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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 26, 2014

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council, a top decision-making body, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Abbas said any unity government with the Islamic extremist Hamas would follow his political program, an apparent attempt to reassure the West. Israel’s leaders have accused Abbas of choosing Hamas over possible peace with Israel. (photo credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Analysis

Abbas: Palestinian unity government will recognize Israel

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

PA president says he wants to extend peace talks, tells PLO Central Council that joint Hamas-Fatah authority will reject violence

AnalysisIsrael was ready to allow wide-scale Palestinian building in key West Bank areas

By Avi Issacharoff

Top Palestinian negotiator: Hamas is not a terror group

Obama points finger at ‘both sides’ for peace impasse

Roy Somech, center, with two Japanese patrons. (photo credit: Courtesy of Roy Somech/Facebook)

The only Israeli in Sendai

Roy Somech came to Japan 8 years ago and never left. Now his Middle Eastern bar is teaching the Japanese about Israeli culture

Avraham Bronstein

‘What do women want?’ Wrong question

Objectification, even when born of the best intentions, violates the commandment to love our neighbor

ANZAC’s lasting Middle East impact

Those who fought at Gallipoli 99 years ago helped set the stage for the creation of the State of Israel

Ultra-Orthodox children heckled by Temple Mount mob

By Marissa Newman and Yifa Yaakov

WATCH: Muslim worshipers shout, throw shoes at 20 Jewish kids, four adults during visit to compound

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

Iranian woman ‘at peace’ after pardoning son’s killer

‘Vengeance has left my heart,’ Alinejad Hosseinzadeh says a week after she spared Balal Abdullah as he went to the gallows

A speaker at this week's UOIF conference in Paris, France (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Major Islam conference said mired by anti-Semitism

By JTA

‘All the evil in the world originates from the Jews and the Zionist barbarism,’ prominent Swiss Imam reportedly says in Paris

Steven Spielberg is photographed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, on Jan. 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah (AP/Danny Moloshok/Invision)

Spielberg launches center for genocide research

By JTA

Academic center aims to probe the conditions leading to genocides and how to intervene in time to prevent them

Jabhat al-Nusra fighters in the Syrian Golan Heights praise Osama bin Laden. (screen capture: MEMRI)

Al-Qaeda linked Syria group hails Bin Laden in Golan battle

After ‘cleansing’ hilltop near Israeli border, Jabhat al-Nusra fighters praise ‘lion of Islam’ for 9/11 attacks

Yousef al-Khattab (screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish-born founder of radical Islamic website sent to jail

By AP and ToI Staff

Hamas and Fatah leaders meeting in Gaza for talks on Palestinian reconciliation on April 22, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Palestinian pact with Hamas threatens US aid

By Donna Cassata

Abbas’s push for reconciliation government puts PA at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars

Pope John Paul II places a letter between the stones of Jerusalem’s Western Wall on March 26, 2000. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Israel Government Press Office via Getty Images/JTA)

From pope to saint: Two men who revamped Jewish-Catholic ties

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

On the even of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Vatican will canonize two former pontiffs who focused on reconciliation

A woman takes pictures of the tomb of Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and faithful are expected to reach Rome to attend the scheduled April 27 ceremony at the Vatican in which Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Saintly popes mended Catholic-Jewish relations

By daniela petroff and Nicole Winfield

A young man receives medical treatment after what Syrian rebels claim was a chemical weapons attack in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus on September 12, 2013 screen capture: YouTube)

From the web

Western intelligence suggests Syria can still produce chemical arms

Reuters: British, French and American officials suspect Damascus hasn’t declared all of its WMD stockpiles

Nicholas Lowinger helping a child pick out some new shoes. (Courtesy Nicholas Lowinger via JTA)

Teen heroes

Jewish student fills big shoes — and little ones

By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan

More Headlines

Congressional candidate Allan Levene has a Middle East peace plan: have Israel exchange the West Bank for this land in southeast Texas. (http://allanleveneforcongress.com/new-israel/)

Shalom y'allA ‘New Israel’… in eastern Texas?

By Anthony Weiss

View of a Boeing 737 in flight. (illustrative photo credit: Arpingstone, Wikimedia Commons)

Norwegian plane lands in Sweden amid bomb scare

Illustrative: Terminal 9 at JFK International Airport in New York (photo credit: Martin St-Amant/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Visa-free travel to the US faces brick wall with Obama

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel wave to spectators before Obama delivers a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday June 19, 2013. (AP/Michael Kappeler)

Western powers move ahead on new Russia sanctions

By AFP

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (photo credit: Shuva Yisrael/Flash90)

US congressman to face charges over Pinto-linked funds

By JAKE PEARSON

Clara Khoury, left, and Norman Issa in Arab Labor, a satirical comedy in Hebrew and Arabic written by author Sayed Kashua. (Other Israel Film Festival)

All worked up‘Arab Labor’ sitcom to air on US TV

By JTA

WaterGen unit. (Courtesy)

From the webThis machine makes drinking water from thin air

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