As sirens fall silent across Israel on April 14th and six torches burn at Yad Vashem in memory of six million murdered Jews, Israel365 Action and Ten from the Nations will be calling people of faith to act.

Israel365 Action and Ten from the Nations will hold a Holocaust Remembrance Day Forum on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026, at 9:00 PM Israel Daylight Time. The international prayer and action call will bring together prominent Jewish and Christian leaders to mobilize support for Israel during the ongoing war.

Yom HaShoah — the Day of the Holocaust — falls this year from sundown on Monday, April 13 to sundown on Tuesday, April 14. Marked on the 27th of Nissan, the date was chosen to correspond with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jewish fighters chose to die on their feet rather than be led to slaughter. In Israel, the day is among the most solemn on the national calendar. At 10:00 AM on April 14, a two-minute air raid siren will bring the country to a standstill — cars pull off to the side of roads, pedestrians stop mid-stride, and the entire nation stands in silence. At Yad Vashem, six survivors will light six torches, one for every million Jewish victims, while others will deliver testimony and recite the El Maleh Rahamim prayer. This year’s central theme is “The Jewish Family During the Holocaust.” Yad Vashem has announced that the official state ceremony will be replaced with a pre-recorded broadcast.

The Israel365 forum takes place as that same memorial candle is still burning.

Organizers framed the forum around a striking historical parallel, invoking Dietrich Bonhoeffer — the German theologian who was executed by the Nazis in April 1945 for his resistance to the Third Reich. “Bonhoeffer was a man of prayer, but he says we can’t just be about prayer. We have to be about action,” said Rabbi Rami Goldberg, urging participants to stand firmly for Judea and Samaria at what he called “a critical juncture in history.” The call for a “Bonhoeffer moment” is a direct challenge to complacency at a time when Israel is at war.

The Torah is unambiguous on the moral weight of this kind of witness. The book of Esther records Mordecai’s charge to his niece: “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14). The Sages teach that every generation faces its own test of Esther — the question of whether those with a platform and voice will use it, or stay silent.

Speakers at the forum include Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Executive Director of Israel365 Action; Bishop Robert Stearns of Eagles’ Wings; Claudia Kiesinger, the US representative of Walk of Life; and Dr. Susana Kokkonen, a Finland-born Holocaust scholar who lived in Israel for twenty years and holds a doctorate in Holocaust Studies. Dr. Kokkonen pioneered Jewish-Christian relations at Yad Vashem as Director of the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem — making her one of the most credentialed voices in the world on both the history and the theology of Christian witness to Jewish suffering.

On a day when Israel lights torches for its dead, Israel365 Action is asking what the living will do.

.The forum takes place Tuesday, April 14th, 2026, at 9:00 PM Israel Daylight Time. CLICK HERE  to register.