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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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At Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors prepare for the March of the Living, April 18, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook40 Holocaust survivors, dozens of dignitaries participate

At Auschwitz March of the Living, displays of Jewish unity in a sea of Israeli flags

By Canaan Lidor

During the 35th annual 3-kilometer march at the former extermination camp, sorrow, shock but also pride and gratitude are exhibited by 9,000 participants from all over the world

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the main Holocaust memorial day ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

As Israel remembers Holocaust, Herzog says commemoration must be ‘above all dispute’

At Yad Vashem, president urges Israelis to set aside overhaul tensions for national days of unity, pans Nazi comparisons; Netanyahu says past victories don’t ensure future wins

Drivers stand still in Tel Aviv on April 18, 2023 as sirens blare for two minutes marking Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the six million Jews killed during World War II. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel grinds to a halt as siren wails to commemorate 6 million Holocaust victims

Interview

Halina Birenbaum survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She saw heroism elsewhere

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland -- Holed up in a makeshift bunker full of smoke and heat from fires raging overhead, Halina Birenbaum survived as a teenager the largest and deadliest act of armed resistance by Jews during the Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Yet if there is bravery in her remarkable survival story, Birenbaum told The Times... Continue Reading

Holocaust survivor Halina Birenbaum, 93, prepares to leave for the March of the Living commemorative event in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, April 17, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)

Visitors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem light memorial candles dedicated to individuals killed in the Holocaust, April 17, 2023. (Yad Vashem)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr 18: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, politics seep into sacred space

Illustrative: Family representatives at the B'nai B'rith-KKL ceremony recognizing Jewish efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust in 2015. (Yossi Zamir)

Holocaust Remembrance DayJewish Holocaust heroes to be honored for 20th year at Jerusalem ceremony

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Israeli hospital and U.S. Naval Forces prepare Kenya for mass casualty events

For the first time ever, Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet conducted a training program to prepare Kenya’s Navy for disasters.

An El Al plane after takeoff from Ben Gurion Airport. September 7, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al pilot under fire for preflight message tying judicial overhaul to Holocaust

By Michael Bachner

Before takeoff on Holocaust Memorial Day, captain says atrocities take place ‘in a dictatorship, and we’re fighting to remain a democracy’; he later apologizes

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth (left) is heckled during a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv on April 17, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Likud MK shouted down by anti-coalition hecklers at Holocaust Remembrance Day event

Meets with Netanyahu and Herzog

Son of Iran’s last shah pays condolence call to Dee family, visits Western Wall

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, paid a condolence call to the bereaved Dee family at their home in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on Tuesday, after the deaths of sisters Maia and Rina and their mother Lucy in a deadly terror... Continue Reading

Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, (L) meets with Leo Dee (R) during a condolence call in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on April 18, 2023 (Screen capture Srugim; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 18, 2023. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran threatens to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa, as Israel marks Holocaust memorial day

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reza Pahlavi attends the official Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on April 17, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Son of Iran’s last shah arrives in Israel to push for ‘peaceful, prosperous future’

Participants include Middle Eastern refugees, Muslims & Roma

In grassroots effort, young Europeans clean ‘stumbling stones’ to gleam like beacons

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Make Their Memory Shine organization brings together people of all backgrounds to commemorate Holocaust, identify common values and respect differences

Antisemitic graffiti on Barcelona’s Maimonides Synagogue, April 17, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Congress)

Antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Barcelona’s largest synagogue

Police at the scene of a terror shooting attack in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, April 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Two men hurt in terror shooting in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Gush Eztion Junction in the West Bank, on April 17, 2023. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Palestinian woman stabs Israeli in Gush Etzion, is shot by soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early January 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Northern kibbutz targeted by gunshots apparently from West Bank for 2nd time in weeks

Interview'There's a strength in them, they found a way through'

Life after hell: Thriving US Holocaust survivors chronicled in photo-driven book

By Jacqueline Cutler

‘Invited to Life’ by B.A. Van Sise takes a new approach to survivor testimony, showing how people who endured terrible evil rebuilt lives and pursued their dreams in a new country

‘Silence is complicity’: On Holocaust memorial day, Biden vows to fight antisemitism

Islamist antisemitism in the US masked by alliance with far left – study

By Lazar Berman

Hamas leaders including Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal are seen making a pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on April 18, 2023. (Screencapture/Twitter: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

Senior Hamas delegation seen in Saudi Arabia ahead of expected rapprochement talks

Mending of long-strained ties between Riyadh and terror group is seen as a further blow to Israel’s hopes of forging official ties with Saudis

6:28 pm

Senior undercover Border Police officer relieved of duty after failed raid
6:13 pm

In response to dire financial plight of survivors, Shas offers discount burial plots
6:02 pm

Survey: 35% of young US Republicans have never heard of Netanyahu

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Israeli politics are in chaos. Are its enemies poised to take advantage?

The tide is finally turning against Israel, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Friday. “The resistance… is confident while the Israeli enemy is scared and terrified.” Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh agreed, commenting the same day, “We say that we are in an advanced position and that Israel will depart from all of Palestine.” Iranian President... Continue Reading

IDF artillery fires shells at targets in Lebanon on April 25, 2022, after a rocket was fired into Israel (IDF Spokesperson)

President Isaac Herzog hosts delegations from Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity for judicial overhaul negotiations at his residence in Jerusalem, March 28, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘Serious atmosphere’ but no initial agreement as overhaul talks tackle judge picks

By Michael Bachner

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan/ File)

‘Risk-taking government’: Moody’s explains fears behind credit outlook downgrade

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Jewish federations defend Netanyahu invite but salute anti-overhaul protesters

Umbrella group rejects call for PM not to speak at Tel Aviv event; says demonstrators ‘care deeply and sincerely’ about Israel’s future, will be welcomed if they don’t disrupt

Nazi symbols on a threat letter received by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 18, 2023. (Courtesy: Bezalel Smotrich's office)

Smotrich says he was sent threat with Nazi symbols: ‘You intend to destroy Israel’

Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right MK Avi Maoz says he may soon return as Jewish identity czar

From the blogs

Yom HaShoah: The imperative to remember, the call to act

12 Holocaust lessons that are searingly relevant in today’s era of surging antisemitism, denial, and, yes, genocide

Effie Kleinberg

Where are all the survivors?

