Commemorating Yom Hazikaron

• What is Yom Hazikaron?
• What date is Yom Hazikaron in the Hebrew calendar?
• Why do you think that this day is one day before Yom Ha'atzmaut?
• Why do you think this particular quote by Ibn Ezra was chosen for this poster?
• What is the message of the poster? How does it relate to the day?

Besides the ritual seen here, what other rituals exist on Yom Hazikaron?

• Who produced this poster?
• Why do you think the poster includes images in both sepia and black and white?

Watch this clip.

• How does the clip make you feel?
• Have you ever been in Israel on Yom Hazikaron? If so, how did you feel when you heard the siren?​

• What is written on the poster?
• What is pictured on the poster?
• Who are the people?
• Where are they?
• What are they doing?​

• Does your community commemorate Yom Hazikaron? If so, in what way?
• Does your country have a Memorial Day?
• When is it, and what are the rituals of the day?

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Choose one of the people in the poster.

• Give them an imaginary background, job, and family status.
• Imagine you are a journalist for your local newspaper, and you have been chosen to interview Israelis about how they feel on Yom Hazikaron.
• Write the script of the interview.

Choose one of Israel's fallen and write their biography. Make sure to include pictures.