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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 3, 2014

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US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, (photo credit: AP /Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Kerry calls on Israeli, Palestinian leaders to ‘lead’ in talks

By AP and ToI Staff

All-night meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ends without breakthrough, Palestinian news agency reports, as Ramallah takes hard-line stance

Palestinian official: Talks can continue, but only on borders

By Stuart Winer and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Palestinian envoy threatens Israel with ICC membership

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli officials: Abbas has torpedoed Pollard-for-prisoners deal

Secretary of State John Kerry stands with Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, left, and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, after the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Analysis

Why the peace talks are collapsing, part 94

By David Horovitz

Kerry’s well-intentioned but flawed oversight hasn’t helped, but it’s a deep asymmetry that is again dooming the negotiations

Protesters outside the house of then-president Shimon Peres in 2011 call for the release of Jonathan Pollard from a US jail. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

The operational fiasco at the heart of the Pollard affair

By Mitch Ginsburg

Whatever becomes of him in the current twists and turns, Jonathan Jay Pollard was ill served throughout by his Israeli handlers

Ronni Gamzu, we hardly knew ye

Don’t know who that is? Too bad, your health depends on it

Emma Snyder Samuels

A tent for 1,200 Jews at TribeFest

The largest conference of young Jewish adults celebrated diversity, offered insights on prayer and rocked a riverboat

Maurice Appelbaum

Orthodoxy and YCT: A reflection

While grappling with today’s liberal challenges, the rabbinical school is committed to the rigors of Jewish law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a shmura matzah at a matzah factory in Kfar Chabad, Israel, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, April 1, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s matzah gets trashed

Chabad cites halakhic reasons, but reports in the ultra-Orthodox media can’t help but poke fun at the PM

Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon, at a 2004 cabinet meeting. (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash 90/File.

Analysis

Ehud the scoundrel, Arik the hero

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A Foreign Ministry worker lying in a tent as he strike outside the Foreign Ministry offices in Jerusalem, on March 24, 2014. (photo Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry strike ends with pay agreement

Diplomats’ wages to be calculated based on the cost of living where they are assigned; spouses to receive employment benefits

Hostage Barry Rosen and 51 others were held by student extremists at the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, for more than a year, beginning on Nov. 4, 1979. (photo credit: screenshot via YouTube)

US troubled by Iran’s choice for UN ambassador

By AP and ToI Staff

Envoy was in student group that stormed US Embassy in Tehran in 1979; Treasury sees no evidence of world rushing to do business with Tehran

Illustrative photo of a nun walking by price tag graffiti at a church near Beit Shemesh in August. (photo credit: Flash90)

Tires slashed in latest racist attack in Galilee

‘It’s the first time something like this has happened’ here, laments local leader in Arab town

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox women entering a bus through the back door in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, in 2011 (Uri Lenz/Flash90/File)

Mayor condemns attack on ‘immodest’ woman in Beit Shemesh

By JTA

Bystanders at bus stop did nothing as victim was allegedly harassed and then assaulted while with her 2-year-old daughter

US actress and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie talking to a young Syrian refugee on February 23, 2014 at a refugee camp near the Lebanese village of Zahle in the Bekaa valley (photo credit: AFP PHOTO /HO /UNHCR/A.MCCONEEL)

UN: Syrian refugees hit million mark in Lebanon

By AP

Israel’s northern neighbor now the country with the highest per-capita concentration of refugees worldwide

Patrick Van Eecke speaking at the seminar in Tel Aviv (Photo credit: Courtesy)

How Edward Snowden is helping the Israeli tech business

By David Shamah

The NSA leaks have spooked Europe, which is tightening its security standards — and Israel will benefit, says an expert

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Bitstrips’ executive team, as Bitstrip avatars. Blackstock is second from left. (courtesy Bitstrips)

Interview

Hit comic app Bitstrips is creation of a trailblazing Jewish artist

By Arthur Wolak

More Headlines

Avi Nir, CEO of Keshet. (photo credit: Courtesy of Keshet)

All eyes on Israel at top TV content confab

Women of the Wall members wearing prayer shawls pray at the Western Wall (photo credit: Sarah Schuman/Flash90)

Rivka Haut, Women of the Wall co-founder, dies

By JTA

Celebrity TV chef Nigella Lawson. (screen capture: Youtube/SunriseOn7)

From the webNigella Lawson barred from boarding US-bound flight

The Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City, June 16, 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Fool's landingGame of Thrones prank throws fans

By Stuart Winer

US Secretary of State John Kerry at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/POOL/Jacquelyn Martin)

Hebrew media reviewFear and loathing in the Jewish state

By Ilan Ben Zion

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