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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 12, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a Mimouna celebration in Or Akiva on April 11, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu fears sanctions will be lifted ‘immediately,’ as per Iran’s demand

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

PM derides inadequate monitoring and inspection in deal, slams US-led powers for letting regime maintain nuclear infrastructure

Jeb Bush: Obama meets Castro, but not Netanyahu?

Obama urges opponents not to ‘screw up’ Iran deal

By AFP and AP

In historic face-to-face, Obama, Castro vow to ‘turn the page’

By Jim Kuhnhenn and Josh Lederman

A full moon over the city of Modiin, Israel, August 10, 2014. (Photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)

Another step for mankind: Israeli scientists advance theory on moon’s origin

Researchers from Technion, University of Bordeaux believe moon was formed after collision between Earth and object of very similar composition

Pope Francis arrives to celebrates an Armenian-Rite Mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Sunday, April 12, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope calls Armenian slaughter ‘1st genocide of 20th century’

By Nicole Winfield

In comments likely to anger Turkey, Francis marks 100 years since the murder of some 1.5 million people

Robert Eli Rubinstein

Who now will bear witness?

After his mother survived Auschwitz, the first kindness she encountered came from a group of US soldiers

Deep eating and the lesson of Pesach

The special way maror and matzah are eaten at a seder is a lesson in how to relate to food year round

Before and after: Shulem Deen as a Skverer Hasid, left, and a modern secular Jew. (Photo at left courtesy of Shulem Deen; at right, by Pearl Gabel/via JTA)

Interview

How a formerly Hasidic author found himself, lost his children

By Julie Wiener

US President Barack Obama, right, leans over towards Cuban President Raul Castro during their meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In historic face-to-face, Obama, Castro vow to ‘turn the page’

By Jim Kuhnhenn and Josh Lederman

In first formal meeting between two countries’ leaders in 50 years, Cuban president says he and Obama ‘agreed to disagree’ at times

US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference at the Summit of the Americas at the ATLAPA Convention Center on April 11, 2015 in Panama City. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)

Obama: Clinton would be an ‘excellent president’

By AFP

On eve of expected campaign launch, president says ex-secretary was a ‘formidable candidate’ in 2008, and is ‘my friend’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, March 29, 2015 (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool)

Netanyahu said to fear Iran will stick to deal once signed

Officials say PM is concerned Tehran’s compliance will make new sanctions, long-term monitoring of nuclear sites nearly impossible

View of the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Right-wing activists accused of receiving army secrets

By Adiv Sterman

Suspects arrested after they were allegedly provided with classified information by an IDF soldier

Illustrative photo of a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Bank of Israel says gas fields countered war loss

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

Tamar offshore sites’ production propped up GDP hit by summer conflict in Gaza Strip

Jose Ribeiro e Castro, a lawmaker in Portugal who co-authored the country's law of return for Sephardic Jews, says he is more proud of the law than anything else he has accomplished in politics. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Citizenship for Sephardic Jews ‘corrects historical wrong’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jewish dreamers and fortune seekers first in line for Portuguese citizenship under a 2013 law

Pre-flight drawing by co-pilot Robert Lewis detailing the bombing of Hiroshima. (screen capture: YouTube)

Chilling documents detailing Hiroshima bombing revealed

Collection belonging to co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atom bomb, to be auctioned off this month

Illustrative photo of rain in Jerusalem, (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Storms, cold snap headed in after wet weekend

By Stuart Winer

Forecasters predict continued soaking for most of Israel, with dropping temperatures bringing hail, high winds and rain

Islamic State fighters near the border between Syria and Iraq (screen capture: YouTube/Vice News)

Report: Islamic State kidnaps 120 children in Mosul

Islamist extremists said to have loaded kids, aged 12-15, on military vehicles, driven to unknown location

A file picture taken on July 17, 2001 shows Iraqi workers cleaning a statue of a winged bull at an archeological site in Nimrud, 35 Kilometers (22 miles) southeast of the northern city of Mosul. The Islamic State group has bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage. (photo credit: AFP/Karim SAHIB)

IS video shows destruction of ancient Assyrian city

By AFP

Jihadist terror group releases footage showing complete demolition of Nimrud, a tentative UNESCO world heritage site

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on March 27, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/JEWEL SAMAD)

French FM in Riyadh to support Yemen coalition

By AFP

Laurent Fabius affirms that his country fully backs efforts to combat Houthi separatists in Gulf state

Naomi Firestone-Teeter: New exec has been with Jewish Book Council since 2006. (Courtesy of the Jewish Book Council/JTA)

31-year-old exec crowned the new ‘Jewish Oprah’

By Beth Kissileff

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa (photo credit: Russavia/Wikipedia)

Bolivarian blunderEcuador leader tweets ‘Heil Hitler’

Uri Ariel (Flash90)

Housing minister attends contractor-funded Mimouna party

By Rahel Jaskow

Illustrative photo of the departures board at Ben Gurion Airport. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Hundreds of Israelis stranded abroad as flights delayed

Illustrative: Passengers boarding an Egged bus in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Petition calls on MKs not to use official vehicles on Sabbath

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) seen with President Reuven Rivlin (right) at the opening session of the 20th Knesset, March 31, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud, United Torah Judaism to meet as coalition talks resume

Marie Mansourati, 83, adjusts pictures of her kidnapped son Dani, more than two decades after he was taken by Syrian troops to Damascus, at her house in Beirut on April 8, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ Joseph Eid)

Lebanon civil war still haunts families of disappeared

By Rana Moussaoui

The Ayasofya, or Hagia Sophia, museum in Istanbul, one of the most famous landmarks in the city and a former mosque and Byzantine church. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia sees first Koran reading in 85 years

By AFP

Illustrative photo of Islamist fighters in Libya (YouTube screenshot)

Two dead in attack on S. Korea embassy in Libya

By AFP

Senator Bob Corker (left), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, March 11, 2015 (photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewOn Iran, no news is no excuse

By Joshua Davidovich

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