘In Memory of the Victims of the Rumbula Forest Massacre’ by Haim Aronstam, 1973.

Latvia reopens criminal investigation into 'Butcher of Riga' following condemnation

According to Yad Vashem, Cukurs held a “senior, operative position in the Arajs Kommando, the unit that from June 1941 until March 1942 carried out mass killings of Jews and other civilians."

 Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965.

What preserves the memory of the Holocaust among Jews is hope, and looking to the future

The point was made by several speakers that there cannot be memory without knowledge, and that lack of knowledge leads to difficulties in countering Holocaust denial and distortion.

 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Grapevine, May 14, 2025: All in the family

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 VAN JONES (center), a CNN political commentator, attends a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2022

Yad Vashem’s Dani Dayan: University heads now taking ‘different tone’ on antisemitism

He said the situation on campuses was 'unlike anything I had ever seen in those institutions - the calls for Israel's elimination were explicit.'

 Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan speaking at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference on June 5, 2023.

'We are not at the mercy of others': Yad Vashem head says Holocaust, Oct. 7 are not the same

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Eve Young.

 Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein (L) alongside Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan.

Zikaron Basalon transforms the stories of Holocaust survivors into living memory - opinion

The intimate gathering, the conversation, the questions – all of these create a memory that is not just a ceremony, but a human experience connecting past, present, and future.

 President Isaac Herzog hosts Ines Nissim, a Holocaust survivor, as part of the Zikaron Basalon series, April 25, 2022.

Revealing Yad Vashem’s Touching Memory Theater

“I would talk to Bear all the time, share my feelings with him and cry to him. He was my only connection to my family.” – Fred Lessing

 A SCENE FROM the Touching Theater monodrama ‘Bear and the Toy Underground.’

WATCH: Israel commemorates 80 years since the Holocaust

Herzog said that he would lead survivors, bereaved families, and former hostages, in the March of the Living in Auschwitz on Thursday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 23, 2025

Eight Holocaust survivors to participate in Yad Vashem's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

They will be joined by Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, who will light the Memorial Torch, while six different Holocaust survivors who will light six separate torches. 

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses a state ceremony at Yad Vashem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last year.