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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 25, 2018

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Detained African migrants inside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, on February 4, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Netanyahu vows to reopen migrant jails after deportation plan fails

By Tamar Pileggi

PM is backing bill that would allow Knesset to override High Court, after justices order state to release imprisoned asylum seekers

Activists demonstrate in favor of closing the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv on April 24, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

After migrant deportations canceled, south Tel Aviv rallies for real change

By Melanie Lidman

Asylum seekers protesting at the Holot detention center in the southern Negev Desert of Israel, February 17, 2014. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)

Israel scraps deportations of all African asylum seekers, extends visas

By Tamar Pileggi

Students from Bialik School in South Tel Aviv, many of them children of African asylum-seekers, attend a pre-Passover seder in the schoolyard on March 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Op-ed

How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis

By David Horovitz

Carolin Lange inspecting the back/the frame of an oil painting. (Landesstelle für die nichtstaatlichen Museen in Bayern)

'Using it seemed disgusting, throwing it out seemed cruel'

Jewish ghosts linger as German households still make use of stolen heirlooms

Launching a new, unique, confidential study, Dr. Carolin Lange is trying to find out if and why Germans continue to hold on to everyday items taken from Jews during the Holocaust

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Rabbis push back against warning not to wear kippas in Germany, urge action

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Russian-made S-300 air defense system on display for the annual Defense Week, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, September 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Russia says it will soon deliver new air defense systems to Syria

Israel, US concerned by recent Iranian cargo flights to Syria — report

Liberman heads to DC for talks with senior US officials on Iran, Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Trump: US seeks to leave ‘strong and lasting footprint’ in Syria

By ToI Staff and AFP

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends the lobby for Israel-US relations at the Knesset on July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Friedman said seeking to call West Bank ‘Judea and Samaria’ in statements

By ToI Staff and AP

Officials say US envoy was prevented from adopting Israeli term for territory; he also pushed, with some success, for dropping ‘occupied’ from official document

Pompeo could lead US delegation to Jerusalem embassy opening

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Romanian PM visits Israel as embassy row brews

By AFP and ToI Staff

Trump’s Mideast envoy: Peace impossible when Palestinians celebrate violence

By Eric Cortellessa

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at an annual Women's History Month reception hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis

Ilya Zaslavskiy

Justice Ginsburg, don’t accept a prize backed by Putin’s oligarchs

The Genesis billionaires are linked to shady dealings on a global scale, including possible meddling in US elections

Natalie Portman (L) has said her reason for skipping the Genesis Prize ceremony involves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Does Natalie Portman’s snub of Netanyahu make her the face of liberal Zionism?

In a celebrity media environment, ‘It means a lot more for the debate when Natalie Portman says it,’ says J Street’s Jeremy Ben Ami

An undated image of the George Washington University campus in Washington, DC. (Screen capture: YouTube)

George Washington U student Senate passes BDS resolution

By JTA

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a memorial service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square in London, on April 23, 2018, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Victoria Jones)

UK Jewish leaders: Corbyn meeting was a ‘disappointing missed opportunity’

Labour leader says talks were ‘positive and constructive,’ but Board of Deputies of British Jews says his proposals ‘fell short of the minimum level of action’

950 US rabbis condemn ‘alarming’ rise in NYC anti-Semitic violence

By Michael Bachner

Austria leader claims he cannot stop Croatian Nazi sympathizer event

By AFP

30 French imams say they’ll help counter Muslim extremism, oppose anti-Semitism

By JTA

File: President Reuven Rivlin (left) shakes hands with Czech President Milos Zeman during a state visit to Prague. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Czech president says his country plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem

Speaking at event honoring Israeli Independence Day in Prague, Milos Zeman says first of three stages of move will take place next month

6:27 pm

Jerusalem mayor welcomes Czech president's embassy move announcement
6:12 pm

Liberman welcomes Czech announcement on embassy move
6:01 pm

Czech foreign ministry says Prague still abides by EU policy on Jerusalem

A woman with breast cancer receives a CT scan (Chen Leopold/FLASH90)

Israel researchers use electronic nose, urine test to detect early breast cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Team from Ben-Gurion University and Soroka Medical Center says these inexpensive methods may be used for other cancers next

Aaron Galligan-Stierle, Jim Stanek, Megan McGinnis, and Amie Bermowitz in 'Goldstein, the Musical.' (Jeremy Daniel)

Forgive and forget?

