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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 28, 2022

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A Ukrainian Holocaust survivor and refugee, Sofia Trizna, is helped into an ambulance after she disembarked a special medical transport plane that landed at Ben Gurion Airport on April 27, 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

'I already beat Hitler once. Now I'm a refugee again'

Fleeing war yet again, 21 Holocaust survivors touch down in Israel on rescue flights

By Judah Ari Gross

Hundreds of Ukrainian Holocaust survivors have immigrated to Israel since Russia invaded their country two months ago

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 27, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

Holocaust Remembrance Day'Even the most serious wars today are not the Holocaust'

Bennett urges unity, rejects Holocaust comparisons as Israel marks remembrance day

Prime minister and president focus on individual victims to evoke horrors of the genocide during memorial event at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his wife, Gilat, light candles for the 'Unto Every Person There is a Name' ceremony at the Knesset on April 28., 2022. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Bennett: Holocaust memory is part of Jews’ DNA, passed from generation to generation

By Rachel Bernstein

Israelis stand still next to their cars on a freeway as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 28, 2022 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel comes to a standstill as it commemorates Holocaust victims

Reporter's notebook'It’s mind blowing, what we have seen here'

Muslim influencers visit Auschwitz, seek to bring truth of Holocaust to Arab world

By Yaakov Schwartz

A group of young leaders from Lebanon, Syria, Gulf countries join the Sharaka organization to strengthen the bond between Israel and the Arab world following the Abraham Accords

Today, On Yom HaShoah, Chabad of Poland is Saving Jews in Europe

We provide daily accommodation & food to hundreds of refugees who are fleeing Ukraine. Help us help them!

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 28: On Yom Hashoah, a final March of the Living with survivors?

Holocaust reporter Matt Lebovic discusses the dangers of comparing other atrocities with the Shoah, while deputy Jewish world editor Yaakov Schwartz reports from Auschwitz

Op-ed

Never again? World response to Putin shows tragic failure to act on lessons of WWII

From the Israeli and Jewish perspective, ‘never again’ is a potent and credible commitment; but, as Ukraine’s plight underlines, the international community cannot say the same

A body is partially pictured as body bags are gathered in a cemetery of Bucha, north of Kyiv, on April 6, 2022 for identification, after hundreds of civilians were found dead in areas from which Russian troops have withdrawn around Ukraine's capital, including the town of Bucha (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Volunteers and soldiers collect bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces at the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Informal UN Security Council meeting urges accountability for atrocities in Ukraine

By Edith M. Lederer

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 27, 2022. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AP)

‘Blackmail’: European leaders issue fiery response to Russia cutting gas supplies

By YESICA FISCH, Jon Gambrell and Vanessa Gera

Why do bad things happen? It’s time to rethink Holocaust theology

We say ’never again’ and cry tears at unimaginable horrors. But are we really moved if we are not shocked out of our theological and religious comfort zones?

On Yom HaShoah it is time to face the truth

The Nazis’ plans to eradicate the Jewish people were widely known – Apathy and feigned ignorance laced with antisemitism allowed them to proceed unimpeded

Woman’s search for meaning

Desperate to make this Yom HaShoah meaningful, I hoped to sob all through the Yad Vashem ceremony; when that didn’t happen, I found a different way to connect

Shira Lankin Sheps

Name after name

The time my father and I went to Yad Vashem to research our extraordinary family, heirs to 400 years in Prague – until they were murdered in Auschwitz

Zelensky’s parents’ local rabbi: They don’t understand why he wanted to be president

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In an interview with an Israeli paper, Rabbi Liron Ederi gives rare insight into the lives of the media-shy parents of Ukraine’s Jewish president

Rabbi Liron Ederi sits at his desk in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, in 2016. (Chabad.org via JTA)

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi talks during an interview with Associated Press in Kyiv, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

IAEA chief raises alarm over nuclear safety at Russian-controlled plant in Ukraine

By david keyton and Cara Anna

Anastasiia Minchukova attends a demining training near the town of Peja on April 25, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

‘Not afraid’: Ukraine women learn to demine in Kosovo

By Ismet Hajdari

Interviewees from 'If You Heard What I Heard.' (Courtesy)

Yom HashoahInterviews are 'relatable, like having coffee with someone'

‘3Gs,’ grandkids of Holocaust survivors, retell grandparents’ stories as own legacy

By Matt Lebovic

First-of-its-kind project, ‘If You Hear What I Heard,’ films members of the third generation post-World War II who give testimonies in an ongoing docu-series

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during an event in New York, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

New York governor pledges $2.6 million to aid state’s Holocaust survivors

The heads of the eight parties making up the new government meet in the Knesset on June 13, 2021. Left to right: Ra'am head Mansour Abbas, Labor chief Merav Michaeli, Blue and White head Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina chief Naftali Bennett, New Hope head Gideon Sa'ar, Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz. (Ariel Zandberg)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas said to boycott meeting of coalition leaders, as demands remain unaddressed

Lapid meets with Ra’am leader in bid to coax Islamist party to unfreeze ties with coalition but fails to make breakthrough as faction unhappy with gov’t conduct vis a vis Jerusalem

6:29 pm

Russian strikes hit Kyiv as UN chief visits
6:25 pm

Netanyahu blasts Lapid for not showing up to Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony
5:47 pm

Security Council 'failed to do everything in its power to end war' — UN chief

Head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar leaves his home in Rishpon, central Israel, October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Shin Bet chief met last week with PA’s Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah

By Tal Schneider

After weeks of Temple Mount tensions, Israeli officials hold security assessments ahead of final Ramadan Friday prayers, convergence of Eid and Independence Day

