Israel remembered the 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust on Thursday. The country held a two-minute silence, marked by sirens, as cars and people came to a standstill to commemorate those killed by national socialism. The president (or speaker) of the German Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, was in Israel for the event, joining Israeli officials in the Knesset and later the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Thursday. There are an estimated 161,400 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, with an average age of 85.5. on Wednesday, Bas visited a Holocaust commemoration site...
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