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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 8, 2021

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Left: Chaim Herszman in Germany in 1946, Right: John Carr, author of 'Escape From the Ghetto,' the story of his father's audacious escape from the Nazis. (Courtesy John Carr)

Interview'He had a talent for subterfuge'

He killed a Nazi guard, fled ghetto with fake identities and joined the UK army

By Robert Philpot

British author John Carr reveals his father’s audacious wartime journey from the Lodz ghetto to Gibraltar, where he signed up to fight the Germans – all while hiding his Jewishness

Israelis stand next to their cars as sirens mark a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Sirens blare as Israel comes to a standstill in remembrance of Holocaust victims

Public life stops during 2 minutes of silence dedicated to memory of 6 million Jews killed, as daytime ceremonies honoring those persecuted by the Nazi regime get underway

The six Holocaust survivors serving as torchlighters for the annual Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on April 7, 2021 lit memorial candles from rabbinical organization Tzohar, which is partnering with Yad Vashem in the 'Generations Light the Way' project, encouraging people to gather together to light six memorial candles, a format created last year with the onset of COVID in order to have ceremonies at home to mark Yom Hashoa (Courtesy Dena Wimpfheimer)

Holocaust Remembrance DayAt Yad Vashem, six Holocaust survivors carry torch in memory of 6 million lost

By Jessica Steinberg

Holocaust survivors attend a ceremony at the Mishan elderly homes in Tel Aviv as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. May 4, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Holocaust causing increased cancer, heart disease mortality in survivors – study

The crumbling walls of Arab Holocaust denial

4 factors that have made discussion of the Holocaust more legitimate in the Arab world, and its traditional statements of denial and distortion less acceptable

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

A Queens rabbi unlocked my grandmother’s story of surviving Auschwitz

She baked for us and gardened. We knew her story. But even after all she’d been through, I never heard her grapple with faith. I’m so glad she had someone to turn to

Elchanan Poupko

Yom Hashoah: Let’s get personal

The imperative universal lessons of the Holocaust must be taught to everyone, still, we must ensure that the global importance does not overwhelm our memory of our own

Risi Adler Finkel

The untold tale of David Adler

In 1937, years before the ’Final Solution,’ my uncle was the victim of a blood libel in Germany. We still don’t know the whole story

Menachem Rosensaft

Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust

A Kafkaesque, morbid language of dreams and nightmares can reveal the nocturnal universe of the Nazi killing machine… and preserve memories of our kin

A life with sirens

Israeli kids know which loud ringing means to run for your life, and which means to stand at attention and appreciate those who sacrificed their lives for the sake of yours

‘Do you have relatives in Europe that you would like to bring to the US?’

How jarring, to find ads for party cruises and luxury resorts published next to reporting of the grim and grisly news out of Europe (PHOTO ESSAY)

Kenneth Jacobson

On Yom HaShoah, why must we remember the Holocaust?

The anti-Semitism entrenched in Western culture does not explain how so few people stood up against the mass murder of Jews that was taking place before them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend the swearing-in ceremony of Israel's Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem, on April 6, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said mulling temporary coalition to nullify power-sharing government

By Michael Bachner

Report says if PM can’t form coalition, he could try to get Smotrich and Ra’am to unite for just 1 vote to avoid threat of Gantz replacing him, cancel current egalitarian mechanism

6:30 pm

Netanyahu's office says Smotrich statement 'isn't in line with reality'
6:24 pm

Israel says France, Turkey riskiest countries for catching mutated coronavirus strains
6:00 pm

Lee Zeldin, Jewish pro-Trump voice in US Congress, announces run for NY governor

Taika Waititi, center, playing Hitler, wrote and directed 'Jojo Rabbit.' Roman Griffin Davis, jumping to his right, co-stars. (Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. via JTA)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Too soon? Israeli scholar explains why Holocaust humor is here to stay

Granddaughter of survivors Dr. Liat Steir-Livny says analyzing the use of Shoah jokes in contemporary Israeli society offers a window into sabra souls

Uri Shulevitz, author of 'Chance: Escape From the Holocaust,' and cover art. (Photo of Shulevitz courtesy of Paula Brown/ book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Interview'War lacks any predictability or common sense'

