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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 19, 2016

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Rachel Dadon speaks with the press at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital where she and her daughter are hospitalized after being injured in the bus bombing that took place in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2016. Rachel was moderately injured and her daughter is in critical condition. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bus bomb survivor: I looked for my daughter, found her ‘all burned’

By ToI Staff and JTA

‘In a month, she’ll be 16, and now she’s sedated and on a respirator,’ says Racheli Dadon after Jerusalem terror attack that injures 21

11 still hospitalized, 1 critical, after Jerusalem bombing

By Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem bus blown up in terror attack, injuring at least 21

After attack, Netanyahu vows to ‘settle score’ with bus bomber

Illustrative: Vice President Joe Biden addresses the J Street gala on April 19, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Biden admits to ‘overwhelming frustration’ with Israeli gov’t

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and AP

At J Street gala, vice president slams Israeli ‘land seizures, legalization of outposts’; reiterates commitment to its security

Kerry: Iran only received $3 billion since nuclear deal

By Eric Cortellessa

US rejects Netanyahu’s pledge to hold onto Golan forever

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Kerry condemns bus attack, says Israelis won’t be intimidated

Israel Air Force cadets learn about the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City Davidson Archeology Park, on April 12, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Should ancient stones topple Netanyahu’s Western Wall deal?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Excavating the effects of a planned egalitarian prayer pavilion on the archaeological site intended to house it, The Times of Israel sifts through remnants of ancient civilizations — and modern power struggles

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on April 19, 2016 at the chancellery in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)

Live updates (closed)

Hundreds rally for soldier accused in Hebron shooting

By Ilan Ben Zion

Abbas says Palestinians reject ‘all forms of terrorist activity’; Russia said to deliver S-300s to Iran by year end; Syrian opposition chief says Golan Heights will return to Syria

This photo taken on March 2, 2016 shows a combination of file photos of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on January 14, 2016 and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on February 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / PHOTO DESK)

Trump, Clinton look for wins on home turf in New York

By Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire

Tuesday’s state primaries offer big delegate hauls, opportunity for front-runners to inch closer to their parties’ nominations

How Bernie Sanders just became the rabbi of the Jewish left

Big gulpTrump lauds bravery on 7-Eleven, means 9/11

By Agencies and ToI Staff

John Kasich talks faith, not politics, at NY synagogue

By JTA

A screenshot from a video released by Hamas threatening to strike Tel Aviv with R-160 long-range missiles, April 18, 2016. (YouTube)

After tunnel find, Hamas threatens to strike Tel Aviv, Haifa

By Raoul Wootliff

New video touts long-range missiles; ‘Qassam Brigades will shake you’ in major Israeli cities, terror group says

A tunnel reaching from Gaza into Israel, seen in a photo released by the IDF on April 18, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

After Gaza tunnel uncovered by IDF, private firm may have found 2nd

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Newly-arrived French Jewish immigrants are briefed upon their arrival at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2015. (Zed Films)

Job boards for immigrants wise up to binary options fraud

By Simona Weinglass

As The Times of Israel continues to investigate the ‘wolves of Tel Aviv’ global financial scam, leading job boards for English speakers have stopped accepting the companies’ ads

Yossi Klein Halevi

The war against Passover

Growing efforts to define Judaism as a religion with no historic claims defy the seder’s core message of peoplehood

Yael S. Aronoff

What Hillary should have told Bernie

You inflated the casualty figures 3 times and you mangled the meaning of proportionality in war

The artificial Jewess

70s TV sit-com Jews like the mother of ‘Rhoda’ were brash, subversive, hilarious — and often played by non-Jews

Three Passover lessons on food security

Inviting ‘all who are hungry’ entails taking responsibility to provide food security for Israel’s (and the world’s) poor

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Abbas: Due to Holocaust, PA won’t ask Germany to pressure Israel

By Raphael Ahren

In interview on eve of Berlin visit, Palestinian leader says international community affirms he has ‘made no mistakes’

Actress and director Ronit Elkabetz arrives at the Golden Globes Foreign Language Symposium at Egyptian Theatre on Saturday, January 10, 2015, in Hollywood, California (Tonya Wise/Invision/AP)

Ronit Elkabetz, luminary of the Israeli and French screens, dies at 51

By Jessica Steinberg

Award-winning actress, director and scriptwriter starred in many critically acclaimed films, is survived by her husband and three-year-old twins

Doris Roberts arrives at the Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills, California on Nov. 1, 2015. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ star Doris Roberts dies at 90

Yishai Schlissel, center, is led out of the courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court, April 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gay pride stabber convicted of murdering teen victim

