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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 14, 2019

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) holds a proclamation signed by U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on April 14, 2019. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / AFP)

PM toasts reelection at cabinet meeting, Bennett and Shaked are no-shows

New Right leaders, fresh from narrow election loss, avoid celebratory gathering; PM praises Beresheet moon mission, vows to back a second try: ‘We don’t give up’

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announce the establishment of the New Right party, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez AFP/File)

Elections committee blasts New Right’s claims of irregularities as false

Meretz party leader MK Tamar Zandberg at Meretz primaries in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Trouncing at the ballot box leads Labor, Meretz to contemplate merger

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo during a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Pompeo says PM’s West Bank sovereignty vow won’t hurt Trump peace plan

US secretary of state tells CNN ‘The vision that we’ll lay out is going to represent a significant change from the model that’s been used’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts after addressing supporters at his Likud party election headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on election night early on April 10, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Report: PM’s allies weighing move to presidential system to shield him legally

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign an agreement bringing Liberman's party into the government, May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewCoalition impossible? 7 things to know for April 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz speaks to supporters at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Despite election loss, Gantz confident he’ll one day be PM

Blue and White party leader says he’s ‘100 percent’ certain he’ll eventually be premier, vows to serve ‘those who voted for me, those who didn’t’

6:19 pm

Trump said to warn Netanyahu security co-op could be harmed due to Israel-China ties
6:03 pm

Tel Aviv bound flight returns to Barcelona after engine catches fire
5:52 pm

Despite election loss, Gantz confident he will one day be PM

Remnants of 2,600-year-old chicken eggs discovered in the City of David by Dr. Eilat Mazar. (Bar-Ilan University)

Ancient omelettes?

Case cracked: 2,600-year-old chicken eggshells from Jerusalem put back together

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

High-tech reconstruction of unique eggshell trove — 1st evidence of chicken eggs on holy land diet — could affect the quantities of matzah some Jews eat on 1st night of Passover

Photo taken by the Beresheet spacecraft in which an Israeli flag can be seen on a plaque with the inscription, "Am Israel Hai," or "The Jewish People Lives," and in English, "Small country, big dreams," taken 37,600 kilometers from Earth. (Courtesy SpaceIL/IAI)

SpaceIL chief: ‘Beresheet 2 starts Sunday; we’ll put our flag on the moon’

After crash on lunar surface, billionaire Morris Kahn announces new project on-air, says mission team will meet Sunday to begin work on successor to Israel’s first moon lander

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives at the Newport Centre, in Newport, South Wales, during a campaign rally for prospective parliamentary candidate Ruth Jones who is standing in the Newport West by-election, March 30, 2019. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Corbyn admits evidence of anti-Semitism in UK Labour may have been ‘ignored’

In recording, leader expresses doubts over handling of cases of Jew hatred; Labour spokesman: This shows desire to rebuild trust; staffer said fired for leaking lack of punishments

Manchester United's Paul Pogba scores the opening goal from the penalty spot during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and West Ham United at Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, April 13, 2019. (AP/Rui Vieira)

UK soccer fans seen chanting anti-Semitic song as FIFA urges crackdown on racism

By AP and ToI Staff

Sheila (center left) and Marilynn Brass learn to make cheeseburgers at Mainely Burgers in Cambridge, Massachusetts from Jack Barber (far left) and Max Barber (right). (Bruce Seidel)

A perfect pairing

Fusing food and family, these flirty TV sisters just get better with age

By Rich Tenorio

Pharaoh and pajamas

When we got to the ’we were slaves’ part of the seder, Uncle Baruch reached down and held up a pair of faded pajamas

Susan Silverman

The Pharaoh within us

Does the Rabbinate believe that our redemption from Egypt led only some of us to Sinai?

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a meeting with evangelical leaders at the Hilton Barra Hotel, in Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 11, 2019. (Mauro Pimentel / AFP)

Rejecting criticism, Bolsonaro says Holocaust forgiveness comments misunderstood

By ToI Staff and AP

In comments posted by Israeli ambassador, Brazilian president says misinterpreting remarks is ‘in interest of those who want to push me away from my Jewish friends’

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Rivlin rebukes Bolsonaro: ‘No one will order forgiveness of the Jewish people’

By ToI Staff and AP

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

Bolsonaro: Brazil will vote ‘in line’ with Israel, US at UN Human Rights Council

A man crosses the iconic rails leading to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)

‘I weighed 70 pounds’: Last Auschwitz survivors remember a living hell

By Michel Moutot

IDF tanks stationed near the Gaza border, March 27, 2019. (Dudi Modan/Flash90)

IDF stands down reinforcements deployed to Gaza border amid calm

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says it remains ‘highly prepared and ready to act quickly,’ after reassigning troops sent to the south during last month’s increased violence

Illustrative: Hamas supporters burn a picture of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Jebaliya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip, December 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

AnalysisFor Hamas, Netanyahu’s reelection offers prospects of long-term deal

By Avi Issacharoff

Illustrative: Palestinians confront Israeli forces near the border with Israel, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 12, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

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

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Baboons watch as smoke envelopes the Simien mountains in Ethiopia, in a video shared on April 11. (screen capture: Twitter/@ahackz)

Israel sends team to help battle Ethiopian mountain blaze

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on April 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/AFP)

Netanyahu says ICC decision not to probe US troops bodes well for Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A female soldier operates a tank in the Negev desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Denying reports, IDF says no new decision in shelving of female tank operators

By Judah Ari Gross

A photo released by B'Tselem on April 13, 2019, shows Israelis during clashes in the northern West Bank village of Urif. (Adel Ammar/B'Tselem)

Dozens of settlers storm West Bank village, attack residents, rights groups say

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

A view of the Manama skyline, Bahrain. (CC-BY Jayson De Leon/Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli delegation cancels trip to Bahrain conference amid security concerns

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) shakes hands with the prime minister-designate Mohammad Shtayyeh in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 13, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Abbas swears in new PA government led by his Fatah ally, Mohammad Shtayyeh

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The iconic 'Girl of Enghelab Street,' Vida Movahed, who appeared in public in Tehran, Iran, in December 2017 without wearing a headscarf, as mandated by law. (YouTube screenshot)

Iranian woman who took off her headscarf sentenced to year in prison

By AP

US Rep Ilhan Omar speaks to support LGBTQ and allied high school students from across the state of Minnesota who marched to the State Capitol steps Thursday, March 21, 2019 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (AP/Jim Mone)

Democrats back Omar after Trump tweets edited video of 9/11 remarks

By AP

A street advertisement for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, seen on a central street in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Tel Aviv municipality to run free Shabbat buses to Eurovision

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, surrounded by supporters and family members of Tree of Life synagogue shooting victims, signs three gun-control bills into law, April 9, 2019, at the City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh. (Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Pittsburgh mayor won’t be charged for passing gun laws after synagogue shooting

By Ramesh Santanam and Michael Rubinkam

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