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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 23, 2015

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Because Shimon Peres went looking for a job.

67 more things I love about Israel

By Benji Lovitt

It’s this year’s annual list of the country’s quaint quirks and strange twists — as seen through the eyes of funnyman Benji Lovitt

US President Barack Obama (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2014. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Obama ‘won’t meet Netanyahu’ until after nuke talks deadline

By Judah Ari Gross

President tells Jewish leaders he fears PM would publicly blast his Iran policies if invited to the White House, New York Times reports

In cartoons, Arab press expresses anger, fear over Iran nuke deal

In Tennessee, a mock Iranian nuke facility tests breakout time

By Judah Ari Gross

Iran, world powers enter second day of talks in Vienna

By AFP

President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after addressing Israeli students at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, March 21, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Obama’s 67 degrees of separation from Israel

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: As Israel turns 67 in the vicious, unstable Middle East, the current US administration has proved a vital ally. But ties could and should have been closer

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

Israeli Independence Day

‘This is our country, there is no other,’ says teary-eyed Aharish in Arabic

By Jonathan Beck

Arab-Israeli journalist lights torch at Independence Day ceremony, appeals for tolerance, peace, hope

Arab MK accuses torch-lighter Aharish of ‘admiring the oppressor’

By Jonathan Beck and ToI Staff

Israelis proud of country, but displeased with political system

By Judah Ari Gross

Photo essayBraving storms, nation marks Israel’s 67th birthday

From generation to degeneration

On the liberal values that may be eroding American Jewish kinship with Israel

Daniel C. Laufer

Humans of Yerushalayim

Some visiting highschoolers stormed the capital armed with cameras and questions — here’s what they captured

The scapegoat: shame and guilt

Ancient Jewish rituals chart a pathway out of the hopelessness of forever reliving past mistakes (Acharei Mot – Kedoshim)

Keeping our trails independent

Israel’s true national sport has hit some bumps in the path and a few key changes will ensure we can all go take a hike

Michael Zakarian organizes archive photographs of the Armenian Genocide, for an exhibition at the Armenian Seminary, on April 15, 2015. This year, on April 24, the Armenians will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Urging recognition, Jerusalem Armenians mark 100th anniversary of genocide

By Melanie Lidman

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls at the National Assembly in Paris, February 11, 2015 (Patrick Kovarik/AFP)

French PM: Five terror attacks foiled in recent months

By AFP

Manuel Valls says ‘the threat has never been as high. We have never had to face this kind of terrorism in our history’

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Mickey Hayat practices Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, as he holds an Israeli national flag, ahead of Israeli Independence Day, on April 17, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

10 little known things about Israel’s past

By Uriel Heilman

$President Shimon Peres delivering a eulogy next to the flag-draped bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach at their funeral July 1, 2014 (photo credit: Chaim Tzach)$

Music video honors memory of slain Israeli teens

On Memorial Day, Makor Haim classmates release song written by troubadour David D’Or

Marta Weinstock-Rosin (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel’s Exelon inventor sees an end to Alzheimer’s

By David Shamah

Medicine’s next great challenge is to help people live better-quality lives, says Dr. Marta Weinstock-Rosin, one of this year’s Independence Day torch-lighters

Given Imaging’s Pillcam (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Israeli Independence Day

Pillcam’s inventor regrets sale of ‘Biblical’ tech to foreign firm

By David Shamah

Despite the $860 million price, Independence Day torch-lighter Gabi Iddan would have preferred Given Imaging to remain in Israeli hands

Stuart and Evelyn Steinberg (far left) attend a Memorial Day ceremony on Tuesday at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to honor their son Max who was killed during Operation Protective Edge last summer. (Photo credit: Dani Machlis/BGU)

Family of fallen US-born soldier marks Memorial Day in Israel

By Rahel Jaskow

The parents of Max Steinberg, killed in Operation Protective Edge, endow a scholarship at Ben-Gurion University in his memory

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, Valérie Braham, the widow of Phillip Barham who was killed in Paris, and Sergeot Uzan, the father of Dan Uzan killed in Copenhagen, attend a ceremony in Jerusalem on April 22, 2015, commemorating victims of anti-Semitic attacks in the world. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jewish Agency honors victims of anti-Semitism

By Judah Ari Gross

Family members of those killed in Paris and Copenhagen attacks gather in Jerusalem to remember loved ones

Illustrative photo of Auschwitz's barbed wire fences (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Ex-Auschwitz guard describes camp in chilling detail

By David Rising

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) poses for a picture with the members of the new Palestinian unity government in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, June 2, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

Historic PA visit to Gaza failed after Hamas confined ministers

By Elhanan Miller

Abbas’s delegation left hastily after they were placed under ‘house arrest’ at hotel and kept incommunicado

Islamic Wafaa’ Bloc Wins Majority in Birzeit University Student Council Elections (photo credit: Public Relations Office - Birzeit University)

Hamas wins decisively in West Bank student union election

By Daniel Bernstein

On Birzeit campus, Islamist terror group beats out rival Fatah to gain control of university’s council

Rich compost ready for use. (NormanAck, CC-BY, via wikipedia)

Earth Day 2015

NY Jewish initiative gives back to the land, not the landfill

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of female Muslim students. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

One track mindAussie Islamic school bans female running

By AFP

Three rabbis convicted in religious divorce ring

By JTA

Maickel Melamed, in a wheelchair and flanked by his support team, receives a medal from Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, April 21, 2015. (Photo Credit: JTA/City of Boston, Mayor’s Office)

Marathon manBoston’s last-place runner earns his medal

By Penny Schwartz

Illustrative: Classic shakshuka. (photo credit: Liron Almog/Flash90)

Shaking it upUN chief tries some Israeli shakshouka

Israelis barbecue during the celebration of Israel's 66th Independence Day, Jerusalem, May 6, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Let Them Eat WeedsFrom mallow to ‘mangal’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The first clip in the 'Zionism in Animation’ series chronicling Israel’s birth (photo credit: Vimeo screen capture)

Zionist dreamworksToons pitch Zionism to millennials

Veteran Jerusalemite families celebrate independence with mallow soup. (Ronit Treatman/The Times of Israel)

Jerusalem brothMallow soup: a taste of independence

By Ronit Treatman

Former president Shimon Peres in the 'cleanroom' fabrication facility in Intel's Kiryat Gat facility (Sivan Faraj)

Israeli Independence DayHow Intel came to be Israel’s best tech friend

By David Shamah

Bob O‘Dell, co-founder of Root Source, presents his findings on blood moons and his calculated date of the Exodus from Egypt: April 10, 1579 BCE. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Rabbis teach Christians in new online learning courses

By Melanie Lidman

Jewish literary critic M. H. Abrams (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

M.H. Abrams, Norton anthology founder, dies at 102

By Hillel Italie

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