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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 30, 2015

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A helicopter searching for Israeli trekkers in the Langtang region of Nepal. ( photo credit: Chabad.org/Chabad of Nepal)

Father and IDF unit ramp up Nepal search for last missing Israeli

By Judah Ari Gross

Rescuers think they have narrowed down area where 22-year-old army vet Or Asraf may be

Dispatch from NepalFor Israeli trekker rescued from remote cave, satphone no laughing matter

By Melanie Lidman

Rescuers take on hungry locals and destroyed roads to extract Israelis

By Mitch Ginsburg

On first day, IDF field hospital in Nepal treats nearly 100, delivers baby

By ToI Staff and AP

Dina Lichtman with her parents Bella Cypris and Roman Lichtman in a 1949 photo taken at the Bergen-Belsen DP camp that they used for a Jewish New Year's greeting card. (photo credit: courtesy of Dina Lichtman)

For Bergen-Belsen ‘babies,’ fond memories amid a scarred landscape

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Gathered for 70th anniversary of concentration camp’s liberation, second-generation survivors born in DP camp discuss their unique shared identity

Ethiopian Israelis clash with police officers at the bottom of Agron Street in Jerusalem, on Thursday, April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Ilana Brown)

Live updates (closed)

Jerusalem mayor huddles with protesters, trying to calm violence

By Jonathan Beck

Police use tear gas, fire hoses in effort to disperse demonstration of Ethiopian Israelis that devolves into riot

Haviv Rettig Gur

Israel doesn’t care what you think

Delivering emergency relief to a devastated Nepal is not a bid for anyone’s affection

Why more US Jews are voting Republican

Obama’s ongoing disregard for Jewish Americans’ concerns is prompting an exodus from the Democratic camp

My equally Black & Jewish family

Raising her kids to love both parents’ cultures and seeking commonalities other than who was killed where

Coming up — more corruption

What will the Jewish Home party do with the Settlement Division and its half-billion shekel budget? It’s a secret

Empowering girls to exit the gray zone

A Jerusalem-based NGO is proving the verbal, physical and emotional tools to stand up for themselves

Al-Jazeera America newsroom in New York (photo credit: AP/Bebeto Matthews/File)

Al Jazeera America boss ‘wished Israel supporters a fiery death in hell’

By JTA

Fired employee sues network for $15 million, alleging hostile work environment that included ‘discriminatory, anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with UTJ's Meir Porush in the Knesset, on April 29, 2015, after the two parties signed a coalition agreement. To Netanyahu's right is UTJ leader Yaakov Litzman. (Courtesy, Likud Party)

Securing first partners, Likud inks coalition deals with Kulanu, UTJ

By ToI Staff and Daniel Bernstein

Kahlon’s faction to get raft of ministries; ultra-Orthodox party lands powerful Knesset Finance Committee and roll back of reforms

Counting ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, March 18, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

PM said backing law to allow Israelis living abroad to vote

Likud official reportedly says legislation aims to increase proportion of Jewish voters at polls to reduce number of Arab MKs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by members of Congress prior to addressing a joint session on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, March 3, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

Netanyahu’s Iran speech to Congress carried NIS 6m price tag

Of the 9.3 million shekels approved for government travel expenses in 2015, 7.2 million were for the prime minister

A Hamas tunnel discovered by soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade in the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Plan for US-Israel anti-tunnel R&D project clears first House hurdle

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Congressional committee okays amendment for an Iron Dome-style joint program designed to combat terror tunnels

Rabbi Daniel Burg joins African-American faith leaders and thousands of volunteers to clean up west Baltimore, April 2015. (Courtesy: Daniel Burg)

Baltimore Jews try to mend racial rifts as city simmers

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

‘Folks who looted stores, set cars on fire certainly weren’t justified,’ says local rabbi, but there are ‘clearly deep issues of race and class and power in this city’

Illustrative image: A woman in a conversion court. (Flash90)

If Israel toughens its conversion laws, a nail in the coffin of ties with Diaspora Jews?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is interviewed by David Ignatius of the Washington Post, during his appearance, hosted by the Center on International Cooperation, at New York University, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Iran FM says nuke deadline not ‘sacrosanct’

Zarif says Tehran expects sanctions to be lifted within a few days of full agreement with P5+1

Palestinian youths throw stones during clashes with Israeli Border Police in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, in Jerusalem, following Friday prayers on November 7, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘6-year-old Palestinian boy arrested, held for 8 hours’

Parents of east Jerusalem minor summoned to facility where he was kept after he threw stones, police say

File: Israeli activists demonstrate across from the Prime Minister's Residence demanding to end the blockade on Gaza, April 29, 2015 (photo credit: Free Jerusalem Facebook page)

Demos in 3 Israeli cities urge an end to Gaza blockade

By Elhanan Miller

Jerusalem protesters say Israeli policies radicalize Palestinians; Hamas violently disperses parallel rally in Gaza

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony in Tbilisi on April 23, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/VANO SHLAMOV)

Belarus president raps Jewish governor for not keeping Jews ‘under control’

By JTA

In televised address, Alexander Lukashenko says Belarusian Jews ‘white boned,’ meaning they do not enjoy menial work

The one-man show of Xavier Le Roy's 'Self Unfinished' at the Israel Festival (Photo credit: Katrin Schoof)

At Israel Festival, all of Jerusalem’s a stage

By Jessica Steinberg

On the left, a pepper and lettuce leaf treated with the new solution after a week without refrigeration; on the right, untreated produce (Photo credit; Courtesy)

New solution to keep veggies fresh for a month, sans fridge

By David Shamah

Hebrew University researchers showcase new technology at Israel’s top international agricultural exhibition

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President Reuven Rivlin with the children of Nepal Chabad emissaries Rabbi Chezky and Chani Lifshitz, who arrived in Israel April 29, 2015 as the situation in Nepal worsens. (Photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin meets kids of Nepal Chabad emissaries

By JTA

Picking up free comics at Comikaza during last year's Free Comic Book Day (Courtesy Comikaza)

Funny pagesA day of comic book heaven

By Jessica Steinberg

Video shows woman setting gas pump on fire in Jerusalem (screen capture: YouTube)

Pumped upWoman sets fire to car in gas station

By Daniel Bernstein

Apple's new Herzliya R&D center (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Apple seeks to expand its new Israel R&D center

By David Shamah

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Las Vegas (photo credit: AP/Julie Jacobson)

Scott Walker planning to keep press away during Israel trip

By Judah Ari Gross

Footage showing a car ramming into pedestrians in Jerusalem on April 15, 2015. Screen capture: Youtube)

Police release hit-and-run terror attack footage

By ToI Staff and AFP

Director and actor Woody Allen at the French premiere of 'Blue Jasmine,' in Paris, August 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Christophe Ena, File)

No shockers hereWoody Allen’s new film is a known script

By JTA

Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon at the launch event of his party's youth campaign at the Morphium Club in Tel Aviv, February 12, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMoshe Kahlon, the Knesset’s new king

By Adiv Sterman

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