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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 12, 2017

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/ Mandel Ngan)

Spicer: Even Hitler didn’t sink to using chemical weapons

By ToI Staff and Agencies

White House press secretary says Nazi leader did not use WMDs on his own people ‘in the same way’ as Assad, tells Russia to rethink its alliances

Spicer sorry for saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons

By Eric Cortellessa and AP

Israeli minister slams ‘outrageous’ White House Holocaust statements

By Raoul Wootliff

Trump spokesman Spicer calls Adelson to apologize for Hitler comments

By Eric Cortellessa

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran on April, 5, 2017. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

In surprise move, Iran’s Ahmadinejad registers to run for president

Defying Khamenei, hardliner ex-president to challenge incumbent Rouhani in May elections

Registration opens for Iran’s May 19 presidential election

By Nasser Karimi

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq among top 5 global executioners, says Amnesty

By ToI Staff and AP

Islamic State has lost most of the land it seized, says Iraqi military

By Sinan Salaheddin

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after a press conference in Moscow on April 12, 2017. (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)

Live updates (closed)

Russia says it’s ready to resume US deal to avoid Syria clashes

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid rising tensions over Syria, Tillerson meets Putin in Kremlin; ‘Islamist’ suspect detained over Dortmund bus blasts; police searching for 3 men lost in Sea of Galilee

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (L) and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sit at a table on the second day of a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized countries on April 11, 2017 in Lucca, Italy. (AFP Photo/Vincenzo Pinto)

Tillerson: Russia either irresponsible or incompetent in failing to rid Assad of WMDs

By Josh Lederman

Secretary of state, now visiting Moscow, says Putin must choose between Iran axis and US

Tillerson meets Russia’s Lavrov after war of words over Syria

By Olga Rotenberg and Dave Clark

Putin says Russia-US relations have ‘worsened’ under Trump

UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on Syria gas attack probe: US

By AFP

A window of Dortmund's team bus is damaged after an explosion before the Champions League quarterfinal soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and AS Monaco in Dortmund, Germany, April 11, 2017. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Germany detains Islamic suspect in Dortmund soccer team bombing

By AP and AFP

Confirming possible ‘terrorist link,’ prosecutors say 2 people ‘the focus of our investigation’ after explosions near team bus

Lawyer Mark Lewis arrives at a media ethics inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, Thursday, November 24, 2011. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Interview

UK’s foremost libel lawyer sets his sights on Israel’s enemies

By Jenni Frazer

After bringing down News of the World for cellphone hacking, Mark Lewis is intent on combating anti-Semitism — even as he travels to Israel to fight his multiple sclerosis

Illustration of a possible application of a system to remotely detect buried landmines using a bacterial sensor (Credit: Hebrew University)

Glowing bacteria are used to hunt landmines in Hebrew U study

By Shoshanna Solomon

Researchers say they may have found way to use glowing bacteria and lasers to detect deadly explosives

Clockwise, from top left: Scenes from 'Transparent,' 'High Maintenance,' 'Gossip Girl' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' (Screenshots from Amazon, HBO and Netflix/via JTA)

9 must-watch TV shows about Passover

By Linda Buchwald

Classics — and soon-to-be-classics — that will make you glad to break unleavened bread with your own family

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Pass over the rainbow

When her seder plans went awry, the alternative yielded far more than she could have hoped for

Cookies, crack and Harry Potter

She’s reframed the cynical, resentful, and cranky Passover experience to embrace the holiday’s beauty with gratitude

Chabad’s ‘role’ in Trump-Russia?

Politico’s claims that the Hassidic sect is a vehicle of some kind for Russia’s global influence are flimsy

Defense Secretary James Mattis and General Joseph Votel, commander, US Central Command speak at a press conference at the Pentagon April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Mattis discussed the recent airstrikes against Syria. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images/AFP)

Pentagon chief: ‘No doubt’ Syria behind deadly chemical attack

By AFP

Despite US strike on Assad regime airbase, Jim Mattis says Washington’s priority remains the defeat of IS

Syrian protesters take part in a demonstration outside the United Nations office in the capital Damascus, on April 11, 2017, in support of the country's strongman Bashar Assad, depicted in the portrait. (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)

Syrians protesting US airstrikes chant ‘Death to Israel’

By AFP

Pro-regime demonstrators at UN headquarters in Damascus decry ‘American aggression,’ say Trump ‘supports terrorism’

Slain tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, assassinated by the PFLP in 2001. (Flash90)

Plan to rename war memorial for slain minister nixed

Independence War soldiers say Rehavam Ze‘evi, controversial general turned MK, was not part of 1948 battle for Jerusalem

Several hundred Syrian refugees wait to cross into Turkey at the border in Suruc, Turkey, on Sunday, September 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Recalling lessons of Passover, Israelis pray for their Syrian ‘enemies’

By Andrew Tobin

In this Dec. 11, 2016 file photo, an Egyptian Coptic nun weeps as she looks at damage inside the St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Churches in southern Egypt will not celebrate Easter

Coptic diocese in city of Minya says festivities canceled in mourning for 45 Christians murdered in IS terror attacks this week

The swastika found daubed on the Jewish Community Center in northern Virginia on April 11, 2017. (screen capture: NBC Washington)

Swastikas, hate graffiti found daubed on Virginia JCC, church

Police outside Washington ‘diligently’ searching for vandals who spray-painted anti-Semitic and derogatory slogans on Passover

In this Dec. 12, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser of US President Donald Trump, speaks at a news conference at RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

Report: FBI sought to monitor Trump adviser last summer

By AP

As part of inquiry into campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, investigators obtained surveillance warrants for Carter Page

US President Donald Trump, left, congratulates then senior counselor to the president Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Trump mum on whether he still backs Bannon

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A week after chief strategist is dropped from security council, president hints White House future of ex-Breitbart publisher is uncertain

Jordan's King Abdullah II attends talks of the Arab League summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh on March 29, 2017. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordan, Egypt have ‘special’ relationship with Israel, says Jordanian king

Monarch says he was ‘struck’ by Trump’s commitment to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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US first lady Melania Trump during a speech by President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Daily Mail to pay Melania Trump damages for claim she worked as escort

By AFP

Illustrative: A Palestinian farmer hoses off the udders of cows at the Jebrini dairy farm in the West Bank town of Hebron, April 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Waste not, watt notPalestinian family powers up with cow pies

By Sarah Benhaida

In this Oct. 12, 2015, file photo, Hasan Minhaj poses for a portrait in New York. (Dan Hallman/Invision/AP, File)

Trump-less nightDaily Show’s Hasan Minhaj to host WHCA

By AP and ToI Staff

A back surgeon looks at a 3D model of a patient's spinal column in preparation for surgery using the Mazor Renaissance system. (Courtesy)

Mazor gets FDA nod for spinal deformities software

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Paramedics and firefighters at the scene of a fire that broke out at the Glilot Cinema City on April 11, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

4 lightly injured in Tel Aviv-area movie theater fire

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer listens to a question during a briefing at the White House April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/ Brendan Smialowski)

Hebrew media reviewThis is the press secretary of our affliction

By Joshua Davidovich

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