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What Matters Most On Friday, April 11, 2014

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The United Nations building in Geneva (photo credit: CC BY cometstarmoon/flickr)

Switzerland: Palestinians join Geneva Conventions on war

By AFP

Move by PA is part of unilateral steps for international recognition as talks with Israel stall

Bennett threatens to bolt coalition over prisoner release

Erekat: Reports on progress in talks ‘are false’

By Lazar Berman and Raphael Ahren

AnalysisThe (possible) triumph of common sense

By Avi Issacharoff

President Shimon Peres listens to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the president's residence in Jerusalem, February 25, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisOp-ed

What Germany owes the Jews

By David Horovitz

Next year will mark the jubilee of a crumbling ‘special relationship’ with Israel. Here’s how Berlin, rather than being politely and ill-informedly critical, could help secure the well-being of the Jewish state

Adam S. Ferziger

The father of the Soviet Jewry movement

By advocating mass protest to free Soviet Jewry, Jacob Birnbaum galvanized a generation of Orthodox leaders to reach across the barriers between American Jews

Acharei Mot: Bloggers on the Torah reading

…the High Priest and the inner chamber, the first scapegoat, correct sacrifice, blood, sexual practices

September 5, 2012, file photo shows a fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King said is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. (AP/Harvard University, Karen L. King, File)

Study: Ancient papyrus on wife of Jesus likely real

By AP

Analysis of fragment known as ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ shows it dates from eighth century, but doesn’t prove marital status

Labor Party Leader Isaac Herzog speaks during a plenum session on the peace process, Monday, April 7, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

Prime Minister Isaac Herzog?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

As Netanyahu’s Likud sheds domestic constituencies, Labor sees the best chance in 15 years at reclaiming control of the country

An IDF outpost destroyed by settlers in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, April 2014. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Border Police force takes over Yitzhar yeshiva

By Lazar Berman

Move comes after residents raid IDF post; institute calls move ‘desecration of holy place’

Cornell University (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC SA 2.0)

Cornell nixes bid to place divestment vote during Passover

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian student group fails in attempt to push through motion while Jewish students away for holiday

UK opposition leader Ed Miliband speaking at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, April 10, 2014 (photo credit: Hebrew University)

Miliband calls Israel ‘Jewish homeland,’ won’t say he’s a Zionist

By Raphael Ahren

Visiting British opposition leader thanks Israel for providing a post-Holocaust sanctuary for his grandmother, calls settlement expansion illegal

A pro-Russia demonstrator gestures in Ukraine on Sunday, March 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Andrey Basevich)

On Ukraine, Israel and neoconservatives not on the same page

Jerusalem’s reluctance to take US’s side against Russian annexation of Crimea strains ties with Republican hardliners

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Strong shekel bad for Israeli tech, says top exec

By David Shamah

Shlomo Markel, vice president at Broadcom, sees effect of a strong currency from inside Israel and outside

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Ron Pundak (left), and Abu Ala (photo credit: Courtesy Ron Pundak)

Ron Pundak, architect of Oslo Accords, dies at 59

By Raphael Ahren and Lazar Berman

Academic who initiated the secret channel that led to the Rabin-Arafat handshake 20 years ago succumbs to cancer

US Secretary of State John Kerry stands with Tzipi Livni, Israel's chief negotiator (left), and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, after the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at the State Department in Washington, July 30, 2013. Those talks stalled in 2014 and have not resumed. (US State Department)

Analysis

What comes after Kerry’s ‘poof’?

By Mitch Ginsburg

A relatively stable security situation may not endure if the Israeli-Palestinian talks dissolve

Jehan Sadat, interviewed on Egypt's MBC TV (photo credit: MEMRI screenshot)

Cairo critique

Sadat’s widow: ‘I hate US policies’

By Stuart Winer

Jehan Sadat says Washington was trying to ‘fragment’ Egypt, having done the same in Syria and Iraq, but el-Sissi saved her country

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Castrillo Matajudíos flag (photo credit: Wikipedia)

Spanish village called ‘kill Jews’ mulls name change

By JTA and ToI Staff

Billionaire Roman Abramovich (photo credit: Northfoto / Shutterstock.com)

Roman conquestAbramovich books a hotel for Passover

By Stuart Winer

Two coffee mugs featuring a picture of a stamp with Adolf Hitler's portrait on it can be seen in Herford, western Germany on April 11, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / DPA / OLIVER KRATO0)

Did Nazi itGerman store sorry for Hitler mugs

By AFP

Economics and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset plenum, March 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewTaking no prisoners

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative photo of a car bombing in Homs province, central Syria (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Arabic media reviewNegotiations go south, Syrian Jihadists go east

By Elhanan Miller

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