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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 4, 2017

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Syrian children receive treatment following a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, on April 4, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Mohamed al-Bakour)

Syrian chemical attack kills scores, injures 200

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Footage following the Idlib attack shows motionless bodies of nearly a dozen children piled on a wooden cart

Israeli leaders urge action, condemn Syria gas ‘massacre’

EU says Assad regime responsible for ‘awful’ Syria gas attack

By AFP

Syrian people do not want Assad in power, US envoy tells UN

By AFP

A Syrian child receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following an attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour)

Live updates (closed)

UN Security Council to discuss Syria chemical attack

By Tamar Pileggi

Assad regime ‘categorically denies’ assault on rebel town that killed at least 58 civilians; White House blames Obama’s ‘weakness’ for deadly raid

US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to members of the media as he greets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the White House on April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump, Sissi said to plan peace summit during their meeting

By Jacob Magid and AP

US president aims to host a conference this summer, and has tasked envoy Greenblatt with making it happen, report says

AnalysisAt White House, Jordan king to present Arabs’ view on peace

Visiting Sissi says Trump can solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK withholding diplomatic visa from incoming Palestinian envoy — Abbas

Illustrative. Palestinian students seen on their first day of the new school year in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 25, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90/File)

New Palestinian textbooks ‘teach students to be martyrs’

Citing ‘alarming deterioration,’ institute’s report says PA’s elementary schoolbooks deny Israel’s existence and urge a ‘return’ to exclusively Palestinian homeland

File: Yahya Sinwar (R) the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City on March 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Analysis

Despite facelift, Hamas is as hostile to Israel as ever

By Avi Issacharoff

In a new charter, the terror group is apparently toning down the rhetoric — to appease the West and mollify Egypt; it won’t be recognizing the Jewish state

Jailed Fatah terrorist organizes hunger strikes, protests

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas tells ‘collaborators’ to turn selves in amid hunt for assassins

Hamas said to arrest group of ‘Israeli agents’ in Gaza

Israel's Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Gideon Sa'ar at the party meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem March 2, 2009. (Miriam Alster / FLASH90.)

Analysis

With disarming return to politics, Sa’ar gives Netanyahu little cause to fret

By Marissa Newman

Stumping for Likud more than himself, ex-minister praises PM upon political reentry; top generals also seem out of the running

Netanyahu ally warns prodigal son Sa’ar not to cross the PM

By Alexander Fulbright

Most Israelis see no reason for new elections

Former senior Likud minister Sa’ar announces return to politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin places flowers in memory of victims of the blast in the Saint Petersburg metro outside Technological Institute station on April 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/STR)

Death toll in Saint Petersburg subway bombing raised to 14

By AP

Health minister says 49 people remain hospitalized; city’s residents lay flowers outside metro station

St. Petersburg bomber was from Kyrgyzstan – security services

By AFP and ToI Staff

Trump pledges ‘full support’ to Putin over Russia metro attack

Israel sends condolences to Russia following attack

By JTA

Kids love 'The (Unofficial) Hogwarts Haggadah,' by Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg. (Courtesy)

Kids will be spellbound by the (unofficial) Harry Potter haggadah

Jews of all stripes are enchanted with Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg’s bestselling, self-published relatable Passover experience

Here’s the spiel on gluten-free matzah

By Gabe Friedman

The chutzpah of Sayeeda Warsi

The Muslim parliamentarian’s false comparison between the IDF and IS is dangerously irresponsible

There’s no Moses to save the refugees

All who were once strangers themselves must seek not only entry for those barred by Trump’s policies, but a real welcome

Why the Haggadah is organized that way

The Passover text is there to remind Jews that yesterday they were slaves and tomorrow they will be redeemed

The father of American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, sits in the Israeli Justice court in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Father of JCC bomb hoaxer apologizes to US Jews, blames tumor

‘There was no motive of hatred. The motive was illness,’ says Israeli dad of teen suspect, citing son’s brain tumor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build thousands of new apartments in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh, April 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Police probe into PM purportedly prolonged by problems pinning down Packer

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Channel 2 says investigators, stymied by inability to interview Australian billionaire, still leaning toward indicting Netanyahu

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

Planned Amona 2.0 might not house West Bank settlers for 3 years

By Raphael Ahren

While some rushed to condemn Israel’s decision to build the Geulat Zion settlement, hawks and doves agree that red tape and US pressure could yet stymie the process

The West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, as seen from Sebastia (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Shots fired at northern West Bank settlement; none injured

By Judah Ari Gross

Gerald Steinberg, the founder of NGO Monitor, at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington, DC (Ron Kampeas)

Leader of anti-BDS group: Israel’s law gives ammunition to its enemies

NGO Monitor’s Gerald Steinberg says Knesset action to ban boycott supporters accomplishes little, while being used as evidence that Jewish state is anti-democratic

Illustrative: A Border Police officer frisks a Palestinian man in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on September 20, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

2 border guards charged with beating Arab man in Jerusalem

Officers allegedly hit the man repeatedly with their rifles and threatened to shoot him, believing he was behind stabbing attack

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, center front, takes a segway tour of the new promenade along Ein Boqek on April 3, 2017. (courtesy Mickey Lengental)

To shore up the Dead Sea, a NIS 200 million promenade

By Melanie Lidman

Tourism minister dedicates new 5-km walkway, part of major infrastructure overhaul of the southern Dead Sea due to flooding

In this Dec. 28, 1962 file photo, anti-Stalinist poet Yevgenny Yevtushenko speaks during a reading of his poetry in Moscow's Tschaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. (AP Photo)

Obituary

When a poet confronted Russia with the Holocaust

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a nightclub scene (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)

Sheikh dat thangTunisia shuts nightclub over call to prayer remix

By AFP

View of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Flash90)

Suspicious envelope found at Netanyahu’s office; 4 sent for hospital checks

By Stuart Winer

Kuwaiti MP Safa Al-Hashem in parliament (Courtesy MEMRI)

Kicking up a stinkKuwaiti MP refuses to sit by perfumed colleague

Former deputy assistant to US President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka (YouTube screenshot)

Trump aide Gorka ‘backed Hungarian anti-Semitic militia’

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

Dutch couple drops lawsuit for removal of postcard-sized Holocaust memorial

By JTA

'The United States of America' (1945), left, and 'The Scribe' (1927), by Arthur Szyk. (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)

War paintUC Berkeley acquires huge Arthur Szyk collection

By Josefin Dolsten

In this photo from 2017, 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Eugenia Unger of Buenos Aires finally celebrates her bat mitzvah. (Facebook screenshot via JTA)

Holocaust survivor, 91, celebrates bat mitzvah in Argentina

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and then interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (L) seen at the Knesset on July 9, 2013. (Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewSitting in a political traffic jam

By Joshua Davidovich

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