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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 21, 2016

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In between rounds of matzah preparation, the men of Gondar's Jewish community wipe off the tables to ensure no drop of water remains, on April 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

More than 3,000 are expected at the festive meal

Eager for their exodus, Ethiopian Jews prepare world’s largest Seder

By Melanie Lidman

It takes a village to bake 50,000 matzahs in Gondar, but that’s what you do when you’re really hoping for ‘next year in Jerusalem’

Passover on safari? Celebrants cast their eyes farther afield

By Mike Schneider

Israeli police forensics examine the scene of a bus bombing in Jerusalem on April 18, 2016. (Hadas Parush/FLASh90)

Analysis

After bombing, Hamas seeks credit while evading responsibility

By Avi Issacharoff

The hesitant Hamas announcement that the Jerusalem bus bomber is ‘one of ours’ allows the group to continue pushing for attacks without directing them, putting Israel in a spot over how to respond

Suspected Jerusalem bus bomber ‘was just a typical kid’

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas: Fatality in Jerusalem bus attack was the bomber

Weapons workshop, arms cache found in East Jerusalem, Hebron

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 21, 2016 (Courtesy)

Israel will never leave Golan, Netanyahu tells Putin

In Moscow meeting, PM also tells Russian president that the Jewish state will do ‘everything’ to ensure Hezbollah does not get advanced weaponry

The new president of the UK National Union of Students Malia Bouattia (YouTube screenshot)

New head of UK students backed Palestinian violence, wouldn’t condemn IS

By Marissa Newman

BDS activist Malia Bouattia called alma mater a ‘Zionist outpost,’ suggested engaging with Palestinian terrorists to ‘take orders’

In December 2013, the American Studies Association approved a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (pictured). (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US professors take academic boycott of Israel to court

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

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)

Palestinians welcome French summit to revive peace talks

By Marissa Newman

Israel, Palestinians not invited to May 30 Paris meeting of ministers from 20 countries

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

Polish ‘rabbi’ who’s not a rabbi turns out to be Catholic ex-cook

By JTA, ToI Staff and AP

Jacoob Ben Nistell was recently outed as a liar about having been born in Israel; he also didn’t know much about Judaism. Turns out he’s not Jewish at all. And he’s now disappeared

Lawyer Jason Dov Greenblatt would be thrust into the post of presidential adviser on Israel if Trump wins the White House. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

With more chutzpa than experience, Orthodox lawyer advises Trump on Israel

By Uriel Heilman

Real estate attorney Jason Dov Greenblatt, who once guarded an Israeli settlement, sees reaching a two-state solution as a business negotiation

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Blessed are those who eat hametz!

The hot air of leavening symbolizes humanity’s most evil impulses: Here’s why we don’t get rid of it for good

Deborah Dickson

10 ways to enjoy Israel this Passover

Crafts, animals, lasers, jumping, climbing, learning, flowers, fruit, theater, hikes — you name it!

Fivel Yedidya Glasser

Simone Zimmerman, please come to my seder

He disagrees with the leftwing activist but he’d be happy for a chance to convince her they’re on the same side

Gerald M. Steinberg

On Passover, God is a political realist

Universalist messages miss the mark: The seder is a time to dwell on humanity’s inherent brutality

Rodger Kamenetz

The big dream of Passover

That time a young Tibetan wanted to understand why the same story is told over and over and over again

US President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Salman walk together to a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

In Saudi Arabia, Obama pledges vigilance against Iran

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and Adam Schreck

US president also says he and Gulf leaders agree on ways to move forward in campaign against Islamic State

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)

Defending military program, Zarif likens Iran-Iraq war to Holocaust

Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List party in the Knesset on December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Comparing Israel to Nazis, Arab MK refuses to attend Holocaust memorial

Hanin Zoabi criticizes Israel by pointing out ‘alarming similarities’ between its treatment of Palestinians and Nazi Germany

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu ‘threatens to fire’ top minister in row over West Bank policy

Argument erupts over anti-terror operations in Palestinian cities; Bennett says PM doesn’t keep his promises; tempers ultimately calm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet conference, held in the Golan Heights, on April 17, 2016. (Meir Vaknin/POOL)

PM: IDF to keep operating in West Bank areas under full PA control

Netanyahu says military will enter Palestinian cities in Area A according to ‘operational needs’

Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount (Qanta Ahmed)

Israel slams UNESCO members for ‘erasing’ Jewish ties to Jerusalem

UN culture body voted overwhelmingly for resolution that ignores Jewish history at Temple Mount

Screenshot of Fathi al-Sharif, the uncle of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif who was shot in the head by an IDF soldier while laying immobile on the ground after carrying out a stabbing attack against Israeli forces in Herbon (Courtesy: screenshot from Channel Two)

Uncle of slain Hebron attacker: Jailing soldier won’t help, he should apologize

Fathi al-Sharif urges Israel to return his nephew’s body, says continuation of peace process ‘most important’ thing

Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014. (AFP/Rami al-Sayed)

Israeli sentenced to 5 years for joining Syrian Qaeda group

Amin Ahmad Saleh Snobar convicted of traveling to Syria, training with Nusra Front terror group

An Israeli soldier standing along a section of newly built fence along the border, with the Sinai in the background. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash 90)

Top IDF general: Israel, Egypt have ‘unprecedented’ intel cooperation

By AFP and ToI Staff

Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan warns Hezbollah is a growing threat, warns of possible ‘full-scale’ and ‘decisive’ war with terror group

Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, February 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Harvard student apologizes for asking Livni why she’s ‘so smelly’

By JTA

Jewish student group blasts remark as ‘blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric’; law dean terms it offensive

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli and Shuli Barzilai holds a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah in their home in Jerusalem. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Jerusalem family lays claim to museum’s famed medieval haggadah

By Daniel Estrin

In this handout image made available by the photographer, American journalist Steven Sotloff, center with black helmet, talks to Libyan rebels on the Al Dafniya front line, about 15 miles from Misrata, Libya, June 2, 2011. Sotloff was beheaded in September 2014 nearly a year after being kidnapped in Syria. (Etienne de Malglaive via Getty Images/JTA)

Family of American-Israeli journalist killed by IS sues Assad

By AFP

In lawsuit seeking $90 million in damages, Steven Sotloff’s relatives say Syrian government provided material support for Islamic State

American ex-president Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, view the caskets of American diplomats killed in the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. (Courtesy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

US Supreme Court: Iran owes $2b to terror victims’ families

By Mark Sherman

Claimants, including relatives of 241 Marines slain in 1983 Beirut attack, will be able to demand compensation from Iranian central bank

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton celebrating their respective victories in the New York primaries in New York City, April 19, 2016. (Spencer Platt and John Moore/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

How New York, and its Jews, set the stage for a Clinton-Trump showdown

Sanders may have hurt his chances with the Jewish vote when he debated Israel last week, urged greater evenhandedness with Palestinians

Orthodox Jewish men on March 22, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images via JTA)

What we know, and don’t know, about how NY Jews voted

By Uriel Heilman

More Headlines

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Sage advicePeres to Queen Elizabeth II: ‘Life begins at 90′

By JTA

A Facebook ad for an Israel-based binary options firm posted April 19, 2016 (Screenshot)

Tel Aviv binary options firm advertises for ‘predators’

Oded Guez. (Courtesy)

Rabbinical court: Help us find man who won’t divorce wife

By ToI Staff and JTA

Passengers wait at Ben Gurion airport (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Amid Passover exodus, rogue radio waves scramble airport

By Stuart Winer

Florida Lieutenant Governor Carlos López-Cantera. (Wikipedia Public Domain)

Coming of age in IsraelFlorida official gets belated Jerusalem bar mitzvah at 42

By AP

Former president Shimon Peres, left, and Intel employees at a Kiryat Gat chip factory in 2012. (Sivan Faraj/FLASH90)

Intel jobs at Kiryat Gat facility safe, chip giant reported to say

By David Shamah and AP

An Airbnb listing in the settlement of Kfar Adumim, accessed on January 12, 2016. (Screen capture: AirBnB)

Pictures of hosts, not homes, key for Airbnb renters, study shows

By David Shamah

Israeli soldiers establish a field hospital together with the Nepalese army, in Nepal, following the deadly earthquake. on April 29, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson)

Israel a role model for disaster medicine, says Red Cross chief surgeon

By David Shamah

Then-Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting, February 16, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewCleaning out the cabinet

By Adiv Sterman

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