Even before the organized extermination of the Jews began, their literature was thrown into the fire. While a book is just a temporary state, and our ideas do not rely on actual print editions, seeing the pages being destroyed by the flame shakes us to our core.
For two and a half years Esther Zamri hid with her family in a barn. One day, Zamri recalls, her mother shouted, "Have mercy on me, don't kill us, I have young children," after which she heard two shots. "That night I cried, very quietly, so that they wouldn't hear me.”
Almost everyone stopped what they were doing at 10 a.m., including motorists, who stopped their cars in the middle of the road, stood beside their vehicles, and joined in the reflection.
Israeli police were searching for the suspected attacker who fled the scene in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The two wounded were shot while inside a vehicle after returning from their morning prayer.
"I appeal to you, citizens of Israel, with a simple prayer: Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end on Independence Day, above all dispute; let us all come together, as always, in partnership, in grief, in remembrance," Herzog says at Yad Vashem.
