what is the date of yom hashoah.
YOM HASHOAH. So, there was a tug of war between the religious representatives in Knesset and their more secular counterparts, who. were interested in the gevurah, the heroism, which they saw as akin to their own vision of the Jewish history they. wanted to create in the future. A compromise was reached. Yom Hashoah would be observed in proximity to the April 19th date, post-Passover, on a day that could never coincide with Shabbat.3 Thus, quite by accident â unless one believes that political compromise is never an accident â Yom Hashoah came to