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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 6, 2016

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Former president Moshe Katsav, left, serving a seven-year sentence for rape, seen with his wife, Gila, leaving Ma'asiyahu Prison for a furlough over the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 3, 2015. (Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav denied early release from prison

Citing his refusal to admit guilt in rape case, parole board unanimously decides against lopping off last third of 7-year sentence; lawyer promises to appeal

Emergency services at the scene of a suicide bombing on a busy shopping street in Istanbul, Turkey on March 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Live updates (closed)

At least one dead in Hadera apartment block blaze

By Marissa Newman

111,000 Israelis said heading to Turkey over Passover holiday despite travel warning, a month after IS bombing killed 3 Israelis in Istanbul

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, waves to the crowd with his wife, Jane Sanders, during a campaign rally at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming, on April 5, 2016. (Blaine McCartney/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP)

Analysis

Seven times worse than Hamas: Bernie Sanders by the numbers

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The Democratic candidate was unavailable Tuesday to correct his casual traducing of Israel via a grossly inflated Gaza death toll. He was doubtless too busy winning Wisconsin. Heaven help us

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to guests at a campaign rally at the Wisconsin Convention Center on April 4, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Inflating toll, Sanders suggests Israel killed ‘over 10,000 innocents’ in Gaza

By Eric Cortellessa

Democratic hopeful acknowledges he’s not sure of figures, but accuses Israel of indiscriminate attacks, says it must improve ties with Palestinians to improve US ties

Sanders, Cruz emerge victorious in Wisconsin primaries

By AP and AFP

After AIPAC speeches, Israelis still prefer Clinton to Trump

By JTA

Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s newspaper says it will stop helping the candidate

By JTA

Newborn baby in the obstetrics ward at EMMS Nazareth Hospital, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Our preemies, sittin’ by the fire

By Hilary Faverman

As she worried together with an Arab mother over their tiny babies, hooked up to monitors, politics disappeared

Sue Levi Elwell

A women’s priestly blessing at the Kotel

This Passover at the Wall, a white-clad sea of men and, yes, women in prayer shawls will all seek God’s favor

Andrew Silow-Carroll

A new, improved ‘Jewish Twitter’ ranking

The JTA responds to a Times of Israel blog blasting their mostly-male, all-white list as not inclusive enough

And grant you peace

The amazing tale of one of the greatest archeological discoveries ever, and the profound message it contained

Israeli police near the scene of a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Palestinian donations buy a new house for terrorist’s family

By Avi Issacharoff

Millions of shekels gifted toward the rebuilding of attackers’ homes demolished by Israeli army

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

Soldier who killed disarmed Palestinian won’t go back to jail

Military court rejects prosecution’s request, ruling suspect can remain on base; defense minister launches broadside at soldier’s supporters

The father, center, of 21-year-old Palestinian Abdul Fatah al-Sharif, who was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier on March 24 as he lay on the ground while apparently seriously wounded from earlier gunshot wounds, listens on during a press conference at the governor's office in the West Bank town of Hebron on April 4, 2016. (AFP / HAZEM BADER)

Family of Hebron attacker shot by soldier threatens to sue state

File: Emergency services inspecting the area following a suicide bombing in central Istanbul, Turkey, March 19, 2016. (Burak Kara/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli victims of Istanbul bomb recognized as terror victims

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Reasonable’ to assume attack deliberately targeted Israelis, says Defense Ministry; victims and families to get state benefits

Brussels bombing survivor Walter Benjamin makes a phone call as he rests in his bed in Jette University Hospital in the city on Sunday, April 3, 2016 (AP Photo/Helene Franchineau)

One post at a time, Jewish Brussels bombing survivor shares his healing

By DANICA KIRKA and HELENE FRANCHINEAU

Walter Benjamin uses social media to cope with his loss, praises Muslim ‘mensch’ who helped him in aftermath of airport blasts

Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, October 9, 2013. (CC BY 4.0 Tasnim News/Wikipedia)

Top Iranian general warns against using nuclear deal as ‘model’

By AFP

Revolutionary Guards head says accord, spearheaded by President Hassan Rouhani, is a source for Iranian humiliation

State Department Undersecretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr., testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on recent Iranian actions and implementation of the nuclear deal, on Capitol Hill, Washington, April 5, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Official says Iran to get no access to US financial system

By Richard Lardner

Undersecretary of state for political affairs quashes rumors of relaxing dollar trade bans on Tehran

