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Israel comes to a standstill to remember 23,928 fallen

Country plunges into mourning as sirens mark start of Memorial Day; 43 soldiers and civilians killed since last year

An Israeli soldier places flowers on the graves of fallen Israeli soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery hours before the start of Memorial Day, in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How to stream Israel’s Memorial Day services from home

FILE: The Israeli-owned cargo ship MV Hyperion Ray departing Koper Port in Slovenia, October 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israeli-owned ship said attacked off UAE coast amid sky-high tensions with Iran

No injuries as vessel comes under fire in Gulf of Oman; Iran had threatened retaliation over attack on Natanz nuclear site blamed on Israel

President Hassan Rouhani, second right, listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran blames Israel for Natanz attack, vows to ‘take revenge on the Zionists’

File: Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Natanz blast took out main power and backup, Iranian official acknowledges

Israeli National Security Council chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat (right), and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. (Flash90, AP)

Amid spiraling tensions, Israel and US to convene strategic group on Iran

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a conference in Tehran, Iran, February 23, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran’s Zarif: Israel made ‘a very bad gamble’ with blast at nuclear plant

By Agencies and TOI staff

Israel comes to a standstill to remember 23,928 fallen

Country plunges into mourning as sirens mark start of Memorial Day; 43 soldiers and civilians killed since last year

An Israeli soldier places flowers on the graves of fallen Israeli soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery hours before the start of Memorial Day, in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How to stream Israel’s Memorial Day services from home

FILE: The Israeli-owned cargo ship MV Hyperion Ray departing Koper Port in Slovenia, October 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israeli-owned ship said attacked off UAE coast amid sky-high tensions with Iran

No injuries as vessel comes under fire in Gulf of Oman; Iran had threatened retaliation over attack on Natanz nuclear site blamed on Israel

Iran blames Israel for Natanz attack, vows to ‘take revenge on the Zionists’

Natanz blast took out main power and backup, Iranian official acknowledges

Amid spiraling tensions, Israel and US to convene strategic group on Iran

Iran’s Zarif: Israel made ‘a very bad gamble’ with blast at nuclear plant

By Agencies and TOI staff

An Israeli soldier looks at a wall with the names of fallen soldiers of the armored corps at Latrun's military memorial, April 13, 2021, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

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Memorial Day events commence as Israel mourns fallen soldiers, terror victims

By Michael Bachner

Solemn commemorations for 23,928 victims held nationwide as main ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall gets underway

Iran informs UN it will raise enrichment to 60%, its highest-ever levels

By AP and TOI staff

Nuclear negotiator also says 1,000 more centrifuges will be installed at Natanz nuclear facility, the site of a recent attack blamed on Israel

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the organization, speaks with media while visiting the Natanz enrichment facility, in central Iran, November 4, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

In this Aug. 16, 2005 file photo, Iranian women form a human chain, at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility, in support of Iran's nuclear program, just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerFrom diplomacy to sabotage: Iran’s nuclear program and efforts to thwart it

Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, is interviewed from his hospital bed on April 12, 2021, after being injured the day before in a reported fall at the Natanz nuclear facility. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Iran says Natanz was hit by ‘small explosion,’ claims damage quickly repairable

By Agencies and TOI staff

Revolutionary Guard troops attend a military parade marking the 39th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

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