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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 19, 2017

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A man reacts at the State Control committee meeting in the Israeli parliament during a discussion about the Operation Protective Edge report, on April 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bereaved parents lash Netanyahu over Gaza war at charged Knesset meeting

By Judah Ari Gross and Marissa Newman

Challenged by MKs over handling of 2014 conflict, PM says Israel did all it could to avoid hostilities, Hamas ‘begged’ for ceasefire

Top Hamas leader says group not seeking war with Israel

Palestinian PM, UNRWA head meet to discuss school impasse

UN says watching Palestinian prisoner hunger strike closely

By AFP and ToI Staff

Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a meeting about social care in Birmingham central England on Tuesday April 18, 2017. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

UK elections 2017

Will Britain’s Labour lose the Jews again in 7 weeks?

By Robert Philpot

While historically the party held close ties with Jewish voters, it’s lost support for appearing to be anti-Israel. With Corbyn at the helm, that’s set to get worse

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

Live updates (closed)

Trump to host PA president Abbas on May 3: White House

Gazan cancer patient caught smuggling explosives into Israel: Shin Bet; needy Holocaust survivors lose benefits to convoluted bureaucracy: report

Medics treat an Israeli man who was lightly wounded in an apparent car-ramming attack in the West Bank's Gush Etzion Junction on April 19, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

Israeli man lightly hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Assailant shot and killed by soldiers at the scene; victim, approximately 60, suffers head wound

President Mahmoud Abbas commemorates Arafat's death, November 2008 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Michael Oren: Palestinians were Six Day War’s ‘biggest winners’

By Judah Ari Gross

Marking 50 years since ’67 conflict, deputy minister says it shaped Palestinian identity ‘as we know it’; Israel working on ‘diplomatic solution’

Young Israeli and Palestinian girls take photos together in Ard, as part of the Roots coexistence initiative. (Brett Kline/Times of Israel)

'They live in two different, absurdly parallel worlds'

Through a photography class, first exposure for Israeli, Palestinian kids

In the West Bank, coexistence program Roots makes for an improbable gathering of teens from Gush Etzion and nearby village Al Khader

What would we do if there were no wars?

Just about everyone wants world peace — of course! — but really, what in the world would you do if it were real?

Freedom from fear in Haifa

Israeli scientists convinced the public of the risk of far more potentially explosive ammonia than the country uses

Why I give Gilad Atzmon the stage

In his theater, all civil disagreement is welcome, for open communication is what protects against fascism

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build thousands of new apartments in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh, April 3, 2017. (Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Tax break plan lays bare simmering rift between Netanyahu, Kahlon

By Raoul Wootliff

Finance minister vows to go ahead with the move ‘as is’ despite threats from Likud lawmakers to block initiative after snub

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a press conference to announce new benefits for working families with young children, April 18, 2017. (Flash90)

Finance minister unveils new tax breaks, benefits for working families

Participants celebrate Taglit-Birthright Israel's 15th anniversary, Tel Aviv, June 2015. (Courtesy)

American Jewish students ask Birthright to reject Israel’s boycott law

By JTA

Participants say they are ‘concerned about the impact of this new legislation’ on ability to travel to Israel

Eliraz Fine, a 24-year-old Israeli settler from the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, in court for suspected "inciting violence against soldiers" on May 7, 2014, at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court. (Meital Cohen/Flash90)

Israeli woman convicted of inciting attacks on soldiers, Palestinians

Eliraz Fein, of the Yitzhar settlement, wrote online calling for violence, praising deadly firebombing of Dawabsha family

Jamil Tamimi, 57, who stabbed and killed Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after his arrest, on April 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian who stabbed British woman to death ruled fit for trial

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prior to terror attack in Jerusalem, Jamil Tamimi had been treated in mental health center, attempted suicide

The Taba border crossing between Israel and Egypt (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Taba crossing into Egypt to remain closed indefinitely

By Judah Ari Gross

Counter Terrorism Bureau to reassess closure, put in place last week amid heightened security concerns, ‘over the next few days’

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, April 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Trump administration says Iran complying with nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

White House extends sanctions relief to Islamic Republic but State Department says president ordered review of 2015 agreement

The USS Carl Vinson aircraft supercarrier takes part in a joint US-India naval exercise in the Indian Ocean, April 16, 2012. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman George M. Bell/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Full steam a-not yet

Trump’s threatened ‘armada’ heads away from North Korea

By AFP

Aircraft carrier that the US Navy said was steaming toward the Korean Peninsula is going the other way but will turn north soon, official says

Democratic candidate for Georgia's 6th Congressional seat Jon Ossoff greets supporters at a campaign field office Tuesday, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Anti-Trump Jewish candidate heads to runoff in Georgia

By AP and ToI Staff

Democrat Jon Ossoff trounces 17 rivals in congressional race, but narrowly fails to secure majority threshold needed to win outright

US President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton embrace on stage during Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

‘Obama called Clinton to tell her to concede to Trump’

First in-depth account of failed White House bid tells of devastating phone call from the president to the woman he thought would succeed him

Illustrative: Dancers performing at a celebration at the Ohr Natan congregation of Bukharian Jews in the Rego Park section of Queens, New York. (Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images/via JTA)

Now Americans, Bukharian Jews face new set of challenges

By Rachel Delia Benaim

Rabbi Eliezer Berland at the Jerusalem District Court in Jerusalem on August 1, 2016.(Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox minister visits with ailing rabbi convicted of sex offenses

Opposition MK says Health Minister Yaakov Litzman’s visit with Eliezer Berland ‘harms every law-abiding citizen’

Authors Haim Watzman and Matti Friedman will discuss their newest books as part of the Times of Israel Presents series on April 25 at the Tower of David. (Photo of Watzman, Adi Martinotti. Friedman, courtesy)

Times of Israel Presents

It’s fact and fiction at TOI event with two Jerusalem-based authors

By Matthew Kalman

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An injured Nepalese woman arrives on stretcher to be treated at the Israeli field hospital in Kathmandu on May 1, 2015, following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck the Himalayan nation on April 25 (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

United Nations looks to Israel in drive to recruit more doctors

By Stuart Winer

Fresno police stand next to a pile of clothes in front of a corner market in the neighborhood where shootings occurred in Fresno, Calif., Tuesday, April 18, 2017. (AP/Scott Smith)

Police: Fresno triple killer motivated by hate, not terrorism

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference on April 18, 2017 at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Zuckerberg vows work to prevent next ‘Facebook killer’

Participating high school students hold up the Duchifat-2 nanosatellite that was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2017. (Israel Space Agency/Roi Greenberg)

Nanosatellite built by Israeli high-schoolers blasts into space

By Stuart Winer

This May 28, 2012 file photo shows a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz at a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York where Patz lived before his disappearance on May 25, 1979. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Man convicted of 1979 killing of Etan Patz sentenced to at least 25 years

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an MTA subway cart in New York City (Courtesy of Metropolitan Transportation Authority)

One good turnTwo Jews, a nursing Muslim and a Taoist go viral

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Itamar Ohana, who drowned in the Sea of Galilee, April 2017. (Facebook)

Third body from Sea of Galilee drownings found

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews return November 19, 2014, to study inside the Jerusalem Har Nof synagogue where two terrorists from East Jerusalem killed five Israelis a day earlier. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Synagogues get Shabbat emergency app for phoneless worshipers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Bank clerk arrested on suspicion of embezzling millions

By Stuart Winer

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attends a Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimuna in the southern city of Ashkelon, on April 17, 2017 (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe second coming of Kahlon

By Joshua Davidovich

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