Copenhagen, Paris and Brussels terror victims mourned on Israel’s Memorial Day
'The battlefield is not just on the borders of Israel, but everywhere there are Jews,' declared Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky in Jerusalem ceremony.
Every year for the past nine years, the Jewish Agency has held a special ceremony on Memorial Day to remember the victims of anti-Semitic attacks outside of Israel, along with the fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks inside Israel. The ceremony was particularly emotional and relevant this year, following anti-Semitic attacks in Paris and Copenhagen just a few months ago.
The Memorial Day ceremony on Wednesday morning, held in the plaza of the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem, honored the four victims of the January attack at the Hyper-Cacher supermarket in Paris – Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab and Francois-Michel Saada - as well as Dan Uzan, who was killed the following month in Copenhagen, while he was guarding a synagogue.
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said that the events of the past year made it clear that the struggle for Jewish survival continues far from Israel’s borders.
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