Fate has starring role in Holocaust-surviving illustrator’s memoir for children

By Rich Tenorio

Acclaimed writer/illustrator Uri Shulevitz returns with autobiography ‘Chance: Escape From the Holocaust,’ filled with encounters so fantastic they could only happen in real life

Times of Israel reporter Matt Lebovic at Auschwitz-Birkenau holding a version of 'The Auschwitz Album' image in which his grandmother, Bella (Baila) Solomon, appears, October 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 8 – How ToI’s Holocaust correspondent plumbs the depths

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

FILE - In this June 19, 1938 file picture, the word Jude (Jew) is smeared on the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. (AP Photo)

Holocaust survivors use social media to show how words ‘stoke the fires of hate’

By David Rising

Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks during a news conference at a podium, about charges against a group of alleged members of the US neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division for cyber-stalking and mailing threatening communications, including the Swastika-laden posters at right, in a campaign against journalists in several cities, February 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US neo-Nazi pleads guilty to threatening Jewish activists, journalists

By AP

Promoted Content

Israeli startup’s precision robots poised to transform brain surgery

Prof. Moshe Shoham, founder of Mazor Robotics, acquired for $1.64 billion, will speak about his new company Tamar Robotics on Monday, April 12

This photo from February 15, 2017, shows the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

In 1st since Biden inauguration, Israel advances 540 new East Jerusalem homes

By Aaron Boxerman

Left-wing organizations charge that the construction in Har Homa East would make creating a potential contiguous Palestinian capital in Jerusalem more difficult

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, at the presidential compound in Ramallah, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool via AP)

After restoring aid to Palestinians, Biden endorses two-state solution

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian school children chant slogans and raise the victory gesture over a UN flag during a protest at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, financed by US aid, in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron in the West Bank on September 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER)

US to send $150 million to UNRWA, formally restoring aid to the Palestinians

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

Screenshot from 'Muranów' by director Chen Shelach (courtesy)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jewish ghosts haunting today’s Warsaw channeled by Israeli director in new film

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative photo of a Holocaust survivor attends a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

In first, Holocaust remembrance ceremonies held in UAE, Bahrain

Local Jewish communities organize events, light candles in memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazis during World War II

A screenshot of the joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, sponsored by B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael on April 8 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Singer Shlomo Artzi’s father honored for rescuing thousands of Jews in Holocaust

Antony Fauci poses with an award from the March of the Living in a broadcast posted by the Holocaust remembrance group on April 7, 2021. (YouTube)

March of the Living gives Fauci award for moral courage in his COVID work

Former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua at the Jerusalem District Court for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, April 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial

Ex-news site CEO: I was told to ax Sara Netanyahu item or I’d sink business deal

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Wrapping up 1st week of testimony in PM’s trial, Ilan Yeshua says Walla owner Elovitch angrily warned him bad press for PM’s wife would wreck his bid to buy TV provider’s shares

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (right) and then-health minister Yaakov Litzman (left) attend a conference in Lod on November 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Ultra-Orthodox said to tell Netanyahu they won’t stick with him in 5th election

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich at the party headquarters in Modi'in, on elections night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Smotrich threatens to expel Arab MK, other Muslims who don’t accept Jewish rule

By Stuart Winer

A 17th century Flemish tapestry that hung in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art from 1971, later restituted to the original owners, the Mosse family in Berlin (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Tel Aviv museum restituting artwork as items of huge Berlin collection found

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu: We won’t be bound by ‘Iran deal that threatens us with annihilation’

Speaking at official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, PM says even Israel’s ‘best friends’ must accept that Jewish state is obligated only to defending itself

Then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Tel Aviv University cyber conference, on June 24, 2019. (Flash90/File)

Mossad chief said heading to Washington in bid to block US return to Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran says it has manufactured 120 pounds of 20% enriched uranium this year

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Liliana Segre speaks at a ceremony in Milan, Italy, honoring the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, March 5, 2021. (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)

Italian lawmaker and Holocaust survivor, 90, gets constant anti-Semitic threats

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A medical worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, California, January 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

