ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief overview of genocide and Holocaust education around the world, particularly in the United States. It talks about four sections: teaching about the Holocaust and genocide in the world, Holocaust education in Israel, teaching about genocide in Israel; and alternative Holocaust memorial ceremonies in Israel. The chapter focuses on the subject of Holocaust education in Israel, because it seems indispensable in understanding the attitude of the Israeli educational system towards teaching other genocides in general and the Armenian one in particular. It describes and analyzes two controversies regarding teaching and remembering other genocides in the Israeli educational system. The spirit of the change in the State Education Law is clear: to base or to foster the consciousness and the memory of the Shoah and heroism—from a Jewish-Zionist perspective—as was the case in the law of Yad Vashem in 1953.
