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What Matters Most On Monday, April 22, 2019

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A statue is pictured next to shrapnel marks at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the building was hit as part of a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Sri Lanka minister says local Islamist terror group carried out attacks

By AP and ToI Staff

All seven suicide bombers identified as citizens and members of National Thowfeek Jamaath, which has suspected foreign links; death toll rises to 290

Security personnel stand guard outside St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the church was hit in a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. (Jewel SAMAD / AFP)

Fresh blast in Sri Lanka as new bombs found near church

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)

Little known about homegrown Islamist group accused of Sri Lanka attacks

By AFP

Sri Lankan Army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony Shrine after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019 (AP Photo/Chamila Karunarathne)

Intelligence warnings were ignored ahead of Sri Lanka blasts, ministers say

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS

PM Wickremesinghe says massacre could trigger instability in his country, vows to ‘vest all necessary powers with the defense forces’

Sri Lankan air force officers and clergy stand outside St. Anthony's Shrine, a day after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Sri Lanka Easter bombing attacks toll hits 290, with 500 wounded

By Ishara Kodikara and Lakruwan Wanniarachchi

Sri Lankan security personnel walk next to dead bodies on the floor amid blast debris at St. Anthony's Shrine, following an explosion in the church in Kochchikade in Colombo, on April 21, 2019. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA/ AFP)

Investigator: 7 suicide attackers behind 6 of the Sri Lanka blasts

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS

Israelis enjoy the beach of Paradis Sweir, a desert resort located on the Red Sea shore, South Sinai, Egypt, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 15, 2016. (Johanna Geron/Flash90)

Reverse exodus: Defying terror warning, 20,000+ Israelis in Sinai for Passover

Vacationers ignore ‘a very high concrete threat’ of attacks in Egyptian peninsula beset by Islamist insurgency

Sri Lankan Army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony Shrine after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019 (AP Photo/Chamila Karunarathne)

Israel media reviewViolence and vacation: 8 things to know for April 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Jewish worshipers take part in the priestly blessing during the Passover holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 22, 2019. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Photo essayTens of thousands gather at Western Wall for priestly blessing

'Fact I'm Jewish barely makes 20 in my long list of faults'

Zelensky win makes Ukraine 1st country outside Israel with Jewish PM, president

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Marvels one columnist: ‘Imagine, a pure-blooded Jew with the appearance of a Sholom Aleichem protagonist wins by a landslide in a country that glorifies Nazi criminals’

Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky reacts after the announcement of the first exit poll results in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev on April 21, 2019. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)

How Volodymyr Zelensky went from being a TV president to the real deal

By AFP

Comedian-turned-candidate Zelensky wins Ukraine presidency by landslide

By Oleksandr SAVOCHENKO and Anna SMOLCHENKO

Venezuelan comic of Jewish descent pokes fun at stereotypes

By Laura BONILLA

Illustrative: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dedicates the final phase of a new oil refinery in the city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, February 18, 2019. (Official website photo)

US shuts spigot on sanction waivers for Iran oil imports

Decision means extension for five nations — China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey — won’t be renewed when they expire on May 2

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, arrives at a graduation ceremony of the Revolutionary Guard's officers, while deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, second right, former commanders of the Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Rezaei, second left, and Yahya Rahim Safavi salute him, on May 20, 2015, in Tehran, Iran. (Official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran appoints fiery general who vows to destroy Israel as new IRGC head

Screenshot of anti-Israel Hispan TV falsely accusing Israel of experimenting on Palestinian prisoners(Screencapture via JTA)

Google blocks Iranian site that says Israel experiments on Palestinian prisoners

By JTA

Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

URWP demands full West Bank annexation, in exchange for law granting PM immunity

By Michael Bachner

Long list of demands by right-wing party, including limiting authority of High Court and attorney general, to be presented in coalition negotiations starting next week

6:34 pm

US offers $10 million for info to disrupt Hezbollah finances
6:21 pm

PM said to have personally proposed sending hidden cameras in Arab voting booths
6:04 pm

4-year-old boy killed by bus in Beitar Illit is a US citizen -- report

Planet Earth: how did it get its start? (iStock/MarcelC)

Earth Day 2019

Move over Big Bang: Should science take a page from religion’s Big History book?

By Rich Tenorio

Shown in Bern, Bonn & Berlin, trove comes to Israel in Sept.

