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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 6, 2014

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66 things I love about Israel

By Benji Lovitt

Benji Lovitt presents his annual Times of Israel Independence Day roundup of all that charms, delights and touches his soul

Shimon Peres speaks to The Times of Israel's David Horovitz (photo credit: Office of the President)

Analysis

Peres: With good will you can achieve peace. With wrong policies, you can postpone it

By David Horovitz

A final presidential Independence Day interview with that indefatigable optimist, our ‘obedient servant’ Shimon Peres

Then-President Shimon Peres (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sing along with Iranian-born singer Rita as they participate in a ceremony for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 66th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 06, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Independence Day 2014Peres warns soldiers of challenges beyond ‘immediate borders’

Then prime minister Shimon Peres and his wife Sonya, 1984. (photo credit: Nati Harnik/GPO Flash90)

Politics broke up my marriage, Peres says

By AP

Israel, a pulsating heart

‘It is clear that God is here. He is protecting me. He is guiding me. I can relate to Him directly.’

Peace goes by the name Hadassah

After practicing in Saudi Arabia, the sense of community at Israel’s flagship hospital feels extraordinary

66 years of food insecurity

Like David Ben Gurion’s family, many Israelis still don’t have enough to eat, and yet we keep wasting food

Families flock to Jerusalem's Sacher Park as they celebrate Israel's 66th Independence Day with a traditional barbecue, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (photo credit: Yifa Yaakov/The Times of Israel)

Independence Day 2014

Sites shut down as Independence Day visitors cram parks, army bases

With over a million visitors expected, major heritage sites closed to public, major traffic jams reported

Young women wrapped in Israeli flags walking the streets of Jerusalem as Israel's celebrates its 66th Independence Day on May 05, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Independence Day 2014

With songs and pageantry, nation transitions from mourning to celebration

Fourteen women representing a broad cross-section of Israeli society light 12 ceremonial torches at Mount Herzl event marking start of 66th Independence Day

Shipping containers at the Haifa Port (Photo credit: Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)

66 years later, Israel’s exports up 16,000%

By David Shamah

By the numbers, the country’s exports are doing superbly, with rapid growth since 1948, the Israel Export Institute reports

The Aslan Levi Family 2010, from An Archeology of Fear and Desire, by Frederic Brenner (Snir Stream Laguna 2010, by Frederic Brenner (Photo credit: Frederic Brenner/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)

Portraits of a many-layered country

By Jessica Steinberg

Yair Lapid (photo credit: Oded Balilty/AP)

Interview

Yair Lapid: I know how to change things now

By David Horovitz

He’s made some mistakes in his first year in office, the finance minister acknowledges, but very few of them twice. An Independence Day interview with a centrist leader in no hurry to leave the coalition

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, walks with US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk, right, at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Brendan Smialowski/Pool)

US denies report that peace team has been dismantled

By AFP

State Department says officials will be traveling back to the region ‘soon,’ Kerry may release document of US ‘principles’

A copy of the assignment. (Screen capture: KTLA)

US school backtracks after asking if Holocaust was real

By AP and ToI Staff

Los Angeles-area school had told 8th graders to write essay on whether Shoah happened, using anti-Semitic screed as source

Aryeh Shachar recounting his experiences to a Toldot Yisrael interviewer (photo credit: courtesy of Toldot Yisrael)

The last of the founding generation, captured on film

By Mitch Ginsburg

More Headlines

Frame from Simpsons episode "New Kids on the Blecch" showing a jeep bearing a Syrian opposition flag from 2001, 10 years before the outbreak of the civil war. (screen capture: YouTube)

Don't have a cow, Syria‘Simpsons predicted Syrian civil war’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Eitan Amos (L), winner of the 2014 Bible Quiz, poses with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Shai Piron. (photo credit: GPO)

TorontorahCanadian teen wins 2014 Bible Quiz

Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) Walid Jumblatt in an interview with the BBC in 2012. (screen capture, YouTube)

Lebanese leader urges Syrian rebels to shun Israeli aid

The Detroit skyline. (Andrea_44/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Kosher lifeShould Jews rush to Detroit?

By Julie Wiener

A screenshot taken from amateur footage of the ransacked Beit El synagogue in Sfax, Tunisia (YouTube)

Tunisian synagogue vandalized for third time

Screenshot of an interactive 3D game being developed by TILT (Photo credit: Courtesy)

An IDF incubator for the ‘start-app nation’

By David Shamah

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