Israel 2020: Approximately 192,000 Holocaust survivors and victims of anti-Semitism live in Israel • 839 passed the age of 100 • In the past year, the Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority has spent more than NIS 5.5 billion • And how did the UN make its historic decision to hold an International Holocaust Day? Special

• Holocaust survivors. Their numbers are dwindling // Photo: Liron Moldovan

Every year, on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked worldwide and in Israel. Of course, this is the day the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated by the Nazis, and this year marks the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation. Dozens of leaders from around the world will be arriving in Israel this Thursday to attend memorial ceremonies and visit Yad Vashem.

About 192,000 survivors and victims of anti-Semitic harassment during the Holocaust are living in Israel, according to figures published by the Palestinian Authority's Holocaust Survivors' Rights in preparation for International Holocaust Day. Of the 192,000 recipients of grants and grants, approximately 60% are women of the average age of 84. The average age of men at the beginning of 2020 is 83.4.

39% of Holocaust survivors living in Israel are over the age of 85. Also, 16% of survivors are 90 and older. Of those, 839 passed the age of 100. A figure that shows how diminishing the generation is that during 2019, 14,800 Holocaust survivors passed away.

Sixty-four percent of European-born Holocaust survivors, of whom the largest group are native to the former USSR - 36%, Romanian-born, 12%, and Polish-born with another 6%. 18% of the PA's sellers are born in Morocco and Algeria who suffered from harassment in the background Anti-Semitism and various restrictions during the Vichy regime, and another 11% are Baghdad Jews who survived the 1942 prehistoric events in Iraq.

Rights Exercise Project

In the past year, the Treasury has transferred more than NIS 5.5 billion in direct payments and a series of benefits to the Holocaust survivor's rights.

Understanding that many survivors are unaware of all their entitlements, the Authority has embarked on a comprehensive national rights exploitation project, and in the last two years, more than 51,000 visits to the homes of survivors and residents identified by the authority as eligible may have been sent, sent 40,000 letters and made 32,000 phone calls. Which led to NIS 381 million worth of rights.

Today, the Treasury for Holocaust Survivors' Rights receives more than NIS 4.19 billion in direct rewards and grants each year, and 59,000 survivors who survived the ghettos and camps or lived in false identities and hiding places receive monthly benefits from the Authority in amounts ranging from NIS 2,420 to NIS 6,078. To the degree of disability).

Of these, 17,630 receive increased rewards that may reach up to NIS 11,118 to survivors with low incomes. In addition to the direct payments, the Authority provided a full exemption on NIS 415 million in medicines, budgeted nursing services in the amount of NIS 493 million, and funded medical treatments and medical equipment in the amount of NIS 132 million.

For any request for Holocaust survivors' rights and assistance, contact the Authority's Information Center at 5105 *

UN historic decision - "The world will not allow another Holocaust"

The resounding call that emerged from the decision of the United Nations Assembly on November 1, 2005 was clear to all: the world would not allow another Holocaust to occur.

The United Nations decided to set an International Memorial Day to commemorate Holocaust victims on January 27, in which the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated in 1945 - symbolizing the attempt to destroy the Jewish people completely by the Nazis. In fact, the historic decision - unanimously adopted - was unanimous - Jews and other minorities by the Nazis.

"I had the privilege of doing something that had not been done until then: bringing about a permanent exhibition on the Holocaust in the UN corridors and bringing the Jewish-Israeli narrative into the UN agenda after it was abducted for years by the Palestinian agenda," he said To Israel today, the decision initiator, Dr. Ron Adam, is now the Israeli ambassador to Rwanda, who was then director of the UN Department of Foreign Affairs.

"The idea came to fruition when I saw that there was a Palestinian permanent exhibition in the corridors of the United Nations building, which presents in detail the Palestinian narrative. I thought it was time to add, alongside this exhibition, another one to describe the Jewish-Israeli narrative, the holocaust of European Jews and the fight against anti-Semitism, and for this purpose the General Assembly must adopt a resolution that would allocate an annual budget for this.

"I made the move for the tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors who are still alive and for the citizens of Israel and the entire Jewish people, who have come to know that the United Nations is adopting for the first time a resolution on the Jewish people's behalf," Adam said excitedly.