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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 2, 2017

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The mother of an Israeli-American teen allegedly behind hundreds of threatening calls and fake bomb threats to Jewish institutions around the world speaks to Channel 2 (Channel 2 news)

Family said to fear US will seek his extradition from Israel

Mother of JCC bomb hoaxer: He’s autistic, doesn’t know what he’s doing

US-born mom of teen suspect says his brain tumor responsible for his actions: ‘He can’t control it, he can’t think straight. He needs medical help’

Illustrative photo of a young boy in a day care center, January 11, 2006. (Nati shohat Flash90)

Welfare Ministry: Autism diagnoses tripled in a decade

By Stuart Winer

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the inauguration ceremony for a new Elbit defense electronics factory in the southern Israeli town of Arad. April 02, 2017. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense

Liberman suggests Hamas killed its own top terrorist

Defense minister says ‘Hamas is known for its internal assassinations — let them look there’

Hamas vows ‘divine punishment’ for assassins of terror chief

Hamas to allow UN, Red Cross officials to leave Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF drills for possible Islamic State attacks across southern border on foot, in cars

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the unveiling of the David's Sling missile defense system at the Hatzor Air Force base on April 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Launching latest missile shield, Netanyahu warns Israel’s foes

By Tamar Pileggi and Stuart Winer

At event unveiling David’s Sling system, PM says those seeking to attack Jewish state are ‘putting their own lives at risk’

Police rescuing an ultra-Orthodox IDF soldier who was trapped in a bookstore by an angry mob of ultra-Orthodox protesters in Jerusalem on April 2, 2017. (Screen capture: Kikar Hashabat)

Live updates (closed)

Police rescue IDF soldier from ultra-Orthodox mob

By Tamar Pileggi

PM will reportedly make goodwill gestures towards Palestinians at Trump’s request; US changing anti-Israel culture at UN, envoy Haley says; Arab NGOs pledge more than $260m in aid for Syria

Megan Phelps-Roper in a previous life, picketing the Oscars. (photo credit: CC BY-SA k763, Flickr)

Times of Israel Presents

Meet the Christian former Jew-hater who thought terror attacks were God’s lessons for unbelievers

By Matthew Kalman

A granddaughter of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper speaks in Israel for the first time with the ‘Jewish enemy’ who became a friend

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at an Education and Economics Forum, in Jerusalem, March 22, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Pro-settlement minister okay with West Bank construction curb

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Naftali Bennett refrains from criticizing decision to limit new building, says new arrangement is ‘fitting’ but ‘proof will be in the pudding’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

US-Israel talks on settlement building suspended — report

A depiction of the SAW (single actuator wave-like robot) designed by Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israeli scientists design robot to squeeze through small intestine

Ben-Gurion University researchers predict the snake-like, ingestible device will revolutionize colonoscopy tests

One of the dance troupes at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda performs on February 17, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

In Rwanda, Israeli-inspired youth village is walking on sunshine

By Melanie Lidman

East Africa’s largest field of solar panels leases land from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, highlighting the rural area as a center of innovation

Naftali Bennett

Hezbollah is Lebanon is Hezbollah

The time has come for Israel to view any rocket coming over the Lebanese border as an act of war by a sovereign nation

Chana Gable Selmon

Congratulations, it’s a girl!

The coed school will nurture her science-loving daughter’s talents; will it also introduce gender assumptions to her detriment?

Another D&C day

He’s relieved that the emotional agony he and his wife share isn’t compounded by government intrusion

In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 81, a Soviet and Russian poet, performs in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Russian poet who told the world about Babi Yar dies at 84

After gaining notoriety with poetry denouncing Stalin, Yevgeny Yevtushenko was catapulted to international acclaim for his unflinching account of a 1941 massacre of Jews

Security forces in Jerusalem's Old City after a stabbing attack in which three people were injured and the assailant was shot by police, April 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem police to beef up security ahead of Passover

By Stuart Winer

Day after stabbing in Old City, commander warns terrorists will likely seek to carry out attacks over Jewish holiday

Illustrative: Smoke rises after an airstrike by US-led coalition warplanes against Islamic State positions in western Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, February 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi TV: Islamic State ‘war minister’ killed in airstrike

News reports say Ayad al-Jumaili, second-in-command to group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, slain along with other commanders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, right, during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general okays Netanyahu involvement in broadcaster dispute

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Opposition lawmakers say Avichai Mandelblit’s decision disgraces his office, gives prime minister unjust control of media

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sing in the Conference Center at the morning session of the two-day Mormon church conference Saturday, April 1, 2017, in Salt Lake City (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Despite Jewish backlash, Mormon leaders encourage baptisms for the dead

By BRADY McCOMBS

The church has come under fire for posthumously converting Holocaust victims, including Simon Wiesenthal’s parents

Protesters shout slogans as they demonstrate against Israel on the Place du Chatelet in Paris, on April 1, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Samson)

Hundreds protest against ‘Israeli occupier’ in Paris

By ToI Staff, JTA and AFP

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in city center, deny anti-Semitism accusations, as supporters of Israel counter-protest nearby

Krav Maga students practicing in Saint Mande, March 23, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Israeli martial art Krav Maga is trending in Paris

By Cnaan Liphshiz

File: A general view of a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, taken March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Jordan says Israel’s new settlement undermines peace

Government spokesman says plans for new West Bank town harms prospect of two states, violates Palestinian rights

Illustrative photo of Amsterdam, Holland, December 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Amsterdam moves postcard-sized Shoah plaque after residents complain

By JTA

Small memorial cobblestone too confrontational, ‘compromised atmosphere of upscale neighborhood,’ locals say

BDS activist Omar Barghouti at a pro-boycott rally in Ramallah, February 2016. (YouTube screen capture)

BDS leader calls Israeli tax fraud probe ‘vicious lies’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Authorities say Omar Barghouti is suspected of failing to disclose $700,000 in income between 2007 and 2017

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Video from the wedding of former Egyptian strongman Gamel Abdel Nasser's grandson. The man dancing on the left was said to be the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, but was in fact the groom. (Screen Capture: Channel 2)

Guest notVid of ‘Israeli envoy’ at Egypt wedding sparks anger

US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on March 19, 2017, after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida (AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN)

Heil to the chiefHacked New York Post app sends out ‘Heil President’ alert

By AP

President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Donald Trump could sharpen sales skills with AI next time

By Shoshanna Solomon

A woman takes a selfie with an outhouse featuring a Trump doll sitting on the toilet in front of Trump Tower in New York during an April Fool's Day event on April 1, 2017 (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images/AFP)

Donald DumpApril Fool’s marchers in NY elect Trump as their ‘king’

By AFP

A person assumed to be Bob Dylan, wearing a black jacket and a hoodie, enters the backstage door at Stockholm Waterfront April 1, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / TT News Agency / Jessica GOW)

Times a-changingDylan finally gets his hands on his Nobel Prize

By david keyton

Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his New Year's address to the nation from the Kremlin in Moscow on December 31, 2016. (AFP/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentiev)

Putin fools aroundRussia offers to interfere in your elections

Israeli security forces stand guard at the site of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on April 1, 2017. (AFP/Thomas COEX)

Hebrew media reviewSlashing settlements and settling scores with slashers

By Joshua Davidovich

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