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What Matters Most On Friday, April 15, 2016

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Illustrative: Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Trump to Jewish reporters: Why do Jews support Obama when he’s disloyal to Israel?

By Uriel Heilman

At NY meeting, GOP front-runner also says world would be better off if Saddam and Gaddafi were still in power, claims NY Daily News ‘did a number’ on Sanders, reveals the 2 Jewish real estate lawyers who advise him on Israel

Washington keeps options open on UN settlements resolution

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Trump visit roils town still healing from Latino’s killing

By Frank Eltman and Claudia Torrens

John Kasich links Jesus’ blood to Passover at matzah bakery

By Uriel Heilman

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary
Clinton (left) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (right) during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York on April 14, 2016 (AP/Seth Wenig)

Clinton in NY: Palestinians could’ve had state 15 years ago

By Itamar Sharon, Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and AP

Democratic candidates spar over Mideast policy at pre-primary debate, as secretary takes staunchly pro-Israel stance, while Sanders espouses evenhanded approach

Sanders suspends Jewish outreach director who blasted Israel, Netanyahu

By ToI Staff and JTA

Bernie Sanders schools Trump, Cruz on ‘New York values,’ drops mic

By JTA

Former US officials: Sanders ‘disinterested’ in foreign policy

By Eric Cortellessa

Morgan Freeman in Jerusalem (Facebook)

Caught in the Middle (East)

Morgan Freeman strikes ‘Israel’ from post amid criticism

Movie star’s photo from Jerusalem is attacked by pro-Palestinian activists, leading to removal of reference to Jewish state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an event for local authorities, in Tel Aviv, on April 14, 2016. (Flash90)

PM: ‘Extremist elements’ trying to restart violence ahead of Passover

Netanyahu reiterates commitment to status quo on Temple Mount, says Israel will take measures to stymie efforts to sow further unrest

IDF: Next conflict with Hamas will take place on Israel’s terms

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian media: IDF bulldozers operating inside southern Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Israel detains 11 Palestinians in West Bank sweep

Rebecca Abrahamson (left), Dr. Omer Salem (left-center), Rabbi Yakov Nagen (center-right) and Dr. Joseph Ringel in Cairo, Egypt in March 2016. (Courtesy: Facebook/Yaakov Nagen)

Interview

For West Bank rabbi, a rare and risky trip to Cairo’s ivory tower of Islam

With Islamic skullcap and large beard helping to obscure his Jewish identity, though twice confronted by Egyptian police, US-born Israeli visits Al-Azhar University to meet world’s top Sunni scholars

Is there life after the IDF?

How a metaphor stopped her stress about the future and gave her confidence that it will all work out

Aryeh Ben David

A vibrating seder

Bitter herbs, 4 cups of wine, reclining, and all the rest should evoke an inner exodus story in those who participate

The power of shame

The Torah rarely ostracizes sinners, but it deliberately exposes malicious gossipers who erode social bonds (Metzora)

A simulation by the Architects' Union shows 'The Pyramid,' planned by architect Daniel Libeskind, as it would look when completed. (Courtesy Architects' Union)

Tapering tower

In Israel’s capital, a pyramid will rise

By Jessica Steinberg

Daniel Libeskind’s towering three-sided structure receives next stage of Jerusalem municipal approval

Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK: Palestinians must stop Jews going to Temple Mount

By Stuart Winer and Sue Surkes

Jamal Zahalka calls on Palestinian leadership to reignite ‘popular struggle’ against occupation, not leave it to ‘lone-wolf attacks’

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

Top Haredi paper slams secret Jewish wedding on Temple Mount

Yated Ne’eman claims nuptials go against halacha, warns against such provocations by groups ‘tricking Jews’

A poster at Al-Quds University in the West Bank city of Jenin shows, from left, Yasser Arafat, jailed Palestinian Marwan Barghouti and Mahmoud Abbas and reads: "Going to Jerusalem". (AP /Mohammed Ballas)

Analysis

Meet the next Palestinian president

By Avi Issacharoff

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)

East Jerusalem man indicted for driving attackers to deadly assault

57-year-old charged with causing death by negligence for transporting 3 Palestinians who killed policewoman Hadar Cohen in February

An Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron at a military court hearing in Jaffa on April 7, 2016. (Flash90)

Mother of Hebron soldier pleads with PM for his release

In letter, parent of infantryman asks Netanyahu how on his watch an IDF soldier who kills a terrorist can be charged with manslaughter

Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)

Iranian general ‘holds military talks with Putin in Moscow’

Revolutionary Guards’ Qassem Soleimani said to have made trip from Tehran in private jet, despite ban on his international travel

The Carlton hotel in Tel Aviv (Twitter via JTA)

At first official diplomats’ seder, more champagne than bitter herb

Amid cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and jazz, Tel Aviv event aimed to make ceremonial meal accessible to newcomers

German Vice Chancellor, Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavarian state premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer give a press conference on April 14, 2016 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP/ ODD ANDERSEN)

Germany to boost cooperation with Israel in new anti-terror plan

By Deborah Cole

Security measures are part of ‘historic’ refugee package, which takes carrot-and-stick approach to integration

Illustrative: Obesity (Pixabay)

Study: Risk for heart disease begins in teen years

By David Shamah

17-year-olds who are anything above very thin could face significantly more risk for cardiovascular issues, a Hebrew University study shows

British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech in London on the case for remaining in the European Union, April 14, 2016.
(AFP/Ben Stansall)

Response to anti-Semitism divides UK Jews, Labour chief

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Israeli pensioner Hazan Peretz, who was jailed over unpaid parking fines, talks to Channel 2 television in an interview aired on April 4, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Perilous ParkingDisabled man, 70, jailed over $65 parking ticket

By Stuart Winer

Uman Plaza (Moysha / Wikimapia)

Uman hotel refuses to rent rooms to Jews

By JTA and ToI Staff

Slain tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, assassinated by the PFLP in 2001. (Flash90)

Following rape claims, MKs push to cancel state honors for slain minister

By JTA

US film director Steven Spielberg arrives for a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Krakow, Poland last January. (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Spielberg to direct film about Jewish boy stolen from family

By JTA

Oracle acquires Israeli big-data firm Crosswise for reported $50m

By David Shamah

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hoenlein evokes Holocaust in UN address on Rwanda genocide

By JTA

Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 13, 2016. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Motorola Solutions to seek out Israeli start-ups at new innovation center

By David Shamah

Israeli students participate in the Turning Point 6 earthquake drill at their school in Jerusalem, October 21, 2012. (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Minor earthquake rattles southern Israel

Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Bitter pill to swallowUK court bars naming girl after Hitler-killing poison

By AP

From left: Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson and Seth Green in an episode of 'Broad City,' April 13, 2016. (Screenshot from Comedy Central via JTA)

Jewish journey‘Broad City’ take on Birthright is comedic gold

By Gabe Friedman

Hamas fighters take part in an anti-Israel rally in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, February 26, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Hebrew media reviewThere’s a storm coming

By Ilan Ben Zion

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