
Israel Holocaust


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.
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