In the mean time, here's a video of our experience during Yom HaShoah in Jerusalem, 2011.
It began on Sunday night by going to the national ceremony at Yad Vashem, with speeches from President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. News story & pictures: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=218690
Then, on Monday, we awoke to the news about Osama bin Laden. While we could infer the celebrations in the States, the mood here was largely unchanged. I don't know if this is because bin Laden was not as large of a threat to Israel's statehood than other players in this region (e.g.: Hamas, Iran, etc.), but for Israelis, life went on as normal.
Every Yom HaShoah and Yom Hazikaron, the two days of remembrance before Israel's Independence Day, a siren blares through the whole country and everything stops. The usual images of this event are cars stopped on the freeway, but we wanted to see if we could get a slightly different perspective so we went to The Shuk.
There is no doubt it was a memorable experience, but The Shuk looked like it normally does at that time of day - pretty empty. If any of you, our Eleven Listeners...er...Readers, have any suggestions for where we should go for Yom Hazikaron, please let us know in the comments!
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