After the solemn 24 hours of Memorial Day, torch-lighting ceremony kicks off the yearly festivities. Twelve Israelis who helped make Israel a better place chosen to light torches.

Today's memory isn't simply about commitment to "yesterday's" fallen, rather, first and foremost, to ourselves and to tomorrow; commitment to the founding generation that laid the foundations upon which we were born.

"The vice president has said that the next man and the first woman on the moon will be Americans," says NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "But certainly beyond that, we would love to have Israel partner with us in a way to maybe one day have an Israeli astronaut on the surface of the moon."

The U.S. Air Force is deploying B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Gulf in response to an alleged Iranian plan to attack American forces in the region • Mossad reportedly outlined a number of scenarios in which the Iranians would attack.

Over 72,000 citizens of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco, Malaysia, Algeria, Indonesia, Oman, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates visited.