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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 24, 2019

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Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Golan Heights on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

Netanyahu says he’ll name Golan Heights town after Trump

Touring region on northern border, PM says move will honor US president’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over disputed territory

Netanyahu not meeting longtime ally Mitt Romney on his visit to Israel

Adam Schiff isn’t closing the book on the Trump-Russia investigation

Pro-Israel voices pan Sanders for calling Netanyahu government racist

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jared Kushner participates in a panel discussion during the TIME 100 Summit 2019 on April 23, 2019 in New York City. (Brian Ach/Getty Images for TIME/AFP)

In apparent dismissal of two-state solution, Kushner says past efforts ‘failed’

‘We’ve tried to do it a bit differently,’ Trump’s senior adviser says of imminent peace plan, which requires ‘tough compromises,’ aims to ‘make lives of Palestinians better’

Israel media reviewFailed states: 8 things to know for April 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Rouhani: Iran willing to negotiate if US lifts sanctions, apologizes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Kushner: Mueller investigation damaged country more than Russian interference

Warning: Spoilers

Action-packed ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is unprecedentedly epic — and Jewish

Out Wednesday, the 3-hour culmination of 22 chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is worth going back in time and watching again

Two young men wearing Spider-Man costumes at the Icon Festival in Tel Aviv, October 19, 2016. (Dan Ofer/JTA)

This story has legsScared of arachnids? Go watch Spider-Man, Israeli study says

Analysis

Simona Weinglass

Demography is (voting) destiny: Ten takeaways from the 2019 election results

Which town voted for Likud in the highest proportions? Which gave the New Right 57% of its vote? What is Jerusalem’s most Meretz-loving neighborhood? Read on to find out

View of election campaign posters showing Benny Ganz (R), Head of Blue and White party and late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (L), in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019, prior to the Israeli general elections on April 9. (photo credit:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Benny Gantz, right. (Hadas Parush/Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Poll: Two-thirds of Israeli Jews support unity government without Haredi parties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Minister of Interior Affairs Eli Yishai at the Knesset in 2012 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ex-Shas chief Yishai says PM promised him post for pulling out of election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Likud supporters as the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, indicating that he has won reelection, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

With immunity gambit, Netanyahu endangers his legacy and our democracy

By David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in a composite photo. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM may petition High Court if AG refuses to delay indictment hearing — report

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)

Netanyahu using coalition talks to secure immunity from prosecution, Gantz fumes

Journalist and podcaster Sarah Koenig. (Sandy Honig)

Interview

Could a revolutionary podcast change America’s criminal justice system?

By Cathryn J. Prince

A cannabis plant at the Knesset in 2009 for a meeting on medical marijuana in the parliament's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli researchers probe how cannabis can treat endometriosis

By Shoshanna Solomon

Disease that affects 10% of women of childbearing age can cause severe pain and bleeding

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Black hole

Haim Watzman remembers his younger son, Niot z”l, who died in a diving accident during Passover eight years ago

Rescuers at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 11, 2019. (AP /Mulugeta Ayene)

Weeks after plane crash, Ethiopia still blocking access to victims’ remains

By Judah Ari Gross

Relative of one of the 157 killed in the crash says impact site left in disarray, with belongings and remains scattered on the ground, exposed to the elements

Illustrative: A Hezbollah flag is waved during an Al-Quds rally in London (Steve Winston/via Jewish News)

Live updates (closed)

US slaps new sanctions on Hezbollah-linked businessmen, firms

By Michael Bachner

Treasury Department says 2 individuals, three Belgium- and UK-based companies have been helping terror group evade existing sanctions

6:12 pm

A year later, PM promises inquiry into flood disaster, as hundreds protest inaction
5:44 pm

US slaps new sanctions on Hezbollah-linked businessmen, firms
5:33 pm

Education Ministry official said to pan potential minister as 'an insane problem'

Pharaoh's Daughter (© Dikla Laor)

In visual midrash, Israeli artist puts biblical women in the center of the frame

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jamie Allen Black, Naomi K. Eisenberger and Nicole Nevarez

After Steinhardt, now what?

