Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars
Remembrance Day, Yom Hazikaron, which begins on Tuesday evening, April 21, is a day of collective and personal anguish mingled with honor for the fallen. The official events begin at 8:00 PM with a moment of national silence heralded by a one minute siren.
A total of 23,320 men and women have been killed defending the land of Israel since 1860, the year that the first Jewish settlers left the secure walls of Jerusalem to build new Jewish neighborhoods.
In the past year, since Remembrance Day 2014, 116 members of the security forces - Police, IDF, Border Police, Israel Security Agency and other organizations - have been killed in the service of the state.