Israelis was marking Memorial Day on Tuesday under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the nation’s military cemeteries closed down for the first time in the country’s history and ceremonies being held without audiences as mourners were asked to remember their loved ones at home alone.
Memorial Day — Yom Hazikaron, in Hebrew — began Monday night with an air raid siren at 8 p.m. marking out a minute of silence for the country’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror, halting whatever cars remained on the roads and bringing many Israelis to their balconies and yards to bow their heads in respect.
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