Ceremony

Around the world, the ‘Day of Liberation and Rescue’ was marked

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 Returned hostage, Eli Sharabi

Rashi Foundation marks its fourth decade with a call for equal opportunities for every Israeli

 Finland returns looted Katakle royal stool to Benin.

Finland returns looted Katakle royal stool to Benin

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security guards with masks on their faces, May 1, 2025.

PM Netanyahu’s bodyguards wear masks at ceremonies fearing arrests abroad


Masa Israel Journey to host world’s largest English-language Yom HaZikaron ceremony

Ceremony will unite Jews worldwide in remembrance of victims of terror and fallen Israeli soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect the State of Israel.

 Yom HaZikaron Ceremony.

Families call to remember Hamas hostages on Independence Day, adjust celebrations

"There is no true independence when 59 of us are in Gaza. There is no victory when 59 are still in captivity."

 Yotam Cohen, whose brother Nimrod is still held in Gaza

IDF soldier seriously wounded in Gaza to light torch on Independence Day ceremony

Medan lost both his legs in an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip, which killed four IDF reservists. 

A TORCH burns on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl.

Israeli singers reject Miri Regev's request to participate in torch ceremony

However, released hostage Eli Sharabi will be one of the ceremony's torchbearers • MK Gilad Kariv criticizes Regev's choice in choosing Ben Shapiro as a torchbearer.

 Israeli singer Yardena Arazi performs with The Gevatron, an Israeli Kibbutz folk singers group in Gush Wtzion on March 28, 2017.

Released hostage Emily Damari, Oren Smadja among Independence Day ceremony torchbearers

This year's ceremony will mark Israel's 77th Independence Day with the theme "Bridges of Hope."

 British-Israeli former hostage Emily Damari poses for a photo with her mother, Mandy, after being released from Gaza where she was held since the deadly October 7 2023 attack by Hamas, at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on January 21, 2025.

Dee family dedicates MDA ambulances to sisters, mother murdered in terror attack

The Dee family members were murdered in a shooting attack in April 2023. The daughters, Maia and Rina, died at the scene, and the mother, Lucy, succumbed to her wounds days later.

 Rabbi Leo Dee (L) with his daughter Keren Dee (R) posing with one of the ambulances donated in memory of their murdered relatives, March 2025.

A bedside mishap: Pope Francis appears with bruised chin during appointment of 21 new cardinals

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni says the bruise was caused by the Pope bumping his chin on a bedside table.

 A bedside mishap. Pope Francis.