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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 13, 2016

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A still photo from a video of a Jewish wedding ceremony held on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 12, 2016. (Facebook)

Furtive Jewish wedding held on Temple Mount

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Couple performs brief ring exchange at holy site; MK Galon, condemning the move, calls on Netanyahu to choose between ‘loonies’ and public safety

Then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 27, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Clinton: ‘Not accurate, fair or useful’ to primarily blame Israel for peace failures

In interview with New York Jewish Week, Democratic front-runner distances herself from Obama administration, lambastes Palestinian inaction, says her commitment to Israel is ‘personal’

Sanders campaign’s new Jewish outreach director is outspoken Israel critic

By Uriel Heilman

Reporter's notebookPresidential candidates in a New York state of mind

By Uriel Heilman

Ahead of NY primary, Sanders supporters work his Jewish values

By Uriel Heilman

Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, right, votes during a meeting of the UN Security Council Tuesday, December 30, 2014 (Photo credit: Frank Franklin II/AP)

Analysis

As Palestinians head back to the UN, cause for concern in Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Upcoming Security Council resolution is projected to easily win the votes it needs — and this time a US veto is far from assured

PA readies to issue ‘State of Palestine’ passports

By Tamar Pileggi and AP

Palestinian driver suspected of killing Israeli to face manslaughter charge

Gaza’s sole power plant shuts down over fuel shortage

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, flanked by ministers Miri Regev and Yisrael Katz, in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Supreme Court rules PM can hold multiple ministerial portfolios

By Marissa Newman

IDF commander jailed for 20 days over Palestinian flag-burning; soldier who did the torching remanded to base for 28 days

Cpl. Sahar Nitzan begins his descent to the bottom of the Sea of Galilee to search for missing pilot Lt. Yakir Naveh, whose plane crashed in 1962, on April 6, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Down in ‘hell,’ Israeli divers search for a long-lost airman

By Judah Ari Gross and Luke Tress

100 feet below the surface of the picturesque Sea of Galilee, a team of soldiers and civilians methodically toils to find Lt. Yakir Naveh, missing since 1962

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

In his last days, Gaddafi reportedly turned to Israel for help, was spurned

By Stuart Winer

Embattled Libyan dictator said to have sent an envoy to Jerusalem in 2011 to request assistance in halting Western bombings

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

This year, don’t read the Haggadah!

“We Jews are called ‘the people of the book.’ But we are not; we are the people of the ear.”

Francine M. Gordon

The fate of the Great Kotel Compromise

World Jewry may soon feel at home at the Western Wall…if Netanyahu doesn’t pander to his Haredi coalition members

Why would anyone, let alone kids, want to go to synagogue, if they are criticized and made to feel unacceptable?

Israir airplane (Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Israel issues pre-Passover travel warnings, stressing Turkey

By Judah Ari Gross

As holiday season approaches, Counter-Terrorism Bureau reviews countries it says Israelis should refrain from visiting

The Red Sea islands of Tiran, in the foreground, and Sanafir, in the background, sit at the the Strait of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)

Israel says it gave written consent to Saudi island transfer

Defense minister reveals coordination between Jerusalem, Cairo and Riyadh, hints at burgeoning strategic interaction

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)

US reconsiders scale of its peacekeeping mission in Sinai

By AP and AFP

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the son of Polish Jews who fled Nazi Germany, is running for president of Peru, April 2016. (CC BY SA, Cestrada/Wikimedia)

Peru presidential contender is son of Polish Jews who fled Nazis

By ToI Staff and AP

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, labeled a ‘gringo’ in South American country, is facing off against daughter of disgraced ex-president serving time for corruption

Russian Jewish billionaire investor Yuri Milner and famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking host a press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation/AFP)

Billionaire, famed cosmologist unveil plan to reach Alpha Centauri

By AFP

Light-propelled ‘nanocraft’ riding laser sails at one-fifth the speed of light may be humanity’s first interstellar messengers

