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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 18, 2018

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Bereaved Israelis mourn next to graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, during Israeli Memorial Day, April 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Mournful Israel pauses to remember 23,646 fallen soldiers, 3,134 terror victims

Two-minute siren brings country to a halt; Netanyahu addresses official state ceremony at Mount Herzl

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Memorial Day ceremony at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, April 18, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

At terror victims memorial, Netanyahu vows to fight ‘barbaric’ extremist Islam

By Stuart Winer

Thousands attend a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day service at Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park on April 16, 2018. (Rami Ben-Ari/Combatants for Peace)

8,000 join Israeli, Palestinian bereaved families for Memorial Day ceremony

Israel Prize-winning author David Grossman, whose son was killed in the Second Lebanon War, blasts Liberman’s attempt to ‘silence bereaved families’

Illustrative: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (3rd from right) during a debate in the UK parliament over anti-Semitism within the party. (Screen capture: Parliamentlive.tv)

UK Labour MPs tell Corbyn ‘enough is enough’ in heated debate on anti-Semitism

By Raoul Wootliff

Following Jewish community protests, lawmakers rail against their own party in parliament, accusing leadership of failing to tackle anti-Semitism within its ranks

A Palestinian student reads her textbook on the light rail at Shuafat, Jerusalem, September 30, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller / Times of Israel)

EU resolves to nix intolerant content in Palestinian textbooks

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror in Jerusalem on April 17, 2018. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu at Israel’s 70th anniversary celebration: Israel a rising world power

Torch lighting ceremony under way at Mount Herzl; PM and Knesset speaker deliver speeches; festive event showcases Jewish history from Mt. Sinai onward

6:28 pm

Netanyahu in Independence Day speech: Israel a rising world power
6:09 pm

Knesset speaker lauds Israeli diversity at torch-lighting ceremony
5:36 pm

PM in Independence Day greeting: We're just getting started

Picture taken on April 17, 2018 at the theatre in Constance, southern Germany, shows a poster advertising a theater play named after Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, written by George Tabori and staged by Serdar Somuncu. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Felix Kästle)

German theater offers free seats for swastika wearers at ‘Mein Kampf’ play

By AFP

Theater says plan, which includes issuing yellow stars to those who pay for tickets, intended to show how easily people can be corrupted; investigation launched

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner (L) and Ivanka Trump attend a press conference at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Exclusive

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump mull attending Jerusalem embassy opening

By Raphael Ahren

Jewish power couple has been asked to represent US administration at May 14 celebration, has yet to finalize travel plans

Signs for the company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the London, UK, building in which it is based, March 21, 2018. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump used Muslims the way Hitler used Jews, says data mining boss

By JTA

A Russian-made Tor missile defense system. (Vitaly V. Kuzmin/WikiMedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Report: Israel targeted advanced Iranian air defense system in Syria strike

By Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem conferred with Washington before launching April 9 attack, which killed at least seven Iranian troops, Wall Street Journal reports

‘Take our warnings seriously,’ defense minister tells Iran, Hamas

Rouhani: We’ll produce any weapons we need, won’t wait for world’s consent

By AFP

Israel’s F-15 jets stay on alert at home, rather than at drill in the US

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, center, walk in the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish nationalists seek probe of Rivlin for saying Poland played Holocaust role

By AP and ToI Staff

Group asks prosecutors to check whether Israeli president broke new controversial law when, speaking at Auschwitz, he said Poland enabled Nazi genocide

Adam Armush, right, an Arab Israeli living in Germany interviewed by Kan's European correspondent Antonia Yamin, in Berlin, April 18, 2018. (Twitter screen capture)

Jewish teen said beaten by Muslim man in anti-Semitic attack in Berlin

Illustrative: French gendarmes investigate in the area of defaced tombstones at the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union, northeastern France, on February 16, 2015. (AFP/Frederick Florin/ File)

Jewish cemetery vandalized near Paris

By JTA

Tali Muskal (center) speaks about her brother Refanel at a Memorial Day event in Efrat on April 15, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

