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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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Magen David Adom medics escort an Israeli woman who flew to Israel in an emergency flight from Nepal following the earthquake there, at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 (photo credit: MDA)

216 Israelis arrive on flight from quake-ravaged Nepal

By ToI Staff and AFP

IDF personnel setting up field hospital; rescue teams airlift stranded hikers; four Israeli tourists yet to establish contact

Only 11 Israelis still unaccounted for in Nepal

Israeli paramedics in Nepal: ‘Houses just vanished’

By Melanie Lidman

Teary-eyed Israeli parents return from quake-struck Nepal

By AFP and ToI Staff

An IDF field hospital in an open field in the capital of Nepal, Kathamndu, on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. The field hospital is the biggest ever established by the IDF, Channel 2 news reported. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Live updates (closed)

IDF’s Nepal field hospital is ‘biggest ever of its kind’

By Jonathan Beck

Military coordinating arrival of sick and wounded with Nepalese army; hundreds of tents set up in Kathmandu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL/Flash90)

Analysis

Bacon sandwiches and TV crews in kitchens: 12 UK-Israel election comparisons

By David Horovitz

As David Cameron and Ed Miliband battle for the premiership, the splintering of their political system is not all they have in common with Israel

Before you join the government, Naftali

A plea to the Jewish Home party chair not to sacrifice his principles for a cabinet post

Lauren Blanchard

APPropriate search

On an Israeli start-up aiming to make order in the jumbled world of apps, and the woman who’s leading the way

Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor sits in a court room in Lueneburg, northern Germany, in the trial of 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening, April 21, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Julian Stratenschulte, Pool)

Survivor who embraced Auschwitz ‘accountant’ slammed for urging end to trials

By JTA

Eva Kor’s 49 co-plaintiffs say she shouldn’t have joined prosecution of Oskar Groening

‘No Jew-flags allowed,’ German soccer fans told

By JTA

Interior Minister Gilad Erdan (2nd R) and Director General of Magen David Adom Eli Bin (3rd R) greet parents carrying their newborn babies as they arrive in Israel from Kathmandu, April 27, 2015. (MDA)

Nepal quake gives birth to hopes for Israeli surrogacy reform

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Experts see opening for Knesset, rabbinical court to reexamine law which forces homosexual couples to seek carriers for babies abroad

JQY Executive Director Mordechai Levovitz (center, in white shirt holding sign), coordinated "Faith, Desire and Pyschotherapy," a conference held April 19 at Columbia University. (Courtesy of JQY/ via JTA)

Orthodox rabbis agonize over the hitherto unthinkable: LGBTQ inclusion

By Gabe Friedman

A demolished house in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, December 2010 (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)

Israeli Arabs stage general strike over home demolitions

By AFP

Arabs constitute 20% of population but only 4.6% of new homes are built in their areas, rights group says

Illustrative: A security fence around a Jewish settlement in the West Bank (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian dies a day after clash with IDF in West Bank

18-year-old shot by soldiers in attempt to cross security barrier succumbs to his wounds; army says it’ll open an inquiry

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rally commemorating the fifth anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 2009. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90, file)

PA employee arrested for claiming Arafat was ‘not a martyr’

By Elhanan Miller

Abu Dis resident held for endorsing a Facebook comment written by his niece, who faces expulsion from university

An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars at a Syrian village from an army post on the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Two mortar shells fired from Syria into Israel

No casualties or damage as projectiles fall near Golan Heights kibbutz, in apparent spillover from fighting across the border

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a February 4, 2015, visit to an army position on Mount Hermon (photo credit: AP Photo/ Baz Ratner, pool)

Analysis

For Israel and Hezbollah, a high-stakes balancing act

By Mitch Ginsburg

On the periphery of the Syrian civil war, the two foes angle for advantages, risking all-out conflict

Soldiers patrol on the Israeli-Syrian border near the town of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, on April 26, 2015, after armed forces killed four militants trying to plant a bomb near the border. (photo credit: AFP/Jalaa Marey)

Brothers killed in thwarted border attack sons of Israeli Druze

By Tamar Pileggi

US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman speaks to the press in Jerusalem on February 22, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Top US official intimates UN veto policy could change

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and Raphael Ahren

New Netanyahu coalition must prove commitment to two-state solution, Wendy Sherman tells Jewish gathering

Blade Nzimande (photo credit: State Department / Wikipedia)

South African minister vows to visit Ramallah despite Israeli ban

By Raphael Ahren

Pretoria will ‘take action’ if Blade Nzimande not allowed to enter Israel, spokesman says

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from the balcony of his room at the Maadi military hospital in Cairo on November 29, 2014. (AFP/Al-Watan newspaper/Mohamed Nabil)

Mubarak: Israel tried to renege on part of ’79 peace deal

By Tamar Pileggi

Ousted Egyptian president asserts Israel ‘deceptively’ laid claim to Taba, a small Sinai border town

Israeli youth chant outside an Arab store in the Old City during Jerusalem Day's 'flag march,' May 21, 2009. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Before Jerusalem Day march, opponents aim to thwart racism

By Elhanan Miller

More Headlines

Chelsea's owner Roman Abramovich (right) applauds as striker Didier Drogba holds up the Champions League trophy, May 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Roman empire‘Jewish’ Chelsea is Mideast’s top team

The world's smallest bible, printed on a silicon chip the size of a grain of sugar. (photo courtesy of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Holy techIsrael Museum shows world’s tiniest bible

By Gabe Friedman

Nicki Minaj and young admirers at Matt Murstein's bar mitzvah (photo credit: Instagram via JTA)

Bar Mitzvah blastNicki Minaj turns NY boys into men

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Haredi neighborhood has NYC’s highest birth rate

By JTA

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaking at the 2013 Liberty Political Action Conference. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons/ via JTA)

Rand Paul faces tough questions from Orthodox Jewish crowd

MK Yinon Magal leaves a press conference after a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 22, 2015 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

MK says ex-Foreign Ministry head guilty of ‘treason’

By Judah Ari Gross

Meretz MK Zehava Galon. December 25, 2013. (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Meretz leader meets Netanyahu, slams proposed court reforms

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of a construction site in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, on September 7, 2014 (Flash90)

Israeli home prices going nowhere but up, say experts

By David Shamah

For artist Andi Arnovitz, her latest collection of collages, titled 'Threatened Beauty,' is an opportunity to wonder about the culture, people and regimes threatening Iran and Iraq ('In Tehran do they kiss their children goodnight too', Courtesy Andi Arnovitz)

Threatened beautyA collage of nuclear art

By Jessica Steinberg

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mylan rebuffs Teva again; calls bid low, insincere

By AFP

Survivors of the massive earthquake in Nepal a few days ago arrive at Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv on a Magen David Adom aircraft, April 27, 2015. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHere to save the day?

By Joshua Davidovich

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