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

‘Very close’ associate of Deri questioned under caution

By Raoul Wootliff

Police investigators search man’s home and office over real estate corruption suspicions swirling around interior minister

Shlomit Krigman, 23, died of her wounds a day after being stabbed in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon on January 26, 2016. (Facebook)

Shin Bet cautioned terrorist before murderous attack — to no avail

By Stuart Winer

Security services contacted Hussein Abu Ghosh’s family over extremist behavior shortly before he killed Shlomit Krigman, court says

File: Heinz-Christian Strache (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Christian Jansky/Wikipedia)

Far-right Austrian party chief visits Israel, tours Yad Vashem

Heinz-Christian Strache, invited by Likud functionaries, boycotted by Peres, aims ‘to make himself kosher in Israel,’ according to Vienna newspaper

A Jewish-Israeli raising the Israeli flag near the Old City of Jerusalem, which has seen an influx of Jewish residents in predominantly Arab areas. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Four ways Jews and Arabs live apart in Israeli society

The two communities have separate societies, attending different schools, living in different cities and espousing different political ideals

Illustrative: In this September 15, 2015 photo, men take part in prayers at the 7,000-worshiper capacity East London Mosque, the largest mosque in the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK Muslims more anti-Semitic than general population, poll finds

By JTA

A quarter of British Muslims think Jews ‘responsible for most wars’; 40% say they ‘control global affairs’

The dancers are 'More than Naked' in this Austrian troupe, set for the 2016 Israel Festival (Courtesy Theresa Rauter)

Israel Festival to salute local and international culture

By Jessica Steinberg

A young Rwandan girl walks through Nyaza cemetery outside Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday November 25, 1996, where thousands of victims of the 1994 genocide are buried (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Records of Israeli arms sales during Rwandan genocide to remain sealed

By Judah Ari Gross

Supreme Court denies attorney’s petition to reveal defense exports to the African country, citing risk to national security, foreign relations

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

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UTJ's Yaakov Litzman leaves a session of his United Torah Judaism party's Council of Torah Sages in Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health minister urges boycott of McDonald’s ‘junk food’

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv Municipality building at Rabin Square on July 5, 2015. (Matt Hechter/Flash90)

Help not wantedHolocaust survivor, 97, ‘sacked’ from volunteer job

Dahi Khalfan Tamim (screen capture AlJazeeraEnglish/YouTube)

Dumping Israel love-fest, Dubai security chief embraces anti-Semitism

High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)

Israeli school cancels Poland trips over ‘ultranationalist’ influence

By JTA

Israeli actress Ania Bukstein appears in the trailer for the sixth season of HBO's Game of Thrones. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Nachas is comingNew trailer shows first Israeli Game of Thrones actors

A woman drives in front of an advertising billboard for Bulgari watches in northern Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 18, 2015. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Defiant spiritsAlcohol banned in Iran, but drunk driving soars

By AFP

Seven boys from the Abayudaya Jewish community celebrate their bar mitzvah, October 18, 2014. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Ugandan Jews get official recognition from Jewish Agency

By JTA

A woman fires a pistol at a shooting range in a settlement in Gush Etzion on May 02 2010 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Public security minister seeks to expand gun permit eligibility

By Daniel Douek

David Geclowitz and Ron Weiner, employees of the Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube, being brought to the appeals court in Bucharest, after their arrest on suspicion of spying on the country's chief anti-corruption persecutor, April 12, 2016. (Screenshot: Channel 2)

Remand reduced for Israelis accused of spying in Romania

By Raoul Wootliff

An IAF airman works on an F-15 at the Air Forces' AMU (IAF)

3D printers make 30-year-old Air Force planes ‘better than new’

By David Shamah

High school students participate in the Cyber Olympics (Courrtesy)

Israel’s Cyber-Olympic kid finalists vie for championship

By David Shamah

Isaac Herzog at a pre-Passover event on April 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewAs Herzog goes, so goes Israel?

By Joshua Davidovich

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