Righteous Among the Nations
ISRAELI HONORIFIC FOR NON-JEWS WHO SAVED JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Righteous among the nations; Righteous Among The Nations; Holocaust resistance; Yad Vashem medal; Righteous among the Gentiles; Righteous Among Nations; Righteous among the Nations; Hasidé ummot ha-olam; Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations; Righteous among Nations; Chassidei Umos HaOlam; The Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations (, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis for altruistic reasons. The term originates with the concept of "righteous gentiles", a term used in rabbinic Judaism to refer to non-Jews, called , who abide by the Seven Laws of Noah.