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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 22, 2018

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Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, head of the Iranian Army. (Screen capture)

Iran threatens to ‘annihilate’ Israel, as Hezbollah boasts of reach of rockets

Head of Iranian army says his forces working to ensure collapse of Israel within 25 years; Hassan Nasrallah says his missiles can hit any target in Israel

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on January 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Iran threatens to ‘vigorously’ resume enrichment if US quits nuclear deal

By AFP

A satellite image shows three buildings in the Barzeh research facility near Damascus, Syria, allegedly used to develop chemical weapons, standing in 2013 (L) and destroyed after a strike by the US, Britain and France on April 14, 2018. (ImageSat International)

Live updates (closed)

Satellite photos show precision of raid on Iranian military facility in Syria

Pictures taken before and after attack widely attributed to Israel, show strike was limited to arsenal of Iranian weapons found at T-4 Air Base

6:36 pm

Footage shows police disguised as religious settlers in order to nab minor
6:14 pm

Hamas member said killed in Gaza tunnel collapse
6:09 pm

US police hunt shirtless suspect, as Waffle House shooting kills four

Actress Natalie Portman attends the 4th annual festival kick-off fundraising soiree during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada, September 9, 2015. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images/AFP)

Natalie Portman’s snub ‘borders on anti-Semitism,’ says minister

Yuval Steinitz says boycotting Netanyahu ‘is boycotting Israel,’ star actress ‘played into the hands of Israel-haters’

Natalie Portman attends the 27th Annual EMA Awards at Barker Hangar on September 23, 2017, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Likud attacks ‘hypocrite’ Natalie Portman after actress snubs Netanyahu

Gunmen from the Hamas terror group's Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades stand in front of the Jabaliya home of electrical engineer and Hamas commander Fadi al-Batsh, who was shot dead in Malaysia in a killing blamed on Israel, April 21, 2018. (Adel Hana/AP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Israel-Hamas shadow war follows Palestinian expats to Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur is home to large Palestinian community, and a growing Hamas presence

Gunmen from the Hamas terror group's Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades stand in front of the Jabaliya home of electrical engineer and Hamas commander Fadi al-Batsh, who was shot dead in Malaysia in a killing blamed on Israel, April 21, 2018. (Adel Hana/AP)

Hamas threatens revenge against Israel for killing of drone and rocket expert

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gunmen from the Hamas terror group's Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades stand in front of the Jabaliya home of electrical engineer and Hamas commander Fadi al-Batsh, who was shot dead in Malaysia in a killing blamed on Israel, April 21, 2018. (Adel Hana/AP)

Israel media reviewPublish and perish? 7 things to know for April 22

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Israel asks Egypt not to let Hamas rocket scientist’s body into Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)

Bennett: No Gaza burial for slain Hamas engineer until soldiers’ bodies returned

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows men holding up a poster portrait of 35-year-old Palestinian professor and Hamas member Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh who was killed in Malaysia, outside his family's house in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Malaysia carries out autopsy on Hamas man killed in ‘Mossad hit’

By AFP and ToI Staff

The mother (C) of 15-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Ayoub, who was shot and killed by Israeli security forces during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border, sits as another person raises his portrait, among other relatives as they mourn in their home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Hamas-Fatah fight erupts at mourning tent for Gaza teen killed by IDF

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Sources close to terror group accuse rival faction of trying to exploit Mohammed Ayoub’s death for ‘political points’

Illustrative: IDF soldiers conduct raids in the West Bank on September 27, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Security forces arrest 15 alleged Hamas men in West Bank

The mother (C) of 15-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Ibrahim Ayoub, who was reportedly shot and killed by the IDF during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border, sits as another person raises his portrait, among other relatives as they mourn in their home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip on April 21, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Army said to find slain Gaza teen was trying to damage border fence when shot

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Damas Pakada, the Ethiopian-born soldier who sparked national riots when footage emerged of him being beaten by police in 2015, in an interview with Hadashot television aired Saturday, April 21, 2018. (Screen shot)

