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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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Tombs tagged with swastikas are pictured in a Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, eastern France, December 3, 2019. (AP Photo)

Tel Aviv U reports record-high global antisemitism, linked to COVID and Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Echoing recent ADL study on antisemitism in US, investigators find worldwide increase in Jew-hatred over the past year

Illustrative: A sticker with a swastika is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 25, 2021. (Anchorage Police Department)

Antisemitic incidents in US spiked to record high in 2021, ADL reports

People participate in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on June 2, 2019 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Poll finds US millennial Jews care about Israel, but not how it’s perceived

Yom HashoahSweet revenge: Kay's 5 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren

Survivor Olga Kay passes Holocaust education torch to youth to keep fighting denial

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ahead of participation in state Yom Hashoah ceremony, 96-year-old who beat Auschwitz and two other camps says, ‘We must tell our story and keep memory alive’

The president of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament), Barbel Bas, at the eternal flame at the Hall of Remembrance during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2022. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Bundestag president in Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

Illustrative: Joseph Kleinman, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi death camp wearing a face mask as he stands at his porch in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of annual memorial day, 161,400 Holocaust survivors living in Israel

By Stuart Winer

Holocaust survivor Yosef Hershkovitz shares his story on stage with Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy at the Knesset's first Zikaron Basalon event, in honor of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 26, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson)

‘Take care of this country,’ Holocaust survivor tells youths at Knesset memorial

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Parliament hosts its first-ever Zikaron BaSalon, which invites survivors to tell young people their stories in close conversation, ahead of main memorial events Thursday

Leopold Lowy revisits Auschwitz-Birkenau in this undated photo. (Courtesy Richard Lowy)

Groundbreaking testimony of ‘Mengele twin’ on Birkenau atrocities to be revealed

By Steve Leibowitz

Jewish Fractals with Natan Margalit

Dan and Lex talk with Margalit, the founder and president of the organization Organic Torah and author of a new book.

Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Groom, 6 guests at infamous Jewish ‘hate wedding’ convicted of incitement to terror

‘I found the event’s provocative nature couldn’t be denied,’ judge says, of shocking footage from 2015 event that showed attendees celebrating killing of Palestinian baby

Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 8, 2022. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Online course teaches Jews how to pose as Muslims and sneak onto Temple Mount

Lt. Gen. Michael E. Kurilla testifies before the Senate Armed Services committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022, to be general and commander of the US Central Command. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

ExclusiveEx-chaplain: Policy doesn't reflect 'anti-Israel sentiment'

New US Armed Forces rules forbid soldiers from non-official travel to Israel, region

By Lazar Berman

2021 updates to CENTCOM regulations regarding vacation travel prevent participation in Birthright, holidays in Israel; spokeswoman insists changes entirely COVID-related

Explainer

Salmonella Q&A: Israel’s massive bacteria-induced chocolate recall explained

Chocolates and snacks have been removed from shelves across country. Will every contaminated chocolate make you sick? And how does contamination come about?

Illustrative: A woman suffering from a stomach ailment. (iStock via Getty Images)

A man shops for groceries at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Strauss expands recall to include gum, candies after further salmonella traces found

Strauss confirms salmonella traces found in foods as products pulled off shelves

Amid criticism of state funding at his home, Bennett says will pay for own food

PM stresses he has only acted according to procedures but is aware of public sentiment; opposition Likud party pans move, points at millions spent on refurbishments

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimouna, in Moshav Shilat, April 23, 2022. (Flash90)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his wife Gilat attend a ceremony on the second night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, at the Nativ program on the Kiryat Moriah campus in Jerusalem, November 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Letter with bullet and death threats sent to PM Bennett and family; security boosted

Israelis, some wearing protective face masks and some not, on the streets of Tel Aviv, April 21, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing April 27: Israelis unmasked and the Strauss salmonella scare

Health and science writer Nathan Jeffay discusses no-mask mandate, salmonella in Strauss products as environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at a Chevron case and wetlands proposal

Holocaust Remembrance Day? We’ve already forgotten

Ignoring the Shoah’s meaning for all humankind negates the core message of those horrific years: Witness the debate over taking in refugees from Ukraine

Back from Berlin where every day was Holocaust Remembrance Day

Wherever we went, my husband – Israel’s ambassador to Germany – and I, daughter of Shoah survivors, would encounter memorials

Shani Lourie-Farhi speaks to soldiers at a Yad Vashem Holocaust educational center at the Ir Habahadim military training base in southern Israel, April, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

Yom Hashoah

At Yad Vashem’s newest Holocaust education center, IDF recruits learn why they fight

By Emanuel Fabian

Facility opens this week at massive training base designed with young troops in mind, focuses on personal stories to show pre-war life and Nazi horrors that followed

Austria shutters compensation fund for Nazi era victims

By AFP

The official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony is held AT Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 )

Live updates (closed)

Israel mourns victims of Nazi genocide on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Plane with Holocaust survivor refugees from Ukraine arrives at Ben Gurion Airport as country begins day of mourning for the 6 million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and its allies

