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What Matters Most On Friday, April 27, 2018

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Hundreds seen mourning during the funeral of Ella Or in Mishor Adumim on April 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tzafit River disaster

‘How do we go on?’ Families, friends bury 7 of the 10 students killed in flood

Thousands attend funerals of youths killed in a sudden surge in a Judean desert riverbed, as parents bid goodbye to their ‘little girls’

A composite photo of the 10 victims of a flash flood in southern Israel on April 27, 2018. Top row, left to right: Romi Cohen, Ilan Bar Shalom, Shani Shamir, Adi Raanan, Agam Levy. Bottom row, left to right: Yael Sadan, Maayan Barhum, Tzur Alfi, Gali Balali, Ella Or. (Courtesy/Facebook)

Family, friends mourn 10 students killed in flash flood ahead of funerals

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)

Death toll in flash flood tragedy rises to 10 after last missing teen found

Friends and family mourn near the fresh grave of Ella Or during her funeral in Mishor Adumim on April 27, 2018. Or was one of 10 Israeli teens killed in a flash flood on April 26, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police probe if organizers lied about safety, approval of hike on which 10 died

By Raoul Wootliff

Principal, instructor arrested after 10 students killed by flash floods on trip

Police launch probe after 10 high school students die in flash flood

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

10 students killed in flash flood named

Palestinians are seen approaching the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip during what the IDF called an attempted mass breach of the border, on April 27, 2018. (IDF spokesperson)

Live updates (closed)

Israel’s UN envoy hits back at rights czar over Gaza criticism

By Alexander Fulbright

Danny Danon says OHCHR statement criticizing Israel’s use of force while making no mention of Hamas ‘provides a tailwind for terror’

5:13 pm

Hamas health ministry: 611 injured in Gaza clashes
4:40 pm

UN envoy hits back at rights czar over Gaza clashes criticism
4:01 pm

Hamas ministry says 2 more Palestinians killed in Gaza clashes

A military helicopter searches for missing students near the Dead Sea, southern Israel, April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Flash flood survivor describes friend ‘slipping away in front of my eyes’

Teen hiker saw ‘bodies floating in the water’ after powerful surge of water submerged the Tzafit River, killing 10 students

Screen capture from video of the Nahal Tzafit riverbed canyon. (Twitter)

Nahal Tzafit, where 10 students died in a flood, is a popular canyon trail

By Stuart Winer

Rescue forces near the scene where 10 young Israelis were swept to their deaths in flash floods in the Tzafit riverbed, near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Foreign diplomats express sorrow over Israel’s 10 young flood victims

By Raphael Ahren

Soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a search mission for several young people missing in southern Israel after flash floods swept through the area while they were hiking near the Dead Sea on April 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

‘We’re going to die’: Student warned of flood a day before she was killed

By Raoul Wootliff

Ahead of desert field trip in which 10 youths died, premilitary academy organizing it sent out a reassuring message: ‘Don’t worry, it will be fun and wet’

A military helicopter searches for missing hikers near the Dead Sea, southern Israel, April 26, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli leaders mourn ‘terrible tragedy’ of 10 youths killed in flash flood

By Stuart Winer

Military helicopters search for missing teens swept away in the flooding of the Tzafit River, a riverbed near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Body found next to overturned truck near Dead Sea

A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones towards Israeli security forces near the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis during the fifth straight Friday of mass demonstrations and clashes along the Gaza-Israel border on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

IDF says ‘hundreds’ try to breach Gaza fence; 3 killed, over 300 hurt in clashes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Army says rioters attempted to burn fence, ‘hurled explosives, grenades and firebombs’; Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry says half of injured hit by live fire

Hamas terror group members carry the coffin of Palestinian rocket and drone expert Fadi al-Batsh after his remains crossed into the Gaza Strip from Egypt April 26, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Hamas buries rocket and drone expert slain in Malaysia

By AP and ToI Staff

File: In this photo taken on April 13, 2018, US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a UN Security Council meeting at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP Photo/Hector Retamal)

Haley: Hamas using ‘children as cannon fodder’ in Gaza

By ToI Staff and AFP

A municipality worker paints over Yigal Shtayim's mural depicting the murder of Rabin in Tel Aviv on April 17, 2018. (courtesy Facebook)

Erasure of iconic Rabin assassination mural reveals a grim picture in Tel Aviv

By Melanie Lidman

Rachel Weisz, left, and Rachel McAdams in 'Disobedience.' (Agatha A. Nitecka/Bleecker Street/via JTA)

‘Disobedience’ aims to accurately portray lesbian love — and Orthodox Jews

By Naomi Pfefferman

Liam Neeson, Steven Spielberg and Ben Kingsley speak onstage at the 'Schindler's List' cast reunion during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 26, 2018. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival/AFP)

At moving ‘Schindler’s List’ reunion, Spielberg hails film as his greatest pride

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with his Romanian counterpart Viorica Dancila at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 25, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Romanian president urges PM to quit in row over Israel Embassy move

