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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 26, 2018

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Israelis watch flooded water running through a valley blocking the main road along the Dead Sea in the Judean desert, near the desert fortress of Masada north of Ein Bokek, following heavy rainfall in the mountains on April 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

9 youths killed, 1 missing after Judean Desert flooding

15 rescued, 2 lightly hurt; Air Force, police and civilian teams continue massive operation to rescue student as evening falls

A car drives through flooded water running through a valley blocking the main road along the Dead Sea, near the desert fortress of Masada, following heavy rainfall on April 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Two killed in flash floods as storm, hail batter Israel

Volunteers from the ZAKA emergency response service transport the bodies of Israeli teenagers killed in a flash flood near the Dead Sea on April 26, 2018. (ZAKA)

Live updates (closed)

As first fatalities named, PM says Israel grieves for lives cut short in flood

By Raoul Wootliff

Text messages reveal teen hikers’ fears before setting off on desert trip in which nine died, one still missing, when rains turned dry trail into lethal torrent

7:52 pm

Four of the victims of Judean Desert flooding tragedy named
6:44 pm

Netanyahu: 'Israel grieves the lives of those cut short' in deadly flash flood
6:16 pm

All roads to Eilat closed amid heavy rains and flash floods

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

Liberman to Saudi-owned paper: If Iran strikes Tel Aviv, we’ll strike Tehran

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense chief supports Trump pulling out of nuclear accord, says it will lead to a collapse of the Iranian economy and potentially an end to the regime

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting, in Tehran, Iran, January 2, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei says Arab states that befriend Israel ‘bring misery to Muslims’

By Michael Bachner

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Macron believes Trump will ‘get rid’ of Iran deal to please his base

By AFP

InterviewJew-hatred, 'among Muslims and on the extremes,' is rising

German gov’t anti-Semitism czar agrees it can be unsafe to wear kippah in public

By Raphael Ahren

Felix Klein, Berlin’s first ever special envoy to Jewish community, grapples with surge in anti-Semitic attacks, says Jews’ fears over influx of Muslim, Arab refugees legitimate

Felix Klein, the German government's first-ever special envoy to the Jewish community, at the 'Berlin wears a kippah' protest, April 25, 2018 (courtesy BMI)

A participant of the "Thuringia wears kippa" rally wears a kippa in Erfurt, central Germany, on April 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Bodo Schackow)

German Jews, non-Jews hold kippa-wearing protest against wave of anti-Semitism

Illustrative: A participant wears a kippah during a 'wear a kippah' gathering to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the Jewish Community House on April 25, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

Will Europe’s Jews stop wearing kippahs? Most already have

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Aviv Zonabend, a Jewish deputy mayor of the French city of Toulouse, on March 26, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

French deputy mayor says future of Jews in Europe is ‘hopeless’

By Michael Bachner

After call for German Jews to stop wearing kippahs in cities, Aviv Zonabend, Jewish member of Toulouse council, says the advice should be followed throughout Europe

Illustrative: Leader of Britain's Unite trade union Len McCluskey. (Public domain)

Top UK union boss accuses Labour MPs of ‘smearing’ Corbyn over anti-Semitism

By Robert Philpot

Picture taken on April 12, 2018 in Berlin shows German rappers Kollegah (L) and Farid Bang posing with their Echo trophies they were given in the 2018 Hip-Hop/Urban category. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Jens Kalaene0

German music award scrapped over anti-Semitism row

By AFP

Illustrative: Anti-Semitic hate mail received by the Jewish community center in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, February 16, 2018. (B'nai Brith Canada)

Anti-Semitic incidents rise to record level in Canada

By JTA

B’nai Brith Canada calls for a ‘concerted national effort to ensure that anti-Semitic outbreaks do not become a fact of life’

In this file photo from November 18, 2017, UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen passes during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Southern California in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

QB Josh Rosen says he faces anti-Semitic slurs during games

By JTA

Tyquan Bailey, charged for an attack on Jewish man Jack Gindi, taken into police custody on April 23, 2018. (Screen capture: Pix11 news)

Jewish victim stable after near-fatal stabbing in NY; attack not a hate crime

By JTA

In this Jan. 23 2018 file photo, MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis poses for a photo at the NTA show,. (Ian West/ PA via AP)

Facebook’s nightmare UK lawsuit revolves around Israeli binary options ads

By Simona Weinglass

Top British financial advice expert is suing under-fire social media giant for ads that used his image to steer trusting respondents into the hands of scammers

