ABSTRACT
Following the conclusions of the Pinkus Commission the issue of Yad Vashem was raised in the Knesset. The shift from professional discussion and a public one to the house of legislators shows the place of honor that the memory of the Holocaust and its commemoration had among the Israeli public during the 1960s. Moreover, the debate on Holocaust research and its future on this stage bears witness to a public consensus that Holocaust research was a topic of national importance and a public matter.
