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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 9, 2019

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With flags unfurled, jets overhead, and grills galore, Israel marks 71 years

Independence Day celebrations across the country see hundreds of thousands turn out to enjoy nature, watch Air Force flybys, and cook up a BBQ

Grief to jubilation: Israel transitions from Memorial to Independence Day

By Michael Bachner

Independence Day 2019Watch: Presidential citations granted to 120 outstanding IDF soldiers

In Independence Day video, Rivlin urges Israelis, ‘Do not cause pain’

Analysis

As Israelis fire up the BBQs, park officials plead: Pick up your trash

In one green area in the center of the country, staff members need at least 8 garbage trucks to clean up after Independence Day

Israelis barbecue during Israel's 69th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem, May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Skewers grilling M25 meat restaurant in Tel Aviv. (Ran Biran)

Independence Day 2019

Why are Israelis obsessed with charcoal grilling on Independence Day?

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during an Independence Day event at his official residence in Jerusalem on May 9, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin: Peace between Israel and the Palestinians would be a boon for region

‘We continue to dream of peace with all our neighbors,’ president says at Independence Day event for diplomats stationed in Israel

5:22 pm

Trump says John Kerry telling Iranians not to call him
4:27 pm

Russia condemns new US sanctions on Iran, calls for talks
4:25 pm

Iran's Zarif says 'US has bullied Europe' on nuclear deal

US President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini in the Oval Office of the White House, May 3, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump unveils Iran mining sanctions, but hopes ‘someday’ for talks with Tehran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New US measures on all trade of Iranian iron, steel, aluminum and copper come hours after Islamic Republic partially left nuclear deal, threatened to step up uranium enrichment

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini speaks during a press conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, May 7, 2019. (Carlos Gonzalez /AP)

European powers reject Iran’s ‘ultimatums’ on nuclear deal

By AFP

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland on May 8, 2019 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump moves to strangle Iran economy as nuclear deal withers

By Shaun Tandon and Amir Havasi

US Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on "Nuclear Policy and Posture" on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats warn Trump is leading US toward war with Iran

By Eric Cortellessa

As White House escalates tensions, Democratic senators and groups call for legislation disallowing an attack on Iran without Congressional approval

US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, May 8, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

AnalysisTrump’s Iran policy put to test as end to nuclear deal looms

By Deb Riechmann and Ben Fox

Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi answers the press in the capital Tehran on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran’s atomic agency says it wants to put nuclear deal ‘back on track’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Marta Motzen during a recent Torah study session at her home in Petah Tikva (Channel 12 screenshot)

Memorial/Independence Day

Slain soldier’s friends met for Torah study at his mother’s home — for 37 years

Marta Motzen, a Holocaust survivor, hosted her son Avraham’s friends every three weeks until her death this week at 92, on Memorial Day

A man wearing an Israeli flag prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 17, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli morality informed more by religion, laws than by Western values – survey

By Marissa Newman

Jessica Meir is seen in her official NASA portrait. (NASA/Robert Markowitz)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

Swedish-Israeli NASA astronaut gets ready for her first trip into space

Having dreamed of blasting into orbit since age 5, Jessica Meir is finally set to do so in September; she’ll take an Israeli flag and a pair of menorah socks with her

Morris Kahn (R) announces he will contribute funding for a second Israeli moon landing attempt at the Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem on May 8, 2019 (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Lighting torch, SpaceIL chair Morris Kahn says he’ll fund 2nd Beresheet moonshot

Shalom (Zvi) Harry Davidowitz, an American rabbi who helped draft Israel's constitution (far left) with Shaul Tchernichovky, Eliyahu Goldenberg, Tel Aviv mayor Israel Rokach and Simon Dubnov (Courtesy Toldot Yisrael)

Video project tells tales of American Jews who helped fledgling Israel take wing

By Jessica Steinberg

71 things to love about Israel

What made my Israeli heart a little bigger this year? Our humor, brashness, kindness, the intrinsic sense of family, and that dust that gets everywhere

Reading Amos Oz in Vancouver

After growing up in the Russian-speaking immigrant bubble, how did I mend my broken bond with Israeli culture? I left

Paying for the State of Israel

Early bank operations supporting the Zionist cause helped establish the Jewish state long before 1948

A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged 'included anti-Semitic tropes.' (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

12 rabbis meet New York Times to discuss anti-Semitic cartoon, Israel coverage

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of New York Board of Rabbis says it was ‘a healthy, honest exchange’ with paper’s publisher, opinion page editor

