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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 28, 2020

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Israeli soldiers near the graves of fallen soldiers at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery as Israel marks Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers and victims of terror on April 28, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Def. Ministry: 23,816 fallen soldiers; 4,166 terror victims

Mourning from a distance, Israel marks Memorial Day clouded by coronavirus

By Judah Ari Gross

Police discourage families from visiting shut military cemeteries; sirens sound across country at 11 a.m. as Israelis remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror from home

People stand for a two-minute silence in Jerusalem on Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, April 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo essayRemembering the fallen: Israelis mark a Memorial Day like no other

President Reuven Rivlin and military chiefs wear protectives mask during the national opening ceremony for Israel's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, April 27, 2020 (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

Opening Memorial Day, president laments: ‘This year, we can’t cry together’

From the blogs

Inscribed for generations

When the terrorist entered the Mercaz Harav library, there was barely a place to hide. My son and his study partner, both 16, huddled between the stacks

A woman in scrubs at a grave of a loved one at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Memorial Day on April 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewMourning the losses, and the distance: 6 things to know for April 28

From left: Yaakov Stutsky, Yitzhak Mordecai, Haim Poznansky, Mordecai Franco. (Courtesy/Curator Beit Hapalmach)

Memorial Day

The shepherd, the pilot, the long-lost grave: 5 stories of Israel’s 1948 fallen

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Live updates (closed)

US to seek indefinite UN arms embargo on Iran, officials say

American diplomats circulate draft of Security Council resolution that would scrap expiration of 2015 nuclear deal’s ban on weapons sales to Tehran; Russia likely to oppose move

8:27 pm

Suspect in West Bank injured after pipe bomb blows up in his hand -- report
8:05 pm

US to seek indefinite UN arms embargo on Iran
7:45 pm

2 arrested in Bnei Brak during prohibited gathering

Police officers arrive at the scene of a suspected terror attack in the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba on April 28, 2020. (Israel Police)

Woman, 62, stabbed in suspected terror attack in central Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Assailant, a Palestinian teenager, is shot by an armed civilian after attacking the victim outside a store in Kfar Saba

Police and paramedics inspect the scene after a suicide bomber blew himself up on a rush-hour bus near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo during the Second Intifada, on June 18, 2002. (Flash90/File)

Israeli court rules PA must pay $150 million in damages to terror victims

By AP and ToI Staff

A protester against the coalition agreement between Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud and Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties, in Tel Aviv on April 24, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AnalysisHeard the one about President Netanyahu, with full immunity?

Up against the clock and the constitution, new coalition is far from a done deal

By Haviv Rettig Gur

9 days remain for Netanyahu and Gantz to form government. As they rush to alter Israel’s constitutional order, and new loopholes become evident, 4th election is still very possible

People walk past an election campaign billboard for the Blue and White party in Ramat Gan, February 23, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Blue and White tells High Court indicted Netanyahu should be PM

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Tel Aviv, September 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

US says ‘prepared to recognize’ Israeli annexation of parts of West Bank

The funeral of Anna Grosz at the Garden of Remembrance Cemetery in Clarksburg, Maryland, April 22, 2020 (Courtesy).

Reporter's notebook

A shovel per mourner: ToI sees traditions remade at survivor’s Maryland funeral

By Eric Cortellessa

Magen David Adom medics wearing protective clothing evacuate a suspected coronavirus patient to the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, April 20, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Virus death toll rises to 208 but new infections appear to slow

Latest infection numbers show continuing downward trend in daily rate of new cases, but may be due to number of daily tests dipping below 10,000

Anwar Zoabi, doctor at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, who appears in a viral video saluting Arab medical personnel. (courtesy, 'Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?')

Video saluting Israel’s Arab medical professionals during crisis goes viral

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli Arab doctor Khitam Hussein, head of the COVID-19 response division at the Rambam Hospital near Haifa in northern Israel, poses for a photo during an interview at the medical center, on April 16, 2020. ( Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Arab doctor leads Haifa hospital’s anti-virus fight

By Majeda El Batsh

In this March 28, 2020, photo, a man rides his bicycle on an empty road during a lockdown following an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

End all restrictions, they were unnecessary, Hebrew University researchers say

By Nathan Jeffay

Team that includes economists, epidemiologist say death toll without limitations would be higher but manageable, while preventing serious damage to economy

A worker walking past some of the 55,000 mirrors directing sunlight toward the Ashalim solar tower during construction, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Ashalim in the Negev desert, May 26, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Greenish new deal: Energy Ministry pushes NIS 25b in projects to reboot economy

A Shaare Zedek Medical team member wearing protective gear takes a swab from a woman to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministry says it can do 15,000 virus tests daily, but nobody’s showing up

