Information About Us Contact us Feedback Terms Of Service Privacy Policy Subscriber Agreement JPost Jobs Cancel Subscription Sitemap פרסום בג'רוזלם פוסט Customer Service Advertise with Us If(divWithLink != null & divWithLink != 'undefined')ĭ = 'solid 1px #cb0f3e' ĭ = '#3c4860' Var divWithLink = document.getElementById('premium-link') Var cont = ` Take Israel home with the newĭocument.getElementById('linkPremium').innerHTML = cont Related Tags Holocaust Holocaust survivors population Holocaust Remembrance Day The state ceremonies for Holocaust Remembrance Day will begin on Monday evening, with a siren sounding for two minutes at 10 a.m. 'Our mission is clear and urgent - to act quickly and with maximum sensitivity in order to help the survivors live with the well-being they deserve.' 'During the past year, we continued to expand our activities in making services accessible to the survivors' homes, including over 16,000 home visits, and we also helped them to exhaust their rights from the country and the world,' said the director of the Holocaust Survivors Rights Authority, Ronit Rosen. We will not rest, we will continue to work for improvements and to optimize the service provided to the survivors, who are our connection to the previous generation that survived the atrocities.' 'There is no way that a survivor will not receive an adequate response. 'Today, as the survivors have grown older, the services provided have become more personal, healthful and communal at the highest level,' said the deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Uri Maklev, who is responsible for the authority. In the past year, the authority distributed payments, grants and benefits in the amount of over NIS 5.6 billion, and worked to bring every service to the homes of the survivors. Over NIS 5.6 billion distributed to Holocaust survivors in past year 16,137 lived in Iraq and suffered from the antisemitic Farhud riots in early June 1941.Īdditionally, approximately 7% of those recognized by the authority are Libyans and Tunisians who suffered from racial laws and were deported to labor camps, and some were even sent to the Jado concentration camp. Additionally, 3,992 were born in Bulgaria (2.7%), 2,065 were born in Hungary (1.4 %), and about 1,952 were born in Germany.ģ7% of the survivors were born in Asia and North Africa, of which 27,765 are Moroccan and Algerian Jews who suffered from various restrictions and harassment under Vichy rule.

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