9/11 Memorial Dedicated in Jerusalem
On November 12, 2009, the Jewish National Fund dedicated a memorial in Jerusalem to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The United States and Israeli flags fly together alongside the memorial, believed to be the first such physical structure erected outside the U.S. The dedication ceremony, attended by dignitaries including the U.S. Ambassador, received virtually no media attention outside of Israel. A video of the ceremony was filmed, edited, and posted to the YouTube page of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv by the Embassy’s Office of Public Affairs.
The memorial, which contains a steel beam from the World Trade Center towers, was built in Israel “because if any nation on Earth, if any city in the world, has endured similar horrors, can share comparable pain, can equally perceive the inherent threat to civilization and life, is able to continue to battle evil, will swear to eternally remember the outcome and price, is committed to seek peace while standing guard against war, and shares similar human, nationalistic, and democratic values with the United States, it is here in Israel and the gates of its capital Jerusalem.”