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What Matters Most On Monday, April 16, 2018

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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: Israel won’t accept Russian curbs on its activity in Syria

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Defense minister says ‘direct friction’ with Moscow averted despite strike on Iranian base, adds that ‘all options are on the table’

Illustrative: A photo released by Iranian media reportedly shows the T-4 air base in central Syria after a missile barrage attributed to Israel on April 9, 2018. (Iranian media)

IDF official said to confirm attack in Syria: ‘First strike on Iranian targets’

Photo released by Iranian media reportedly show the T-4 air base in central Syria after a missile barrage Monday. (Iranian media)

Israel media reviewA new era: 6 things to know for April 16

By Tamar Pileggi

Visitors look at the models of oil tanker shaped floating nuclear reactors and oil rigs showcased at the display booth of China's state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation during the China International Exhibition on Nuclear Power Industry in Beijing, Thursday, April 27, 2017. AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Iran MP claims China in talks to build it small nuclear reactors

The mini reactors could be used in nuclear submarines, with Tehran reportedly looking to develop seaborne atomic capabilities

Russia says UN delaying Syria mission into alleged gas attack

By Sarah El Deeb and NATALIYA VASILYEVA

US to hit Russia with new sanctions for aiding Syria’s Assad

By Hope Yen and Robert Burns

Hezbollah chief claims US-led strike on Syria was driven by ‘Zionist lobby’

Polish residents of Plonsk, along with numerous dignitaries, gather in honor of Israel's 70th anniversary of independence, April 15, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Limmud FSU)

Israel@70

In Ben-Gurion’s Polish hometown, residents dance the hora ahead of Israel’s 70th

By Yaakov Schwartz

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley tours a terror tunnel built by Hamas on the border of Israel with the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

IDF says it tasked 'best minds,' from multiple disciplines

Israel reveals how it’s winning the battle against Hamas’s Gaza attack tunnels

After it destroys longest, deepest tunnel dug by terror group under border into Israel, army showcases its new tech ‘laboratory’ systematically neutralizing the subterranean threat

Illustrative: IDF soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF to shutter West Bank, Gaza Strip crossing points ahead of Independence Day

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 15, 2018. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Live updates (closed)

Prosecution moving toward indicting PM on gifts probe — report

However, TV report says indictment against Netanyahu will be over less severe breach of trust charge, as opposed to police’s bribery recommendation

6:56 pm

Prosecution decides to avoid using confessions tortured out of Duma arsonists
6:54 pm

Dutch Jews protest Turkish developer’s plan to turn synagogue into eatery
6:51 pm

Russia begins blocking access to Telegram

David Bar-Kapara (courtesy of family)

Palestinian convicted of manslaughter in Israeli farmer’s death

By Michael Bachner

Prosecutors fail to convince court of murder charges; family of David Bar-Kapara maintains his killing in 2015 was a terror attack, but authorities say it was a botched robbery

Illustrative: Palestinians try to use a kite to fly a Molotov Cocktail toward IDF troops along the Gaza fence on April 13 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gazans fly kite with petrol bomb into Israel, where it starts fire in field

Israel Prisons Service officers stand guard outside the Petah Tikva District Court, file photo (Flash90)

Terror charges filed against Israeli who dreamed of ‘decapitating’ Arab babies

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Aderet (L) and Shiran Ambash, two of the wives of cult leader Daniel Ambash who in 2013 was convicted of raping and abusing his wives and children. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Wives of jailed polygamous cult leader demand conjugal visits

By Michael Bachner

Four of the six spouses of Daniel Ambash, convicted of routine sadistic abuse and sexual assault of his family members, want to meet with him and have more of his children

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks on April 14, 2018, at the annual J Street conference, in Washington, DC. (J Street via JTA)

At 10th J Street conference, Trump and Netanyahu seen as peas in a rotten pod

Left-wing organization, divided over issues such as BDS and Syria, unites in condemning Netanyahu and Trump for attacks on media and immigrants

US President Donald Trump is introduced to speak to US military troops at Naval Air Station Sigonella, May 27, 2017, in Sigonella, Italy. (AP/Evan Vucci)

White House insists Trump still planning to pull US troops out of Syria

These two photos show 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)

