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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 25, 2019

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Security personnel stand guard in front of St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on April 23, 2019, two days after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. (Jewel SAMAD / AFP)

Citing ‘high, concrete’ terror threat, Israel tells citizens to leave Sri Lanka

By ToI Staff and AP

Four days after Easter suicide bombings killed at least 359 people and wounded 500 more, Counter-Terrorism Bureau tells Israelis to come home, cancel planned trips

Sri Lankan navy soldiers perform security checks on motorists at a road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

Father of two Easter suicide bombers arrested in Sri Lanka

By AP

Daniel and Amelie Linsey (R-L) , two Jewish victims of the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019. (Courtesy via Jewish News)

From our partnerJewish teen siblings among those murdered in Sri Lanka terror attacks

Former US vice president Joe Biden arrives at a rally organized by UFCW Union members to support Stop and Shop employees on strike throughout the region at the Stop and Shop in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2019. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Joe Biden launches 2020 presidential bid, warning ‘soul’ of America at stake

By Steve Peoples and Thomas Beaumont

Former vice president formally enters the race with release of video on Twitter; 20 Democrats now jockeying for the chance to take on Trump next year

Analysis5 Jewish things to know about Joe Biden

Michael Cohen, former lawyer to US President Donald Trump, exits the Federal Courthouse on August 21, 2018 in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images/AFP)

Cohen says he pleaded guilty to crimes he didn’t commit

By Michael R. Sisak

Naama and Eitam Henkin, who were killed in a terror attack on October 1, 2015. (Courtesy)

4 children of parents murdered in West Bank sue Syria, Iran in US federal court

By JTA

Henkin family demands $360 million in civil damages from nations for financing, arming Hamas terrorists

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at the Asia Society in New York, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Zarif accuses Netanyahu and Saudis of trying to provoke US into war with Iran

By Edith M. Lederer

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at the Asia Society in New York, April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Iran threatens ‘consequences’ if US takes ‘crazy measure’ of blocking oil sales

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)

19% like Palestinian government, while 46% like the people

Poll: 64% of Americans like Israelis, but only 41% like their government

By Eric Cortellessa

Pew Research Center finds wide gap between Democratic and Republican views on Israeli and Palestinian people, and their leaders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muafak Tarif at his office in Jerusalem on August 1, 2018. (Prime Minister's Office)

Netanyahu vows to empower Druze: ‘You are part of us, we are part of you’

A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security detail seen holding an apparent drone-jamming gun, April 22, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Bibi gunNetanyahu security guard seen sporting anti-drone gun

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

Mossad may have tried to ‘kidnap’ spy Eli Cohen’s body from Syria 40 years ago

Recording made by legendary operative’s brother says agency managed to get the body to the Lebanese border but apparently failed; daughter says she’s unaware of such an incident

Tourists takes pictures, as the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar/File)

Lebanon warns that Israel is seeking to insert spies posing as tourists

Hezbollah fighters hold flags, as they attend the memorial of slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, south Lebanon, February 13, 2016. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

US slaps new sanctions on Hezbollah-linked businessmen, firms

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 26, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Israel media review

Uncle Moishy and the mischief men: 8 things to know for April 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Kahlon is seen as rejoining Likud, though it’s unclear if he’d have been a brake in any case on changes planned by the new government that some say will end Israel as we know it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

At first meeting since election, PM and Kahlon discuss economy, not party merger

Analysis

Israel opens new Qalandiya checkpoint, phasing out inadequate crossing

Palestinian laborers say new terminal, which requires biometric permits, makes commute to Israel more manageable; PLO official: Israel should remove checkpoints, not beautify them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu feuds with Arab Twitter users over Israel’s rights to the land

Jason Greenblatt attends the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala at Carnegie Hall in New York, March 28, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Trump envoy says US peace plan won’t involve confederation with Jordan

Greenblatt also denies ‘rumors’ that the upcoming American initiative ‘contemplates making Jordan the homeland for Palestinians’

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki speaking to Palestine TV, the official PA channel, on April 23, 2019. (Screenshot: Palestine TV)

Palestinians want to discuss US peace plan with Europe, PA FM says

Palestinians protest against a government tax hike in Ramallah, West Bank, December 12, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

UN warns PA threatened by ‘unprecedented financial and political challenges’

Haifa University researchers inspect the Roman milestone at Moshav Ramot bearing the name of Emperor Maximinus Thrax. (Susita Excavation/Haifa University)

Cryptic Golan milestone found to be monument to low-born Roman emperor’s reign

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Discovered in a Moshav Ramot garden, once-indecipherable 1,800-year-old road marker near Sea of Galilee offers proof of the brief 3rd-century rule of Maximinus Thrax

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

Monkeys, a car accident, and my 28th birthday

When breaking the rules means a monkey might die, there’s no way we’re going to risk it; who would?

