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What Matters Most On Monday, April 20, 2015

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File: An F-35 taking off for its first night flight on January 18, 2012. (US Air Force/ Tom Reynolds)

Could Israeli F-35s turn the tables on Iranian S-300 missiles?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Purchase of the costly jets has provoked years of controversy. But with Russia now to deliver its air-defense system to Iran, the IAF’s chief acquisition officer stands firmly behind much-maligned aircraft

On Iran trip, Australian FM brokers intel-sharing deal

By AFP

Iran leader derides ‘silly’ US threats, but urges his military to be ‘prepared’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iran FM urges ‘regional dialogue,’ resolution of Yemen conflict

Arab Israeli TV presenter Lucy Aharish (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

A survivor of terror, Israel’s first Arab news presenter is done being a victim

By Elhanan Miller

Lucy Aharish, chosen to light a torch on Independence Day, tells of her journey from Dimona to prime-time television

Anti-assimilation group to protest honor for Arab-Israeli journalist

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

German FM warns against racism 70 years after camps’ liberation

By AFP

Steinmeier says country should look at Nazi past to confront modern xenophobia; praises relations with Israel, Jewish community

SS ‘accountant of Auschwitz’ going on trial in Germany

By David Rising

Hungarian Holocaust survivors thank American rescuers

By Pablo Gorondi

Poles mark 72nd anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising

By JTA

Pope Francis at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Pope condemns ‘worrying’ surge in anti-Semitism

By Jonathan Beck

Francis speaks at meeting with Conference of European Rabbis (CER), a first since organization’s founding in 1956

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

How social media freed a chained woman

When the rabbinical court balked at issuing a divorce certificate, Facebook helped galvanize a swift response

My Rebbe is gone

Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein was a once-in-a-generation scholar who saw the complexity of humanity and the world

Remembering Michael

A US-born ‘lone soldier’ killed 9 years ago left a legacy of passion and inspired a haven for others like him

IDF Chief of Staff, Gabi Eizenkott, solutes during a flag laying ceremony in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2015, ahead of Memorial Day. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

23,320 Israeli flags being placed on graves of fallen soldiers

Military officials lay flags in cemeteries across country to commemorate IDF troops ahead of Memorial Day

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers and bereaved families visit the graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 5, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

100 bereaved families try to prevent Israel-Palestinian memorial event

By Elhanan Miller

Joint Tel Aviv ceremony for fallen is ‘like commemorating Eichmann on Holocaust Day,’ say protesters, urging Defense Ministry to ban entry for Palestinian participants

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)

Rivlin grants Netanyahu 2 more weeks for coalition talks

By ToI Staff and AP

Amid tense negotiations, prime minister has until May 7 to deliver a government or risk losing a fourth term as premier

This undated image made from a video released by Islamic State militants on April 19, 2015, appears to show the killing of a group of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya. (Militant video via AP)

Islamic State releases video of killing of Christians in Libya

By Jon Gambrell and Merrit Kennedy

In 29-minute clip, jihadist group purports to show its own mass slaughter of Ethiopian captives on North African beach

Islamic State fighters in Libya, April 19 2015 (screen capture: Dailymotion)

US rages over IS ‘atrocity’ against Christians in Libya

By AFP

Head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sharansky raps US for ‘loss of moral self-confidence’ on Iran

Former Soviet political prisoner says America ‘lost the courage of its convictions’ by not requiring Tehran change its behavior as condition for a nuclear deal

Sima Vaknin-Gil. (Wikimedia Commons/Hidro, CC BY-SA 3.0)

IDF censor urges probe over possible leak of top-secret info

Brig. Gen. Sima Vaknin-Gil says report in Haaretz on Israeli-Iranian financial dealings caused ‘serious harm’ to national security

Detail of a wall painting in the women's section of the Ades Synagogue, painted by Yaakov Stern in 1912. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Century after artist’s death, Jerusalem synagogue restores mural masterpiece

By Ilan Ben Zion

Panoramic view of Prague (David Iliff/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Hundreds march in Prague against anti-Semitism

By JTA

Protesters wave Israeli flags during demonstration organized by branch of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem

In this image provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, meets with CIA director John Brennan, center, and the director of Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate Khaled Fawzy in Cairo, Sunday, April 19, 2015. (Egyptian Presidency via AP)

Amid tensions, CIA chief pays surprise visit to Egypt

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

US-Egypt relations have been strained since President Sissi’s 2013 overthrow of elected president Mohammed Morsi

In this January 3, 2011 photo, Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian court drops case against ex-Gaza strongman

By AFP

Top former Fatah official Dahlan, a rival of Abbas, cleared of role in misuse of $17 million

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Facebook post helps ‘chained’ woman win her freedom

By Rahel Jaskow

A woman who waited 4 years for her divorce was almost denied by the religious court — until a women’s social media group came to the rescue

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Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, head of the Har Etzion yeshiva and winner of the 2014 Israel prize. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Renowned Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein dies at 81

Elio Toaff in Rome, circa 1985 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/indeciso42 Free Document)

Chief rabbi of Rome of 51 years dies at 99

By JTA

Women dance with a Torah scroll as they attend a monthly prayer service at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, on April 20, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In first, Women of the Wall pray with full-sized Torah scroll

Illustrative: An Airbus A321 cockpit. (Ercan Karakas/GNU free/Wikipedia)

Love is in the air‘Pilots should marry to avoid crashes’

Members of the Palestinian special police forces wait to compete during the 7th Annual International Warrior Competition hosted by the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), Sunday, April 19, 2015, Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan hosts international anti-terror competition

By AP

Todd Barry (photo credit: Francine Daveta)

Comic a-comingComedian Todd Barry to play TLV

By Jessica Steinberg

The TabTale family of characters (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Kids’ game king TabTale nabs US game maker

By David Shamah

A sign warns of polluted water outside the northern city of Haifa on May 18, 2013. (Shay Levy/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewBattle of the bay

By Joshua Davidovich

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