Orthodox couple sues Spirit Airlines, saying staffer called them ‘retarded Jews’

Jewish voters overwhelmingly prefer Biden as US Democratic nominee, poll finds

By LAURA E. ADKINS

Rashida Tlaib sets dates for congressional visit to West Bank

By JTA

A screenshot shows the closure of website DeepDotWeb (Courtesy)

US indicts two Israelis who brokered dark net drug deals

By AFP

Prosecutor calls shutdown of website DeepDotWeb ‘the single most significant law enforcement disruption of the dark net to date’

Financier Bernard Madoff arrives at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, March 12, 2009. (Stephen Chernin/Getty Images/via JTA)

Bernie Madoff’s wife to pay $600,000 and leave estate in settlement of his fraud

By JTA

A participant in the 'wear a kippah' protest in Berlin holds up a sign, April 25, 2018. The solidarity event was held in response to a Syrian-Palestinian’s assault of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Germany issues an ‘early warning’ report about rise of Islamist anti-Semitism

By Toby Axelrod

Top intelligence agency describes analysis as leap forward, amid concern of rising expressions of hate in the country

Illustrative: Troops of the 9th US Armored Division, First Army, advance across the intact Ludendorff Bridge to the east bank of the Rhine River in Remagen, Germany, on March 7, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo/Allan Jackson)

ObituaryKurt Lang, social scientist, author, Nazi expert, dies at 95

By AP

A screen grab made on May 8, 2019 from the site of an online vendor showing an Auschwitz-themed product for sale. (Photo via AP)

Auschwitz Museum protests sale of camp photos on skirts and pillows

By AP

More Headlines

Rescuers at the site of a minibus crash on Route 443 that left four passengers dead and 10 wounded, on May 9, 2019. (Fire and Rescue Services Central District)

Four killed in minibus crash near Modiin

US President Donald Trump, right, listens to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press conference after a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2018. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

US confirms no more presidential waivers for Jerusalem Embassy Act

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Mahmoud Abu Asabeh, 48, from the West Bank town of Halhul north of Hebron, was killed late Monday, November 12, 2018, when a rocket launched by Gaza terrorists struck a home in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. (Twitter screen capture)

Palestinian killed in rocket attack to be recognized as terror victim

Workers put up a wall around a road near Kibbutz Erez in southern Israel to protect it against anti-tank guided missile on May 8, 2019. (Courtesy)

Concrete wall put up along road where Israeli man was killed in missile attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, great-grandson of fascism founder Benito Mussolini, and candidate for Italy's national-conservative political party 'Brothers of Italy' (FI, Fratelli d'Italia) in the upcoming European elections, attends a meeting with the Foreign Press association on May 8, 2019 in Rome. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

Mussolini’s great-grandson, a European Parliament hopeful, defends fascist era

By AFP

Pages from a confidential whistleblower's report obtained by The Associated Press are photographed in Washington, May 7, 2019. (Jon Elswick/AP)

Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating images by terror groups, extremists

By Desmond Butler and Barbara Ortutay

Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky reacts after the announcement of the first exit poll results in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev on April 21, 2019. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)

Putin adviser denies anti-Semitic theory about Ukraine’s Jewish president

By JTA

Artistic rendition of the redesigned Israeli Lounge at the Kennedy Center. (Kennedy Center via JTA)

DC’s Kennedy Center names winner of Israeli Lounge redesign competition

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (L) awards the National Order of the Southern Cross, the country’s highest national honor for high-ranking guests, to Israel's ambassador in Brasilia Yossi Shelley on May 7, 2019 (Screencapture/YouTube)

Brazil honors Israeli ambassador with highest award for foreigners

By Raphael Ahren

The Shtisels, father Shulem and son Akiva, at their kitchen table (Courtesy: 'Shtisel')

Israeli hit drama ‘Shtisel’ renewed for third season

By Gabe Friedman

A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by Merck, seen at the Salt Lake County Health Department in Salt Lake City, April 26, 2019 (George Frey/Getty Images via JTA)

Free measles vaccines to be available in NY ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods

By JTA

A Jerusalem municipal veterinary center employee attempts to lure stray cats into a cage with food so that they can be sterilized, March 7, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

No purr-fect solutionJerusalem faces dilemma in dealing with hordes of stray cats

By Delphine Matthieussent

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