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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Supporters of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir scuffle with a bereaved man (C) at the military cemetery in Beersheba on April 25, 2023 amidst commemorations of Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Bereaved family group head: He shamed the honor of the fallen

Bereaved families spar in Beersheba cemetery as Ben Gvir speaks at Memorial Day event

By Emanuel Fabian

Applause and abuse among participants after far-right minister addresses ceremony; scuffles outside and taunts about Auschwitz; mourner says she and others were set upon by mob

Israeli soldiers stand still as the Memorial Day siren sounds during a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, April 24, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Leaders plead for Memorial Day unity to replace protests as nation remembers fallen

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

PM at Mount Herzl: We bow our heads in endless appreciation

Tempers flare as some ministers are met with protests at Memorial Day ceremonies

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Coalition members heckled, one barred from attending event; scuffles break out in Beersheba, Rehovot; some walk out as Netanyahu calls for unity at main ceremony in Jerusalem

Israelis stand in silence next to graves of soldiers at the Mount Herzl miitary cemetery in Jerusalem during the Memorial Day siren, April 25, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Israel comes to standstill for Memorial Day, amid fears politics could mar events

From the blogs

I never thought it would be my family

There is a black hole inside me. In another five years or another 10 years – even at my wedding – this hole will be there

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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.

The scene of a terrorist car-ramming attack in Jerusalem on April 24, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Five wounded in terror car-ramming near busy Jerusalem market

By Emanuel Fabian

One victim in his 80s fighting for his life; Palestinian man who plowed car into pedestrians at corner of Agrippas and Ki’ach streets shot dead

Medics at the scene of a shooting in the northern West Bank, April 25, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Israeli moderately hurt in West Bank shooting targeting Memorial Day running event

By Emanuel Fabian

Prof. Avi Rivkind of Hadassah Medical Center (left) and Dr. Khetam Hussein of Rambam Medical Center are among the torch-lighters at the national ceremony marking Israel's 75th Independence Day, April 25, 2023. (Courtesy)

Doctors tapped for Independence Day torchlighting hope to heal fractured nation

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Shock trauma pioneer Prof. Avi Rivkind of Hadassah and infection control expert Dr. Khetam Hussein of Rambam inspired by Israeli medicine, hope for unity on Independence Day

Israel's 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on April 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu calls for national unity at Independence Day ceremony

PM says miracles ‘only possible when we march together’; feared disruptions don’t materialize but opponents of judicial overhaul rally in Tel Aviv

12:09 pm

In Independence Day greeting, Canada 'recognizes Israel’s significant global contributions'
8:00 pm

Democratic pro-Israel group endorses Biden for president
6:46 pm

Fireworks end Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl

A joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial day ceremony in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2023 (Gili Getz)

15,000 attend controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day event

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Bereaved families from both sides of conflict decry Israel’s West Bank policies at unique remembrance ceremony, as right-wing protesters lash participants as ‘traitors’

The Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank, February 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government asks High Court not to force immediate demolition of Khan al-Ahmar

By Jeremy Sharon

The man in the blue polo shirt

Just in our little town of Raanana there are 265 names of the dead to be read out loud. We listen to every single one of them

Israel from 25 to 75: The lesson is perpetual vigilance

Five months after the hubris of a giant military parade, the country faced an existential war: Today’s pensive mood is reassuring

Shalom and Tzur Yaniv, the father and brother of slain brothers Hallel and Yagel Yaniv, recite the Kaddish mourning prayer on Memorial Day at the Western Wall ceremony, April 24, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Sibling of slain Yaniv brothers celebrates his bar mitzvah at their graves

Tzur Yaniv feted at Mount Herzl cemetery on Memorial Day; sister Rachel Yaniv addresses Knesset ceremony: ‘Despite the incomprehensible price we have paid, we continue to love’

From left to right: Caption (L-R): Yesh Atid MK Vladimir Beliak; Likud MK Tsega Melaku; Tod Elan, father of 2nd Lt. Carmi Elan, and his granddaughter; Ofer Gutman, CEO of Masa Israel Journey; cabinet secretary Yossi Fuchs; Stephanie Hallett, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy; US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries; Doron Almog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel; Mark Wilf, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, at the Masa Israel Journey Memorial Day ceremony in Latrun, April 24, 2023. (Masa Israel Journey)

Hundreds of thousands tune into largest English-language Memorial Day ceremony

By Michael Horovitz

Ultra-Orthodox soldiers stand on the stage at a Memorial Day service for fallen Haredi soldiers in Jerusalem, April 24, 2023. (Chaim Tovito)

‘Glorious legacy’: Over 1,200 attend Memorial Day ceremony for fallen Haredi troops

By Michael Horovitz

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

How one bereaved mother changed Israel’s Memorial Day and the country itself

On June 7, 1982, then-prime minister Menachem Begin and defense minister Ariel Sharon arrived at the Crusader-era Beaufort Fortress in south Lebanon with a retinue of photographers and journalists. The Lebanon War had begun the day before. Israeli formations had entered Lebanon, bent on routing out of the country the Palestinian terror groups that had... Continue Reading

Raya Harnik, right, and her son Gony, who would be killed in the 1982 First Lebanon War. (YouTube screen capture)

US President Joe Biden speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House on April 14, 2021, about the withdrawal of the remainder of US troops from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Let’s finish this job’: Biden announces candidacy for 2024 US presidential election

Leader would be 86 years old at end of second term if he defeats Republican contender, thought likely to be either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with a delegation of congressional Democrats led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in Jerusalem on April 24, 2024 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu meets with Democrats as he looks to buck notion of strained US ties

