Today we marked Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Memorial Day.
It commenced last night as our leadership (if we can call it that) participated in a ceremony at Yad Vashem, and continued today, beginning with a two-minute-long siren at 10:00AM which brought most of Israel to a standstill.
As fate would have it, I happened to be in a meeting room at the time of the siren.
With two German colleagues.
There we were – a Jew and two Germans – standing in silence with our heads bowed, for two minutes, as a siren wailed to remind us of those who perished in the Holocaust.
Talk about uncomfortable silences.