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman on April 27, 2022. (WAFA)

PA’s Abbas, Jordan’s Abdullah meet in Amman, discuss ‘ways to defend Jerusalem’

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians perform Friday prayers, the third of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Temple Mount compound on April 22, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israel, Jordan to convene joint panel on lowering Temple Mount tensions — report

Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray on Laylat al-Qadr, Night of Destiny, in the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Over 100,000 Muslim worshipers gather on Temple Mount for nighttime prayers

Police say mass prayer event for Qadr Night proceeds as planned; thousands of officers deployed to Jerusalem’s Old City amid high tensions in recent weeks

'Much of what we know is from those who challenged Jew-hate'

London exhibit charts 150 years of Europe’s antisemitism – and the fight against it

By Robert Philpot

Through September, a display at the Wiener Library showcases efforts to monitor and combat Jew-hatred in France, Germany and the UK, from the Dreyfus affair through today

Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova records her Holocaust survivor testimony for the USC Shoah Foundation in 1998. (Screenshot via JTA)

Shoah Foundation shares ‘lost’ testimony of Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine

By Andrew Lapin

Dr. Hubert Pollack, left, and pictured at right with colleagues in an undated photo. Pollack is second from left. (Courtesy of Adi and Ofer Daliot)

Yom HashoahPlot involved bribing Gestapo officers

He helped save 10,000 Jews from the Nazis; his family only found out 63 years later

By Yaakov Schwartz

Hubert Pollack, who participated in a plan to get thousands of exit visas from Nazi Germany, is being honored along with 12 other Jewish heroes on Holocaust Remembrance Day

IDF soldiers are seen operating along the West Bank barrier, in an image published by the military on April 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

As it beefs up West Bank barrier, IDF to call up reservists to relieve combat troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Six reserve battalions to be deployed to ‘seam zone’ area within weeks, as army carries out engineering work to seal up gaps used by illegal workers, terrorists

Police officers at the scene of a suspected terror stabbing in Haifa, on April 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Haifa teen stabber was motivated by death of Palestinian boyfriend – report

By Emanuel Fabian

Border Police officers stand guard next to the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, July 27, 2017. (AP /Mahmoud Illean)

Bedouin Israeli sentenced to 14 years for planning Temple Mount attack

A medical illustration of a human brain with waves and electric pulses (iStock via Getty Images)

Bold new Israeli brain theory touted as breakthrough for medicine, computing

By Nathan Jeffay

Peer-reviewed study finds that much learning happens in dendrites rather than synapses, opening up new possibilities for treating degenerative diseases and a new model for AI

Two of 100 Holocaust survivors, Eva Evans (left) and Judith Bihaly (right) who participated in a video marking Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 2022. (Greg Schneider/AP)

Holocaust survivors issue Remembrance Day message against dangers of unchecked hate

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Claims Conference initiative brings together 100 survivors to warn of need to remember Nazi atrocities amid rising antisemitism

Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a Holocaust survivor who becomes a professional boxer, in HBO's 'The Survivor.' (Jessica Kourkounis/HBO)

Behind boxing film ‘The Survivor,’ a personal history of post-Holocaust trauma

By Jessica Steinberg

Director Barry Levinson agreed to make the movie to help understand his own family’s experiences, recounts producer ahead of US premiere Wednesday night

Turban buttercup. (Alastair Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Spring wildflowers late this year, thanks to historic cold spells in early 2022

Ecologist Avi Shmida says weather conditions led to some profuse blooming, though early bloomers and those in the desert were subpar; climate analyst: Coldest March since 1953

A dam built in the 1960's by the Department of Antiquities, and the ancient Mudlim tunnel, both built to protect the area from flooding, in Petra, Jordan, Nov. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Laure Van Ruymbeke)

Activists work to battle land degradation in water-scarce Jordan

By OMAR AKOUR and WANJOHI KABUKURU

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Staff Sgt. Yonatan Granot, killed by an apparent accidental discharge from another serviceman’s weapon in the Jordan Valley (Courtesy)

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By Emanuel Fabian

MK Mazen Ghanaim (center) speaks with MK Ahmad Tibi during a Knesset plenum session, January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am MK Ghanaim says he won’t commit to coalition if Temple Mount tensions persist

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Jerusalem rabbi arrested on suspicion of sex offenses against followers

File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Blinken says Israel supports a US return to UNESCO

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, prior to their meeting in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on July, 23, 2017. (Presidency Press Service/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey’s Erdogan travels to Saudi Arabia amid regional fence-mending effort

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In this May 23, 2011 photo, customer Gabriel Sanchez shops for fresh fruit at a Superior Grocers store in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Trump testifies he feared being hit by ‘very dangerous’ fruit

By AFP

Illustrative. Silicon Valley, California at dusk. July 2017 (yhelfman via iStock by Getty Images)

California now boasts 32 Israeli-founded tech unicorns

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative -- Iranian women react during the execution of Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sarvari, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, January 20, 2013 (AP Photo/Fars, Ebrahim Noroozi)

‘Alarming’ 25% rise in Iran executions in 2021, watchdogs say

By Stuart Williams

The Intel Ignite team in Tel Aviv. (Omer Hacohen)

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By Ricky Ben-David

Rapper Nissim Baruch Black is now a fixture on Israel's streets. (Courtesy)

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By CALEB GUEDES-REED

President Joe Biden, left, former president Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, during the funeral service for former secretary of state Madeleine Albright at the Washington National Cathedral, April 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

World leaders pay final respects to trailblazing diplomat Madeleine Albright

By Matthew Lee and AAMER MADHANI

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