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Israel Halts for Holocaust Say, Honors 6 Million Jews Killed

Richard Lutz CEO of Deutsche Bahn, and Kai Diekmann German journalist, pay tribute during a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 28, 2022. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel Holocaust

People walk along a bridge lit with a billboard showing a yellow Star of David that reads “Jude”, Jew in German, resembling the one Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Israel marking the annual Day of Remembrance for the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide who perished during World War II. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has come to a halt to honor the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Sirens blaring for two minutes across the country signaled the moment at 10 a.m. Thursday. Shops closed, people halted and drivers on the highways pulled over and stepped out to stand with heads bowed. The ritual is part of Israel’s great effort to remember those murdered and to make heroes of the survivors. About 165,000 survivors live in Israel, founded in 1948 in the wake of the genocide. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called for the world to stop comparing other events to the Holocaust after the presidents of warring Ukraine and Russia did so.