Laura Ben-David

Of flags, masks and what really matters

Sheltering at home meant I was missing the blue-and-white trappings of the season, so I set off to find the kids who hawk flags for our cars — and got a mask instead

How I came to meet fallen soldier, Yaakov Menashe

Assigned during my army service to visit his grave, I found I was his only visitor. I have gone back every year since then

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

When Israel’s fallen are in lockdown

We watch our TV screens, curse this virus, and long for the day when we will again be able to inch our way to the military cemetery, and stand together in our mourning

The siren in our time of solitude calls to life

The siren’s call makes me sorrow for a nation on the brink of extinction — before it reverses course to rise up like a phoenix, with its iridescent colors of survival

Reporter's notebook

The shuttered neighborhood next door: Touring one of Israel’s virus hotspots

As life returns to something like normal for many Beit Shemesh residents like me, some of the town’s Hasidic residents find themselves under a government lockdown

Residents walk in the Hasidic enclave of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet under lockdown, April 27, 2020. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox men during a raid in a neighborhood of Beit Shemesh on April 28, 2020 (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Hasidim clash with police in quarantined Beit Shemesh neighborhood

Screen capture from video of Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein during a ceremony to mark Israel's Memorial Day, April 27, 2020. (Ynet)

Bnei Brak mayor thanks soldiers for their help during virus lockdown

Students arrive at school after the Purim holiday outside Hadar Elementary School in Kfar Yona, on March 12, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

PM, ministers give tentative okay to gradual reopening of schools next week

A final sign-off on plan for younger students to resume studies in separate groups Sunday is dependent on research into infection levels among children

Shoppers at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on April 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM discusses reopening open-air food markets following protests

Illustrative: A guesthouse in northern Israel. (YouTube screenshot)

Guest houses, some hotels set to reopen next week

An Israeli soldier places flowers and salutes the graves of fallen Israeli soldiers, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Military cemeteries locked ahead of start of Memorial Day events

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Visits to memorial sites and graves banned for all, including bereaved families, due to virus fears; High Court denies families’ last-minute petition asking prohibition be lifted

Israelis wait outside the IKEA branch in Netanya, after the company opened some of its branches in Israel, on April 26, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Protesting cemetery closures, bereaved families mark 2-minute silence at IKEA

Emcees Maya Katz (L) and Osama Iliwat speak during a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony on April 27, 2020. (Rami Ben Ari/Combatants for Peace)

Bereaved families plead for reconciliation at joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial

Lori Palatnik, the founding director of Momentum (Courtesy Momentum)

ToI Podcast Interview

LISTEN: Why ‘Birthright for Moms’ founder is so moved to light torch for Israel

Momentum founding director Lori Palatnik speaks about the incredible trickle-down effect families experience after parents reconnect to Israel and Jewish people in 8 crazy days

Tel Aviv's City Hall will be lit up for this year's Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration on April 28, 2020, which will eschew fireworks and parades for a more modest festivities in honor of Israel's 72nd year of independence. (courtesy, City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

With countrywide closure during Independence Day, celebrations go online

By Jessica Steinberg

Screen capture from video of medical staff at the Sheba Medical Center observing a minute of silence for Suzy Levi, a nurse at the hospital who died of COVID-19, April 27, 2020. (Ynet)

Veteran nurse dies of COVID-19, the first victim among Israel’s medical workers

By Stuart Winer

Victor Rasuk and Nathalie Kelley in ABC's new modern-day fairy tale 'The Baker and the Beauty.' (ABC/Guy D'Alema)

Producer interview

Adaptation of Israeli sitcom ‘Beauty and the Baker’ gets rise out of US audience

By Rich Tenorio

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Eyal Waldman, left, founder and CEO of Mellanox, and Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., at a press conference in Yokne'am, Israel, on March 25, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

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Michel Baert, right, and two commemoration activists laying a wreath at a Holocaust monument in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium on April 19, 2020. (Michel Baert via JTA)

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The empty departure halls of Ben Gurion Airport on March 8, 2020. (Flash90)

Report: Israel tells airlines its entry ban on foreigners now extended to May 16

Refugees from former German territories live in the once notorious Dachau camp on March 10, 1954. Cars parked in Barracks Street give testimony of wealth achieved by some refugees. (AP Photo/Heinrich Sanden, Sr.)

Former Dachau resident recalls growing up in a repurposed concentration camp

By Pauline CURTET

Illustrative: A Palestinian vendor makes traditional bread during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 27, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gaza restaurants to reopen as virus lockdown eased

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

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By Shaun Tandon and Philippe RATER

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