With bickering jokes, ‘Goldstein, the Musical’ sets Jewish family life to music

By Danielle Ziri

Ben Deri (c), accused of killing a 17-year old Palestinian using live ammunition during clashes in Beitunia in the West Bank, with lawyer Zion Amir (r), during his hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 07, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli cop sentenced to 9 months for killing Palestinian teen

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Under plea deal, Border Police officer Ben Deri admitted accidentally using live rounds during 2014 Nakba Day protest, causing death of Nadeem Siam Nawara, 17

2 West Bank villages, Israeli Arab town targeted in hate attacks

2 cars burned in suspected anti-Arab hate crime in north

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Parents of murdered Palestinian teen seek damages from Jewish killers

By Stuart Winer

Iran's president Hassan Rouhani gives a speech in the city of Tabriz in the northwestern East-Azerbaijan province on April 25, 2018, (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s Rouhani questions US ‘right’ to seek new nuclear deal

Trump is ‘just a businessman’ with no experience of international agreements, says Iranian president; EU urges preserving 2015 pact

Iran’s navy commander threatens to sink US ships

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump warns Iran against restarting nuclear program

By Eric Cortellessa

Zarif: If US exits nuclear deal, Iran likely will too

By Josh Lederman and Edith M. Lederer

Debunking 25 left-wing and Arab myths

I’m left-wing and Arab myself, but no, I don’t believe this conflict is really a dispute over land

Melissa Hoffman

Israelis are right to condemn live animal shipments

Even meat eaters can avoid consuming the products of this appalling cruelty

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of an empty courtroom at the Supreme Court. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel media reviewCourt wars: 6 things to know for April 25

By Tamar Pileggi

Members of the Israel Cycling Academy, which received one of the Giro d'Italia wild cards to participate in the May 4, 2018, race in Israel (Courtesy Noa Arnon)

Israel gears up to host prestigious Giro D’Italia cycling race opener in May

By Melanie Lidman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hops on a bicycle in a video released on April 25, 2018, ahead of the Giro D’Italia cycle race to be held in Israel in May. (Screen capture: Twitter video)

Wheel of fortuneWith a little help, Netanyahu shows off his bike skills in new video

An image shows a suspect of killing of a Palestinian member of Hamas released by Royal Malaysia Police during a press conference at police headquarter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 25, 2018. (Royal Malaysia Police via AP)

Malaysian police release photo of suspect in killing of Hamas rocket expert

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

The coffin of Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh is carried out of a mosque after a prayer in Selayang, on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 25, 2018 (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Mourners at sendoff for Hamas rocket expert’s body call for revenge

By AFP and ToI Staff

Executive producer Brad Pitt attends the premiere of Netflix's "Okja" on June 8, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

'Bradri' or 'Nerad'?Brad Pitt’s rumored new girlfriend is Israeli MIT professor Neri Oxman

By Tracy Frydberg

Maharat Ruth Friedman with the manager of Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar, a vegan restaurant she and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld recently certified kosher. (Courtesy of Friedman/via JTA)

How Washington, DC got a bunch of new kosher restaurants

An officer stands by a large arms cache found by Chilean authorities at the commune-like Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, is displayed in Parral, Chile, some 410 kilometers (255 miles) south of Santiago, Wednesday, June, 15, 2005. (AP Photo)

German investigators in Chile over Nazi pedophile sect, as leader remains free

By AFP

Illustrative. Handcuffs in a courthouse. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Algeria confirms death, prison sentences for accused spies for Israel

By Stuart Winer

The picture posted by Chotam chiding Pasta Basta for its use of Tzohar for kosher supervision (Courtesy Chotam)

Call to boycott pasta joint over alternative kosher certificate backfires

By Jessica Steinberg

The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, January 2, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Swiss donors said to nix funding for Israeli program to avoid aiding Arab doctor

By Michael Bachner

Alanis Morissette returns to Israel this summer for a one-night show at Live Park Rishon Courtesy Williams Hirakawa)

You learnAlanis Morissette returns to Israeli stage this summer

By Jessica Steinberg

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