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What Matters Most On Friday, April 13, 2018

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Palestinian protesters burn Israeli flags near the border fence with Israel, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza city, on April 13, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Liberman: Number of rioters down thanks to our determination

IDF: Gazans hurl explosives, firebombs, burn Israeli flags, try to damage fence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian said killed, more than 100 hurt as 10,000 demonstrate at 5 points along border in third Friday of mass protest; Hamas official says ‘it’s time for return’

Jerusalem's Mufti Mohammed Hussein posing in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Jerusalem mufti bans selling land in ‘Palestine’ or Jerusalem

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Holocaust memorial ceremony in the Southern Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, on April 12, 2018. (Flash90)

Liberman calls on Gazans to live peacefully alongside Israel

Ali Shirazi, liaison for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the elite Quds Force (screen capture)

Iran official threatens to destroy Israel if it continues ‘childish game’

Amid escalating war of words after alleged Israeli air strike in Syria, Ali Khamenei’s liaison to Quds Force says: ‘Given the excuse, Tel Aviv and Haifa will be razed’

The new Secretary of State Michael Pompeo seen testifying on Capital Hill while still CIA Director, Washington, January 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pompeo: Trump aims to stop Iran’s nuclear program with diplomacy

By Eric Cortellessa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, April 11, 2018 (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Israeli diplomatic official: Iran’s the one destabilizing Syria

In a screenshot from a video shared by Gal Gadot to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018, the Israeli movie star touches the face of her late grandfather Abraham Weiss, a Holocaust survivor whose family was killed at Auschwitz. (Screen capture: Instagram)

Gal Gadot cries after seeing video of her grandpa on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israeli movie star says she had never before seen clip of herself with her grandfather, whose entire family was murdered at Auschwitz

Polish president Andrzej Duda speaks during a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Polish president: Before the Germans, Auschwitz saw Jewish-Polish ‘coexistence’

Poles were ‘also brutally persecuted,’ says Andrzej Duda at March of the Living; Rivlin cites Polish complicity in Holocaust, challenging new law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office, March 5, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

US told Israel to resolve row with Poland — report

By ToI Staff and JTA

IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot looks through a printed list of all identified victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on April 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

In Poland, IDF chief says military puts meaning behind ‘Never again’

By Judah Ari Gross

Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (Courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)

The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life

By Matt Lebovic

Ben Sales’ great-grandfather, Abba Sales, emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States in 1921. His parents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Ben Sales)

First person

My ancestors died in the Holocaust. I just found out about it

A letter found folded into a Passover Hagaddah changes the family history we thought we always knew

In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit embrace at the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years

American astronaut Andrew Feustel in a recorded video message from aboard the International Space Station commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Highest honorUS astronaut sends Holocaust remembrance message from space

By JTA

Clockwise from upper right: 'The Ballad of Marie Sanders, The Jew’s Whore,' by Nancy Spero; Half-Scale Study for Double Jeopardy from Holocaust Project—Studies/Ancillaries, by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman; 'Women in Birkenau Camp,' by Halina Olomucki, drawn secretly while imprisoned in 1945. (Courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery)

Historical #MeToo

Groundbreaking exhibition depicts sexual violence against women in the Holocaust

By Cathryn J. Prince

Students protesting outside of the Low Library at Columbia University, April 11, 2018. (Courtesy of Columbia University Students Supporting Israel)

Anti-Israel protest held hold opposite Holocaust commemoration at Columbia

By JTA

Students for Justice in Palestine chant, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ in solidarity with Gaza

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in Oxon Hill, MD on February 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/File)

Gingrich likens FBI to Gestapo on Holocaust Remembrance eve

By JTA

US Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, March 6, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elizabeth Warren urges Israeli restraint toward Gaza protesters

By JTA and ToI Staff

Commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, left, greets Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy Secretary General of Lebanons Hezbollah, during a religious ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on August 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Hezbollah: No war unless ‘Trump and Netanyahu completely lose their minds’

Terror group’s deputy leader Naim Qassem says conditions in Syria unlikely to develop into direct US-Russian clash

In this file photo taken on March 13, 2018, US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking to military personnel at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California.(AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan/Alternative Crop)

