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What Matters Most On Friday, April 17, 2015

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Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (screen capture: YouTube/News TvN)

Australian FM heads to Tehran but local Jews, Israel publicly unfazed

By Raphael Ahren

Advocacy groups don’t protest Julie Bishop’s historic trip, merely urging her to condemn Iran’s anti-Israel agitation and support for terrorism

Iran nuclear talks to resume next week in Vienna

By AFP and ToI Staff

US: Military option on Iran ‘intact’ despite Russian missiles

By AFP

Obama could ease many Iranian sanctions without Congress

By Deb Riechmann

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in Jerusalem on December 22, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

FM compares labels on settler products to Nazi yellow star

Liberman calls EU diplomats’ demand to identify settlement goods ‘hypocritical, sanctimonious and cynical’

French PM launches action plan against anti-Semitism, racism

By AFP and ToI Staff

Daycare teacher pins ‘Jude’ stars on 3-year-olds

By Marissa Newman

Thousands march at Auschwitz to remember the Holocaust

By JTA

Obama’s hide-the-ball trick not funny

US Democratic senators voted for robust debate on the Iran deal, declining to be bulldozed by the president

Fire: Holy and unholy

Aaron’s sons die in this weeks Torah reading because they did “that which was not commanded” in the one arena where God forbids free will (Shemini)

Illustrative photo of migrants arriving at Palermo's harbor, Italy, after being rescued at sea, April 15, 2015. (AP/Alessandro Fucarini)

Italy police: Muslims threw Christians overboard during Med voyage

By Nicole Winfield

In recent crossing from Libya, officials say at least 12 were tossed from ship, 41 feared drowned in separate incident

President Reuven Rivlin at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 16, 2015. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In Holocaust Day comments, Rivlin invokes Palestinian victims in Yarmouk

By Jonathan Beck and Marissa Newman

At closing Remembrance Day ceremony, president says Israel must not turn a blind eye to humanity’s horrors

In its first three days, the crowdsourced fundraising campaign for Kosher Switch almost met its $50,000 goal. (photo credit: JTA/Kosher Switch video)

Is Kosher Switch really kosher for Shabbat?

By Uriel Heilman

A tunnel found in the northern Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces, August 3, 2014. (IDF spokesperson/Flash90)

Israel deploying revolutionary anti-tunnel system on Gaza border

By Daniel Bernstein

Detection mechanism for Hamas attack tunnels successfully tested, now to be expanded; residents cautiously welcome protection

Portraits of members of the Hamas terror group who are jailed in Israeli prisons, seen during a demonstration in their support in the West Bank city of Hebron, on April 15, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/HAZEM BADER)

Hamas: It’s ‘our right’ to abduct Israelis to free prisoners

By AFP

Police investigate the scene where a driver rammed his car into a bus stop in French Hill, Jerusalem, on April 15, 2015. (photo credit: Fire and Rescue Services)

Car-ramming suspect’s wife insists fatal crash was accident

By Itamar Sharon

Spouse of Khaled Koutineh, who hit two people at a Jerusalem bus stop, says her husband has no interest in politics

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig/File)

Power: US won’t dismiss anti-Israel UN resolutions

By JTA

US envoy to UN doesn’t rule out advancing decisions targeting Israel but says Washington will be there ‘when it matters’

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

PM meets Bennett, Liberman as coalition talks drag on

Jewish Home, Yisrael Beytenu continue to present tough demands as Netanyahu tries to placate all potential partners

FBI director James Comey speaking at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Tribute dinner in Washington, April 15, 2015. (Photo credit: Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

FBI director: Holocaust museum program a must for new agents

By JTA

Agency has participated in educational effort — developed in conjunction with ADL — since 2009

Illustrative: The B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) commemorating the heroism of Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust, April 16, 2015, in the Martyrs Forest near Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir)

Is it time to honor Jews who rescued Jews in the Holocaust?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Mor Assia (L) and Shelly Hod-Moyal (Photo credit: Courtesy)

iAngels helps little guy make ‘me too’ investments

By David Shamah

Successful angels share their success with ‘ordinary’ investors, facilitated by an Israeli platform

President Reuven Rivlin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, March 29, 2015 (photo credit: Courtesty Tomer Reichmann)

Israel, India team up to cure cancer

By David Shamah

Indian generic drugmaker giant Sun Pharma to work with Technion to explore new ways to fight tumors

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Blacksmith Michael Poitner works on a replica of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp gate with the writing "Arbeit macht frei" (Work Sets you Free) in Biberbach near Dachau, Germany, Thursday, April 16, 2015. The original gate was stolen in November 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Matthias Schrader)

German blacksmith creates replica of stolen Dachau camp gate

By AP

Molly Horwitz, a Stanford junior running for the student senate, says the question about her Jewish identity in an endorsement interview with a university group was over the line. (photo credit: J. weekly via Facebook)

Stanford student group rejects anti-Semitism accusations

By Drew Himmelstein

A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Could marijuana help fight cancer?

By David Shamah

Illustrative: A Turkish Airlines flight on the runway at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 3, 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Turkish terrorBomb hoax sends plane back to Istanbul

By AP

Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer presents his credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Twitter/Amb. Ron Dermer)

Kiss and make upIs US making nice with Israel?

LogoGateClinton logo looks like Hadassah’s

By JTA

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posts a nine-point plan for the annihilation of Israel on Twitter (screen capture: Twitter)

Twitter cracks down on racist posts, threats

By Glenn Chapman

Illustrative photo of a plate of hummus (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Popular PasteHow Sabra hummus conquered America

By Uriel Heilman

Shalom Sherki, 25, who was killed in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood (screen capture)

Hebrew media reviewJudge and fury

By Ilan Ben Zion

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