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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 1, 2017

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Ahmad Jazal, 17, from the West Bank village of Sebastia, near Nablus, in a selfie he took on the Temple Mount before he attacked Israelis and was killed in the Old City on April 1, 2017 (via Twitter)

Three hurt in Jerusalem Old City stabbing, attacker shot dead

2 civilians, policeman injured in capital’s second knifing this week; teenage terrorist posted selfies at Dome of the Rock shortly before attack

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian throwing a rock at Israeli Border Police during clashes in East Jerusalem on September 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Palestinian teen suspected of throwing rocks shot by IDF near Ramallah

A partial view taken on March 31, 2017, shows dismantled caravans from the Amona outpost placed in the West Bank outpost of Shilo. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

UK, France, Germany slam Israeli announcement to build new settlement

European powers issue closely timed statements saying new West Bank site for Amona residents will violate international law

White House ‘welcomes’ PM pledge to curb settlement construction

By Eric Cortellessa

Wiesenthal Center opposes Qatari candidate for UNESCO head

UN agency suspends Gaza missions after Hamas restrictions

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Defense Secretary James Mattis leaves after visiting British Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, March 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

North Korea, not Iran, top threat to US, defense chief says

By Robert Burns

Mattis also takes aim at Russia’s ‘violations of international law’ and ‘mucking around inside other peoples’ elections’

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, Friday, March 31, 2017, in Washington. Spicer discussed the U.S., China relationship and other topics. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House makes clear it’s not trying to push Assad out

By Bradley Klapper

Sword of Damocles, 1812, oil on canvas. Richard Westall. Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Public domain)

Analysis

The sword of Netanyahu still looms, as he emerges victorious from coalition crisis

By Raoul Wootliff

The PM’s game of chicken worked. He beat his rivals in the battle over the state broadcaster, and caused ‘chaos’ in Israel’s media landscape

Opposition leader Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog at the party faction meeting, March 20, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Opposition leader: Coalition still on verge of collapse

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in the Knesset, June 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Kahlon warned Netanyahu: If we go to elections, you will not be next PM

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Hamas naval commandos, seen in a still image from a propaganda video released by the terror group during Israel's Operation Protective Edge, in the summer of 2014. (Screen capture)

Hamas looking undersea, not just underground, for attack routes

By Judah Ari Gross

Gaza-based terrorist group is training and manufacturing weapons for naval warfare, officer warns

Tour guide Moshe Ben Yehuda speaks at the Lehi Museum in Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

In Tel Aviv, a glimpse into the turbulent years when the British ruled

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Lehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Supreme Court ends Israeli woman’s marriage to comatose husband

By JTA

Rabbinical judges, who had sought to intervene, blocked from prolonging decade-old case

Screenshot of the Facebook group 'Russian Jew Vines.' (Julie Masis/Times of Israel)

Seeing red

Babushka knows best and other universal truths of the Russian-Jewish experience

With short viral videos, a Facebook group gets thousands of laughs when US-born bilingual youth poke fun at their esteemed Russian-speaking elders

Arrest British Jews who join the IDF?

A former government member’s crusade to clamp down on those who serve in foreign armies is misguide and abhorent

How I defend Israel on the Syrian border

On helping and healing, with no judgment or prejudice, and the universal language of a smile

A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles, Oct. 14, 2015. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Reform movement urges synagogues to protect immigrants facing deportation

By JTA

Union for Reform Judaism calls on congregations to buck tightened regulations, and provide shelter, legal help for those at risk

Syrian refugee Baraa Haj Khalaf (L), receives a kiss from her mother Fattoum Haj Khalaf as she arrives at O'Hare International Airport on February 7, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. (AFP/Joshua Lott)

Boston Jewish federation teams with Catholic Charities to aid immigrants

By JTA

Kuwaiti social media activist Thamer al-Dakheel Bourashed puts his laptop inside his suitcase at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City, before boarding a flight to the United States on March 23, 2017. (AFP/Yasser Al-Zayyat)

US believes jihadists found innovative ways to put explosives in laptops

IS and other groups reportedly using airport security equipment to test explosives; this info was behind new airline laptop ban

FBI photographs of the Pentagon, after the terror attack on 9/11 (FBI)

Photo Essay

FBI photos show the horror of 9/11 terror attack at Pentagon

Newly released pictures highlight the devastation from one of the four coordinated attacks in the world’s worst terrorist incident

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a meeting at the Plaza Hotel on September 19, 2016 in New York. (AFP/Dominick Reuter)

Trump’s White House looks to reset ties with Egypt

By Samer al-Atrush

US president to meet with ‘fantastic guy’ Sissi on Monday, strengthening relationship with key ally that suffered under Obama

This file photo taken on March 3, 2017 shows Senior Advisor to the President, Jared Kushner (L), walking with his wife Ivanka Trump to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Filings show Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner gain from business empire

By AFP

First daughter, husband making income off holdings worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and hold stake in hotel blocks from White House

A screenshot of Bogdan Bialek meditating, from the movie 'Bogdan's Journey.' (Courtesy)

On the site of a 1946 massacre, a Catholic Pole works to heal his home

Chaim Stephenson in his studio. (Courtesy)

Sculptor’s work on refugees takes on increased resonance in new London exhibit

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A contestant in the "A Muezzin is Born" competition (Channel 2 screenshot)

In Jaffa, ‘A Muezzin is Born’ to protest Israeli bill

Adam Krief with his wife, Lia (Facebook)

Fundraiser for wife of Jewish cancer patient Adam Krief raises $130,000 in 3 days

By JTA

The mural-sized oil painting on canvas Guernica by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937. (Wikimedia commons)

80 years on, Picasso’s anti-war Guernica still resonates

By Laurence BOUTREUX

Illustrative: A baby after the brit milah ceremony (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

NYC to automatically ban mohels linked to newborn herpes cases

By JTA

Adrian Grenier in Jerusalem (Instagram)

It's the thought that counts‘Entourage’ star hawks Passover gift cards to Israelis

By Andrew Tobin

The Emunas Yisroel Synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Screen capture Google Street View)

NY Jewish man arrested for trying to lure teen boys with notes in tefillin bags

By JTA

Michael Applebaum in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

Montreal’s Jewish ex-mayor to serve 1 year in jail for fraud

By JTA

A Donald Trump supporter holds a cartoon designated a hate symbol by the anti-defamation league before the start of a campaign event in Bedford, NH, on Sept. 29, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Defining movement‘Alt-right’ added as official term on Dictionary.com

By Josefin Dolsten

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