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What Matters Most On Friday, April 20, 2018

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Director Natalie Portman attends a photocall for 'A Tale Of Love And Darkness' during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2015. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, via JTA)

Natalie Portman refuses to visit Israel to accept prize, citing ‘recent events’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Genesis Prize cancels ‘Jewish Nobel’ award ceremony after agent for Jerusalem-born actress says she ‘does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel’

Natalie Portman tinkers with a mutant crocodile in 'Annihilation.' (Paramount Pictures)

Culture minister says Natalie Portman has ‘fallen into BDS hands’

The gates of Barnard College. (Wikipedia/BrillLyle/CC BY)

Barnard College students vote to ask administration to divest from Israel

By JTA

Vice commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Hossain Salami, threatens Israel in an address in Tehran, Iran, April 20, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Iranian general warns all Israel air bases ‘within reach,’ no escape but the sea

In menacing speech, Hossein Salami says US and UK won’t save Israel; Netanyahu: We hear the threats, the IDF and security forces are ready

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with his Dutch counterpart in Moscow on April 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)

Russia’s ‘moral obligation’ not to sell air defense to Syria is over — Lavrov

A Palestinian man hurls stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinians say four, including boy, 15, killed by IDF during Gaza protest

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian protesters set up tents at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018 (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Israel drops leaflets warning Gaza protesters to keep away from fence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

Greenblatt: Gazans have right to protest, but at ‘safe distance’ from fence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The outgoing Coordinator of the Government’s Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, is seen (right) alongside other senior IDF commanders through the crosshairs of a sniper in a video released on April 19, 2018, by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Islamic Jihad sets sniper sights on top IDF commanders in threatening new video

By Michael Bachner

Iran-backed Gaza-based terror group shows footage of IDF’s head of Southern Command and top liaison to the Palestinians filmed on Gaza border

The outgoing Coordinator of the Government’s Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, is seen (right) alongside other senior IDF commanders through the crosshairs of a sniper in a video released on April 19, 2018, by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Israel threatens to kill Hamas leaders in response to Islamic Jihad video

Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session on February 6, 2018, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)

In first, European Parliament condemns Hamas for terror, use of human shields

By Raphael Ahren

Romania's President Klaus Werner Iohannis gestures as he arrives for a European Union leaders summit at the European Council, in Brussels, October 20, 2016. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)

Romanian president slams plan to move embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren and AFP

Iohannis steps in after PM Dăncilă announces country could become first EU state to follow US and Guatemala in relocating embassy

Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania begins process for possible move of its embassy to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin (C) meet foreign diplomats at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu: At least six states in ‘serious’ talks to move embassies to Jerusalem

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

File: A Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat leaves the Haifa port ahead of the Israeli Navy's flotilla in honor of Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

First personOur white wake in the blue sea made an abstract Israeli flag

A festive Independence Day sail down Israel’s coast — with some engine trouble

By Judah Ari Gross

After a turbulent air force fly-by in 2016, a Times of Israel reporter gives the navy’s flotilla a shot for the country’s 70th birthday

Edelstein: Netanyahu’s credibility hurt after he ‘ruined’ Independence Day event

By Michael Bachner

Google salutes Israel on its 70th anniversary

In the skies above Israel: The view from the cockpit of an IAF pilot on an Independence Day flyover, April 19, 2017 (IAF)

WATCH Aerobatics over Israel: A 360° pilot’s-eye view of 70th birthday flyover

Air Force team performs inverted maneuvers, barrel rolls as it streaks over country’s beaches and cities to mark Independence Day

Paratroopers drop into the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Open skiesWATCH: IDF paratroopers, vets take Independence Day leap

Live updates (closed)

Liberman credits IDF for smaller Gaza protest turnout

By Alexander Fulbright

Army puts number of demonstrators at 3,000, a sharp drop from past weeks; Hamas-run health ministry says 729 people injured in clashes

5:34 pm

Hamas health ministry says 729 injured in border clashes
4:48 pm

Hamas health ministry: 645 injured in Gaza border clashes
4:30 pm

Democrats sue Trump, Russia for alleged collusion

Israel Prize winner Miriam Peretz speaks during the ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Mother of fallen IDF soldiers awarded Israel Prize for youth work

