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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 27, 2016

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US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump speaks at Trump Tower in New York on April 26,2016 after winning primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware. (AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR)

Trump: ‘It’s over, I’m the presumptive nominee’

By AP and ToI Staff

Sweeping all five states in Tuesday’s contests, GOP front-runner says he’ll beat Clinton ‘easily’ in general election. ‘If she were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5% of the vote’

After Clinton sweep, Sanders shifts emphasis from winning to setting policy

By Stuart Winer and AP

Van Hollen wins Democratic nod for MD Senate seat

By Eric Cortellessa and JTA

Pepper spray flies as Trump supporters, opponents clash in California

By AP

Labour MP Naz Shah was elected in May of last year to represent the Bradford West district (Facebook)

MP who wanted Israel dismantled mustn’t be on anti-Semitism panel — top UK pol

By ToI Staff and JTA

Naz Shah’s only role in committee’s vital work should be as a witness before it, says UK Holocaust envoy Sir Eric Pickles; Labour leader Corbyn accepts Shah’s apology for anti-Israel remarks, says party opposes racism

11 Jewish Harvard Law students defend peer who called Livni ‘smelly’

By JTA

Sweden’s Green Party grapples with claims it’s been infiltrated by Islamists

Labour MP quits post, apologizes after saying Israel should move to US

By JTA and ToI Staff

UK Labour MP Wes Streeting. (courtesy)

Interview

UK Labour’s anti-Semitism is ‘like lifting up a stone and having insects crawl out,’ says MP

By Jenni Frazer

Labour’s Wes Streeting, vice-chairman of anti-Semitism group, shocked at fellow MP’s comments; says ‘something very ugly’ also going on in student politics

A young Palestinian girl attacks 'Israeli soldiers' with a knife in a play held in Gaza as part of the 'Palestine Festival for Children and Education,' April 2016 (Channel 2 news)

Gaza kids put on play about stabbing, killing Israelis

Young children brandishing toy knives and guns act out violent scenes in event broadcast on Hamas television

Palestinian woman throws knife at border guard, is killed along with suspected accomplice

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu orders probe into school that hosted terrorist’s parents

By Dov Lieber and Tamar Pileggi

Abbas sacks Nablus governor, reportedly over public criticism

(L to R) Shaul Yaakoby, CTO and Inventor, Gal Fridman, CMO and Maya Gonik, Head of Business Development check out an Aquarius engine (Courtesy)

Israeli car engine could halve fuel costs, emissions

By David Shamah

Aquarius’s new take on internal combustion engines will be the big leap forward that vehicles need, says company founder

Israel W. Charny

Would Israel sell a drone to a Hitler?

Ashamed at the government’s arming of Azerbaijan and its failure to acknowledge the Armenian genocide

I’m Orthodox, my child is gay, what now?

Religiously observant parents of LGBT children are in dire need of communities that care

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Sefirat HaOmer: What really counts

The struggle for moral behavior only makes sense after you realize that there is more to life than meets the eye

A wake before Passover

When a loved one dies, the ties that bind a rabbi and a Catholic colleague are stronger than what divides them

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp celebrate after a missile launch in July 2012 (AP/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi)

Iran may have secretly tested ballistic missile tech with ‘space launch’

By Judah Ari Gross

Launch of rocket ostensibly designed to send satellites into orbit may have actually been cover for intercontinental missile research banned by UN

Illustrative: Iranian women in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran deploys plainclothes morality police on Tehran streets

By AP

Officials claim new 7,000-strong force will protect women, but critics fear main aim is to enforce Islamic dress code

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)

Zarif: Nuke deal could falter, Holocaust deniers are like KKK

By JTA

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking at a meeting in Tehran, November 1, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iranian supreme leader says sanctions lifted ‘on paper’ only

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Khamenei accuses the US of using ‘Iranophobia’ to scare off foreign banks

