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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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A volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

2 rockets fired from Gaza explode in southern Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

Projectiles hit near Sderot after overnight IAF strikes; defense minister in Jerusalem warns Israel won’t tolerate renewed missile fire

Israeli planes strike Gaza for first time since Pillar of Defense

Missiles shot at Israel from Gaza; no injuries

UN envoy urges calm as southern border heats up

By Stuart Winer

An invasive ring-necked parakeet in Israel. (Doron Hoffman, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Israel’s other air defense problem

By Matti Friedman

In the 1990s, ten mynas escaped a cage in central Israel and began to breed. Other aggressive tropical birds were introduced here by well-meaning amateurs. Today, the swelling population of foreign invaders is threatening the unique and fragile native ecosystem

Intermarried rabbis? Please!

Stop working to make the tent bigger and focus on filling it with the richness of Judaism

An ingathering in Lisbon

The Masorti Europe religious will soon restore the Jewish status several members of a community nearly lost to history

An IDF tank in a firing position on the Golan Heights last year (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel hits Syrian outpost in response to cross-border fire

By Stuart Winer and Philip Podolsky

Army post at Tel Hazeka targeted by IDF tanks after patrol comes under attack by light arms and mortar lands in Golan; no injuries or damage on Israeli side

Syrian rebels take control of army base in south

Without her body, Ana Rosa Kucinski's family couldn't perform the standard Jewish mourning rituals. (Illustrative image: YouTube screenshot)

Brazilian bestseller probes fate of Jewish ‘disappeared’

By JP O’ Malley

Palestinians march in the West Bank city of Ramallah to protest the death of prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with troops over prisoner’s death

Soldier lightly wounded, Israeli vehicles stoned as rioters protest quality of medical care afforded Maysara Abuhamdia

John Kerry during a visit to Jerusalem in May 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Kerry to return to region in peace push

By Gavriel Fiske

US secretary of state set to visit Turkey, Israel, Jordan and Qatar next week, may also meet Abbas and Netanyahu

Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal upon his arrival at Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Sohaib Salem)

Hamas confirms Mashaal reelection as political chief

By AP and ToI Staff

Qatar-based leader, 56, who has headed the group since 1996, is seen as a relative pragmatist who enjoys the backing of regional powers

Palestinian nonprofit apologizes for blood libel article

Western-funded Miftah organization posted article that claimed Jews have in the past used Christian blood in Passover rituals

An Israeli fire vehicle parked outside the entrance to the Church of St. John the Baptist, lightly damaged in a small blaze overnight (photo credit: Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)

Light damage to ancient church in late-night fire

By Matti Friedman

Cause of small blaze at the Church of St. John the Baptist remains unclear

International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano gives an interview at his office in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (photo credit: Hans Punz/AP)

UN nuke chief fears Iran secretly working on a bomb

Intelligence shows Tehran was and is involved in nuclear weapons project, says International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano

Smuggled weapons (illustrative photo: IDF Spokesman/Flash 90)

UN adopts arms trade control treaty

Members overwhelmingly pass regulations to keep weapons out of reach of terrorists and criminals; Iran, Syria and North Korea vote against

The French Justice Ministry is reviewing name-change applications on a case-by-case basis. (Croquant via Wikipedia)

French Jews win right to choose their own names

By Rebecca Benhamou

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The infiltrator was not wearing any boots. (photo credit: Flash90/Nati Shohat)

Is that a weapon?African infiltrates army base, barely

By Stuart Winer

Rescue personnel at the scene where Asher Palmer and his son were killed by rocks thrown at their vehicle on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba in the West Bank on Friday, September 23, 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Court finds stone-thrower guilty of murder

By Stuart Winer

Police officers investigate the scene of a car accident on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway, in which three men were killed on Monday, January 7. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israeli drivers ‘most concerned’ in Europe about road safety

A Jewish child stands at the entrance to a shop in Jerusalem's Old City on March 27, 2013, during the Passover holiday (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Passover purchases at low ebb

By Philip Podolsky

Judge Vardi Zeiller attends a committee meeting at the Knesset on March 26, 2008. (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

Former judge Vardi Zeiller dies

An Iron Dome interceptor missile rising up to meet incoming rockets from Gaza on November 20, 2012. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewCohenheads

By Joshua Davidovich

Egyptian protesters hang an Arabic banner reading, “people demand an arrest warrant to the prosecutor general” during a protest in front of the prosecutor general's office in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 29, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Arabic media reviewFood poisoning catastrophe makes Egypt sick

By Michael Bassin

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