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On 2.10.2025, on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, a terrorist attack occurred at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, England. The attacker, 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shammi, a British citizen of Syrian origin, drove his car into people outside the Synagogue and then attacked them with a knife. Two people were killed and four others were injured before police shot and killed the attacker at the scene. HERE.
After the attack, the British Prime Minister and his wife, Victoria, who is Jewish, visited a synagogue in London. In a speech, Mr Starmer condemned anti-Semitism and pledged to fight it more vigorously, including by increasing police protection at synagogues. HERE.
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FACEBOOK of the Embassy of Greece in Israel: On 15.7.2025, a memorial service was held at the Yad Vashem synagogue for the Greek Jews who lost their lives during the Holocaust. The Ambassador of Greece to Israel, Ms. Maya Solomou, read the last letters written by Sarina Saltiel, a Greek Jewish mother, as a farewell to her son from the Thessaloniki ghetto, in March 1943, shortly before he was deported to the Auschwitz death camp.
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On April 24.4.2025, 12.000, the annual March of the Living took place, with the participation of approximately 7 people from all over the world. Among them were Holocaust survivors, released Israeli hostages from Gaza, and relatives of hostages and victims of the Hamas attack on October 2023, XNUMX. The march began at Auschwitz and ended at the Birkenau camp, honoring the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
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As every year, Israel marked Yom HaShoah with symbolic ceremonies and actions in memory of the 6 million Jews of Europe who were exterminated by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
The official ceremony began on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23.4.2025, XNUMX, in Jerusalem, at Yad Vashem, with speeches by the President of Israel, the Prime Minister, officials and survivors. A highlight of the event was the lighting of six torches by six Holocaust survivors. One of the survivors, Gad Fartouk, prayed for the return of the 59 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The walls of Jerusalem were illuminated with six candles and the yellow Star of David that Jews were forced to wear on their lapels during the Nazi Occupation.
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Jewish organizations abroad issued messages of condolence on the death of Pope Francis:
The World Jewish Congress (WJC): ""It is with great sadness that we join the entire world in mourning the loss of Pope Francis, a true moral leader, a man of deep faith and humanity, and a steadfast friend of the Jewish people."
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