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Israel comes to standstill to commemorate 6 mln Holocaust victims

STORY: Israel comes to standstill to commemorate 6 mln Holocaust victims SHOOTING TIME: May 6, 2024 DATELINE: May 7, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:52 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Netanyahu attending the memorial ceremony (courtesy of Israeli Government Press Office) 2. various of the memorial ceremony (courtesy of Israeli Government Press Office) 3. various of Netanyahu delivering a speech (courtesy of Israeli Government Press Office) 4. various of Holocaust survivors lighting torches at the ceremony (courtesy of Israeli Government Press Office) 5. various of sirens echoing through the air STORYLINE: Israel came to a halt to the sound of sirens on Monday morning to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust on the country's national Holocaust Remembrance Day. At 10 a.m. (0700 GMT), as the two-minute sirens pierced the air, people across the country stood in solemn silence in honor of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazis during World War II. On streets

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New Year Celebrations - Izmir

Two man poses when time became 00:00 midnight at the new years eve. The New Year was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Izmir, the largest city on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. Thousands of people welcomed the year 2024 with torches and wishing lanterns along the Alsancak promenade.Izmir, Turkey, January 1, 2024. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1.

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Hiroshima residents complete monthlong peace relay

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A torch relay for peace and the eradication of nuclear weapons ends in Hiroshima on July 25 after some 8,000 residents of the city participated in the monthlong event. Forty-two final runners carrying two torches arrived at the city窶冱 Peace Memorial Park.

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Fire festival in Kyoto

Young men swing huge torches during a fire festival on Mt. Kurama in Kyoto on Oct. 22, 2022, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival in Kyoto

Young men swing huge torches during a fire festival on Mt. Kurama in Kyoto on Oct. 22, 2022, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival in Kyoto

Young men swing huge torches during a fire festival on Mt. Kurama in Kyoto on Oct. 22, 2022, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Olympic torch runs through Lhasa amid massive security

LHASA, China - Two Olympic torches -- one carried from the peak of Mt. Everest (L) and the other (R) from torch relays held across China -- are lifted on the stage of an Olympic torch relay ceremony held in front of the Potala palace in Lhasa on June 21. The ceremony took place after the Olympic torch was run through the streets of Lhasa amid massive security. (Kyodo)

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Olympic torch runs through Lhasa amid massive security

LHASA, China - The Olympic caldron is lit by two Olympic torches -- one carried from the peak of Mt. Everest (R) and the other (L) from torch relays held across China -- on the stage of an Olympic torch relay ceremony held in front of the Potala palace in Lhasa on June 21. The ceremony took place after the Olympic torch was run through the streets of Lhasa amid massive security. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)