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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 12, 2016

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Letters inscribed on pottery, known as ostraca, which were unearthed in an excavation of a fort in Arad, Israel, and dated to about 600 BCE shortly before Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of Jerusalem, are seen in Israel Museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

New look at ancient shards suggests Bible even older than thought

By Tamar Pileggi and AP

Handwriting analysis of 2,600-year-old Hebrew texts indicate literacy in Kingdom of Judah widespread before exile, suggesting seminal text could have been written then

Biblical texts displayed at the 'Books of Books' exhibition in the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, on October 23, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bible placed alongside ’50 Shades of Grey’ on ‘challenged’ book list

By AP

Phil Aroneanu, New York state director of the Sanders campaign, speaking at a Jews for Bernie event in Manhattan, April 10, 2016. (Uriel Heilman, JTA)

At Jews for Bernie event in NY, anger boils over at Sanders campaign

By Uriel Heilman

‘Sanders has been tone deaf on Gaza,’ complains one supporter. ‘The interview with the Daily News was appalling. He doesn’t go to AIPAC, but he’s going to the Vatican? I mean, come on!’

Fearing Trump, Republican Jews give Cruz another look

Ivanka, Eric Trump won’t be voting for dad in NY

By AFP and JTA

Biden to headline J Street’s annual gala for second time

By Raoul Wootliff

Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a security and defense tour in the Golan Heights, near the Northern Israeli border with Syria. April 11, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel has hit ‘dozens’ of Hezbollah arms transfers, Netanyahu says

Prime minister tells soldiers army is acting ‘near and far’ to prevent terror organization from acquiring game-changing weapons

Peace deal draft defining Golan as Syrian triggers fury in Jerusalem

Russia scales back activity, but still key to fighting in Syria

Bahrain blacklists Hezbollah, designates 68 groups as ‘terrorist’

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz in May 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ex-IDF chief calls for peace talks with Palestinians

By Ilan Ben Zion

Brussels arrests 3 for alleged connection to Paris attacks; demonstrators disrupt PM address at Negev conference

A Palestinian child stands in front of a mural of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Analysis

From Israeli jail, ‘nonviolent’ bid to ‘free Palestine’ takes shape

By Avi Issacharoff

Aiming to succeed Abbas, convicted murderer and Nobel-hopeful Marwan Barghouti said to coordinate campaign with Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad

UN resolution on Israeli settlements ‘urgently needed,’ Abbas says

By AFP

Senior Fatah official killed in Lebanon car bombing

By AFP and ToI Staff

In bid to buttress rule, Abbas forms first constitutional court

By Raoul Wootliff and Dov Lieber

Letter from an Arab to a pro-BDS Jew

The demise of Israel as a Jewish state would extinguish the only hope remaining for progressive Arabs like him

Hebron shooting demands IDF investigation

Israeli review of all alleged army misconduct prevents unwanted intervention by the International Criminal Court

Deborah Housen-Couriel

Why care about the Panama Papers

Even those of us who aren’t billionaires now have access to encryption technology that lets us protect our data

Journey to parenthood

On how lucky she was to have warm community support through the turmoil of pregnancy loss that never fully fades

A priest places a skullcap on Pope Francis during Mass at Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba, September 20, 2015. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

Pope’s skullcap put under the hammer for Israeli charity

Proceeds from online auction, expected to fetch $36,000 for relic rarely put up for sale, to be donated to Holon-based Save A Child’s Heart

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

Most Israelis support US Jewry involvement in religious policy

By JTA

Poll shows centrists in the Jewish state are most concerned about ‘Orthodox monopoly,’ hope for greater religious freedom

Police seen at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 10, 2016. (Corina Kern/Flash90)

Violence wanes, but fears linger in scarred Jerusalem

By Daniel Estrin

As police note downturn after months of attacks, capital shows signs of return to normalcy, but many residents still avoid opposite side of city

Orthodox Christians hold candles as worshipers gather around the Edicule at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the burial place of Jesus Christ, during the ceremony of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem's Old City, April 7, 2007. (Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Jordan’s king to help pay for facelift at Jesus’s tomb

Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish settler holding a slingshot as he stands near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mitzpeh Yitzhar, on May 19, 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Five Jewish Israelis arrested for attacks against Palestinians

By Raoul Wootliff

Suspects, including two minors, accused of setting vehicle on fire and other unspecified ‘security transgressions’

A section of the border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Without fence, thousands of jihadists would flood in from Sinai, PM says

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu defends policies in south, heckled by protesters at Negev conference

In this picture provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman before he departs Egypt, Monday, April 11, 2016. (Sherif Abdel Minoem, Egyptian Presidency via AP)

Egyptians fume over ‘horrifying’ relinquishing of Red Sea islands

By Hamza Hendawi

Satirists mock decision to hand over territories to Saudi Arabia, while pundits critique move for harming economy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Ouda Tarabin, an Israeli citizen jailed for 15 years in Egypt on charges of spying, who was released from prison on December 10, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO, File)

Sprung from Egyptian jail, Bedouin finds his new home to be razed by Israel

Ouda Tarabin, convicted of spying for Israel and released after 15 years of diplomatic efforts, says authorities threatening to tear down metal house over code violation

Isaac Herzog, front, during a visit in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police looking to grill opposition head Herzog in graft case

Zionist Union leader suspected of campaign financing wrongs during 2013 Labor Party primaries; former right hand man already questioned under caution

Ahava sold for $77 million to Chinese investors

By JTA

Israeli cosmetics firm acquired by Asian investment group Fosun despite being targeted by boycotters over West Bank factory

Illustrative: Dead Sea mineral mud produced by Ahava (AP Photo)

Israeli investors relieved as China’s Fosun comes through with Ahava purchase

By David Shamah

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks with Lynn Kaye, assistant professor in the Ohio State University's department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, at The Center for Jewish History in New York, April 5, 2016. (courtesy)

Ahead of US elections, a former chief rabbi sees words as the great uniter

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page in concert in 1977. (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons/ Jim Summaria, http://www.jimsummariaphoto.com)

Going to California‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright case heads to trial

By ToI Staff and AP

Bourhan Hraichie (Courtesy)

Scalp for a scalpAussie prisoner ‘carves IS slogan’ into head of cellmate

By AFP

Amedeo Modigliani's 'Seated Man with a Cane,' 1918

‘Nazi-looted’ Modigliani painting seized after Panama Papers leak

By AFP

A Boy Scout marches in an LGBT Pride parade in New York City, June 28, 2015. (A. Katz/Shutterstock)

First Jewish gay wedding held in Latin America

By JTA

Terror cell may have planned to strike at Euro 2016 soccer in France

The main quadrangle of Stanford University. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Stanford student leader steps down after saying Jews control the media

By JTA

An image from 'Ma'agalim,' the animated music video of the Israeli folk band Jane Bordeaux, released April, 9, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Circle of lifeTel Aviv folk-rockers spin a video hit

Then-Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt, laughs at a question during a press conference following Game 3 of basketball's NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors in Cleveland, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Rebounding from Cavs firing, Blatt may be tapped to coach in NY

By Joshua Davidovich

Tiran Island in the Gulf of Aqaba. (CC BY 3.0/Wikipedia/Marc Ryckaert)

Hebrew media reviewDire Straits of Tiran

By Ilan Ben Zion

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