Ethiopian soldier beaten by cop is now a decorated IDF cyber officer

Damas Pakada, 24, became a symbol for police brutality, discrimination and neglect experienced by his community

Helen Maryles Shankman

Say yes to the dress

Shopping at Kleinfeld’s, it finally sunk in that little girl is growing up, and I’m no longer in charge

B’Tselem urges soldiers to disobey illegal orders

Global geopolitical consequences means that injustice anywhere is a palpable threat to justice everywhere

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Jewish Home head calls vote on bid to hobble Supreme Court

Despite Netanyahu’s bid to delay, Bennett says ministers will next week debate a clause allowing Knesset to re-approve laws nixed by justices

Leader of the Zionist Union party Avi Gabbay and Zionist Union MKs hold torches at a protest against attempts to enact laws that bypass the High Court of Justice and public criticism of the court's intervention in the legislative process, in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds rally in Jerusalem against government bid to limit High Court’s powers

MK Yousef Jabareen attends a committee meeting in the Knesset, December 13, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK Jabareen goes to court after Knesset nixes speaking tour

In this file photo from April 12, 2018, Czech Republic's acting Prime Minister Andrej Babis speaks during a news conference at the government's headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech PM says country will open honorary consulate, not embassy in Jerusalem

Israel had hoped the Czech Republic would follow the US and move its mission from Tel Aviv; acting PM Babis does not want to break with EU policy

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)

Abbas: We will continue to fight Trump’s Jerusalem decision

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate in Ramallah, July 7, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Islamist group accuses PA of blocking pro-Caliphate rally

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A woman carries a poster reading "I am a Jew" as she attends a silent march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago but was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment, apparently targeted because she was Jewish, and to denounce racism, in Paris, France, on March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

‘A quiet ethnic purging’: 300 French personalities protest ‘new anti-Semitism’

By AFP

Public manifesto, co-signed by politicians and celebrities, decries ‘Islamist radicalization’

Students at Syracuse University in a racist, anti-Semitic video (screen capture: YouTube)

Syracuse fraternity permanently expelled over anti-Semitic, racist video

By AP

The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz,center, addresses a rally he organized in protest against a recent gathering by far-right groups in this Baltic coast city, in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Holocaust survivor warns Polish leaders over neo-Nazi groups

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli singer David Broza. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel Presents

‘Yihye Tov’: David Broza to be interviewed Tuesday at Jerusalem English event

More Headlines

Illustrative photograph of a Carlo-style submachine gun. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 Bedouin Israelis arrested for allegedly selling IDF guns to Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

A relative of a victim cries outside a voter registration center which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 22, 2018. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 31 in Afghan capital

Orthodox Jews in Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY. (YouTube screenshot)

Firefighter who tweeted against Jews posted to ultra-Orthodox NY neighborhood

Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

By RYAN NAKASHIMA and Matt O'Brien

Saudi Arabia's King Salman attends a ceremony at the Diwan royal palace in Riyadh, January 24, 2015. (AP/Yoan Valat, File)

Saudi forces shoot down ‘toy drone’ near royal palaces

By AFP

In this file photo taken on August 19, 2012 sister and former nurse Marie-Agnes Valois takes part in the 70th anniversary ceremony of the Dieppe Raid in Dieppe, northwestern France, in memory of the Second World War Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe on August 19, 1942. (AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU)

World War II ‘white angel’ who nursed wounded soldiers dies at 103

By AFP

Meron Eren, co-founder and owner of the Kedem auction house, holds a letter by German anti-Semitic composer Richard Wagner in Jerusalem on April 16, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Anti-Semitic Wagner letter up for sale in Jerusalem

By AFP

In a Monday, April 16, 2018, file photo, Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's personal attorney, center, leaves federal court, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump says he doesn’t think lawyer Michael Cohen will ‘flip’

By AP

Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center by night (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Global VC execs flock to Israel to study tech ecosystem

By Shoshanna Solomon

A rescue worker carrying a child following an alleged chemical weapons attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria, on April 8, 2018. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Chemical weapons inspectors collect samples from Douma site

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