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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 20, 2016

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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, arrives for a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry April 19, 2016, at the United Nations in New York. (AFP / DON EMMERT)

Live updates (closed)

Mystery surrounds fatality in Jerusalem bus bombing

By Joshua Davidovich

Police investigating possibility unidentified man who succumbs to wounds behind blast; Netanyahu said to threaten to boot Bennett from cabinet

Palestinians gather next to a house sprayed with graffiti reading in Hebrew: 'revenge' and 'hello from the prisoners of Zion,' in the West Bank village of Beitillu on December 22, 2015.(AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI)

Shin Bet busts Jewish terror ring in the West Bank

By Stuart Winer

2 minors and a soldier among at least suspects arrested over series of attacks, including firebombings aimed at sleeping Palestinian families

Soldiers attacked during op to demolish terrorist’s home

By Raoul Wootliff

Police arrest 31 in sweep of East Jerusalem neighborhood

Manslaughter charge for Palestinian hit and run driver changed to murder

By Raoul Wootliff

This file photo combination shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on April 4, 2016 and Republican challenger Donald Trump on February 16, 2016. (AFP)

Clinton, Trump triumph on home turf in New York primaries

By Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire

Front-runners for opposing parties sweep to victory in key race; both push closer to locking up respective nominations

Eyal Zamir, head of the IDF's Southern Command, speaks at a conference on the threat of terror tunnels in Sderot on April 20, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Government faces residents’ wrath at meet on Gaza tunnel threat

By Judah Ari Gross

Southern Command chief insists army is ready for all eventualities, incuding with plan to evacuate locals if war breaks out; Likud MK heckled over his party’s policy

This February 10, 2016, file photo shows IDF soldiers keeping watch as a machine drills holes in the ground on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip as they search for tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists planning to attack Israel. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

New Gaza border barrier within two years, army says

By Judah Ari Gross

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

IDF destroys Gaza tunnel that led into Israel

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Protesters gather in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square in support of a soldier on trial for killing a Palestinian attacker in March who was incapacitated, on April 19, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

Tel Aviv rally for Hebron shooter draws fewer than expected

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

An estimated 2,000 gather in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to show support for Elor Azaria; ‘all the sane people are here,’ soldier’s father says

Rabbi Jacoob Ben Nistell, from Haifa, Israel, who is actually Jacek Niszczota, from Poland (Facebook)

Polish ‘rabbi’ not from Israel, not a rabbi, not very informed on Judaism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Poznan journalist exposes Jacoob Ben Nistell; ‘I’m surprised,’ says local community leader, ‘but I never checked his ID’

My brother is kind of a jerk, but…

What do you do when there may be a neurological reason for why someone is making you miserable?

The strangest seder I’ve ever seen

A true, personal sense of the escape from Egypt sprang from a meal of 4 cups of wine, matzah ball soup, and pork ribs

Sharon L. Sobel

Whose life is it anyway?

Canada’s move to permit physician-assisted suicide challenges traditional Jewish teachings about ending a life

Shoshana Ciment

So…not ‘the most amazing time’

The gap year gets such high billing that participants risk missing what is meaningful as they hunt for the incredible

Head of the Labor party Isaac Herzog speaks at an event on April 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Israel’s center-left leader says his party must stop being seen as ‘Arab-lovers’

Fury in Zionist Union as Herzog urges new approach to ‘find our way into the hearts of the public’; Arab MK demands he apologize

Isaac Herzog leads a Zionist Union faction meeting in the Knesset on February 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Under fire, Herzog doubles down on comments disavowing Arabs

By Raoul Wootliff

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

Opposition leader Herzog lightly hurt in car crash

Zionist Union leader treated at scene for minor injuries, does not require hospitalization after collision north of Tel Aviv

Men waiting to disembark from the Italian Coast Guard vessel "Dattilo" in the port of Messina, Sicily, following a rescue operation of migrants and refugees at sea, February 1, 2016. (AFP/GIOVANNI ISOLINO)

Witnesses say about 500 dead in Mediterranean shipwreck

By AFP

Migrants rescued from another boat tell UN refugee agency they saw deadly collision; Italian navy works to raise boat and bodies

