On Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israelis stop wherever they are for two minutes, as sirens blare to remember the six million Jews who perished during the Nazi era. It's a tradition that goes back to the 1950s, the fledgling years of when Israel was reborn as a modern nation.
In advance of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, Tel Aviv University released a new report on antisemitism, indicating that while the anti-Semitic wave is calming, levels remain significantly higher than before the October 7th war began.
More than 6,000 Israeli soldiers have sustained physical injuries in the almost two-year war against Hamas, but experts fear a second wave of trauma will hit when the shooting finally stops.
Established in 2017 with former Israeli Knesset Member Robert Ilatov, the JPB unites political, religious, and civic leaders from around the world to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, inspired by Psalm 122:6.
As Israel commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust survivors, former hostages held in Gaza, and top Israeli officials gathered at Yad Vashem, the national Holocaust memorial, to remember the worst genocide in history — the Nazi-led extermination of six million Jews.
![French Jews arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv to make "Aliyah" (immigrate) beginning a new life in Israel. Photo credit: CBN News.](https://cmsedit.cbn.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_xl_640x480/public/aliyahfrench2025_si.jpg?itok=fgHaVc6v "French Jews arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv to make "Aliyah" (immigrate) beginning a new life in Israel. Photo credit: CBN News.")
Recently, nearly fifty Jewish immigrants from France made Aliyah to Israel. The unique flight served as an exodus from fear as well as a return to a promise thousands of years in the making. CBN News was there to witness their arrival at David Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv
Israel is urging its citizens around the world to be vigilant as pro-Palestinian groups call for a global “Day of Rage,” while Israel ramps up its war in Gaza.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog officially received the credentials of U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee on Monday. “Usually, when a new ambassador arrives, I say to him or her, ‘Welcome to Israel.’ To you, Mike, I say, ‘Welcome Home, Mike, dear brother of Israel,’” Herzog said in his welcome address.
The U.S. and Iran held their second round of talks involving Iran's nuclear program. Many in Israel are concerned the talks may fall short of eliminating Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem is one of two places that is thought to be the burial place of Jesus of Nazareth. CBN Jerusalem, in conjunction with the Garden Tomb Association, is streaming the Easter service from the Garden Tomb on Resurrection Day.