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Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella speaks at the Hebrew University's Minerva Center for Human Rights, April 9, 2018 (Bruno Charbit)
Israel at 70
Rosalie Silberman Abella
Without an independent judiciary, Israel’s cherished democracy will be at risk
In a lecture in Jerusalem last week, the senior judge on Canada's Supreme Court, who was born in a DP camp after much of her family died in Treblinka, issued an alarm call
A 1951 image of the Hebrew University's Prof. Eleazar Sukenik with one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Department of Archaeology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem - National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection)
Israel@70ToI asks the experts: What are the most important finds of Israeli archaeology?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, in his office at the Knesset (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Israel@70 interviewYair Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer a defender of Israeli democracy
By David Horovitz
A woman smiles during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Photo essayWith BBQs and F-35s, Israelis delight in 70 years of independence
By TOI staff
A glimpse at what Emek Refaim Street in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem might look like with the light rail running through it. (Courtesy Refaim BaMoshavot)
April 21, 2018, 12:24 pm
Local struggle over light rail intensifies in Jerusalem’s German Colony
Two citizen groups go head-to-head on whether or not to a place section of track down Emek Refaim Street, the heart of the upscale neighborhood
By Jessica Steinberg
Palestinian protesters fly a kite with a burning rag dangling from its tail to during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 20, 2018. Activists use kites with burning rags dangling from their tails to set ablaze drying wheat fields on the Israeli side. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
April 21, 2018, 8:27 am
Flaming kite from Gaza sets Israeli warehouse ablaze
No injuries reported in incident, which is part of new tactic by Palestinian protesters aimed at setting fields across border on fire
By TOI staff
Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem)
April 21, 2018, 6:38 am
Internet rips into Regev over supposed invite to Thatcher for 70th ceremonies
Social media has a laugh at culture minister's expense after Knesset speaker claims she sought to invite the late UK leader to Independence Day events
By TOI staff
View of the US Consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 21, 2018, 4:46 am
Jerusalem municipality completes signs for new US embassy
Authorities also paving a new back entrance to the US Consulate compound, which will serve as the temporary premises for the embassy
By TOI staff
A Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat leaves the Haifa port ahead of the Israeli Navy's flotilla in honor of Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
April 20, 2018, 6:31 am
A festive Independence Day sail down Israel’s coast — with some engine trouble
After a turbulent air force fly-by in 2016, a Times of Israel reporter gives the navy's flotilla a shot for the country's 70th birthday
By Judah Ari Gross
Google Doodle celebrates Israel's 70th Independence Day, April 19, 2018 (Google screenshot)
April 20, 2018, 5:50 am
Google salutes Israel on its 70th anniversary
On Independence Day, search engine changes local homepage to a celebratory blue-and-white doodle featuring an Israeli flag
By TOI staff
Israel Prize winner Miriam Peretz speaks during the ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 20, 2018, 12:44 am
Mother of fallen IDF soldiers awarded Israel Prize for youth work
In emotional speech, Miriam Peretz says she has learned to transform pain of her sons' deaths into a 'new melody'
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein seen at a state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Noam Moskowitz/POOL)
April 19, 2018, 11:11 pm
Edelstein: Netanyahu’s credibility hurt after he ‘ruined’ Independence Day event
Knesset speaker accuses PM, culture minister of breaking their word to him over premier's speech; Regev slams remarks as 'full of lies'
By Michael Bachner
In the skies above Israel: The view from the cockpit of an IAF pilot on an Independence Day flyover, April 19, 2017 (IAF)
April 19, 2018, 10:45 pm
WATCH Aerobatics over Israel: A 360° pilot’s-eye view of 70th birthday flyover
Air Force team performs inverted maneuvers, barrel rolls as it streaks over country's beaches and cities to mark Independence Day
By TOI staff
Paratroopers drop into the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
April 19, 2018, 10:11 pm
WATCH: IDF paratroopers, vets take Independence Day leap
Fathers of fighters in the iconic brigade also participate in aerial demonstrations off coasts of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Tiberias
By TOI staff
Arab Israelis wave Palestinian flags and participate in a march commemorating the "Nakba" (catastrophe) that accompanied Israel's creation, in Atlit, northern Israel, on April 19, 2018, Israel's 70th Independence Day. (Screen capture: Twitter)
April 19, 2018, 6:09 pm
Thousands of Arabs in northern Israel mark Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of 1948
In annual 'Nakba' event near Haifa, participants commemorate hundreds of thousands who fled or were expelled from their homes during Israel's War of Independence
By Michael Bachner
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L), Azriel Shilat (2nd-L), Oriah Cohen (2nd-R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the International Bible Quiz, which is held annually on Independence Day, in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2018. Shilat was the winner of this year's contest and Cohen was the runner-up. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
April 19, 2018, 5:22 pm
Winner of top bible contest says moral is never give up
Azriel Shilat, 17, from Hatzor Haglilit, only began preparing for the traditional Independence Day competition 6 months ago
By TOI staff
Paramedics try unsuccessfully to resuscitate a man who drowned on a Tel Aviv beach on April 19, 2018. (Magen David Adom)
April 19, 2018, 4:09 pm
Man, 55, drowns at Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day
Israel's holiday revels are not without injuries: Two teens hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, woman hurt after tree falls over, and 19-year-old motorcyclist injured in accident
By TOI staff
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella speaks at the Hebrew University's Minerva Center for Human Rights, April 9, 2018 (Bruno Charbit)
April 19, 2018, 3:30 pm
Without an independent judiciary, Israel’s cherished democracy will be at risk
In a lecture in Jerusalem last week, the senior judge on Canada's Supreme Court, who was born in a DP camp after much of her family died in Treblinka, issued an alarm call
By Rosalie Silberman Abella
A woman smiles during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 19, 2018, 1:48 pm
With BBQs and F-35s, Israelis delight in 70 years of independence
Some 200,000 people flock to national parks around the country, with many more taking to beaches to watch flyover of fighter jets
By TOI staff
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