Hundreds of ordinary Israelis joined Jewish leaders from around the world and over 60 members of the Israeli Knesset on a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland on Monday, commemorating the day in 1945 when the camp was liberated, subsequently being declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Coalition chairman Yariv Levin (Likud Beytenu) and opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) led the Israeli delegation, with Levin declaring on Sunday that “we will reach the gates of this horrible place with survivors who went through the inferno, in order to honor the memory of the victims and say clearly: Am Yisrael Hai [the people of Israel lives].”Read More
