Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi’s powerful message delivered today at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day

A memorial ceremony with Chief of Staff Ashkenazi and the General Staff Forum was held in the Valley of the Communities by the names of the Bulgarian communities inscribed on the wall. Major General Amos Yadlin, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, recited the Yizkor memorial prayer, and Lt. General Ashkenazi spoke in front of the name of the city, the community in which his father was born. Ashkenazi described the rescue of his father along with the other Bulgarian Jews, his father’s immigration to Eretz Israel, subsequent participation in the War of Independence, and his participation in the founding of Moshav Chagor.