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What Matters Most On Friday, April 6, 2018

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Palestinians collect tires and burn them at the Israel-Gaza border during a protest east of Gaza City, on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

9 Gazans said killed as IDF says it thwarts multiple attempts to breach border

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Army: Hamas using protesters as diversion as it tries to open up fence, send terrorists into Israel; 20,000 at 2nd March of Return; rioters burn tires, throw stones and firebombs

A picture taken on April 6, 2018 from the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz across the border from the Gaza strip shows Palestinian men protesting, burning tires. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

Israel deploys snipers, tanks as Palestinians begin protests along Gaza border

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Palestinian protestor uses a slingshot to throw a stone during clashes with Israeli forces following a tent city gathering at the Israel-Gaza border east of Gaza City on April 4, 2018. (AFP MAHMUD HAMS)

New Gaza protest looms, amid warnings violence may no longer stop at border

By Judah Ari Gross

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, on July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

US slams Gaza leaders who send children to border, ‘knowing they may be killed’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ahead of Friday protests, Mideast envoy Greenblatt urges Palestinians to stay 500 meters from fence, rally peacefully; UN warns Israel to exercise ‘extreme caution’

Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Arabs ask UN chief to launch investigation of Gaza killings

By AP

Disabled Palestinians play volleyball near to the site of clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli security forces following a protest along the Gaza-Israel border, east of Gaza City on April 5, 2018. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

Amid fears of fresh Gaza fighting, Hamas issues rare call for calm

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian protestors shout slogans during clashes with Israeli forces following a tent city gathering at the Israel-Gaza border east of Gaza City on April 4, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS

Hamas accused of jailing bus drivers who refuse to take Gazans to protests

Israel’s COGAT head releases recording of bus company owner saying terror group replacing drivers who refuse to ferry Palestinians with those who will

IDF footage showing Palestinian armed with what appears to be an assault rifle approaching Gaza security fence on April 5, 2018. (Screen capture)

IDF footage shows Gazan approaching border with rifle before airstrike

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian men sit in a trailer loaded with tires to be used in protests in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 5, 2018. (AFP /SAID KHATIB)

UN expresses concern as Israel, Gaza gird for fresh Friday violence

Illustrative: Ron Atias of Israel, and Venilton Teixeira of Brazil compete in the men's Taekwondo event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Israeli athletes banned from taekwondo championship in Tunisia

By AP and ToI Staff

Tunis court rules 4 Israelis will not be allowed to participate in world junior championships starting Friday, following petition from group opposed to ties with Israel

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Facebook: Most users may have had their public data ‘scraped’

By Barbara Ortutay

Underlining company’s failure to protect its users’ data, CEO Zuckerberg admits majority of 2.2 billion members had personal information accessed

Up to 2.7 million Europeans likely affected by Facebook data scandal

By AFP

Twitter: 1 million accounts suspended for ‘terrorism promotion’ since 2015

By AFP

Nigerian ex-president denies knowledge of hacking claims tied to Israeli firm

By AFP and ToI Staff

Imam Salahuddin Barakat, left, and rabbi Moshe David Hacohen. (Courtesy of: Amanah, the Muslim and Jewish Trust and Faith Project)

In infamous Malmo, a rabbi and imam seed trust with audacious grassroots project

By Rossella Tercatin

The funeral procession in Jerusalem on April 5, 2018, for a one-month old baby who drowned in a hotel jacuzzi in Ashdod. (Screen capture/Walla)

Haredi radicals grab body of drowned baby from ambulance during funeral

Zaka emergency service says one of its medics beaten by mob as infant who drowned in Jacuzzi buried following court-ordered autopsy, carried out despite ultra-Orthodox protests

In this April 3, 2018, photo, African migrants cross a street in southern Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

US Jewish groups urge Netanyahu not to deport African migrants

Letter says Israel has a special obligation to ‘protect victims of persecution who have fled their countries seeking safety’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coughing while addressing an annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. (AFP / JACK GUEZ)

New Israel Fund sees huge leap in donations after attack by PM

In this Tuesday, April 3, 2018 photo, an African migrant sleeps in a street in southern Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israelis want solution for African asylum seekers, though few want them to stay

By Josefin Dolsten

In this March 29, 2018 file photo, a fighter, second from right, of the US-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council is parked next to US humvee at a US troop outpost on a road leading to the tense front line between Syrian Manbij Military Council fighters and Turkish-backed fighters, at Halawanji village, north of Manbij town, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Trump wants out of Syria, but don’t say ‘timeline’

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman

President makes clear he wants to bring troops home within five or six months, despite opposition from key advisers

File - US President Donald Trump, right, shaking hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, during a bilateral meeting at a hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh, May 21, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump to host Qatari Emir in bid to end Gulf crisis

By AFP

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech in front of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest on March 15, 2018, during the official commemoration of the 170th anniversary of the 1848-1849 Hungarian revolution. (AFP Photo/Attila Kisbenedek)

Hungary’s Orban seeks re-election Sunday on anti-migrant platform

By Pablo Gorondi

Shoring up last minute support, incumbent PM insists US, UN and Jewish billionaire George Soros want to flood country with Muslims

Micah Streiffer

I think I’m a slave after all

Bored? I reach for my phone. My mind wanders? My phone. A 15-second interval while a computer page to load? Again, my phone

More than four mothers

Erasing Bilhah and Zilpah, no less, from our consciousness indicates how excluded women are

An Israeli high school student videoconferences with a North American baby boomer for a weekly English lesson. (Courtesy of Israel Connect/via JTA)

North American baby boomers teach Israeli kids English — via video chat

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu on April 4, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu said to decide on attending Independence Day event despite outcry

Stormy Daniels arrives at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Trump breaks silence, claims no knowledge of payment to porn star

By Andrew BEATTY

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas takes the oath of office after the new government was appointed after German Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected for a fourth term as chancellor in the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German FM vows ‘considerable efforts’ to protect Iran deal

By ToI Staff and AP

Rafał Ziemkiewicz is interviewed on March 23, 1018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Polish journalist calls Jewish NGO a ‘gang of international blackmailers’

By JTA

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia holds up a copy of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as he speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between Britain and Russia on April 5, 2018 at United Nations headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Russia says Britain is ‘playing with fire’ in spy case

By Edith M. Lederer and DANICA KIRKA

The cast of Israeli drama series 'Fauda' (Ohad Romano via JTA)

Hollywood execs offer support to Netflix after BDS calls to scrap ‘Fauda’

By JTA

In this photo taken on January 27, 2016 in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses for a photograph. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)

France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen joins European extreme-right group

By AFP

In this April 3, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly attends a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Tired of being told no,’ Trump freezes out chief of staff

By Jonathan Lemire and Catherine Lucey

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