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Israel’s Yad Vashem Opens New Conservation Center for Holocaust-Era Artifacts in Jerusalem
The new Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus. Photo: Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem, Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust, opened a new conservation facility in Jerusalem on Monday that will help house the museum’s continuously expanding collection of more than 230 million Holocaust-era pieces of art, artifacts, and documentation.
The new Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus, which includes the new David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, will provide storage, preservation, and conservation for the world’s largest repository of Holocaust-related items that include artwork, photographs, and testimonies.
The David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center is a “state-of-the-art complex providing the latest solutions for optimal preservation,” according to Yad Vashem. It will help preserve the voices and stories of Holocaust victims and survivors for posterity. The Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus was endowed by Ilana and Martin Moshal in memory of Ilana’s great-grandparents, great-uncle, cousins of the Moshal family, and others who were murdered in the Holocaust.
“This facility ensures that future generations will have access to the personal stories and historical documents that are vital to understanding and remembering the atrocities of the past,” said Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan.
“The Nazis sought not only to destroy the Jewish people but also to murder our identity, memory, culture, and heritage. Today, however, we give a voice to every object because each one carries a story — a story of life, hope, and pain,” said Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, who attended the inauguration ceremony for the new Yad Vashem facility. “The powerful buildings we inaugurated today will help ensure the history and lessons of the Holocaust resonate with all of humanity for generations to come.”
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Benjamin Netanyahu was burned in effigy on the streets of Montreal during a Friday night riot
Justin Trudeau condemned for subsequently attending a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.
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Report: IDF targets Hezbollah chief in Beirut
Illustrative. Smoke billows over Beirut’s southern suburbs after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Hadath, Lebanon October 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
JNS.org – A massive explosion in a building in Beirut on Saturday killed 11 people and wounded dozens in what Arab media said was a failed Israeli attempt to kill Hezbollah’s head of operations, Muhammad Haydar.
Israel did not immediately claim responsibility specifically for the explosion early on Saturday in the eight-story building in the Lebanese capital’s Basta neighborhood. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said only that Israel struck an unspecified target in Beirut, the fourth strike in the city in a week.
Basta is situated in the city’s center. The bulk of Israel’s strikes in Beirut have been in the Dahiyeh neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold in the city’s south.
Lebanese media reported that at least 63 people were wounded in the strike.
Avihai Edraei, the head of the Arabic-language department of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, posted a tweet on X on Saturday calling on residents of Dahiyeh to evacuate their homes. They are living near Hezbollah installations, he said, against which “the IDF will act in the near future.”
The targets of Saturday’s strikes “were located by Hezbollah in the heart of the civilian population. Prior to the attack, many steps were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians,” the IDF wrote in a statement. A headquarters, a weapons depot, “and additional Hezbollah terror infrastructures” were attacked, the statement said.
According to Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, Israel has killed 2,450 terrorists in Lebanon and Syria. Lebanese health authorities said that 3,365 people have died in strikes by Israel. Those data do not distinguish between terrorists and civilians. On the Israeli side, terrorists have killed 121 people, with 76 of them being soldiers.
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Troubling Details Emerge About Disappearance of Chabad Rabbi, Inaction of UAE Authorities
Zvi Kogan. Photo: LinkedIn via i24 News
i24 News – i24NEWS learned chilling details about the disappearance of Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan, who went missing last week in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Kogan did not show up for scheduled meetings he had during the day. After he failed to make contact, his wife contacted the security officer of the Chabad house, who alerted the local authorities. Information about the incident was also shared with the Israeli authorities.
Kogan disappeared from a location about an hour and a half from Dubai. i24NEWS can report that complaints were made to both the Dubai Police and the Abu Dhabi Police on Thursday, yet no actions were taken by either.
i24NEWS also became privy to the information that although Kogan’s car got a speeding ticket on its way to Oman, in this case too the authorities in the Emirates and Oman did nothing.
i24NEWS can also confirm that there is tremendous anger in Israel at the Emiratis, who did not respond to the suspicious signs and did not act in time. In fact, actions were only taken after the intervention of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
The story has troubling echoes of the abduction by Iranians of German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd; he was kidnapped from Dubai to Iran via Oman and was eventually executed.
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