Ceremony at the Kotel
A speech in the Old City
Various soldiers and civilians daven at the Kotel plaza
A Hasid watches the action
The audience
The Kotel, emptied for the ceremony
Kotel, emptied
A crowd of watchers
You can't see it very well, and for that I apologize
Watching through the video feed
The Kotel at night, during the ceremony
This guy usually sits in the Old City
Watching the event
The honor guards for the President
The President of Israel, Moshe Katzav (second guy from the right in the middle)
Watching the event
Watching the direct video feed
The Military Cemetary
A beggar at the gates
Graves of soldiers
More graves
Keeing the candles for a loved one lit
A service for a fallen soldier
Wreaths by the graves of national leaders
A flag at half-mast
A guard on the phone
The grave of Chaim Herzog, former Prime Minister
The grave of Shnuer Shazar, third President of Israel, and this wife
The grave of Golda Meir, former Prime Minister
An empty plot reserved for a future leader and his/her spouse
Soldiers guarding a memorial flame
I'll be totally honest. I don't know what this memorial is about.
This one I believe is for ... I don't know about this one, either.
Anyway know what this is to? It looks important.
I THINK this is to Latrun. But I don't know. Look, they didn't label these things well.
The entrance to the WWII memorials
A memorial to the Jews that died in the Polish army of WWII
Good at memorials, they are.
A memorial to Jews that died in the Russian army of WWII
Memorial to Nazkor? What is Nazkor? All I know is Israel is good at doing memorial sculptures, but not so good at labeling them.
The memorial to the fallen members of the Merchant Marines
The reflecting pool
Flowers at the merchant marines pool
A wreath
Memorial to those who died at Dakar
The memorial to victims of terror attacks
Reading the names
Candles by the names
Those who died in the last ten years from terror attacks
A wreath by the memorial