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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 7, 2018

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Mourners and journalists carry the body of Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja, during his funeral in Gaza City on April 7, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

IDF denies deliberately targeting journalist killed in Gaza protest

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hundreds at funeral for Yasser Murtaja, shot while filming Friday in an area engulfed in smoke; Liberman: ‘Anyone who flies drones above soldiers is putting himself in danger’

Demonstrators assist injured Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja during clashes with Israeli security forces, following a protest near the border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 6, 2018. Murtaja later died of his wounds. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Palestinian journalist shot during Gaza protest dies of his wounds

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian demonstrators wave their national flag and shouts slogans against Israeli security forces during a protest on the Israel-Gaza border in the northern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

IDF says it thwarted Hamas, prevented ‘victory picture’ of breached border fence

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Gaza Hamas leader vows to ‘breach the borders and pray at Al-Aqsa’

By Khaled Abu Toameh and ToI Staff

As 7 Gazans killed in violence at fence, Yahya Sinwar tells protesters Strip is ready to explode in Israel’s face, claims the ‘conspiracy of besieging Gaza has failed’

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 official: Gaza protests show Palestinians are ready ‘to start revolution’

Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List party in the Knesset on December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK: Gaza protests were peaceful, hold Israel accountable

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley voting against a Security Council resolution on Jerusalem on December 18, 2017. (Eskinder Debebe/UN)

US blocks Arab-led UN call for independent probe of Gaza protests

By ToI Staff and Agencies

For second week, Washington the lone member of 15-member Security Council to reject statement condemning Israeli response to ‘March for Return’ violence

Palestinian demonstrators wave their national flag and shouts slogans against Israeli security forces during a protest on the Israel-Gaza border in the northern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Palestinian envoy slams US stance on Gaza protests, warns Strip at boiling point

By AFP and ToI Staff

Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ostensibly ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Egypt sending mediators to Gaza in bid to save faltering unity deal — report

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Interview'I know that we still have an issue with credibility'

Jobbik leader says Jews should trust the radical Hungarian party’s ‘rebranding’

By Yaakov Schwartz

Márton Gyöngyösi, who himself once said Israel was ‘running on a ‘Nazi system,’ insists ahead of Hungary’s contentious elections that his party is no longer racist

Márton Gyöngyösi is vice chairman of Hungary's parliamentary foreign affairs committee and head of international affairs for the Jobbik party. (Courtesy)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the last campaign event of his Fidesz party in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on April 6, 2018.
Hungarians vote in elections on April 8, 2108 that polls suggest will give Prime Minister Viktor Orban athird consecutive term. ( AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA)

Hungary’s Orban tipped for re-election, but upset not ruled out

By Peter Murphy

World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder on October 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Lauder gave $1.1m to group producing anti-Muslim ads in 2016

By Eric Cortellessa

After report shows WJC president bankrolled right-wing group’s effort to sow Muslim fears, rabbi who heads Interfaith Alliance calls on him to resign

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Meretz head calls to uninvite Honduras president from Independence Day ceremony

Tamar Zandberg says Honduras is a serial human rights violator and having Juan Orlando Hernandez light a torch at ceremony would dishonor Israel

Former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Ex-Shin Bet head urges Israelis to boycott independence event if PM speaks

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, June 16, 2015. (AFP/BEN STANSALL)

Umm Charles

Is Queen Elizabeth descended from the Prophet Muhammad?

New study revives old claims tracing the British monarch’s lineage back 43 generations to the founder of Islam

Gail Asper with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Moe Levy, executive director of the Asper Foundation in Winnipeg. (Courtesy)

Canadian heiress throws millions into massive Tel Aviv-based Jewish hall of fame

By Robert Sarner

Belle Jarniewski

‘Jesus Christ Superstar’: The stuff of pogroms

NBC’s blockbuster Easter broadcast of the crucifixion musical perpetuates deadly, age-old lies

Yes, community leaders should meet Corbyn

At worst, Labour’s leader will show his true colors; at best, all concerned make valuable progress

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

Facebook to verify identities, require labels for political ads

Iranian senior cleric Ahmad Khatami delivers his sermon during a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on January 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Top Iranian cleric warns Hezbollah can raze Haifa and Tel Aviv to the ground

Did Cambridge Analytica get your data? You’ll know soon

By Barbara Ortutay

In this April 4, 2018 photo, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, applauds as US Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers a question during a town hall meeting examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Bernie Sanders struggles with new path to black voters

Syrian children ride their bike past destroyed buildings in the former rebel-held town of Zamalka, in Eastern Ghouta on April 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Airstrikes return to Syria’s Ghouta, killing 40 civilians as talks sputter

By Maya Gebeily

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses troops at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria, December 11, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

From the webHow a secret Russian airlift helps Syria’s Assad

An Egyptian man reads a newspaper in the Zamalek district in Cairo, on October 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt’s most popular daily sacks chief editor after story critical of elections

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Artichokes being cooked (Pepperedjane/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Choke on itRome’s Jews reject Israel artichoke dictat

By AFP

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud speaks during a signing ceremony at the United Nations, Tuesday, March 27, 2018. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)

Saudi crown prince to visit France, Spain in whirlwind global tour

By AFP

In this file photo taken on June 17, 2009 Franck Bauer, the last speaker of Radio Londres, (Radio London), a radio broadcast from 1940 to 1944 from the BBC in London to occupied France, poses in Paris. (AFP/Patrick Kovarik)

Franck Bauer, voice of French resistance to Nazis, dies at 99

By AP

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