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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.

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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

Blenden has begun selling her pieces at craft fairs and pop-up exhibitions showcasing the work of olim hadashim in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She donates all proceeds to a charity fund in the US.

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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

Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson, Taft was photographed when she was 6 months old by a German photographer, Hans Ballin.

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

At the crossroads of Holocaust remembrance

A conversation with Dr. Yael Richler-Friedman, pedagogical director of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Education

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IDF General Staff visits Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

The generals also met and held a discussion with Holocaust survivor, Lea Balint, and presented her with a certificate.

APRIL 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF General Staff members in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names, April 21, 2025.

Yad Vashem denounces Latvia closing investigation on 'Butcher of Riga' Herberts Cukurs

Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring historical truth."

APRIL 23, 2025ByJAMES GENN
HERBERTS CUKURS, deputy commander of the infamous Latvian death squad in 1937

Grapevine: New at JCT

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 12, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A sketch for the upcoming Machon Tal campus

Model of survival: The story of Holocaust survivor and octogenarian Yona Amit

'I don’t know why I was saved – why I from all the others. But I know that my task was to be one little part of bringing up our nation from the ashes to become a nation again, to come to Israel.'

MARCH 8, 2025ByNATAN ROTHSTEIN
Yona gazes at a photo of her grandniece, Ella Or, the last in the survivor’s Holocaust PowerPoint presentation, who died in the 2018 southern Israel flash flood tragedy. ‘We really won!’ her quote says: ‘We’re here – to stay.’

'This can't be ignored': Rubio signs Survivors' Declaration at Yad Vashem

While at Yad Vashem, Rubio signed the Survivors' Declaration.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tours Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025

'Forgotten Childhoods': New Yad Vashem exhibit shows Jewish childhoods during Holocaust

Paintings at Yad Vashem depict childhood memories from Germany during the Holocaust.

FEBRUARY 9, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Painting created by Ernie Meyer at age 16, when he parted from his parents for the last time at the train station.

Other cities should follow New York's example and establish Yad Vashem Way - opinion

Initiatives like NYC's Yad Vashem Way remind us that not only must we commemorate Holocaust victims but also actively combat the antisemitism and hatred that continue to permeate today's society.

FEBRUARY 3, 2025ByDANI DAYAN
'THIS PAST week's co-naming of a street in New York City as Yad Vashem Way is a significant turn in events; in a city that never sleeps, this street sign stands high as a beacon of remembrance and a call to action for all humanity,' the writer states.

NYC street in Manhattan's Upper East Side renamed 'Yad Vashem Way'

The location in the Manhattan borough was chosen in the vicinity of Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s iconic Park East Synagogue, done as a testament to NYC Jewish immigrants who survived the Holocaust.

JANUARY 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
'THIS PAST week's co-naming of a street in New York City as Yad Vashem Way is a significant turn in events; in a city that never sleeps, this street sign stands high as a beacon of remembrance and a call to action for all humanity,' the writer states.

Rabbi Lau moved the audience at the European Commission’s Holocaust Memorial Ceremony

JANUARY 31, 2025ByMARK FISH

Israeli inmates meet with Holocaust survivors on Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day

The meeting was held as part of a program entitled "Victory of the Spirit." 

JANUARY 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
View of the meeting conducted between Holocaust survivors and inmates. January 27, 2025.