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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 8, 2015

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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, left, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, second left, Special Assistant to Iranian president Hossein Fereydoun, second right, and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wait for the start of a meeting with Britain, Russia, China, France, Germany, European Union and the U.S. officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland Monday, March 30, 2015, during Iran nuclear talks (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Iran news report: Tehran will start using fastest centrifuges on day deal takes effect

FARS agency quotes Zarif, Salehi telling MPs they’ll inject gas into IR-8 centrifuges

Israel rejects US attempt to reinterpret Obama’s admission of nuke deal’s flaws

By ToI Staff and AP

Washington walks back ‘near-zero’ Iran breakout time comment

By ToI Staff and AP

Arab, Muslim delegates to gather in Israel for nuke conference

President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 (photo credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AnalysisOp-Ed

The unfolding farce of Obama’s deal with Iran

By David Horovitz

The president didn’t sign a bad framework deal with the ayatollahs. He left it unsigned, open to ever more worrying interpretation

New York Times calls Israel ‘unrealistic’ on Iran

By Stuart Winer

CIA chief says criticism of Iran deal ‘disingenuous’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkish president visits Iran despite tensions over Yemen

By Nasser Karimi

Undated file photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing. (photo credit: AP/FBI, File)

Live updates (closed)

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev convicted in Boston Marathon bombing

By Jonathan Beck

Jury to decide whether former student who killed 3, wounded more than 260 should be sentenced to death or receive life in prison

The solar field atop the buildings in the Knesset compound. (Courtesy)

MKs may turn the air blue, but Knesset is Earth’s greenest parliament

By Renee Ghert-Zand

With solar roofs, recycled paper, auto-close computers and air conditioners, NIS 7 million energy-saving project producing a more sustainable legislature

Sometimes the answer is “always”

Is it worthwhile to stand up for Israel on campus despite the sometimes agonizing attacks?

A dead soldier’s infinite potential

The preserved sperm of a deceased IDF combat reservist should be put to use even though his widow objects

When Muslims murder Palestinians

The slaughter in Syria’s Yarmouk camp has been widely reported, yet pro-Palestinian activists are staying mum

A time to speak

American progressives must raise their voices against threats to the vision of a liberal, pluralistic Israel

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

Sister of Otto Frank’s typist may have betrayed Anne Frank

By JTA and ToI Staff

In new book, ‘Silence No More,’ nephew of Nelly Voskuijl posits she was a Nazi collaborator who revealed family’s Amsterdam hideout

Illustrative photo of FC Utrecht fans (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Geüpload door Luctor/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Dutch soccer fans chant about burning Jews, SS ancestry

By JTA

FC Utrecht to investigate supporters who allegedly shouted anti-Semitic slogans during match against Ajax

One of the portraits made by Annemie Wolff in Amsterdam, 1943. (Courtesy of Selfmade Films, rights held by Monica Kaltenschnee)

Wartime mystery on display with new portrait trove of Dutch Jews

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Amedy Coulibaly, who said he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, killed four people at a Paris kosher supermarket on January 9, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/French Police)

Paris kosher mart killer’s initial target was a Jewish school

By JTA

Newspaper report says Amedy Coulibaly only chose the Hyper Cacher supermarket after his first plan was foiled

Thousands attend the funeral of Rabbi Shmuel Wosner in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, April 4, 2015. (Flash90)

Second Israeli trampled at rabbi’s funeral succumbs to wounds

By Avi Lewis and Stuart Winer

Yitzhak Samet, 18 and engaged to be married, dies of injuries at Saturday night burial of famed Bnei Brak sage, in which Mordechai Gerber was also crushed to death

Israeli soldiers at the scene where two IDF soldiers were stabbed near the West Bank settlement of Shilo on April 08, 2015. (photo credit: FLASH90)

2 IDF soldiers stabbed in West Bank, attacker killed

By Ilan Ben Zion

One of the Israelis seriously injured in attack near Shiloh junction, second suffers minor injuries, shoots assailant dead

The Franciscan monastery on Gruner Street, Berlin, where the body of a man believed to be an Israeli was found, April 2015. (screen capture: Google maps)

Man beaten to death in Berlin may have been Israeli

By Stuart Winer

German police find Israeli passport in back pocket of victim; local rabbi says 22-year-old was due to come to seder, but never showed

Factory worker crushed dead by 200 tons of chicken feed

Ceiling in facility near Beit Shemesh collapses, with fatal consequences

Former Syrian imam Abdul Hadi Arwani, an anti-Assad protester, was reportedly found shot dead in London, the BBC reported on April 8, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/UHISOC)

Syrian-born former imam shot dead in London

By AFP

London police won’t confirm that victim was prominent anti-Assad activist Abdul Hadi Arwani

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel waves to supporters as he leaves a campaign office Tuesday, April 7, 2015 in Chicago, as he and his opponent, Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, rally supporters on the morning of the city's mayoral runoff election. (Photo credit: AP/M. Spencer Green)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wins 2nd term in runoff victory

By SOPHIA TAREEN and Sara Burnett

Former Obama chief of staff victorious after tough campaign focused on his brusque style, city’s financial troubles

Najla and Yael log sales in Yael's sitting room in Jerusalem (photo credit: Shaina Shealy/Times of Israel)

Delicately, embroidery stitches two clashing worlds together

By Shaina Shealy

Israeli female financier breaks FX trading’s glass ceiling

By David Shamah

Foreign currency trading has traditionally been a male-dominated – and multinational bank-dominated – business. Ilit Geller hopes to change that

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Alan Dershowitz hosts ILTV's 'One on One' program (photo credit: Gidon Markowicz/Flash90)

Judge rejects sex allegations against Prince Andrew, Dershowitz

By Curt Anderson

Jill Duggar, of “19 Kids and Counting” fame, named her son Israel. (photo credit: JTA/Instagram)

Now it's 20Duggar family’s got an ‘Israel’ now too

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox man hanging an eruv wire in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Crossed wiresEruv row turns ugly in UK town

Zach Braff offers to make pizzas for same-sex weddings in Indiana. (YouTube screenshot)

Pizza pietyZach Braff to cater gay weddings?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israel's latest variety-show creation, 'I Can Do That,' was sold to 15 countries before being picked up by NBC. (photo credit: Courtesy 'I Can Do That')

Israel's got talentNBC to air ‘I Can Do That’ in late May

By Jessica Steinberg

'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart and his successor Trevor Noah (screen capture: YouTube)

'Give him a chance!'Jon Stewart backs new Daily Show host

By JTA

Bernice Tannenbaum, longtime Hadassah leader, dies aged 101

By JTA

US President Barack Obama gives an interview to NPR, April 7, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/NPR)

Hebrew media reviewObama’s words fail him, panic ensues

By Adiv Sterman

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