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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 20, 2017

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Illustrative: A Tel Aviv convenience store, July 30, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

In landmark ruling, High Court says Tel Aviv mini-markets can open on Shabbat

Ultra-Orthodox politicians vow to fight move and bypass the court, saying decision desecrates Jewish values

Illustrative: Israelis shop at the AM:PM convenience store in Tel Aviv on July 04, 2014. (Flash90)

Liberman hails ruling allowing Tel Aviv shops to open on Shabbat

MK David Bitan rebukes bereaved parents during a Knesset State Control Committee discussion about Israel‘s 2014 Gaza war against Hamas, April 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM’s office slams Likud MKs for shouting match with bereaved parents

Lawmakers David Bitan and Miki Zohar ‘harmed attempts‘ to involve families of fallen soldiers in discussion about 2014 Gaza war

AnalysisRehashing Gaza war, leaders do little thinking outside pillbox to avoid next one

By Judah Ari Gross

Bucking criticism, PM says 2014 Gaza war was ‘inevitable’

By Judah Ari Gross

Gazan sisters accused of smuggling explosives as cancer medicine

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Hosting Abbas on May 3, Trump seeks ‘conflict-ending’ deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

White House: President and Palestinian leader will look to reaffirm commitment to ultimately reaching a peace accord

Abbas says ready to meet Netanyahu ‘anytime’ in Washington

Gaza hospitals on verge of blackout amid energy crisis

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinians slam Israel for refusing talks with hunger strikers

By AFP

Illustrative: An Associated Press photograph shows Adolf Hitler, German Reichsfuehrer, acknowledging the ecstatic cheers of Sudeten Germans, as he entered Asch, on the heels of German armies which took over the ceded Czechoslovakian territory, on October 3, 1938. The AP caption notes: 'Party members grip each other's belt, straining to hold the enthusiastic crowds in check.' (AP Photo)

Even as horrors exposed, AP news agency kept secret pact with Nazis

By Miriam Dagan

After most foreign press corps fled Germany, the local Associated Press was absorbed by the Nazi Foreign Office, which regularly exchanged photos with the media outlet, archive material shows

The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations against Syria while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. (US Navy/Ford Williams)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli officials: US gave 2-hour warning before striking Syria

Activists hold mass pot protest outside Knesset; US defense chief lands in Israel, will meet Netanyahu Friday

Photograph taken in the Anne Frank House book shop with her image and translated copies of the diary in the background. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Anne Frank, Syrian refugee? Appropriation of diarist sparks debate in Holland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Iconic Jewish Holocaust victim ‘has come to symbolize the victim of all of the world’s evils,’ says researcher; does the universal message go too far?

Warsaw Jews bury old Torahs on ghetto uprising anniversary

By AFP

Suzanna Eibuszyc

Out of Warsaw, with tradition and trauma

How her mother clung to her identity as both a Jew and a Pole, despite losing faith in God and humanity

Birds fly in Lodz

The Polish city, with its rich and painful Jewish history, is getting a facelift with paint and feathers

Peru’s Hezbollah trial

The trial is helping shine a light on Iran’s efforts to spread its influence throughout Latin America

Richard L. Cravatts

School assignment: Write like a Nazi

The shocking class exercise displays the careless anti-Semitism of morally incoherent educators

Former prime minister Ehud Barak attends a press conference organized by the Israeli Labor party, in Tel Aviv, January 29, 2017. (FLASH90)

Former PM Barak: Lapid no antidote to Netanyahu’s ‘dangerous’ agenda

By Stuart Winer

Ex-Labor head says PM leading Israel, Palestinians to single state with ‘constant civil war’ or ‘apartheid’; laments ineffectual opposition

Mohamed Zhani, stands outside his cafe restaurant "La Place" in Beaucaire, southern France, on Tuesday April 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Life in a National Front town: More cops, anti-migrant charter

By Elaine Ganley

In this image provided by the US Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/US Navy via AP)

Senior IDF officer: US attack on Syria was no turning point

By Judah Ari Gross

Army source also says Iran sending an annual $60-70 million to Hamas, which terror group uses to boost military capabilities

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds a press conference on Iran in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC on April 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Tillerson: Iran’s nuclear quest a ‘grave risk’ to global security

By Eric Cortellessa

US secretary warns Tehran ‘could follow the same path as North Korea’; brands landmark deal a failure

A Syrian doctor treating a boy following a suspected chemical attack, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria, from video provided on April 4, 2017. (Screen shot, Qasioun News Agency, via AP)

Israeli defense officials: Assad has up to 3 tons of chemical weapons

By Josef Federman

Israeli intelligence believes Syrian military commanders ordered April 4 gas attack, with president’s knowledge

Holocaust survivors pose for a picture after celebrating their belated bar mitzvah at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City on July 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller slams government treatment of Holocaust survivors

Many mired in poverty, funds designated for them not used; report bewails no government support for survivors who came to Israel in 1990s from FSU

Korean People's Army (KPA) tanks are displayed 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/Ed Jones)

Ahead of first group trip, Israelis warned to avoid North Korea

Ministry reiterates travel advice as tensions in the region escalate

Illustrative glass of water (Pixaby free images)

No entry to viruses, thanks to Israeli-US team’s wastewater filter

By Shoshanna Solomon

Colds, diarrhea and worse can be prevented by hydrogel coating that bars contaminants from municipal water supplies

Palestinian women holding pictures of their family members attend a rally calling for the release of all Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel, Outside the Red Cross office in Gaza City, September 15, 2008. Over 10,000 Palestinians are currently jailed in Israel.
(Wissam Nassar / Flash 90)

Gun attack damages Red Cross offices in Hebron, none hurt

Local law enforcement working to find suspects; official calls attack ‘destabilizing’

Egypt's Minister of Defense Sedki Sobhi (R) greets US Defense Secretary James Mattis (C) upon his arrival at Cairo International Airport in Cairo on April 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / JONATHAN ERNST)

US defense chief Mattis arrives in Cairo for Sissi meeting

By AFP

Trump administration seeking to restore close ties with longtime ally Egypt; Pentagon head to visit Israel later Thursday

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Final rehearsal for the Israeli 65th Independence Day Ceremony, with the torches lit in the background, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 11, 2013. (photo credit:Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Trailblazing women’s educator to light Independence Day torch

New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)

4 things to know about new NY Times columnist Bret Stephens

Sheldon Adelson is seated prior to the inauguration of then President-elect Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards)

Sheldon Adelson gave record $5 million for Trump inauguration

By AP and ToI Staff

French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy in Paris, January 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joel Saget)

Levy's not leavingFake Bernard-Henri Levy quote triggers anti-Semitic storm

By JTA

Israeli rap singer Yoav Eliasi takes part at a right-wing demonstration in support of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 9, 2014. (Flash90)

Meretz files police complaint over far-right rapper’s ‘inciting’ post

By Tamar Pileggi

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (right) with Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug, June 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel backs treasury on tax breaks, benefits plan

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli actress Inbar Lavi, star of 'Imposters,' which has recently been picked up for a second season on Bravo. (Wikimedia commons/Benny Hadad)

Accept no substitute‘Imposters’ star Inbar Lavi will return in 2018

By Yaakov Schwartz

Illustrative image of school computers (shironosov /iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli school finds Nazi screensaver on computers

The father of a fallen soldier 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)

Hebrew media reviewWar and peace

By Ilan Ben Zion

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