Israel commemorates victims and survivors on Holocaust
Remembrance day President Shimon Peres says Iran remains a
threat to world peace; Netanyahu: lessons of the past must not
be forgotten; ceremony marred by fatal accident at Mt. Herzl in
preparation of Independence Day ceremony. Holocaust Remembrance
Day began Wednesday night at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial
in Jerusalem, in the presence of President Shimon Peres and
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The central theme of this
year's commemoration is "My Brother's Keeper - Jewish Solidarity
During the Holocaust." Six survivors of the Holocaust will light
the torches representing the six million Jews murdered in the
Holocaust. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the crowd
gathered at Yad Vashem,“Our enemies tried to bury the Jewish
future but our future was born again in the land of our
forefathers, here we built a base, and a new beginning of
freedom, and hope and action.” He went on to say that today’s
generation “faces calls to exterminate the Jew