To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the nongovernmental organization Together – Vouch for Each Other organization, which aims to bridge the gaps between Israel's Arab and Jewish sectors, will hold an Arabic-language memorial event in the Arab Israeli city of Maghar, Thursday.
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Dozens of participants, including bloggers and influencers from Arab states, are expected to take part virtually in the event.
A majority of participants are from countries that have signed peace deals with Israel, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt. Nevertheless, individuals from Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria also registered for the event.
Holocaust survivor Arie Shilansky, 93, the brother of late Knesset Speaker Dov Shilansky, will address participants through the help of his grandson Gil Oren, an Arabic speaker.
Israeli artists will also perform during the event, which will foster dialogue on the issue of Holocaust remembrance in the Arab world. Lorina Khatib, project manager at Together - Vouch for Each Other, will host the event along with Sumaiiah Almehiri, the first female Emirati student to study in Israel. Almehiri is currently a student at Haifa University.
In a statement, Together – Vouch for Each Other CEO Yoseph Haddad said: "We are excited to hold the memorial event in Arabic for the second year. This year it will be even bigger, and people from many more countries will participate. The Holocaust happened to the Jewish people, but it's important that every person in the world, without regard to religion or ethnicity, learns about it and from it. It was important to us make the memory of the Holocaust accessible to the Arab world and to express human solidarity on this day in the face of the most shocking event in history and to remember the six million who were murdered."
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