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The Jewish Community of Oporto, Portugal, inaugurated its new cemetery on April 25. The ceremony took place on Israel’s Memorial Day and included a tribute to the Jewish state’s fallen soldiers.
The previous cemetery was destroyed in 1497 in the wake of an edict of King Manuel I.
The event was presided over by rabbis from Portugal, Israel, the US and the UK.
Community members unabashedly say that Porto serves as a beacon for the rest of European Jewry, where small communities are dying out.
"Young people as promising as you are very important to defend the image of Israel and the Jewish people in Portugal and around the world," said Ambassador Dor Shapira.