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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 1, 2014

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A protest for the release of Jonathan Pollard in March 2014. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Pollard-for-prisoners deal said to be near completion

By ToI Staff and AFP

Three-way agreement would see partial settlement freeze, hundreds of Palestinians released, but sides waiting for Ramallah to sign on

Pollard opposed to release, minister says

By AP

Palestinians give Kerry 24 hours to solve prisoner crisis

By AFP

Gilad Shalit calls on Netanyahu to free Pollard

By Aron Dónzis

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at a panel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on January 6, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

In Olmert’s fall, signs of an easy culture of corruption

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The ‘old ways of doing business’ may still be disconcertingly endemic to Israel’s political system

AnalysisA dire verdict for Olmert. A new day for Israel?

By David Horovitz

Olmert attorney Eli Zohar speaking to reporters outside the Tel Aviv courtroom Monday. (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Olmert defense team ‘thunderstruck’ by graft conviction

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

An Orthodox response to unorthodox memoirs

The painful criticism of those who leave Orthodoxy offers wisdom that can help eliminate crimes against God

Simcha Jacobovici

Archaeology against Holocaust denial

Praise for the scientists who unearthed evidence of Treblinka’s gas chambers

Thank you Marine Capt. Derek Herrera

On an inspiring encounter with a U.S. war hero who has a purple heart and Israeli-invented artificial legs

File: Israelis vacation at a Sinai beach resort in 2006. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel issues travel warning for Jordan, Sinai

Ahead of springtime holiday season, National Security Council advises against vacationing in Turkey, Arab countries

Foreign Ministry workers protesting in Jerusalem on March 24, 2014. The sign reads "Strike here." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suppose they gave a strike and nobody came

By Raphael Ahren

Hardly anyone cares that Israeli diplomats are in the second week of all-out labor action, raising the question: Is the Foreign Ministry necessary?

Attendees play a video game wearing Oculus Rift virtual-reality headsets at the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), in Las Vegas, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jae C. Hong, File)

A taste of Israeli tech in Facebook’s $2 billion buy

By David Shamah

Dov Katz’s journey to senior engineer developing the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset began at Tel Aviv University

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Documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici shows a life-size replica of one of the ossuaries found in 'Patio Tomb,' a first century burial cave located beneath an apartment building, on April 4, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi / FLASH 90)

Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici sues academic for libel

By Michael Posner

The city of Eilat. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Iron Dome accidentally fired in Eilat, setting off rocket fears

Residents say two loud explosions heard in southern city, but army says no rockets shot

Beit Jimal monastery (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)

‘America is Nazi Germany’ painted on monastery

By Gavriel Fiske

Beit Jimal complex west of Jerusalem targeted in ‘price tag’ attack; vandalism comes during Kerry visit

Illustrative photo of Auschwitz's barbed wire fences (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Sordid souvenir

Auschwitz wire in tourists’ suitcase

By Edward Wight

Italian visitors, who could be sentenced to three years in jail, claim they merely found the rusty wire and took it as a souvenir

Why can't you be nicer to your brother, 2012 (from 'Mother')

On show

Expat Israeli artist shoots gritty side of NY motherhood

By Caroline Lagnado

More Headlines

Mark Hardie, who is now called Barack Obama (photo courtesy of Mark Hardie)

ObamaramaJerusalem man is now Barack Obama

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israel's last World Cup goal came against Sweden in 1970. (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel’s World Cup failings aren’t about size

Members of the 8200 EISP accelerator celebrate after a recent all-day seminar at the offices of law firm Pearl Cohen Zedek Lataer Baratz, one of 8200 EISP's partners (Photo credit: Courtesy)

8200 start-up boot camp turns entrepeneurs into tech warriors

By David Shamah

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz in Jerusalem on March 31, 2014 (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US sees potential for Arab-Israeli security cooperation

By Itamar Sharon

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert arrives in the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday, March 31, 2014 (photo credit: Dror Einav/POOL/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWall-to-wall corruption coverage

By Ilan Ben Zion

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