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What Matters Most On Monday, April 15, 2013

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The wreath-laying memorial ceremony at Mount Herzl Monday. (Screenshot: Channel 2)

‘We will not give in or surrender,’ PM says as nation remembers fallen

By Adiv Sterman and Gavriel Fiske

Some 1.5 million at ceremonies for Israel’s 25,578 war and terror victims; morning siren brings country to standstill

Terror victim representative Pozis-Shahak speaking on Mount Herzl Monday. (Screenshot: Channel 2)

Terror victims group’s chief lashes out during ceremony

By Stuart Winer

Isaac Shoshan (foreground) and Havakuk Cohen in Lebanon, around 1949 (Courtesy of Isaac Shoshan)

Our man in Beirut: The remarkable story of Isaac Shoshan

By Matti Friedman

On the day Israel became a country, the young Syrian Jew was spying in Lebanon, part of an odyssey that took him from Aleppo to war in Palestine and an encounter with Hitler’s boat

Standing alone and far away on Memorial Day

Did leaving Israel mean forsaking those who died so that we can live in our own country?

Shmuley Boteach

Leprosy and badmouthing the IDF

The Torah metes out skin disease to the gossipmonger, who believes God’s pie is too small for all of us to have a big piece

Birthright is the right birthday present

For 340,000 young Jews so far — and for Israel itself — the Taglit trips have proved to be the gift that keeps on giving

Ex-president Shimon Peres greets US President Barack Obama at a reception held in Obama's honor at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Independence Day interview

From Shimon Peres on Israel’s birthday, a very healthy dose of dissatisfaction

By David Horovitz

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Barack Obama at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem in March 2013. (photo credit: Pete Souza/Official White House)

Obama asks to keep billions for Israel and Egypt in budget

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Washington sources caution that sequestration still looms, absent a broader budget deal in Washington

South Africa's flag (photo credit: CC BY SA Privatemusings/Wikipedia)

Israel rejects Pretoria compromise on labeling settlement goods

By Raphael Ahren

While South African Jewish community hails ‘amazing’ victory, Jerusalem slams ‘discriminatory’ arrangement

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (left) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2012 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90/ File)

As Fayyad resigns, Palestinian politics face the unknown

By Elhanan Miller

Abbas yet to decide whether to appoint a new technocrat as PM or head an interim government himself

Illustrative: Portraits of Anne, her sister Margot, and mother Edith, inside the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Anne Frank House defends Bieber’s guestbook entry

‘We think it is very positive that he took the time and effort to visit our museum’

French President Francois Hollande, right, welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 8. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/ GPO/Flash90)

French rail firm accused of banning blacks for Peres visit

By Stuart Winer

SNCF management ordered African staff removed from station welcoming ceremony out of fear they may be Muslim

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the parliament in Ankara (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish prime minister to visit Gaza in May

Erdogan had canceled plans to travel to the Hamas-controlled territory this month

Illustration from the new book 'Tiny Dynamo,' which promotes the most important and interesting innovations to emerge from Israel. (photo credit: Courtesy Megan Flood)

Yom Ha'atzmaut

65 years of innovation, from Rummikub to the ‘God Particle’

By Marcella Rosen

A circumcision performed at home. (photo credit: courtesy)

Berlin probing circumcision over blood-sucking ritual

New law protecting rights of Jews and Muslims to religious ceremony does not account for controversial metzizah b’peh

Illustrative photo of an IDF soldier operating a reconnaissance drone. (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Germany mulling purchase of Israeli attack drones

By Adiv Sterman

Berlin representatives said to have already met with IDF officials to discuss possible weapons deal

In this Friday, April 12, 2013 photo, members of the Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees pose for a photograph at the Lebanon-Syria border, near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr, Lebanon. (photo credit:AP/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah-backed fighters stepping up role in Syrian civil war

By Bassam Mroue

War between Damascus regime and rebels is spreading across the region as a battle between Shiite and Sunni factions

Producer Nancy Spielberg, second from left, monitoring filming action at the Hatzerim Air Force base in southern Israel. (photo credit: Courtesy Nancy Spielberg/JTA)

Israel’s first flyboys soar again in celluloid

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Fresh complaint on Twitter anti-Semitism filed in France

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip on November 16, 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

IDF won’t charge soldiers over dead Gaza family

By ToI Staff and AP

US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, tours the Zojoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo Sunday, April 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Paul J. Richards)

As US talks up diplomacy, N. Korea takes hard line

The Oxitone device (photo credit: Courtesy)

The Israeli medical device Steve Jobs would have liked

By David Shamah

President Shimon Peres lights a torch in memory of Israel's fallen at a memorial ceremony in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Sunday, April 14, 2013 (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIsrael at 65, sooo much better than Sri Lanka, North Korea and Myanmar

By Ron Friedman

This Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria (photo credit: AP/ENN)

Arabic media reviewSyrian opposition chastises the Nusra Front

By Elhanan Miller

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