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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 5, 2017

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President Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem, April 4, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Holocaust horrors compel Israel to aid gassed Syrians, says Rivlin

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

President describes attack as a ‘stain on all humanity,’ urges international community to act immediately to bring an end to ‘murderous madness;’ Kahlon says Israel has resources to help

Syria victims show signs of exposure to ‘nerve agents’ — UN

By AFP

White House blames passive Obama for ‘heinous’ attack in Syria

By AP

US, Britain, France hold Assad regime responsible for Syria gas attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Syrian doctor treating a boy following a suspected chemical attack, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria, from video provided on April 4, 2017. (Screen shot, Qasioun News Agency, via AP)

Analysis

Israel’s loud talk after Syria gas attack unlikely to lead to action

By Judah Ari Gross

With no interest in getting mired in civil war across the border, politicians high on outrage, but low on what to do about it

AnalysisAs Assad picks his poison, Syrians’ suffering and Israeli fears diverge

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas says Syria gas attack was ‘criminal slaughter‘

By ToI Staff and AFP

Shin Bet nabs Syria-trained Hamas operative in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiyye, is Israel's first female Arab-Muslim diplomat. (Twitter)

Israel appoints its first female Muslim diplomat

Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiya, will be heading to Turkey

Former London mayor and senior Labour Party official Ken Livingstone on March 30, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

UK’s Labour suspends Livingstone for year over Hitler-Zionism comments

By Jenni Frazer and Sue Surkes

Former London mayor’s remarks ‘grossly detrimental,’ says disciplinary committee, while Jewish party activists slam decision as ‘betrayal‘

UK Labour No. 2: ‘Incomprehensible’ Livingstone not booted from party

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

UK’s chief rabbi: Labour ‘failed Jewish community’ with Livingstone suspension

By Jenni Frazer and ToI Staff

Most Jewish British students experience anti-Semitism, study finds

By JTA

Fans are pumped for the arrival of Britney Spears in Israel for her July 3 show (Courtesy Britney Spears)

Boujie one more time

Oops! Britney concert bumps back Labor primaries

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Party officials are worried about traffic caused by Spears’s Tel Aviv concert in July, though Herzog not planning to attend

US President Donald Trump and Jordan's King Abdullah II shake hands during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Live updates (closed)

Trump tells Abdullah ‘we’ll be successful’ at reaching Mideast peace

By Tamar Pileggi

US president calls Syria chemical attack ‘horrible,’ ‘unspeakable’; Israel believes Assad forces behind gas attack on rebel town; White House strategist Bannon dropped from National Security Council

Activists, among them Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova (second from right), holding signs and wearing wedding veils as they protest for the right to civil marriage in front of the Knesset in Jeruslaem on November 2, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK weds in Seychelles, slams lack of civil marriage in Israel

Zionist Union lawmaker Ksenia Svetlova gets hitched on Indian Ocean island, criticizes Rabbinate’s ‘monopoly on marriage’

Women returning home after collecting water from a well in Dolhare, India, May 10, 2012. (Mahendra Parikh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images, via JTA)

Israeli firm to provide drinking water — from the air — for India and Vietnam

By JTA and Eric Cortellessa

Deal to benefit remote Indian villages, Hanoi residents, announced days after Alan Dershowitz showcased Water Gen device at AIPAC

Illustrative: A trader points to a the trading terminal screen showing the S&P 500 Index. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS)

Federations donate to Israel, but most of their investments go anywhere but

By Cathryn J. Prince

With $90 billion at their discretion, why are the majority of Jewish funds and federations not only skipping Israel, but investing in ‘enemy’ countries?

Scrubbing the walls to remove hametz

When scrupulous attention to the laws of Passover stops being pious, and instead reflects anxiety and obsessive concerns

Francine Klagsbrun

Is the Passover story all a fake?

