Jewish WWII veteran at a Yad Vashem ceremony on Thursday, May 8, 2014. Photo: Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency / Yakov Karasin.

Artuz Sheva – It’s been seventy years after the Holocaust, and the world still hasn’t learned the lesson of where unbridled hatred of Jews can lead it, wrote MK Miri Regev (Likud) on her Facebook page Wednesday.

Israel’s official ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day began Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Over 240 smaller ceremonies are being held Wednesday night to be held in towns and cities across the country.

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