For two minutes, Israel stops what it’s doing

It’s quite a sight once a year when Israelis stop what they’re doing for two minutes. Today is that day. It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.

It doesn’t matter what you’re doing.

Surfers stand still on the Mediterranean Sea beachfront as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust, in Netanya, Israel, Monday, April 24, 2017. Israel is holding its annual Holocaust remembrance day in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

After two minutes, the world moves on.

Related: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Elie Wiesel on what makes us moral (MPR News Presents)

About the blogger

Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.