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What Matters Most On Monday, April 9, 2018

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An Israeli F-15 (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Four Iranians reported among 14 fatalities

US said to confirm Israel hit Syria base, as Russia complains it was not warned

By ToI Staff and AP

Moscow expresses ’cause for concern’ since Russian military advisers could have been present; US officials say Jerusalem updated Washington ahead of time

An Israel Air Force F-15 flies overhead during an exercise in the Golan Heights on February 23, 2014. (Gu Ashash/Israel Air Force/Flickr)

Russia, Syria blame Israel for deadly strike on Syrian air base

By Judah Ari Gross

The Tiyas, or T-4, Air Base, outside of the Syrian city of Palmyra, which Israel claims is being operated by Iran and its Quds Force. (Screen capture/Wikimapia)

14 said killed in attack on Syrian facility previously targeted by Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Smoke billows in the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, on April 7, 2018, after Syrian regime troops resumed a military blitz to pressure rebels to withdraw. (AFP PHOTO/STRINGER)

Israel media review

If bombs could talk and words could kill: 10 things to know for April 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Russia and Syria blame Israel for a strike on a base apparently used by Iranians, while the world blames the duo for a chemical attack and nobody expects much actual action

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of hametz (food containing leavening) of the State of Israel to a non-Jew before the upcoming Passover holiday, on March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli chief rabbi: Jews have ‘moral obligation’ to intervene in Syria

Medical workers treating toddlers following an alleged poison gas attack in the opposition-held town of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, April. 8, 2018 (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Russia: Specialists find no trace of chemical attack in Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks along Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Amid Gaza unrest, Jeremy Corbyn calls for UK to review arms sales to Israel

Placing blame solely on Israel, Labour leader slams ‘illegal and inhumane’ actions by IDF troops attempting to quell violence on border

Israeli jets strike Gaza after Palestinians plant bombs on fence

IDF won’t confirm defense minister’s claim of killed journalist’s drone

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian injured in Gaza border clashes dies of wounds

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Honduran president said to rethink attending Independence Day event

Decision to invite Hernandez to ceremony marking Israel’s 70th anniversary was criticized due to his country’s human rights record

Omri Casspi addresses the press during the Golden State Warriors media day on September 22, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Omri Casspi, cut from NBA team, misses out on Independence Day torch

Actress and author Mayim Bialik in Los Angeles, May 23, 2017. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Mayim Bialik won’t light torch in Israel because invite came ‘too late’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sits in front of a picture of the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 19, 2018. (FLASH90)

PA won’t be responsible for Gaza if Hamas stays in charge, Abbas warns

By Khaled Abu Toameh

‘We must be given everything, all institutions and ministries, including security and weapons,’ PA president says of any reconciliation deal with Strip’s terrorist rulers

Israel and Hamas may both be violating international law at Gaza fence, ICC says

By Raphael Ahren

Brigadier general tapped to probe army’s response to Gaza protests

By Judah Ari Gross

Abbas adviser: Hamas is ‘sending Gazans to their deaths for good headlines’

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on April 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Trump vows ‘major decisions’ on Syria after alleged gas attack

By Alexander Fulbright

US president says he’ll decide ‘probably by the end of today’ on a response, warns ‘everybody’s gonna pay a price’

6:25 pm

Holocaust survivors sue publisher over Nazi-era books
6:05 pm

Rights group condemns sniper video, says shooting wasn't a one-off
5:55 pm

Army says video of Gaza border sniper likely filmed months ago

Sintayehu Shafrao, a Jewish teenager from Ethiopia who has reached the final stages of the annual International Bible Quiz in Israel. (Courtesy of Struggle for Ethiopian Aliyah)

Ethiopian Jew forced to put down money to ensure he won’t stay after Bible quiz

Contestant Sintayehu Shafrao, representing the Falashmura, is said to have siblings in Israel; activist dubs treatment ‘classic racism’

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

State said set to tell High Court migrant deportation deal to Uganda still on

Interview

Israel’s descent into corruption as seen by Eliad Shraga, ‘national plumber’

Years ago, a mere whiff of wrongdoing could shame top Israelis into suicide. Today, says the head of the Movement for Quality Government, if you’re investigated, you’re a celebrity

Attorney Eliad Shraga of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, pictured during a 2016 Supreme Court hearing on the drafting of ultra-Orthodox youth (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert in a Keshet TV interview broadcast on March 17, 2018 (Keshet screenshot)