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Klaus Iohannis says he was not informed in advance of secret memo adopted by the government last week with the aim of moving the mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Paraguay President Horacio Cartes at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 19, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Outgoing Paraguay leader wants to relocate embassy to Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

AnalysisThe Americas are moving their embassies to Jerusalem. Europe? Not so fast

By Raphael Ahren

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, and Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman enter the Pentagon for their meeting, Thursday April 26, 2018, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Liberman to Mattis: Iran is ‘greatest threat’ in Middle East ‘and beyond’

As he hosts Israeli counterpart, US secretary of defense warns that confrontation between Iran and Israel in Syria is becoming more likely

Israel at UN: Iran has more than 80,000 fighters in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Pompeo heads to Israel, Mideast, Europe after taking oath

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mattis says Iran nuclear deal includes ‘robust’ verification

By Robert Burns

The vehicle driven by 2 Palestinians armed with a pipe bomb and a knife at the Ein Yael checkpoint, on April 27, 2018. (Police Spokesperson's Office)

2 Palestinians caught trying to enter Israel with pipe bomb

Police say search of ‘suspicious’ vehicle at Ein Yael checkpoint uncovered homemade explosive device, knife and tens of thousands of shekels

Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset reviewing anti-Israel remarks by Arab MK during US visit

By JTA

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech during the first day of a two-day conference in Paris, France, on combating the financing of terror groups, on April 26, 2018. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)

Macron calls for global cooperation to combat terror financing

By AFP

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) raise their joined hands during a signing ceremony near the end of their historic summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018. (AFP/Korea Summit Press Pool/Korea Summit Press Pool)

North, South Korea commit to denuclearization in historic summit

By Sunghee Hwang

Upon signing document calling for ‘a nuclear-free Korean peninsula,’ the two leaders shared a warm embrace

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) at the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries ahead of their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / Korea Summit Press Pool / Korea Summit Press Pool)

Seeking a ‘new history,’ North and South Korea hold high-stakes summit

By Sunghee Hwang

Otto Warmbier arriving at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images/JTA)

Parents of late US Jewish student sue North Korea for ‘brutal torture, murder’

By AFP

Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America (R) called out Natalie Portman for her recent comments on Israel. (Getty Images via JTA)

ZOA chief draws ire for calling Natalie Portman beautiful, but not ‘too bright’

Twitter users criticize Mort Klein for ‘misogynist’ tweet slamming Jerusalem-born actress over Netanyahu snub

Rebecca Weisman

Our children have eyes on us

Model the commitment you want the kids to actualize to go the distance with the causes they choose

Naftali Bennett

Why Israel is investing in Diaspora Jewish education

My main concern is the 75 percent of US Jews, or more, who don’t care enough to be mad at Israel

Why my mother wouldn’t let Yiddish die

She needed poetry to pay tribute to her childhood memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the pain of their loss

How to get things done, with meaning

Use a day-planner to connect ‘what’ with ‘when’, and stick to the Jewish calendar for life-changing magic (Emor)

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A military helicopter searches for missing students near the Dead Sea, southern Israel, April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Israel Media ReviewFlood of tears: 8 things to know for April 27

By Adiv Sterman

Illustrative image of Jewish prayer books in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

In God we trustMost US Jews believe in God, but don’t think He judges them

By JTA

The departure terminal at Ben-Gurion Airport (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Argentine man detained in Israel for refusing his wife a religious divorce

By JTA

People visit the Palestinian Museum US on the day of its inauguration in Woodbridge, Connecticut, April 22, 2018. (AFP/Hector Retamal)

First-of-its-kind Palestinian art museum opens doors in US

By Jennie Matthew

British film director Ken Loach takes part in a press conference to mark his receiving of the 'Doctor Honoris Causa' honorary degree of the ULB university, in Brussels, April 26, 2018. (AFP/Belga/Eric Lalmand)

Belgian award for director Ken Loach sparks anti-Semitism row

By AFP

Michael Cohen talks to the media, September 19, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Royal treatmentTrump bragged about being late to Michael Cohen’s son’s bar mitzvah

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv University campus. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Man injured in explosion in Tel Aviv University lab

Screen capture from a promotional video by Gal Gadot for the Huawei Mate 10 cellphone. (Twitter)

Check MateGal Gadot tweets ad for Android from iPhone

By Stuart Winer

Thousands of people stand in line at Ben Gurion Airport's departure terminal on August 13, 2015, a day when 79,800 passengers passed through on 457 flights. (Flash90)

$280 million expansion at Ben Gurion Airport to meet record number of tourists

By JTA

Rabbi Barry Freundel exiting the courthouse after entering his guilty plea, February 19, 2015. (JTA/Dmitriy Shapiro/Washington Jewish Week)

Mikvah-peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel’s jail sentence cut for good behavior

By Josefin Dolsten

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