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[Yom Hazikaron] [Victims of Terror] [Yom Haatzmaut]

Yom Hazikaron

The full Yom Hazikaron index
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/festivls/ZKATZ/ZK/index.html

Ceremony ideas
http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/zkatz/zk/acts.html

Our suggested readings
http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/zkatz/zk/read2.html

Ilan Ramon
http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/100/people/iramon.html

Yom Kippur War - 30 Years On
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/ykippur/index.html 

OTHER pages - there are more links inside some of the sites mentioned above in Best of the Web:

AISH HATORAH
Personal stories (some relevant, many not)
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/israeldiary/
Faith and the ME problem
http://www.aish.com/societyWork/philosophy/Faith_and_the_Mideast_Problem.asp

Chagim (Hebrew)
http://www.chagim.org.il/idfmemorial.html

HILLEL
Ideas from Hillel include showing the film Kippur, by Amos Gitai
http://www.hillel.org/Hillel/NewHille.nsf/FCB8259CA861AE57852567D30043BA26/
459976ACAAABAE7285256CEF006A447E?OpenDocument#hazikaron 

IDF
The index includes different wars
http://www.idf.il/english/history/history.stm 

Izkor [MOD]
http://www.izkor.gov.il/
Yizkor page
http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor12.htm
Israeli casualties - Searchable database in Hebrew from home page (A-Z, place of residence, chronology)

MFA
Detailed history of wars (and external links)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00li0
Readings: 
The readings for Yom Hazikaron given in our resources are largely from the following site (the English translations may require polishing).
Yom Hazikaron index
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00yf0
Readings
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00ya0 http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00yb0
This is the list of terror victims/incidents since September 2000
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ia50
The In Memoriam pages have biographies
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0iky0
List since 1993 (-2003)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0cc40

MIAs, Terror Victims and Campaigns

To make a ceremony meaningful, it is important to organize elements of participation before and during the day/event (bring a candle; creating a memorial corner/album; write a dedication (graffiti/or below photos on a memorial wall); buy pizzas for Israeli soldiers through one of the Israel campaign sites; support the MIA campaign
http://www.mia.org.il/)

ONE FAMILY FUND
Lists of Terror victims since 2000
www.onefamilyfund.org

OU
A short page
http://www.ou.org/yerushalayim/yomhazikaron/default.htm
with 1998 numbers
http://www.ou.org/yerushalayim/yomhazikaron/names.html,
Kaddish with audio http://www.ou.org/yerushalayim/kadish.htm including the Wachsman story

Aish.com also has this feature on http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/israeldiary/His_Name_Was_Nachshon_Wachsman.asp

UCSJ -USY Ceremony outline
http://uscj.org/usy/pb/kzikaron.htm

Virtual Jerusalem 
6 short pages, including a couple of stories about soldiers (1948; 1987): a family's sacrifice*, ideas for ceremonies in Israel/Diaspora (separately)
http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/judaism/holidays/ 
with *Baruch Shapiro's story
http://209.58.241.78/vjholidays/memorial/war.htm

Personal story of an olah on this day
http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=250

WUJS page
http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/yom_hazikaron/index.shtml
Ceremony ideas 
http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/learning/festivals/yom_hazikaron/yom_hazikaron_tekes.shtml 

Also:

The Alex Singer Project
http://www.alexsinger.org/ and http://209.58.241.78/vjholidays/memorial/war2.htm 
There is also the book for sale (with activities):
http://www.israelbooks.com/indi_alex_building.htm

Ceremony for Yom Hazikaron
http://www.azm.org/program/yh_program.html

International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers
http://www.mia.org.il/

The following site is dedicated to more than 3,300 people killed in terror attacks since the first wave of immigration to Israel
http://www.laad.btl.gov.il/

Hannah Senesh Legacy Foundation
http://www.hannahsenesh.org.il/

Jonathan Netanyahu
http://www.yoni.org.il/

Israeli Airforce
http://www.iaf.co.il/iaf/doa_iis.dll/Serve/level/English/1.3.html

Israeli Falcons
http://www.israelifalcons.com/

Kids for Kids (Support for Terror Victims)
http://www.kidsforkids.net/

One Family (Israel Emergency Solidarity Fund)
http://www.onefamily.org.il/

Survival is not Enough
http://eserver.org/books/zamir/foreword.nclk
Survival is Not Enough contains a small selection from amongst the thousands of pages Yehoshua Zamir has written since his son Yaron was killed on June 6, 1982, at the Beaufort Castle on the first day of the Lebanon War.

Remembrance Day
http://www.masada2000.org/remembrance.html

Libi Fund
http://www.libi-fund.org.il/

Remembering Shiri Negari
http://www.shiri.us/

[Yom Hazikaron] [Victims of Terror] [Yom Haatzmaut]

Victims of Terror

Gila Esther Kessler

Bat Chen Shahar

Gal-Ed - Memorial Site for the Victims of Terror (Hebrew)
http://www.gal-ed.co.il/leumi/home.htm
http://www.laad.btl.gov.il

[Yom Hazikaron] [Victims of Terror] [Yom Haatzmaut]

Yom Haatzmaut

The OU site
http://www.ou.org/chagim/yomhaatzmauth/default.htm

Torah.org
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/israel/

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0nc60

Israel Festival
http://www.israelfestival.com/

Aish
http://www.aish.com/holidays/Israel_Independence_Day/holiday_page.asp

About.com
http://judaism.about.com/library/holidays/israel/bl_israeliholidays.htm

The digital Journalist
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0003/imm01.htm

Center of Educational Technology
http://www.cet.ac.il/history/posters/

National Photo Collection of the State of Israel
http://147.237.72.31/topsrch/defaulte.htm

Ohr Somayach
http://www.ohr.org.il/yhiy.php/israel_and_jerusalem/love_of_the_land/

The Jewish Virtual Library
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/israel.html

Chagim.org
http://www.chagim.org.il/ind1.html

613.org
http://www.613.org/independence.html

Homeward Bound - the Zionist Exposition
http://www.wzo.org.il/home/index.htm

Kfar Olami
http://reed.kfar-olami.org.il/resources/landmark/zionist/zionista.htm

PBS - Text of the Declaration of Independence of Israel
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/nf/resource/truman/primdocs/israelindy.html

The National Anthem - Hatikvah
http://www.stateofisrael.com/anthem/

The National Anthem - Hatikvah (Transliteration and Guitar accords)
http://www.jafi-ed.org.il/festivls/zkatz/atz/tikva.html
http://www.habonim-dror.org/hatikva.html

WUJS
http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/activities/programmes/yom_haazmaut/index.shtml