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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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Police inspect a van suspected of being involved in a collision killing 10 people at Yonge St. and Finch Ave. on April 23, 2018, in Toronto, Canada. (Cole Burston/Getty Images/AFP)

Police struggle to establish motive in deadly Toronto ramming

By AP and ToI Staff

Suspect Alek Minassian to appear in court after killing 10 people and injuring 15 in apparently deliberate attack

A tarp lays on top of a body on Yonge St. at Finch Ave. after a van plowed into pedestrians on April 23, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. A suspect is in custody after a white van collided with multiple pedestrians. (Cole Burston/Getty Images/AFP)

Canada police say deadly ramming ‘deliberate’ but refrain from calling it terror

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

Law enforcement and first responders on scene at Yonge St. at Finch Ave. after a van plows into pedestrians April 23, 2018, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Cole Burston/Getty Images/AFP)

Police say 9 killed, 16 hurt as van slams pedestrians in Toronto

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, attends a press conference following his election in Frankfurt am Main, central Germany, on November 30, 2014. (AFP/Daniel Roland)

German Jewish leader advises against wearing yarmulkes in cities

By AP

Warning by Josef Schuster, head of Central Council of Jews in Germany, follows assault by Syrian asylum-seeker on Arab Israeli wearing skullcap in Berlin

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 Jews plan ‘wear a kippah’ demonstration in response to assault

By Toby Axelrod

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy says Jerusalem under Israel is ‘model for coexistence in the world’

By Raphael Ahren

David Friedman says Trump’s recognition of holy city as Israel’s capital was meant to ‘extend an olive branch to all major religions’

Jews wearing prayer shawls take part in the Kohanim prayer (priest's blessing) during the Passover holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 2, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA

Germany says every state can name capital, but not Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Will new conversion bill help 400,000 Israelis of ‘no religion’? Not likely

Activists predict dire consequences as draft legislation circumvents High Court rulings recognizing private conversion courts that help immigrants become Jewish

Convert 'Katya' and her daughter sit before the independent Giyur K'halacha conversion court, led by Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch (center) on August 10, 2015. (courtesy)

MK Orly Levy-Abekasis at a Knesset House Committee meeting, March 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Poll shows Orly Levy, a solo opposition MK, could hold Israel’s balance of power

By Michael Bachner

Daughter of ex-FM David Levy, who heads a party she hasn’t yet named, rises to 8 seats in survey; her choice of right or left could play key role in shaping next coalition

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during the event launching the "Israeli Hope Journey" with educational teams, to deepen the cooperation between the different sectors in Israel, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bennett threatens to thwart all legislation if bid to limit court isn’t passed

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich attends a party conference at Bar Ilan University on September 26, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

MK back on Twitter after saying Palestinian teen deserved to be shot

By Michael Bachner

A missile is displayed by Iran's army during a parade marking National Army Day at the mausoleum of Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2018. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Senior Iranian official warns Tehran could pull out of non-proliferation treaty

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran’s president warns US of ‘severe consequences’ if it pulls out of nuke deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu vows to prevent Tehran getting nukes as Iran deadline nears

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Israel media reviewGirding for war: 8 things to know for April 24

By Tamar Pileggi and Adiv Sterman

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, on April 12, 2018. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed0

Liberman heads to US for talks on ‘Iran’s expansion throughout Mideast’

Defense minister to meet US counterpart Mattis, newly installed National Security Adviser Bolton and Senate’s Armed Services Committee

6:29 pm

Liberman heads to US for talks on 'Iran's expansion throughout Mideast'
6:12 pm

Trump says US wants 'lasting' footprint in Syria
5:58 pm

Trump says North Korea must 'get rid of their nukes'

A Palestinian terrorist's home after it was demolished by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on April 24, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli officer injured by gunfire during demolition of alleged terrorist’s home

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian rioters hurl explosives, open fire at soldiers who converge on Jenin home of Ahmed Kunba, charged as an accomplice in rabbi’s murder

2 armed Gazans cross into Israel, are arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