The founding story of the Jewish people transcends history, instilling national responsibility for each other and God

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

How I conquered my fear in the Old City

She knew the Muslim Quarter to be a dangerous place until a chance visit pushed her to take note of the people there

Shayna Abramson

Syria, Sudan, and Jewish identity

Teach Jewish Israeli children their heritage of kindness to the stranger and transform how Israel relates to all humanity

Megan Phelps-Roper and David Abitbol in Tel Aviv, April 4, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel Presents

How a former Westboro Baptist Church spokesperson overcame her hatred of Jews

By Yaakov Schwartz

Illustrative: A Bedouin woman inspects the damage of their home after an Israeli bulldozer had demolished the house of the Dahouk family in the Bedouin community of Khan Al Ahmar, in the West Bank east of Jerusalem, on April 7, 2016. (Flash90)

Israel pans EU ‘obsession’ with Israel in West Bank demolitions spat

Jerusalem reportedly summons deputy envoy to complain of ‘disproportionate’ criticism over razing of illegally built Bedouin homes

Hundreds of Israeli-Ethiopians clash with police at a protest in Jerusalem, following a video clip released a few days ago showing police beating up an IDF soldier from the Ethiopian community, April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

9 in 10 complaints against police dismissed, watchdog finds

By Marissa Newman

State comptroller says thousands of allegations received by Internal Investigations Department each year aren’t even reviewed

Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber, at the Knesset, on January 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

In rare criticism, deputy AG says Israel living in ‘post-law era’

By Marissa Newman

Warning that rule of law is imperiled, Dina Zilber describes culture of intimidation against legal advisers who refuse to rubber-stamp legislation; slams new broadcasting compromise

Interview

A writer gets on the Jewish holiday bus for a year. Where she stops surprises even herself

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A water walk at the Majrase Nature Reserve near the Sea of Galilee. (Photo by Shmuel Bar-Am)

National park workers threaten to disrupt Israelis’ holiday plans with Passover strike

Hundreds of thousands visit over 200 nature reserves, 70 national parks during vacation every year; management to ask labor courts to keep sites open

Adolf Hitler addresses soldiers at a Nazi rally in Dortmund, Germany. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

NY bans school project asking students to argue in favor of Holocaust

By JTA

Jewish politician calls for NY State education chief’s resignation for comments defending assignment as ‘critical thinking‘

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, is escorted by Israeli police into Jerusalem's Magistrate Court to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against Palestinian leaders, in January 2012. (Flash90)

Analysis

With prison strike, Barghouti hopes to prove Palestinian street is still his

By Avi Issacharoff

Politically isolated by Ramallah, jailed Palestinian leader looks to send a message that he can still rally the people and make headaches for both Abbas and Israel

The four owners of Jerusalem restaurant Crave, from left, Tzvi Maller, Chef Todd Aarons, James Oppenheim and Yoni Van Leeuwen (Courtesy David Zimand)

At Jerusalem joint, kosher-keepers get their fix of ‘forbidden’ grub

By Jessica Steinberg and Video by Luke Tress

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A tree that toppled in a Kfar Saba street, killing a 65-year-old woman, April 5, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Woman killed by falling tree in Kfar Saba street

A high-tech company which employs ultra-Orthodox women in Modiin Illit. August 17, 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90/File)

Mind the gapIsraeli women team up for equal pay in tech

By Andrew Tobin

Asher Faraj seen in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 15, 2017. (Flash90)

Holocaust survivor who burned nurse to death charged with murder

The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)

Supreme Court bans ammonia resupply ship from entering Haifa

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Members of an Orthodox Jewish community put a label from the 'International Rescue Committee for Jewish Families of the Lev Tahor Settlement' on the window of a bus in Guatemala city on September 25, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)

Former Guatemala mayor jailed for expelling Jewish group

By AFP

Bnei Menashe brides, grooms and guests at a group wedding in Kfar Hasidim, Israel. (Laura Ben-David/Shavei Israel via JTA)

10 Indian-Jewish ‘lost tribe’ couples remarried in Israel

By JTA

Steven Spielberg is photographed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, on Jan. 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah (AP/Danny Moloshok/Invision)

Open JawsSpielberg’s favorite matzah brei recipe

By Gabe Friedman

Participants at demo-day of IATI's Weekathon (Courtesy: Nir Shmul)

Social impact IATI weekathon shows off thriving ecosystem

By Shoshanna Solomon

An unconscious Syrian child is carried at a hospital in Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour)

Hebrew media reviewOh, the inhumanity

By Ilan Ben Zion

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