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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 18, 2019

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MED-TECH

Simona Weinglass

After Israeli breakthrough: The ethics of a 3D-printed heart

Within a decade, manufactured hearts could obviate the need for organ donations; ethicists highlight potential pitfalls along the way

Professor Tal Dvir presents a 3D print of a heart with human tissue at Tel Aviv University on April 15, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Pigs at a farm in Goudelin, western France, on February 13, 2019. (Damien Meyer/AFP)

In breakthrough, scientists revive some brain activity of slaughtered pigs

By Malcolm Ritter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on February 13, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice Ministry, battle with High Court in focus as Netanyahu builds coalition

Reports indicate PM weighing two hardliners for justice minister, with plan to limit court’s ability to overturn Knesset laws, all in shadow of his impending graft indictments

President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the president's residence in Jerusalem on April 17, 2019, as Rivlin asks Netanyahu to form a new coalition after the April 9 elections. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

With plea for healing, president officially taps Netanyahu to form new coalition

Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay addresses supporters and media, as the results in the elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Labor leader to move up party primaries, set to bow out, after stunning loss

Analysis

How hotels hosting Passover travelers are dealing with the measles outbreak

While program organizers in Greater New York City area may not be asking guests for vaccine records, some are requesting them to be vaccinated before arrival

A sign warns of measles in the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City, April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

A sign warns people of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg on April 10, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

500 US doctors sign letter urging Orthodox Jews to vaccinate

Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah, the unleavened bread eaten during the Jewish holiday of Passover, at the Aviv Matzah plant in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Passover pastimes and presents to partake of, when all the prep is done

By Jessica Steinberg

A long list of holiday-related activities, tours, wines and good times

Jars of Gefilte Fish sit on the shelves awaiting purchase from consumers at McCaffrey's Passover Store April 2, 2004 in Yardley, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

Meat, fish and chicken consumption up for Passover; so is food waste

By Melanie Lidman

US Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of the Mueller Report at the Department of Justice April 18, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Live updates

Redacted Mueller report released by US Justice Department

In press conference before findings released, US attorney general says investigation details 10 times president may have obstructed justice but doesn’t provide sufficient evidence

6:52 pm

Charity distributes kosher-for-Passover food for 181,000 needy New Yorkers
5:53 pm

Police sources said to warn against Smotrich, Regev as public security minister
5:48 pm

PMO officials deny Russia found body of Israeli spy Eli Cohen

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Hubert Hitier/AFP)

Radical rabbi says Notre Dame fire retribution for 13th-century Talmud burning

Shlomo Aviner, who moved to Israel from France in the 1960s, suggests fire that gutted iconic church may have been divine retribution for burning of Jewish manuscripts in 1242

NYPD counterterrorism officers are stationed at St. Patrick's Cathedral, as religious institutions boost security in the aftermath of Pittsburgh's Synagogue shooting, October 29, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Man with gas cans arrested at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City

By AP

The spire of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral collapses as the church is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP)

Steeple-chaseFrance launches global contest to design new Notre Dame spire

By Clare BYRNE and Joseph Schmid

Jason Greenblatt, left, meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Jerusalem, on March 13, 2017. (Government Press Office)

Trump envoy pans new Palestinian prime minister for prejudging peace plan

Responding to Jason Greenblatt’s criticism, Mohammad Shtayyeh says any initiative must call for ending occupation and establishing sovereign Palestinian state

Senior Adviser to the US President Jared Kushner (r) speaks as US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman looks on at the official opening ceremony of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trump peace plan to be unveiled after Ramadan in early June, Kushner says

White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump is greeted by kisses as she is welcomed by local people holding U.S. flags and small flags that say "Welcome In Adzope Ivanka Trump We Love U," in Adzope, Ivory Coast, Wednesday April 17, 2019, where she will visit Cayat, a cocoa and coffee cooperative. Trump is in Ivory Coast to promote a White House global economic program for women. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ivanka Trump concerned about rising anti-Semitism, drop in Israel support

By Catherine Lucey

Lisa Silverstein Nelson

So you think you can Pesach?

