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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 12, 2018

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President Reuven Rivlin, center, and Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, left, participate in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Poles helped in Nazi extermination, Rivlin tells Polish counterpart

Israel’s president says Warsaw has witnessed a ‘wave of anti-Semitism’ sparked by law criminalizing mention of complicity in Holocaust

Illustrative image of a group of Panama youth visiting the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz ahead of the yearly March of the Living, a Holocaust remembrance march, in Oswiecim, Poland on April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Led by Israel’s President Rivlin, thousands attend March of Living in Poland

Israel's Ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli envoy to Poland says attempting to nix Holocaust law inadvisable

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Trump on Holocaust day: Americans have ‘moral obligation’ to fight anti-Semitism

By JTA and ToI Staff

US president proclaims: ‘We must ensure that the history of the Holocaust remains forever relevant and that no people suffer these tragedies ever again’

People stand still on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewFrom generation to generation: 6 things to know for April 12

By Tamar Pileggi

Suzi Kastner (C) lights a memorial candle in the Knesset for her father, Israel Rudolf Kastner at the parliament's official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. Her daughter, Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, is pictured on the right (Knesset spokesperson's office/Yonatan Sindel)

In first, Kastner honored at Knesset Holocaust Remembrance Day event

By Marissa Newman

A still from Rüdiger Suchsland’s documentary 'Hitler's Hollywood.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)

Reich vision

How would the world look if the Nazis won? ‘Hitler’s Hollywood’ gives a glimpse

By Jordan Hoffman

Israel solemnly remembers 6 million victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Michael Bachner, ToI Staff and Agencies

Nationwide sirens sound at 10 a.m., kicking off ceremonies throughout the country; President Rivlin leads ‘March of the Living’ at Auschwitz

Israel-bound proceeds from Anne Frank diary sales to go to New Israel Fund

From our archivesWorld’s ‘oldest living journalist’ tells how he boxed his way through Auschwitz

By JTA

As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle

Damage to an Israeli home in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council caused by a bullet fired from the Gaza Strip at IAF aircraft (Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council)

Gaza bullet hits Israeli family’s house: ‘The baby was in the shelter’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Homeowners shaken by fallout as Hamas gunmen target IAF aircraft; ‘This is scary for anyone raising little children but we are sticking to our daily lives,’ resident says

Air Force hits Gaza gunmen after they shoot at plane, trigger rocket sirens

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and AFP

Abbas decries ‘big conspiracy’ facing Palestinian cause

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Gazan journalist killed by Israel was beaten by Hamas — press group

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli forces are deployed near Kibbutz Nir Oz at the Gaza-Israel border amid smoke from tires burned by Palestinians near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians say one killed, two hurt by IDF fire at Gaza border

Incidents come the day before latest mass-protests expected on Friday at the border fence

6:26 pm

Trump huddles with war cabinet, vows Syria decision 'fairly soon'
5:47 pm

Trump administration pressuring Israel to go easy on Poland over Holocaust law
5:21 pm

Palestinians say 28-year-old Gazan man killed by IDF fire

Holocaust survivor and former Israeli chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau lights a torch at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day,April 11, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Abraham H. Foxman

Never again — probably

Trumpism has destroyed the social contract that protected Jews and other minority communities

A doctored image of Jewish Holocaust victims portrayed by Palestinian television in April 2018 as an image of Arab victims of the "Deir Yassin massacre" in 1948 (PMW)

PA TV presents image of Nazi camp victims as taken from ‘Deir Yassin massacre’

Original picture, photographed right after liberation of Nordhausen, edited to exclude images of corpses in striped uniforms

Israeli NGO sends 8 doctors into Gaza to treat protesters hurt in border clashes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

2 injured Gaza protesters said to lose legs after access to West Bank denied

White House demands Hamas relinquish control of Gaza

By Eric Cortellessa

Italian conductor Francesco Lotoro rehearses his concert of reconstructed musical compositions created in the concentration camps, April 8, 2018 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

‘Like a mitzvah’: Italian conductor brings to life music composed in the camps

By Jessica Steinberg

Syrian senior presidential advisor Buthaina Shaaban speaks to a Syrian TV reporter at the United Nations Offices in Geneva, on January 26, 2014. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Assad adviser: Syria ready for war with West, Israel will be ‘biggest loser’

Buthaina Shaaban tells Lebanese media that Syria is not afraid of confrontation, ‘will be prepared for it if it happens’

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, January 29, 2018. (Vasily Maximov/AFP)

Putin asks Netanyahu to avoid destabilizing steps in Syria

US President Donald Trump, right, sitting next to Vice President Mike Pence, speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 9, 2018, at the start of a meeting with military leaders. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump on Syria attack: ‘Very soon or not so soon at all!’

