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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 23, 2017

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French nationals Israel walk past posters showing French presidential election candidates at a polling station at the French consulate in Jerusalem on April 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Turnout slightly up as France votes in high-stakes race

Long lines reported in Jerusalem and Netanya for expats wishing to cast ballots in presidential election

Macron, 39-year-old maverick of French politics, eyes the presidency

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

France’s Fillon hopes experience will trump scandal

Melenchon, France’s ‘unbowed’ hard-left candidate

By Gina DOGGETT

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

Le Pen: Far-right heir hopes to become France’s first female president

Propelled by anti-establishment fury that drove Brexit and Trump victories, ‘party of patriots’ leader is banking on rebranded ultranationalist rhetoric

Russian chief rabbi: France’s Jews should leave if Le Pen wins

By JTA

Security tight as France goes to the polls in presidential vote

By Thomas Adamson

Panic in Paris station as man arrested with knife

By AFP

A combination of picture made on April 23, 2017 shows French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron and French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen posing in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / Joël SAGET AND Eric Feferberg)

Live updates (closed)

Projections put Le Pen, Macron ahead in French presidential race

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu at Holocaust memorial blames WWII Allies for failing to save Jews; Israel refuses to extradite teen JCC bomb hoaxer to US; 4 injured in terror attack at Tel Aviv beachfront hotels

Magen David Adom paramedics arrive at the scene of a suspected terror attack outside of a Tel Aviv hotel on April 23, 2017. (courtesy)

Four lightly wounded in Tel Aviv terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

18-year-old Palestinian from West Bank detained by police after using wire-cutters to stab people in lobby of beachfront hotel

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

US-Israel extradition battle looms in case of teen JCC bomb hoaxer

By ToI Staff and AP

Youth, said to be unrepentant, was charged on 31 counts in the US on Friday and faces a lengthy jail term there; Israel is set to charge him on Monday

The Beersheba District Court on May 13, 2015 (Flash90)

6 Israelis, including 2 soldiers, charged with attacking Arabs

By Alexander Fulbright

Shin Bet says suspects carried out a string of violent assaults, including stabbing, in order to prevent Jewish girls fraternizing with Arabs

IDF officer injured in settler rock-throwing attack

Liberman condemns settler rock attack on soldiers

Without missing a beatSettler drummer gatecrashes Palestinian wedding

Illustrative photo of Jews in Paris, January 12, 2015. (AFP Photo/Joel Saget)

Anti-Semitic incidents down 12% worldwide, but rising in US, UK

By JTA

Researchers at Tel Aviv University say that while the number of violent attacks in Europe is falling, Jew hatred on American campuses is on the rise

Police secures a protest march against the party convention of Germany's nationalist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, April 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Clashes as German anti-immigration party power struggle spills over

By Deborah Cole

Screenshot from 'The Memory of Justice' by director Marcel Ophuls. (Courtesy HBO)

Film review

The four-and-a-half-hour Nazi documentary you can’t afford to miss

By Jordan Hoffman

First released 40 years ago, ‘The Memory of Justice’ uses the Nuremberg Trials as a springboard for unanswerable questions. A newly restored version will be streaming on HBO from April 24

7 books about the Holocaust scholars say you should read

By Josefin Dolsten

Smoke and explosions from fighting between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels, in the Quneitra area, seen from the Golan Heights, June 17, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit/ File)

Israel said to strike pro-Assad forces in Syria, killing 3

Reported IDF attack on Syrian base comes after three mortars fired from Syria landed in the Golan Heights Friday

A couple stands next to a large light installation in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 6, 2013. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Jerusalem hotels: Unlikely hotbeds of furtive, meticulous romance

By Tracy Frydberg

In lobbies throughout the capital, young ultra-Orthodox men and women sit down every evening to participate in a carefully rehearsed dating ritual

Daniel B. Schwartz

The Yom HaShoah test

Why he’s glad he’s taking the Israeli bar exam on Holocaust Remembrance Day

JPPI study does include Reform, Conservative

The survey addresses religious intensity not affiliation; It found half of Israeli Jews prefer mixed-seating synagogues

Then-finance minister Yair Lapid with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in 2013 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll puts Likud 4 seats ahead of Yesh Atid, though most unhappy with Netanyahu

