Screenshot of young Israeli, Bahraini and Emirati youth marking Holocaust Memorial Day
Among the hundreds of Holocaust Memorial Day events marked worldwide, one of the most significant was a groundbreaking webinar held with the participation of young people from Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain.
Marking the historic first was the newly appointed Israeli ambassador to the UAE, Eitan Na’eh, the former deputy head of mission at Israel’s embassy in London.
Mr Na’eh, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, spoke emotionally of his mother’s experiences as a six-year-old child in wartime Holland. It was one of his first public appearances since being appointed to lead the embassy in the Emirates, and he said he was “very excited” to see that that the event was attended online by young people from Israel to Iraq.