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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 3, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announce a new refugee deal with the UN, hours before suspending it, April 2, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After flip-flop, Netanyahu formally cancels deal to let 16,000 migrants stay

Buckling under criticism, PM says government will now ‘exhaust all of the options’ at its disposal ‘for expelling the infiltrators’

African asylum seekers set up a mock slave auction as part of a protest against their deportation outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, on April 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

UN urges Israel to ‘reconsider’ canceled migrant deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay speaks at a press conference with former senior security officials in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Opposition leaders blast ‘spineless’ PM after he cancels his own migrant deal

In this file photo taken on March 7, 2018 Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman waving as he arrives for talks at 10 Downing Street, in central London. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)

Saudi crown prince recognizes Israel’s right to exist, talks up future ties

Saudi King Salman, right, and Defense Minister and then Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wave as they leave the hall after talks with the British prime minister, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 5, 2017 (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi king states support for Palestinians after son accepts Israel’s legitimacy

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

UNESCO to pass ‘most extreme’ Jerusalem resolution next week

By Raphael Ahren

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking after he retained his parliamentary seat in Islington north London, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Corbyn says he ‘learned a lot’ at Seder of group that wants Israel ‘disposed of’

By Stuart Winer

Days after vowing to be ‘militant opponent of anti-Semitism,’ Labour chief attends event hosted by far-left Jewdas, which dismisses talk of anti-Semitism in party as ‘faux-outrage’

Former British prime minister Tony Blair. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Tony Blair: UK Labour leadership must root out anti-Semitism completely

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

What we know and don’t about Friday’s Gaza protests

Following the mass march and violence in which the IDF killed 16 people, the battle shifts to public opinion: Were they unarmed protesters or dangerous terrorists?

Palestinians run, as teargas canisters fired by Israeli troops land near them during a demonstration near the Gaza Strip security fence, east of Gaza City on March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Gaza's Hamas terrorist rulers released these images of members of its military wing who it acknowledged were among 16 Gazans it said were killed by Israeli fire during clashes along the security fence on Friday, March 30, 2018. (Hamas)

Hamas accused of playing into Israel’s hands in wake of Gaza protest

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Critics say the terror group has cast civil demonstrations as armed clashes by naming those of its members who were killed by the IDF

Liberman says IDF will not change open-fire policy on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF arrests two unarmed Palestinians as they cross into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Palestinians say video shows Gaza youth being shot in head

Interview'Hamas has found a formula that works from all directions'

Ex-general: I don’t know what IDF could do if 300,000 try to trample Gaza fence

By David Horovitz

Giora Eiland, former head of IDF Strategic Planning and of the National Security Council, fears Israel has played into Hamas’s hands – and danger could spread to Lebanon, West Bank

Former national security adviser Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland. (Flash90)

Arab Israeli crashes stolen car in West Bank, is shot dead by soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Palestinian shot rushing West Bank checkpoint

Moscow issues travel warning for Tel Aviv due to Gaza protests

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announce a new refugee deal with the UN, hours before suspending it, April 2, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Despite migrant deal snafu, Likud widens lead over rivals in poll

Channel 10 survey predicts ruling party would receive 32 seats in next election, followed by Yesh Atid with 21; Zionist Union plummets to 12 seats

6:11 pm

Kahlon said supportive of new law to jail, deport migrants
5:38 pm

TV: Netanyahu seeking fresh Knesset bill to deport migrants
5:36 pm

New Israel Fund denies contacts with Rwanda to block deportations

Then there was disbelief

Cancellation of a humane plan for African asylum seekers is a victory for party politics over law and morality

Michael Hilkowitz

Not even one night

I thought that for once, my Eritrean friend would be able to have a sweet, stress-free sleep. I was wrong

Jack Wertheimer

Are millennials our best Jewish audience?

Lifelong engagement with Judaism means knowledge, connection, and meaningful grappling with Jewish identity

African migrants gather during a protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu accuses EU, New Israel Fund of pressing Rwanda to nix migrants deal

Left-wing group rails against PM’s ‘pathetic, shameful’ accusations, says it has nothing to do with Kigali’s refusal to cooperate with ‘cruel’ deportations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)

Outed by Netanyahu as ‘third-party country,’ Rwanda denies migrant agreement

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

High Court demand scuttled migrant deportation plan – report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Intel's Haifa-based team led the development of its new line of 8th generation processors, including Intel's "best processor ever" for laptops (Shlomo Shoham)

Haifa team sires Intel’s ‘best processor ever’ for laptops

By Shoshanna Solomon

African asylum seekers and Israeli activists protest outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, against their deportation, on April 3, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel media reviewMigrants and zigzags: 7 things to know for April 3

By Adiv Sterman

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of the baby that drowned to death yesterday in Ashdod, at Kikar HaShabat, in Jerusalem, on April 3, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox block Jerusalem roads as parents detained in infant’s drowning

'Our People' (Musiskiai) by Nazi hunter US- born Israeli historian Efraim Zuroff and Lithuanian writer Ruta Vanagaite pictured during the presentation of the the book in Vilnius, February 17, 2016. (AFP/Petras Malukas)

In new Holocaust controversy, Lithuanian law would ban books critical of country

By JTA

Paramedics and police at the scene of a Palestinian suicide-bombing that killed 19 and injuring 74 on a bus in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. (Flash90)

US Supreme Court deals ‘terrible blow’ to families suing Palestinians for terror

Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, head of Jerusalem's rabbinical court. (Dudu Greenspan/FLASH90)

Rabbi: Non-Jews can bring bread into hospitals on Passover

Founder and operator of The Daily Stormer website, Andrew Anglin. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Judge to decide if Nazi ‘troll storm’ is protected speech

By AP

Israeli Shifra Kornfeld (left) and Olga Borisova of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk rock band that will play Tel Aviv's Barby after appearing at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim International Writers Festival on May 8 (Courtesy Mishkenot Sha'ananim)

Complete controlRussian punk rockers Pussy Riot book 2 May appearances in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

View of Israel's largest Arab city Umm El-Fahm, December 31, 2011. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90

Imam shot dead outside mosque in Arab Israeli town

By Stuart Winer

Musicians Nils Lofgren (L) and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on March 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)

No surrenderBruce Springsteen’s guitarist saved by old bar mitzvah gift

By Gabe Friedman

Alex Bregman’s manager expects the young slugger to get even better. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images/via JTA)

Alex Bregman is Major League Baseball’s next Jewish star

By Hillel Kuttler

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