Joseph F. Dunford Jr., then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks with soldiers assigned to the Multinational Force and Observers at the el-Gorah Camp in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on February 21, 2016. (D. Myles Cullen/US Department of Defense)

Fearing jihadis, US said to mull pulling troops from north Sinai

By Dov Lieber and AFP

As Egypt struggles to provide security for peacekeeping force, American officials reportedly say Israeli-Egyptian border can be monitored by unmanned technology instead

Supporters of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group watch a televised speech by leader Hassan Nasrallah in the southern town of Insar, Lebanon, March 6, 2016. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)

Egypt satellite operator drops Hezbollah mouthpiece Al-Manar

By AFP

Move comes ahead of visit to Cairo by Saudi Arabian king, amid Gulf crackdown on Lebanese Shiite group

Police at the scene of a shooting incident in Jerusalem on March 27, 2016. (Flash90)

Police clear East Jerusalem ‘pro-terror garden’

Public security minister vows to bring culprits to justice, says police determined to prevent incitement to attack

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

Israeli, Palestinian leaders bicker over peace on Twitter

TV call by Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations kickstarts testy dialogue between Foreign Ministry, PLO department

Publisher Tina Brown, left, interviewing Rebecca Heller, co-founder and director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, at an event in New York honoring Heller as the 2015 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize, April 4, 2016. (Bill Stanton)

Meet the ‘intensely neurotic’ Jew saving the world’s refugees

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Rebecca Heller awarded Charles Bronfman Prize for work providing free legal services to those fleeing war, persecution

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Amnesty: Dramatic increase in executions in 2015

By AP

1,634 put to death; Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan account for 90% of capital punishments worldwide

The F-35 Lightning II during a refueling test near the Patuxent River in Maryland on September 5, 2014. (Layne Laughter/Lockheed Martin)

If the F-35 fighter jet is so awesome, why is it so hated?

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helps lay the National Library's new cornerstone, while National Library chairman David Bloomberg, speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, and Menachem Ben-Sasson, president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, look on, April 5, 2016.. (Courtesy Albatross)

Dignitaries and donors fete Israel’s new national library

By Jessica Steinberg

Cornerstone-laying ceremony brings out the prime minister and the president, who vow to donate their fathers’ archives and writings

Zehava and Herzl Shaul said they have no definitive proof that their son Oron died after he was captured by Hamas in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. (JTA/Ben Sales)

For parents of soldiers lost in Gaza, the war never ended

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Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, May 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Mossad chief Dagan’s corneas give sight back to 2 Israelis

Romanian chief anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Israelis arrested for spying on Romanian anti-corruption czar

By Raoul Wootliff

A Jewish man looks towards the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, 2013. (AP Photo/Simone Camilli)

Jews pose as Muslims to enter Temple Mount, are stopped

Illustrative: Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock 'apartheid wall' in front of the iconic Low Library steps during Israel Apartheid Week, March 3, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA/File)

AnalysisIs liberal Zionism dead on North American college campuses?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

File: Fish being prepared in a Ramle factory (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Virus killing one of world’s most farmed fish, Israeli study finds

By AFP

Illustrative (Pig via Shutterstock)

Scientists a step closer to pig hearts for humans

By Mariëtte Le Roux

Robert Ejness, Director General of CRIF, the French Jewish umbrella organizations, left, during an interview with Vice News. (YouTube/Vice News)

French Jews said to be pulling their kids from state schools

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Dr. Fabiano Serfaty was stabbed in an upscale neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro on April 1, 2016. (Screenshot/E de Casa)

‘Frozen’ impersonator arrested in Rio stabbing of celebrity Jewish doctor

By JTA and ToI Staff

Groom and bride take wedding pictures at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. April 13, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli conversion ruling dents Chief Rabbinate’s control of ritual

After the UN banned a display about Zionism from an Israeli exhibition at its headquarters, another display protesting the decision was set up in New York, April 4, 2016. (Courtesy of StandWithUs)

‘Miscommunication’ behind ban of Zionism display, UN says

By Andrew Tobin

Illustrative: Footage from one of Anonymous's OpIsrael cyberattack campaign videos. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Security ‘situation room’ stands ready to prevent ‘cyber-holocaust’

By David Shamah

Illustrative image of an Israel Electric Corporation worker raised by a crane to a utility pole to perform maintenance works, outside Jerusalem on June 10, 2013. (Flash 90)

Electric company reaches deal with Palestinians to halt cuts

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