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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 15, 2017

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Hannah Bladon, an English student who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem on April 14, 2017 (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Family of British student killed in Jerusalem attack ‘devastated’

Parents of Hannah Bladon, 21, say her murder at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist Friday was ‘senseless and tragic’

British woman murdered in Jerusalem attack named as Hannah Bladon, 21

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

PM, president send condolences to family of British woman killed in terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Tram stabber was on his way home from a mental hospital — police

By Judah Ari Gross

PLO official Hanan Ashrawi (Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)

PLO official: Settlers now inhabit the White House

Ahead of Abbas visit to DC, Hanan Ashrawi says views of the ‘far right’ have moved from Israel’s fringes to its leadership and now to Washington

Defected Syrian general Zaher al-Sakat (YouTube screenshot)

Assad retains hundreds of tons of chemical weapons, says defected general

By ToI Staff and AFP

Regime hid deadly agents from international inspectors, reports Zaher al-Sakat, who himself was ordered to use the weapons against civilians

Russia, Iran and Syria issue warning to US

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

US defense secretary expected in Israel next week

What would a hardline new president mean for Iran and the world?

By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani

The fall of Adam and Eve as depicted in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo (Wikipedia / Public Domain)

'Eve is a victim of the greatest character assassination ever'

On journey to Eden, Bruce Feiler discovers the Creation of Man is really an egalitarian tale

By Rich Tenorio

Investigating how the biblical story was ‘weaponized’ to subjugate women, bestselling author travels to Iraq, the Vatican… and through history

Illustrative: Jews digging a trench in which they were later buried after being shot, in Ponary, Poland. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)

Science helps verify an unbelievable Holocaust escape account

The story of a band of Lithuanian Jews who dug their way to freedom was met with widespread skepticism over the years. A new TV program sheds light on their incredible tale

Vilnius University to honor Jewish Holocaust victims — unless they fought Nazis

By JTA

Joshua Hammerman

‘Oslo,’ meet ‘Fauda’

On the threads of hope that link a new play about the 1993 peace process and a hit Israeli TV drama set in the West Bank

Passover on the border

Those who say Palestinians don’t want peace should listen to what ‘M’ from Gaza has to say

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves from a balcony of the Grand People's Study house following a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ED JONES)

Kim aide warns of possible ‘all-out war’ and ‘nuclear attacks’

By Sebastien BERGER

As tensions mount with Washington, North Korean dictator oversees display of military strength

Unidentified missiles and mobile launchers make their way through Kim Il-Sung square during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ED JONES)

North Korea may have displayed new ICBM, analysts say

By AFP

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner arrives to attend US President Donald Trump's press conference on February 16, 2017, at the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/ Nicholas Kamm)

House Democrats want Jared Kushner’s security clearance revoked

By JTA

Five reps cite alleged failure of president’s senior adviser and son-in-law to disclose ties with Russia

A Soviet customs official examines luggage. (Courtesy 'Stateless')

Why 189,000 Soviet Jews fled to Italy rather than the Promised Land

In this photograph taken on April 11, 2017, smoke rises after an air strike by US aircraft on positions during an ongoing an operation against Islamic State (IS) in the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. (AFP PHOTO / NOORULLAH SHIRZADA)

IS death toll hits 90 from huge US bomb in Afghanistan

By Naimatullah Karyab

US-led forces conduct clean-up operations in Nangarhar province after hitting terror group with largest non-nuclear ordnance

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)

Officials: No need for Trump’s approval to use massive bomb

By Robert Burns

Haaretz op ed writer Yossi Klein (Screen capture Channel 2)

Haaretz columnist stands by claim religious Zionists worse than Hezbollah

But Yossi Klein laments that ‘this op-ed presents me in a light that is not true. I see myself as patriotic’

Fulvio Martusciello (screen capture: YouTube/Aerospazio Campania)

EU adopts anti-boycott stance in official commercial policy

By JTA

Reference to boycotts, not mentioning Israel specifically, introduced by pro-Israel Euro-Parliament Italian lawmaker Fulvio Martusciello

A penitent acting as Jesus is nailed to the cross as they re-enact the passion and death of Christ during the annual observance of Lent on Good Friday in Cainta town, Rizal province, east of Manila on April 14, 2017. (Ted Aljibe/AFP)

Extreme religious acts mark Good Friday in the Philippines

By Gretchen Malalad

Tourists watch crucifixions, worshipers whipping themselves to a bloody state as vendors hawk soft drinks, snacks, hats and umbrellas

Christian pilgrims light candles inside the Holy Sepulchre church during Good Friday in Jerusalem Friday, April 14, 2017. (Dan Balilty/AP)

Christians celebrate Good Friday in Jerusalem

By AFP

Pilgrims from around the world mark crucifixion by following the Old City path traditionally walked by Jesus

A general views shows the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of Alexandria on April 10, 2017, as mourners attend the funeral of victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Security tight as Egypt Copts prepare for Easter mass

By AFP

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Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, delivers a blessing at the inauguration of President Donald Trump, January 20, 2017. (YouTube screen capture)

Trump’s inauguration rabbi to be first non-citizen honored on Israel’s Independence Day

By JTA

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) security camera hangs atop a light pole across the street from Trump Tower, March 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Meet the NSC aide who reportedly leaked intel to back Trump tapping claims

By Josefin Dolsten

A secret service officer (L) and Air Force personnel wait outside Air Force One in the rain for the arrival of US President Donald Trump at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, April 6, 2017. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Keeping up with the Trumps is a ‘non-stop ordeal’ for Secret Service

By Sébastien BLANC

Sivan Kaynar Kissinger sings a number from 'Shimmer' (Channel 2 news)

Chinese MusicalKissinger’s niece portrays Jewish refugee in China

This combination of file pictures created on April 13, 2017 shows the eleven candidates approved to run for French president as announced by the Constitutional Council on March 18.
From Top L to bottom R arranged in alphabetical order : far-left Lutte Ouvriere (LO) party Nathalie Arthaud, Popular Republican Union (UPR) party Francois Asselineau, Solidarite et Progres (Solidarity and Progress) party Jacques Cheminade, right-wing Debout la France (DLF) party Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon, left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon, independent candidate Jean Lassalle, far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen, En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron, far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon and far-left New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) Philippe Poutou. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET AND Eric FEFERBERG)

In French vote, underdogs span ideological spectrum

By Gina DOGGETT

This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Hacked files suggest NSA penetrated SWIFT, Mideast banks

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 probes new message claiming Dortmund attack

By AFP

Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song "1944," attends a press conference after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 grand final in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 15, 2016. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Kremlin furious at Eurovision dropping Russia over Ukraine spat

By AFP

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)

Hebrew Media ReviewThe mother of all fallout

By Ilan Ben Zion

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