israeli Memorial Day

An Israeli-Palestinian women's choir sings at the joint Memorial Day ceremony, April 20, 2026. (Ofer Amram)

‘Here is where hope lies’: Palestinians and Israelis mourn losses in joint ceremony

In a secret location due to right-wing attacks in previous years, bereaved families recognized each other's grief and called for a shared future.

By +972 Magazine April 21, 2026

People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren

A state that commits genocide cannot claim to honor the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims.

By Orly Noy April 13, 2026

Palestinian and Israeli women embrace during the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, April 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Netanyahu wants you to think Israeli-Palestinian mourning is seditious

The prime minister pulls out all the stops in his failed attempt at preventing the annual Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony from taking place. Prime Minister Netanyahu appears to have lied to Israel’s highest court this week in an attempt to shut down and delegitimize one of Israel-Palestine’s only successful fora for shattering the exclusive nature of national mourning. For the past 14 years,…

By Edo Konrad May 7, 2019

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An IDF Memorial Day service (Wikicommons)

Deconstructing Israel’s culture of bereavement

Protesting against the appropriation of their sons’ death by the state, a group of bereaved families sets out to redefine their relationship with their fallen relatives, independently of nationalism.

By Social TV May 6, 2015

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz at a memorial service [illustrative], (Photo: IDF Spokesperson/Ori Shifrin)

Israel’s Memorial Day: A day of mourning and militarism

Today is not only a day of sadness for fallen Israeli soldiers, it’s also one of public declarations that all those bloody conflicts were righteous and necessary – just like the current ones and those that lie ahead. Maybe in another country, a country that goes to war once in a generation or longer, Memorial…

By Larry Derfner April 15, 2013