Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin have attended a ceremony in Israel to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe.
The ceremony was held in Latrun in central Israel. The event commemorated Germany's unconditional surrender on May the 7th, 1945, ushering the allies' victory over Nazism and also honoring the veterans who served during War World Two.
"The lesson that was learned during the years of the Holocaust is also valid these days; we paid an unbearable price because we did not have a state. Now we do have a state, and soldiers with weapons, whose duty is to protect us from our enemies. We know that the first lesson is that we must be capable and able to protect ourselves by ourselves against any threats, this is the lesson of 70 years since the victory over the Nazis," Netanyahu said.