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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 18, 2013

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'The next time will be better.' Netanyahu (he's on the right) on 'Eretz Nehederet' (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Netanyahu indicates he wants fourth term as PM

Prime minister lets slip his political ambition during appearance on ‘Eretz Nehederet’ satire show

Netanyahu: Syrian WMD a ‘worldwide’ terrorist threat

By Stuart Winer

Netanyahu, in London for funeral, hails Thatcher as ‘a great leader’

Olmert to head high-tech venture with Kazakh businessman

Yoram Kaniuk in his Tel Aviv apartment, not far from where he was born. He painted the flag to his right and it adorns the Hebrew version of '1948.' (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

Clinging to life, a master produces a wrenching memoir of the War of Independence

By Mitch Ginsburg

Yoram Kaniuk, the prize-winning author of ‘1948,’ rises from his bed to discuss ‘the fist of the conflict’

Visiting the Shoah on my German passport

We need new stories that help us relate more personally to the Holocaust

Natural gas: Handle with care

The pros of energy security are mixed with risks of reckless spending, gutting long-term supplies and making enemies

Moshe Feiglin (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel needs only one chief rabbi, lawmaker says

By Aaron Kalman

Likud MK proposes bill that would stop ‘perpetuating the difference’ between Ashkenazim and Sephardim; Yesh Atid MK wants a top woman elected too

A poison dart frog (photo credit: CC BY-SA Freetoast/Wikimedia Commons)

Border hopping

Poison dart frogs fly in from Amsterdam

By Aaron Kalman

Israeli customs officials arrest three men smuggling boxes filled with the toxic creatures

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)

Manhunt on for suspect seen dropping bags at Boston attack site

By Denise Lavoie and Rodrique Ngowi

Local politician says surveillance footage shows man lugging heavy bag where second bomb exploded; earlier reports of arrest seemingly erroneous

Emergency personnel carry a wounded person away from the scene of an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Kenshin Okubo)

Israeli trauma expertise helping heal Boston’s wounded

By AP and ToI Staff

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Edward Royce with Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

US aid to Israel could be slashed, Kerry says

By Joshua Davidovich

White House budget request had maintained $3.1 billion for Jerusalem, but sequestration could see the figure shrink, secretary of state says

Taking it easy at a cafe in downtown Jerusalem (photo credit Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Don’t panic? Israelis really are ‘quietly mature’ when facing regional fears

By Tiffanie Wen

Amid concerns over Syria’s chemical weapons, research shows that bitter experience has bolstered Israelis’ capacity for calm amid military crisis

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, March 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Hagel: US can support Israel if it strikes Iran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Key Senate committee calls on US to back Israeli action against nuclear program; Pentagon requests $400m. more for Iron Dome

Members of the Syrian opposition meet in Istanbul, March 2013 (photo credit: AP)

‘Israeli diplomats met with Syrian oppositionists’

By Elhanan Miller

Foreign Ministry declines comment on report that Israel appealed to rebels to help set up a buffer zone along border

A reservist says goodbye to his child at Mishmar Hanegev, as the IDF prepares for an offensive in Gaza, November 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

IDF funds frozen until reservists get full bonus

By Aaron Kalman

Thousands of extra soldiers called up for Gaza offensive last fall meant the army had to divide its bonus funds among more people

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

Gazan Salafist vows to keep attacking Israel

By Aaron Kalman

Cleric says rocket attacks on Eilat part of an ongoing struggle

Siona Benjamin paints women from the bible, often using blue as a nod to her Indian roots. (Siona Benjamin via JTA)

Torah outcasts find redemption with Indian-Jewish artist

By Chavie Lieber

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University of Haifa (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Zvi Roger/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran calls Haifa University website a Mossad front

By Aaron Kalman

'Too sexy for my kaffiyeh.' (Arab man image via Shutterstock)

Handsome to a faultEmirati men too hot for Saudis

By Stuart Winer

Murgan Salem (photo credit: YouTubescreen capture)

Boston bombings ‘a message’ to West, Muslim cleric says

By Aaron Kalman

A US Navy F-35 fighter jet during a test flight. (US Navy/Wikimedia Commons)

Flight-heartedJet’s name is just plane ‘Awesome’

By Aaron Kalman

Daniel Pearl was a journalist for The Wall Street Journal. (The Daniel Pearl Foundation)

Herzliya college opens Daniel Pearl journalism center

By AP and ToI Staff

Syrian President Bashar Assad in an image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media review‘Israel will wage the next gulf war’

By Elhanan Miller

Illustrative: An Israeli reservist packs his gear after ending a deployment near Gaza during Operation Defensive Shield. (Tsafrir Abayov/ Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewThe three R’s

By Yossi Nachemi

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