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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 28, 2016

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In spiraling anti-Semitism row, Labour suspends Livingstone for saying Hitler backed Zionism

Former London mayor told he’s brought party into disrepute; British Jewish leadership: He lacks all decency, expel him from Labour

Labour’s Livingstone says Hitler was initially a Zionist; colleague calls him a ‘Nazi apologist’

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

By Jenni Frazer

UK Labour suspends MP who wanted Israel dismantled

By ToI Staff and JTA

Israel Police hold back right-wing Jewish activists of the 'Temple Mount Faithful' movement outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 10, 2016. (Corina Kern/Flash90)

As support widens for Jewish prayer on Temple Mount, should we fear apocalyptic consequences?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With almost daily disturbances at the most contested and incendiary of holy sites, and with an increasing number of religious Zionists yearning for a Third Temple, Israeli activists walk a fine line between peaceful protest and provocation

Nablus residents riot as Jewish pilgrims visit Joseph’s Tomb

By Judah Ari Gross

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Obama ‘snubbed’ Israel, treated Iran with ‘tender love and care,’ Trump charges

By ToI Staff, AFP and JTA

In speech outlining foreign policy, Republican front-runner hammers home ‘America first,’ says Islamic Republic won’t get nuclear weapons if he’s president

Ted Cruz taps Carly Fiorina as running mate

By Scott Bauer and Steve Peoples

Iran deal fight pushes Democrats to block spending bill

By Matthew Daly

Iran’s Holocaust cartoon chief miffed at Zarif’s KKK comparison

Illustrative: Doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem performing surgery, Jerusalem, March 5, 1990. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Innovative Israeli surgery gives Palestinian toddler new lease on life

By Tamar Pileggi

‘There are no politics in a hospital, only people,’ says Hadassah doctor who saved Gaza three-year-old Suleiman from a lifetime of paralysis

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

A Passover lesson from Kansas City

Following the murders committed by a white-supremacist, a remarkable initiative aims to overcome evil with love

Jewish troubles in Kaifeng

China should brag about the freedom Jews have known there, instead of squashing communal Passover observance

If Gazans were free to choose

How long would it take to un-teach Jew-hatred and instill the values that build a free, pluralistic, civil society?

Moshe Dayan eulogizes Roi Rotberg, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, April 1956 (IDF archives)

Echoes of history

When Moshe Dayan delivered the defining speech of Zionism

By Mitch Ginsburg

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Israel rejects French peace plan: ‘Direct talks are only path’

Jerusalem appears to rule out France’s call for international summits on ending the conflict, based on Arab initiative

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking. (CC-BY elhombredenegro/Flickr)

Israeli-made ‘black hole’ could win Stephen Hawking a Nobel

After 40 years of speculation, a Technion physicist may have proved the groundbreaking ‘Hawking Radiation’ theory

Illustrative photo of Israeli artillery on the Lebanese border, January 28, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson)

IDF officer: Hezbollah gearing up for war, just like in 2006

Eliav Elbaz says terror group ‘obsessively’ gathering intelligence, even though ‘they’re up to their necks’ in Syria fighting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, is greeted by Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic outside the Government building in Zagreb, April 27, 2016. (AFP/STR)

Turkey’s Erdogan: Talks with Israel to resume in May

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President says new round of discussions to focus on electricity and water relief in Gaza, other humanitarian projects

A still image taken from the music video for Mashrou’ Leila's hit song Fasateen (Dresses), which challenges the traditional role of marriage. (screen capture: YouTube).

Lebanese band with gay frontman barred from Jordan

Mashrou’ Leila, which refused to open for Tel Aviv-bound Red Hot Chili Peppers four years ago, has Amman concert canceled because its music, stance ‘contradict’ local values

Far-right militants make the fascist salute (Roman salute) in front of the tomb of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini during a rally to celebrate the life and the death of Mussolini in Predappio, on April 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI)

Mussolini museum project wakens demons of Italy’s past

By Laure BRUMONT

Residents of Predappio — the fascist dictator’s hometown — struggle to ‘settle accounts’ with the past, insist site won’t become a shrine

Foreign journalists cover clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in 2000. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Media watchdog downgrades Israeli press to ‘partly free’

Freedom House cites as reasons for decline the detrimental influence of pro-Netanyahu tabloid Israel Hayom, expansion of paid content

Illustrative: 'Boycott Israel' billboard near Chicago's Logan Airport, 2016 (screen capture: CBS)

Iowa General Assembly passes anti-BDS legislation

Approved 38-9 in state senate, bill is third in US to prohibit state investment and procurement with companies that boycott Israel

A 2005 file photo from the Ashkelon desalination plant. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Israeli water recycling, desalination tech needs work, studies show

By David Shamah

Although recognized as a world leader in making every drop count, researchers say Israel should do more research to improve public health

Eva Hesse c. 1963 (Barbara Brown/Zeitgeist Films)

Documentary explores brief life, enduring legacy of artist Eva Hesse

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Syrian civil defense members carry a wounded man on a stretcher into a hospital in the government-controlled side of the northern city of Aleppo following clashes on April 27, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Airstrikes hit Syrian hospital, 27 dead; Assad blamed

By Sarah El Deeb

Illustrative. A rocket is fired at Israel from Gaza on August 9, 2014. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

Gaza rocket alert sounds in false alarm

By Judah Ari Gross

A Jewish wedding in Baghdad, date unknown. (courtesy/JIMENA)

From the webIn Israel, Iraqi Jews reflect on Baghdad heritage

A minibus in Bnei Brak that went up in flames on April 27, 2016. (Israel Police)

Man killed in minibus fire identified as driver, 78

'The Passover Palito,' a clip by a group of Argentine seniors (YouTube screenshot)

Move over, MaccabeatsArgentine senior citizens funk it up in Passover clip

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of shwarma meat being cooked in Jerusalem on December 20, 2013 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

ShawarmageddonUproar as Moscow threatens to ban kebabs

Competitors in the Elite Men's race lead the pack at the start of the 2016 London Marathon in central London on April 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK)

Any which WazeIsraeli cop starts London Marathon at finish line

By JTA and ToI Staff

New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP/Pat Sullivan)

‘The Jinx’ tycoon’s murder trial to be moved to California

By AFP and ToI Staff

A policeman is seen in the window and family members stand on the balcony of an apartment where police are investigating a murder and suicide by a man and his wife at their home in Maaleh Adumim, April 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ma’ale Adumim couple dead after apparent murder-suicide

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Wednesday, April 27, 2016, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Hebrew media review‘Cowboy diplomacy’ and bloody murder

By Ilan Ben Zion

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