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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 23, 2019

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US Senator Bernie Sanders responds to a question during a town hall meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

PM treats Palestinians 'extremely unfairly'

Sanders: ‘Israel now run by a right wing — dare I say — racist government’

By Eric Cortellessa

Democratic presidential hopeful insists he is ‘100 percent pro-Israel’ at town hall event; says if elected he would be more sympathetic to Palestinian concerns

Democrat Kamala Harris joins call for Trump’s impeachment

By Steve Peoples and Hunter Woodall

Drawing attentionBernie Sanders gets the comic book hero treatment

Trump: Congress ‘can’t impeach’ me

By Sebastian Smith

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters as election results are announced in Tel Aviv, April 09, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hidden cameras in Arab voting booths were Netanyahu’s idea — TV report

Project was introduced at 1st Likud pre-election meet; minister Yoav Gallant trained activists for over a month; party defends tactic, says it prevented ‘stealing of the election’

Israelis visit the Jewish settlement of Peduel, in Samaria, West Bank, on April 22, 2019. (Flash90)

Far-right slate to offer PM immunity law in exchange for settlement annexation

Bezalel Smotrich (R) and Rafi Peretz (L) of the Union of Right Wing Parties hold a press conference after a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019, (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Jewish Home said livid at Smotrich for ‘hijacking’ coalition talks

By Jacob Magid and TOI staff

Security camera footage shows a suicide bomber, carrying a backpack, seconds before entering a church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka terror attack

By AFP and TOI staff

Jihadist group publishes names of 7 bombers; United Nations says at least 45 children among the 321 killed in Easter Sunday atrocities

Security camera footage shows a suicide bomber, carrying a backpack, entering a church in Negombo, Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019 (screen capture: CNN)

Video emerges of bomber entering Sri Lanka church, as death toll tops 310

By TOI staff and AP

Sri Lankan security personnel walk next to dead bodies on the floor amid blast debris at St. Anthony's Shrine, following an explosion in the church in Kochchikade in Colombo, on April 21, 2019. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA/ AFP)

Sri Lanka, like world, again sees scourge of suicide bombing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM’s lawyers mulling High Court petition if AG refuses to delay hearing: report

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu’s legal team said to insist on postponing pre-indictment process by several months, is considering foregoing it entirely if demand isn’t met

9:42 pm

Joe Biden to announce 2020 bid on Thursday -- source
9:27 pm

Israel, US launch reciprocal investor visa programs
9:17 pm

AIPAC denounces Sanders' for calling Netanyahu government 'racist'

A group of Iranian army members follow the debates of parliament on a tour on the occasion of Army Day, in Tehran, Iran, April 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian parliament designates all US military forces as terrorists

By AP and TOI staff

Lawmakers previously backed a bill labeling American troops in the Mideast as terrorists, in tit-for-tat move over Washington’s outlawing of IRGC

Iran threatens to close Strait of Hormuz after US ends sanction waivers

Netanyahu lauds US decision to end waivers on Iran oil sanctions

By Agencies and TOI staff

Hezbollah chief says Israel’s ground forces unprepared for war

Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky reacts after the announcement of the first exit poll results in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election, at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, on April 21, 2019. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Netanyahu congratulates new Ukraine president, invites him to Israel

By TOI staff and Agencies

PM also phones outgoing leader Petro Poroshenko to thank him for Israel support, ambassador says

Nancy Strichman

From an underprivileged community? Have a startup? Here’s a leg up with the CEOs of major tech companies — but only if you’re in high school

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Is ‘goy’ a slur?

