President Reuvlin hosted a delegation of supporters and donors of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial institution from around the world on Sunday. They presented him with a copy of a Rosh Hashanah prayerbook written from memory by survivor Naftali Stern when he was a prisoner in a labor camps.
Calling Yad Vashem's role one of preserving the memory of the past and building hope for the future, Rivlin said, "You are not just preservers of a tragic memory. You are also architects of the future of the Jewish people."