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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a press conference in Montreaux, Switzerland, in January (photo credit: AP/Gary Cameron/Pool)

Kerry backtracks on Israel ‘apartheid state’ comment

By AFP

Top US diplomat says if he could ‘rewind the tape,’ he would have chosen a different word to make his point

US lawmakers lambaste Kerry over ‘apartheid’ remarks

MKs pan Kerry for saying Israel could become ‘apartheid’

By Yifa Yaakov and Raphael Ahren

AIPAC: Kerry’s comments ‘offensive, inappropriate’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

MK Shimon Solomon, of the Yesh Atid party, at a Knesset discussion regarding the Immigration Authority policy toward asylum seekers and the impact on the business sector, January 15, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Exclusive

Ethiopian-born MK calls on NBA to dismiss Clippers owner

By Raphael Ahren

‘Financial penalty is not enough,’ fumes MK Shimon Solomon, slamming Donald Sterling’s alleged racism as ‘pathetic and disgusting’

Mordechai Levovitz

Orthodox, gay, and the rest is private

Publicly declaring one’s celibacy is immodest and preaching one answer for all is inhumane

Let J Street into the Conference

The Conference of Presidents must represent the entire US Jewish community without ideological litmus tests

Yossi Klein Halevi

Reimagining Muslim-Jewish relations

A response to Jews who criticized his support for the Brandeis decision not to honor Ayaan Hirsi Ali

(From L to R) Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmad, Hamas prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk pose for a photo as they celebrate in Gaza City on April 23, 2014, after West Bank and Gaza Strip leaders agreed to form a unity government within five weeks. (photo credit: AFP/Said Khatib)

Analysis

In stepping down from government, Hamas plans bid for greater power

By Avi Issacharoff

Haniyeh is betting his willingness to resign as Gaza’s PM will boost the popularity of his battered Islamists, raising their election chances

Gaza's Ark. (screen capture: YouTube)

Mysterious blast hits Europe-bound Gaza ship

By Aron Dónzis

Organizers allege sabotage after ‘Gaza’s Ark,’ built to break naval blockade, partially sunk by Tuesday morning explosion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, is seen at a cabinet meeting at the PMO in Jerusalem, April 6, 2014 (photo credit: Amit Shabi/Flash90/Pool)

Israel pushes ahead with Palestinian sanctions

In light of Hamas-Fatah unity, sources say Jerusalem will begin using taxes it collects on PA’s behalf to offset Ramallah’s debts

Construction in the settlement of Ariel in January 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel okayed thousands of West Bank homes during talks, NGO says

By Aron Dónzis and ToI Staff

Peace Now report claims Netanyahu government signed off on nearly 14,000 housing units while negotiating with Abbas

Kharkiv mayor Hennady Kernes speaking in February. (photo credit: AP/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Shot Ukrainian Jewish mayor airlifted to Israel after surgery

By ToI Staff and AP

Hennady Kernes, gunned down from behind while jogging on Monday, flown overnight to Haifa hospital in critical condition

Rabbi Berel Wein (screen capture: YouTube)

Interview

How to break down secular-ultra-Orthodox barriers

By David Horovitz

Warren Buffet (L) discusses future plans for the expansion of his newly acquired business Iscar Metalworking with previous owner Steff Wertheimer (R) in Tefen, Israel on Monday, Sept. 18, 2006. (Photo credit: Big R /Flash90)

Want to be a billionaire? Come to Israel

By David Shamah

The Start-Up Nation has what it takes to ‘grow’ super-entrepreneurs, according to a UK thinktank

Screenshot of the IVC Dashboard, listing Israeli exits in recent years (Photo credit: Courtesy)

From the web

Israel tech firms raise $673 mln in Q1 from VCs

Reuters: Venture capital investments are up 53% over the same period a year earlier, industry experts said

Ruth Gruber, Alaska, 1941-43 (Unidentified photographer, courtesy)

On display

The woman who launched 1,000 Jewish refugees

By Menachem Wecker and Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ruth Gruber, the photojournalist/diplomat who helped bring to the US the only Jewish refugees America helped escape from the Nazis, is on exhibit in Chicago at 102

US President Barack Obama departs after making a statement to the press on April 2, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jewel Samad)

Obama vows to oppose anti-Semitism ‘wherever it takes root’

The red-and-white tents of the Florentin Circus, situated at their temporary home in Jerusalem's First Station (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A sabra balancing act

By Jessica Steinberg

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Percussionist Uriel Sverdin (L) and violinist Michael Greilsammer perform their mashup of Israeli anthem 'Hatikva' and the Game of Thrones theme (screen capture: YouTube)

Anthem of ice and fire‘Hatikva’ gets Game of Thrones mashup

Iranian entrepreneur Mojgan Roostaei poses for a photograph with a taxidermic crocodile at her crocodile breeding farm on the southern Persian Gulf island, Qeshm in Iran. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Scaling upIranian woman eyes croc empire

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

This Oct. 15, 2013 file photo shows Billy Joel at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 12th Annual "An Enduring Vision" benefit gala in New York, NY (photo credit: AP/Carlo Allegri/Invision)

Billy Joel opens up about Judaism, heroin

By Mesfin Fekadu

Freshly baked pizza (Photo credit: Liron Almog/Flash90)

Extra cheese, docStudy turns doctors into pizza makers

By Gavriel Fiske

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv District Court, March 31, 2014, where he was found guilty of bribe-taking in the Holyland real estate scandal. (photo credit: Ido Erez/Pool/Flash90

State seeks six years in prison for Olmert

Singer Paul Simon, left, and his wife Edie Brickell appear at a hearing in Norwalk Superior Court on Monday April 28, 2014 in Norwalk, Conn. (photo credit: AP/The Hour, Alex von Kleydorff/Pool)

Troubled waterPaul Simon, wife arrested for fight

By Pat Eaton-Rob

On the right path. Participants march from Auschwitz to Birkenau in the March of the Living in Poland on Monday. Leading the March are Supreme Court Justice Asher Gronis (center left) and former chief rabbi of Yisrael Meir Lau (center right) march of the living in Poland (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewBusiness as usual

By Yossi Nachemi

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