Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day Law,
5719-1959*

1.     The 27th Nisan shall be Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, devoted, year after year, to the commemoration of the disaster which the Nazis and their collaborators brought upon the Jewish people and of the acts of heroism and revolt performed in those days.

         If the 27th Nisan falls upon a Friday, Remembrance Day shall be observed on the 26th Nisan of that year.

*       Passed by the Knesset on the 29th Adar Bet, 5719 (8th April, 1955) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 280 of the 9th Nisan, (17th April, 1959), p. 112; the Bill and zn Explartatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 384 of 5719, p. 242.

2.     Remembrance Day shall be marked throughout the State by a two-minute silence, during which all road traffic shall be suspended; there shall be memorial gatherings, popular rallies, and commemorative functions in Army camps and eduational institutions; flags on public buildings shall be flown at half-mast; wireless programmes shall express the special character of the day, and places of entertainment shall present only features consonant with its spirit.

3.     The minister empowered in that behalf by the Government shall, in consultation with the Yad Va-Shem Remembrance Authority, issue instructions for the observance of Remembrance Day in accordance with this Law.


Yitzchak Ben-Zvi                            David Ben-Gurion
President of the State                  Prime Minister

The 27th Nisan -
Remembrance Day.

Modes of observing Remembrance Day.

Institutions for the observance of Remembrance Day.