Israellycool » Yom Hashoah http://www.israellycool.com Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Fri, 24 May 2013 15:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Palestinians Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day http://www.israellycool.com/2013/04/08/palestinians-commemorate-holocaust-remembrance-day/ http://www.israellycool.com/2013/04/08/palestinians-commemorate-holocaust-remembrance-day/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:37:28 +0000 Aussie Dave http://www.israellycool.com/?p=48717 During a Holocaust memorial ceremony last night, palestinians in Gaza showed their determination to continue Hitler’s work..by firing rockets at us.

And you thought your neighbors were bad.

]]> http://www.israellycool.com/2013/04/08/palestinians-commemorate-holocaust-remembrance-day/feed/ 2 Holocaust Remembrance Day http://www.israellycool.com/2012/04/19/holocaust-remembrance-day-3/ http://www.israellycool.com/2012/04/19/holocaust-remembrance-day-3/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:19:38 +0000 Aussie Dave http://www.israellycool.com/?p=38287 Yom Hashoah began last night]]> Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom Hashoah began last night. Here in Israel, we observed two minutes standing in silence at 10AM. As I’ve mentioned on here before, it’s a surreal experience.

This should give you an idea (footage taken from this morning)

Thankfully, that’s not footage taken from here.

This year, Yad VaShem hosted a competition for artists to design posters that captured the essence of Yom HaShoah. The winning poster was the below, created by Doriel Rimmer.

You can see some of the other entries here.

Meanwhile, here’s a contribution from my son.

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