JERUSALEM, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday urged Israelis to end the growing political divisions which might tear the country apart.

"My brothers and sisters, we simply cannot allow the same dangerous gene of factionalism to dismantle Israel from within," said Bennett when addressing the opening ceremony of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Israel's Holocaust memorial museum.

Bennett said that the Holocaust is "an unprecedented event in human history," and that even the most difficult wars today "are not comparable to the Holocaust."

The remembrance will continue on Thursday with ceremonies in schools throughout the country and a two-minute siren during which the country virtually comes to a standstill to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis during the Second World War.

As of the end of 2021, the number of Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Israel was about 165,000, according to figures released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of Holocaust Day.

On Tuesday, Bennett's family received a letter with a death threat and a live bullet, prompting the Shin Bet internal security agency to strengthen the family's security.

Bennett leads a narrow coalition government that has been under constant attacks from his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Likud party and other right-wing parties. Enditem

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