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What Matters Most On Friday, April 21, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Jerusalem on April 21, 2017 (Amos Ben Gerschom/GPO)

Meeting Mattis, PM hails ‘welcome change’ of US leadership

US defense chief says Washington committed to ‘doing whatever it takes to pass on peace and freedom to the next generation’

In Israel, Pentagon chief says Iran deal ‘still stands’

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Trump raps Iran for violating ‘spirit’ of nuclear deal

By Josh Lederman and Jill Colvin

Nikki Haley urges UN to shift its criticism from Israel to Iran

By Cathryn J. Prince

French presidential election candidates, right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon, En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron, far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon, far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen, and left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon, pose before a debate organised by the French private TV channel TF1 on March 20, 2017 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris. (AFP/Pool/Eliot Blondet)

French Jewish leader: Our democracy is in ‘real danger’

By JTA

CRIF head slams Jewish support for far-right and far-left candidates, says ‘the enemies of our enemies are not our friends’

US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, April 20, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump: Paris attack will have ‘big effect’ on French election

Michel Thooris (Courtesy of the National Front/via JTA)

Jewish Le Pen supporter blames ‘weak’ government for Paris attack

By JTA

Member of board of far-right National Front party says ‘failure to detain a flagged radical’ is ‘intolerable’

Paris killer was arrested in February for threatening police, freed

By AP

Policeman shot dead, 2 hurt in suspected Paris terror attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Islamic State claims Paris attack that killed policeman

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of an ultra-Orthodox Israeli contractor greeting a Palestinian construction worker as he and others wait on the Palestinian side of the checkpoint at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Reform and Conservative Judaism left out of new Israeli pluralism index

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Survey of 1,300 Jewish and Arab Israelis is a window into seeds of coexistence, and lingering prejudice

Erected in 2005, a statue of Anne Frank stands close to the Frank family's former apartment in Amsterdam's River Quarter, January 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

In Anne Frank’s childhood neighborhood, the buildings do not forget

By Matt Lebovic

The iconic diarist last walked along the River Quarter’s wide boulevards 75 years ago, but sites tied to her youth remain untouched in a city known for makeovers

Illustrative image of plane from low-cost airline UP operated by El Al, January 2015. (CC BY-SA Anna Zvereva, Flickr)

Down with the tubes

Ultra-Orthodox man holds up plane over TV screens

Flight delayed by more than an hour, until passenger agrees to fly with blindfolds for him and his children

Then-Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein (R) speaks with MK David Bitan at the Knesset during a plenum session, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker ‘disgusted’ by Likud MKs who yelled at bereaved families

Yuli Edelstein expresses ‘deep sadness’ after shouting match between lawmakers and parents of fallen soldiers

Hamas taunts bereaved parents in Hebrew video, claims their sons are alive

Gaza cancer patient caught with explosives freed; sister still held

By AP and ToI Staff

Israel reopens border crossing into Egypt after 11-day closure

9 tips for resilience in a world gone mad

He offers adults the tools to help kids cope with trauma that will also help themselves

In Lithuania, plans to honor a Nazi

On reports that a Catholic church may pay tribute to alleged Holocaust perpetrator Jonas Žvinys

The light we make

The Havdalah ceremony welcomes the 8th day and the human creativity that begins then, in partnership with God (Shemini)

From left: Moshe Jakubowitz, Moshe Ha-Elion, Esther Miron, Max Privler, Jeannine Stephane-Bouhanna, Elka Abromovitz, and Moshe Porat, the torch lighters for the 2017 Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017

With stories as varied as their accents, survivors ready for Holocaust memorial ceremony

By Yaakov Schwartz

Hezbollah officer gives field tour to Lebanese journalists on the border with Israel on April 20, 2017. (Screenshot from LBC)

Hezbollah gives reporters grand tour of new Israeli defenses

Officer in the Lebanese terror group says that Israel, ‘for the first time’ in history, is switching to ‘a defensive doctrine’

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran on April, 5, 2017. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Ahmadinejad barred from Iran elections as council picks candidates

By Eric RANDOLPH

Guardian Council finalizes list of six presidential candidates, including incumbent Hassan Rouhani

Palestinian protesters wave flags in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, demonstrating in solidarity with a hunger strike by Palestinian security prisoners on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

100 Fatah prisoners end hunger strike; hundreds more join

As Marwan Barghouti-led protest by some 1,200-1,300 inmates enters fifth day, one prisoner with preexisting illness hospitalized

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Trump envoy hosts business-centered video confab with Israelis, Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

In bid to improve climate, Jason Greenblatt brings together officials and businessmen from both sides to discuss Palestinian economy

An AM:PM market in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Yaakov/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Ultra-Orthodox MKs seek to bypass Shabbat ruling

By Alexander Fulbright

Religious lawmakers weighing multiple measures against High Court decision allowing Tel Aviv shops to open on Jewish day of rest

An Israeli-American Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, in a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Israel extends remand of teenager accused of JCC bomb threats

By ToI Staff and AFP

Court rejects parents’ request to replace lawyer with public defender in spat over psychiatric evaluation

A police officer crouches outside the offices of the FSB Russian intelligence agency, where an assailant shot dead two people, April 21, 2017. (screenshot: YouTube)

2 killed in shooting at Russian intelligence agency’s office

Gunman shot dead at FSB security service headquarters in Khabarovsk; employee, civilian among victims

French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon at a campaign rally in Lille, April 12, 2017. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images via JTA)

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Author David Grossman (left), shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his novel 'A Horse Walked Into a Bar,' interviewed by Benjamin Balint in an event hosted by the Times of Israel in Jerusalem, April 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Amos Oz and David Grossman shortlisted for Man Booker prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Roger Waters, British rock legend and co-founder of the group Pink Floyd, performs during a concert in Neve Shalom, 30 kms from Jerusalem in June 22, 2006. (AFP PHOTO / DAVID FURST)

Roger Waters’ new album features track inspired by Palestinian poet

By David Sedley and AFP

An Israeli girl poses with a mock marijuana joint in Jerusalem on April 20, 2017 during a rally at the Rose Garden, to celebrate 420 and to express their defiance of current laws. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Israelis hold mass protest pot smoke outside Knesset

By Jonah Mandel

Kvelling timeAll the Jews on Time’s who’s who

By Yaakov Schwartz

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher sharpening his tools. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Belgian Jewish leader asks lawmakers not to repeat ‘Nazi acts’ in ritual slaughter ban

By JTA

A skirt pulled by Zara following outrage over what appears to resemble Pepe the Frog images, April 2017.

Fashionable hate?Zara pulls skirt with image resembling Pepe the Frog

By JTA

The cover of 'Grandma Cooks Gourmet,' a fundraising effort that is now a contender for prizes in two Gourmand International 2017 categories (Courtesy Shorashim)

Recipes for SuccessHolocaust survivors’ cookbook shortlisted for Gourmand prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, formerly the world's heaviest woman, has lost half her weight in two months. (screenshot: YouTube)

Mumbai miracleEgypt woman, the ‘world’s heaviest,’ sheds half her weight

By AFP

French presidential election candidate for the far-right National Front party Marine Le Pen speaks during a press conference at her campaign headquarters in Paris, April 21, 2017. (AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)

Hebrew media reviewHe shoots, she scores

By Joshua Davidovich

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