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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 17, 2016

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses for a group picture with his government at the weekly cabinet meeting, held in the Golan Heights on April 17, 2016. (Effi Sharir/Pool)

Netanyahu vows Golan Heights will remain part of Israel forever

By Raphael Ahren

In first cabinet meeting on territory captured from Syria in 1967, prime minister says land won’t be ceded as part of treaty to end Syrian civil war

Lebanon asks France to resolve sea spat with Israel

By Stuart Winer

Assad’s party sweeps Syrian elections, shocking no one

By AFP

IDF announces military drill in Safed

Iran showcases what it claims are parts of its newly received S-300 missile defense batteries in Tehran on April 17, 2016. (Fars News Agency)

Iran parades parts of advanced S-300 missile battery in Tehran

Addressing Army Day celebrations, president calls those who say Islamic Republic doesn’t need hard power ‘naive’

Israel’s defense tech should worry Iranians, says IAI head

By Tamar Pileggi

Iran media misreports EU foreign policy chief’s criticism of its missile tests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran and Turkey vow to cooperate on terrorism, trade

By Fulya Ozerkan

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Police chief to PM: MKs banned from Temple Mount

In letter to Netanyahu, Alshiech says actions of extremists on both sides could endanger the security of the state

The cover of Simja Dujov’s 2008 album “Santificaras las Fiestas, which combines klezmer and Latin American beats (Courtesy)

Jewish-Argentinian’s musical mashup makes klezmer with a Latin beat

By Suzanne Selengut

When not twirling his Dali mustache, artist Simja Dujov reinvigorates Buenos Aires Jewry through new musical anchors for traditional religious rituals

Alisa Flatow (Courtesy of Stephen M. Flatow)

The photo on the wall

By Stephen M. Flatow

From The Blogs: 21 years after terrorists murdered his daughter Alisa, Stephen Flatow explains how he chose to live a good life

Sheldon Kirshner

Friends like Heinz-Christian Strache

The Likud Party’s ‘unholy alliance’ with the far-right Austrian Freedom Party leader tarnishes Israel

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

No, rabbi, ‘traditional’ women are not immune from rape

A response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky’s suggestion that campus rape culture has been overblown

It’s all about the nose

The hospital is a great equalizer: everyone smiles at a clown who brings respite from worry, fear, tears and pain

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police question opposition leader Herzog under caution

With approval from attorney general, officers grill Zionist Union chairman about suspected campaign financing wrongs

Israeli soldiers patrol just outside the central Gaza Strip on April 13, 2016 (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

IDF prepared for all possibilities in south, says senior Likud MK

Tzachi Hanegbi, head of powerful Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, warns Hamas is gaining strength

View of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 29, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM slams UNESCO resolution ignoring Jewish connection to Temple Mount

Netanyahu accuses body of ‘rewriting a basic part of human history’; decision says Israel ‘planting Jewish fake graves’ on site

Illustrative: The ultra-Orthodox city Modi'in Illit (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Brushing aside PM’s denial, US raps Israel for new settlement homes

By Sue Surkes, AFP and ToI Staff

‘All settlement activity is counterproductive,’ says State Department, after Netanyahu claimed most of 229 purported new West Bank homes are ‘upgrades only’

Shtila Abu Aiada, 22, from Kafr Kassem seen at the Lod District Court were she was indicted for murder, April 17, 2016, (Flash90)

Woman charged in stabbing attack, accused of plotting shooting

By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer

Shatila Abu Iyadh, 22, failed to obtain a bomb or a gun so she embarked on stabbing instead, prosecutor says

Jonny Daniels dancing the Foxtrot with Alicia Schnepf, secretary of the society of Polish Righteous among the Nations, in Warsaw on April 10, 2016. (Courtesy: From the Depths)

Israelis dance with Polish saviors in courtroom where Auschwitz commander tried

By JTA

Some 30 ‘Righteous Among the Gentiles’ dance the Foxtrot where Rudolf Höss was convicted; he was hanged for his crimes

Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, right, and Sen. Bernie Sanders debate during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 14, 2016 in New York City. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Sanders’s Israel criticism has some US Jews feeling the Bern

By Jennie Matthew

Democratic presidential hopeful’s unprecedented questioning of Jerusalem’s policies will likely play into key Jewish vote in upcoming New York primary

Pope Francis greets migrants and refugees at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 near the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (AFP PHOTO POOL/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Pope lauded by refugees he helped resettle in Italy

By Nicole Winfield

Francis says decision to assist 12 Muslims who were stranded in Greek camp after fleeing war-torn Syria is ‘purely humanitarian’

Illustrative: A family seen during the Passover Seder on the first night of the eight-day long Jewish holiday. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Will Conservative Jews bite into newly expanded Passover options?

By David Holzel

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Police secure an area during a police raid in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels, Belgium on Friday, March 18, 2016. (AP/Geoffrey Van der Hasselt)

Belgian minister says many Muslims ‘danced’ after attacks

By AFP

Members of Hamas's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas military spokesman loses brand-new Facebook page

Kids seen walking home after school past a graffiti painting of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian child killed by Jewish extremists, with the Palestinian flag, on a central street in the Northern Arab-Israel. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Muhammed Abu Khdeir’s relative beaten in Jerusalem

Residents walk on a street amid destroyed buildings following an earthquake, April 16, 2016 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (AFP PHOTO / ARIEL OCHOA)

At least 77 dead as massive quake hits Ecuador

US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders flanked by his wife Jane O'Meara, right, arrive at a hotel near the Vatican Saturday, April 16, 2016. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope: Sanders encounter sign of good manners, ‘nothing more’

French President Francois Hollande (C-R) greets Lebanon's Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rai (C-L), the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant, at the Residence des Pins (Pine Residence) on April 17, 2016 in Beirut. (AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)

Hezbollah reportedly scraps Beirut meet with France’s Hollande

Israeli-born director Ariel Vromen at the London premiere of his latest film, 'Criminal,' starring Gal Gadot, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and Ryan Reynolds (Courtesy Ariel Vromen Facebook page)

The Israeli connectionWonder Woman joins cast with star power in ‘Criminal’

By Jessica Steinberg

Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) debates Hillary Clinton during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 14, 2016 in New York City. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewA weekend of Bernie

By Ilan Ben Zion

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