Fired FBI chief says Trump ‘lies constantly,’ is ‘morally unfit’ for office

A pupil prepares the Sanhedrin Trail as a gift to the country on the occasion of its 70th year of independence. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

1,400-year-old menorah lamp, rare coin found as kids dig trail for Israel’s 70th

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

12,000 Israelis gather at the latest Koolulam singing initiative held at Tel Aviv's Menora Mivtachim in honor of Israel's 70th (Courtesy Koolulam)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

On Israel’s 70th, become a part of history as you look back on it

Israel celebrates Independence Day in every city, town and village; here are a few standout options for marking Yom Ha’atzmaut

Torch-lighters for Israel's 70th Independence Day at a reception hosted by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (front row center) in Jerusalem on April 15, 2018. (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset)

Edelstein welcomes Independence Day torch lighters: ‘You’ve illuminated Israel’

Likud MK David Amsalem leads the Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition chairman: Government could break up over bill to limit High Court

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu loyalist David Amsalem says he will not accept Kulanu veto on contentious legislation; ‘We’re ready for elections,’ responds Kulanu MK

Former Supreme Court chief justice Aharon Barak speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, on January 2, 2018. (Flash90)

PM consults with former Supreme Court chief over court override bill

David Bitan, during a plenum session in the Knesset on March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Police said set to recommend charging ex-coalition whip for bribery

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli statehood changed everything

The miracle of sovereignty includes Israel’s corrupt and criminal, together with her doers and dreamers

70 remarkable things Israel did last year

From food to drugs to cybersecurity and foreign aid, the startup nation is always busy innovating

Judith Colp Rubin

Separate Independence Day from Memorial Day

When the shift from grief to joy in the blink of an eye is just too hard

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Is Hatikva a racist song?

My daughter says we need a national anthem in Hebrew and Arabic that speaks to all who love this land

Hungarian Kosher Foods is located in Skokie, Illinois, after moving from Chicago in 1986. (Hungarian Kosher Foods/Facebook/via JTA)

It’s the end of an era for America’s first all-kosher supermarket

By Yvette Alt Miller

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African asylum seekers leaving the Saharonim prison in southern Israel where they had been imprisoned due to their refusal to leave the country, April 15, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Government tells High Court it has no migrant deal with Uganda

Protesters gather outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia, Sunday, April 15, 2018, where two black men were arrested Thursday after Starbucks employees called police to say the men were trespassing. (AP Photo/Ron Todt)

Black men arrested in Starbucks waiting for Philadelphia Jewish businessman

By JTA

In this Sept. 27, 2010, file photo, Raphael Golb, center, and his attorney Ron Kuby, left, confer during a recess in his trial at Manhattan State Supreme Court in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)

Strange case of online impersonation in Dead Sea Scrolls feud set to end

By AP

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish men walking near Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, NY, May 12, 2008. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Jewish man assaulted in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights

By JTA

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, left, greets Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir after a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the Europa building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels on Monday to debate ways to revive Middle East peace efforts and discuss the crisis in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU warns viability of Palestine is being ‘constantly eroded’

By Raphael Ahren

Naomi Wadler, 11, a student at George Mason Elementary School, who organized a school walkout at her school in Alexandria, Va., after the school shooting in Parkland, Fa., speaks during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control in Washington, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

11-year-old gun control activist says she’s taunted for being black and Jewish

By JTA

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather at Kikar Shabbat in Jerusalem to attend the funeral of the infant who drowned to death in Ashdod, April 5, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Drowned baby’s mother: ‘Divine voice’ told me to submerge ‘son of Messiah’

Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Amir Weissbrod (Courtesy MFA)

Israel’s new ambassador to Jordan takes up post after diplomatic crisis

By ToI Staff and AP

Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz. (Judiciary of Israel)

WhatsApp judge in Bezek probe found guilty of unbecoming behavior

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel Police use a water canon against ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a protest outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, following the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman. April 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cops use stun grenades as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews riot in Jerusalem

This photo from October 19, 2012 shows the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Germany charges 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard with abetting murder

By AFP

A Palestinian runs past a poster bearing a portrait of convicted terrorist and prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 3, 2017. (AFP/ ABBAS MOMANI)

Barghouti tells Abbas: Stand firm, Trump and his peace plan will soon be gone

By Khaled Abu Toameh

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