The Jewish community has so far resisted embracing the systemic change needed to build a gender reality rooted in equality and respect

Michael S. Diamond

The four hermeneutical children of the seder

In the middle of a meal whose very name means ’order’ comes the moment when we ask, are we having fun learning now?

A priest conducts a mass burial for Easter Sunday bomb blast victims in Negombo, Sri Lanka on April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Sri Lanka admits ‘major’ lapse led to Easter Sunday massacre

By Amal JAYASINGHE

Government faces anger over revelations that specific intelligence warnings about an imminent Islamist attack targeting churches were ignored

Sri Lanka death toll jumps to 359 as police round up more bomb suspects

By AP

Islamic State publishes photo it says shows the 8 Sri Lanka bombers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Last terrorist wanted in murder of US Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl arrested

Illustrative: A person walks past the building where the 'Warsaw Ghetto Museum' will be located, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, December 14, 2018. (AP photo/Alik Keplicz)

Analysis

Yaakov Schwartz

Community leaders say ‘first’ Warsaw Ghetto seder no different from all others

The Chabad-led Passover event at a hotel overlooking the former ghetto may have been memorable, but it was far from unprecedented, and calling it so misses the point, locals say

Children using sticks to beat an effigy of Judas on Good Friday, April 19, 2019, in the town of Pruchnik, Poland. (Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)

Poland opens hate crime probe into beating, burning of Jewish effigy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Andrei Majuru. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Romanian state museum director pens anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Rabbi Shmuel Notik, his wife Chaya and family (Facebook)

Rabbi, wife assaulted in Kenya robbery, reportedly called anti-Semitic slurs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

This undated photo provided by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department in Waukesha, Wisconsin, shows Waheba Issa Dais, of Cudahy, Wisconsin. (Waukesha County Sheriff's Department via AP, File)

Israeli Arab woman helped IS plan terror attacks on US water sources, festivals

By AFP and ToI Staff

Alain Finkielkraut in his Paris home (Robert Sarner/Times of Israel)

Paris conference with Jewish philosopher held under security amid protests

By JTA

36-year-old Yaniv Avraham who was found dead in a Berlin hotel room in April 2019. (Facebook)

Body of Israeli found in Berlin hotel, but authorities took days to tell family

A maritime map of the eastern Mediterranean showing Exclusive Economic Zone borders, including an area of dispute (marked 4) between Israel and Lebanon. Source: IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2012 (www.iemed.org/medyearbook)

Lebanon ‘ready’ to demarcate maritime border with Israel under UN supervision

By Tamar Pileggi

Incoming Knesset members pray at Joseph's Tomb near Nablus, West Bank Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan (C) Likud's Eti Atia (3rd R) Likud's Uzi Dayan (R) Likud's Ariel Kallner (5th L), Union of Right-Wing Parties incoming MK Idit Silman, on April 24, 2019 (Screen grab via Twitter)

Five incoming MKs join worshipers at Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus in West Bank

British Holocaust denier David Irving. (JTA)

Lithuania bans Holocaust denier David Irving for 5 years

By AFP

Israeli forces demolish the West Bank home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed a rabbi and an IDF soldier in a shooting spree, April 24, 2019 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israeli troops demolish home of terrorist who killed soldier, rabbi in March

Omar Chowdhury. (Facebook)

UK campus minority officer to Jewish student: Be like Israel and cease to exist

Intel Corp.'s 9th Gen Core, sired by its Haifa team, was launched by the US tech giant on April 23, 2019 (Courtesy)

Intel launches its ‘most powerful’ laptop processors, sired by Haifa team

By Shoshanna Solomon

Labour MP Grahame Morris. (YouTube screenshot)

From our partnerLabour MP ‘sorry’ for sharing ‘fake news’ about IDF abusing Palestinian youth

Illustrative: A worker on a rooftop at a construction site in Jerusalem, August 5, 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

For 27th time this year, worker killed on construction site

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