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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 16, 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)

UK student was standing near killer because she gave up her seat for woman with baby

Bladon, 21, had been sitting further back on the light rail; Palestinian terrorist says he stabbed her to death because he wanted the soldier standing next to her to kill him

In this image made from video provided by North Korean broadcaster KRT, missiles are displayed during a parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Saturday, April 15, 2017. (KRT via AP)

US said preparing strike to ‘utterly destroy’ N. Korean nuclear program

By ToI Staff and AFP

VP Pence jets into Seoul as Korea tensions ratchet up; British officials are told Washington is considering a preemptive attack

Pence: North Korea ‘provocation’ shows the risk to military

US: North Korean missile explodes on test launch

By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim

US tests upgraded aircraft-delivered nuke

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN

Ben Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States included Moses parting the Red Sea. (Public domain)

When Moses almost parted the Red Sea on the Great Seal of the United States

By Rich Tenorio

New book contends Hebrew prophets influenced the Puritans who established America — and the patriots who led it to independence

A woman casts a ballot inside a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2017. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Polls open in Turkey’s historic referendum on reforms

By Elena Becatoros and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

President Erdogan seeking to gain sweeping executive powers, which opponents fear will turn the country into a one-man show

Two killed in fight outside polling station in Turkey

By AP and ToI Staff

What changes under Turkey’s new constitution plan?

By AFP

Erdogan, Turkey’s pugnacious ‘chief,’ eyes new poll knockout

By Stuart Williams

Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF's elite Duvdevan unit in the West Bank in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Undercover IDF soldiers detained by PA police in Nablus

By Judah Ari Gross

Troops from elite Duvdevan unit exposed while on mission in northern West Bank; later released without harm

Illustrative: Religious Zionist students praying at a hesder yeshiva. (The hesder program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework.) (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

On not being Yossi Klein

By Yossi Klein Halevi

The (other) columnist’s rage at religious Zionists highlights the real need for mature discourse among disparate camps

Rabbi Shneur Odze, a UKIP candidate who came in sixth in the May 2017 race for Manchester mayor. (Screen capture: YouTube)

UK rabbi-politician burns Christian Bible, sparking ire

UKIP Manchester mayoral candidate Shneur Odze criticized for tweeting image of smoldering scriptures on Passover eve

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Terror won’t win

The light rail captures Jerusalem’s spirit, its pain, and courage too, when a young woman is murdered on the train

Dasee Berkowitz

How did the parents of the Haggadah’s 4 archetypical kids relate to them, and how did that affect their seder?

The United Airlines fiasco and Passover

While everyone obsesses about the passenger dragged off Flight 3411, there are a few other items of importance

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech after registering to run for re-election at the interior ministry in the capital Tehran on April 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Rouhani: Iran does not need ‘permission to build missiles’

By Alexander Fulbright

Iranian president says country’s weapons development solely for ‘deterrent power’ against US and ‘cancerous tumor’ Israel

US President Donald Trump on February 3, 2017 (L); Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on January 30, 2017 (Mandel Ngan/AFP; Zacharias Abubeker/AFP)

Trump-Abbas White House summit said set for May 3

Fatah official says Palestinian leader will be preceded in Washington by a preparatory PA delegation on April 23

Foreigners wait to cross to Egypt at the Israeli side of the Taba crossing near the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Sunday, Feb 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

High Court upholds ban on Israeli tourists in Sinai

Judges agree security assessment justifies closing Taba Crossing into Egypt over Passover holiday

Judith Leiber sits with some of her designs. (Courtesy)

This spring, a Judith Leiber renaissance is in the bag

Binyamina Regional Council head Pinchas Zoaretz. (Facebook)

Binyamina mayor, a wounded vet, dies from heart attack in Vietnam

Col. (res.) Pinhas Zoaretz, who lost a leg to an explosive in Gaza in 2004 but returned to active service, remembered as ‘inspiring, legendary officer’

Zev Moses, director of the Museum of Jewish Montreal. (Julie Masis/Times of Israel)

Canada’s oldest Jewish community welcomes new addition – a history museum

Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles during the ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 15, 2017, during Orthodox Easter ceremonies. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Orthodox Christians celebrate ‘Holy Fire’ in Jerusalem

By AFP

Tens of thousands attend Easter ceremony in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where tradition holds Jesus was buried, resurrected

Watergen's technology uses a series of filters to purify the air, take out the humidity and transform it into clean drinking water. (YouTube screenshot)

Extracting water from air, Israeli firm looks to quench global thirst

By Shoshanna Solomon

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US tourist wielding steel bar yells at cops to shoot him after 'Jesus told him to go north,' in northern Israel, April 13, 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube, police spokesperson)

Bad FridayIsraeli cops tase raving US tourist who ‘saw Jesus’

Police search for three youths who went missing on the Sea of Galilee on April 16, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Navy joins search for 3 missing on Sea of Galilee

Tamar&Netanel, the American folk-singing Israeli duo, performs at Jerusalem's Confederation House on Thursday, April 20, 2017 (Courtesy Yarden Lior)

Love me like a rockJerusalem folk duo sing about love, including their own

By Jessica Steinberg

A 2016 Mimouna celebration attended by Knesset member Isaac Herzog (second from left) in Beit Shemesh (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Ready for the breadPost-Passover, many make time for Mimouna

By Jessica Steinberg

Matzah, eat with care. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon / Flash 90)

Bread of afflictionMatzah is more fattening than you think

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi)

False colorsNetanyahu pokes fun at his own fluctuating coif

By Stuart Winer

French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen speaks during a campaign rally in Perpignan on April 15, 2017. (AFP/Raymond Roig)

France’s Le Pen accuses rival Macron of being soft on Islamists

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)

Hebrew media reviewThe maiden and the madman

By Ilan Ben Zion

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