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What Matters Most On Friday, April 18, 2014

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Armed pro-Russian activists pose for a photo after they occupied the police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk. (photo credit: AP/Maxim Dondyuk, Russian Reporter magazine)

US calls anti-Semitic Ukraine leaflets ‘grotesque’

By Lazar Berman and AP

It remains unclear who produced fliers calling on Jews to register with authorities or face consequences

Putin praises Russian Jews in Passover greeting

By JTA

US to send nonlethal aid to Ukraine military

By Robert Burns

Pro-Russian forces reject call to quit Ukraine buildings

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and PETER LEONARD

Balal Abdullah is brought to the gallows in Iran, April 15, 2014. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

With the noose around his neck, Iranian killer pardoned by victim’s mother

Parents choose to spare convicted murderer moments before he was to be hanged

Rouhani talks peace, outreach at army parade

By AP and ToI Staff

Geoffrey H. Lewis and Steven C. Koppel

Ron Pundak, realist for reconciliation

The peace camp has lost a great advocate who worked tirelessly to create the conditions for peace

Where Noah got it right

The error-filled Bible blockbuster warns of the potential hazards of prophetic zeal

Joshua Hammerman

The bullet meant for me

Every hate-based attack is a personal affront against those wishing to combat fear and extremism

People take part in water battles in Bangkok as they celebrate Songkran, the festival that marks Thailand's New Year, on April 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Christophe Archambault)

Lebanese man cops to Thai terror plot against Israelis

By ToI Staff and Aron Dónzis

One of two suspected Hezbollah members nabbed in Bangkok this week admits to planned Bangkok bombing on Thai New Year, Passover

Marty Glickman (left), and Sam Stoller, at sea en route to the 1936 Olympics. (Courtesy, Nancy Glickman via JTA)

Passed over in 1936, Jewish Olympians to be honored in Berlin

By Hillel Kuttler

Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni (second from left), Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (second from right), Yitzhak Molcho, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Mohammed Shtayyeh, aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (right), are seated across from Secretary of State John Kerry (not pictured), at an Iftar dinner at the State Department in Washington, July 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Israelis, Palestinians to hold separate talks with US envoy

By AFP and ToI Staff

Indyk meets with Erekat in Jericho; Netanyahu reportedly refuses to free, deport Israeli Arab prisoners

Rev. Adam Hamilton wipes his eyes during a prayer at an Interfaith Service of Unity and Hope at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas, Thursday, April 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, Pool)

Kansas JCC holds ‘unity service’ after shooting attack

By Maayan Jaffe

Israeli Arab journalist Majd Kayyal (screen capture: YouTube)

Journalist denies contact with foreign agents in Lebanon

By Aron Dónzis and ToI Staff

Majd Kayyal, released to house arrest Thursday afternoon, is suspected of meeting with Hezbollah operatives

Arab Israeli men stand next to graffiti reading in Hebrew "Arabs Out" on the wall of a mosque in the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Faham on April 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ JACK GUEZ)

Vandals attack mosque in northern Israel

‘Arabs out’ spray-painted on wall of house of worship in Umm al-Fahm in suspected ‘Price Tag’ attack

A Jerusalem hacker at work attacking web sites (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Israeli firm’s tech protects from next Heartbleed

By David Shamah

Attention to potential security holes could have prevented the ‘biggest bug ever to hit the Internet’

In this 2003 photo released by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (left), is seen in Monterrey, Mexico, with Colombian journalist Jose Salgar. (photo credit: AP/Andres Reyes, FNPI)

World ‘a poorer place’ without García Márquez, Peres says

By ToI Staff and AP

President eulogizes Nobel Prize-winning author, says his memory will be an ‘encouraging prayer’ for peace

A vehicle from a funeral home is surrounded by journalists as it enters the home of the late Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Mexico City, on Thursday, April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Marco Ugarte)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

By Frank Bajak and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

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The Mount Tabor No. 1 reservoir in Portland, Oregon, June 2011 (photo credit: AP/The Oregonian, Benjamin Brink)

Urine troubleCity dumps drinking water due to pee

By AP and Lazar Berman

Crime boss Charlie Abutbul October 31, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Netanya crime boss found dead in his home

Artist's rendering provided by NASA on Thursday, April 17, 2014, shows an Earth-sized planet dubbed Kepler-186f orbiting a star 500 light-years from Earth. (photo credit: AP/NASA Ames, SETI Institute, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle)

Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet

By Alicia Chang

Chelsea Clinton expecting first child in fall

Israeli Arab journalist Majd Kayyal (screen capture: YouTube)

Hebrew Media ReviewCrime and punishment

By Marissa Newman

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