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What Matters Most On Friday, April 1, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a visiting delegation of Indonesian journalists at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 28, 2016. (Haim Tzach, GPO)

Indonesia rebuffs Netanyahu call for normalized ties

Jakarta says its ‘support and efforts to push for the independence of Palestine will not change’

Israel, Egypt ministers hold rare meet on nuke summit sidelines

By Adiv Sterman

Israel, the hasbara nation, feted for its digital diplomacy clout

By Raphael Ahren

New NY envoy Dani Dayan walks back attack on J Street

By JTA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas talks to Channel 2 in an interview aired on Thursday, March 31, 2016 (screen capture)

Despite everything, Abbas tells Israelis, peace is attainable

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In rare TV interview, Palestinian leader says Netanyahu still a ‘partner’ for talks; PA security forces are preventing knifings; and while there’s incitement in PA media, Israel incites too

Hamas blasts Twitter’s shutdown of its accounts

By AFP and ToI Staff

Despite appeal, Hebron shooter to be held on IDF base

PM tells Hebron shooter’s dad he ‘understands his distress’

By Tamar Pileggi

Ran Baratz (screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu revives bid to appoint spokesman who called Obama anti-Semitic

PM said to finally submit Ran Baratz to vetting committee, despite history of derogatory statements; calls efforts to stymie appointment ‘absurd’

Israel Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor (seated, center) during a court hearing, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will Supreme Court’s bite out of rabbinate monopoly be upheld?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In landmark ruling aimed to embrace diversity of the Jewish people, conversions outside auspices of Israel’s religious authority are to be acceptable for immigration status. But will this decision too be ‘castrated’ by a coalition of religious MKs?

Head of Itim Rabbi Seth Farber and Supreme Court petitioner Martina Ragacova at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 30, 2015. (courtesy Itim)

State must recognize private Orthodox conversions, court says

By Adiv Sterman

Three balloons in the colors of the Belgian flag fly as people mourn for the victims of the bombings at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Operator at Belgium terror hotline fired for telling caller Israel doesn’t exist

By JTA

Interior Ministry telephone responder had ‘corrected’ Jewish caller inquiring about travel arrangements for terror attack casualties

UK Muslim school teaches that ‘Jews are plotting world domination’

SUNY Buffalo campus graffiti threatens to ‘kill all’ Jews

By Eric Cortellessa

Egyptair hijacker was abusive, boasted of killing Israelis — ex-wife

By ToI Staff and AP

Curb your enthusiasm

Jewish law and ritual protect the intense personality from the danger in the fire of religious fervor (Shemini)

Looking for women on JTA’s Twitter list

When 51% of the population is missing from the public eye, the entire community must protest their absence

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Hypocrisy hides behind the kosher laws

For meat to be fit for a religious diet, humane slaughter is not enough; the animals must be treated well

Aryeh Deri gives a statement to the media during a conference at the Ramada hotel in Jerusalem, on March 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas head Deri to face criminal probe into graft allegations

By Adiv Sterman

Interior minister, who previously served jail time for corruption, to have real estate holdings examined, says he will fully comply with authorities

Palestinian primary school teacher Hanan al-Hroub reacts after she won the second annual Global Teacher Prize, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Husband of Palestinian who won ‘world’s best teacher’ served time for terror

By JTA and Agencies

Omar al-Hroub provided chemicals used for bombs that killed six Israelis in 1980; wife Hanan recently got $1m. award for teaching non-violence

Illustrative photo of an ambulance (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Two Israelis wounded in Brussels attack flown to Israel

Chaim Winternitz and Mendy Farkash, hospitalized in Jerusalem with moderate injuries, were in Belgium for a wedding

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Erdogan in US: Istanbul attack not solely aimed at Israelis

By ToI Staff and AFP

Turkish president says in DC speech that Gaza blockade must be lifted; discusses IS with Obama on sidelines of nuclear meet

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign stop in Janesville, Wisconsin, March 29, 2016 (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

White House says Trump nuclear policy ‘catastrophic’

By AFP

As GOP front-runner proposes that allies get nukes, Obama adviser warns against changing ‘entire premise’ of US foreign policy

IDF soldiers participate in a mock raid during a naval drill in the Red Sea on March 31, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

In first, Navy drills for Islamic State hijacking at sea

By Stuart Winer

IDF forces practice contending with Egypt-based jihadists seizing a boat carrying civilians off the coast of Eilat

Birth statistics in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany (Bad Reichenhall. English. ©YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Detail)

Online DP camps collection is poster child of post-war Jewish rebirth

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The courtyard of the Maarat al-Numan Mosaics Museum in Idlib province, Syria after it was hit by government bombing, June 16, 2015. (The Day After Heritage Initiative via AP)

With jihadis at the door, Syrians rush to rescue history

By Maeva Bambuck

Undercover archaeologists and curators have been smuggling artifacts out of Islamic State territory in the hope of preserving them from looting and destruction

Greek police stand guard in front of the Moria camp while refugees demonstrate against the new deal between EU and Turkey, on March 24, 2016 in Lesbos, Greece. (AFP/Fabio Bucciarelli)

Amnesty: Turkey ‘forcing refugees en masse’ back to Syria

By AFP

Musical friends sing tribute to Yitzi Hurwitz, a Chabad emissary stricken with ALS. (YouTube)

Ray of light

ALS-struck rabbi writes hopeful musical message

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Popular Orthodox Jewish performers from across the Diaspora and Israel sing Yitzi Hurwitz’s own composition promoting peace and togetherness

Hapoel Beersheba players (in red) in action against Hapoel Afula during the semifinal of the Israeli cup at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on April 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sole woman owner in top-flight Israeli soccer leads against-the-odds title bid

By Simon Griver

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Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (photo credit: CC BY-SA Eli Itkin/Wikimedia Commons)

Ex-Mossad chief: I broke the law ‘doing what I was doing’

File: A yoga class (Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Wrong postureAirline aborts flight over angry man who wanted to do yoga

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER

An image of Aiden Katri uploaded to her Facebook page on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, together with a post explaining her decision to conscientiously object (Aiden Katri/Facebook)

Israeli transgender activist asks to go to women’s prison

By AP

This file photo taken on August 13, 2015 shows a sign above the entrance at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee. (AFP / BERTRAND GUAY)

Disney invests millions in company co-founded by Olmert’s son

By JTA

Joseph Safra in 2002 (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Jewish Brazilian billionaire charged in kickback scheme

By AP and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition has ‘serious problems,’ finance minister warns

OpGal EyeCGas camera (Courtesy)

OpGal’s camera detects the little leaks responsible for big pollution

By David Shamah

Actor and comedian Garry Shandling in 2006 (AP/Matt Sayles, File)

Farewell incenseGarry Shandling to have Buddhist funeral

By JTA

Suzi Zettel leads a yoga class (Courtesy)

A better business platform is built for fitness pros

By David Shamah

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L) talks to Shas party leader Aryeh Deri in the Knesset plenum on May 4, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe interior minister investigated yet again

By Adiv Sterman

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