On social media, Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with tributes, reflection

As Israel prepares to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, government ministers and state agencies used social media to reflect on one of the year's most somber, poignant periods - the week just before Independence Day, in which Israelis take stock of the Jewish people's cataclysmic history. Tonight we mark #Holocaust Remembrance Day.We remember the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust.#NeverForget pic.twitter.com/Fs1P2chON4 — Israel ישראל (@Israel) April 27, 2014 On his Facebook page, President Shimon Peres posted a photograph of himself during a visit he made as prime minister to Bergen-Belsen in 1986. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by ‎Shimon Peres שמעון פרס‎. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day to denounce the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which recently agreed to a historic reconciliation deal with its longtime rival within the Palestinian national movement, Fatah. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by ‎Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו‎. The prime minister also changed his Facebook cover photo to reflect the day. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by ‎Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו‎. Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, the Israeli politician who has made the most frequent use of his Facebook account to get his message out to constituents, posted his recollections of the first-ever visit he paid to Poland this past winter as part of a delegation of lawmakers. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); by Naftali Bennett. The Israel Defense Forces used its Twitter feed to vow 'Never again,' a common refrain that sums up the Jewish state's vow to never succumb to the helplessness that ultimately doomed European Jewry less eight decades ago. We remember the past as we build the future, and we promise- never again. Photo: #IDF soldier in Yad Vashem pic.twitter.com/3vTeoPG2AD — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) April 27, 2014 The United States embassy in Tel Aviv also posted a tweet expressing its solidarity with Israel as it marks Holocaust Remembrance Day. We join #Israel in their commemoration of #Holocaust Remembrance Day this evening. pic.twitter.com/R0zzxhv5zk — USEmbassyTelAviv (@usembassyta) April 27, 2014

On social media, Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with tributes, reflection

Politics and poignancy are evident as the country's top leaders and state institutions pause to pay homage to European Jewry.

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