Israeli police training

Following several years of cooperation, the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem considerably increased its educational work with the Israeli Police since 2015. In addition to coordinating  study days at its campus in the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem has been organizing educational  activities for police officers on their educational campus since 2016. In response to increasing demand from the Israel Police, Yad Vashem opened its IDF and Security Forces department, tasked  with tailoring programs on its campus and across the country. In 2015, a total of 2 738 Israeli Police officers in 74 separate groups learned about the Holocaust in the framework of Yad Vashem programming.

Furthermore, the European Department of Yad Vashem’s International School has also been buttressing its ties with law enforcement agencies in the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Delegations of German police cadets have participated in Holocaust education seminars at Yad Vashem in recent years, and Yad Vahsem signed a bilateral agreement with the NWR Interior Ministry that formalized their training activities for German police on December 10, 2015.

Approach	Holocaust as major framework to analyze Human Rights
Target Audience	Law enforcement officers and officials Authorities
Materials	Educational tools for work with security forces Case studies
Geographical scope	Israel Germany
Start of practice	1993 IDF 2008 North-Rhein Westphalia
Country of origin	Israel