Sure, the term just means non-Jew or gentile, but when it’s used to separate ’us’ from ’them,’ it’s anything but neutral

Archaeologists at work excavating the biblical city of Lachish, where an early 12th century BCE Canaanite alphabet inscription was found in 2014. (courtesy of Yossi Garfinkel, Hebrew University)

Archaeologist: Thick wall found at Lachish indicates King Solomon’s son built it

Hebrew University scholar argues fortified structure shores up biblical account of site; others aren’t convinced

Orthodox Christian worshipers at an Easter service at the St. Porphyrios church in Gaza City, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

PA: 300 Gazan Christians permitted to enter Jerusalem for Easter as of Tuesday

Israeli security official confirms entry approved to capital and the West Bank; human rights group criticizes ‘small, arbitrary’ permit quota

Palestinian policemen participate in a training session at their headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 30, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Hamas has infiltrated PA security forces, recruited officers as spies — report

A Hamas-appointed government employee in Gaza signs a document to receive 50 percent of her long-overdue salary from funds donated by Qatar, while others wait in the queue, at the main Gaza Post Office, in Gaza City, December 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas officials claim Netanyahu set to advance aid projects in Gaza — report

By TOI staff and AFP

Labour MP Grahame Morris. (YouTube screenshot)

UK Labour MP uses footage of Guatemalan troops to castigate IDF

Israeli army says Grahame Morris should apologize for accusations, based on misrepresented clip, that IDF soldiers beat Palestinian children for the fun of it

Australian comedian Isaac Butterfield. (YouTube screenshot)

Australian comedian jokes about Nazi gas chambers, gets complaint, doubles down

By henry Benjamin

Former CIA deputy chief David Cohen appears in an undated ohoto as an extra in "Game of Thrones. (Twitter via JTA)

I spy

CIA ‘busts cover’ of former deputy director on ‘Game of Thrones’

David Cohen is cast as an extra bearing a bowl of soup for the Sunday evening episode of the HBO fantasy series

passover

Yaakov Schwartz

Hundreds gather in former Warsaw Ghetto for first seder since its destruction

On the 76th anniversary of World War II uprising, foreign and Polish Jews congregate to celebrate the Passover holiday under the auspices of Chabad

An effigy of Judas on Good Friday, hanging in the town of Pruchnik, on April 19, 2019, in southern Poland. (Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)

Poland’s Catholic Church condemns Jewish effigy ritual

By AP

In this file photo from July 29, 2016, a man crosses the iconic rails leading to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)

Dutch Holocaust museum removes Auschwitz pictures from exhibit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a resort in the Sinai Peninsula, October 16, 2016. (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewScared you at Sinai: 7 things to know for April 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative. Ambulances and emergency services in Beitar Illit, in the West Bank, on October 9, 2018. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

3-year-old boy visiting from US killed by bus in West Bank settlement

Jeff Finkelstein, center, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, is interviewed several blocks from the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 27, 2018. (AP Photo/ Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh federation head picked to light Independence Day torch for Diaspora

An illustrative image of smartcars on the road (LV4260; iStock by Getty Images)

US startup Smartcar accuses Israeli rival Otonomo of plagiarism

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: children on their way to school in Jerusalem, September 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem will tweak posters in kindergartens banning entry to ‘minorities’

By AP and TOI staff

Osher Band, 15, a transgender girl from Ashkelon who has been bullied and prevented from attending school. (YouTube screenshot)

Orthodox rabbis in Israel send letter of support to bullied transgender teen

Actress and author Mayim Bialik in Los Angeles, May 23, 2017. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Star SedersDances, jokes, matzah ball soup and goats: How celebrities celebrated Passover

By Josefin Dolsten

A beached whale on Haifa's Dor Beach on April 22, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

A crying shamuCarcass of small whale washes up on Haifa beach

Israeli television personality Avri Gilad. February 2 2011. (Oren Nahshon/Flash 90/File)

Israeli TV host jeered for claiming French hiding Islamist arson at Notre Dame

Lawyers for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, (from left) Tal Shapira, Navot Tel Zur, and Amit Hadad, after meeting with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on January 21, 2019. (Mivzak news screenshot)

Netanyahu attorneys not picking up evidence for indictment hearing — report

Tomer Frankfurter. (JTA)

Israeli who fell to death in Yosemite posed for picture hanging from cliff edge

By AP

Members of the FBI and others survey the area on October 28, 2018 outside the Tree of Life Synagogue after a shooting there left 11 people dead in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Washington man jailed for plans to kill Jews in mass shooting posts more threats

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