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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 2, 2015

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An F-15 in its hangar in the Ovda air force base (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

As nuclear talks resume, Israel threatens military option

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian FM cites ‘significant progress’ but ‘no results’ after diplomats haggle late into the night

InterviewIsrael will be ‘made extinct’ if it keeps acting like a ‘dinosaur,’ warns IDF home front chief

By Mitch Ginsburg

Israel’s new anti-ballistic missile system ‘phenomenal’ in testing

Air force: Israel still mulling preemptive strikes on foes

By Adiv Sterman

Sisters at the Kalundu Center celebrating the Passover seder, with all of the ritual objects on the table including bitter herbs, handmade matzah, salt water, and grape juice. (photo credit: Courtesy Kalundu Center)

Why is this seder different from all other seders? Could be the nuns

By Melanie Lidman

In Zambia, Catholic sisters are in the habit of celebrating Passover meal, complete with matzah, bitter herbs and haroset, to connect to roots of Christianity and Easter

IDF soldiers in Hebron (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

IDF treating Israeli’s disappearance near Hebron as kidnapping

By Marissa Newman

Army says ‘these are the critical hours’ in tracking down 22-year-old; Iran, world powers announce ‘historic’ framework agreement; Israel slams it

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Lena, Trevor and the two types of Jews

The Jewish community is split between the confident and the concerned — and they hear jokes very differently

Simcha Jacobovici

A Passover sign from God?

Discovery of a red heifer has the attention of those eager for the arrival of the Messiah — but why red?

Still hungry, still enslaved

A Passover message: Children worldwide continue to suffer the horrors of malnutrition and trafficking

Is Turkey behind ISIS?

The Turks, hoping to restore their regional hegemony, are allowing arms and fighters to reach Islamist held areas

Flames and smoke billow from the site of an explosion that hit an arms depot in the Yemenite city of Aden on March 28, 2015. (AFP/SALEH AL-OBEIDI)

‘Foreign troops’ reportedly land in Yemen port city

By ToI Staff and AFP

In separate incident, Saudi soldier killed and 10 more people wounded during clashes along border

Hundreds of members of the Bnei Menashe community hold a model Passover seder in Churachandpur, in the Indian state of Manipur, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (Jonathan Haukip/Shavei Israel)

Bnei Menashe Seder in India reflects hopes of aliya

Community that claims descent from ancient Israelite tribe already has thousands of members in Israel

Anne Frank, age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam in 1941. (AP Photo)

Anne Frank’s earlier death dispels notion that she could have been saved

By AP and ToI Staff

Teen diarist now believed to have died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February, not March 1945

From left: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Senior Director at the National Security Council Robert Malley and US Secretary of State John Kerry stand on the terrace of the Beau-Rivage Palace hotel while taking a break during an extended round of talks on April 1, 2015 in Lausanne (photo credit: AFP/ FABRICE COFFRINI)

US and Iran said to have played chicken with deal deadline

By ToI Staff and AFP

Obama reportedly hoped to pressure Tehran by showing willingness to step away from the table and leave sanctions in place

Local residents donate blood at Garissa hospital, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo)

At least 15 dead as gunmen attack college in Kenya

By AP

Islamic al-Shabab terrorists feared to still be holding students hostage, as security forces secure area around campus

Illustrative photo of electric grid wiring (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

Israeli tech to keep an eye on ‘electricity gluttons’

By David Shamah

Smart grids are the new hope for utilities, and a German energy giant is aiming to build one with technology from Israel

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a signing ceremony with Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AFP / FENG LI / POOL)

Israel joins China-based fund boycotted by US

Jerusalem pivots east as American officials urge allies to spurn newly formed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers, June 19, 2014 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF soldier suspected of spying for Syria

By Adiv Sterman

Suspect allegedly provided information to a man who was indicted last week for passing material to foreign agents

Naftali Bennett at a conference in Tel Aviv, February 24, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Coalition talks sputter as parties clamor for top posts

Jewish Home’s Bennett demands senior cabinet portfolio, says Netanyahu treating his party’s constituents like ‘suckers’

African migrants protesting outside the Holot detention facility in February 2014. (Flash90)

Seven African migrants served deportation notices

By Adiv Sterman

Inmates at Holot detention facility told to leave Israel within 30 days or face indefinite imprisonment

PFLP member Khalida Jarrar (image capture: YouTube)

Israel arrests Palestinian lawmaker

By AP and ToI Staff

PLFP member Khalida Jarrar detained after violating injunction restricting her movement in the West Bank

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin speaking at the Lincoln Square Synagogue. (screen capture: YouTube/JBS)

Analysis

Rabbi’s Haman remark reflects broad Israeli distrust of Obama

Shlomo Riskin’s comparison of US president to Biblical enemy signals growing fears over US role on Iran

File: US House Speaker John Boehner, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on April 1, 2015. (Debbie Hill/AFP)

Meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu, Boehner hail US-Israel ties

By AFP and ToI Staff

Speaking as Iran nuclear talks continue in Switzerland, duo highlight ‘rock solid’ bilateral relations and ‘the threats that face all of us’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slams the ongoing Iran nuclear talks, April 1, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

WATCH: PM on Iran talks Wednesday, and 2 other must-see clips

Boehner and Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem, and ‘moderate’ Khaled Mashaal is interviewed by BBC’s Jeremy Bowen

An ultra-orthodox Jewish bride at her wedding in 2013. (Illustrative photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

With Jewish divorce rates at 30%, NY Orthodoxy responds

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

South African comedian Trevor Noah appearing on 'The Daily Show', December 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Comedy Central)

Trevor Noah defends self in backlash to old tweets

By Frazier Moore

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, listens to a question while speaking in Garwood, New Jersey, March 23, 2015. (AP/Mel Evans, File)

Senator Robert Menendez indicted on corruption charges

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative image of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Brooklyn paintball attacks probed as possible hate crimes

By Rahel Jaskow

A sultry Kirk Douglas (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Kirk Douglas’s Playboy tunnel

By JTA

All the performers in the March 26 episode of “From the Top” on stage at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Mass., for a finale of Jeremiah Klarman’s “Greser Vi Dos Leben,” (Larger than Life). (Courtesy of “From the Top”)

National Jewish radioWhen NPR aired from the bimah

By Penny Schwartz

Two baby lambs and their mother (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

After 2,000 years, Easter lamb falling off the menu in Italy?

By AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, center right, European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, center left, and other officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States wait for the start of a meeting on Iran's nuclear program at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Hebrew media reviewJust keep ’em talking

By Joshua Davidovich

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