At a Wednesday night ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of the murderous Nazi aggression that was not sufficiently challenged by Western powers, comparing it to Iran. “Today, too, there’s an extremist regime that’s threatening us, threatening the peace of the entire world,” Netanyahu said of Iran. “That regime explicitly declares that it intends on destroying us, the Jewish state.”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. A wreath-laying ceremony was meanwhile taking place at Yad Vashem with participation by dignitaries, survivors and delegations from throughout Israel. (AFP Photo)An hour after the siren, members of the public were to recite names of Holocaust victims in the “Unto Every Person There Is A Name” ceremony at Yad Vashem as well as in the Israeli parliament, or Knesset.

Source: Hindustan Times April 12, 2018 08:15 UTC