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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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Who bombed Boston? Word for now is caution

After years of wrongful speculation that on occasion has ruined innocent lives, White House takes care not to rush to judgement

Police chiefs head to US to meet with FBI in aftermath of Boston bombings

‘We stand together as one family,’ says Peres in condolence message after Boston bombings

By Aaron Kalman

Restaurant manager, 8-year-old among Boston bomb victims

By Bridget Murphy

Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion stands at attention as the national anthem, Hatikva, is played at the Knesset opening ceremony in 1949. (GPO/Hugo Mendelson)

How an unwieldy romantic poem and a Romanian folk song combined to produce ‘Hatikva’

By Ilan Ben Zion

The national anthem only actually became the national anthem nine years ago, and that’s just one of the twists in the ‘loathsome’ hymn’s ongoing quest for harmonious acceptance

Obama: Israel has no greater ally than the United States

Shulamit S. Magnus

Heart of Stone: Liberating the Wall for us too

Women will keep praying at the supreme site of Jewish longing and demanding that the Kotel be liberated for them too

For Boston, the future starts now

The people of Israel know death and grief but also how to begin again and create miracles

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian prisoner (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Paris suburb Wednesday to honor Palestinian who killed Israeli minister

Assassin of Rehavam Zeevi, freed in Schalit exchange, among PFLP members set to attend ceremony

An IDF soldier looks at the remains of a Grad rocket fired on the southern city of Eilat. (photo credit: image capture Channel 2)

Two Grad rockets fired at Eilat

By Ron Friedman and AP

Salafist group takes responsibility; no injuries reported; Jordanian official denies reports that missiles also landed in Aqaba

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens to Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef at the bar mitzvah of party chairman Eli Yishai's son, in February 2011. (photo credit: Ilia Yefimovich/Flash90)

Shas spiritual leader calls finance minister ‘demon king’

By Gavriel Fiske

Ovadia Yosef blasts Yair Lapid for promoting ultra-Orthodox draft, which, he says, pains him more than the recent death of his son

A Union flag draped coffin bearing the body of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is carried on a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery during her ceremonial funeral procession in London, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

Britain’s Iron Lady laid to rest

11 prime ministers, including Netanyahu, among thousands paying respects to former PM Margaret Thatcher

Rabbi Michael Broyde, a prominent religious judge and law decisor, has seen his reputation ruined by revelations that he used a fake persona to gain membership in a rabbinic group. (Courtesy Emory University/JTA)

Rabbi Michael Broyde’s Internet identity problem

Had the disgraced Jewish ethicist been more tech-savvy, he would never have been caught using his Rabbi Hershel Goldwasser pen name

Women of the Wall at the police station in October (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

In fight over religious pluralism, Western Wall is a small battle

Women’s prayer compromise may be historic, but public cares more about issues such as army draft, civil marriage and public transportation on Shabbat

The Senate side of the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC (Wikimedia Commons/File)

Senate declares support for Israel against Iranian threat

AIPAC praises resolution urging diplomatic, military, and economic support to Israel ‘in its defense of its territory, people, and existence’

Inmates at Ofer penitentiary, August 20, 2008 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

In an Israeli jail, Fatah and Hamas reach modus vivendi

By Elhanan Miller

At Ofer Prison, inmates from the rival movements cooperate in a way that would seem impossible on the outside

Salam Fayyad (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Salam Fayyad pleads for new elections, unity

A memorial ceremony for the Warsaw Ghetto heroes in Warsaw, Poland. April 19, 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Poland’s lawmakers honor Warsaw ghetto fighters

As 70th anniversary of failed revolt against Nazis approaches, parliament salutes ‘the victims and heroes of the uprising’

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett; IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein; Dr. Beeny Zeevi Co-Chairperson of the IATI; Yoav Chelouche, Co-Chairperson of the IATI (Photo credit: Courtesy)

65 years on, Israel is top choice for tech by multinationals

By David Shamah

Some of the biggest global names in hardware and software are deeply involved in the local high-tech scene. The Start-up Nation has what to celebrate

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc at Turkey's parliament in Ankara (photo credit: AP)

Turkish deputy PM optimistic about Israel talks, ties

By Stuart Winer

Bulent Arınc says his country wants full normalization of diplomatic relations now that Israel has given in to its demands

A man riding his bicycle past the Home of Superman plaque in Cleveland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Superman’s 75th puts spotlight on Cleveland roots

By Thomas J. Sheeran

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The Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, 2010. (photo credit: CC BY: David Berkowitz/Flickr)

Israeli microbiologist found dead in Galapagos islands

By Stuart Winer

Police watch as Meir Schijveschuurder, whose family members were murdered in a suicide bombing attack at the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001, removes a Nazi flag which he hung in protest on his land outside of Jerusalem. April 16, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Son of terror victims arrested for Independence Day swastika display

By Stuart Winer

German Chancellor Angela Merkel adresses the Knesset on March 18, 2008. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

European rabbinic body giving top honors to Merkel

Golden Dawn Party insignia against Greek flag

Greek Jews protest TV airtime for neo-Nazi lawmakers

Mariano Edelman and his real-life counterpart Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 'Eretz Nehederet' (Courtesy Facebook page)

Small screenTo Bibi or not to Bibi

By Jessica Steinberg

Two men in hazardous materials suits put numbers on the shattered glass and debris as they investigate the scene at the first bombing on Boylston Street in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013 near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, a day after two blasts killed three and injured over 170 people (photo credit: Elise Amendola/AP)

Arabic media reviewSaudi expats bite nails following Boston attack

By Elhanan Miller

In this image from video provided by WBZ TV, spectators and participants run from the twin explosions that shook the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon. (Photo credit: AP/WBZTV)

Hebrew media review Old news is bad news

By Joshua Davidovich

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