Israel Museum to host Nazi-era art hoard held by German recluse

By Jessica Steinberg

Exhibition of Gurlitt collection in Germany raised ‘touchy questions,’ says German curator, who sought to show how visual art was ‘instrumentalized’ by the Nazis

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)

Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, speaks during the 'Berlin wears kippa' event, with more than 2,000 Jews and non-Jews wearing the traditional skullcap to show solidarity with Jews on April 25, 2018 in Berlin after Germany was rocked by a series of anti-Semitic incidents.(AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

Sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin in 2018, report finds

Illustrative: Members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims in Luxembourg for the signing of the Reparations Agreement between the German Federal Republic, the State of Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims, in 1952. Among those pictured is Benjamin Ferencz (second row from the front, second from the left). (Ben Ferencz/USHMM)

Wealthy Luxembourg is western Europe’s last Holocaust restitution deadbeat

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bar Refaeli poses for photographers at a Paris fashion show, February 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Bar Refaeli ordered to pay back taxes on $4.5 million in unreported income

Court rejects supermodel’s appeal against outstanding tax bill, as state prepares to indict her and her parents for tax fraud and money laundering

My taxi driver invited me to his seder

Israelis often think everyone has somewhere to go to — because they nearly always do; Avshalom went the extra mile, but would I take him up on it?

Into and out of earth’s shadow

My father, an aerospace engineer, wrote of the same problem that caused the Beresheet crash in a language that touched my soul

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Arab League member states at the grouping's headquarters in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on April 21, 2019. (Mohamed el-Shahed/AFP)

At Arab League, Abbas accuses Netanyahu of not ‘believing in peace’

PA president urges Arab states to help the Palestinians overcome a major budgetary shortfall; says US-Palestinian security cooperation is ongoing despite aid cut

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) is greeted upon his arrival at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo, to discuss the latest developments in the Palestinian territories on April 21, 2019. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)

Arab League pledges $100 million a month to budget-stricken Palestinians

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/ Ludovic MARIN/File)

Israel said to reject ‘immoral’ French demand to resume tax transfers to Abbas

An IDF soldier chases a Palestinian suspect as he tries to escape in the West Bank town of Tuqu on April 18, 2019. (Mohammad Hmeid)

IDF shoots handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian suspect during escape attempt

By Tamar Pileggi

Troops filmed threatening bystanders who seek to aid Osama al-Badn, 16, nabbed for throwing rocks, after he was shot from behind; army says it provided immediate medical treatment

Palestinians climb the security fence along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, during clashes east of Gaza City, on February 15, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF arrests two Palestinians with knives who crossed Gaza border

In this combination of 10 photos taken on September 19, 2018, Palestinians shot in the legs during demonstrations and riots at the Gaza strip's border with Israel await treatment at a Gaza City clinic run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders). (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Qatar opens Gaza artificial limb, rehab center after delays

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to offer Kahlon Foreign Ministry in coalition talks

Party leaders to meet Thursday amid rumors of possible Likud-Kulanu merger; PM has met with all other party heads

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with his then-aide Natan Eshel, on August 28, 2011. (Amit Shabi/pool/Flash90/File)

Despite protests, PM aide who quit over sexual misconduct joins coalition talks

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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)

Leading Jewish group outraged at beating of Judas effigy in Poland

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: El Al flight attendants stand inside the Boeing 737-900ER aircraft at the Ben Gurion International Airport on October 23, 2013.(Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Health Ministry orders Israeli airlines to vaccinate crews against measles

Then-president-elect Donald Trump calls out to media as he and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse, November 20, 2016, in Bedminster, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Nothing wrong with help from Russians, Trump lawyer says

Israeli startup Cortica says it has developed an AI-based technology that allows cars and computers to see and understand their surroundings by mimicking the function of the brain of mammals (Courtesy).

Israel’s Cortica seeks to nip at Mobileye’s heels with brain-mimicking tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump, right, with First Lady Melania Trump, center, and daughter Tiffany Trump, left, arrive for Easter services at Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, April 21, 2019, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Top Democrat broaches possibility of pursuing Trump impeachment

By AP and AFP

The scene of a suspected hit-and-run in Jerusalem on April 21, 2019. (screen capture: Ynet)

11-year-old in critical condition after hit-and-run in Jerusalem

First responders at the scene of a deadly scaffolding collapse in Haifa, April 22, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Israeli construction worker killed in Haifa scaffolding collapse

Yarok Microbio's lab in Bergamo, Italy (Courtesy)

Bacteria-hunting kit aims to spot food hazards before they enter our homes

By Federico Maccioni

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