By Michael Bachner

In emotional speech, Miriam Peretz says she has learned to transform pain of her sons’ deaths into a ‘new melody’

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L), Azriel Shilat (2nd-L), Oriah Cohen (2nd-R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the International Bible Quiz, which is held annually on Independence Day, in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2018. Shilat was the winner of the contest and Cohen was the runner-up. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Winner of top bible contest says moral is never give up

Israel Prize winner Miriam Peretz speaks during the ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel mediIsrael, a new year: 7 things to know for April 20

By Adiv Sterman

Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger attends a news conference with Arsenal player Gilberto from Brazil, Monday, April 24 2006 (AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante)

First person

A grateful farewell to Arsene Wenger from an Arsenal fan and his family far away

By David Horovitz

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Going on 71: Israel, when the glitter’s gone

With a hug, Israel Prize winners Miriam Peretz and David Grossman embody the visceral truths all Israelis know

70, I mean 13, women who don’t roar

The first annual list to defy all lists by honoring the slackers among us

Festival of Freedman

Those who bear the most popular European last name in Israel are the proud butt of gefilte fish jokes

Avital Hochstein

Family dynamics can explain global Jewry

It’s as if Diaspora Jews can’t break out of living at home, and Israeli Jews, having moved out, face new challenges

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the group’s annual national conference in Washington on April 15, 2018. (Courtesy, J Street)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

At AIPAC, a Trump-Netanyahu marriage made in heaven. At J Street, in hell

The two recent conferences show more than just competing ideologies or political goals; they reflect starkly different interpretations of this moment in the US-Israel relationship

AnalysisHow a Jewish civil rights group became a villain on the far-left

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Graffiti discovered April 20, 2018, in the West Bank Palestinian village of Burqa reads, 'Here live terror supporters. Expel or kill' (Mohammed Somrain)

‘Expel or kill’ graffitied in Palestinian town in fourth such incident this week

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Arab Israelis wave Palestinian flags and participate in a march commemorating the "Nakba" (catastrophe) that accompanied Israel's creation, in Atlit, northern Israel, on April 19, 2018, Israel's 70th Independence Day. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Thousands of Arabs in northern Israel mark Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of 1948

By Michael Bachner

An Arabic-speaking man is seen preparing to whip a kippah-wearing non-Jewish man in an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin in a video published on April 18, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Berlin anti-Semitic assailant turns self in, said to be Palestinian from Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syracuse University students gather outside Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 to protest a video made by members of a now-suspended fraternity showing anti-Semitic, racist and sexist behavior in Syracuse, New York. (Lindsey Sabado/The Syracuse Newspapers via AP)

New York fraternity suspended after anti-Semitic, racist videos released

By AP

This court drawing made on June 26, 2014, shows Mehdi Nemmouche, center, the suspect in a deadly terror attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum, during a court hearing in Versailles, France. (AFP Photo/Benoit Peyrucq)

Suspected Brussels Jewish museum killer to stand trial

By AFP

German rappers Kollegah & Farid Bang perform during the 2018 Echo Music Awards ceremony on April 12, 2018, in Berlin (AFP PHOTO / AXEL SCHMIDT)

Artists return German music award over rappers’ Holocaust lyrics

By JTA and ToI Staff

A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk blesses an elephant at a zoo in Dehiwala on the outskirts of Colombo on April 16, 2018, as part of traditional New Year rituals (AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI)

Sri Lanka beefs up tourist hotspot security after Israelis beaten up

By AFP

IDF's Samaria Brigade chief Gilad Amit depicted on a flier handed out by far-right activists on April 19, 2018. (Courtesy)

Judge cuts loose teens who accused IDF officer of ‘shooting at Jews’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Rabbi Rafael Grossman (screen capture: YouTube)

Rabbi Rafael Grossman, who strengthened Jewish life in southern US, dies at 84

By JTA

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Donald Trump talk as they attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (AFP/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev)

In Comey memos, Trump talks of Russian prostitutes, jailed journalists

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Eric Tucker and CHAD DAY

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