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What Matters Most On Friday, April 14, 2023

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An Iron Dome air defense system is seem near the border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, April 7, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Aircraft told to avoid Gaza, Syria, Lebanon borders

Iron Dome on alert in the north for final Friday of Ramadan, Iran’s Quds Day

Security forces brace for possible attacks as tens of thousands set to attend Al-Aqsa prayers, annual events in Iran marked by anti-Israel incitement and cyber attacks

Border Police patrol Jerusalem's Old City during the Passover and Ramadan holidays, April 10, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Police brace for last Friday of Ramadan as Palestinians gather at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi gives a joint press conference with his German counterpart on April 3, 2023 at the Foreign Office in Berlin. (John Macdougall/AFP)

‘Jordan’s Ben Gvir’: Israel said to accuse Amman’s FM of inflaming tensions

Iranian demonstrators burn representations of the Israeli and the US flags in their rally to mark Jerusalem Day, an annual show of support for the Palestinians, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 14, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Demonstrators burn US, Israeli flags; effigies of Netanyahu

Chanting ‘Death to Israel,’ tens of thousands march in Tehran for ‘Jerusalem Day’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Senior officials, including President Raisi, attend central rally in capital, which comes amid deadly violence in Israel and warning of looming war with Iran

Illustrative: Programming scripts on a computer monitor. (Motortion/iStock by Getty Images)

Hacker group brings down Israeli postal, banking and telecom websites

Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)

ToI podcast'The Holocaust is more relevant now than ever'

What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: Warsaw Ghetto Jews were divided, too

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Performing a delicate balancing act, former politician polices world leaders’ rhetoric, protects against historical distortion and plans to open a new education center in Germany

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor to light torch at Yad Vashem on 80th anniversary

By Ilan Ben Zion and AMI BEN TOV

'David Ben-Gurion in his library in Sdeh Boker.' Envisioning Israel’s future hearkens back to the modern state’s roots — namely, the pioneering spirit of Ben-Gurion, writes Doug Seserman. Credit: National Photo Collection of Israel/GPO."

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The truth is that at a moment like this, celebrating Israel is more important than ever.

President Isaac Herzog (left) speaks with Rabbi Leo Dee (right), during a condolence visit to his family's home in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 13, 2023. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

‘A ray of light’: President, lawmakers pay condolence visits to grieving Dee family

By Michael Horovitz

Defense minister updates family on hunt for terrorists who killed Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, vows they’ll be caught; family praises efforts by visiting figures to promote unity

Adena Mark Kapon

Terror VIPs get the best parking at Yom HaZikaron memorials

When terrorists murder your mother, your loss is suddenly part of the national story, while you just wish you still parked far away

Silence allows us to hear the music of the spheres

Bereft of two sons, Aaron models not only how to respond when there are ’no words,’ but also how to continue living (Shemini)

In this April 8, 2015 photo, actor Chaim Topol speaks during an interview in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Chaim Topol’s family says he had a hidden role — as an operative for Mossad

Widow and children of famed ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ actor tell Haaretz about his exploits to assist the spy agency, using his star status to help out with surveillance operations

Students at the Horev girls high school in Jerusalem in a Purim skit mocking Mizrahi Jews. (Screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Religious students face backlash for Purim skit mocking Mizrahi Jews

Clip from Ulpanat Horev in Jerusalem goes viral online; Shas chief Aryeh Deri labels it ‘wretched and outrageous racism’; school apologizes, education minister calls for probe

Tens of thousands of people protest against the government's judicial overhaul legislation during the Passover holiday in Tel Aviv, April 8, 2023. (Gitai Palti)

Protest leaders vow intensified civil disobedience if overhaul push restarts

By Jeremy Sharon

‘Resistance will be stronger’ if government tries sneaking judicial appointments bill through Knesset, organizers vow, warning that attempts to lull opposition to sleep won’t work

Tech workers protest against the government's judicial overhaul 'time is running out for Israeli hi-tech,' in Tel Aviv, on March 23, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

80% of Israeli startups say judicial shakeup will have ‘negative impact’ — survey

By Sharon Wrobel

Gallant says won’t let Palestinians enter Israel for joint Memorial Day ceremony

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday rejected a request from bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families to allow the latter to attend a controversial annual commemoration on Israel's Memorial Day. A statement from Gallant's office said he was blocking the Palestinians from entering Israel for the Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial... Continue Reading

3,000 Israelis attend a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony at the Shlomo Group Arena in Tel Aviv after the Palestinian participants were banned by Israeli authorities on April 30, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Palestinian lawyers demonstrate in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Ramallah in the West Bank, on July 25, 2022, to reportedly protest the Palestinian president establishing laws by decree which they consider a violation of the independence of the judiciary. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Ramallah accused of blocking legal rights group to ’empower its security services’