At salon Memorial Day event, bereaved sister tries to convey the unimaginable

Grammy Award-winning Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart. (©Jay Blakesberg)

Space shows

The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart takes us far out — to the cosmos

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF fires at 5 Palestinians, one of them armed, at Gaza border

By Stuart Winer

Gazans said injured by Israeli artillery fire; group was reportedly trying to plant an explosive device on security fence

An IDF tank is seen near the border with Gaza on April 13, 2018 (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Gaza gunmen fire at Israeli troops, army tank hits Hamas post in response

Illustrative: Smoke and flames rise from fields near the Kibbutz Be'eri on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City, after Palestinians flew a kite laden with a Molotov cocktail over the border before cutting the string leaving the burning material to fall in Israeli territory on April 17, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Israel struggles to handle latest threat from Gaza: Fire-starting kites

By Judah Ari Gross

No soldier wants to be the next dead Israeli hero

We know what happens when we don’t have our own army, so I’m choosing combat, and will give it my all

I remember Rami’s smile and Joe’s bushy beard

Our duty to remember everyone includes honoring soldiers killed in training accidents

A talmudic tale tells us to let go of the old Israel

The famous story of Honi the Circle-Maker has a profound hidden message for what it means to be 70 years old

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

When the siren sounds on Mount Herzl

At Israel's military cemetery, the crowd shares a common history, fate, purpose, and deadline: to be at a grave by 11 am

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Declaring independence, and so much more

The values of a nation committed to freedom, equality, and justice, regardless of one’s politics or religion

The asylum seekers and the flag

Sudanese families were dumped in my town in 2007; we welcomed them — from both ends of the political spectrum

More Headlines

Jeannie Harrison (Facebook)

Wife of Israeli envoy in Senegal advised not to go to event after Arab objection

By Michael Bachner

A picture taken on April 3, 2018 shows campaign posters, for the upcoming Lebanese parliamentary election, hanging in the Tariq Jedideh district of Beirut. (AFP Photo/Anwar Amro)

Hezbollah rising as election fever hits Lebanon, nine years since last vote

By Maya Gebeily

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks to the press at the Rafah Border Crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas leader says prepared to reach prisoner swap deal

By Khaled Abu Toameh and AFP

In this Nov. 14, 1988, file photo, President-elect George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, are shown during a morning beachfront news conference in Gulf Stream, Fla. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

1925 -2018Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92

By MICHAEL GRACZYK

Screen capture from video of Kamel Abu Amarah, center, an Arab Israeli accused of joining the Islamic State group, seen in Tel Aviv District Court, April 18, 2018. (Screen capture: Walla news)

Arab Israeli indicted for planning Islamic State attack in Tel Aviv

By Stuart Winer

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev speaks during a ceremony at the Knesset on April 15, 2018 honoring the torch lighters of the 70th Independence Day state ceremony at Mount Herzl. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Squabble over torch-lighting ceremony continues — now over speech length

Masoumeh Ebtekar (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Sweden slammed for inviting ‘mastermind’ of 1979 Iranian hostage crisis

By Raphael Ahren

Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor, Krystyna Budnicka poses on April 16, 2018 in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw. (AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)

75 years after Warsaw ghetto’s end, survivor recalls losing family in uprising

By Bernard OSSER

Ezra Gorodesky presents an Israeli Flag sewn by Rebecca Affachiner on May 14th, 1948 to Ben Gurion University President Prof. Rivka Carmi. (Dani Machlis/Ben Gurion University)

Israel has a ‘Betsy Ross,’ and the flag she made is getting a new home

By JTA

A fleet of 300 Intel drones will light of Jerusalem's skies to celebrate Israel's 70th independence day (Courtesy Intel)

Israel@70Intel CEO, and 300 of his drones, to attend Israel’s independence celebrations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo attends a mass wearing a sticker "Never Again" at the University of the Philippines Church of the Holy Sacrifice to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the imposition of martial law by the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in metropolitan Manila, Philippines, September 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines VP sorry for Holocaust memorial photo

By AFP

Illustrative image of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, on March 14, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange sells 20% stake to New York fund Manikay

By Shoshanna Solomon

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