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 With around 57% of the population having already received at least
one vaccine dose, Israel's infection rate has dropped dramatically.
That has allowed care and nursing homes to open their doors to
visitors again, reuniting many of the country's 180,000 survivors
with their loved ones.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said 900 in that community had
died as a result of the coronavirus. But many times more had been
inoculated in time. Overall, Israel has recorded 6,270 deaths from
the virus.
"Some we did not manage to reach with vaccines in time, but writ
large, the vaccine succeeded," he said, addressing the survivors at
a ceremony marking the start of the annual Holocaust Martyrs' and
Heroes' Remembrance Day. "You got vaccinated at a record rates."
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 Israel's three national
lockdowns, "were difficult for us all, but among
many of you, they awakened painful memories of
the terrible loneliness of your childhood".
As the sirens sounded nationwide, traffic
stopped and motorists stepped out of their
vehicles to stand for two minutes in honour of
the Holocaust dead.
In a ceremony in parliament, legislators lit
memorial candles and read aloud the names of
relatives who perished in the Holocaust.
In Bahrain, one of four Arab countries that
established official ties with Israel last year,
the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities
planned a Holocaust remembrance event on the
Internet.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller; editing by John
Stonestreet)
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