The Education Ministry clarified that this decision would currently only be valid for the 2024 school year if it were to come to fruition.
Families of the hostages were joined in their weekly mass rally by the descendants of Holocaust survivors and leaders in Israeli society as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
First, we owe them the promise to never forget and more importantly, to continue to teach the lessons of the Holocaust.
The documentary Vishniac premiered in New York on January 19 and will open in Los Angeles on February 2.
During the course of the evening, the audience will hear half a dozen ambassadors relate the Holocaust experiences of six survivors, interspersed by musical interludes.
Museums and educators are wrestling with the question of how to reach younger audiences further and further removed from the horrors of the Holocaust.
Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette was raised Catholic and is now a practicing Buddhist. But her mother was born in Hungary to two Holocaust survivor parents.