Netanyahu heckled at Israel’s official Memorial Day ceremony as bereaved families grasp for comfort
A different skirmish also broke out at a ceremony at Tel Aviv's military cemetery
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Fast Forward CUNY college cancels Hillel Yom HaZikaron event due to protests
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Fast Forward Cabinet ministers heckled and soldiers wounded as Israel marks a somber Memorial Day
This is the rare Memorial Day when Israel is actively at war
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Fast Forward Israel will add diaspora victims of antisemitism to those mourned on Day of Remembrance
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News How a wildflower became a symbol for Israel’s Memorial Day
In the decades since poet Haim Gouri alluded to it in 1948, the local flower known as Maccabees’ blood has become so associated with mourning the fallen that it is now cultivated to send to bereaved families
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