Likud on 28 seats and Yesh Atid on 24 in new Channel 2 survey, but 61% are not satisfied with PM’s performance

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on November 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, April 23, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Breaking silence, PM says Likud MKs were wrong to yell at bereaved families

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu expresses ‘regret’ over behavior of 2 party members during committee hearing on 2014 Gaza war

A new outpost being constructed near the settlement of Adam, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, seen on April 19, 2017. (courtesy/ Peace Now)

Watchdog says first illegal outpost being built since PM vowed to halt them

By Tamar Pileggi

Founders say they are motivated by cheap land, not ideology; move comes despite Netanyahu saying he won’t allow more settlements in gesture to Trump

Palestinians receive their monthly food aid from a UN distribution centre in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, last year. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UNRWA’s Gaza union head, accused of Hamas ties, no longer employed by agency

By ToI Staff and AP

Israel has said that school principal Suhail al-Hindi was elected to a leadership role in the terror group in February vote

Saeb Erekat, right, Palestinian chief negotiator, and Mohammad Shtayyeh, left, arrive at the State Department in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013. ( AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Palestinian officials head to US to prepare for Abbas visit

White House says Trump and the PA leader will look to reaffirm commitment to reaching a peace accord

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)

Number of Palestinian prisoners quitting hunger strike hits 186

Over 1,000 still believed to be on strike, with several said hospitalized, as Marwan Barghouti-led protest enters seventh day

Armenians marched long distances and were said to have been massacred in Turkey, in 1915. (AP Photo, File)

Jerusalem archive yields Armenian genocide ‘smoking gun’

Newly discovered telegram from 1919 military tribunals proves official Turkish coverup of mass killings

Pope Francis greets people as he arrives at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island to celebrate the Liturgy of the Word with the Community of SantEgidio in memory of the 'New Martyrs' of the 20th and 21th century, on April 22, 2017 in Rome. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

Pope says some refugee centers ‘concentration camps’

By Angus Mackinnon

Francis appears to criticize world community, saying ‘international accords seem more important than human rights’

Pope Francis prays during a weekly general audience at St Peter's square, the Vatican, April 5, 2017. (AFP/Filippo MONTEFORTE)

US Jewish group decries pope calling refugee centers ‘concentration camps’

The 'Unleavened' organizers, from left to right: Iris Mansour, Rebecca Soffer, Brian Bourdainick, Adam Kantor and Benj Pasek. (Daniel Pincus/via JTA)

From a ‘La La Land’ lyricist and Broadway talent, a political Passover ‘musical’

By Gabe Friedman

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A still image of Syrian-American artist Mona Haydar in her music video for the song "Hijabi" celebrating Muslim women that was released on March 27, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Cover versionSyrian-American’s rap tribute to hijab makes waves online

Lebanese activists use an installation of wedding dresses by Lebanese artist Mireille Honein at Beirut's Corniche to ramp up their campaign to press parliament to scrap Article 522 of Lebanon's penal code which allows rapists to escape punishement (AFP/Patrick Baz)

Lebanon activists ramp up pressure on reviled rape law

By Maya Gebeily

Illustrative photo of firefighters, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

2 homes razed as firefighters battle blazes in central Israel, Negev

Illustrative: An American Airlines Boeing 777 during takeoff (CC-BY-SA Sergey Kustov/Wikimedia Commons)

Fly into a rageAmerican flight attendant to angry passenger: ‘Hit me’

By AP

A man gets checked by police near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on January 30, 2017. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Police to require Arabic lessons for all officers — report

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, April 23, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Ministers okay broadcaster delay to make last-minute changes to law

By Raoul Wootliff

Tech giant Intel's campus in Santa Clara, California.
(AFP PHOTO / KIMIHIRO HOSHINO)

Intel holds competition to help spot cervical cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Bronze medal winner Alexander Shatilov of Israel performs during men floor apparatus final for the European Artistic Gymnastics Championship in Cluj Napoca, Romania April 22, 2017. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

Israeli gymnast wins bronze at European Championships

A memorial at Drancy, the biggest french concentration camp, seen on May 31 2010 . (Serge Attal /Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewAshes to European ashes

By Joshua Davidovich

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