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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 21, 2013

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Pope Francis at the Vatican (photo credit: AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope Francis visited Israel in 1973, just as Yom Kippur War broke out

By David Horovitz and Gavriel Fiske

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then in his mid-30s, spent six days confined to his Jerusalem hotel, studying the Letters of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

Secretary of Defense Hagel alongside Israel's previous defense minister, Ehud Barak, in early March at the Pentagon (Photo credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/ Ministry of Defense/ Flash 90)

Analysis

Why US-Israel mission to thwart Iran could mean a leading role for China on North Korea

By Mitch Ginsburg

Defense Secretary Hagel’s Mideast visit this week will focus on Iran and Syria, but those crises should also be viewed through the lens of Beijing and Pyongyang

Hagel: Israel can ‘make the decision’ to strike Iran

By Robert Burns

‘Israel seeks Turkish airbase to enable Iran strike’

By Ron Friedman

From the web‘North Korea moves two more missile launchers’

Open Skies will open new horizons

A road map to profitability for Israeli airlines, who suffer from bloated labor force and obsolete management practices

Israeli airline workers hold flags ans placards in front of tires burning during a demonstration outside the prime minister's office against the Open Skies agreement, on April 21, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite airline strike, Cabinet seals Open Skies deal

By Stuart Winer

El Al, Arkia and Israir halt flights hours before vote on aviation agreement, which aims to increase competition

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo/File)

Morsi says he won’t visit or warm ties with Israel

By Elhanan Miller

Egyptian leader dismisses talk of increased cooperation with Jerusalem, noting, ‘Even enemy states coordinate on security matters’

Brothers Dzhokhar (left) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in an image taken approximately 10-20 minutes before the blast near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. (photo credit: AP/Bob Leonard/File)

Uncle says older bombing suspect ‘used’ brother

Details on Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begin to emerge following manhunt

Police stand guard outside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Friday, April 19, 2013 after an ambulance carrying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a19-year-old Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings, arrived (photo credit: AP/Elise Amendola)

Medical examiner to determine bomb suspect’s cause of death

Tad Taube poses in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum

By Vanessa Gera

Polish-born Tad Taube was the driving force behind the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, aimed to prevent the Holocaust from becoming the beginning and end of Polish Jewry

A Lite-Trac four-wheeled self-propelled crop sprayer spraying pesticide on a field (photo credit: Lite-Trac/Wikipedia Commons)

Israeli tech seeks to undo the damage of pesticides

By David Shamah

Without agricultural chemicals, there would be a lot less food in the world, but with them, water and soil are slowly getting poisoned. A start-up says it has the solution

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem on October 24, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

13 EU ministers favor labeling settlement-made goods

United Kingdom, France, Spain among countries signed on petition

US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey. (photo credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Kerry pushes Turkey-Israel rapprochement

US secretary of state meets with PA President Abbas and Turkish FM during Istanbul conference on the Syrian crisis

Liad Shoham, attorney and thriller writer, hanging around Tel Aviv's Shuchnat HaTivka (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A writer's life

The invisible refugee finds a home in Liad Shoham’s thrillers

By Jessica Steinberg

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Lior Lapid, 17-year-old son of Finance Minister Yair Lapid, outside the family home on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Putting on heirsLapid Jr. rocks the megaphone

By Gavriel Fiske

Brothers Tamerlan, right, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pictured shortly before April 2013's Boston Marathon blasts (Photo credit: AP/Bob Leonard)

From the webThe culprits

Palestinians hold first Bethlehem marathon

An injured Syrian woman lying in a street before her rescue by rebels, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (photo credit:AP/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Kurdish women join the fight against Assad regime

By Stuart Winer

Israir Airlines airplane (photo: Moshe Shai / Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewOpen skies, closed airport

By Ilan Ben Zion

Egypt's deposed president Hosni Mubarak attends a hearing session in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa)

Arabic media reviewMubarak’s legal roller coaster

By Michael Bassin

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