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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 24, 2016

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Israeli security forces stand guard as a group of Jews leave the Temple Mount on April 24, 2016. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Police boost Temple Mount security amid heightened holiday tensions

By Raoul Wootliff

13 Jewish visitors and one Palestinian removed from compound Sunday for ‘disturbing the peace’; 3,500 officers patrolling capital over festival

Women’s priestly blessing at Jerusalem’s Western Wall curtailed

Two women killed in spate of holiday crashes

By Daniel Douek

Israel releases 12-year-old would-be stabber from jail

By Raoul Wootliff and AP

Israeli soldiers guard a post in the Israeli kibbutz of Netiv Ha'asara near the Gaza Strip on April 05, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

AnalysisNext round of conflict with Hamas 'is just a matter of time'

Despite tunnel fever, it’s business as usual for IDF troops on the Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

Detection system isn’t the game-changer trumpeted by politicians, expert says, and forces on the ground haven’t changed their battle plans against Hamas

Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi poses at his company's bakery in London on December 12, 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

'We make food look just as wonderful as it tastes'

How an Israeli chef conquered kitchens across the UK

By Jenni Frazer

In an interview, Yotam Ottolenghi opens up about his childhood, journalistic past, and what helped make his brand such a big hit in Britain

The candidate of the far-right Freedom Party Norbert Hofer arrives at the polling station for the first round of the Austrian presidential elections in Pinkafeld, on April 24, 2016. (AFP/Dieter Nagl)

Live updates (closed)

Slim odds of indictment against Labor chief Herzog — report

By Ilan Ben Zion

Far-right candidate trumps in Austria presidential vote; tourists flock to Sea of Galilee, but Jerusalem’s Old City empty; Israel says Istanbul bomber didn’t plan to target Israelis;

Illustrative: a Passover seder held in Indonesia on April 22 2016. (Screen capture Channel 10)

Indonesia Jews host Muslim clerics, US diplomat at Seder

50 community members in world’s largest Muslim country gather for festive meal; US deputy secretary of state is guest of honor

Passover bids us to hold on AND let it go

There’s a paradox in the holiday’s message: The need to tell an ancient story even as we create a new reality

The sounds of Jerusalem

The cacophony of constant building in the holy city reveals a foundation of hope that trumps every siren of terror

Scars from an Intifada

He was an IDF paratrooper with a powerful sense of purpose…until he left the army and fell apart

An archaeologist on the site of the remnants of a Jewish 17th-century slum in the center of the Dutch capital (at5.nl screenshot)

17th-century Jewish slum unearthed in Amsterdam

By JTA

400-year-old former shipyard found near the old Jewish quarter housed hundreds, is deemed ‘spectacular find’

An IsraAID volunteer with Ecuadorean children in Canoa, Ecuador, on April 23 2016. (IsraAID)

Israeli group sets up field hospital in quake-hit Ecuador

By ToI Staff and AP

IsraAid disaster relief team arrives by plane in village of Canoa to provide relief to survivors of devastating temblor

U.S President Barack Obama, right, and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron walk from 10 Downing Street, London after a meeting Friday, April, 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

After bridling at Netanyahu intervention on Iran, Obama wades into UK’s Europe debate

By AP and ToI Staff

Year after calling Israeli PM’s speech to Congress a distraction and refusing to meet him, US president brushes off charge he’s meddling in British affairs

US President Barack Obama takes a question as he speaks to a town hall meeting at Lindley Hall, the Royal Horticultural Society, in London, Saturday, April 23, 2016 (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Overseas, Obama begins the long goodbye

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone during a weekly cabinet meeting held on the Golan Heights, April 17, 2016. (Moav Vardi)

Islamic nations call emergency meeting on Golan Heights ‘escalation’

By Raoul Wootliff

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to discuss PM Netanyahu’s recent pledge that contested territory will remain Israeli ‘forever’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks with media at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, February 27, 2016. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Rouhani: If not for Iran, IS would rule Baghdad and Damascus

President says world would be facing terror government, not just terror group; calls Iran a ‘pioneer’ against extremism

US President Barack Obama speaks at the newly-designated Belmont-Paul Womens Equality National Monument in Washington, DC, April 12, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Obama rules out ground troops to oust Assad from Syria

By Raoul Wootliff

US commander-in-chief says military efforts alone cannot end civil war, admits Islamic State will not fall in final 9 months of his presidency

North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong answers questions during an interview, Saturday, April 23, 2016, at the country's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

N. Korea vows to halt nuke tests if US stops S. Korea drills

By Eric Talmadge

In rare interview, rogue country’s FM warns of ‘catastrophic results’ for the world if Washington maintains its ‘hostile policy’

Ahmad Manasra, a 13-year-old Palestinian who stabbed two Israelis in an attack, is seen surrounded by guards at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel jailing growing numbers of Palestinian teens – report

Amid burgeoning violence, 103 minors under the age of 16 held for security offenses, including five who are 14 and under

This architectural visualization provided by Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat in Gdynia, Poland, shows how the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland, is projected to look after its completion. (Krzysztof Droszcz/Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat via AP)

Polish leaders threaten to purge international scope from WWII museum

By AP

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Simon Reuben and David Reuben (Courtesy)

Hot propertyJewish brothers top Britain’s 2016 Rich List

Hovi Star in a still image from a video of his song 'Made of Stars', Israel's entry to the Eurovision contest. (Screen capture YouTube)

Israeli entrant to Eurovision says humiliated at Russian airport for being gay

A staff turns into a snake in one of the Technion Rube Goldberg-style Passover projects (Courtesy)

Technion and friends celebrate Passover, Rube Goldberg style

By David Shamah

Israel's Or Sasson (in blue) fights with France's Teddy Riner during their Men's over-100kg category final at the European Judo Championships in Kazan on April 23, 2016. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Israeli judoka takes home silver in European championships

ClickbaitEgypt ‘clickfunding’ makes mouse jockeys into do-gooders

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Prince Charles recites Hamlet's famous soliloquy at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday, April 23, 2016, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death (YouTube screenshot)

The play's the thingPrince Charles plays Hamlet for Shakespeare 400th

By Leon NEAL and Robin MILLARD

Israelis swim in a natural spring in the outskirts of Jerusalem during Passover on Sunday, April 24, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFestival of spring chickens on the barbecue

By Adiv Sterman

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