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What Matters Most On Friday, April 3, 2015

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

Netanyahu to Obama: Iran deal threatens Israel’s survival

PM tells president agreement based on new framework would ‘legitimize Iran’s nuclear program, bolster its economy, increase its aggression and terror in Mideast and beyond

Netanyahu convenes ministers to discuss Iran deal

AnalysisNuclear deal leaves Israel with few options

By Mitch Ginsburg

AnalysisIsrael cool to Iran deal, may struggle to rally opposition

By Josef Federman

President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama details ‘historic’ nuke deal with Iran, Jerusalem slams ‘dangerous capitulation’

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

President says agreement cuts off ‘every path’ to a bomb; Officials in Israel: It legitimizes Iran’s nuclear program; Zarif: No facilities closing; Joy in streets of Tehran

Twitter tiff suggests major gaps still remain over nuclear deal

Kerry: Iran deal will leave world safer, more secure

By Tamar Pileggi

Iran deal catches Congress on recess, but alert and skeptical

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

US President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 2, 2015, about the Iranian nuclear talks. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Analysis

Defeatist Obama’s deal with the devil

By David Horovitz

What was needed, and what was possible, was a better deal, but the US president lacked the resolve to insist upon it

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif greets people as the nuclear negotiating committee arrives at Mehr Abad Airport in Tehran on April 3, 2015, hours after announcing the ingredients of a nuclear deal with world powers. (photo credot: AFP/ISNA/Borna Ghasemi)

Iran hardliners slam deal, but throngs hail Zarif

By AP

Conservatives chastise Rouhani, concessions; crowds welcome returning FM, chant ‘condolences’ to Israel

In wake of Iran framework deal, Saudis put on a brave face

By Elhanan Miller

Joyful Iranians dance into night after nuclear deal

By AFP

Russia says ready to process Iranian nuclear fuel

By AFP

The women who have inspired us

The heroism of females in the Exodus story lives on in seven contemporary women who faced tragedy with courage

Donniel Hartman

Pesach: A tale of two stories

Whether Jews are a chosen elite or just the same as the downtrodden depends on how you tell the tale

Muslims DO speak out

Most Muslims condemn extremism and violence, we just don’t pay attention

'5 To 7,' written and directed by Victor Levin, stars Anton Yelchin as Brian Bloom and Bérénice Marlohe as his nine years older lover Arielle. (courtesy IFC Films)

Extramarital affair makes Jewish boy a man in ‘5 to 7’

By Jordan Hoffman

Niv Asraf, 22, a Beersheba man who faked his own kidnapping in the West Bank on April 2, 2015 (Photo credit: Niv Asraf/Facebook)

Feared West Bank kidnapping was prank; ‘victim’ found safe

By Ricky Ben-David

After hours of frantic searches, Niv Asraf, 22 from Beersheba located with sleeping bag, food, near Hebron

Niv Asraf, 22, a Beersheba man who faked his own kidnapping in the West Bank on April 2, 2015 (Photo credit: Niv Asraf/Facebook)

Man who faked West Bank kidnapping remanded

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

Sheik Imam Mohammed Shchata, left, and Rabbi Albert Gabbi talk during a public assembly for religious tolerance on Septrmbrt 11, 2010, in Philadelphia. Leaders from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities gathered in front of Philadelphia's Independence Hall on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks to decry "those who seek to divide us" and reaffirm the America's commitment to religious tolerance. (photo credit: AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

More Muslims than Jews in US by 2050, Pew study shows

Islam will be fastest-growing major faith in coming decades, with almost as many Muslims as Christians worldwide by mid-century

In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Analysis

Hamas arrests Gaza merchants for refusing to sell lumber for tunnels

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Israel charges Palestinian engineer with smuggling communication equipment into the Strip for use in underground passageways

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Central Council of the PLO in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 4, 2015. (photo credit: STR/Flash90)

Abbas threatens to file ICC complaint over unpaid PA taxes

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Release of funds, announced by PMO last week, held up over electricity bill dispute

A member of the security forces escorts a student off the campus of Garissa University College after an attack by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab gunmen, April 2, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Carl de Souza)

