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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 27, 2019

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Zachary Baumel. (JTA/Courtesy Miriam Baumel)

Israel to release Syrian prisoners as ‘goodwill gesture’ after return of Baumel

Official says decision to free 2 Syrians wasn’t made in advance; ministers say cabinet hasn’t discussed it; body of Zachary Baumel, missing since 1982, was returned in early April

Fatah operative Hamis Ahmad (L) and drug smuggler Zidan Tweil, two Syrians set to be freed by Israel (Courtesy)

Two Syrians to be freed by Israel: Fatah man who planned attack, drug smuggler

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Zachary Baumel at the Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jerusalem on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Russian envoy: ‘Israel to release Syrian prisoners as part of deal for Baumel’

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)

Family of Jewish teens killed in Sri Lanka talk of loss, plans to set up charity

Children among 15 dead as Sri Lanka forces raid jihadist hideout

By Amal JAYASINGHE and Ammu Kannampilly

Sunday Mass canceled across Sri Lanka a week after bombings

By Emily Schmall, Jon Gambrell and BHARATHA MALLAWARCHI

Photo essayAmid horror, Sri Lanka church still shows beauty

By Manish Swarup

The remains of the Warsaw ghetto, which the German SS dynamited to the ground in 1945 after slaughtering some 60,000 Jews. (AP Photo)

Poles look to charge Germans $850 billion to mark 80 years since Nazi invasion

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lawmaker heading parliamentary team on potential war reparations says committee’s work should be done by September 1, the anniversary of the start of World War II

Taking a walk on a camel's back in the Judean Desert adjacent to Arad. (Courtesy Kfar Hanokdim)

36 hours in Arad, at the edge of the Judean and Negev deserts

By Jessica Steinberg

In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, whose parents say has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea, was released and returned to the United States Tuesday, June 13, 2017, as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

Trump denies paying North Korea for release of US Jewish student Otto Warmbier

By AFP

Reports said a US official was made to sign a pledge to pay $2m in medical costs before being allowed to bring home the comatose torture victim, who died days after his return

US Chargé d’Affaires in Iraq Joey Hood (c) tours the Tomb of Nahum in northern Iraq on April 26, 2019, where he pledged $500,000 to restore and preserve the site (Courtesy/US Consulate General in Erbil)

US to donate additional $500K to restore tomb of biblical prophet Nahum in Iraq

1,500-year-old building was for centuries the site of a major Kurdish Jewish pilgrimage every Shavuot

Ku Klux Klan members on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia protesting the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, and calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments. (Chet Strange/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising Confederate general

Remarks come after Biden makes president’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ defense of white supremacists the center of his campaign launch

US President Donald Trump (r) with Queen Elizabeth II, inspecting the Guard of Honour at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, July 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Corbyn refuses invitation to state dinner for ‘racist and misogynist’ Trump

By AFP

Seumas Milne, strategy and communications director to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. (YouTube screen capture)

From our partnerTop Corbyn aide suggests complicity between Islamic State and Israel

By MATHILDE FROT

Illustrative: A PLO supporter in the West Bank, January 5, 1988. A 50-year-old California man was stripped of his US citizenship on Friday for lying to immigration authorities when he became a citizen about his conviction for an attempted 1988 PLO terrorist bombing. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)

Man convicted of bombing Israeli bus stripped of US citizenship

By AP

Fifty-one-year-old Vallmoe Shqaire of California to be imprisoned, deported to Jordan for lying to immigration authorities about his role in 1988 terrorist attack

Hamas developing Bitcoin system for secure international funding, report says

Palestinians say 31 wounded as Gazans riot along border

EU bashes Israel for East Jerusalem home demolitions

Collage of Ester Steinberg. (Alma via JTA)

Interview

Ester Steinberg’s ‘Hebrew School Dropout’ is the comedy album of our dreams

By Arielle Kaplan

David Breakstone

8,000 empty chairs

Israel’s government faces numerous intractable problems. There is one it could solve overnight: bringing our Ethiopian brethren home

Oliver Spike Joseph

How many homeless did you pass today?

As a community, we must find answers for those who find themselves living in insecure housing and on the streets

A view of the Colosseum, lit ahead of Pope Francis arrival for the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession on Good Friday April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Israeli woman arrested for carving initials into a pillar at Rome Colosseum

The tourist, 39, will face vandalism charges after starting to scratch her family’s initials into a column of the ancient arena

Illustrative: Tourists enjoy slices of pizza as they sit in front of Rome's Colosseum, July 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Colleague of Israeli nabbed defacing Colosseum: No signs saying it’s forbidden

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The late Rabbi Achiad Ettinger seen at the gate of Oz V'emuna hesder yeshiva in Tel Aviv, in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Vandals attack Tel Aviv yeshiva of rabbi slain in terror shooting

Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is shown after appearing on ABC's 'The View,' Friday, April 26, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Biden hits back at Trump, defends his interactions with women

By AFP

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, answers questions during a presidential forum held by She The People on the Texas State University campus in Houston, April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Some women of color frustrated by Biden’s presidential bid

By JUANA SUMMERS and ERRIN HAINES WHACK

Isaiah J. Peoples appears for his arraignment in Santa Clara County Superior Court as his attorney, Chuck Smith, stands at his side on April 26, 2019, in San Jose, California (Jim Gensheimer/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)

Police say army vet drove into California crowd thinking people were Muslim

Israelis hike on the Oren Stream trail in the Carmel Mountains Nature Reserve, near the northern city of Haifa, April 26, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

50,000 visit Israel’s national parks as Passover holiday comes to an end

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Friday, April 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Trump tells NRA he’s withdrawing from UN arms trade treaty

By Jill Colvin and LISA MARIE PANE

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event on the rule of law in Washington, February 25, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Nearing end of his tenure, US Deputy AG Rosenstein hits back at critics

Maria Butina speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia, April 21, 2013,. (AP Photo/File)

Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in US

By Paul Handley

President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the White House, April 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says measles vaccine ‘so important’; in the past, he warned about autism

By Ivan Couronne

Andrew Anglin runs the anti-Semitic Daily Stormer website. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Lawyers for neo-Nazi website head to quit anti-Semitic troll storm case

By Michael Kunzelman

Harvey Weinstein at the State Supreme Court in New York, April 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Attorneys in Weinstein case buy some extra time before trial

By Michael R. Sisak and ALICIA RANCILIO

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking the the media after the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, April 27, 2019 (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin raises possibility of meeting Ukraine’s president-elect

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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