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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 14, 2021

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This picture taken on April 13, 2021, on Yom HaZikaron (Israel's Memorial Day) shows an aerial view of female Israeli soldiers performing salutes by graves at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Memorial Day

Back at military cemeteries, Israelis grieve fallen soldiers, terror victims

Two-minute siren commemorating 23,928 troops and victims of terror brings country to a halt; Netanyahu at ceremony: ‘Never remain complacent in the face of threats of annihilation’

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

Israel comes to a standstill to remember 23,928 fallen

Bereaved Israeli Tamar Pikes, whose brother and father both died while serving in the Israel Defense Forces, speaks at the Joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony near Bethlehem on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 (Credit: Ghassan Bannoura/Combatants For Peace)

Grieving Israeli, Palestinian families observe joint memorial, seen by 200,000

By Aaron Boxerman

Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF soldier Amit Ben-Ygal at the cemetery in the central city of Beer Yaakov, May 12, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Memorial Day

Israel marks Memorial Day after year with fewest ever deaths in war and terror

By Judah Ari Gross

Three Israelis — two civilians and one soldier — were killed in violent attacks since last year

Illustrative: Palestinians visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, on April 10, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israel said to muzzle Al-Aqsa muezzin as Memorial Day observed at Western Wall

By Aaron Boxerman

IDF disabled veteran Itzik Saidyan. (Facebook)

Op-ed

The wake-up call of Itzik Saidyan

The radical shift from Memorial Day to Independence Day isn’t automatic. It requires respect, care and attention for those whose lives were wrecked in our defense

Israeli soldiers lay flowers and Israeli flags on the graves of fallen soldiers at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery on April 13, 2021, ahead of Israeli Memorial Day. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Trauma group sees surge in appeals after veteran with PTSD self-immolates

IDF veteran Itzik Saidyan, who set himself alight outside a Defense Ministry office on April 12, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Defense Ministry vows to do more for veterans after ‘shocking’ self-immolation

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

President Hassan Rouhani listens to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their talks in Tehran, Iran, April 13, 2021. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Iran’s Rouhani says 60% enrichment is response to Israel’s ‘nuclear terrorism’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian envoy to UN atomic agency says Islamic Republic will start enriching at previously unseen levels by next week

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, speaks with media while visiting the Natanz enrichment facility, in central Iran, November 4, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran informs UN it will raise enrichment to 60%, its highest-ever levels

By AP and ToI Staff

The Natanz uranium enrichment facility buildings are pictured some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, on March 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

European powers voice concern over Iran’s 60% uranium enrichment

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

Senior Iran official confirms ‘thousands of centrifuges damaged and destroyed’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Admission of scale of damage at Natanz casts doubts on Tehran’s ability to ramp up uranium enrichment to 60%, as threatened; Israeli report says whole plant still out of commission

President Hassan Rouhani, second right, is shown new centrifuges and listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

As Iran vows enrichment to 60%, White House says diplomacy the only way forward

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks to reporters at Israel's Nevatim air base Monday, with an Israeli F-35 fighter jet in the background, on Monday, April 12, 2021 in Israel. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Biden to approve $23 billion sale of F-35s to UAE that followed Abraham Accords

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

On this Remembrance Day, I pray and promise

I think of those soldiers as heroes, of course, but also as the kids in green who sit on buses, and nap on each other’s shoulders, and share crude jokes and happy banter

Haviv Rettig Gur

When the whole world weeps

On Memorial Day, we do not grieve alone. We know, in the old, deep ways of knowing, that heaven and earth grieve at our side

There was a soldier — he is no longer

My tattered, red book of poems helps me bridge the emotional distance of being a Jew outside of Israel on Remembrance Day

The adventure tales, the warm milk and our dreams

Dream big. But never forget: We are Jews with all our hearts. You are descendants of heroes. Tell your children.

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 14 – From remembrance to independence: An Israeli transition

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

Celebrations of Israel's 73rd Independence Day take place at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl, April 14. 2021 (video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Israel launches 73rd Independence Day celebrations at Mount Herzl

By Itamar Sharon

This year’s ceremony once again takes place before a live audience as COVID wanes, though at a reduced size to maintain distancing

6:44 pm

In Independence Day message, Blinken says further normalization deals possible
6:35 pm

Biden to detail pullout plans for last troops in Afghanistan
6:07 pm

Torch-lighters include doctors and nurses, volunteers, attack survivors

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official residence in Jerusalem on April 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Naftali Bennett made himself a kingmaker, but will there be a coronation?

The Yamina leader is playing hard to get in coalition talks. Is he trying to secure an influential role in the next Netanyahu government, or doing his best to torpedo it?