Kenya massacre survivor says jihadists singled out Christians for killing

By CHRISTOPER TORCHIA and TOM ODULA

Slaughter of 147 people was carefully planned, say witnesses; killers had scouted the campus

Hostages (bottom right) flee the Hyper Cacher supermarket as French security forces storm the building, January 9, 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

Paris supermarket hostages sue media over live coverage

By AFP

TV station accused of reporting where Hyper Cacher victims were hiding before siege had ended

View of a full moon shining on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on November 27, 2012. (Louis Fisher/FLASH90)

Bad Iran deal foretold in ‘blood moon’ celestial signs?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Discoverer of phenomenon ‘linked’ to upheaval in the Jewish world calls for interfaith prayer for Jerusalem during full lunar eclipse this weekend

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif. (AFP/Brian Snyder, Pool)

Full text of Iran nuke deal parameters, as set out by State Department

US says ‘These elements form the foundation’ upon which the final text of an agreement is to be reached by June 30

President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear talks, April 2, 2015. (photo credit: AP/J. David Ake)

Full text of Obama’s remarks on framework nuclear deal with Iran

US president heralds ‘historic’ accord that could lead to ‘safer world,’ will speak to Netanyahu to stress support for Israel’s security

Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, at the 2012 General Assembly in Baltimore, Maryland (photo credit: JFNA/JTA)

American Jewish umbrella group skeptical over nuclear deal

Jewish Federations of North America warns ‘a weak agreement presents a clear and present danger to all nations’

Passover paper animals? David Brill's creatures, from the recently opened origami exhibit at the Old Jaffa Museum (Courtesy Old Jaffa Museum)

When the seder’s over, get out and play

By Jessica Steinberg

11 ways to celebrate your freedom over the Passover holiday break

Illustrative: The seder involves multiple senses such as touch, smell and taste. (Shutterstock, via JTA)

Tips for hosting a disabilities-friendly seder

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (2L) and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau Jerusalem, during a ceremony to sell the hametz of the state of Israel to Arab Israelis before the upcoming Passover holiday. April 02, 2015. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO)

Passover handoverPM sells Israel’s leavened bread

By Tamar Pileggi

French far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen speaks at party headquarters in Nanterre, west of Paris, on May 27, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jacques Brinon)

Le Pens at odds as Jean-Marie stands by gas chambers remark

By JTA

Benjamin Netanyahu in an Election Day message, March 17, 2015, warning that Arab voters were coming out in droves. (screen capture: YouTube)

Poll: Israelis divided on Netanyahu’s ‘Arab droves’ comment

By JTA

Screenshot from report on the second-degree murder conviction of Dr. Robert Neulander (left) for the alleged killing of his wife, Leslie, April 2, 2015. (screen capture: WSYR-TV)

Syracuse doctor, a Jewish lay leader, found guilty in wife’s death

By JTA

Shimon Peres sits in the Iron Throne of the famed series 'Game of Thrones,' with British Ambassador Matthew Gould on his right, YES CEO Ron Eilon (left) and 17-year old Ben Yuval, an avid fan of the series, who is suffering from a hematological disease and was hosted by Lehoshit Yad Association (Courtesy YES)

Hot seatPeres on the Iron Throne

By Jessica Steinberg

Hugh Hefner's April Fools (photo credit: Twitter, via JTA)

Playboy’s Kirk Douglas April 1 prank

By JTA

Aasif Mandvi arrives at the world premiere of 'Million Dollar Arm' in Los Angeles, California, on May 6, 2014. (photo credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Serious sitcom‘Halal in the Family’ tackles anti-Muslim bias

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the Apple iPad Air 2 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, October 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Israeli app pushes iPad closer to medical-device territory

By David Shamah

An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig, off the coast of Ashkelon, Israel (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel approves natural gas exports to Jordan

By Tamar Pileggi

The Lacoon team (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Check Point acquires Israeli cyber start-up Lacoon

By David Shamah

From left, Head of Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union Hailong Wu, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarifat, Russian Deputy Political Director Alexey Karpov, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrive in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, April 2, 2015, after the United States, Iran and five other world powers on Thursday announced an understanding outlining limits on Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Hebrew media reviewCan Israel deal with the Iran deal?

By Adiv Sterman

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