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What Matters Most On Monday, May 1, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on Israeli Remembrance Day during a ceremony held at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 1, 2017. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Memorializing terror victims, Netanyahu urges Abbas to stop funding terrorists

By Stuart Winer

At annual ceremony for those killed in terror attacks, PM claims PA has spent $1 billion in recent years in payments to jailed assailants

In anguish, longing, 1.5 million Israelis pay respects at military cemeteries nationwide

Close to heavenIsraelis on Lufthansa flight stand for Memorial Day siren

English-language Memorial Day ceremony helps a community mourn

By Melanie Lidman

Avi Yacoby, left, poses for a photograph with his son Gilad, who later fell in the 2014 Gaza war. (Courtesy)

Israel’s bereaved are holy, but they don’t all want to be sacred cows

By Judah Ari Gross

Politicians crossed a line when they yelled at the parents of fallen soldiers in the Knesset, but as those who lost loved ones demand answers, they know their beyond-reproach status is changing

Mother of missing soldier: State you died for isn’t helping to bring you back

By Alexander Fulbright

On Memorial Day, Liberman says Israel working to return MIAs

By Alexander Fulbright

Remembering the fallen, Rivlin urges greater efforts to return those missing in action

By Stuart Winer

A woman kisses the grave of a fallen soldier on the eve of Memorial Day at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv, Sunday, April 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In our forgetfulness, we turned our children into heroes

By Haviv Rettig Gur

On this day, we realize that our fallen soldiers did not really understand what they were giving up. For us

Palestinians barred from Israeli-Palestinian memorial service

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli Arabs view country more positively than Jews, survey finds

By Stuart Winer

Israel’s annual Memorial Day begins for 23,544 fallen soldiers

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

From 'The Gates of Heaven,' one of the animated shorts produced by Beit Avi Chai in memory of fallen soldiers, a project now in its sixth year (Courtesy Beit Avi Chai)

Through animation, a new breath of life for the fallen

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai’s ‘A Face. The Day. A Memorial,’ an annual project, uses an unlikely medium to create vivid, shareable memories of lost loved ones

In quiet revolution, ultra-Orthodox mark Memorial Day

By Stuart Winer

Bereaved father won’t be suspended from group for heckling PM

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

A hunt for lost stories among Mount of Olives’ forgotten graves

By Jessica Steinberg

Official celebration of Israel's Independence Day at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, May 1, 2017 (Screen capture: Facebook video)

Live updates (closed)

Israel segues from mourning to Independence Day celebration

By Ilan Ben Zion

Netanyahu dismisses Hamas’ ‘softened’ stance; Erdan pens NY Times op-ed repudiating Barghouti; Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to retire

Israel's ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen throws a copy of the resolution in the trash on Wed., October 26, 2016. (Erez Lichtfeld)

UNESCO to fire another volley at Israel – on Independence Day

By Raphael Ahren

Italy so far only EU state to say it will oppose resolution that, while softer than previous versions, still denies Israeli claims to Jerusalem

Full text of May 2017 UNESCO resolution on ‘Occupied Palestine’

Shayna Goldberg

Tears

4 exemplars of the State of Israel inspired her with their passion, idealism, hard work, and sacrifice

69 reasons to applaud Israel on its 69th birthday

Taking stock of what the Jewish state accomplished in just one year to appreciate the magnitude of its achievements

For as long as her murderer is free

Netanyahu released their daughter’s killer Ahlam Tamimi, and has ignored the family’s pleas for justice

The girlfriends that got left behind

Working to ensure that the unmarried partners of fallen IDF soldiers receive the support they so badly need

Rabbi Shneur Odze, a UKIP candidate who came in sixth in the May 2017 race for Manchester mayor. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Rabbinical UKIP candidate making headlines for wrong reasons

By Jenni Frazer

A man holds a photo of Marwan Barghouti calling for his release during a rally supporting Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails in the West Bank city of Hebron on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Israeli minister fires back at Barghouti in NY Times op-ed