Former US President Donald Trump, right, greets Representative Lee Zeldin, center, and his wife Diana Zeldin, left, after arriving at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, New York, August 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lee Zeldin, US Jewish Republican ex-congressman, backs Trump for president

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Armenian ceramist Vic Lepejian in his Old City studio, April 23, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

On genocide memorial day, Jerusalem Armenians hold out hopes for Israeli recognition

By Lazar Berman

The Jewish state has prioritized ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan over recognizing the WWI Ottoman massacre, critics say, as Armenian community voices shame over country’s stance

Opposition leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Don’t give up on us: Lapid urges US Jews to stand by Israel despite overhaul strains

By Canaan Lidor

Opposition head tells Jewish Federations GA in Tel Aviv he knows current coalition ‘doesn’t represent your values…It was ‘democratically elected, will be democratically replaced’

Protesters against the government's judicial overhaul greet participants of the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv, April 23, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 25: GA protests, Jordanian MP’s gun-smuggling, and Armenian pain

Kharkiv Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz conducts a burial service for Ali Shabay, who fell in battle near Kharkiv, April 23, 2023 (courtesy)

Missing Ukrainian soldier given Jewish burial after months-long search for body

By Lazar Berman

Remains of Ali Shabay, who was killed fighting Russian troops last May, identified by DNA last week; Kyiv appoints Jewish chaplain for military

A local museum hit by a Russian missile strike in Kupiansk, Ukraine, April 25, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

One killed, 10 wounded in Russian strike on Ukrainian museum; Zelensky: ‘Barbaric’

By AP

Graffiti found in Warsaw reads "Morawiecki is Chabad Lubavitch," referring to the country's non-Jewish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavich movement. (Courtesy of Czulent via JTA)

Jewish group’s report finds rise in antisemitic incidents in Poland

By Dinah Spritzer

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)

Reporter's notebook

Pittsburgh Jews grapple with how to remember 2018 synagogue attack, as trial starts

Representatives of US community say they’re ‘doing Jewish’ as means of coping with massacre, with trauma still felt even after deadly shooting has ‘become part of the background’

Jury selection begins in trial over 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

By Peter Smith and MARK SCOLFORO

Massachusetts woman indicted for leaving swastikas at Jewish lawyer’s home

By Andrew Lapin

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (left) meets with Sudanese ruler Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Khartoum on February 2, 2023. (Shlomi Amsallem)

Israel said to invite warring Sudanese generals for ceasefire talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Report says military chief and paramilitary leader appear to consider offer seriously, as foreign minister stresses Jerusalem ‘working different channels’ to help reach ceasefire

Khartoum, Sudan, April 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudan’s warring rivals agree on US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire after hundreds killed

By AFP

Stern College for Women, part of Yeshiva University, in New York. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Yeshiva U said to reverse decision to cut women’s Talmud classes, following petition

By Jackie Hajdenberg

1,400-plus signatories urged Stern College to offer Gemara lessons even with low enrollment, suggested endowed position to honor late rabbi who taught core Jewish text for decades

Tucker Carlson, host of 'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ADL hails Fox News for long-sought ouster of Tucker Carlson

By Andrew Lapin

Don Lemon attends the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Awards Gala at the New York Hilton Midtown, December 6, 2022, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

CNN host Don Lemon parts ways with US network after sexist Haley comments

By David Bauder

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In this file photo taken on April 4, 2023, a sign of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is seen in Basel, on the eve of the general meeting of shareholders following the takeover by UBS of Credit Suisse hastily arranged by the Swiss government on March 19, 2023, to prevent a financial meltdown. (Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP)

Jewish group blasts Credit Suisse for sacking investigators probing bank’s Nazi links

By Ash Obel and AP

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) presents the state budget at the Finance Ministry, in Jerusalem, on February 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel likely to miss 2023 deficit target as tax revenue drops amid judicial jitters

By Sharon Wrobel

An illustrative photo of a person typing on a keyboard as part of a cyber breach. (Techa Tungateja; iStock by Getty Images)

National Insurance Institute denies its website was brought down by hacker group

Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1983-1984, 1969-1974, as envisioned in Gavin Rain's artwork, part of the Prime Ministers in Perspective exhibit at Jerusalem's Biennale Gallery, April 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Clive Hassel/Reproduction of Artists Works for Brandsmiths and Myron Zeidel)

Premier colorsArtist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders

By Jessica Steinberg

A young Iranian woman crosses a street without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf in Tehran, Iran, November 14, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran charges two actresses for not wearing mandatory headscarves in public

By AFP

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs at the Berghof vacation house.
(Bundesarchiv Bild/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA)

Fake Hitler diaries from 1980s scam to be displayed at German national archives

By Michael Horovitz

Nir Dekel (Courtesy)

Body of man missing in crane collapse found in sea after five weeks

In this September 22, 2014, photo, members of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard march during an annual military parade at the mausoleum of ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

West toughens sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard over protest crackdown

By AFP

This image provided by the UAE Space Agency shows the planet Mars and its moon, Deimos, in the foreground. The United Arab Emirates’ Amal spacecraft - Arabic for Hope - flew within 62 miles of Deimos in March 2023. (UAE Space Agency via AP)

Seeing redUAE spacecraft snaps close-up of Mars’ little moon

Sofia Richie at a wedding dress fitting, in a video published April 23, 2022. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

I call it loveLionel Richie’s daughter Sofia marries Jewish music exec

By Gabe Friedman

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