By AFP

Mohammed Elasibi. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prosecutors close probe into cops’ disputed killing of Arab man in Jerusalem

Analysis

With support of Iran and Hezbollah, experts believe Hamas well established in Lebanon

A rare rocket attack from Lebanon last week gave Israel a glimpse into the military capabilities of the Lebanese branch of Hamas. The rockets fired at northern Israel -- apparently by a wing of the Palestinian Hamas terror group -- appear to be Iranian in origin and may have been supplied by Iran or its proxy Hezbollah, according to experts. On... Continue Reading

The crater from a rocket fired from Lebanon that landed in Shlomi, northern Israel, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Children using sticks to beat an effigy of Judas on Good Friday, April 19, 2019, in the town of Pruchnik, Poland. (Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)

Burning Judas, deriding Jews: Antisemitic Easter traditions persist in Europe

By Canaan Lidor

Media and diplomatic uproars are not dissuading locals in the Netherlands and Poland from putting on religious events centered around anti-Jewish sentiment

Personal tribute

To translate Meir Shalev was to walk with care, on a path of melody and meaning

The afternoon Israeli writer Meir Shalev died, I was in the forest near my home in the Ella Valley, picking wild sage and mallow, wandering among the terebinth, olive and fig trees that grow there. Meir Shalev wrote about all these in My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer’s Eden (2020), an illustrated memoir... Continue Reading

Author Meir Shalev speaks at the annual International Writer's Festival in Jerusalem. May 14, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Friends and family mourn renowned author Meir Sahlev at his funeral in Nahalal cemetery, northern Israel, April 14, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

‘A decisive voice that will be sorely missed’: Author Meir Shalev laid to rest

Jack Teixeira (via social media)

US intel leak suspect allegedly railed against Jews in online rant at shooting range

National Guard airman Jack Teixeira was arrested Thursday; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green defends him as ‘white, male, Christian and antiwar’

Jack Teixeira (via social media)

US nabs suspect in Pentagon intel leak, will charge him for removing classified docs

By Eric Tucker, TARA COPP and MICHAEL BALSAMO

'Circumstances have chilled enthusiasm,' official says

Israel’s efforts to forge Saudi ties said on ice as tensions with Palestinians spike

Saudi Arabia's interest in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel has cooled in recent months amid ongoing violence in the West Bank and clashes at the flashpoint Temple Mount site, US media reported this week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prioritized including the kingdom in the 2020 Abraham Accords upon... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises Muslim voters that he will ensure that there are direct flights between Israel and Saudi Arabia, March 23, 2021 (screen capture)

Illustrative: Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, right, meets with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Beijing, on April 6, 2023. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

ExplainerSaudi-Iran detente marks latest twist in decades of fraught ties

By AFP

In this photo released by the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, speaks with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, in in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 19, 2023. (Syrian Presidency via AP)

Analysis

Syria’s Assad welcomed back into Arab fold after years of isolation over civil war

With leader coming out on top in civil war, Arab nations are now ‘pretending that the past decade never happened,’ analyst says

Syria's President Hafez Assad with soldiers, 1973. (The Online Museum of Syrian History)

TimelineLooking back at half a century of iron-fisted Assad rule over Syria

By AFP

Hamza Abu Ghanem, 25, who was shot to death in the central city of Lod, April 14, 2023. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man gunned down in Lod hours after seven injured in shooting

25-year-old shot while returning from mosque, police say; 8-year-old remains hospitalized with others in earlier shooting, 7-year-old released

Illustrative: Firemen and police officers at the scene where a car exploded in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

6 people, including children, wounded in suspected criminal shooting in Lod

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A TV screen shows an image of an overturned tour bus during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, April 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

4 Israelis still hospitalized in serious condition in South Korea after bus crash

Illustrative: A man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Teen hospitalized with collapsed lungs apparently caused by vaping

Fans of AEK Athens burn an Israeli flag at a match against Hapoel Jerusalem, in Athens, Greece, April 12, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sports minister slams violence by Greek basketball fans as ‘antisemitic attack’

A view of a collapsed columnas part of a TAMA 38 renewal project in Kiryat Bialik, on October 24, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Housing minister extends urban renewal program, despite no boost to quake readiness

By Danielle Nagler

A flooded road in the south on April 12, 2023 (Israel Police)

Police probe response to flash flooding in south after deaths

The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich is shown in this undated photo. (The Wall Street Journal via AP)

Russia says it would consider discussing prisoner swap deal for jailed US reporter

By AP

Driver's license photo of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre suspect Robert Bowers (Pennsylvania DOT)

Death penalty looms over Pittsburgh synagogue massacre trial as jury selection nears

By MARK SCOLFORO

A mimouna spread in Safed, April 12, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Washington, DC to declare an official Mimouna day to celebrate end of Passover

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