Passover preparation means a war on ’chametz’ throughout Jewish households in the State of Israel — and there’s nowhere I’d rather be

Ariele Mortkowitz

A seat at my seder table

Add these women’s perspectives — diverse in affiliation, background, and more — to your discussions on leaving Egypt and feel more like you were there

Daniel Staetsky

In defence of polls and pollsters

Especially in Israel, samples of the electorate do better at predicting the big picture than at delivering the ’winner’

One less plague: Preventing the measles

I implore all anti-vaxx parents to consider the most vulnerable members of our community with kindness, for they rely on all of us

To March of the Living staffers who wonder if it’s worth it all

If you don’t know just how transformative your educational work can be, let me tell you how the experience changed me

No, it’s the PA that declared war on Western values

Palestinians claim to be innocent victims of financial sanctions even as they vow to spend their last penny on terrorists

Trucks loaded with goods and merchandise make deliveries to the Gaza Strip after the Kerem Shalom crossing was opened on August 15, 2018. (Flash90)

Hamas: Israel agreed to lift Gaza import restrictions on many ‘dual-use’ goods

Top official warns that Gazans could renew incendiary balloon launches over border, nighttime protests and other measures

Gazan Christians still waiting for permits to visit Jerusalem for Easter

World Bank warns Palestinian economy in ‘crisis’ over tax transfer standoff

By AFP and ToI Staff

USAID to lay off 85% of local staff as aid to Palestinians is cut – report

Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick, head of the IDF Northern Command, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF general: Hezbollah still planning Galilee invasion, despite anti-tunnel op

By Tamar Pileggi

Commander of Ground Forces predicts decisive Israeli victory in a future war with Hezbollah and Lebanon, vows to destroy Syria’s Russian-made S-300s if used to repel Israeli raids

Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (2nd-L) speaks with soldiers taking part in a snap drill at the Tzeelim base in southern Israel simulating a future military conflict in the Gaza Strip, February 26, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

‘Readiness and Change’: Kohavi reveals his expensive plans for the IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli air defense system intercepts a target during a live-fire exercise on April 16, 2019. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF shoots down targets in test of Patriot, Iron Dome air defense systems

By Judah Ari Gross

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a ceremony commemorating the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran president urges Mideast states to ‘drive back Zionism’

Rouhani says problems of the region ’caused by others,’ calls on Muslims to restore the ‘historical right of Palestine’

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, a fighter jet flies over Iranian flags during the army parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran on April 18, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran flaunts domestically made fighter jets to mark Army Day

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

Russia denies recovering remains of spy Eli Cohen from Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

This March 27, 2019 photo shows the sanctuary at Temple Beth-El in Casablanca, Morocco. (Mishael Sims via AP)

Morocco is a trove of Jewish history if you know where to go

By Leanne Italie

More Headlines

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Movers and shakersAll the Jews who made the Time 100 most influential people list

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces his wife Sara amid confetti during his victory speech before supporters at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv after April 9, 2019's elections. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

After win, Netanyahu makes Time’s 100 most influential list

Naomi Folkman (R), the mother of MK Royi Folkman, with Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, hours before she was run and over and killed by a cement mixing truck, February 15, 2019. (Courtesy)

Truck driver charged with hitting and killing MK’s mother

View of the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv on August 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Rabbinical court rejects man’s Jewishness, 23 years after approving his sister’s

By Marissa Newman

Police footage of a woman being dragged along with her parents' car in the town of Rahat on April 5, 2019. (Israel Police)

Parents suspected of abducting child and dragging her alongside car

A screenshot of a Telegrass marijuana menu. (Screenshot)

Prosecutors charge 27 suspects in Telegram cannabis marketplace

View of Mount Hermon covered with snow in northern Israel, as it seen from Route 886, on March 8, 2019. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Snow expected to blanket Mount Hermon on Passover amid cold snap

Keir Giles, a Russia specialist with Britain’s Chatham House think tank, poses for a photo in central London on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Israeli firm Black Cube denies link to spy targeting Kaspersky Lab critics

By Raphael Satter

Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol, March 8, 2019, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Pelosi defends Omar: ‘No taint’ of anti-Semitism in Democratic Party

By ToI Staff and Agencies

One of the last photos taken by Beresheet before it crash landed into the moon, on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy SpaceIL)

Lunar libraryMoon dust and magic mysteries mingle at Beresheet crash site

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

Despite denials, official says Israeli delegation attended Bahrain conference

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Dr. Ido Netanyahu, left, receive the personal effects of their brother Yoni in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu receives late brother’s haggadah, but report indicates it may be fake

By ToI Staff and JTA

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