This week, Dayan, 65, will travel to the United States for the first time as Yad Vashem chair, meeting with politicians and Jewish leaders in Washington and New York.

Since Yad Vashem opened in 1953, ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jews regularly accused it of recounting the destruction of European Jewry from a secular-Zionist viewpoint. Forwarding the News.

Shannon Lourie-Farhi heads Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies and is the principal of B’shvilei Hachinuch, which serves children whose communities were evacuated after Oct. 7.

Yad Vashem: Remembering victims of the Holocaust 06:47. Cut into a Jerusalem hillside is a striking, modern memorial to an unthinkable past. Part museum, part archive, it's called Yad Vashem ...

Yad Vashem ‘deplores’ Russian invasion, condemns use of Nazi rhetoric by both sides Israel’s Holocaust museum, which has received major donations from Putin-tied oligarchs, refrains from ...

While Yad Vashem normally receives several hundred thousand visitors each year, including tourists, students, scholars and dignitaries from around the world, Allen acknowledged that this year’s ...

Yad Vashem released the photographs on the 84th anniversary of the November pogrom also known as Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass.” Mobs of Germans and Austrians attacked, ...

Yad Vashem Chairman to Columbia president: 'The time has come for you to take a stand' Dayan implored Dr. Shafik to “lead with moral principles, not only with administrative regulations.

Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan made an emotional visit to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, and CBS 2 had the only camera there. It was all part of the New York archbishop's week-long Holy ...

On the day Israel was attacked, one of Hannah Asnafi’s first-graders from the southern Israeli community of Kfar Maimon hid for hours in a cramped attic. Now, seven weeks later, the child has ...