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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 21, 2019

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The aftermath of an explosion in St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. (Courtesy: St. Sebastian's Church)

7 suspects arrested

Over 200 killed, hundreds injured as Easter blasts rock Sri Lanka

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Apparently coordinated attacks rip through hotels and churches throughout the country; security officials suspect suicide bombers behind at least some blasts

Sri Lanka bomber waited in line at hotel buffet then unleashed devastation

By AFP

Netanyahu, world leaders voice support for Sri Lanka after Easter bombings

By ToI Staff and Agencies

7 suspects arrested in Sri Lanka over Easter Sunday bombings

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Sri Lankan Police officer inspects a blast spot at the Shangri-la hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 21, 2019. (AP/Chamila Karunarathne)

Live updates (closed)

Sri Lanka police find safe house used by bombers, seize car

13 suspects arrested after wave of bombings kills 207 people, injures hundreds

6:32 pm

US sanctions on IRGC include loopholes for foreigners -- report
6:32 pm

Russia says vote result shows Ukrainians want 'change'
6:06 pm

7-year-old boy critically hurt in Jerusalem hit-and-run

'There will be officially an apartheid state,' envoy says

French envoy to US: Trump plan ‘very close to what Israel wants, 99% doomed’

Gérard Araud, a former ambassador to Israel, says he’s ‘very close’ with Jared Kushner, whom he describes as ‘extremely smart but has no guts’

In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, file photo, US President Donald Trump speaks with White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner as he departs after a reception in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. (AP /Alex Brandon)

Illustrative: Smoke rises from a fallen rocket fired from Gaza in a field in southern Israel near the border with Gaza on November 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rocket fired from Gaza falls inside Palestinian territory

A resident of the small town of Pruchnik in southeast Poland beats up an effigy of Judah Iscariot featuring a long nose and ultra-Orthodox sidecurls and brimmed hat, on April 19, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Polish crowd beats, burns Judas effigy with hat, sidelocks of ultra-Orthodox Jew

By Michael Bachner

In this photo from September 6, 2018, Georgette Mosbacher stands next to an American flag after receiving her credentials as new United States ambassador to Poland in Warsaw. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

US ambassador in Poland gets anti-Semitic responses to Passover wishes

By AP and ToI Staff

This August 31, 2017, file photo shows a sign for Middlebury College on the campus in Middlebury, Vermont. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

Vermont college professor on leave after Nazi gas chamber exam question

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Yisrael Beytenu, Likud officials powwow as coalition talks kick off

No agreement reached on ultra-Orthodox enlistment; Netanyahu associate previously embroiled in sexual misconduct scandal allowed to join talks

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ahead of coalition talks, Liberman says won’t budge on religion and state issues

Union of Right-Wing Parties leader Rafi Peretz (R) and MK Bezalel Smotrich are greeted by supporters at the party headquarters, April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Smotrich demands justice or education portfolio, rejecting other cabinet posts

Clare Bronfman, left, arrives at Federal court with her attorney Mark Geragos in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 19, 2019 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Bronfman heiress pleads guilty to role in ‘women sex slaves’ case, faces jail

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Clare Bronfman, daughter of billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr., gave tens of millions to cult leader; admits harboring someone living in US illegally, credit card fraud

Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky (C) and his wife Olena together with members of his crew react during a presidential election debate with Ukraine's current President at The Olympic Stadium in Kiev on April 19, 2019. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Jewish comedian poised to clinch presidency as Ukraine votes

By AFP

Critics say Volodymyr Zelensky, who is mostly known for playing a politician on TV, lacks experience, but polls still show him cruising to an easy victory over Petro Poroshenko

Faithful kneel on the newly restored Holy Stairs (Scala Sancta), which according to Catholic Church is the staircase on which Jesus Christ stepped leading on his way to be judged before his crucifixion, during a special opening, in Rome, April 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Stairs believed walked by Jesus opened to public for first time in 300 years

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pilgrims get rare opportunity to crawl up Holy Stairs, which according to Christian tradition are stained with Christ’s blood and were brought from Jerusalem by Roman Empire

Roman Catholic Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (center), leads the Easter Sunday procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 21, 2019. (GALI TIBBON / AFP)

Christians crowd Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre church to mark Easter

By AFP

Michelle Orrelle

Invisible threads

My grandmother sewed costumes for Habima after she came to Palestine from Odessa in 1919; in 2019, I think I spotted them in the theater’s window

Israel’s election was not democratic

The country is now a bi-national state and the right stays in power because a quarter of its population is barred from voting

A springtime snowstorm at the entrance to the Mount Hermon site in northern Israel, April 21, 2019. (Mount Hermon ski resort)

Mount Hermon gets Passover dusting for first time in 22 years

Ski resort closes to visitors as rare springtime storm hits northern and central Israel, foiling many vacationers’ plans for holiday trips

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

Israel media review

Off the map: 8 things to know for April 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Passover takes the press on a journey from Palestinian statehood (or lack thereof) to spring storms to tweeted bread to a sensational basketball victory

Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Elections czar urges probe into suspected voting fraud alleged by Likud

Detail from a boy stepping off the curb, by photographer Diane Arbus. (Diane Arbus exhibition, London)

Exhibit exposes fleeting career of female photographer who captured NY’s margins

More Headlines

Players from Tel Aviv's Tichon Hadash high school basketball team celebrating after winning the world championship on April 19, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

TA high school basketball team wins world championship with 3-pointer at buzzer

Muslim graves discovered at a construction site in Jaffa, May 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Jaffa Islamic Council wages legal battle against ‘desecration’ of Muslim graves

Police officers move climate change activists with their hands glued to a pipe as they continue to block the road at Oxford Circus in London on April 20, 2019. (Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)

Arrests top 700 as climate change protesters in London block Oxford Circus

Director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his latest film, 'Based on a True Story,' in Krakow, Poland, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo)

Director Polanski sues Motion Picture Academy for reinstatement

By AFP

An Islamic State flag lies in a tent encampment after US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters took control of Baghouz, Syria, on March 23, 2019. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Month after defeat of IS ‘caliphate,’ terror group still a threat

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

An Egyptian whirling dervish dances with a "tanoura" (multicolored skirt) as people gather with national flags outside polling stations during a referendum on constitutional amendments, at a school in the Haram district in the capital Cairo's western twin city of Giza, on the first day of a three-day poll, on April 20, 2019, with a poster showing President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi next to slogans urging people to vote. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)

Despite criticism, few hopes for change as Egypt votes on extending Sissi’s rule

By AP and AFP

This frame grab from video released on July 22, 2017, and provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Hezbollah fighters firing a missile at positions of al-Qaeda-linked militants in an area on the Lebanon-Syria border. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

France said to tell Lebanon: Israel won’t tolerate Iranian-backed missile plant

Lt. Gen. Jack Jacob, shown sitting in his New Delhi home, likely saved hundreds of thousands of lives while serving as chief of staff of the Indian Eastern command during the 1971 Bangladesh war. (Ashish Sharma/Open/JTA)

Famed Jewish-Indian general to be honored in Jerusalem

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