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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 22, 2017

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A French citizen casts her ballot while others wait in line while voting in the country's presidential election at the Embassy of France on April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

France on edge as presidential vote looms

By Joshua MELVIN

Voting begins in overseas territories in first round of elections, with Sunday’s tight four-way race coming shortly after terror attack

Trump: Paris killing will ‘probably help’ Le Pen in France

By AP and ToI Staff

Champs-Elysees killer described as unstable criminal who ‘hated police’

By Juliette MONTESSE, paul aubriat and Sophie Deviller

German anti-immigration party heads for weekend showdown

By Deborah Cole

Illustrative: The Albany JCC closed briefly due to a bomb threat, January 18, 2017. (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)

US files charges against teen accused of JCC bomb threats

By ToI Staff and AP

Allegations against Israeli-American youth, whose identity in Israel remains under gag order, include making threatening calls and cyberstalking

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Fox News' Sean Hannity during an interview aired on April 21, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu: Palestinians must make ‘real change’ for peace

In Fox News interview, PM calls on Trump to pressure Abbas at upcoming meeting on incitement, payments to terrorists’ families

Ya’alon: Netanyahu ‘should have resigned a while ago’

By Alexander Fulbright

Israel said to return body of Palestinian terrorist to family

After Israel trip, Mattis visits key US ally Qatar

By AFP

Rabbi Marc Soloway hugs a baby goat named Sheleg at the Jewish Community co-op farm near his synagogue in Boulder, Colorado on April 10, 2014. (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)

Climate change is 'tikkun olam in the most literal sense'

The 12 Jews who are leading the green movement

By Rich Tenorio

Whether they’re demonstrating or making coffee with sustainably-raised goats’ milk, Jewish environmental advocates have plenty to kvell about on Saturday’s Earth Day

Monument for Jewish Holocaust victims, which also features the names of three SS soldiers, at Leidschendam-Voorburg in the western Netherlands (Algemeen Dagblad screenshot)

Names of SS soldiers found on Dutch Holocaust monument

By JTA

Municipality near The Hague to remove the 3 names from its main monument to hundreds of Jewish Holocaust victims and resistance fighters

Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)

Scientific Passion

Einstein was a sex magnet? 4 facts about a genius

By Gabe Friedman

New TV series on life of famous scientist delves into his failures, successes and love interests

Mira Tzur works as a Melania Trump impersonator alongside John Di Domenico. (Courtesy of Mira Tzur)

Second Lady

How an Israeli model became a Melania impersonator

By Josefin Dolsten

Mira Tzur, who averages $3,000 per gig, shares many similarities with the first lady, but can’t get the hair color quite right

Robin B. Zeiger

The deep inner voice of change

A post-Passover meditation on the call to stray off the beaten path of humanity

Sheldon Kirshner

Keep Quiet: The Jewish anti-Semite

MOVIE REVIEW: The documentary follows Csanad Szegedi, a Hungarian right-wing extremist who was outed as a Jew

A stepped pyramid structure dating to the Roman period at Khirbet Midras in the Judean Hills (David Behr and Rotem Shfaim, Agro Drone)

Archaeologists to probe ancient pyramid in Judean Hills

By Ilan Ben Zion

Summer excavation at Khirbet Midras will try to determine who resettled town after ruin in Bar Kochba revolt

An attacker is seen lifting his bat just before attacking Rabbi Arik Asherman in the West Bank, on Friday, April 21 2017 (Screen capture YoTube)

Radical settlers attack left-wing activists with bats, stones in West Bank, footage shows

Three said wounded in incident near Al-Auja, north of Jericho; B’Tselem says attackers were ‘hilltop youth’ from nearby outpost

A picture taken from the Golan Heights on September 10, 2016, shows smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab. Israeli aircraft struck Syrian army positions after fire from its war-torn neighbor hit the Golan. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

Three mortar shells from Syria land in northern Golan Heights

Shells hit separate open fields in apparent spillover from Syria fighting, causing no injuries or damage; siren sounds in southern Golan; IDF fires back

A screen capture from a clip showing Egyptian soldiers leading a blindfolded unarmed man. The man is seen shot to death from close range later in the clip, posted by an Egyptian opposition TV channel on Youtube on Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Screen capture YouTube)

Clip appears to show Egyptian soldiers executing unarmed men in Sinai

In video broadcast by Egyptian opposition TV, men in uniform interrogate suspects, then shoot them dead at point-blank range

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)

Iran election campaign kicks off, without Ahmadinejad

By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani

Campaigning for May 19 presidential vote begins, with incumbent Hassan Rouhani facing a tough battle against hardliners

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, left, gestures next to the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Michael Beary, center, of Ireland, during a visit to the UNIFIL headquarters in the southern Lebanese village of Naqura on April 21, 2017. (AFP/ Mahmoud ZAYYAT)

Lebanese PM calls for permanent ceasefire with Israel

Saad Hariri urges UN to help reach long-term calm with Jewish state on his country’s southern border

A silhouette of a Palestinian boy in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on April 19, 2017. The Gaza Strip's only functioning power plant was out of action. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Analysis

Cynically led, and out of electricity, Gaza is close to breaking point again

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas is funneling all available resources into its military infrastructure to fight Israel, complaining that Abbas won’t pay for its fuel, and milking everything it can from Gazans. It won’t end well

Illustrative photo of a young Palestinian hurling a firebomb in Hebron. (AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Police arrest 2 Palestinians with firebombs in West Bank

Author and lawyer Philippe Sands. (John Reynolds)

Interview

All roads lead to Lviv: Family history, genocide, and the trials that changed the world

By JP O’ Malley

More Headlines

Deputy assistant to US President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka (YouTube screenshot)

Citing anti-Semitism, Democrats urge Trump to fire aide Sebastian Gorka

By JTA

Participants attend a hearing of the justice ministry request to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses at Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow on April 20, 2017. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Russia bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘extremist’

By victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA

Monash University Clayton campus (Donaldytong, Wikipedia)

Holocaust denial leaflets strewn at 2 Australian universities

By JTA

In this photo released by Qatar News Agency, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, right, receives a released Qatari hostage at the Doha airport in Doha, Qatar Friday, April 21, 2017. After nearly a year and a half in captivity, Qatar on Friday secured the release of 26 hostages, including members of its ruling family, in what became possibly the region's most complex and sensitive hostage negotiation deal in recent years. (Qatar News Agency via AP)

26 hostages, including Qatar royals, freed in bargain

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Aya Batrawy

The oldest synagogue in the Americas, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, located in Recife. (Ricardo André Frantz, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

Brazilian Jews to teach about Holocaust at school that flew Nazi flags

By JTA

A general view of The Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, March 11, 2008. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Court scraps plan for new neighborhood next to Jerusalem zoo

In this June 21, 2016 file photo, Steven Spielberg attends the LA Premiere of 'The BFG' in Los Angeles. (John Salangsang/Invision/AP)

Screen dreamSpielberg waxes lyrical on the joy of movie theaters

By AFP

This file photo taken on April 28, 2016 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City shows actress Julianna Margulies attending 'The Good Wife' Finale Party. (AFP/Getty Images North America//Jamie McCarthy)

Good Wife star Margulies to produce Vietnam War series

By AFP and ToI Staff

People walking past the west entrance of the New York Times building at 620 Eighth Avenue in New York, April 27, 2016. (AFP/Don Emmert)

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

By JTA

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