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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 22, 2023

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Illustrative: People and soldiers visit graves during a Memorial Day which commemorates fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror at Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery in Tel Aviv on May 4, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Opposition’s Lapid, Gantz join Netanyahu in call to halt protests for Memorial Day

‘We must not violate the sanctity of Memorial Day,’ rival politicians say in rare show of agreement, reflecting gravity of fears ministers will be heckled at cemetery ceremonies

Left: Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90). Right: Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends a conference in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Regev to lobby Lapid to rethink his Independence Day torch-lighting boycott – report

Activists gear up for chance to bring 3,000 visiting US Jews into anti-overhaul fray

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

The arrival of over 3,000 North American Jewish community leaders to Israel for a large conference has afforded groups protesting the government's plan to diminish the judiciary the chance to press their case and gain the support of an influential Diaspora community. While protest organizers are careful to avoid saying their goal is... Continue Reading

Angling to discuss the country's ongoing judicial shakeup, Israeli activists greet arriving passengers, Ben Gurion International Airport, April 21, 2023 (Courtesy Ben Gurion Airport Ask Me About Democracy Team)

Demonstrators rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans, in Tel Aviv, on April 22, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Anti-overhaul protests for 16th week as Israel readies to honor fallen, mark 75 years

Hundreds of thousands set to take to the streets Saturday night at over 100 locations; Tel Aviv demonstration to be addressed by ex-Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin

People watch the airshow during Israel's 74th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem, May 5, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of Israel’s 75th anniversary, majority pessimistic about nation’s future – poll

A monument at the Golani Museum, west of Tiberias. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

For Memorial Day, tales of heroism and sacrifice, and the places that honor them

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The stories of some of the 40 Israelis to have been awarded the military’s Medal of Valor, and of the battles in which they defended the state

A soldier among the soldiers

Buried alongside the graves of young recruits, this legendary general’s brief epitaph speaks volumes

Solly Kaplinski

Leadership for our times: Are we up to it?

As Israel gets more vulnerable, it’s time for a national government — but can the politicians rise above petty politics?

This file photo taken on May 24, 2016, shows Hassan Diab, who was arrested in November 2008 for his alleged role in a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing, as he arrives at the courthouse in Paris. (AFP/Bertrand Guay)

Paris court hands Lebanese-Canadian life term in absentia for 1980 synagogue blast

By AFP

Prosecutors say ‘no doubt’ Hassan Diab was behind attack that killed four, but professor remains free in Canada after France declines to extradite him a second time

In this file photo taken on October 3, 1980, an inspector walks amid car wreckage after a bomb exploded at the synagogue rue Copernic in Paris. (Georges Gobet/AFP)

Canada’s Trudeau considers next steps as citizen convicted for Paris synagogue blast

By AFP

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial to begin, igniting pain and hopes for closure

Long-delayed legal proceedings to start Monday for gunman accused of killing 11 worshippers at Tree of Life in October 2018

High Court set to rule on the issue in next few days

Attorney general says Gallant should let Palestinians attend joint Memorial Day event

In a non-binding opinion, the Attorney General's Office on Friday rejected a decision by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to bar bereaved Palestinians from attending an annual joint Memorial Day ceremony in Israel next week. The High Court is slated to issue a ruling on the matter in the... Continue Reading

People attend a memorial ceremony commemorating the victims of the decades Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2022, as Israel marks the annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Israel Hayom editor Boaz Bismuth speak at the Israel Hayom forum in Jerusalem on June 27, 2019. (Gideon Markovitz)

Netanyahu said weighing appointing Likud MK Bismuth as ambassador to France

Former French national only recently became a lawmaker after decades in media world and brief stint as envoy in Mauritania

Israel ends expedited immigration track for Russians and Belarusians fleeing war

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israel will halt special procedures meant to help Russian and Belarusians expedite immigration to Israel, the ministry in charge of the program said Friday. At the same time, the government will leave the process in place for Ukrainians seeking to move to Israel, the office of Immigration and Absorption... Continue Reading

Then-Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in an undated photo distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)

FILE - In this June 29, 1956 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe, left, and playwright Arthur Miller embrace on the lawn of Miller's home in Roxbury, Conn., several hours before they were married in White Plains, New York. (AP Photo, File)