A man reacts during a speech of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, April 14, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Memorial Day

‘No politics! Shame on you!’ Netanyahu heckled by bereaved father

PM interrupted during memorial address after speaking of plans to approve national commemoration hall for terror victims once ‘next government’ formed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on November 20, 2019 (left); Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses the press in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2019. (Gali Tibon; Menahem Kahana/AFP)

AG urges High Court: Reject petition seeking to bar Netanyahu government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, later attorney general, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (AP/Menahem Kahana, Pool/File)

AG: Security cabinet can’t hold votes until permanent justice minister appointed

Israel Museum curator Sharon Weiser-Ferguson with items from the Jewish Art and Life wing, some donated by his parents in memory of Yadin Tanenbaum, who fell in the Yom Kippur War (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

‘Israeliana’ display at Israel Museum showcases country’s early memorabilia

By Jessica Steinberg

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2018. (Flash90)

Olmert says Iran Natanz bomb could have been planted 10-15 years ago

Former prime minister denies any direct knowledge of operation, pans Netanyahu’s ‘smug bragging’ amid spate of leaks crediting Mossad spy agency for blast at nuke plant

US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 3, 2013, before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Senate confirms Iran deal negotiator Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state

Israeli National Security Council chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat (right), and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. (Flash90, AP)

In strategic talks with Israel, US vows to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran

A woman visits the grave of a family member at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From The Hartman Institute

Yom Hazikaron, Yom Ha’atzmaut, and the Space in Between

Why do we mark these Israeli holidays in this order, and what does it feel like to move between them?

Israel Travels

Paying homage to foreign volunteers who died in fight for Israel’s independence

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Memorial Day is a poignant date to visit the Mahal monument and grounds, in the verdant Judean Hills west of Jerusalem, dedicated to those who gave their lives for the state

Travel blogger and photographer Matan Hirsch. (Courtesy)

Be wary of online contacts, warns Israeli after Iran tries to lure him to UAE

By Michael Bachner

Matan Hirsch was contacted through a fake Instagram profile operated by Iranian intelligence agents

FILE: The Israeli-owned cargo ship MV Hyperion Ray departing Koper Port in Slovenia, October 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israeli-owned ship said attacked off UAE coast amid sky-high tensions with Iran

No injuries as vessel comes under fire in Gulf of Oman; Iran had threatened retaliation over attack on Natanz nuclear site blamed on Israel

A fighter loyal to the Iraqi federal government is seen in the region of Altun Kupri, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Irbil, the capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, on October 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Marwan Ibrahim)

Kurds officially deny pro-Iran media claim of attack on Mossad base in Iraq

By Lazar Berman

FILE: The Israeli-owned cargo ship MV Hyperion Ray departing Koper Port in Slovenia, October 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israel won’t retaliate over suspected Iranian attack on ship – report

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Fabien Azoulay, a French Jewish gay man serving a prison sentence in Turkey for drug offenses. (Courtesy of the Azoulay family via JTA)

French Jewish gay man harassed in Turkish prison, family says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event at the new Settlement Community Center in the Bronx borough of New York, on March 26, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Pool Photo via AP)

Cuomo once said of Sukkot: ‘These people and their f**king tree houses’ — NYT

A member of the Ethiopian Jewish community attends a religious service at the synagogue in the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on October 27, 2020. (Eduardo Soteras/AFP)

Jews in Ethiopia yearn for life in Israel, as cemeteries fill and family beckons

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

FILE: Palestinian supporters of the Fatah movement demonstrate in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 5, 2020. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Ahead of Palestinian elections, West Bank homes of 2 candidates hit by gunfire

By Aaron Boxerman

FILE - In this March 28, 2021, satellite file image from Planet Labs Inc, the cargo ship MV Ever Given sits stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Egypt seizes megaship that blocked Suez Canal, demands nearly $1b compensation

By AFP

Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen (L) meets with Sudanese Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim in Khartoum on January 25, 2021 (Courtesy)

Sudanese delegation said planning first visit to Israel next week

IAI's Sea Serpent missile in action, firing from a ship (Courtesy)

IAI teams up with Thales to supply UK’s Royal Navy with advanced missiles

By Shoshanna Solomon

Muslims pray during the first dawn prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, as they keep social distancing to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Muslims mark Ramadan in pandemic’s shadow amid new outbreaks

By amr nabil and Niniek Karmini

Steven M. Cohen served as research professor of Jewish social policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University. (Forward via JTA)

Head of Association of Jewish Studies quits over meeting with disgraced academic

In this Thursday, April 8, 2021 file photo, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine sits on a table at a pop up vaccinations site the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, in the Staten Island borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

ExplainerWhat we know as clot fears hamper rollout of J&J, AstraZeneca vaccines

People walk under lights decorating the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on April 19, 2020, as Muslims around the world prepare for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

6 injured, 5 arrested as hundreds riot in East Jerusalem after Ramadan prayer

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff speaks during a ceremony on Christmas Eve at a US airfield in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, December 24, 2017. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Biden to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11

By Lolita C. Baldor and Ellen Knickmeyer

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