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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 23, 2023

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IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi is seen at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Halevi pleads to keep ‘noise of debate’ out of IDF cemeteries on Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

Military chief says tensions over government’s judicial overhaul plans should be kept out of military graveyards so bereaved families can mourn in solitude

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem April 20, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Ben Gvir to speak at Memorial Day event, promises to avoid sensitive topics – report

People wearing Israeli flags visit Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2023, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bereaved group head: Cabinet refused to discuss swapping ministers’ Memorial Day plans

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly at Expo Tel Aviv on April 23, 2023. (Courtesy, Jewish Federations of North America)

Live updates (closed)

Herzog announces launch of ‘Voice of the People’ initiative for global Jewish dialogue

By Michael Bachner

Hundreds attend rally outside Expo Tel Aviv, despite Netanyahu canceling his planned participation in JFNA confab; organizers warn against disruption and protests inside event

6:54 pm

Amid overhaul protests, Herzog tells JFNA event Israel's greatest threat is internal
6:45 pm

Herzog's office says overhaul talks focused today on Basic Law: Legislation
6:02 pm

Report: Minister tells broadcaster of Independence Day event to cut away from protest messages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Jewish Federations General Assembly in Washington DC on November 10, 2015. (Ron Sachs, JFNA)

Facing planned overhaul protests, Netanyahu cancels speech to US Jewish leaders

By Michael Horovitz

PM’s office denies intended demonstrations led to cancelation, as protest organizers fear announcement is a trick and vow to rally regardless at JFNA convention

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog voices hope on overhaul compromise, knows ‘who is to blame’ if talks fail

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ֿRabbi Leo Dee holds a press conference in Efrat, on April 10, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Leo Dee to read Yizkor memorial prayer at national ceremony on Independence Day eve

Rabbi who lost wife and daughters in a terror shooting earlier this month has pleaded for Israeli unity in the face of judicial overhaul strife

Demonstrators light memorial candles during a rally to protest the government's judicial overhaul plans, in Tel Aviv, on April 22, 2023, three days before Israel's annual memorial day for fallen soldiers. The text reads: "In their deaths, they commanded us: One Israel. Jewish. Free. Democratic" (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 23: Fractured nation fights for united front before Memorial Day

Graves of fallen Israeli soldiers at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Shin Bet head warns: Don’t kick bereaved families out of cemeteries on Memorial Day

Bereaved families and other Israelis stand next to memorial candles during a protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on April 22, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

With memorial candles, protesters across Israel rally against judicial overhaul

16th set of weekly rallies held nationwide, with over 110,000 estimated to attend main demo in Tel Aviv; Lapid: Without street protests, ‘the disaster would have already occurred’

Demonstrators lift flags and placards during a rally to protest the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bill in Tel Aviv, on April 22, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Live updates (closed)Anti-overhaul protesters enter Ayalon Highway, police disperse them

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Stern College should not cut opportunities for women to study Talmud

My alma mater is cancelling the very classes that started me on my path of Talmud scholarship. Here’s why they should not

In Transatlantic’s Varian Fry story, Jews are not helping their own

The Netflix WWII drama leaves out Jewish organizations’ vital support and paints religious Jews as too inept to survive

Health and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel (left) smiles as Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef tells him he should transfer funds to municipalities on the condition they build synagogues and yeshivas, April 22, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chief rabbi to Shas minister: Give funds to towns only if they build synagogues

By Michael Horovitz

Sephardic religious leader Yosef admits this would be illegal, advises new Health and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel to ‘do it in a smart way’; Liberman calls for rabbi to be sacked

MK May Golan during a discussion and a vote on the "Citizenship Law" at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Appointment of far-right Likud MK as NY consul likely off the table — reports

Government officials cited by Hebrew media say PM’s office understands move is not feasible following backlash from US Jewish leaders, Biden administration

Women prepare dishes for iftar at Ahva primary school in Haifa, on April 13, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

'What you're seeing here can only happen here'

In mixed, tolerant Haifa, Christians are discovering the benefits of Ramadan

By Canaan Lidor

Muslims, Christians and Jews are building interfaith bridges amid rising tensions fueled by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, October 21, 2018. (AP/ Majdi Mohammed)

Government signals move away from plans for forced evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar

Smotrich, Ben Gvir slam expected decision of state to seek court dismissal of petition for demolition of West Bank hamlet, citing talks on consensual move of residents

File: Israelis watch an air show during Israel's 71st Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Independence Day 2023

Where to watch the Israeli Air Force’s annual Independence Day flyby

By Emanuel Fabian

Foreign pilots to participate in Air Force airshows on Wednesday from Tiberias in north, along Mediterranean coast, through Jerusalem, to IAF base in south

An Israeli Navy Sa’ar 6-class corvette guards the Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel at the Karish gas field, in an image published by the military on April 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Larger, more powerful: Navy declares fleet of Sa’ar 6-class warships operational

By Emanuel Fabian

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives a thumbs up after meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira as he leaves Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Russia said to refuse to move Security Council Israel debate from Memorial Day

Rejection of request by UN ambassador reportedly seen as Moscow retaliating for Jewish state’s support of Ukraine in ongoing war

Co-presidents of New Light Congregation, Stephen Cohen and Barbara Caplan, visit a memorial in the New Light Cemetery on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Shaler Township, Pennsylvania, honoring the congregants they lost during the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre over four years ago. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

As trial to start, Pittsburgh Jews find renewed purpose in mourning synagogue attack

‘We are going to still be here. We will not be intimidated,’ says head of one of the congregations targeted in 2018 massacre, the most deadly antisemitic assault in US history

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Water surrounds the coast of Cabo da Roca near Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, April 14, 2023. (AP/Michael Probst)

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File: Then-British prime minister Boris Johnson and his adviser Dominic Cummings, left, leave 10 Downing Street in London, and get in a car together to go to the Houses of Parliament, Oct. 28, 2019 (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

‘I am the Fuhrer,’ Boris Johnson said to have told adviser who overstepped role

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34-year-old Michael Hasson, shot dead by officers in Netanya after allegedly attempting to attack police with a knife, April 22, 2023. (Courtesy; Israel Police)

‘Put down the knife’: Cops release footage of deadly police shooting in Netanya

Magen David Adom ambulances and medics on stanby as an El Al plane traveling from Tel Aviv to Tokyo had to double back and make an emergency landing at Ben Gurion Airport, April 22, 2023. (MDA)

Plane en route from Tel Aviv to Tokyo makes emergency landing back in Israel

Illustrative: A child looks at local police forces in north Jaffa, May 16, 2021. (Elie Bleier/Times of Israel)

Man shot dead in Jaffa, bumping 2023 toll of killings in Arab population to 57

By Michael Horovitz

In this undated handout photo, Israeli troops take part in rescue efforts at the Sea of Galilee. (Israel Defense Forces)

Body of man found in Sea of Galilee after 4 days of searches

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Man killed, another seriously hurt in separate shootings in Lod

Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, April 22, 2023, where fighting between the Sudanese Army and Rapid Support Forces resumed after an internationally brokered ceasefire failed. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

US diplomats airlifted from war-plagued Sudan as both sides claim to help evacuation

By AP

This photo provided by the Australian War Memorial shows the Montevideo Maru. (Australian War Memorial via AP)

Australian explorers find ship sunk in WWII with over 1,000 POWs onboard

By AP

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