A New Life During 2 Minutes of Silence
The commemoration of Yom HaShoah in Israel is an incredibly powerful thing. At 10:00 AM, sirens go off across the entire country, and everything comes to a standstill. Teachers stop teaching, people stop working. Cars on roads and expressways stop, and drivers get out of their cars.
These sirens blast for a two full minutes. Those two minutes become a country-wide moment of silence, to honor the memory of the six million Jews that were killed during the Holocaust.