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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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Do we love rain or what? (image: YouTube video frame)

65 more things I love about Israel

By Benji Lovitt

Loving the fact that air raid sirens in Tel Aviv lead to social gatherings in the stairwell… and 64 other things

Perfomers on Mount Herzl Monday night. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over a million Israelis flock to parks, nature sites for Independence Day

Forest fire near Elad; many parks report overcrowding; Monday evening saw torchlightings mark transition from Memorial Day to Yom Ha’atzmaut

One on onePM does PM on ‘Eretz Nehederet’

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel travelsThe pre-state struggle remembered at the Underground Prisoners’ Museum

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Food for thoughtBring a barley salad to the barbecue

By Phyllis Glazer

A runner leaving Copley Square after the bombing on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Winslow Townson)

Analysis

With no clear culprit, Boston struggles to come to grips

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In Israel, bombings like the one at the Boston Marathon are immediately given context; but in the US, tragedy can come at the hands of anyone from anti-tax activists to religious fanatics

‘Israel-trained medical team responded to Boston attack’

US Jewish community ‘vigilant’ after Boston attack

From the webIsraeli at marathon: Miracle more weren’t killed

Menahem Ben-Sasson

The key to Israel’s future: Education

To help keep the country’s edge as an academic powerhouse send your donations–and your kids–to the country’s universities

Hillel Schenker

Israel at 65: Is Zionism still alive?

Legitimate Zionism ends at the 1967 borders, one state is not an option and time is running out for the two-state option

Almost everything stopped

It is not only our responsibility to ensure that the fallen did not die in vain, it is our privilege and our honor to do so

Former Yesh Atid MK Shimon Solomon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yom Ha'atzmaut interview

Teshome Solomon’s arduous, triumphant trek to the Knesset

By Raphael Ahren

At least 40 dead in massive Iran earthquake

Red Crescent calls second quake in two weeks ‘complicated emergency situation’; 7.8 magnitude tremor reaches the Gulf, India, and Pakistan

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel can strike Iran nuclear targets alone, IDF head says

Benny Gantz says intense discussions underway between military and political leadership over Iran, warns Gazans to keep south quiet

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston on April 15, 2013 (AP/Charles Krupa)

Jordan extremist praises Boston bombing

‘American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,’ says al-Qaeda-linked Salafist leader

Yael Kfir was killed in a terror attack in 2003. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Remembering both sides on Yom Hazikaron

By Michal Shmulovich

‘Killing Palestinians would not bring my Yaeli back; nothing would,’ a grieving father tells a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial service, recalling his daughter who was murdered in a terror attack

Israelis stand for two minutes of silence next to graves of fallen soldiers at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Memorial Day, April 15, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MKs remember the fallen, warn of new threats

Ya’alon, Livni, Shalom and others attend memorial ceremonies, link Israel’s bygone wars with today’s security challenges

Bassem Youssef mocking the Muslim Brotherhood after comparing them to the Nazis (screenshot: MEMRI)

Heil Youssef

‘Brotherhood are Nazis’

Bassem Youssef tells viewers the country’s ruling party is an ‘Aryan race that deserves to rule us’; ends with Nazi salute

Egyptian Jews pick new leader

Magda Haroun named new president of dwindling Jewish community following death of Carmen Weinstein

Several immigrant soon-to-be lone soldiers, pictured during a pre-Independence Day barbecue (Photo credit: Sasson Tiram/ Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Motivation runs high at national birthday bash for immigrant soldiers

By Mitch Ginsburg

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Illustrative: Hamas operatives patrol the port in Gaza city, June 12, 2008 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas bulldozes UNESCO heritage site for terror base

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas makes historic visit to Kuwait to open embassy

Aviel Krutinsky, lead singer of Iron Dome (Courtesy Aviel Krutinsky Facebook page)

Heavy metalThey love the Merkava, in Moldova

By Jessica Steinberg

British fashion designer John Galliano after the presentation of his Spring/Summer 2005 men's fashion show, in Paris (AP/Jacques Brinon)

Galliano denies he agreed to design Israeli singer’s dress

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from behind bars as he attends a hearing in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewSaudis shudder over Boston report

By Elhanan Miller

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