Daily Roundup: Israeli Independence, Armenian Genocide
Compiled by Joe Sterling
David Ben-Gurion reads the Declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
Top stories from Israel and the Jewish world:
- Israel celebrates 67th Independence Day (Haaretz)
- White House mending fences with Netanyahu (New York Times)
- Poland still waiting for U.S. to apologize for Holocaust remarks (Reuters)
- Israel grapples with whether to recognize Armenian genocide (Associated Press)
- Jerusalem’s Armenians mark 100th anniversary of genocide (Times of Israel)
- “This is our country, there is no other,” Arab-Israeli journalist says (Times of Israel)
- Orthodox female soldiers kicked out of school ceremony (Times of Israel)
- Survey: Jews, Buddhists biggest supporters of gay marriage (JTA)
- Palmach commander during War of Independence dies (Haaretz)
- Rivlin to Palestinians: “We are destined, not doomed, to live together” (Yediot Ahronot)
- Female olim fighting for IDF (Yediot Ahronot)
- Does Israel’s anti-boycott law muzzle free speech? (Forward)
- American Jews learn to talk with other American Jews about Israel (Haaretz)
- The clash over Israeli inflation (BloombergBusiness)
- Leonid Bershidsky: Holocaust crimes still matter (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- Phoebe Maltz Bovy: Politicians should stop praising “Jews” for their contributions to society (New Republic)
- Shahrzad Elghanayn: Iran executed my grandfather; now the regime is trying to hide the way it has treated Jews (Washington Post)
- Anne Landsman: My parents’ Israel, my apartheid (Tablet)
- Gil Troy: Why progressives should celebrate Israel’s 67th birthday (Daily Beast)
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