Very soon, or not at all: 7 things to know for April 13

By Adiv Sterman

US President Donald Trump, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam Saturday, November 11, 2017. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP)

AnalysisSyria dispute may mark greatest threat of US-Russia conflict since Cold War

By Dave Clark and Francesco FONTEMAGGI

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Live updates (closed)

One killed, hundreds wounded in clashes with IDF, Gaza health ministry says

Army says rioters try to damage fence with explosives; infiltration attempts unsuccessful; no Israelis injured during protesters

5:32 pm

Democrats to Trump: Stop tweeting about possible Syria strikes
5:17 pm

Iran drone that entered Israel was carrying explosives for attack, IDF says
4:33 pm

Palestinian reported killed in Gaza clashes with IDF

Uganda State Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Musa Ecweru. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Uganda ‘positively considering’ accepting 500 African migrants from Israel

In first acknowledgement of negotiations with Jerusalem, senior minister denies his country receives money to take refugees

Hundreds of asylum seekers demonstrate in Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv against the deportation deal with Uganda on April 8, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Israel issuing ‘fake’ visas to migrants deported to Uganda — report

In this April 12, 2018 picture shows Palestinian alternate ambassador to UNESCO Mounir Anastas, right, UNESCO Director General France's Audrey Azoulay, left, and Israeli UNESCO ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen speak after a meeting in Paris, France. Diplomats at UNESCO are hailing a possible breakthrough on longstanding Israeli-Arab tensions at the UN cultural agency. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Israel ‘more than happy’ after compromise on UNESCO resolution

By Angela Charlton and CHRIS DEN HOND

Document still deeply critical of Israeli actions in Jerusalem and Gaza, but most controversial language moved to non-binding annex

Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Hacohen Shama, right, argues with a Palestinian diplomat during the agency's General Conference in Paris, November 2017 (courtesy)

UNESCO shelves ‘anti-Israel’ resolutions for six months after quiet diplomacy

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Demonstrators in Dublin protest Israeli military operations in Gaza in early 2009. (CC BY/albertw via Flickr.com)

Israel slams Ireland over Dublin mayor’s Ramallah trip

By Raphael Ahren

A campfire with 12,000 of your closest friends

My wife and I stood at Koolulam’s latest songfest and it felt like a modern-day prayer

The mother of all lies

Brit milah can be traumatic — for a parent; the babies simply do not experience ‘near-death distress’

More than a meme against genocide

Practical steps to ensure that no community will ever again be targeted for elimination while the world stands by

Praise for others can save your marriage

It’s not clickbait, because it’s true: Speak well of people and you’ll heal what gossip harms (Tazria-Metzora)

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An imam at a mosque in the Palestinian village of Aqraba in the northern West Bank looks at the damages done from a price-tag arson attack on April 13, 2018. (Zacharia Sadeh/ Rabbis for Human Rights)

Mosque in northern West Bank torched in apparent anti-Arab hate crime

(FILES) These two file photos show then FBI Director James Comey (L) in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2017; and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM AND Nicholas Kamm)

Ex-FBI chief Comey: Trump ran White House like a ‘mob boss’

By Paul Handley

Culture Minister Miri Reger holds a press conference regarding the Independence Day State ceremony at the Culture Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 1, 2018. (Flash90)

Miri Regev says she hopes to be PM after Netanyahu

These two file photos show then FBI director James Comey (L) in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2017; and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm and Nicholas Kamm)

Trump calls for prosecuting ‘untruthful slime ball’ ex-FBI chief Comey

By AFP

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Ryad al-Maliki speaks to journalists following the preparatory meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers ahead of the 28th Summit of the Arab League in Riyadh on April 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE)

Palestinian Authority FM says Arab states will block Israel Security Council bid

By AFP and ToI Staff

Swords with which Yevgeny Semersky is accused of killing his father in law on March 8, 2018. (Israel Police)

Israeli charged with killing his stepfather with a sword over loud music

People watch the military airshow on Israel's 69th Independence Day in Jerusalem, May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF apologizes for scaring Tel Aviv with fly-bys, announces future ones

By Judah Ari Gross

Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer speaking in Beverly Hills, California, July 25, 2017. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Viacom)

Taking a breatherThe most Jewish moments from ‘Broad City,’ as it comes to a close

By Gabe Friedman

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