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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz in Jerusalem on April 23, 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)

Netanyahu: Abbas must choose between Israel and Hamas

By Raphael Ahren

Amid reports of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, PM says he hopes Palestinians opt for peace, even if ‘so far’ they haven’t

Fatah, Hamas said to agree to unity government

By AFP

Minister reports progress in talks with Palestinians

Fatah-Hamas deal would end peace process, Liberman warns

The extended community of the American Colony posing in the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. The community continued to pose for group photographs, a valuable chronological source for descendants and researchers, documenting the transformative eras of their eccentric communal and personal lives. (photo credit: Courtesy American Colony Archive Collections, reproduction from dry plate glass)

From commune to oasis: Postcards from the American Colony

By Jessica Steinberg

The landmark hotel on the ‘seam’ between east and west Jerusalem unveils its archives, illustrating a tumultuous, passionate, and sometimes eccentric history

The Korean principal’s suicide

Instead of beating oneself up (or worse), Jewish tradition favors finding constructive ways to move on

Charley J. Levine

Business class only, please (and cheap!)

A review for the globe trotting set: Best deals, best service, and the surprise winner…Ethiopian Airlines

Our phones, our stumbling blocks

Texting while on the road is distracting us to death and a passage from Leviticus drives the message home

Israeli archaeologist Eli Shukron (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Archaeologist claims to find chisel used to build Western Wall

By Marissa Newman

Metal tool likely dropped by laborer working on higher sections, says Eli Shukron; Antiquities Authority still checking find

The Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Unaccompanied Israeli tourists banned from Jordan

By Elhanan Miller

New unofficial regulations apparently apply only to Jewish, not Arab, visitors

US Vice President Joe Biden addresses to members of the Ukrainian parliament during a meeting on April 22, 21014 in Kiev. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/POOL/Sergei Supinsky)

Biden in Kiev: ‘No place’ for anti-Semitism in Ukraine

By AP and ToI Staff

US vice president condemns attacks on Jewish community amid uptick of violent incidents in country’s east

Gilad Erdan, in a pink tie, upon taking office. Far right is the outgoing minister, Avi Dichter, along with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, blue tie, and Ehud Barak (photo credit: Defense Ministry/Flash 90)

Analysis

Israel’s battered home front sustains another blow

By Mitch Ginsburg

The Home Front Defense Ministry is falling apart, underscoring how little has been done in the 7 years since the last war

Director-General of the Home Front Defense Ministry Dan Ronen (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Head of Home Front Defense Ministry resigns

By Marissa Newman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 22, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ PPO/THAER GHANAIM)

Abbas says talks can continue if settlement building stops

By Elhanan Miller

PA president says security cooperation between Israel, Palestinians will not be impacted if negotiations collapse

Jerusalem's Golden Gate, which abuts the Temple Mount. (photo credit: Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Police nab 3 teens for desecrating Muslim graves

Girls allegedly scrawled ‘Price Tag’ on tombstones in Muslim cemetery next to Jerusalem Old City walls

Illustrative: A Twitter app on an iPhone screen. (AP/Richard Drew/File)

Pro-Palestinian tweeters subvert IDF Holocaust campaign

By Ilan Ben Zion

Photos allege Israeli army abuse and assert competing narrative, using Remembrance Day project’s #Wearehere hashtag

Jan Karski (photo credit: © Carol Harrison)

Holocaust whistleblower Jan Karski honored by Georgetown

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Iftach Grady (photo credit: Iftach Grady, Facebook)

Key suspect in nightclub stabbing turns self in

By Marissa Newman

23-year-old denies he murdered Iftach Grady; shows up for questioning after police threaten to publicize his name, image

A Brainsway device in action. (photo credit: courtesy)

Top US health insurer uses Israeli brain therapy device

By David Shamah

Optum plan patients with severe depression can now use Brainsway’s transcranial magnetic stimulation system

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Illustrative photo of an El Al aircraft on a runway. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al pilots forget to lower wheels on Heathrow landing

By Stuart Winer

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Unlucky bustardsSaudi prince goes on bird-killing spree

Israeli sprinter Olga Lensky after breaking the Israeli 100m women's record, April 19, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube: orenbukstein)

Record-breaking runner faces hearing after skipping dope test

By Stuart Winer

Former British prime minister Tony Blair. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Blair urges world to unite against radical Islam

By AP

A cook tends to pots of food in the kitchen of the Azura restaurant in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, March 26, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Aron Heller)

Go for the food: Homemade fare in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

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