The Jewish People and the Government of Israel have the obligation and the
right to prevent another annihilation of the Jewish People or attack on its
state.

PM Netanyahu Reviews Special Exhibition of Posters for International
Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the weekly Cabinet meeting this
morning (Sunday), 22.1.12, reviewed a special exhibition of
posters
for International Holocaust Remembrance
Day.

The exhibition is part of an international project to encourage design
students from around the world to express their views on the issue of
remembering the Holocaust. The exhibition, which will open at the UN
building in New York on Thursday,
26.1.12
(the posters will be on display at the UN, at all 73 UN Information Centers
around the world, and in many other locations), is an initiative of the Yad
Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies and the Ministry of Public
Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, and is based on the well-known and
successful model – Israel's official poster design competition for Holocaust
Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day.

Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Public Diplomacy and
Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, Yad Vashem Directorate Chairman
Avner Shalev and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky attended the
meeting, which began with a discussion of the issue.

At the beginning of the meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that,
"Seventy years ago, the Jewish People were helpless. It had no ability –
neither political, nor military nor diplomatic – to organize its defense,
and one-third of our people were annihilated. The difference between 1942
and 2012 is not the absence of enemies, that same desire to destroy the
Jewish People and the State that has arisen, this desire exists and has not
changed. The difference is our ability to defend ourselves and to do so
with determination. The Jewish People and the Government of Israel have the
obligation and the right to prevent another annihilation of the Jewish
People or attack on its state."