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What Matters Most On Monday, April 15, 2019

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This photo taken on April 15, 2019, at the University of Tel Aviv shows a 3D print of heart with human tissue. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israeli scientists unveil world’s first 3D-printed heart with human tissue

By Delphine Matthieussent

Researchers at Tel Aviv University say their ‘major medical breakthrough’ will advance possibilities for transplants

Illustrative: A cancer patient and a perfusion drip. (CIPhotos, iStock by Getty Images)

Mining data, Israeli healthcare provider flags colon-cancer risk patients

By Shoshanna Solomon

Members of the Likud party meet with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019, as Rivlin began consulting political leaders to decide who to task with trying to form a new government (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opening PM consultation talks, Rivlin tells Likud ‘the people expect unity’

By Raoul Wootliff

Blue and White representatives rule out unity government during first-ever live broadcast of consultations over who should be tasked with forming the next coalition

AnalysisPublicly grilling MKs over who’ll be PM, Rivlin will expose gov’t sausage-making

By Raoul Wootliff

Then-Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich, left, speaks with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman during a plenary session in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In coalition talks, Haredi parties and URWP to present unified front on religion

Op-ed: Elections 2019

The people have spoken. They want to live in Netanyahu’s Israel

Israelis were not under-informed or unfairly swayed. They knew what they’d get with a 5th term of Netanyahu. The result was the highest vote ever for right & ultra-Orthodox parties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at a victory celebration after polls for general elections closed in Tel Aviv, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Members of the United Torah Judaism party meet with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UTJ claims it now has 8 seats, at Likud’s expense; election panel denies change

By Raoul Wootliff

Members of the Likud party meet with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewPolitical survivor: 8 things to know for April 15

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump reaches to shake Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hand before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski)

Trump peace plan likely won’t include Palestinian state — report

US officials highlight economic benefits of proposal, acknowledge that any initiative that ignores political aspirations is doomed to fail, the Washington Post reports

European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Former European leaders urge EU to reject Trump plan if no Palestinian state

US President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk while walking to the West Wing of the White House for a meeting, on March 25, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Trump said to warn PM security ties could suffer due to Israel-China relations

Nonagenarian Eric Sargon, who played for The Beatles, Eric Clapton and the BBC Orchestra, plays his viola in his new Jerusalem apartment (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Aliyah Day

New immigrant violist, 91, ‘got out of my pajamas’ for The Beatles

By Jessica Steinberg

Jeremy Issacharoff

Coming home: How Israel became inscribed in my soul

Israel’s ambassador to Germany recalls his decisive moment: ‘This was a country that would demand everything of its people.’

No easy fix for Israel’s left

It is high time that we strategize how to achieve an inclusive, democratic, and just Israel — no matter how daunting the task

William Hamilton

15 deep thoughts for a profound Passover seder

Every section of the celebration is a learning opportunity: Heschel, Kushner, Ozick, Sagan et al help light the way

Israelis and foreigners take part in a program run by the organization Israel-is. (Courtesy/Israel-is)

An army of ambassadors: NGO trains troops to defend Israel during post-army trek

By Judah Ari Gross

This undated photo shows Israeli spy Eli Cohen, in Syria, wearing a wristwatch recovered by the Mossad in 2018. (Prime Minister's Office)

Israel silent amid claims body of legendary spy Eli Cohen exhumed in Syria

Unconfirmed Syrian opposition reports say Russian team has taken remains of ‘our man in Damascus’ out of country; rumors come soon after return of body of serviceman killed in 1982

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an event in Jerusalem honoring the families of Israeli soldiers killed in battle, on April 14, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu appears to hint Israel carried out latest Syria strike

By Tamar Pileggi

Days after bombardment reportedly flattens Iran-linked missile factory in Masyaf, PM says IDF continuing to operate on northern front

US National Security Adviser John Bolton unveils the Trump administration's Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, December 13, 2018. (Cliff Owen/AP)

Israel’s national security adviser to meet with Bolton for Iran talks

Satellite photos released by ImageSat International shows the aftermath of an airstrikes attributed to Israel that targeted a Syrian military base in Masyaf in the Hama province on April 12, 2019. (ImageSat International)

Satellite firm releases pics of Syria site bombed in strike attributed to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz warns next Netanyahu coalition will distance Israel from law and democracy

Blue and White leader: Netanyahu will build government that will focus on safeguarding him from prosecution for corruption; PM ‘knows how to run a good campaign’ but went ‘so low’

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)

Bennett and Shaked to part ways after stunning defeat – report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin attend a memorial event for fallen IDF soldiers in Jerusalem, April 14, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Rivlin said to ask not to sit next to Netanyahu at event, amid coalition talks

The landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral is engulfed by flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Catastrophic fire engulfs Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, roof and spire collapse

Firefighters race to salvage art from capital’s iconic medieval church; massive fire may be linked to ongoing renovation work

6:53 pm

UNESCO says 'at France's side to save and restore' Notre Dame
6:41 pm

London 'stands in sorrow with Paris' over Notre-Dame fire
6:37 pm

Firefighters race to salvage art in Notre Dame

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The planned stage of Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Eurovision 2019)

No, *you're* a visionGal Gadot, and maybe Madonna, headed for Eurovision

By Jessica Steinberg

In this March 6, 2019, file photo, US Rep. Ilhan Omar sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Omar says she’s received death threats since Trump tweet

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

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

SpaceIL chairman and co-founder to light Independence Day torch

Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped on June 12, 2014 and whose bodies were found on June 30, 2014. (IDF/AP)

Mothers of three Israeli teens slain in 2014 to light Independence Day torch

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at conference at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan on March 28, 2019. (Flash90)

AG denies ‘unprofessional considerations’ in investigations of politicians

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (6th-right) walks away after posing for a group photograph with members of the new Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 13, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian Authority ministers sworn in a second time after oath foul-up

By AFP and ToI Staff

Guy First at his audition for Britain's Got Talent on April 13, 2019. (Facebook)

Having a gasIsraeli ‘fart’ artist blows away ‘Britain’s Got Talent’

By Joelle Milman

A view of the main building of the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 26, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deputy Knesset secretary suspended over assault suspicion

The scene of an alleged attempted stabbing attack near Hawara in the northern West Bank, April 3, 2019. (Courtesy)

B’tselem: Settlers executed Palestinian who hurled rocks at cars

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, seen after his release from Nitzan Prison on January 25, 2017, after serving a one-year prison term for attempted bribery. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Ex-con celebrity rabbi appointed Morocco’s chief rabbinical judge

Fire burns in apartment block in Haifa, April 15 2019 (Haifa Fire Rescue Services)

15 injured, 4 seriously, in Haifa apartment building fire

Newly elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan is greeted by well wishers outside City Hall in London, on his first day as mayor, May 9, 2016. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

London mayor, a Muslim, joins Jewish Labour group in solidarity with community

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