{"id":20936,"date":"2025-04-27T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T12:18:53","slug":"agam-berger-to-speak-at-israels-independence-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/agam-berger-to-speak-at-israels-independence-day-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Agam Berger to Speak at Israel\u2019s Independence Day Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agam Berger, who returned to Israel at the end of January 2024, will speak next month at Israel\u2019s official Independence Day ceremony in New York. Berger is expected to share her difficult experiences during captivity and deliver a message of hope and courage, calling for the release of the hostages still held in the Gaza Strip. The event will take place under heavy security, against the backdrop of rising antisemitism and heightened tensions in New York since the war began, according to <em>Israel Hayom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A message of unity and love for Israel&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nConsul Ofir Akunis said: &#8220;We are happy and excited to welcome Agam, an inspiring Israeli hero, to the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel. Agam is spreading a powerful message of broad national unity, rooted in the values of Jewish tradition and love for Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agam Berger playing the violin<\/strong><br \/>\nLast week, Agam Berger participated in the March of the Living at Auschwitz. Daniel Weiss, a survivor of the Kibbutz Be&#8217;eri massacre who lost both of his parents in the attack, sang the Psalm &#8220;<em>Shir LaMa&#8217;alot<\/em>&#8221; at the Auschwitz extermination camp at the conclusion of the march. Agam accompanied him on a 130-year-old violin that survived the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20939\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20939 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/free2.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agam Berger at the March of the Living under the &#8220;Arbeit Macht Frei&#8221; sign | Photo: Shlomi Cohen\/Flash90<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agam Berger, freed from Hamas captivity, will deliver remarks at Israel\u2019s official Independence Day ceremony in New York, initiated by Consul Ofir Akunis: &#8220;Agam is an inspiring Israeli hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,88,6],"tags":[2728,1603,4415,4163,1482,3527,4344,1753,4413,2798],"class_list":["post-20936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judaism","category-will-remember","category-security","tag-agam-berger","tag-antisemitism","tag-auschwitz","tag-hamas-war","tag-hostages","tag-independence-day","tag-israel-u-s-relations","tag-jewish-community","tag-march-of-the-living","tag-ofir-akunis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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