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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 5, 2016

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An Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian assailant in Hebron sits in a military court hearing in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2016. (Flash90)

IDF: Enough evidence to charge Hebron soldier in killing

‘I wouldn’t have fired if I didn’t feel I was in imminent danger,’ soldier who shot wounded Palestinian stabber to death says in court, but prosecutors say he showed no signs of distress or concern

Tens of thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv in favor of mandatory military or national service, July 2012. (Tali Mayer/Flash90)

Analysis

The end of Israeli democracy?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In the cacophony of grandstanding over Israelis’ endangered liberties, one of the most profound debates in the country’s history is being missed

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests during a campaign stop at the La Crosse Center on April 4, 2016 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Seeking surprise win, Trump doubles down in Wisconsin

By Michael Mathes

‘If we do well here, folks, it’s over’ for Cruz, Republican front-runner says; Clinton risks losing state to Sanders

Sanders, Clinton finally agree to New York debate

By AFP and AP

Trump to skip Adelson’s Republican Jewish confab this weekend

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Trump denies scolding Jewish son-in-law over scuttled Israel trip

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, Lubomie Zaoralek, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem,April 4, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu responds to Abbas invite: ‘I’ll be here, any day’

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

PM reiterates willingness to meet PA leader, but says they must discuss Palestinian incitement before any peace talks

Hamas official denies stealing cement, warns of ‘explosion’

By AFP and ToI Staff

3 Palestinians to be charged for shooting attack soon — Shin Bet

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel cuts power at second Palestinian city over unpaid debt

By Raoul Wootliff and AP

Shira Roth of Jerusalem, who died in Peru after suffering altitude sickness (Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

US official says Iran won’t have access to US financial system

Defense Ministry recognizes Istanbul wounded as terror victims; bronze artifacts, 2,200 years old, found at biblical site

A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel launches probe into firms exposed in tax haven leaks

By Raoul Wootliff

Tax Authority says it will investigate if some 600 Israeli corporations and 850 shareholders evaded levies by using offshore accounts

‘Panama Papers’ show Syria regime circumvented sanctions — report

By AFP

Law firm at heart of ‘Panama Papers’ leak owned by Nazi’s son

By ToI Staff and AFP

Panama to work ‘vigorously’ to investigate offshore accounts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, 1939. (Bundesarchiv)

UK author exposes the oft-forgotten horrors of a Nazi death camp for women

By JP O’ Malley

In ‘If This Is a Woman,’ Sarah Helm goes inside Germany’s Ravensbrück, where up to 90,000 women perished during the Holocaust

Seymour Rosenbloom

Rabbis should do interfaith weddings

The Conservative Movement’s ban on officiating at such matches is out of touch with reality and human nature

Let those who are chained go free

A call for the Rabbinate to act with courage and release women trapped in unwanted marriages through get-refusal

Even impassioned aliyah is flippin’ hard

Sometimes, being a stranger in a strange land means sinking deep in the mud of self-pity

On the long history of the insidious notion that Jewish empowerment is a perversion of nature

A 2,200-year-old bronze incense shovel found at Magdala after having been cleaned in the Israel Antiquities Authority metallurgical laboratories. (Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

2,200-year-old bronze artifacts found at biblical site

By Ilan Ben Zion

Incense shovel, jug from Second Temple era unearthed at Magdala, on Sea of Galilee, during recent excavations

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset on June 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lawmaker backs segregated Jewish, Arab maternity wards

By Daniel Douek

Bezalel Smotrich says he doesn’t ‘enjoy’ Arabs’ company because they’re ‘enemies’; Bennett: They’re ‘created in God’s image’

GreenWall Israel uses blocks of plants that can be rearranged at will, seen during a tour of the greenhouse on March 23, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Tomorrow’s farmers will need ladders as green goes vertical

By Melanie Lidman

Fiamma Nirenstein attends a meeting between Israeli MKs and European delegates to discuss the relations between the European Union and the Israeli parliament in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Controversial pick for envoy to Italy finally starts vetting process

By Raphael Ahren

More than 7 months after Netanyahu’ nominated her for Rome post, Fiamma Nirenstein to appear before Civil Service Commission