By Stuart Winer

Court slams police for failing to prevent Yishai Schlissel from knifing Shira Banki just after getting out of prison for similar attack

Yosef Haim Ben David, the third defendant in the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court on April 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli killer of Palestinian teen convicted of murder

By Tamar Pileggi

Court rejects Yosef Ben David’s insanity plea, says he was aware of his actions that led to Muhammad Abu Khdeir’s death

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a press conference with his Singaporean counterpart on April 19, 2016 at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Netanyahu urges ‘balance’ in trial for Hebron shooter

By Tamar Pileggi

PM says he is sure the court will act wisely in weighing Elor Azaria’s killing of a bound Palestinian attacker and the context in which he operated

Rabbi Michael Broyde, a prominent religious judge and law decisor, has seen his reputation ruined by revelations that he used a fake persona to gain membership in a rabbinic group. (Courtesy Emory University/JTA)

Israeli rabbinate’s list of ‘acceptable’ rabbis includes 2 ‘disgraced’ in US, and 2 dead

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A list of 150 Diaspora rabbis shuts out Liberal Judaism and Open Orthodoxy, makes room for rabbis denounced for sexual misconduct and false representation

Palestinian girls sit in front of the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Mount compound on October 23, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

After angering Israel, UNESCO urges ‘respect and dialogue’

By AFP and ToI Staff

UN cultural chief says Jerusalem sacred to three monotheistic religions after body adopts resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount

This image released by the Ir David Foundation - City of David on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 shows Neshama Spielman with an ancient Egyptian amulet dating back more than 3,200 years to the days of the Pharaohs discovered by the 12-year-old Israeli girl. Spielman and her family took part in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, an initiative to sort through earth discarded from the area of the biblical temples in Jerusalem. (Adina Graham, Ir David Foundation - City of David via AP)

Girl, 12, finds ancient Egyptian amulet at Jerusalem dig

By Stuart Winer

Pendant dating to 13th century BCE bears name of conquering Pharaoh Thutmose III

Palestinian Muslim women from the Murabitun group shout slogans and hold the Koran during a protest against Israel policemen preventing them from entering the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on September 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 )

3 charged with funding Temple Mount unrest

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Police uncover East Jerusalem network that allegedly paid banned provocateurs to harass Jewish visitors to holy site

Illustrative: IDF soldiers arrest a Palestinian man in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Shin Bet nabs teenage stabbers and would be kidnappers

By Judah Ari Gross

Interrogation of 14-15-year-old Palestinian suspects led investigators to 2 men planning multiple attacks, security service says

Gluten-free brewmaster Bryan Meadan stirs a batch of Meadan Ale (Courtesy Meadan Brewing)

This Passover, wash down matzah with gluten-free beer

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Pro-Israel French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut ejected from a rally in Republique Square, Paris, April 16, 2016. (YouTube: Cercle des Volontaires)

French Jewish philosopher violently ejected from rally

By JTA

Jerry Greenfield, left, and Ben Cohen, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s, shown in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

In the coolerBen & Jerry arrested at DC rally

By JTA

A replica of Palmyra's Arch of Triumph is erected in Trafalgar Square, central London, on 18 April 2016.
The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State group (IS) and the replica has been crafted using the latest 3D printing and carving technologies by the Institute for Digital Archaeology. (AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL)

Gate newsSyria’s Palmyra arch, destroyed by IS, recreated in London

A new Aqwise system in Mexico (Courtesy)

Israel, India ink new pacts on water tech

By David Shamah

Eugene Kaspersky (Courtesy)

From Jerusalem shall come forth cyber-security, says cyber guru

By David Shamah

Detail from 'More Than Enough: A Passover Story' (Penguin Random House/via JTA)

Kids can read a lot more than the Haggadah this Passover

By Penny Schwartz

An Iranian couple sit together in the northwestern Shahran neighborhood overlooking Tehran on June 7, 2014. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Ham-fisted7,000 undercover vice cops patroling Tehran

By AFP

$Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat with the Families of Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-ad Shaar announce memorial prize (Photo credit: courtesy)$

Jerusalem soccer team wins ‘unity’ prize

Lutz Bachmann, founder of the far-right PEGIDA movement speaks during a rally in Dresden, April 18, 2016. (AFP/ROBERT MICHAEL)

Head of German anti-Islam group due in court for hate speech

By Coralie Febvre

Israeli forensics experts collect evidence at the scene of an explosion on a bus in Jerusalem on April 18, 2016.
(AFP PHOTO/THOMAS COEX)

Hebrew media reviewJolted back to the bad old days

By Joshua Davidovich

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