Striking photos showed drivers and pedestrians standing still, buses stopping on busy streets and cars pulling over on highways with their drivers standing on the roads with their heads bowed.
This two-minute siren brings the entire country – even at the beach -to a complete standstill for 2 minutes amid memorial ceremonies marking annual remembrance day as PM Benjamin Netanyahu laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
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