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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 23, 2016

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Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community wait for prayer service before attending the Passover seder meal, in the synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia, April 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Reporter's notebook

A hope, a plea, a promise: At Ethiopian seder, 3,000 long for the Holy Land

By Melanie Lidman

Participants at vast, jubilant Passover service in Gondar pray the Israeli government’s latest decision really does mean ‘Next Year in Jerusalem’

Netanyahu and Rivlin praise troops, call for unity in Passover message

In final Passover greeting, Obama compares Exodus to civil rights battle

Old jokePeres posts ‘Passover selfie’ showing him at pyramids

Illustrative photo of an IAF F-16 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Israeli jets scramble after Egyptian plane fails to identify

By ToI Staff and AFP

Communications belatedly resume, and fighter planes escort civilian aircraft to safe landing at Ben Gurion Airport

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas signs papers at the high level signature ceremony for the Paris Agreement at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on April 22, 2016 . (AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

At climate deal signing, Abbas says settlements ‘destroying the environment’

By ToI Staff and AP

As 175 world leaders gather in New York, Israel’s UN envoy accuses PA leader of ‘exploiting’ landmark ceremony to further own agenda

French chief rabbi: Paris ‘ignored Jewish ties to Jerusalem’ in UNESCO vote

By JTA

UK Jewish students call on new NUS chief to denounce ‘anti-Semitic’ remarks

By Tamar Pileggi and Marissa Newman

PLO: IS close to ousting al-Qaeda ally from Palestinian camp in Syria

By AFP

Ilana K. Levinsky

A Yemenite-style Passover

Her grandparents’ colorful customs included soft tabun-baked matzah and charoset with dates and sesame seeds

US President Barack Obama gestures during a press conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 21, 2016. (AP/Hasan Jamali)

Obama secretly requested Rouhani meeting — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

According to Iranian media, US president sent two letters in March to Tehran’s leaders seeking discussions on regional issues

Illustrative photo of Turkish special force police officers in the Sultanbeyli district of Istanbul, August 10, 2015 (APF/Ozan Kose)

Turkey detains 6 alleged IS terrorists planning attacks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amid security alert that saw Israel tell its citizens to leave, foreign nationals sought to strike at ‘strategic locations’ in city of Konya

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan address the media during a joint press conference after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, in October 2012 (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)

EU walks Turkish tightrope as tensions grow over migrant deal

By AFP

File: Syrian President Bashar Assad listening to a question during an interview with AFP in the capital Damascus, February 11, 2016. (AFP/JOSEPH EID)

Bashar Assad said to refuse Iran asylum offer

Hezbollah-affiliated TV says Tehran suggested Syrian leader continue military campaign from safety of Islamic Republic, bring his family

Egyptian protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against a controversial deal to hand two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, April 15, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Egypt arrests dozens ahead of protests against president

By AP

Cairo seeks to quell demonstrations after thousands rallied to call on Sissi to resign

Former Labor Party leader and current Zionist Union MK Shelly Yachimovich on December 17, 2014 (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Yachimovich: Herzog’s pandering to far-right on Arabs ‘miserable’

Former Labor leader says her successor crossed a line when saying party must shed its image as ‘Arab-lovers’

Bob Dylan, infrared, Woodstock, New York, 1968. (Elliott Landy/Press License, Landy-The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot/via JTA)

Forever young

Bob Dylan’s life and work examined in new Israeli exhibit

Rabbi Mark Kula, formerly a cantor, now serves as a 'kol bo' at a suburban Miami congregation. (Dina Weinstein/via JTA)

As congregations shrink, the rabbi/cantor hybrid is born

By Dina Weinstein

The "Lone Oak," a surviving symbol of the pre-1948 community in the Gush Etzion area (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

In the Etzion Bloc, source of Jerusalem’s water, and defense

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Matzah. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

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South Korean conservative activists display a banner showing a caricature of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un as police block the activists attempting to launch anti-North Korea balloons in the border city of Paju on April 15, 2016. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP)

North Korea reportedly tests submarine-launched missile

By AFP

Buddha, a Scottish dog whose owner taught it to raise its right paw to the sound of the phrase 'Sieg heil' (YouTube screenshot)

Ruff crowdVideo of man teaching dog Nazi salute meets outrage

London Mayor Boris Johnson (photo credit: AP/Sang Tan)

London mayor under fire for ‘loaded’ criticism of ‘part-Kenyan’ Obama

By Jill Lawless

Illustrative: Members of the Jewish community walk in front of a memorial in the shape of a flower in Jasenovac on April 15. 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Croatian leaders commemorate Nazi death camp victims

By AFP

Illustrative: This undated photo provided by Sotheby's in New York shows the first-ever printing of the Talmud in Venice in the 1520s. (Sotheby's via AP)

Buy the book‘Thirst for wisdom’ makes Talmud in Italian a best-seller

By Angus Mackinnon

The University of Sheffield's Dr. Eran Elhaik (YouTube screenshot)

Our mishpochaNew DNA tech traces origins of Yiddish to… Turkey

Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law (1659) by Rembrandt. (Wikipedia)

Exodus from BirobidzhanMoses statue gets cold shoulder from Siberia rabbi

By JTA

Gabriel Metsu's 'An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman' (Courtesy)

Painting looted by Nazis coming to auction in NYC

By AP

File: A reconstructed view of the fabled Amber Room (photo credit: jeanyfan, public domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Polish historian hopes crumbling bunker hides Amber Room

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