The President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"Our past must be the basis for our values, our actions, and the alliances we are making, this is our history and heritage, and this is also a basis of who we are" he said, adding: "Anti-Semitism of all kinds, racism, and hatred of the other are completely contrary to the values, principles, and spirit on which the State of Israel was founded."