InterviewWriter's illiterate businessman father basis for Willy Loman

The rags-to-riches story of Arthur Miller, Pulitzer-winning son of Jewish immigrants

By JP O’ Malley

A new biography by John Lahr in Yale’s Jewish Lives Series tracks the successes (and many failures) of a beloved American writer whose tragic characters were inspired by his life

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir meets with Taibe Mayor Shuaa Masarwa Mansour at his home, in a video that was apparently leaked from the meeting, April 21, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Ben Gvir said to record Taibe mayor without his knowledge, clip leaked to press

In video, minister tells mayor whose security guard was murdered hours earlier that ‘your friends’ — Arab lawmakers — are voting against necessary gun laws

'Signed, Sealed, Delivered?' A series of interviews with descendants of the 37 signatories of the Declaration of Independence. (Israel Story)

Israel Story PODCAST SERIES

Israel at 75: Hear from descendants of Declaration of Independence’s 37 signatories

Where did we exceed our wildest dreams and where did we fall short? Revelatory interviews on the hopes and expectations of Israel’s founding visionaries

Smoke billows over residential buildings in eastern Khartoum on April 22, 2023, during ongoing battles between the forces of two rival generals. (AFP)

Fighting in Sudan enters 2nd week as truce breaks, embassies get ready to evacuate

By AFP

Hundreds dead, thousands wounded as Khartoum resident says they are marking Eid with ‘gunfire and the stench of blood all around us’; foreign nationals set to be airlifted out

In this photo provided by Maheen S , smoke fills the sky in Khartoum, Sudan, near Doha International Hospital on April 21, 2023. (Maheen S via AP)

ExplainerWhy the conflict in Sudan matters to the rest of the world

By AP

Rabbi Judah Loew and the Golem of Prague as painted by Mikoláš Aleš, 1899 (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ author to write horror film based on Golem of Prague

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A radio frequency particle accelerator is displayed in an exhibition during a press tour at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the Future Circular Collider (FCC) feasibility study, in Geneva, on April 19, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Israel among the CERN member states involved in project

Europe’s CERN takes first steps toward building giant particle accelerator

By Agnès PEDRERO

Nuclear research organization says goal of Future Circular Collider is to ‘push the energy and intensity frontiers’ of particle smashers ‘in the search for new physics’

'She went to concentration camps, wasn't meant to survive'

Fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg: Holocaust survivor mother is my main inspiration

By Matthieu Demeestere

BRUSSELS (AFP) --Diane von Furstenberg is a US fashion icon. But she never forgot her Belgian roots -- as evidenced by a return to Brussels, the city of her birth, to celebrate a half-century of her glamorous career. "I really lived an American dream as a young European and it was fascinating," the... Continue Reading

Former Princess Diane Von Furstenberg, left, sits with her mother, Liliane Halfin, during a party to celebrate the publishing of Miss Von Furstenberg's book on beauty by Simon and Schuster publishers in New York, February 28, 1977 (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim arrives for a ceremony to award him honorary citizenship of the German capital in Berlin, Germany, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli-Argentine conductor Barenboim made Berlin citizen of honor

By AP

More Headlines

Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, September 22, 2010. A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

US Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill for now

By Mark Sherman

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Man shot dead by police for allegedly trying to stab cops; family: Preventable death

A Samburu woman fetches water during a drought in Loolkuniyani Primary School, Samburu County, Kenya, Oct. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

UN climate report details growing toll of global warming in 2022

By Seth Borenstein

Illustrative: Former President Donald Trump, right, belts out "God Bless America" at the 16th tee during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., Sunday, July 31, 2022. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Jailhouse rockTrump, Jan. 6 suspects score hit with star-spangled prison dirge

By David Klepper

File: Rebecca Seidler, chairwoman of the Liberal Jewish Community of Hanover, Germany, in 2021. (YouTube screenshot)

In Germany, new group reflects schism among liberal Jewish congregations

By Toby Axelrod

Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo waves to journalists after he was selected by the country's largest political party, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, as its candidate for the 2024 presidential election in Bogor on April 21, 2023. (Aditya Aji/AFP)

Indonesia’s main party names anti-Israel Java governor as presidential candidate

By AFP

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