Jews visit the Temple Mount under police protection on April 27, 2016 (Screen capture: Facebook)

Police remove 3 more Jewish visitors from Temple Mount

28 Jews and one Palestinian have been evicted from the holy site since the start of Passover, Army Radio says

An Israeli soldier stands on top of an armored personnel carrier stationed on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on August 21, 2015. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Israel fears IS affiliate on Syrian border holds chemical weapons

Officials are monitoring the actions of the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, believing they may be planning to test the deadly agents

Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during a security tour in the Golan Heights, near Israel's northern border with Syria, on April 11, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel scorns UN stance on Golan: Should we negotiate with Islamic State?

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jerusalem hits back after Security Council expresses ‘deep concern’ over PM’s pledge that Jewish state will never cede the plateau

Benjamin Netanyahu, front row, right, poses for a group picture with his government at a cabinet meeting in the Golan Heights on April 17, 2016. Effi Sharir/POOL)

Israeli hold on Golan ‘null and void,’ UN Security Council says

By AFP and ToI Staff

File. An image from a video released by the US Defense Department the American bombing of an Islamic State cash stockpile in Mosul, Iraq on January 11, 2016. (Screen capture: Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System)

US tries, fails to mimic Israeli ‘roof-knock’ bomb warning in Iraq

By Judah Ari Gross

American pilot first fires non-lethal device as a heads-up to an impending attack; woman still dies as she runs back inside after initial blast

Jutta Strake (Courtesy)

Cheated out of €13,000 ‘trading’ binary options, a victim fights back

By Simona Weinglass

In this photo taken on April 16, 2015, a Saudi man walks at Riyadh National Museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Once a hidden kingdom, Saudi Arabia to open doors to tourists

In major shift, prince says tens of thousands of visas to be issued on ‘selected basis’ for country boasting Jewish and Christian sites

New York University campus. (Cincin12/Wikimedia Commons)

NYU president rejects grad students’ BDS resolution

By JTA

Andrew Hamilton says union’s demand to cut ties with Israel is ‘contrary to our core principles’

Illustrative: Female Artillery Corps soldiers march and salute during a ceremony on February 25, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

More women opt for artillery, but not all will make it

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

US Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein (Public Domain/USAF)

Jewish general nominated to lead US Air Force

French far-right Front National (FN) party head Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a campaign meeting in Nimes on December 2, 2015 ahead of regional elections. (AFP/Pascal Guyot)

New activists’ group to push Marine Le Pen to French Jews

By JTA

Screen capture from VTM shows Salah Abdeslam, center, as he is arrested by police and bundled into a police vehicle during a raid in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium, March 18, 2016. (VTM via AP)

French prosecutor: Paris attacks suspect moved to France

By Elaine Ganley

Fyodor Beijanri (Israel Police)

Haifa man suspected of raping, murdering four women

An illustrative photo of the Ilyushin 76 cargo plane which reportedly landed in Israel on two occasions in April 2016. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Igor Dvurekov/Wikipedia)

Azeri military planes landed in Israel during Armenia fighting — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Visitors watch the dragon robot at the Geek PicNic held in Jerusalem during Passover 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Nerd heavenBionic arms, dragon robot are hit at Jerusalem event

By Jessica Steinberg

This 1930 file photo shows former President and US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft in his judicial robes. (photo credit: AP Photo/Files)

Supremely distasteful‘Anti-Semitic’ Taft letter to be auctioned

By JTA

Martin Buber (wikimedia commons public domain)

A long time comingFormer senator cites Martin Buber on marriage equality

A still image from CCTV footage allegedly showing the moment on April 25, 2016 when a man shoots his friend in an Istanbul restaurant in a row over paying the bill (Screenshot: milliyet.com)

Last supperTurkish man ‘kills friend for paying bill in restaurant’

Fyodor Beijanri (Israel Police)

Hebrew media reviewPsycho killer: Qu’est-ce que c’est?

By Judah Ari Gross

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