the bishop of the Greek island of Zakinthos, a Polish nun in Lithuania, and a French Protestant pastor. More than 20,000 persons have been honored with the title Righteous Among the Nations.
five thousand Jewish communities that were destroyed and of the few that suffered but survived. The Memorial to the Deportees is an original cattle car that was used to transport thousands of Jews to the death camps. Perched on the edge of an abyss facing the Jerusalem forest, the monument symbolizes both the impending horror and the rebirth that followed the Holocaust.
Approximately 1.5 million Jewish children perished in the Holocaust. They are specially remembered in the nearby Children’s Memorial, an underground cavern in which the flickering flames of memorial candles are reflected in an infinity of tiny lights within the prevailing darkness. The Valley of the Communities is a 2.5-acre monument that was dug out from the natural bedrock. Engraved on the massive stone walls of the memorial are the names of over
Sports The two most popular sports in Jerusalem, and in Israel as a whole, are soccer and basketball. Beitar Jerusalem Football Club is one of the most popular teams in Israel. Jerusalem’s other major football team, and one of Beitar’s top rivals, is Hapoel Jerusalem Football Club. Whereas Beitar has been Israel State Cup champion five times, Hapoel has only won the Cup once. In basketball, Hapoel Jerusalem Beitar Yerushalayim is higher up on the scale. In a league dominated by Maccabi Tel Aviv it has yet to win a championship, but it has won the Israeli Cup three times, and it took the European ULEB Cup in 2004. 63