Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi meets with Leah and Jacob Zamin, a pair of Holocaust survivors, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. This meeting took place as part of the “Flower for a Survivor” Project in which 15,000 IDF soldiers from various units met with survivors all over the country. Educating soldiers about the Holocaust is seen as a critical component for all IDF solders and serves as a means of strengthening the soldier’s sense of belonging to the Jewish State of Israel and the IDF.