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the official state ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu warns Iran on Holocaust Remembrance eve

After Tehran threatens to retaliate over deadly airstrike attributed to Israel in Syria, PM vows to counter ‘aggression’

AnalysisAfter airstrike in Syria, an Israeli proxy war with Iran looms

By Raphael Ahren

A Russian ship at Syria's port of Tartus (YouTube screenshot)

Photos show Russian navy has left Syria port ahead of possible US strike

By Michael Bachner

From left: Psoy Korolenko, Sophie Milman and Isaac Rosenberg sing songs from 'Yiddish Glory' (Vladimir Kevorkov)

Album ‘Yiddish Glory’ gives voice to once-lost Soviet Jewish WWII songs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Mengele believed young Trudy’s lie

I wore my grandmother’s raincoat and carried her book in my hand as I retraced her steps at Auschwitz

The hero who planned to kill 6 million Germans

Abba Kovner, a leader of the Vilna Ghetto uprising, planned to use poison to avenge the murder of Jews

Jonathan Feldstein

Why survivors need social media

A New Jersey teen is making the Holocaust real and relatable for kids who are digital natives

In Poland and Israel, a witness creation program

A delegation of United Nations ambassadors will soon join the ranks of those who keep Holocaust memory alive

More Headlines

A C-130J Super Hercules cargo plane flies over Tel Aviv's Hayarkon River as part of the Israeli Air Force's annual flyby on Independence Day, May 12, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Training flights for Independence Day flyby spook Tel Aviv

By Judah Ari Gross

Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 19, 2018. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Florida school shooter wants to donate inheritance to survivors

By AFP

US film director Steven Spielberg poses on the red carpet on arrival for the European premiere of his film 'The Post' in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Steven Spielberg said to turn down invite to light Independence Day torch

People stand on a street by a billboard from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party which reads, 'Let's stop Soros' candidates!' showing American financier George Soros, center, and, from left, Bernadett Szel of the Politics Can Be Different party, Ferenc Gyurcsany from the Democratic Coalition, Gergely Karacsony of the Dialogue party and Gabor Vona of the Jobbik party, in Budapest, Hungary, April 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

In Hungary, pro-government weekly prints list of ‘Soros mercenaries’

By AP and ToI Staff

Tamer Abu Daqqa, a Palestinian who says he was shot by an Israeli sniper along the Gaza border during a protest, walks with crutches near the Gaza-Israel border near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 11, 2018. (AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB)

Gazan who says he was shot in IDF sniper video denies he posed a threat

By AFP and ToI Staff

The image that appeared on the popular YouTube music video 'Despacito' that was taken over by hackers who wrote message 'Free Palestine' under the clip on April 11, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

No mas‘Free Palestine’ hackers deface YouTube’s most popular music video

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hundreds of asylum seekers demonstrate in Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv against the deportation deal with Uganda on April 8, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Activists doubt state’s ability to present deportation plan by Sunday deadline

By Melanie Lidman

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, arrives to testify before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 11, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Zuckerberg: Regulation of social media firms is ‘inevitable’

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Barbara Ortutay and David Hamilton

Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Residents of Bedouin village ink deal to relocate ahead of looming demolition

Paul Nehlen, a Republican primary challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan, speaks in Janesville, Wisconsin, August 3, 2016 (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Jewish Republicans ‘very confident’ white supremacist won’t replace Paul Ryan

By JTA

The 'Swastika Trail' street sign hanging in Puslinch Township, Canada. (Screen capture/YouTube via JTA)

Jewish group challenges council decision to keep Canada town’s ‘Swastika Trail’

By JTA

Salma Hayek, left, Sacha Baron Cohen, center, and Isla Fisher pose together at the 2013 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (photo credit: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

From Syria with loveSacha Baron Cohen to play Israeli spy Eli Cohen on Netflix

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