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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 29, 2018

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Pompeo ahead of Netanyahu meet: Iran deal does not ensure they won’t get nukes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New US secretary of state visits Saudi king, foreign minister before traveling to Israel, where PM says they will discuss Iran’s ‘aggression’ and the future of the nuke deal

North Korea says it will close nuclear test site in May, unify time zone

Israel ‘completely surprised’ to hear Trump may attend Jerusalem embassy opening

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

French envoy to Israel: ‘Possibility of war’ if Iran nuke deal collapses

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People light candles as they take part in a memorial ceremony in remembrance of 10 Israeli teens who lost their lives when they were caught in a flood in a riverbed near the Dead Sea, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on April 28, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tzafit River disaster

10 teens killed in flood were ‘300 meters’ from safety, says rescuer

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

‘Five minutes later’ and the youths swept away in deluge would have made it out of ravine, firefighter asserts. ‘Anyone who survived was touched by the hand of God’

Police stand outside the Bnei Zion pre-army academy in Tel Aviv, from which 10 incoming students were killed in a flash flood in the Judean Desert, on April 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Tzafit River disasterPolice raid offices of pre-military academy over flood deaths, seize computers

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Tzur Alfi of Mazkeret Batya, who was killed in a flash flood in the south during a school trip on April 26, 2018. (Facebook)

Tzafit River disasterFlood victim said to have refused to climb to safety, pulled up friends 1 by 1

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)

Tzafit River disaster

Guide on house arrest says she warned against hike where 10 teens died in flood

Daughter of deputy head of Arava search-and-rescue unit says she told pre-military academy not to ‘take the chance,’ as her father advised

Israeli teens light candles at a vigil at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on April 28, 2018, in memory of the 10 victims killed in a flash flood while hiking in the Judean Desert. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Tzafit River disasterThousands gather at Tel Aviv candlelight vigil for victims of flash flood

Flood disaster victims to be laid to rest on April 29, 2018, from left to right: Adi Raanan, Gali Balali, Romi Cohen (Courtesy)

Tzafit River disasterFamilies, friends prepare to bury last 3 victims killed in flash flood

Illustrative. Palestinian protesters demonstrate and burn tires near the border with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on April 13, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

State says use of live fire in Gaza protests within Israeli, international law

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Responding to Supreme Court petitions, attorneys say rioting along border fence is part of the armed conflict against the country

Hamas claims PA bombed its own prime minister to ‘kill reconciliation’

Hamas saboteur arrested while vandalizing Gaza fence

Palestinians vote this week on PLO’s aging leaders, as Abbas tightens grip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Toulouse mayor threatens to sack Jewish deputy who said ‘too many Arabs’ in city

By Michael Bachner

Aviv Zonabend’s comment in Hebrew interview draws condemnation from Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc, who hires a translator to confirm the remark was made

Germany's special envoy on anti-Semitism Felix Klein. (Courtesy German Interior Ministry)

German anti-Semitism envoy says ‘understandable’ that Jews may want to leave

Menachem Moskowitz, 52, who was assaulted and choked on his way back from Shabbat prayers in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, on April 23, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Suspect arrested for recent New York attack on ultra-Orthodox man

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Chief justice to PM: Bill for 61 MKs to overturn rulings ‘a danger to democracy’

By Raoul Wootliff

Lengthy meeting between Esther Hayut and Netanyahu, as government weighs reining in Supreme Court, ends without agreement

Protesters demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 28, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ahead of Netanyahu-Hayut meet, thousands protest bid to hobble High Court

France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in New York, September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Ludovic Marin)

Live updates (closed)

Rouhani tells Macron Iran nuclear deal ‘not negotiable’

‘Iran will not accept any restrictions beyond its commitments,’ says Iranian president as Trump threatens pullout if changes aren’t made to pact

6:51 pm

IDF fires on Gazans breaching security fence, kills one
6:21 pm

Iran newspaper chief freed after arrest
5:34 pm

Rouhani tells Macron Iran nuclear deal 'not negotiable'

Grafitti found on the walls of the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya on April 29, 2018. (Yesh Din)

Tires slashed, hate slogans graffitied in latest attack on Palestinian village

10 cars targeted in West Bank’s 14th apparent hate crime this month; ‘Wreak vengeance upon the nations’ found spray-painted on walls of town

One of the 15 olive trees chopped down in the northern West Bank village of Urif in an apparent hate crime on April 28, 2018. (Urif Municipality)

Olive trees cut down in second attack on Palestinian village in as many days

Indiana Pacers player T.J. Leaf's father also played for the Pacers before moving to Israel, where T.J. was born. (Courtesy)

A gifted guy

A day before turning 21, T.J. Leaf becomes first Israeli in NBA playoffs

By Michael Bachner

Third national to play in top basketball league goes on court for 3 minutes in Pacers’ win against Cavaliers

The child of a Holocaust survivor sharing his father's memories with residents of Hongkou, the former Jewish ghetto in Shanghai during WWII, in this still from 'Above the Drowning Sea.' (Courtesy Above the Drowning Sea/ Time & Rhythm Cinema)

In new film, survivors recall placid WWII days in the safe harbor of Shanghai

Elkana Bar Eitan

10 kids are dead: Please don’t rush to blame

The educators involved in sending the youngsters toward danger are already devastated enough

Jason Fredric Gilbert

This native son will never truly be native

Every city in Israel is known for something, my city, Or Yehuda, is famous for its abundance of Gettaxi drivers

Jonathan Ornstein lighting fireworks at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Jewish Community Center in Krakow, April 22, 2018. (Jakub Włodek/via JTA)

In Krakow, Jews celebrate their community’s ‘revival’ amid rising xenophobia

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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People light candles as they take part in a memorial ceremony in remembrance of 10 Israeli teens who lost their lives when they were caught in a flood in a riverbed near the Dead Sea, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on April 28, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media review‘Yihye beseder’: 6 things to know for April 29

By Tamar Pileggi

Police at the scene of a stabbing outside the Hadar Mall in southern Jerusalem, April 29, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/The Times of Israel)

Man stabbed, seriously wounded near Jerusalem mall; police rule out terror

Steve Fitzgerald (YouTube screenshot)

Rabbis call on House candidate to stop comparing abortion to Holocaust

By JTA

An aerial view of the stars and Tourism Ministry glamping tent set up temporarily in the Ramon Crater as part of an international marketing campaign. (Courtesy, Daniel Bear)

Glamping comes to the Ramon Crater, part of Tourism Ministry campaign

By Jessica Steinberg

Muslim World League Secretary General, Mohammad Al-Issa speaks on April 6, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Conference of Presidents honors Muslims who protected Jews during Holocaust

UN peacekeepers monitor the Syrian side of the Golan Heights in July 2012 (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Austria probes UN peacekeepers over Golan deaths

By AFP

Illustrative: A Lebanese shepherd tends to his flock near the barbed wire between Lebanon and the Israeli Golan at the Shebaa Farm area, April 16, 2014. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese shepherd crosses into Israel, is detained by IDF

The Memorial for the Deported Museum in Mayenne, France. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Man who brandished rifle at French Holocaust museum now in mental hospital

By JTA

French national Romain Franck (R), then 24, a worker at the French consulate, and Palestinians Moufak al-Ajluni (L) and Mohamed Katout (C) appear in court in the Israeli city of Haifa on March 19, 2018, to face charges of smuggling guns from Gaza. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel orders suspected French arms trafficker to be held through trial

By AFP and ToI Staff

The offices of Bezeq, the country's largest telecom group. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

New Bezeq board seen putting telecom firm on better governance track

By Shoshanna Solomon

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