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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 13, 2019

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Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and and Richard Sandler, chairman of board of trustees for the Jewish Federation of North America, at the JFNA's General Assembly in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis'We’re going to have a divide between liberal and illiberal'

With Netanyahu’s win and settlement sovereignty vow, a Diaspora ‘rupture’ alert

By Eric Cortellessa

Saying it’s because they ‘love Israel,’ some American Jewish leaders warn annexing the settlements would create a major political emergency and further isolate much of US Jewry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters as election results are announced in Tel Aviv, April 09, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Some of Israel’s best American friends worried by Netanyahu’s annexation talk

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Nine Jewish groups ask Trump to restrain Netanyahu on West Bank annexation

Blue and White's Yair Lapid on March 31, 2019 (Saria Diamant/Blue and White).

Lapid denies covert talks with Liberman on ‘unity government’ with Likud

Blue and White’s no. 2 doubles down on vow to ’embitter’ the lives of Netanyahu’s coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-finance minister Yair Lapid at a signing ceremony for a new private port to be built in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 23, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Unsourced TV report: Likud, Blue and White, Liberman ‘unity government’ possible

A polling station in the city of Bnei Brak, Israel on April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Woman was removed from ultra-Orthodox polling station so top rabbi could vote

Former US President Bill Clinton on stage at the Beacon Theatre during a speaking event on April 11, 2019 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images/AFP)

Bill Clinton: Netanyahu ‘knows how to hit people where they’re tender’

‘Never underestimate’ the ‘highly intelligent’ Israeli PM, says former US president after Likud leader’s latest election victory; ‘he understands his electorate’

An attendee wears a 'Make America Great Again' kippah before US President Donald Trump speaks at an annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

White House invites Jewish leaders for briefing on ‘pertinent’ issues

A screengrab circulating on social media purporting to show an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting Iranian assets in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

Iranian forces said killed in reported Israel airstrike on Syria missile factory

By ToI Staff and AFP

London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 17 people injured in raid near city of Masyaf as jets target missile development center, training camp

3 Gazans caught entering Israel; one of them armed with a knife

Palestinians say 15-year-old killed in Gaza border riot

Palestinian driver hits policeman in West Bank while fleeing traffic stop

The last shot Beresheet sent of landing before crashing onto the moon's surface, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Engineers detail glitches that caused Beresheet to slam into moon

By Melanie Lidman

Technical problems began miles above landing spot when spacecraft lost main engine; engineers restarted it, but too late to prevent the craft smashing into lunar surface at 310 mph

Ivanka Trump, assistant to the president, stands up as she is recognized by US President Donald Trump at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump considered Ivanka for head of World Bank, says she could be US president

By AFP and ToI Staff

Daughter also would be ‘great’ ambassador to the UN, president enthuses; hails her ‘great calmness’

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat-Minnesota, in the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Trump tweets edited video showing Omar comment dismissive of 9/11

By AP

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, April 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says Israelis should be immune from International Criminal Court

From left, 'Code Name Lise' author Larry Loftis; Odette Sansom. (Courtesy)

Interview

The forgotten female WWII-era spy who stayed silent under gruesome Nazi torture

By Rich Tenorio

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Ind. mayor, address the National Action Network (NAN) convention, Thursday April 4, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Analysis

Pete Buttigieg calls Mike Pence a ‘Pharisee.’ Here’s why that angers Jews

Democratic presidential candidate compares hypocrites in Trump administration to ancient Jewish sect, a metaphor that carries anti-Semitic overtones, Jewish scholars say

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg speaks to the media at the National Action Network's annual convention in New York City, April 4, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

Steve Grossman, former AIPAC president, backs Pete Buttigieg for 2020

My baggage: Why I told my teenaged son not to take his purse today

He rocks a pair of stilettos like no one’s business. He’s loud and proud – and we’re proud of him too, but, but, but…

When we surpass our own internal glass ceilings, we discover new, untold potential (Metzora)

'Star' actress Jude Demorest in Jerusalem on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy/ America's Voices in Israel)

‘Star’ actress Jude Demorest says Israel visit ‘reaffirmed’ her Christian faith

By Jessica Steinberg

Lead actress on Fox network drama baptized in Jordan River during ‘powerful and inspiring’ pilgrimage to Holy Land

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, author of 'Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death.' (Yeshiva University)

Interview

After a grim prognosis, this rabbi turned to Judaism for how to live with death

By Cathryn J. Prince

Sarah Blake, author of 'Naamah.' (Collage by Alma/via JTA)

Interview

Author Sarah Blake writes the backstory of the biblical Naamah, aka Noah’s wife

By Emily Burack

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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro during a visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Holocaust crimes can be forgiven, but not forgotten

By AP and ToI Staff

Kippahs and keffiyehs for sale in the Old City of Jerusalem (iStock)

Jewish Canadian mayor: Ban on wearing religious symbols like ethnic cleansing

By David Lazarus

People with connections to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue and Parkland school shootings were honored at PNC Park in Pittsburgh before a game, April 6, 2019. (Mike Elk)

Pittsburgh and Parkland survivors help each other turn their grief into action

Elly Wright, a Dutch painter who has lived in Britain for 51-years, poses for photographs with a copy of the book "In Limbo", in which her Brexit testimonial story is one of those featured, at her home in Epsom, on the south west edge of London, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Britain’s seemingly endless debate over leaving the European Union has brought division, strife and fear of foreigners, and the trauma has shattered Wright's sense of belonging. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

‘Brexhaustion’: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

By DANICA KIRKA

Two visitors in front of the paintings 'Junges Paar' (l), and 'Diskussion' of German painter Emil Nolde, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art -- confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)

Merkel returns two Nolde paintings after exhibition exposes Nazi links

Director Woody Allen attends a special screening of "Wonder Wheel" in New York, November 14, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Amazon: Woody Allen’s #MeToo comments wrecked movie deal

By Larry Neumeister

Hundreds gather at the memorial center to pay their respects for tens of thousands of people killed in death camps run by Croatia's pro-Nazi puppet state in WWII, in Jasenovac, Croatia, Friday, April 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Nikola Solic)

Croatian Jews, Serbs, anti-fascists, Roma gather at WWII death camp

By AP

Rohingya refugees wait after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang, October 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)

Jewish groups praise bill to sanction Burma for persecution of Rohingya Muslims

By Josefin Dolsten

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