6:16 pm

UN chief Guterres arrives in Ukraine after meeting Putin in Moscow
5:53 pm

9 Holocaust survivor refugees from Ukraine arrive in Israel on rescue flight
5:35 pm

Bennett says 'even the most serious wars today' don't compare to Holocaust

Father of convicted terrorist threatens father of slain soldier victim

Odeh Abu Jaudah, who faces separate accusations tied to the case, tells Boaz Kokia: ‘We know where you live, you are murderers’; police later detain him over threats

Screen capture from video of Khaled Abu Jaudah, whose son was convicted of killing an IDF solider in an terror attack, accosting the father of the victim at the Beersheba District Court, April 27, 2022. (Channel 12 News)

Illustrative. Palestinian students seen on their first day of the new school year in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 25, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90/File)

PA holds event for high schoolers urging support for convicted terrorists

Israeli troops conduct raids in the West Bank on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian killed in gunfight with Israeli troops in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

From the blogs

Can Lebanon be neutral on the Arab-Israeli conflict?

A groundbreaking conference near Beirut seeks a new definition of Lebanese patriotism, one that does not equate with supporting perpetual war with Israel

Footage released by Syrian state media on April 27, 2022, claims to show Syrian air defenses firing at an Israeli attack near Damascus. (Screenshot)

Syria says 4 soldiers killed, 3 hurt in Israeli strike near Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Attack would be the 3rd in Russia-dominated airspace in under a month despite tensions over Ukraine; state media says surface-to-surface missiles launched from northern Israel

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, receives an explanation while visiting an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2022. (Photo released by Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

White House says Iran is ‘a few weeks or less’ from bomb breakout

An IDF soldier flies a small drone as part of a large-scale exercise 'Lethal Arrow' simulating war in the north in October 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF drone crashes in Syria, army says no data leaked

By Emanuel Fabian

US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, rear center, delivers a speech as he hosts the meeting of the Ukraine Security Consultative Group at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, on April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Israel attends US-led summit on sending more arms to Ukraine

By ToI Staff and AFP

After Gantz reverses policy and agrees to send helmets, flak jackets to Ukraine, Defense Ministry official joins meeting with reps from over 40 countries at US airbase

Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha onto a truck to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Signs of rape, other atrocities found on exhumed bodies near Kyiv

A power-generating unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the city of Enerhodar, in southern Ukraine, on June 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Olexander Prokopenko, File)

Ukraine flogs Russia after missiles buzz Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Actor Ben Foster as boxer Harry Haft in 'The Survivor,' the real-life story of an Auschwitz survivor whose boxing skills saved his life (Leo Pinter/HBO)

Interview

Ben Foster pulls no punches playing Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO movie

By Andrew Lapin

Led by Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, film debuts on April 27 and charts Harry Haft’s life after WWII, as he resettles in a Brooklyn Jewish community suffused with loss

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award even in Berlin on December 1, 2020. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Explainer

Gabe Friedman and PHILISSA CRAMER

What Elon Musk buying Twitter could mean for Jewish users and antisemitism

The billionaire’s plans for the social network are murky, but his support for unfettered free speech is causing worries that hate will run rampant on the platform

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Admission tickets among changes for Lag B’Omer at Mt. Meron, a year after disaster

Steven Donziger, in 2018. (video screenshot)

Free after 993 days of detention, US lawyer vows to continue fighting Chevron

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Second new Omicron subvariant detected among travelers — ministry

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks during a press conference on the school matriculation examination reform in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Education minister unveils matriculation reform, riling teachers

Israeli startup Remilk uses a yeast-based fermentation process to produce animal-free milk proteins that, the company says, are indistinguishable in taste and function from cow milk proteins, but free of lactose, cholesterol, and growth hormones. (Remilk)

Israel’s Remilk to open ‘world’s largest’ facility for cow-free milk in Denmark

By Ricky Ben-David

The Zin stream in southern Israel at sunset, on June 23, 2017. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

State-owned pipeline fined NIS 1.6 million over 2011 spills in Zin stream

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

A group shot of the main characters in new costume melodrama 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,' coming to Netflix on May 20, 2022 (Courtesy Yes Studios)

Royal approvalNetflix picks up Ottoman-era Israeli drama ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’

By Jessica Steinberg

A meeting of the United Nations Security Council is held, on Thursday, September 23, 2021, during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. (AP/John Minchillo, Pool)

Seeking revamp, UN moves to hold Security Council veto-users accountable

By Edith M. Lederer

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2021. (AP/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Liberman promises ‘dramatic’ initiatives to stem rising housing prices

By Danielle Nagler

Police at the scene of a deadly shooting in Qalansawe, on April 23, 2022. (Courtesy)

Qalansawe mother shot in ambush outside home dies of wounds

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, wears a Jewish prayer shawl as he leave his house in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, to meet veterans of the Nigerian civil war, on May 26, 2017. (Marco Longari/AFP)

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Illustrative: A view of Times Square. (Leo Cunha Media via iStock by Getty Images)

New York City home to 26 tech unicorns founded by Israelis — report

By Ricky Ben-David

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