In Israel, commemorated the victims of the Holocaust - more than six million Jews who were victims of the genocide during World War II. On the morning of Monday, April 24, throughout the country, sirens of mourning sounded. According to tradition, on this day with the first sounds of a siren in Israel for two minutes stops all traffic. Residents of the country, regardless of where they are, freeze and give two minutes of silence to the memory of the dead. In Israel, all entertainment venues are closed, including theaters, cinemas and concert halls, writes DW.

In the evening on Monday, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (Sigmar Gabriel) will lay a wreath in the Memory Hall of the Yad Vashem Memorial. On the same day, former German President Joachim Gauck, at the invitation of the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, will take part in a commemorative ceremony in the north of Israel.

The night before, an official ceremony in memory of the Jewish victims of the National Socialist genocide took place at the Yad Vashem Museum, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.. The event was attended by the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The lesson that Israel must endure from this disaster must be an understanding that the country needs to be able to protect itself, the head of the Israeli state, Reuven Rivlin. It is also important to maintain close ties with Jewish diasporas around the world. The Israeli president appealed to the international community to remain silent, becoming witnesses of the cruel crimes that are taking place before their eyes - especially if they occur in the immediate vicinity.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the world community's inaction against the backdrop of the ongoing crimes against humanity in the world. "There are many cases when the world is idle and does nothing to prevent genocide or massacres," Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan and Syria exemplify this, "said the head of the Israeli government. In this regard, he welcomed the actions of the United States that fired a missile strike at military sites in Syria as a response to a chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians.