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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 22, 2015

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Bereaved Israelis mourn next to the graves of fallen soldiers at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, April 22, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli Memorial Day

PM: ‘Our enemies must know they will not break us’

By Judah Ari Gross

At ceremonies commemorating IDF fallen and terror victims, Netanyahu speaks of Israel’s strength and insists all Israelis ‘are one family’

At 67, Israel home to 8.3 million people

By Tamar Pileggi

Ya’alon: ‘We will not be misled by smooth words’

By Stuart Winer

New immigrants ready to serve and protect the White City

By Renee Ghert-Zand

President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Israel’s conflicted president wrestles with democracy, Jewish historical rights

By David Horovitz

On Independence Day, Rivlin grapples with his clashing convictions that ‘Zion belongs to the Jewish people,’ and that Jews and Arabs are destined to share the holy land

After siren wails, Rivlin urges Israelis to fight for ‘a more just home’

By Tamar Pileggi

Friends, relatives and religious dignitaries mourn near the coffin of Israeli police officer Zidan Saif, 30, a member of Israel's Druze minority, during his funeral in his northern home village of Yanuh-Jat, on November 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jack Guez)

Israel remembers its fallen from minority communities

By Judah Ari Gross

Druze, Bedouin, Circassians and others dispel the notion that Israel is defended by Jewish soldiers alone

Israeli Arab journalist Lucy Aharish lights a torch at the Independence Day Ceremony on April 22, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Live updates (closed)

After day of mourning, Israel transitions to Independence Day

By Marissa Newman

PM to Palestinians: Stop glorifying terror, it won’t bring peace; defense minister vows to bring bodies of missing soldiers home

On marathons, massacres and mendacity

As Israel mourns the victims of terror, her daughter’s murderer is free to host a weekly TV talk show

Brad Rothschild

Refugee lives matter

In turning away Africans seeking asylum from war and genocide, the State of Israel has lost its moral bearings

The meaning of their sacrifice

On Memorial Day: Survival alone will never be sufficient, the DNA of Israel is one of faith and creativity

Sharon Florentin

Things I learned from my father

Imagining the knock on the door and a young boy’s single unanswered question

In this Sunday, April 19, 2015 photo, workers place carpets over ancient floor designs in the cave under the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock enshrines the large rock slab where Muslim tradition says Mohammed ascended to heaven. Jews believe the rock may be where the holiest part of the two ancient temples stood about 2,000 years ago. (photo credit: AP/Mahmoud Illean)

New carpets at Dome of Rock spark religious row, rekindle Holy Ark mystery

By Daniel Estrin

Archaeologists fume as new rugs laid at Jerusalem shrine, covering geometric patterns that some claim point to sacred Temple artifact hidden beneath

Students from the hesder yeshiva at a grave in Bnei Brak in 2014 (photo credit: courtesy of Zvi Zelzer)

On Memorial Day, amid graves less visited

By Mitch Ginsburg

A memorial stone in Hebrew shows the name of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by Israeli extremists last summer, among names of victims of ”Acts of Terror“ at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 21, 2015 (Photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Arab teen to be removed from terror memorial at family’s request

Muhammed Abu Khdeir was beaten then burned to death in a retaliatory attack by Jewish extremists last year

Illustrative images of Nobelist Robert Yisrael Aumann and his granddaughter studying Talmud in Uri Rosenwaks' documentary series, 'The Nobelists' (Courtesy Ruth Diskin Films)

Israeli Independence Day

Lives of struggle, rejection, vindication: The essence of Israel’s ‘Nobelists’

By Jessica Steinberg

Filmmaker’s documentary reveals the personalities of recent Nobel laureates, explaining their work in terms even his mother-in-law can understand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) in Jerusalem on Monday, June 25, 2012. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

Despite S-300s to Iran, Israel to stay close to Russia

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem didn’t condemn Ukraine invasion, but Moscow continues to support Syria, Iran and pro-Palestine votes at the UN. Does Israel suffer from beaten-wife syndrome?

Representatives from world powers and Iran posing prior to the announcement of an agreement on Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2, 2015. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Tricky drafting of Iran nuclear deal to begin

By Simon Sturdee

No agreement yet on key elements, including the timing of sanctions relief, verification and other issues

David's Sling missile defense system in action, in footage released by the Israeli military on April 1, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

$286m David’s Sling funding bill introduced in House of Representatives

By JTA

Legislation would authorize funds for procurement, R&D for mid-range missile defense system

The UN Security Council voting on a resolution on Palestinian statehood on December 30, 2014. The resolution was voted down. (UN/Evan Schneider)

France, Britain seek UN action on peace process

By AFP and ToI Staff

New Zealand working on draft resolution; envoy says timing — after Israeli elections, before US presidential campaigns — is right

Scottish MP Sandra White introducing her pro-Palestine motion in the parliament in Edinburgh, April 21, 2015. (screen grab www.scottishparliament.tv)

Scottish parliament discusses recognition of Palestinian state

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry slams the debate — held on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day — as ‘shameful’ and ‘pointless’

Haverford College President Daniel Weiss will take over the presidency of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this summer. (Dan Z. Johnson/JTA)

NY Met’s new head prepares to run world’s third most-visited museum

By Hillel Kuttler

An African migrant sits at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

For African migrants used to danger, IS poses new threat

By Josef Federman

Eritrean who spent time in Israel among dozens killed by terror group in Libya; 2 others also believed to have been in Israeli detention

President Barack Obama speaks to members of Congress and other guests in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House once again avoids calling Armenian deaths ‘genocide’

By AFP

Community leaders say they were told Obama would not use the term

An aerial view of Alicante, Spain, where a Netafim system recycles wastewater and distributes it via a drip-irrigation system, watering all public areas in the southern Spanish town. (Courtesy Netafim)

Israel’s drip irrigation pioneer says his tech feeds a billion people

By David Shamah

As his firm prepares to unveil world’s biggest project in India, Rafi Mehudar, one of this year’s Independence Day torch-lighters, says the battle against famine is far from over

The Gazelle Monument in the forest east of Ma’ale Hahamisha (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

In the Jerusalem Hills, where Israel’s independence was won in blood

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan in Las Vegas in 2008. (Lindsay Lohan image via Shutterstock).

Lost in translationLiLo thinks ‘ass’ is ‘beautiful’

Turkey's top religious authority opens investigation into a Quran-shaped cake, baked by seminary students in 2013. (screen capture: YouTube)

Let them eat QuranTurkey fumes over Quran-shaped cake

By Judah Ari Gross

File: Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor reads out a passage from the Israeli national anthem in front of the UN Security Council on Israel's Memorial Day, April 21, 2015. (screen capture: IsraelinUN)

Israeli envoy to UN reads national anthem at Security Council

Woman with Saudi, Jewish ancestry wins $40K in racial profiling settlement

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an Orthodox Jew walking past the Ahavas Torah Synagogue in the Stamford Hill area of north London on March 22, 2015. (AFP/Niklas Halle'n)

Amnesty International rejects call to fight anti-Semitism

By Stuart Winer

Defendant Oskar Groening sits in the dock of the court in Lueneburg, northern Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. The 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard faces trial on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, in a case that will test the argument that anyone who served at a Nazi death camp was complicit in what happened there. (photo credit: Julian Stratenschulte/Pool Photo via AP)

Auschwitz ‘accountant,’ who sorted valuables taken from victims, says he shares moral guilt

By David Rising

Illustrative photo of the site of a Jerusalem hit-and-run accident (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Driver in West Bank hit-and-run identified as Jewish settler

Israelis hike in the Nahal Arugot valley near Ein Gedi region during the Passover holiday, April 5, 2015. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/FLASH90)

Rescue crews working to recover tourist’s body in Ein Gedi

By Rahel Jaskow

A faucet and toilets in a classroom at the ecological village in Nitzana, Israel, October 29, 2009. Students there learn about desalination and on how to save water. (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

Recycling toilet waste and four other Israeli answers to California’s drought

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva offers to buy Mylan in $40 billion deal

By ToI Staff and AP

Israelis stand still as a two-minute siren sounds in Jerusalem, marking Memorial Day, which commemorates Israelis killed in war and terror attacks since the founding of the state, April 22, 2015 photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewTears of sadness, tears of joy

By Adiv Sterman

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