The Jerusalem Post outlines events scheduled to take place in
Israel and internationally to commemorate Israeli Remembrance and Independence Days:
Among the Remembrance Day events scheduled throughout the country on Tuesday will be a ceremony commemorating over 200 Jews who have been killed in terrorist attacks and hate crimes around the world since the state's founding.
The ceremony is being sponsored by the Jewish Agency, together with the World Zionist Organization, Keren Hayesod, United Jewish Communities and the Jewish National Fund. It will be held in the historic courtyard of the Jewish Agency building on Jerusalem's King George Street.
The event will include the unveiling of a monument with the names of those who have been slain, including Moshe Nahari, who was murdered in late December of last year by Islamic fundamentalists in Yemen, and Norma Rabinovich, a Mexican national who was planning to make aliya but was murdered in the terror rampage at the Mumbai Chabad House in November.
Remembrance Day, followed by Independence Day on Wednesday, will be marked in events and ceremonies around the world.
Events include performances by Israeli musicians, Israeli food festivals and raffles for plane tickets to Israel. In New York, a massive Independence Day event will take place on the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier docked in the Hudson River, and is expected to draw thousands of young people.
