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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount prostrated themselves in prayer in violation of Israeli regulations on April 26, 2016. (screen capture: Twitter)

Police, Muslims skirmish on Temple Mount after Jewish visitors bow down

By Ilan Ben Zion and Judah Ari Gross

No immediate reports of arrests, injuries; security forces eject eight Jews who violated ban on Jewish prayer at contested site

Israeli forces nab 3 Palestinians said plotting Jerusalem attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel holding Palestinian journalist as terror suspect

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel arrests pro-Hamas Palestinian astrophysics professor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US ready to offer Israel largest aid package in history

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Amid push by senators, White House official says talks with Israeli officials ongoing to secure ‘largest single pledge’ of military assistance

Ex-military intel chief urges PM to hedge bets, accept US aid package

By Raoul Wootliff

Obama tried to ‘pivot away’ from the Middle East, ex-adviser says

Obama: We are living in the most peaceful era in human history

By AFP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton takes selfies with supporters at a campaign rally on April 24, 2016 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

UN rebuffs Netanyahu claim on Golan ownership

15-member Security Council agrees that status of plateau captured from Syria in 1967 ‘remains unchanged’

Ethiopia Berihe, 40, next to her craft stand at the entrance to Wolleka village, Gondar, Ethiopia, on April 24, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90).

How a village left behind by Jews in Ethiopia became a top tourist draw

By Melanie Lidman

Wolleka Falasha village, once home to Ethiopian Jews known for their craftsmanship, is now a kitschy visitors’ spot, but the residents proudly preserve its Jewish heritage

People ride horses near the new mosque, partially funded by Chechnya, in the Arab town of Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, March 23, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Abu Ghosh, Arab town known for warm ties to Zionism, to get Yasser Arafat center

Cornerstone to be laid Wednesday; Munib al-Masri, billionaire Palestinian peace advocate and ex-minister under late PLO leader widely reviled in Israel, seen behind initiative

Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 17, 2014. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In Maryland Senate race, two Democrats with very different Israel stances

By Eric Cortellessa

Ahead of election Tuesday, Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Donna Edwards both call themselves strong supporters of Israel, but their votes in the US Congress underline sharply contrasting approaches

Tuesday primaries could spell the end for Sanders

Trump bristles at collaboration by ‘puppets’ Cruz, Kasich

By Steve Peoples and Ken Thomas

Mexican president urges expats: Stop Trump bid by following Jewish example of unity

By JTA

The corrosive new anti-Israel normal

The debate over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has moved from unfair to sickening

Time for us all to break the silence

The toxic nature of a campaign to discredit left-wing organizations has seeped into mainstream Israeli life

Lawrence Grossman

UNESCO passes over the truth

Outrage at a resolution that erases the Jewish connection to the Temple Mt and accuses Israel of denying Muslims access

A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after a terrorist shooting attack in Paris, November 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

‘Israel boycott halted security deal that could have foiled Paris attacks’

Israeli security source says offer of terror-tracking software to French security officials was refused due to ‘higher-level instruction not to buy Israeli tech’

The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)

Scientists find 1,537 defects in Dimona reactor’s core — report

By Daniel Douek

Aging nuclear facility still operationally sound and presents no immediate threat, but experts warn no long-term solution in place

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a town hall at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on April 22, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

AJC castigates Sanders for comparing Baltimore to West Bank

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Jewish organization questions why senator raised Palestinian infant mortality in comments on poverty in Maryland’s largest city

Illustrative: Students in an IDF programming course. (Courtesy)

The programming school that keeps the IDF running

By David Shamah

Top-notch training at the IDF’s Computing and Cyber Defense Academy supplies the army with programmers who make modern warfare and defense possible

Illustrative photo of Cairo. (Shutterstock)

Egypt jails 11 men accused of homosexuality

By AFP

Court convicts defendants of ‘debauchery and incitement to debauchery,’ hands down jail terms sentences ranging from 3 to 12 years

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

Reporter who exposed fake Polish rabbi says he’s getting heat from Jewish leader

By JTA and ToI Staff

Poland’s chief Chabad rabbi calls the Catholic imposter fiasco ‘a cosmic embarrassment to the Polish Rabbinate’

Yonatan Gat (Adam PW Smith)

Shunned at home, an Israeli expat musician makes it in New York

By Madison Margolin

The "Olden You Quartet" plays at the Beit Haamudim bar and jazz club during a concert in Tel Aviv on April 5, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

As talent returns home, Israeli jazz finds its groove

By Jonah Mandel

Musicians who trained abroad are coming back and introducing new life, tunes at festivals, bars across the country

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Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, who helped save the lives of thousands of Jews as the Imperial Consul to Lithuania in World War II. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

First personHow my grandmother’s chutzpah helped Japan’s consul save thousands of Jews

By Alyza D. Lewin

(Foreground L to R) Asaf Gendler, CEO of Israeli start-up Bidflyer, signs a partnership agreement with Kevin Yu, COO of Hainan Eco-Tech Group (Courtesy)

ExclusiveTop Chinese conglomerate set to shop for Israeli start-up tech

By David Shamah

Firefighters try to extinguish a forest fire raging in Biriya Forest, near Safed, northern Israel, April 25, 2016. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Negligent hikers likely behind brush fire which ravaged forest

By Stuart Winer

Rabbi Marc Schneier, right, scene with Imam Shamsi Ali, said he is leaving his Westhampton Beach synagogue in part to focus on Muslim-Jewish relations. (Richard Drew/AP)

Rabbi Marc Schneier resigning from Hampton Synagogue, denies pressure

By JTA

Jean-Baptiste Michalon speaking to French news (YouTube screen capture)

French Muslim shopowner fined over single-sex opening hours

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

German party calls for end to ritual slaughter

By JTA

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on as US President Barack Obama tests VR goggles when touring the Hannover Messe, the world's largest industrial technology trade fair, in Hannover, northern Germany, Monday, April 25, 2016. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Hebrew media reviewThrough blood-colored glasses

By Joshua Davidovich

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