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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 16, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem April 15, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'We will not let the State of Israel become a passing phase'

Netanyahu says West is ‘comatose, delusional’ in face of today’s Nazis: Iran

Nuclear deal proves world has not learned lessons of Holocaust, is again capitulating to tyranny, PM warns at Yad Vashem ceremony

Rivlin: Past horrors, present threats won’t dictate our future

Polish politician: Holocaust preventable if every Jew had a gun

By JTA

Survivor defied death in Holocaust – repeatedly – for the love of her sister

By Jonah Mandel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin on August 27, 2009, examining a US military aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau (photo credit: AP/Rainer Jensen, pool)

Should the Allies have bombed Auschwitz? A still-incendiary question

By Mitch Ginsburg

As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked, two historians stake out passionate, opposite positions on the causes and consequences of inaction

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Rivlin invokes Palestinian victims in Holocaust comments

By Jonathan Beck

At Remembrance Day event, president says Israel ‘cannot turn blind eye’ to atrocities in Yarmouk, Nigeria

Police investigate the scene where a driver rammed his car into a bus stop in French Hill, Jerusalem, on April 15, 2015. (photo credit: Fire and Rescue Services)

Man killed, woman badly injured in possible Jerusalem car attack

Police probing Arab driver who rammed bus stop in the capital; family of deceased call the driver ‘a scoundrel’

Abraham H. Foxman

Assessing ‘Never Again’

70 years after the Holocaust, Iranian threats to obliterate Israel are dismissed and genocide is a devalued term

Righteous Albania

Instead of giving the Nazis a list of Jews, Albanians warned and protected their Jewish compatriots

Phyllis Greenberg Heideman

Holocaust education should be emotional

The March of the Living program is purposely designed to touch participants’ hearts, not just their minds

Hundreds of people attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Benjamin Schlesinger, a man they had never met. (screen capture: Liza Lalutzashvili, DI Public Relations/Facebook)

Hundreds pay respects to Holocaust survivor they never knew

By Rahel Jaskow

People come from all over Israel to honor Benjamin Schlesinger, 82, who had no near family in the country

Young people gather to hear testimony from Holocaust survivor Tzvi Ben Porat (second from left, second row from back) at 'Zikaron Basalon' event at Malhi family home in Jerusalem, April 15, 2015. (photo credit: Noam Feiner)

New initiative lets Holocaust survivors share ‘memories at home’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Younger generations meet in living rooms to hear first-hand testimonies from the remaining survivors who can bear witness

Illustrative: Survivors, some accompanied by their children or grandchildren, light six torches at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash 90)

A Mengele twin, Hagana fighters, and a ‘mute,’ among survivors honored

By Jessica Steinberg

Mi Polin founders Helena Czernek, 29, a designer, and Alexander Prugar, 30, a photojournalist. (courtesy)

Mezuzahs from Holocaust victims’ homes reforged by artist couple

By Rossella Tercatin

A general view of Iran's parliament in Tehran, Aug. 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s parliament calls for shorter deal, fewer limitations

Lawmakers issue their own ‘fact sheet’ for nuclear accord demanding immediate sanctions relief, more active centrifuges

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an annual call-in show on Russian television 'Conversation With Vladimir Putin' in Moscow, Apr. 16, 2015. (Photo credit: Mikhail Klimentyev/ RIA Novosti, Presidential Press Service)

Putin defends missile sale as sign of progress in nuke talks

By AP

Russian president says delivery of S-300 air defense system to Iran is no threat to Israel

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu (R) meets with US Sen. Marco Antonio Rubio (R-FL) in Jerusalem February 20, 2013. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)

Kicking off campaign, Rubio attacks Obama on Israel

By Rahel Jaskow

Republican presidential candidate lists relations with Israel, Iran among his major platform issues in 2016 presidential run

Police close Route 90 in eastern Israel due to flooding as the area gets struck with April showers on Apr. 16, 2015. (Photo credit: Israel Police spokesperson)

Dozens trapped in cars as unseasonal torrents lash Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

Over 1.5 inches fall on capital in hours, submerging homes and roadways; Route 90 reopens after flooding

LinX technology in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Apple buys photo-tech firm LinX for its third Israel acquisition

By David Shamah

A local start-up may be able to help the tech giant build a better smartphone camera

Ayman Odeh (center), head of Israel's Joint (Arab) List, reacts at party headquarters in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth as exit polls in the general elections are announced, March 17, 2015 (photo credit: Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Netanyahu invites Arab party leader to meeting

Ayman Odeh accepts invitation, but accuses prime minister of using it as a publicity stunt

Where money goes when your credit card is swiped

By David Shamah

Zooz’s payment platform makes it easier for merchants to lower transaction their costs

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Kim Kardashian is blurred out of a photo with husband Kanye West and Jerusalem's Mayor Nir Barkat (screen capture: Kikar Hashabat)

Keeping out the KardashianUltra-Orthodox site edits Kardashian pic

By AP

A silver Indian rupee from 1918. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Almazi, Wikimedia Commons)

Three miles downSilver trove found on U-boat-sunk ship

By Rahel Jaskow

Danielle and Alexander Meitiv with their children Rafi and Dvora. (YouTube screenshot)

Kindergarten copUS couple suing cops for detaining kids

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative image of Goldstar Israeli beer (Courtesy Tempo)

Drinking on the jobWanted: Goldstar seeks taste tester

By Jessica Steinberg

A small helicopter lands on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. (photo credit: Sam Smith/AP)

Air mailPostal worker lands tiny chopper at Capitol

By AP

View of the ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 15, 2015. photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRemembering the Holocaust, looking forward

By Adiv Sterman

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