Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.

This week, like every week, antisemitism has captured media headlines around the world, ranging from "'Death to the Jews' chants heard at Berlin rally" to "Bone-chilling antisemitic display in Poland sparks condemnation." 

These modern iterations of antisemitism are, of course, of concern to Israel’s national Holocaust memorial museum Yad Vashem. But it was yet another headline this week that caused Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan to speak out, "'Polish propaganda': Critics assail deal to resume Israeli youth trips to Poland."

As a guardian against the distortion of Holocaust memory, in the past year, the Buenos Aires-born Dayan, a former head of the settler movement and a past Consul General of New York, has spoken up in several other cases, including when Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made comments this summer that evoked Nazi ideology.

Speaking with The Times of Israel on Thursday, Dayan says, he sees results.

This week, days before Israel marks Yom Hashoah, the national Holocaust memorial day we ask Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan, what matters now?

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IMAGE: Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem (Alex Kolomoisky)

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