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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 13, 2017

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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, March 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: Boycott Haaretz for Op-ed calling Israel’s religious right more dangerous than Hezbollah

By Alexander Fulbright

Defense minister says ‘frustrated’ columnist Yossi Klein’s piece against national-religious community ‘crosses all the red lines’

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

Rivlin slams Haaretz column for ‘defamation,’ ‘vast hatred’

By Alexander Fulbright

Religious Jews in the settlement of Migdal Oz burn leavened products ahead of the Passover holiday on April 10, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Paper draws fire for op-ed calling national religious worse than Hezbollah

Amanda Abbington, left, and Jenny Seagrove as Louisa Gould in 'Another Mother's Son.' (Screenshot)

New film on Nazi occupation of Channel Islands prompts disquieting questions for Brits

By Robert Philpot

How would people have behaved had the swastika flown over London? Actions by citizens in the only UK territory occupied by Hitler may offer uncomfortable clues

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)

Live updates (closed)

Anti-IS strike rules unchanged under Trump — US general

US drops largest-ever non-nuclear bomb in airstrike on IS in Afghanistan; suspect arrested in swastika attack on DC Jewish center, church

Smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, after a strike from the US-led coalition as it seen from the Turkish - Syrian border in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 13, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/ARIS MESSINIS)

Syria claims US bombed IS chemical stores, ‘killing hundreds’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Spokesperson for American-led coalition dismisses report by official regime news agency as ‘intentional misinformation’

Russia vetoes UN draft resolution on Syria gas attack probe

As ties ebb, Trump says Russia may have known about Syria gas attack

Liberman bashes UN for silence on Palestinians killed in Gaza, Lebanon

A child waves from the window of a bus as Syrians who were evacuated from Waer, the last opposition-held district of Homs, arrive in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab on March 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib)

Israel’s plan to absorb 100 Syrian orphans seems to be going nowhere

Three months after announcement of initiative, Interior Ministry says it’s still waiting for an okay but can’t say from whom

Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam looks on as members of the state Senate Judiciary Committee vote unanimously to advance her nomination to fill a vacancy on the Court of Appeals at the Capitol in Albany, New York, on April 30, 2013. (AP/Mike Groll)

Trailblazing female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River

By AP

Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve on New York’s highest court, remembered as pioneer; cause of death being investigated

Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a forum at the Newseum in Washington, DC, April 12, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Spicer: ‘I let the president down’ over Hitler comments

By Alexander Fulbright

Press secretary also says timing of remarks during Passover and Easter Holy Week ‘compounds’ his ‘reprehensible’ mistake

The Associated Press photographs the third anniversary of National Socialism's accession to power in 1933 widely celebrated throughout Germany on Feb. 11, 1936. At noon, Adolf Hitler assembled 25,000 of his oldest stormtroop comrades in the Lustgarten in Berlin. In his address, Hitler reiterated Germany’s will to peace. This is a general view of the banner and flag bearers in Berlin. (AP Photo)

Germany denounces Spicer’s Hitler comparisons as bad idea

By AFP and ToI Staff

Persecution of Christians is a Jewish problem

Those who murder Christians would kill Jews too because they hate all that we share

Just look up, people

How binge-watching on-demand media distracts those who would help repair the world from even noticing what’s wrong

Alfred H. Moses

Despite the UN, human rights matter

Focusing on the particular is a recipe for racism, whereas prioritizing the universal may prove its antidote

Illustrative: A Jewish man covers himself with a prayer shawl while praying near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the Passover priestly blessing on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tens of thousands flock to Western Wall for priestly blessing

Heavy police presence in Jerusalem as Jews make pilgrimage to capital during Passover holiday

The African Quarter of the Old City, with the Council Gate to the Temple Mount at center. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

5 Jews detained for attacking officers after trying to pray near Temple Mount

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

New bill would grant rabbinic courts jurisdiction over civil cases

By Tamar Pileggi

Preliminary draft of legislation to allow religious judges to impose foreclosures, confiscate property and issue travel bans

Mascha Schmerling and Monty Ott from the 'Rent a Jew' project meet with students at the Technisches Berufskolleg Solingen, Germany, November 2016. (Kate Brady/DW.com)

To counter ignorance, educational initiative asks Germans to ‘Rent a Jew’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Strategist Steve Bannon listens during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House April 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump’s nationalist base set on edge as Bannon seemingly sidelined

By Julie Bykowicz and Jill Colvin

With Jared Kushner and economic chief Gary Cohn ascendant, some warn president against abandoning populism that put him in White House

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Abbas threatens ‘unprecedented’ steps to end split with Hamas

But terror group spokesman warns divide with Fatah won’t be resolved by means of pressure

In a photo taken on April 9, 2017 a woman uses a mobile phone as a taxi passes the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung (L) and Kim Jong-il (R) in Pyongyang. AFP/Ed JONES)

North Korea said to ready nuclear test as tensions climb

By AFP

Monitor says activity at site indicates fresh test may be in offing; VOA reports Pyongyang has placed nuke in tunnel ahead of Saturday detonation

Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)

Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?

By Matt Lebovic

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Police search for three youths who went missing on the Sea of Galilee on April 13, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Authorities ramp up search for 3 missing on Sea of Galilee

The red hill seen from Kibbutz Givat Brenner that inspired the name of biotech company RedHill (Courtesy)

Kibbutz duo-turned-entrepreneurs on quest to whip gut bugs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rachel and Yitzhak Gachtmann's family on Passover, Janov, Poland, Prewar (Courtesy Yad Vashem Photo Archives 5573/5)

Snapshots of afflictionA look at Passover during the years of the Holocaust

By Jessica Steinberg

Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a march in support of two Jewish seminary students draft dodgers who were sent to jail, Jerusalem, April 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers ride white stretch limo back to jail

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Foreign students of the Bethlehem Icon Center work on their painting during their course, in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem on April 11, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Ancient sacred art resurrected in city of Jesus’s birth

By Sarah Benhaida

The "Fearless Girl" (front) statue stands facing the "Charging Bull" as tourists take pictures in New York on April 12, 2017. (AFP/ Jewel SAMAD)

Not cowedIt’s girl vs. bull in stone-faced Wall Street battle

By AFP

A cake in the likeness of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is on display at his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York on November 8, 2016. (AFP/ Timothy A. CLARY)

Let them eat cakeTrump gave Syria attack order ‘during dessert’

By AFP

Illustrative photo of Israelis at the Sea of Galilee on April 26, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPassover holiday tragedy-athon

By Ilan Ben Zion

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