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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 19, 2018

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Photo essay

With BBQs and F-35s, Israelis delight in 70 years of independence

Some 200,000 people flock to national parks around the country, with many more taking to beaches to watch flyover of fighter jets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US President Donald Trump, right, speak at Ben Gurion International Airport prior to the latter's departure from Israel on May 23, 2017. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

On 70th anniversary, Trump says US has ‘no better friends anywhere’ than Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: President Reuven Rivlin meets the IDF soldiers awarded for their service on Independence Day, May 12, 2016. (President Spokesman's Office)

Presidential citations awarded to 120 outstanding IDF soldiers

Illustrative: An Israeli reservist packs his gear after ending a deployment near Gaza during Operation Defensive Shield. (Tsafrir Abayov/ Flash90)

In ‘glitch,’ IDF accidentally calls up reservists on Independence Day

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Citing technical error, army quickly cancels emergency summons, after automated messages tell soldiers to show up for duty

Gaza protests to move closer to border with Israel

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Independence Day terror attack said foiled as troops find hidden bomb

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Kite from Gaza sets fire to wheat field in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel opens 70th Independence Day festivities with Jerusalem extravaganza

By Michael Bachner

After somber Memorial Day, torch-lighting ceremony kicks off anniversary; Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Edelstein make speeches after public spat; show ends with dancing, fireworks

On 70th anniversary, Netanyahu says Israel’s light will beat enemies’ ‘darkness’

By Michael Bachner

ReunitedNew York man, 70, makes aliyah on shared birthday with Israel

As Israelis mark 70 years, satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage

By Dan Perry and Josef Federman

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, in his office at the Knesset (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel@70 interview

Yair Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer a defender of Israeli democracy

By David Horovitz

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (r), welcomes Rajaei Haddad, who spent 20 years in the Israeli prisons for his involvement in a 1997 terror attack which killed Gabriel Hirschberg. (WAFA/Thaer Ghanaim)

Abbas warmly welcomes terrorist released after 20 years in jail

Fatah official applauds Rajaei Haddad, accomplice in 1997 murder of Gabriel Hirschberg, as ‘a leader, a hero and a fighter’

Beit Jala Mayor Nicola Khamis. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian mayor sparks BDS storm by admitting he works for Israeli company

By Khaled Abu Toameh

IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)

Egypt, Hamas agree on proposal for prisoner swap with Israel — report

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein lights a torch at the official ceremony for Israel's 70th Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 18, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Edelstein says Netanyahu’s credibility hurt after Independence Day speech

By Alexander Fulbright

Knesset speaker attacks Miri Regev for pushing for PM’s inclusion in official ceremony: ‘I’ve had enough of her nonsense’

6:31 pm

UN, key parties discuss chemical watchdog work in Syria
6:07 pm

Edelstein says Netanyahu's credibility hurt after Independence Day speech
5:31 pm

Russia: Syrian troops found German chlorine in Ghouta

Israel@70

Amanda Borschel-Dan

ToI asks the experts: What are the most important finds of Israeli archaeology?

From Dead Sea Scrolls to space-age tech, the dramatic history of the ever-developing field is indelibly entwined with that of the nation itself

Mordechai Schachter at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

A Holocaust survivor recalls fighting in Israel’s War of Independence

By Josefin Dolsten

Inbal Arieli. (Courtesy)

Analysis

Wisdom from 70 of Israel’s tech wizards

Behind the numbers and statistics is the complicated mosaic of the people who drive industry

Blog70 extraordinary women of Israel

By Miriam Lottner

Golda Meir, women soldiers, religious feminists and 'Wonder Woman' Gal Gadot represent the various ways women in Israel and America have seen themselves reflected one in the other since 1948. (JTA collage)

Israel@70What women in Israel and the West have learned from seven decades of cooperation

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

President Reuven Rivlin, left, with Waze CEO Noam Bardin, right, and the Waze team ahead of Israel's Independence Day celebrations, in April 2018. Waze featured President Rivlin's recorded driving tips for Independence Day revelers. (Victor Levy)

Analysis

Israel inspires the world; her people inspire me

Israelis disagree about any and every matter, but their arguments are for the sake of the country’s well-being

In this February 1, 2018, photo, US Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Republican National Committee (RNC) Winter Meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Pence hails ‘the miracle of Israel’s rebirth’ in 70th birthday wishes

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks about the Senate's agenda after attending the Senate Democrat's policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, October 31, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Schumer to Israeli Americans: Bipartisanship is essential for Israel support