A panel on Zionism that was initially removed by UN officials from an exhibit on Israel prepared by the Israeli Mission to the UN and StandWithUs set to be displayed April 4, 2016. (Israeli Mission to the UN)

UN partly backtracks on censorship of Israel exhibit

By Stuart Winer

Zionism panel goes on show at NY HQ, but panels describing status of Arab Israelis and historical importance of Jerusalem still nixed

People gather to show solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, Nov. 14, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images, via JTA)

Are French millionaires really flocking to Israel? There are reasons to be skeptical

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A new report indicates, implausibly, 2,500 extremely wealthy French emigrants headed to Israel in 2015, and that more than 10 of the 31,013 new immigrants last year were millionaires

Illustrative: People wave Israeli flags as they take part in a demonstration supporting Israel in Marseille, southeastern France, on July 27, 2014. (AFP/Boris Horvat)

French Jews protest planned closure of Israel’s Marseille consulate

By Raphael Ahren

Move would force members of Europe’s third-largest Jewish community to travel hundreds of miles to nearest mission, activists fume

A Russian air defense missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, August 27, 2013. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia again said set to deliver S-300 to Iran

By Raoul Wootliff

Senior Moscow diplomat reportedly says first shipment of anti-aircraft missile system will start in the coming days

The musically diverse members of Orphaned Land, Israel's best-known heavy metal band (Courtesy Orphaned Land)

‘Changing clothes,’ heavy metal band goes acoustic in museum gig

By Jessica Steinberg

Orphaned Land will perform with ethnic group Habrera Hativeet’s Shlomo Bar at Jerusalem’s Islamic Art Museum

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

Illustrative photo of Iranian Revolutionary Guards (@MidEastNews_Eng via Twitter/File)

Analysis

US says Iran pulling out of Syria; Tehran tells another story

By Deb Riechmann

Obama administration argues Iranian troops drawing down, even as local media reports mounting high-ranking casualties

Members of a UN investigative team take samples near the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)

IS said to carry out deadly chemical attack on Syrian army

By AFP

State media says group fired mustard gas rockets at besieged Deir el-Zour military airport; casualties unknown

Aryeh Deri, left, whispering to Isaac Herzog at a party in Jerusalem on December 23, 2015. (Yaacov Cohen/FLASH90)

Podcast

TOI talks: Alleged corruption, real disappointment

By Raoul Wootliff

More Headlines

A still from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation’s new video, which aims to introduce the Passover seder traditions using a familiar format: An airline safety tutorial (YouTube screenshot)

Recline to the leftA flight attendant’s guide to the Passover seder

By Andrew Tobin

Vegetarian food sold at the Village Green restaurant in Jerusalem, April 17, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Soda, sweets and schnitzel nixed from school menus

By Daniel Douek

Photos of meat seized by Israeli police from an Israeli-Palestinian meat smuggling ring (Courtesy/Israel Police)

Police bust Israeli-Palestinian meat smuggling ring

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli beach volleyball duo Sean Faiga and Ariel Hilman (Courtesy: IVA Facebook)

Israeli beach volleyball duo make history in Qatar

SOCCKET in action (Courtesy)

The soccer ball that lights up when kicked, and other kinetic energy converters

By David Shamah

A Palestinian archaeologist inspects artifacts excavated during the construction of a commercial building in Gaza City, April 4, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Remains of 1,500-year-old church uncovered in Gaza

By Stuart Winer

An aerial view of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel to hire another 500 Jordanians for Red Sea hotels

By AFP

Members of the 'Women of the Wall' organization wear phylacteries as they pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem on January 02, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Government gets 3-month extension for new Western Wall plaza plan

By JTA

Yair Netanyahu (left) with his parents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sara Netanyahu, chat with US talk show host Jay Leno (right) at the Jerusalem Theater, on June 18, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM’s son said pushing for appointment of spokesman who called Obama anti-Semitic

The Supreme Court in Jerusalem before the start of a discussion on the controversial agreement reached between the government and large energy companies over natural gas production, February 3, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewCourting controversy with attacks on the court

By Joshua Davidovich

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