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What Matters Most On Monday, April 4, 2016

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Paul Ryan (left), interviewed by Times of Israel editor David Horovitz in Jerusalem on April 3, 2016. (Courtesy)

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Israel ‘our indispensable ally’ in war on Islamic terror, says Paul Ryan on visit to Jerusalem

By David Horovitz

House Speaker calls for ‘generational strategy’ to win over hearts and minds in the Muslim world; warns Iran will make supporters ‘rue the day’ they backed the nuclear deal; says nobody should try to force Israel ‘into an insecure position’

Paul Ryan in Israel dismisses talk of being Republicans’ compromise pick

By David Horovitz

Netanyahu denies telling senator he’s concerned by GOP anti-Muslim rhetoric

Trump calls on Kasich to quit race: ‘He’s taking my votes’

By Jill Colvin and Josh Lederman

Border Police officer Hadar Cohen, 19, was killed in a terror attack at Damascus Gate outside of Jerusalem's Old City on February 3, 2016. (Israel Police)

Security forces demolish homes of policewoman’s killers

Meanwhile, family of Israeli killed in rock attack ‘disappointed’ with ruling to seal the home of only one of his attackers

Brother of Duma firebombing victim arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

Soldier claims he was stabbed; police skeptical

By Judah Ari Gross

Court cancels home demolitions over deadly September attack

Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during the 2016 Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington, DC, December 3, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Live updates (closed)

Trump to skip Republican Jewish Congress confab at weekend

By Joshua Davidovich

Republican front-runner turns down invitation by Adelson-hosted event; Campaign denies billionare businessman scolded Jewish son-in-law over Israel visit

Einat Wilf addresses the Knesset, October 15, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Why hasn’t Israel shut down binary options scam? A former MK describes how she tried

By Simona Weinglass

Five years ago, Einat Wilf realized forex/binary options was, at best, an industry founded on illegal gambling. But she was outflanked by lobbyists, and defeated by regulators and her Knesset colleagues — whose inability to grapple with the complexities has echoes of ‘The Big Short’

Bernie Sanders speaking to supporters at a rally in Seattle, Washington, March 20, 2016. (Matt Mills McKnight/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders: ‘I did not compare Trump to Hitler’

By JTA

Jewish Democratic candidate spoke at town hall meeting of ‘what a lunatic can do by stirring up racial hatred,’ but stresses later that he didn’t draw direct parallel

The house always wins

Despite recent legal steps against binary options and forex scams, stopping the theft is an uphill battle

Skipping school on Memorial Day

Israeli education on wars and the Holocaust aims to produce an in-the-box thinking mass of future IDF recruits

My Muslim comrade in kashrut

On that moment when an Orthodox Jew meets somebody who checks the ingredients to be sure there’s no pork

Marseille needs an Israeli consulate

Shutting the office will deprive Europe’s second-largest Jewish community of services and reward Israel’s enemies

A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama City, April 3, 2016. (AP/Arnulfo Franco)

600 Israeli companies, 850 shareholders listed in Panama data leak

By ToI Staff and Agencies

11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm reveal offshore companies of heads of state, celebrities, businessmen

Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)

Weizmann-developed drug may be speedy prostate cancer cure, studies show

By David Shamah

In a trial, a photosynthesis-based therapy eliminates cancer in over 80% of patients – and could be used to attack other cancers, too

Screenshot of the information on the contract between the FBI and Cellebrite

Gov’t contract a strong sign FBI used Israeli tech to crack San Bernardino iPhone

By David Shamah

Cellebrite says it can unlock Apple devices — and the GSA website shows the agency signing a deal with Cellebrite for ‘services.’ Coincidence?

Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan (Kobi Gideon/Flash90, File)

Netanyahu the ‘worst manager,’ kept changing his mind, spymaster said before he died

In comments published posthumously, Meir Dagan claims PM puts personal interests above those of the state; also says no military action could completely stop Iran’s nuclear program

Sen. Ben Cardin speaking at a news conference with other leading Democratic senators at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 19, 2015. (JTA/Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Caught between White House and its critics, lawmaker pledges to renew Iran sanctions

Top Democrat Ben Cardin, one of 4 who joined Republicans to oppose nuke deal, intends to seek reauthorization of punitive measures before year’s end

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (R) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold a press conference at the Capitol Hill in Rome on January 25, 2016.
(Tiziana Fabi/AFP)

Italy PM set to be first major world leader to visit Iran

By AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani (center) and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (right) in Doha, Qatar, on August 21, 2014 (AFP/PPO/Thaer Ghanem)

Analysis

Hamas and Fatah take tentative steps toward unity

By Avi Issacharoff

Arch rivals meet in Qatar to iron out differences but chairmanship of Palestinian parliament remains a sticking point

During an April 3, 2016 conference at Harvard University, keynote speakers Ala Sader (left) and Gai Hetzroni discuss Israeli-Palestinian economic ties (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

At Harvard, sparks fly over Israeli-Palestinian economic ties

By Matt Lebovic

Arab-Israeli Knesset Member Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, February 12, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK ‘ashamed’ over Abbas saying PA would stop attacks

Basel Ghattas accuses the Palestinian Authority president of trying to suck up to Israelis by taking a conciliatory tone against knifings

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (right) and Supreme Court President Miriam Naor attend the opening event of the new magistrate's court in Beit Shemesh on March 29, 2016. (Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Justice minister takes fresh aim at Supreme Court over gas deal

At Bar Association conference, Shaked accuses court of ‘exceeding authority’ by becoming involved in ‘political’ issues

A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)

Freed from Auschwitz, UK survivors seeking reparations found a wall instead

By Jenni Frazer

More Headlines

Flags of member nations flying in front of United Nations headquarters in New York, September 25, 2015. (JTA/Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images)

UN censors exhibit on Israel set for NY headquarters

By JTA

'Open a Door to Israel' (Israel's MFA)

Paris vandals tear down signs for Israel exhibit at Louvre

By JTA

This file photo taken on February 20, 2016 shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump patting his expecting daughter Ivanka Trump while celebrating victory in the South Carolina primary in Spartanburg, South Carolina. (AFP / JIM WATSON)

Dick move?Mugwump Trump dumps brit to stump instead

Aviva Nash (far left) and the drummers from Drum Cafe, which she hopes will bring together Arabs and Jews in Israel. (Courtesy Drum Cafe Israel)

Percussions for peaceDrumroll, please… and coexistence

By Jessica Steinberg

Icelandic strongman and actor Hafthór 'Thor' Björnsson stars in an April Fools' Day prank campaign for SodaStream, which rolled out March 31, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Joust kidding‘Game of Thrones’ villain stars in SodaStream prank

William Shakespeare (John Taylor, National Portrait Gallery, Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

She-kespeare?Shakespeare was a Jewish woman, spoke Hebrew, book claims

A light plane after it made an emergency landing in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tel Aviv, on April 3, 2016. (AFP / JACK GUEZ)

Light plane crash-lands in sea off Tel Aviv coast

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

A new tsunami warning sign placed at the Ashkelon beach in time for a national drill on April 4, 2016. (Ashkelon Municipality)

Emergency services drill tsunami along southern coast

By Tamar Pileggi

One of the photos of a Papua New Guinea tribe documented by MyHeritage (Courtesy)

Israeli genealogical site digitizes Papua New Guinea’s traditions

By David Shamah

Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel records stable growth, lowest jobless rate in decades

By AFP

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