European rights court says forced vaccination ‘necessary in democratic society’

By Herve ASQUIN

Judges back Czech regulations compelling parents to inoculate kids against childhood diseases, in ruling that could have wide implications for COVID-19 vaccine policy

A man seen through plastic sheets gets a bandaid applied on his arm by a member of the medical staff after getting an AstraZeneca vaccine at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

ExplainerAstraZeneca vaccine blood clot risks: What we know and don’t know

By AFP

A woman gets an AstraZeneca vaccine at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

EU says AstraZeneca clot risk ‘very rare’ but more nations suspend use for young

Ilustrative: Hadassah Ein Kerem staff members work in the hospital's coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases in Israel fall below 300 for first time since early December

In further sign pandemic is abating, only 0.5% of tests come back positive, the lowest rate in almost a year

Students take part in a lesson in their makeshift outdoor classroom in the coastal city of Ashkelon, February 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Health Ministry to propose further easing of school virus restrictions

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Beitar Jerusalem fans cheer during the State Cup match between Beitar Jerusalem F.C. and Ashdod F.C. in the Teddy stadium, Jerusalem, on March 17, 2021. (Flash90)

Ministers ease outdoor gathering restrictions as virus rates continue to slide

David Teyf, CEO and executive chef of Madison and Park, delivers meals to homebound Holocaust survivors who are residents of a MetCouncil building on the Lower East Side in New York City on August 21, 2020. (Benjamin Kanter/JTA)

NY chef delivers heimish food to ensure no Holocaust survivor goes hungry again

The Nasdaq building in Times Square in New York. (littleny, iStock by Getty Images)

Phone cracking firm Cellebrite to list on Nasdaq via SPAC merger

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cellebrite, which has come under scrutiny of human rights groups, says it will merge with TWC Tech Holdings II Corp at valuation of $2.4 billion

Israel’s Aidoc, Radiology Partners join to boost AI use in medical imaging in US

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli maker of ecofriendly concrete among 12 winners of BloombergNEF award

By Shoshanna Solomon

Stellantis, maker of Dodge and Maserati, scouting Israeli startups for tech edge

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Hollywood actor Zachary Joseph Horwitz, (Screen capture: YouTube)

Actor Zach Avery arrested for alleged multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme

By AFP

Police investigation in the Bedouin city of Rahat after a shooting incident, April 8, 2021. (Israel Police)

3 teens shot in Bedouin town of Rahat; 2 of them badly wounded, 1 moderate

A settler beats Arik Ascherman with a wooden bat on April 7, 2021 in the West Bank, near Ma'ale Ahuvia. (Screenshot: Gil Hammerschlag/ Twitter)

Rights activist rabbi beaten in settler attack near illegal West Bank outpost

By Nurit Chinn and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Palestinians from Gaza's health ministry unload boxes of Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses sent by the United Arab Emirates, at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 11, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza’s second wave: 35% of coronavirus tests positive, mass vaccination far off

By Aaron Boxerman

Jordan's King Abdullah II gives a speech during the inauguration of the 19th Parliament’s non-ordinary session, in Amman, Jordan, December 10, 2020. (Yousef Allan/The Royal Hashemite Court via AP)

‘Sedition has been nipped in the bud’: Jordan’s king declares palace crisis over

By AFP

Missiles seen in the air above Damascus on April 8, 2021 during an alleged ISraeli airstrike (Screencapture/YouTube)

Monitor claims 3 pro-Iran fighters killed in alleged Israeli strike in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the media at the EU Council in Brussels on January 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

PA: Abbas in good health following ‘routine’ checkup in Germany

By Aaron Boxerman

This August 2017 photo made available by Fermilab shows the Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab via AP)

‘Tantalizing’ results of 2 experiments shake up physics rulebook

By Seth Borenstein

Palestinian medical workers receive a vaccine against the coronavirus at a medical center in the West Bank city of Dura on March 21, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Amnesty pans Israeli ‘discrimination’ in not vaccinating Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Israeli soldiers carry out searches for terror suspects in the West Bank on December 14, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shin Bet agents cleared of wrongdoing in cavity search of Palestinian woman

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