My grandparents stood before crowds to deliver their first-hand testimony and bare their tattooed numbers. Now they are gone

Holocaust and literature: A writer’s dilemma

While literature may not have a one-to-one correspondence with facts, it can have a one-to-one correspondence with truth

The foolish price Israel paid to restore school trips to Poland

Will our kids really be taught the Polish government line that no Poles helped murder their Jewish neighbors?

Henry Greenspan

The Holocaust’s empty rooms

For me, Yom Hashoah will always be about a loss and a grief that last far longer than memorial candles

Mordechai Shattner and his daughter, Rachel Ofra Eliyahu Schattner (image courtesy of family)

Israel Story

Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Mordechai Schattner

Our new series – a deep dive into Megillat Ha’Atzmaut, or the Declaration of Independence – continues with an ardent socialist who knew how to compromise

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Analysis

Iranian-Russian cooperation on hack attacks may challenge Israeli cyber supremacy

A recent bid to bring down Israeli websites by a group believed linked to Moscow suggests Tehran is getting help upping its cyber warfare capabilities after years of being stymied

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (R) at a press conference with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov in Jerusalem on March 29, 2023. (Miri Shimonovich/ Foreign Ministry)

FM Cohen jets off for Azerbaijan, as alliance on Iran’s border flourishes

By Lazar Berman

US Senator Lindsey Graham meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the latter's Jerusalem office on April 17, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

GOP senator: Window for Israel-Saudi normalization deal could close within a year

During Jerusalem visit that followed meeting with MBS in Riyadh, Lindsey Graham says agreement possible but will require gestures from US and for Biden to rally Democrats

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) is met by Prince Badr bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) at the airport in Jeddah, April 17, 2023 (Wafa)

Abbas to meet Saudi Arabian leader, with Hamas delegation also said to be in kingdom

(L) Saudi King Salman attends the G20 Leaders' Summit via videoconference at the royal palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Oct. 30, 2021. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses lawmakers while defending his next year's budget bill at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (AP Photos/ Bandar Aljaloud, Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s Raisi invites Saudi king to visit as normalization advances

By AFP

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, December 5, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Fresh proposal to exempt Haredim from IDF draft would likely be struck down by court

Expert says government knows planned law would be discriminatory, has no intention of pushing more ultra-Orthodox men to serve in the military

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu arrives at a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Heritage minister aims to sideline funded Shabbat events with ‘Traditional Friday’

By Michael Horovitz

Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli at a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor MKs seek to replace leader Michaeli, claim party’s future depends on it

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Illustrative image: a doctor holds up a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness. (dragana991 via iStock by Getty Images)

Women with breast cancer genetic marker hope osteoporosis drug could halt disease

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Shaare Zedek Medical Center participates in international long-term clinical trial of Denosumab, which investigators say may offer medical alternative to preventive mastectomy

Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)

Investment in Israeli healthtech startups drops 13% in 2022 – report

By Sharon Wrobel

More Headlines

Chief of Israel Police's Tel Aviv district, Amichai Eshed, at the scene of a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

After nixing ouster of Tel Aviv top cop, AG says Ben Gvir must make new decision

Former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit at a conference of the Association of Corporate Counsel, in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Reported plan to curb ministry legal advisers would ‘crush’ democracy, says ex-AG

Pine processionary beetles burrowing into the ground. (Dr Gal Zagron, Head Of Pest Control and Pesticides, Ministry of Environmental Protection)

Hands offEnvironment ministry warns public not to touch stinging caterpillars

Police at the scene of an a suspected criminal shooting in northern Israel on April 18, 2023 (Israel Police)

Man shot dead at northern gas station

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian court rejects appeal, says US reporter accused of espionage to remain jailed

By AP

Motorists commute past a poster for the Indonesia 2023 FIFA Under-20 World Cup football tournament in Jakarta on March 30, 2023 (BAY ISMOYO / AFP)

Argentina to host U20 World Cup after Indonesia loses rights amid Israel protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Emergency personnel at the scene of a suspected car bombing in Rishon Lezion, April 17, 2023. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man seriously hurt in suspected underworld car bombing in Rishon Lezion

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang reads from the Chinese constitution when answering a question about Taiwan during a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, on March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Chinese FM tells Israeli, PA counterparts Beijing’s ready to facilitate peace talks

By AFP

People walk past shuttered shops in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

185 killed, 1,800 wounded as Sudan’s generals battle for third day

By jack jeffery and Samy Magdy

Hezbollah fighters hold the terror group's flags as they parade during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UK sanctions Lebanese art collector for financing Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Rep. George Santos, a New York Republican, leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 25, 2023. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik)

George Santos announces reelection bid despite GOP abandonment over myriad of lies

By AP

'Here Forever,' the song created by AI using the voices of Ofra Haza and Zohar Argov for Israel's 75th (Courtesy Session 42)

Sounds from beyondAI brings 2 distinctly Israeli voices to life for Israel’s 75th

By Jessica Steinberg

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