Yom Hazikaron
Central Synagogue chazan Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff at last week’s Yom Hazikaron service. Photo: Nadine Saacks
May 16, 2019, 11:45 am
Our failure to honour Israel’s fallen
Last Tuesday night our Sydney community marked Yom Hazikaron. I was once again shocked and saddened to see the relatively poor turnout of people to this important annual event.
By Naomi Balkin
Zionist youth movement and Australasian Union of Jewish Students flag bearers at Tuesday’s Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Melbourne. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 10, 2019, 12:00 am
Yom Hazikaron: ‘Because of them, we are alive’
TUESDAY night’s Yom Hazikaron commemorations in Sydney and Melbourne struck a particularly emotional chord, following the loss of four Israeli lives over the weekend as a result of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza.
By Rebecca Davis
Henri Korn, Holocaust survivor and guide at the Jewish Holocaust Centre, speaks with visitors. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 25, 2019, 12:00 am
From solemnity to celebration
WITH Pesach almost over, the community now turns to preparing for the highs and lows of the three "Yoms".
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff singing memorial prayers at the Yom Hazikaron service in 2016. Photo: Giselle Haber.
April 24, 2018, 3:12 pm
‘We will never forget’
MORE than 600 members of the community turned out to pay their respects to Israel’s fallen soldiers and terror victims at a moving ceremony on Tuesday evening.
By Gareth Narunsky
Peta Birnbaum (left) and Rachel Ben-Atar narrating the story of Sariel Birnbaum. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 24, 2018, 2:58 pm
Fallen soldiers never forgotten
IDAN Goldberger almost paid the ultimate price. Fifteen years ago, on his 21st birthday, Goldberger’s name was very nearly added to the list of 23,646 soldiers who have fallen defending the State of Israel. 
By Rebecca Davis
Yom Hazikaron commemoration 2016. Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 15, 2018, 12:01 am
A time to remember, a time to party
IN the wake of Yom Hashoah, we look ahead to another week of commemorations and celebrations in the days ahead.
By Rebecca Davis
Children at Yom Ha'atzmaut last year. Photo: Noel Kessel
April 15, 2018, 12:01 am
Marking the Yoms
THE Jewish community will mark two inextricably linked commemorations – one celebratory and one sombre – next week.
By Gareth Narunsky
Raymond Bernstein honours the memory of his childhood friend and fallen soldier, Lieutenant Daniel Goldberg.
May 5, 2017, 12:00 am
Remembering Israel’s fallen
“Though Israel has had to fight many wars, from the very beginning it has sought peace,” Zionist Council of NSW president Richard Balkin said at the Yom Hazikaron commemoration for fallen soldiers and victims of terror at Moriah College on Sunday night (April 30).
By Yael Brender
Lieutenant Daniel Goldberg’s unit in Lebanon, 1982.
April 14, 2017, 12:02 am
Honouring Israel’s fallen
“THE one true comforting thought we can have is that Danny died defending the country that he loved, and the country that he knew from childhood would be his home.”
By Yael Brender
Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff singing memorial prayers at the Yom Hazikaron service in 2016. Photo: Giselle Haber.
May 13, 2016, 12:00 am
Yom Hazikaron observed in Sydney and Melbourne
MORE than 300 people attending a Yom Hazikaron remembrance ceremony at Sydney’s Moriah College on May 10 got a real sense of the human cost of protecting the State of Israel through the words of guest speaker Omer Levi.
A participant at a previous Yom Ha’atzmaut Family Festival. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 4, 2016, 12:00 am
Commemorations and celebrations
MEMBERS of the community young and old will have the opportunity to commemorate Yom Hazikaron and celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut through a variety of different events as world Jewry marks Israel’s 68th anniversary of independence.
April 27, 2015, 12:00 am
NSW and Vic mark Yom Hazikaron
By Joshua Levi and Phoebe Roth
April 23, 2012, 9:00 am
Remembering Israel’s fallen
THE Jewish community of Melbourne may be poised to celebrate Israel’s 64th birthday this week, but before the revels get underway, there will be a day of sombre reflection as the country’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror are remembered on Yom Hazikaron.
April 23, 2012, 12:00 am
From sorrow to celebration
JEWISH Sydneysiders will celebrate Israel’s 64th birthday when the Zionist Council of New South Wales hosts two fun-filled events for the whole community, from babies to bubbas, next week.
May 12, 2011, 2:40 pm
Remembering the fallen
MORE than 250 people watched as Meir Holtz fought back tears while addressing a Yom Hazikaron service for fallen Israeli soldiers on Sunday night.
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