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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel increases the light of the eternal flame as Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and Robert Ozzett, Yad Vashem’s director of libraries, watch at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, April 21, 2013. Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

ETERNAL FLAME

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel increases the light of the eternal flame as Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and Robert Ozzett, Yad Vashem’s director of libraries, watch at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, April 21, 2013. Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

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