Israel Remembrance Day

epa02123677 A man prays at a grave during Remembrance Day on Mount Herzl Military cementry in Jerusalem , Israel , on 19 April 2010 . Peretz was one of two Israeli soldiers recently killed by Palestinian militants in Gaza Strip pursuing Palestinian militants who planted a bomb along the border . Remembrance Day , which is followed on April 19 by the 62nd anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state in 1948 , commemorates soldierscivilians killed since Jews first settled outside the walls of Jerusalem ' s Old City in 1860 .  EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN