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What Matters Most On Friday, April 14, 2017

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Emergency services evacuate an injured person from the scene of an stabbing attack in Jerusalem Friday, April 14, 2017. Israeli police said a Palestinian man stabbed a woman in Jerusalem, seriously wounding her before forces apprehended him at the scene. She later died. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Shin Bet says killer recently tried to commit suicide

British woman stabbed to death in Jerusalem tram attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Terrorist, an East Jerusalem resident, arrested by police after assault near Old City; two others hurt as light rail makes emergency stop

A knife and stun grenade found in the possession of a Palestinian suspect who admitted during investigation that he planned a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, April 10, 2016. (Israel Police spokesperson)

Palestinian arrested with knife in West Bank on Passover eve

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian children at a school in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

PA suspends ties with UNRWA over planned curriculum reform

Proposed changes to textbooks by UN agency, welcomed by Israel, reportedly include revised maps, a ‘balanced representation of Jerusalem,’ and excision of messages seen as incitement

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint press conference with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, April 13, 2017. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

China says lack of Palestinian state is ‘historical injustice’

By JTA

The moment when a US massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) bomb is dropped on an Islamic State cave and tunnel system in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 13, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

‘Mother of bombs’ killed 36 Islamic State fighters

By AFP

Afghan officials say the US’s largest non-nuclear device destroyed cave complex, caused no civilian casualties

US drops largest non-nuclear bomb on IS target in Afghanistan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

N. Korea says ‘We will go to war if they choose’

By Eric Talmadge

China warns war over N. Korea could erupt ‘at any moment’

By AFP

Nanette Konig giving an interview to Estado TV, March 2015. (Courtesy of Estado)

Anne Frank’s final days, as told by her former classmate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Nanette Konig, 88, is one of few living friends of Dutch teenage diarist; they last saw each other during Frank’s final days at Bergen-Belsen

ADL offers to host Holocaust educational session for White House staff

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Suspect arrested in swastika attack on Jewish center near DC

By JTA

US anti-Semitism envoy’s office to remain empty — ex-official

Adolf Hitler (seated, far left) posed with fellow soldiers during their World War I service for Germany (Public domain)

Did Hitler fake being a victim of gas warfare?

By Matt Lebovic

Almost a century ago, an injured German corporal named Adolf Hitler claimed to be a casualty of British-deployed mustard gas. But was it a smoke screen?

This June 28, 2009 image provided by NASA, taken by the international Cassini spacecraft, shows Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. (AP Photo/NASA)

Fly me to the moon

Ocean world near Saturn a top contender for life beyond Earth

Cassini spacecraft on final stage of mission discovers hydrogen in vapor plumes rising from the surface of Enceladus

When I became the face of occupation

She’s a pro-coexistence activist Israeli soldier who marches for justice, yet ended up on a BDS pamphlet as the enemy

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The White House and the Soup Nazi

Sean Spicer and others who keep making Holocaust gaffes should get some tips from a bunch of sitcom writers

Four sons, two fathers

Children turn wicked or wise as a result of how they are ignored or heard by their parents

Ayad Fatafta and Kifah Ghanimat, convicted of murdering Kristine Luken and injuring Kay Wilson in a stabbing attack in the Jerusalem Forest on December 18, 2010, seen at the Jerusalem District Court on November 24, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

US charges 2 terrorists for 2010 murder of American tourist in Israel

Arrest warrants issued for Palestinian stabbers, currently jailed in Israel, who killed Kristine Luken and seriously wounded another

Maj. Eliyahu Gabay speaks with workers creating a berm near the Lebanese border at kibbutz Hanita on March 22, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

With berms, cliffs and concrete, a Sun Tzu-quoting major works to keep Hezbollah out

By Judah Ari Gross

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault speaks to journalists during a press conference with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi (not pictured) after their meeting in Beijing on April 14, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)

Assad denial of chemical attack is ‘100% lies’ – French FM

By AFP

Jean-Marc Ayrault slams Syrian president’s comments on chemical attack that killed more than 80 people

In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during a referendum meeting in Istanbul. (Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool Photo via AP)

Stability or autocracy? Turkey divided over key referendum

By Suzan Fraser

Country goes to the polls Sunday over President Erdogan’s bid to greatly enhance his powers

Turkish special force police officers and ambulances are seen at the site of an armed attack January 1, 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. (AFP PHOTO/YASIN AKGUL)

Turkey detains five IS suspects ‘planning polling day attack’

By AFP

Coptic priests stand near the coffins of victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day during a funeral procession at the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of the northern port city on April 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Egyptian Copts mark solemn Good Friday after church bombings

By AFP

Rites are especially mournful for the Christian minority following last Sunday’s suicide attacks that killed 45

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures to the camera after registering to run for re-election at the interior ministry in the capital Tehran on April 14, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / ISNA / ATTA KENARE)

Iran’s Rouhani registers to run for re-election

The president behind the nuclear deal faces mounting criticism over economic stagnation

Writer and comedian Alan Zweibel. (YouTube screenshot)

Now known for his hilarious body of work, Alan Zweibel got his start playing a corpse

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Piotr Rybak at a rally in his honor in Warsaw last year. (Krzysztof Bielawski/JTA)

Polish court sentences man in burning of a Jew in effigy

By JTA

A Syrian boy hospitalized in Israel has his first taste of matzah on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 (courtesy Ziv Hospital)

Arab group demands end to Passover bread ban in hospitals

By JTA

Przemyslaw Wierzbowski, Esperanto association president in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok and French student Amelie Chartier, who came to Bialystok to work at the Esperanto association through a European volunteer program stand in the Esperanto Cafe in front of the portrait of Ludwik Zamenhof on April 5, 2017. Zamenhof, the creator of the synthetic language of Esperanto, was born in 1859 just a few steps away from where the cafe is located. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Esperanto alive and well, 100 years after Jewish inventor’s death

By Bernard OSSER

Samantha Gross (Facebook)

A Pessah taleA story of spending the Seder with strangers goes viral

By Gabe Friedman

British police officer arrests an activist from FEMEN, a group opposed to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament in central London on July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

US doctor charged with genital mutilation on girls

By AP

Dr. Mark Wainberg speaking on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Renowned AIDS researcher drowns during Passover vacation

By JTA

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 . (Wikimedia)

Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King, dead at 100

By JTA

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