Gilad Erdan says hunger strike led by Palestinian terrorist and popular leader is about politicking, not improving prisoners’ conditions

French presidential election candidate for the En-Marche movement, Emmanuel Macron stands at the Wall of the Rigtheous (Le Mur des Justes) during a visit to the Shoah Memorial on April 30, 2017 in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / PHILIPPE WOJAZER)

Macron honors Holocaust victims at Paris memorial

By AP and AFP

French presidential candidate pays respects to 76,000 Jews deported from France, with message of ‘never again’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Hamas accuses Abbas of ‘crimes against humanity’ in Gaza

Ismail Haniyeh says the coastal enclave his terror group controls won’t be brought to its knees by the Palestinian Authority

Sebastian Gorka speaking at the International Special Training Center's Military Assistance Course, in Pfullendorf, Germany, May 14, 2015. (CC BY 7th Army Training Command, Flickr)

Trump aide, accused of ties to anti-Semitic group, to leave White House

By ToI Staff and AP

Sebastian Gorka, allegedly a member Hungary’s Vitenzi Rend, reportedly ‘generating too much controversy,’ says CNN source

Argentinian Minister of Environment and Sustainability, and ordained pulpit rabbi, Sergio Bergman. (Titu Becher)

God helps those who help themselves, says Argentina’s rabbi environment minister

By Michelle Mendeluk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier deliver joint statements to the media before their meeting in Jerusalem on November 16, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP / POOL / RONEN ZVULUN)

Will German president defy Netanyahu, meet Breaking the Silence?

By Raphael Ahren

Amid nadir in ties after FM’s visit, Frank-Walter Steinmeier due in Israel at the weekend; held talks with left-wing NGO on previous trip as minister

Shimon Peres with children at the Peres Center for Peace (Peres Center for Peace Archives)

Marking Israel’s first Independence Day without dreamer-in-chief Shimon Peres

By Shoshanna Solomon

CFTC Headquarters in Washington, DC (Courtesy)

15 Israel-based companies added to US financial watchdog’s ‘red list’

Local binary options and forex firms increasingly dominate CFTC warning roster, which has swollen to 111 names

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Oren Fixler/Flash90)

Sharansky to talk about Russia, faith and freedom at live interview in Jerusalem

By Matthew Kalman

More Headlines

Rescuers at the site where a 19-year-old woman was found dead, near Zufim in the northern West Bank, May 1, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

19-year-old Israeli woman dies after jumping from moving car

Rabbi Yona Metzger arrives at Ma'asiyahu Prison in Ramle to begin serving his 3.5-year sentence for theft and bribery on May 1, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Bribe-taking ex-chief rabbi begins prison term

Batel Levi, 16, reported missing on May 1, 2017. (Israel Police)

Police request public’s help locating 16-year-old Jerusalem girl

Saeed Karimian, the founder of Iranian satellite television network, in 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Iranian who ran TV network shot dead in Turkey

By Jon Gambrell

Yeshiva Elementary School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Screen capture: Google maps)

Bullet fired at Milwaukee Jewish elementary school

By JTA

Illustrative photo of antisemitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, 2016. (Courtesy: Michaela Brown)

Spokane vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti

By JTA

Ukrainian nationalists carry torches during a rally in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, early January. (photo credit: AP/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine investigates Jewish former Soviet officer, 94, for 1952 death

By JTA

A recruitment riddle posted on the website of the Shin Bet security agency (screen capture)

Analyze thisShin Bet looking for recruits who can crack cyber-riddle

Jesse Owens starts the 200 meters sprint at the 1936 Berlin Olympics photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jesse's GoldsTwo of Owens’ 1936 Olympic gold medals to be auctioned

By AFP

Richard Gere as Norman Oppenheimer in 'Norman.' (Niko Tavernise/Sony Pictures Classics via JTA)

3 Israeli directors’ films top LA Times movie picks

By JTA

Police and protesters at a right-wing rally against a memorial ceremony commemorating the long Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2017 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe silver palaver

By Joshua Davidovich

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