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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Settlers clean up after a home demolition in the illegal outpost of Mitzpeh Yitzhar, near Yitzhar, in 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90.)

Settlers clash with Israeli forces in Yitzhar

Six Border Police officers injured as hundreds of Jewish hard-liners throw rocks, attack army post to protest home demolitions

The slashed tire of an IDF vehicle in Yitzhar in the West Bank, Monday, April 7, 2014 (photo credit: Tazpit News Agency)

Tires slashed on another IDF vehicle in Yitzhar

Rotem Elnatan cheers as his brothers, Inbar and Shachar, his father, Zohar, and his mother, Debby, perform. The entire family loves music. (Photo courtesy of Debby Elnatan)

For those who can’t walk, Upsee provides first steps

By Rebecca McKinsey

A Jerusalem mother’s invention to help her special-needs child explore the world goes on sale internationally

Jewish reflections from Rwanda

In the east African republic, a commemoration of a national trauma resonates deeply with the Jewish experience

The UK-funded wages of terrorism

Calling on Britain to halt development aid until the Palestinian Authority stops paying convicted murderers

Lost in transition

Snapshots of the Bnei Menashe, who live below the radar in Israel and share a cultural memory of crossing water to freedom

A tailwind for peace

Israeli and Palestinian business leaders believe peace is worth the risk and are working to keep the process alive

The Etablissements René Neymann matzah factory is located in the Alsatian city of Wasselonne. (photo credit: Etablissements Rene Neymann/JTA)

France’s oldest matzah-maker distributes worldwide

By Toni L. Kamins

For Jean-Claude Neymann, unleavened bread, or ‘pain azyme’ in French, is a defining family tradition

Kaifeng (Photo Credit:CC BY-SA,drnantu/Flickr)

Chinese descendants of Jews return to roots with seder

By Gavriel Fiske

Kaifeng, a once thriving outpost of Jewish trading families, to hold communal Passover meal

Moroccan royal adviser Andre Azoulay (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Moroccan group slams king’s adviser as ‘Zionist collaborator’

By JTA

Anti-Israel organization names and shames list of people who symbolize Israel’s ‘infiltration’

Moshe Kahlon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Popular ex-Likud minister slams old party, plans political comeback

By Aron Dónzis

Moshe Kahlon says he never agreed with PM on social policy, disadvantaged Israelis being abandoned, far-right taking over Likud

A mother and her daughter stand inside a food distribution center for the needy, in Jerusalem on March 7, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Food insecurity affects 900,000 Israelis, report finds

By Stuart Winer

State Comptroller blames gov’t for over-reliance on charitable groups to feed the hungry; 50% of Arab population can’t meet nutritional needs

The Hezbollah flag flying in Lebanon. (CC BY-upyernoz/Flickr)

Germany bans fundraising group over Hezbollah ties

By AP and AFP

The ‘Orphaned Children Project-Lebanon’ said to have raised $4.5 million for terror-linked organization

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) signs a request to join 15 United Nations-linked and other international treaties at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Monami)

Analysis

PA sources: No backtrack on joining international bodies

By Avi Issacharoff, ToI Staff and AP

Ramallah vows to pursue its applications, but FM Liberman says move will have consequences

A man waves a Palestinian flag waves near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, near Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Australia opposition chief: ‘Some’ settlement activity illegal

By Raphael Ahren

In not branding all West Bank construction off-limits, Labor’s Bill Shorten draws ire from colleagues, applause from Jewish groups

Illustrative photo of a marijuana bud (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli celebrities hit back over police weed probe

Legalization debate sparked by arrest of promoter accused of selling marijuana to prominent figures

GotIt screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Businesses love ‘social shopping’ app, says CEO

By David Shamah

It may look like half a dozen others, but GotIT really is different, according to Tal Agassi

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Berlin skyline (CC BY-SA A.Savin/Wikimedia Commons/File)

The unlikely site of world’s fastest growing Jewish community

By Denis D. Gray

More Headlines

Syrian rebel fighters in gas masks against a chemical weapons attack, 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/MrMrAsi)

Assad using chemical weapons again, Israeli official says

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of Holocaust survivors celebrating their belated Bar Mitzvahs in one of the tunnel sections at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, in 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Phylactery factoryMass bar mitzvahs held at Western Wall

By Gavriel Fiske

Peaches Geldof arrives at the BRIT Awards 2014 at the O2 Arena in London on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. (Photo credit: Jon Furniss Photography/Invision/AP)

Bob Geldof ‘beyond pain’ at death of daughter Peaches

By AFP and ToI Staff

Keshet is banking on its new game show "Boom!" to make it in America. (photo credit: Courtesy of Keshet)

Keshet game show ‘Boom!’ headed to US

Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp, days after liberation. Famed author Elie Wiesel is second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post. (US Army/US Defense Visual Information Center/Wikimedia Commons)

Russian bill could make Holocaust denial illegal

By JTA

MK Avigdor Liberman, in Jerusalem, October 21, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Liberman: ‘Israel may soon have Russian-speaking PM’

Back to it? Former PM Ehud Olmert was investigated Monday by prosecutors on new charges. In this photo from March 31, 2014, Olmert is in the courtroom where he was found guilty of accepting bribes (photo credit: Ido Erez/POOL/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewWhy is this probe different from all other probes?

By Yossi Nachemi

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