Ali Abu Hassan, a Palestinian student from a village outside of Hebron, walks through a Jerusalem court on August 2, 2016, before being indicted for attempting to carry out a terror attack on the Jerusalem light rail in July. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian convicted of attempt to bomb Jerusalem light rail

By Michael Bachner

Court rules 20-year-old Ali Abu Hassan ‘planned to carry out a mass terror attack’ with pipe bombs filled with nails dipped in rat poison

In this Monday, April 23, 2018 photo, trainer Tareq Isleem teaches Palestinian youths participating in a workshop about 'non-violent' resistance and 'peaceful' protests at a tent near the protest site near Gaza's border with Israel, east of Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas claims to be embracing ‘nonviolence’ through deadly border protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of Palestinian protesters evacuating a wounded youth during clashes with Israeli troops along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian journalist shot at Gaza protest dies of wounds

By AFP and ToI Staff

CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on worldwide threats, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pompeo said set to visit Israel next week during first trip as top US diplomat

Former CIA director expected to be confirmed by Senate on Thursday as new secretary of state

Netanyahu hopes Czechs will ‘quickly’ relocate embassy to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Skipping corruption hearing, Romania leader makes surprise visit to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Czech president announces 3-stage plan to move embassy to Jerusalem – eventually

By Raphael Ahren

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)

Malaysian hit said part of broad Mossad op against Hamas global training efforts

New York Times claims spy agency is looking to stymie terror group’s bid to obtain new technology and weaponry from overseas for its war with Israel

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 reviewMissions and embassies: 6 things to know for April 26

By Adiv Sterman

Leonard Bernstein in 1970. (Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/via JTA)

7 treasures from the Library of Congress celebration of Leonard Bernstein

By Penny Schwartz

Judith Colp Rubin

Stay away from fellow (traveling) Israelis

The country’s post-army trekkers have an unfortunate habit of sticking with their own kind

Ban police training with Israel? Dumb idea

Durham North Carolina shot itself in the foot when it chose (bad) politics over security

John Oliver on Iran: Wrong, wrong, wrong

In his takedown of Trump’s threat to end the nuclear deal, the late-night show host parroted a series of myths

When the Supreme Court liked the override clause

The justices applied an override to save Yitzhak Rabin’s government, why not consider it for Netanyahu?

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In this Wednesday, April 18, 2018 photo, North Korean soldiers march at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Geologists say North Korea’s nuclear test site has collapsed

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

MK Oren Hazan (c) takes a selfie while trapped in an elevator with three other lawmakers and several others on April 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter video)

Elevated insensitivity3 out of 4 MKs can’t stop laughing while trapped in an elevator

This image released by Bravo shows Inbar Lavi in a scene from "Imposters," where she plays a con artist who tricks men and women into marrying her and then steals all their money. (Ken Woroner/Bravo via AP)

Israeli ‘Imposters’ star Inbar Lavi gets real about playing pretend

By ALICIA RANCILIO

Illustrative photo of an IDF soldier operating a reconnaissance drone. (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

IDF says drone crashed into sea, was retrieved by navy

People hold up a flag of the Jewish Brigade as Palestinian flags wave in background during a demonstration to mark Italy's Liberation day, in Milan, Italy, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Boycotting main event, Rome Jews hold separate Liberation Day rallies

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

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’s lawyer to plead Fifth Amendment in Stormy Daniels case

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

Arab students working on a project at Moona, a nonprofit technology incubator in the Galilee that aims to build bridges between Israeli Jews and Arab youth through space technologies (Courtesy)

Israel earmarks NIS 20 million for new tech parks in Arab towns

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustrative photo of a crocodile farm in the Arava Desert, Israel, November 21, 2011 (Liron Almog/Flash90)

NimbyStill wanted: A home for 1,000 escape-prone crocodiles

Illustrative: Prime Minister Netanyahu with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Chairman Stephen M. Greenberg (center) and Executive Vice Chairman/CEO Malcolm Hoenlein at the opening of the organization’s 42nd Leadership Mission, February 14, 2016. (Avi Hayoun)

Arthur Stark of Bed Bath & Beyond to chair top Jewish policy group

By JTA

Gabi Korsonsky (Hadashot news screenshot)

Bank robber gets life in prison for slaying of security guard

Then-Democratic New York State assemblyman Dov Hikind speaks at a press conference with American and Israeli Jewish leaders and supporters of Israel on September 20, 2011 in New York City. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images via JTA)

One of New York’s most outspoken Orthodox politicians is retiring

By JTA

People walk through toppled graves at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri, on February 21, 2017. (Robert Cohen /St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Man admits toppling more than 100 headstones in St. Louis Jewish cemetery

By JTA

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