Gazan boy shot throwing rocks at soldiers loses leg

By AFP and ToI Staff

Blazing kites from Gaza set fire to Israeli wheat field

Jeremiah Unterman

The Bible’s stand on migrants is loud and clear

Jewish scripture teaches that failure to attend to the rights of resident aliens will result in national catastrophe

Gerald M. Steinberg

Norwegian Refugee Council gets lost on Gaza border

In accusing Israel of killing an innocent journalist, the group revealed its extreme pro-Palestinian bias

Florence Kennedy, left, and Sandra Hochman, front right, in a screenshot from 'Year of the Woman.' (Courtesy)

Film review

Uproarious 81-year-old documentarian’s ’73 feminist film still terribly relevant

By Jordan Hoffman

Druze men from the Golan Heights in traditional garb (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Israel travels

Israel’s Druze honor the prophet Jethro in annual pilgrimage to ancient tomb

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Buddha, a Scottish dog whose owner taught it to raise its right paw to the sound of the phrase 'Sieg heil' (YouTube screenshot)

Doggy heil

Scotsman who taught pug to do Nazi salute fined £800

Markus Meechan says he has ‘no regrets’ and is prepared to go to jail to defend his right to free speech

Far-right activists march in Lviv, Ukraine, wearing the uniform of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, an elite Nazi unite with many ethnic Ukrainians also known as the 1st Galician. in 2012. (Screen capture; YouTube)

Ukrainian teacher allegedly praises Hitler, performs Nazi salute with students

By JTA

A violent anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish man in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, on April 21, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

$50,000 reward offered for information on NYC anti-Semitic attacker

By Michael Bachner

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind says Crown Heights community ‘feels like they are under siege’ due to series of assaults, urges police to increase protection for Jews

What it’s like to support Israel at NYU

By Josefin Dolsten

Footage emerges of violent anti-Semitic assault in Brooklyn

By Michael Bachner and JTA

Painfully clearDoes Judaism allow torture? These college students think so

More Headlines

This Thursday, November 2, 2017 photo shows gel capsules of acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Israeli research links acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism, ADHD

By Michael Bachner

Inspector General of Royal Malaysian Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun speaks on the killing of a Palestinian man in Malaysia during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, April 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)

Malaysia finds motorbike allegedly used in Hamas drone expert’s killing

By AFP and ToI Staff

A town crier reads out the news of the birth of a baby boy by Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge outside the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital in central London, on April 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

President Rivlin sends Israel’s congratulations to UK royals on new baby boy

By ToI Staff and AFP

US Army General Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command, testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 27, 2018. (AFP /Saul Loeb)

Commander of US troops in Syria makes unannounced first visit to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli intelligence company mining Facebook for counterterrorism data

By Stuart Winer

Bedouins seen shooting M-16s into the air on April 20, 2018, during a wedding procession near Ohalim Junction on Route 40. (Screencapture)

PM orders police crackdown after video of Bedouin gunfire on Negev streets

In this May 20, 2000 file photo, two Russian soldiers make a routine check of metal containers with toxic agents at the Shikhany chemical weapons storage site in the town of Gorny, 124 miles (200 kms) south of the Volga River city of Saratov, Russia. (AP Photo, File)

The men behind the Cold War poison that surfaced in a quiet English town

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

The entrance to the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. (Flash90/File)

Inside storyYitzhar settlement viewed as epicenter of surge in ‘price tag’ attacks

Muslims protest against the closure of a prayer room in the Paris suburb of Clichy la Garenne, November 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French Muslims blast anti-Semitism letter as attack on Islam

By AFP

A cartoon published by Dutch newspaper Volkskrant in April 2018, depicting an IDF soldier shooting a Palestinian on the Gaza Border and spelling "Happy birthday to me," a reference to Israels Independence Day. (Courtesy: Simon Wiesenthal Center)

Dutch newspaper slammed for ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon on Gaza protests

By Michael Bachner

Natalie Portman arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Annihilation" at the Regency Village Theatre, on February 13, 2018. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

TV: Portman initially refused to collect Genesis prize because of Gaza violence

Screen capture from video purporting to show the scene on an explosion in the home of a senior Hezbollah member in Sidon, Lebanon, April 24, 2018. (YouTube)

Senior Hezbollah member killed in home explosion

By Stuart Winer

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