Firefighters look on as two buses burn in Jerusalem. Police launched an investigation into the incident, April 18, 2016. (Israel Police)

Fireman’s helmet-cam shows first moments after bus blast

By Raoul Wootliff

GoPro footage captures Jerusalem first-responders fighting inferno that engulfed two buses, searching through wreckage for injured

Israeli police check a burned-out bus that was blown up in a terror attack in Jerusalem on April 18, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Day after Jerusalem blast, police mum amid hunt for bomber

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

After bus bombing, Abbas says he rejects ‘all terrorism’

By AP and ToI Staff

Germany’s Merkel condemns attack but also speaks out against settlements; Fatah-linked armed wing praises blast

An Egyptian boat traversing the Strait of Tiran in 2011. (CC BY Don Toofee, Flickr)

No written Saudi assurance over Tiran islands, Israeli official hints

By Raphael Ahren

Contradicting defense minister, senior official says such claims are ‘imprecise,’ yet stresses Israel did not object to the transaction

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

Israel says it still wants Temple Mount cameras after Jordan reneges

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel official says Jerusalem believes in transparency, laments PA’s objection to security measure

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

Ties between Hamas-linked charities and BDS highlighted in Congressional testimony

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Terror finance expert describes ‘network’ of ex-fundraisers in organizations linked to Hamas and key pro-boycott organization

It will be difficult to provide the feeling of summer camp while social distancing, but camps are pivoting to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak. (Courtesy the Foundation for Jewish Camp/via JTA)

To vaxx or not to vaxx is the question at Jewish summer camps

By Gabe Friedman

Bernie Ecclestone, chief executive of the Formula One Group talks on his mobile phone ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit, in Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday, April 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Formula One chief praises Hitler, says women drivers incapable

By AFP and ToI Staff

In bizarre interview, Bernie Ecclestone also declares Putin ‘should be running Europe’

An EdenShield GateKeeper system (Courtesy)

Bayer to invest $10 million in Israeli ag tech fund

By David Shamah

The international pharmaceutical giant aims to shape the future of agriculture partnering with accelerator firm

Paddle-boarders lining up for Tel Aviv's now-annual seaside competition, taking place this year on Thursday, April 28 (Courtesy Efrat Saar)

With Passover in the air, freedom to enjoy a show, or two

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Rabbi Kanievski smelling the leaves of a cannabis plant. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Let my people tokeGetting baked on Passover not just for matzah, rabbi rules

By Raoul Wootliff

The Israel Diamond Exchange center, in Ramat Gan, January 14, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Massive embezzlement scandal rocks Israel’s diamond exchange

By Stuart Winer

Workers at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant (Courtesy)

Intel’s Israel staff could face massive job cuts

By ToI Staff and AP

Former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama host a Passover seder dinner at the White House, April 3, 2015. (Pete Souza/The White House)

Passing over PessahObama to host late Passover seder this year

By JTA

An ancient Torah scroll brought to Israel by the final group of Jewish immigrants from Yemen, March 20, 2016. (Arielle Di-Porto for The Jewish Agency for Israel)

Iran-backed rebels hold Yemeni Jew over Torah smuggled to Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Marc Daniels sells his kippas at a Bernie Sanders event in Union Square in lower Manhattan, New York, April 16 2016. (Courtesy of Marc Daniels)

Kosher campaignsTrump, Sanders top the candidate kippah race

By JTA

An ad campaign for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival thinks just about anyone is Jewish enough to enjoy Jewish movies. (Screenshot/ YouTube)

Beyond the TribeAre you ‘Jewish enough’ to get this ad campaign? Yes

By Gabe Friedman

Ze'ev 'Zambish' Hever eulogizes former premier Ariel Sharon at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 13, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police grill senior settlement officials over fraud suspicions

By Tamar Pileggi

Asa Romson appearing on Swedish television on April 19, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube/SVT)

Swedish deputy PM calls 9/11 ‘accident,’ refuses to apologize

By Raoul Wootliff

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

Hebrew media reviewIron Dome or iron dim?

By Joshua Davidovich

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