Jennifer Raskas

Aaron and entering into vulnerability

If you numb yourself to prevent hurt and disappointment, you negate the possibility of joy, gratitude, and happiness too (Acharei Mot)

Participants at the Sadeh farm at Skeet Hill outside of London. (Courtesy)

Spiritual growth

Jewish farm plants a Garden of Eden in southern England

By Robert Philpot

This picture taken on April 19, 2019 shows an effigy of Judas on Good Friday, hanging in the town of Pruchnik, southern Poland. (Photo by Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)

Far-right politician says effigy row shows Jews or Freemasons spying on Poland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Janusz Korwin-Mikke singles out Jonny Daniels, the Israeli-British founder of Holocaust commemoration group From the Depths

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

Israel says it ‘regrets’ Polish burning of Judas effigy

By AFP

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem walk alongside an Israeli soldier. June 6, 2008. (Lara Savage/Flash 90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews hurl stones at soldier in Jerusalem, nearly hit baby

Undated photo of John William King. (Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice via AP)

Texas executes racist killer in ‘one of most gruesome hate crimes in US history’

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK

Unrepentant John William King gets lethal injection for dragging death of black man in 1988

FILE - Police officers in Trappes, west of Paris, Aug. 23, 2018 (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Jewish couple robbed and threatened in their Paris-area home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ramy Youssef stars in 'Ramy,' the show he created now streaming on Hulu. (Screenshot from YouTube/via JTA)

TV review

Why Jews should watch ‘Ramy,’ a new Hulu show about a millennial Muslim

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

The University of Maryland (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

University of Maryland student government rejects Israel divestment resolution

The UK's performance at Eurovision 2018 was interrupted by a protester. (Courtesy Dewayne Barkley/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Musical numbersPolitics, loyalties play role in Eurovision wins, except for Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Heavy traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv. June 28, 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israel weighs introducing congestion charges to ease city center traffic

British Holocaust denier David Irving. (JTA)

Lithuania bans Holocaust denier David Irving for 5 years

By AFP

Protesters rally near the military headquarters, April 9, 2019, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo)

Report: Company tied to Putin ally behind plan to blame Israel for Sudan unrest

A woman receives a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, New York, on March 27, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig, File)

US measles cases hit highest mark in 25 years amid outbreak among ultra-Orthodox

Brick Mayor John Ducey (YouTube screenshot)

NJ mayor under fire for advising man to call police on Jewish ‘invasion’

In this April 8, 2004 file photo, playwright Mark Medoff, left, and actress Phyllis Frelich pose for a photo in New York. Medoff, who wrote the award-winning play "Children of a Lesser God," has died in New Mexico at age 79. Medoff's daughter, Jessica Bunchman, confirmed that he died Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in a Las Cruces hospice, surrounded by family. Frelich won a Tony in 1980 for her Broadway portrayal of Sarah Norman, the deaf woman at the heart of the play. (AP Photo/Justin Walters)

‘Children of a Lesser God’ writer Mark Medoff dies at 79

By Mark Kennedy

Illustrative: Anti-abortion activists hold a rally opposing federal funding for Planned Parenthood in front of the US Capitol July 28, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery/Getty Images via JTA)

Alabama lawmakers compare abortion to Holocaust in 2 bills

By JTA

DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus (Photo by Kmf164, Wikimedia Commons)

DePaul students demand censure of prof for op-ed backing West Bank annexation

By Josefin Dolsten

Naval police conduct search for teen missing at the Sea of Galilee on April 25, 2019 (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

19-year-old from Jerusalem drowns in Sea of Galilee

BerMax Caffé and Bistro in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Google Street View screenshot)

Canadian police say ‘anti-Semitic attack’ on cafe was staged

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