Ehud Olmert asks president to erase his criminal record

Illustrative: The headquarters of the Israel Police's Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit in Lod. (Flash90)

16 nabbed, among them senior public servants, for alleged corruption

5 myths Israel must bust to win back the youth

Including: Jews are an inauthentic minority, Zionists are white supremacists, Palestinians are the underdog

Jerold S. Auerbach

What Ronald Lauder and Mick Davis got wrong

These affluent Diaspora Jews claiming to embrace Israel by criticizing it are the ones doing damage

Those traitorous human rights advocates

For the ultra-nationalists who hold the reins of government, a Jewish state is a state where Jews dominate

Donniel Hartman

Mr. Prime Minister, I am ashamed of you

Instead of doing what was right for the African refugees, you chose moral obtuseness and then blamed others

A Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. (public domain)

How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history

By Matt Lebovic

The dog whose propensity for singing along with the soundtrack of a popular children's series enabled police to reunite him with his owner after he had gone astray. (Police spokesman's office)

Poochini

Police ID missing dog by talent for singing along to TV tune

Siberian husky from Beersheba, found in Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, breaks into song when officers play soundtrack to popular ‘Shemesh’ comedy series

One of the younger gazelles now living in Jerusalem's Gazelle Valley, the city's urban wildlife park. (Amir Balaban)

For deer lifeNew fawns increase endangered gazelle population by two

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban greets his supporters in Budapest, Hungary, April 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

After sweeping win, Hungary’s Orban sets sights on Soros

By AP and ToI Staff

PM’s Fidesz party campaigned on demonizing refugees, blaming Jewish philanthropist for conspiring to turn nation into ‘immigrant country’

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the last campaign event of his Fidesz party in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, on April 6, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA)

Hungary’s Viktor Orban: populist, patriot and set to be PM again

By Jastinder KHERA

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and members of his FIDESZ party celebrate from the podium on the bank of the Danube River after winning the parliamentary election on April 8, 2018 in Budapest. (AFP PHOTO/ATTILA KISBENEDEK)

Hungary’s Orban claims victory as nationalist party takes sweeping poll lead

By Peter Murphy and Jastinder KHERA

Pupils from Benzion Netanyahu school in the West Bank settlement of Barkan hold a piece of 1,500 pottery that was once part of an oil lamp. (courtesy)

Dig in

Pupils reconstruct 1,500-year-old Holy Land life in school archaeological dig

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Newly uncovered ornately decorated oil lamps served as the heart of family life during the Talmudic era

Players of the Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem team take part in a training session in Jerusalem on March 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Soccer club shoots for tolerance in fractious Jerusalem

By Michael Blum

More Headlines

View of the US Consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Residents of Jerusalem neighborhood petition High Court against US Embassy

During the Israel Summit at Harvard, retired NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire (left) is interviewed by HBO sports correspondent Jon Frankel, April 8, 2018 (courtesy: Max August)

Harvard students tout Israel’s global impact at high-profile summit

By Matt Lebovic

Undated image of sheep bound for the meat industries of the Middle East from Australia are so overcrowded that they are forced to stand, covered in excrement, for the more than three week journey by sea. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

Public security minister calls for halt to ‘cruel’ long haul animal shipments

A five shekel stamp that the Israel Postal Service is issuing for Israels 70th Independence Day celebrations. (Israel Postal Service spokesperson)

Special stamp tries to sum up 70 years of Israel’s achievements

Arnon Herring, 15, only began dancing at 12 and is the first Israeli accepted to train at London's Royal Ballet Academy (Courtesy Arnon Herring)

Leap of fateIsrael’s ‘Billy Elliot’ poised to attend Royal Ballet School

By Jessica Steinberg

Before a record crowd of more than 100,000 people who filled Berlin's Olympic stadium. the English football team gave the Nazi salute in this May 14th, 1938, file photo. England beat Germany 6-3. (AP PHOTO).

Moscow's goalRussian FM taunts UK counterpart with UK players’ 1938 Nazi salute

ReWalk's ReStore soft suit to help rehabilitate stroke victims (Courtesy)

Israel’s ReWalk turns focus to stroke victims with cheaper walking device

By Shoshanna Solomon

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries employees protest closure plans outside a company building in Ashdod, December 17, 2017. (Flash90)

Teva to shut Ashdod plant within year, with loss of 175 jobs

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