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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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Hila Betzaleli poses at the Mount Herzl parade grounds, two hours before the tragedy in which she lost her life. (Channel 2 News screen capture)

IDF officer killed in Mount Herzl tragedy laid to rest near where she died

Next week’s Independence Day ceremonies to go ahead despite fatality during rehearsal

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and his wife Elsa earlier this year visited Yad Vashem's Hall of Names during his first trip to Israel since taking office (photo credit: Issac Harari/Flash90)

The mandatory VIP visit to Yad Vashem: A vital history lesson or emotional blackmail?

By Raphael Ahren

More and more Israelis — even within the government — say it’s a mistake to compel foreign dignitaries to tour the Holocaust memorial

When the Jews sheltered with the sultan’s lions

A hundred years ago, in Fez, Morocco, Muslim army recruits mutinied against their French officers. Then they turned on the Jews

A female protester confronts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Bandar-Abbas. (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

Iranians rush Ahmadinejad’s car to protest poverty

By Ilan Ben Zion

YouTube clip shows remarkable act of civil disobedience in Bandar-Abbas

IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner arrives at his home in Jerusalem on April 17, 2012 (photo credit: by Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner removed from post

By Gabe Fisher and ToI Staff

‘I did not expect this to be the decision,’ says officer who struck protester in the face with his rifle

Salafist candidate Hazem Abu Ismail in 2011 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Suleiman, Shater and Abu Ismail officially out of Egyptian presidential race

By Elhanan Miller

Election committee rejects the appeals of 10 candidates

Jordan's King Abdullah (left), pictured with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Ramallah in November, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Jordan’s king moves toward banning Muslim Brotherhood

By Elhanan Miller

Lower house of parliament approves a bill barring parties established on a ‘religious basis’

An exercise of an elite combat engineering unit on an army base in central Israel (Illustrative photo; credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF soldier collapses and dies during Negev training drill

By Hillary Zaken

19-year-old recruit Yehoshua Hefetz, of Jerusalem, was seeking entry to elite unit

Nysoha and her mother hide in an attic (Courtesy)

Animated Holocaust film uses Spielberg online witness archive

By David Shamah

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