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What Matters Most On Monday, April 25, 2016

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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)

Poll: Most Israelis think any of the candidates would be better for Israel than Obama

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Channel 1 survey finds majority prefer Clinton in the White House, but believe Trump and Netanyahu would get along better

83 senators, but not Sanders, urge Obama to increase Israel military aid

By Raoul Wootliff

GOP megadonor likens Trump policies to Nazi Germany

Some American Muslims like the fact that Trump’s ‘a little nuts’

Azhar Abu Srour, mother of 19-year-old Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour (portrait), who carried out an April 18, 2016, bomb attack on a bus in Jerusalem, mourns with family members at al-Ayda refugee camp on April 22, 2016. (AFP/Musa al Shaer)

Analysis

For mother of Hamas bus bomber, son’s attack was ‘self-defense’

By Avi Issacharoff

Abed al-Hamid Abu Srour has just become the first suicide bomber in years. While others in the local refugee camp celebrate and Hamas hails its new martyr, his parents veer from bitterness to denial to blaming Israel

Most young Palestinians support attacks on Israelis — poll

By Ilan Ben Zion

IDF nabs Hamas suspects as Israeli hardliners slated to visit Hebron

Hamas releases video of Jerusalem bus bomber in fatigues

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with university students in Tehran, Iran, July 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Pricking us

Shakespeare fan Khamenei singles out ‘Merchant of Venice’

By Tamar Pileggi

In Twitter post, Iranian supreme leader says play that features scheming Jew Shylock is ‘in accordance with Western values’

A forest fire in the Biriya forest in northern Israel on April 25, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 10)

Live updates (closed)

Investigators say hikers started forest fire in northern Israel

By Marissa Newman

Massive blaze in Biriya forest, which shut down roads and prompted evacuations, now under control

A statue of Louis D. Brandeis by Robert Berks, unveiled in 1956, sits atop a hill on the Brandeis University campus. (Mike Lovett, Brandeis University photographer)

As 4th Jew seeks US Supreme Court, a look at how the first was nearly borked

By Penny Schwartz

An exhibit at his namesake university shows how Louis D. Brandeis, remembered for his contributions to human rights and civic affairs, was an unlikely Zionist

An earthquake of life-changing magnitude

Blogger Iddo Gefen is one of the young Israelis taking a month-long break from their treks through Asia to help rebuild Nepalese communities devastated one year ago.

How to build a better Israeli democracy

Three big ideas to energize government, starting with term limits to keep the country from turning into a monarchy

Where were you?

A message for a world that sits on the sidelines and judges Israel

The candidate of the far-right Freedom Party, Norbert Hofer, casts his ballot in the first round of the Austrian presidential elections, in Pinkafeld, April 24, 2016. (AFP/Dieter Nagl)

Austrian far-right triumphs in first round of presidential election

By AFP and ToI Staff

Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer wins over 35% of vote, leaving other 5 candidates far behind

National Socialist Underground members Beate Zschaepe, Uwe Boehnhardt and Uwe Mundlos in a 1998 newspaper photo. (Photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Neo-Nazi killers are ‘Germany’s IS,’ TV show maker says

By Laurence THOMANN

Former NUS President Malia Bouattia (National Union of Students)

New UK student leader denies anti-Semitism, racism but still backs Palestinian terrorism

Amid dismay at her election, Malia Bouattia pens op-ed claiming to be victim of false accusations but says her beliefs are unchanged and fails to repudiate support for use of ‘resistance’ to free Palestine

New York University campus. (Cincin12/Wikimedia Commons)

NYU graduate student union approves BDS resolution

By JTA

Richard Lakin (left) reads a book to his granddaughter, as his son Micah Avni looks on. January 2014. (Courtesy)

Terror victim’s son asks to speak at school that hosted killer’s family

By Dov Lieber and Tamar Pileggi

Micha Avni, whose father was slain in October bus attack, seeks to spread Richard Lakin’s message of coexistence to East Jerusalem schoolkids

Tens of thousands of Jews at the Western Wall for the priestly blessing ceremony on April 25, 2016. (Police Spokesperson)

Worshipers and police crowd Western Wall for priestly blessing

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Tens of thousands pack Jerusalem holy site for ceremony; security forces boosted amid holiday tensions

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

Jordan warns Israel of ‘consequences’ over Temple Mount ‘violations’

Hashemite Kingdom calls for Israel to deny entry to ‘settlers’ and remove forces, amid ramped up security and uptick in Jewish visits for Passover

Illustrative: A Palestinian boy looks at a car belonging to Palestinians, which residents said was burnt by Jewish settlers, in a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 2, 2015. (Flash90)

Suspected Jewish terror cell charged over anti-Palestinian attacks

By Tamar Pileggi

Shin Bet says group’s 7 members — including an IDF soldier and 2 minors — indicted for arson, vandalism and stone-throwing

Turkish police, forensics and emergency services work at the scene of an explosion on the pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on March 19, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Istanbul bomber didn’t set out to target Israelis, Jerusalem says

By Tamar Pileggi

Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau determines Islamic State terrorist sought to damage Turkey’s sizable tourism industry

Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern at a culinary event (Shulie Seidler-Feller)

Culinary duo makes old-school Ashkenazi fare anything but bland

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

A 3,700-year-old scarab seal found by a birdwatcher at Tel Dor, in northern Israel, dated to the 13th Dynasty. (Tel Dor Excavations, courtesy)

3,700-year-old scarab seal found by birdwatcher near Haifa

A third century BCE mosaic featuring a skeleton and the words "Be cheerful, enjoy life" found in southern Turkey. (screen capture: Anadolu Agency video)

For tomorrow you dieSkeleton on ancient mosaic: ‘YOLO’

By AP

Milana Vayntrub on the beach in Lesbos, where she aided refugees arriving on shore. (Courtesy of Vayntrub/Can't Do Nothing)

Pitching inAT&T ad girl asks world to help out refugees

By Victor Wishna

Isaac Herzog, leader of the opposition and of the Labor Party, seen at a party event, April 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Evidence likely insufficient to indict Herzog — report

French comedian Dieudonne gesturing as he leaves his trial at the courthouse in Paris, France, February 4, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Miguel Medina, File)

Jewish group aims to prevent anti-Semitic comedian from entering Canada

By JTA

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

Passover vacationers throng beaches, hiking trails

Israelis visit Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo during Passover, April 24, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewTaking a break from breaking news

By Raoul Wootliff

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