By JTA

Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella speaks at the Hebrew University's Minerva Center for Human Rights, April 9, 2018 (Bruno Charbit)

Israel at 70

Rosalie Silberman Abella

Without an independent judiciary, Israel’s cherished democracy will be at risk

In a lecture in Jerusalem last week, the senior judge on Canada’s Supreme Court, who was born in a DP camp after much of her family died in Treblinka, issued an alarm call

Alex Singer, Michael Levin, Max Steinberg, three fallen IDF lone soldiers, who were commemorated at a ceremony in Jerusalem on April 17, 2018. (courtesy)

Fallen lone soldiers mourned as tiny Goliaths, true Zionists, talented artists

By Judah Ari Gross

Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marian Kalwary, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

75 years after fall of Warsaw ghetto, survivor worries about rising nationalism

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Marian Kalwary says he sees a rise in modern Poland of the same ideas that drove Nazi Germany to start World War II and the Holocaust

With daffodils, Poland marks 75th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Vanessa Gera

After Nazi SS veterans hold annual march in Latvia square, one woman fights back

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dr. Asperger ‘actively cooperated’ with Nazis, study says

By AFP

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)

Man attacked in Berlin for wearing kippa is Israeli Arab

By ToI Staff and AFP

Chancellor Merkel condemns incident, says reputation of state at stake and ‘fight against such anti-Semitic acts must be won’

In this July 30, 2016, photo, writer J.K. Rowling poses for photographers upon arrival at gala performance of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' in central London. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

JK Rowling tells victims of anti-Semitism: ‘You aren’t alone’

By David Sedley

How we Israeli ex-pats relate to our homeland

We never quite realized we were actually moving out, but we find that loving you from afar is possible

Feast your eyes on the light and life of Jerusalem

32 breathtaking photos that’ll touch your heart and make you wish you were in Israel’s capital now

Fireworks from the Mount Herzl ceremony seen over the Knesset in Jerusalem, marking the beginning of celebrations of Israel's 68th Independence Day, May 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel@70

From 1950s rationing to modern high-tech boom: Israel’s economic success story

By Shoshanna Solomon

The land of milk and honey is no longer an impoverished country struggling for survival, but its technology growth engine is in danger of stalling due to lack of skilled employees

Illustrative image: Azrieli Towers, Tel Aviv (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel@70The blooming of the desert: Key stages of Israel’s economic growth

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eitan Aizenberg, the mastermind behind the find of Israel's giant natural gas field, Leviathan, at his Ratio Petroleum office in Tel Aviv, April 17, 2018 (Courtesy)

Israel@70Octogenarian geologist behind Israel’s giant gas field eyes foreign waters

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark 'National Nuclear Day,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran president: If US scraps nuke deal, they’ll see impact ‘within a week’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Site of earthquake near Bushehr, Iran on April 19, 2018. (Screen capture: USGS National Earthquake Information Center)

Iran quake, at least 5.5 in magnitude, strikes near nuclear power plant

By Nasser Karimi

Paramedics try unsuccessfully to resuscitate a man who drowned on a Tel Aviv beach on April 19, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

Man, 55, drowns at Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day

IDF's Samaria Brigade chief Gilad Amit depicted on a flier handed out by far-right activists on April 19, 2018. (Courtesy)

4 far-right activists held over fliers claiming IDF official ‘shoots at Jews’

Ethiopian Falash Mura arrive at Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

From the webThe Sudan holiday village run by Mossad spies

Former UK senior civil servant Lord Robert Kerslake, interviewed on the BBC's Newsnight on April 18, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

UK ex-official: May’s approach to migrants was ‘reminiscent of Nazi Germany’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Picture taken on April 17, 2018 at the theater in Constance, southern Germany, shows director Serdar Somuncu (R) and general director Christoph Nix (C) during a press conference on a play named after Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf,' written by George Tabori and staged by Somuncu. (AFP/dpa/Felix Kästle)

German theater’s swastika stunt cleared as free speech

By AFP

Women’s March National Co-Chair Tamika Mallory speaking in New York, April 22, 2017. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)

Women’s March head attacks Starbucks for including ADL in bias trainings

By JTA

A legitimate website set up by the family of Noah Pozner is collecting donations to pay for counseling for the murdered 6-year-old's siblings. (AP Photo/Family Photo)

Parents of Jewish Sandy Hook victim sue radio host for denying attack

By JTA

A visitor checks out a Lexus car, similar to a one used in the Black Panther film, that is on display outside an invitation-only screening, at the King Abdullah Financial District Theater, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Marvel to beholdFirst Saudi cinema opens with popcorn and ‘Black Panther’

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