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What Matters Most On Monday, April 29, 2019

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks at a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, April 28, 2019, in Poway, California. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Reporter's notebook'Lori took the bullet for all of us' - rabbi mourns victim

Poway Chabad rabbi had asked border patrol agent to pray armed – just in case

Agent Jonathan Morales had been driving 3.5 hours to attend services after recently discovering his Jewish roots

After phone call, Trump praises ‘very special’ Chabad rabbi injured in shooting

Trump calls to ‘comfort’ rabbi after deadly synagogue shooting

By Gabrielle Birkner

Hundreds gather for vigil near California synagogue targeted in murderous attack

Shimon Abitbul, deputy director of the Yarkon Region for Magen David Adom in Israel. (Courtesy)

For veteran Israeli medic, a California ‘heaven’ shattered by familiar bloodshed

By Eric Cortellessa

Israel media review‘We are used to running’: 12 things to know for April 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Vigil held outside Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life for Poway shooting victims

By JTA

Police believe shooter acted alone; rabbi says gun ‘miraculously jammed’

By AP and Debra Kamin

Flowers and signs sit at a memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue, on Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, California. A man opened fire Saturday inside the synagogue near San Diego, as worshipers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

‘I saw Lori fall’: Eyewitness watched killer enter synagogue, gun down a friend

‘I saw the actual shot being fired,’ recalls Gil Pasternak. Gunman then fatally shot Lori Gilbert-Kaye twice more. ‘I was already running away and I didn’t look back’

Three wounded in Poway synagogue shooting released from the hospital

By ToI Staff and Agencies

All about ChabadChabad center targeted by gunman is focused on reaching out

Worshipers recount horror, heroics in aftermath of deadly synagogue shooting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the weekly PA cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 29, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed/Pool/AFP)

Abbas: ‘Europe invented Zionism and Israel… let’s not fool ourselves’

Addressing government ministers, PA president also says he doubts Arab world will help Palestinians in overcoming major financial crisis

Israeli hikers come under fire in West Bank; soldiers shoot suspected gunman

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian suspected of spying for UAE dies in Turkish prison

By AFP and ToI Staff

Abbas makes trip to Berlin for ‘routine’ medical check — Palestinian official

A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times' international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged "included anti-Semitic tropes." (Courtesy)

New York Times ‘deeply sorry’ for anti-Semitic cartoon of Netanyahu and Trump

Image included in paper’s international edition shows Israeli PM as a dog, guiding a skullcap-wearing US president

An Australian diplomat speaks with an Israeli colleague at Australia's new Defence and Trade Office in Jerusalem (Twitter)

Without fanfare, Australia opens trade and defense office in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Spokesperson insists facility in western part of the city not an extension of country’s Tel Aviv embassy, won’t have diplomatic status

Illustrative photo: Sheriff's crime scene tape is placed in front of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, after a shooting on April 27, 2019, in Poway, California. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Family of suspected synagogue gunman ‘shocked’ by deadly shooting

Parents say all five children were raised to reject hate: ‘To our great shame, he is now part of the history of evil’

6:32 pm

Family of alleged synagogue gunman 'shocked' by deadly shooting
6:06 pm

FBI got tip minutes before synagogue attack, too late to identify suspect
5:52 pm

Islamic State leader says Sri Lanka attacks revenge for Syria defeat

Neshama Carlebach

A prayer to breach the shuttered soul

Where do we find God on days when people are killed in houses of worship?

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What the Poway shooting says about our divided community

Where you stand on the political spectrum will nearly always determine whom you blame for anti-Semitic acts of violence

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

The familiar pain of Poway

Lori Gilbert-Kaye, shot dead in a San Diego synagogue, was stolen from a world that still needed her effervescence and her acts of kindness

It’s not (just) about the women

Israel is backsliding on gender equality, and will suffer collateral damage to its core values of liberal democracy and personal autonomy

Students participating in a learning session at Svara. (Jess Benjamin/via JTA)

A Chicago space for LGBTQ Jews becomes a ‘queer yeshiva for everybody’

By Josefin Dolsten

In this undated photo released by Sepahnews, the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran (Sepahnews via AP)

Iranian general: We won’t talk to US under pressure of sanctions

New IRGC chief says Washington trying to force Tehran to come to the table as exemptions for some countries over energy exports come to an end

Iranian drone video of American aircraft carrier appears ‘years old’: US Navy

By AFP

Iran sanctions and regional unrest hitting Mideast growth, IMF warns

By AFP

Iran threatens to shut strategic Hormuz Strait

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Ruling out delay, AG gives Netanyahu lawyers until May 10 to schedule hearing

Avichai Mandelblit says prime minister’s attorneys must hold pre-indictment session by mid-July, or he will move ahead to press charges

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein arrive for a joint event of the Knesset and the US Congress, celebrating 50 years since Jerusalem's reunification, at the Chagall state hall in the Knesset, on June 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

PM backs Edelstein for third term as Knesset speaker, as coalition talks resume

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

Netanyahu, Kahlon reportedly plan for possible financial collapse of PA

Daniel Nachmani, accused in the murder of Noa Eyal, is taken from the courtroom of the Jerusalem District Court on April 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

21 years later, man jailed for life for sexual assault, murder of Jerusalem teen

By Michael Bachner

Court also orders Daniel Nachmani to pay NIS 250,000 to family of Noa Eyal; case was cracked by advanced DNA matching of a saliva sample

Najla al-Amuri, 19, whose body was found in central Israel, April 28, 2019 (Courtesy)

Body of missing woman found in central Israel; 5 of her relatives arrested

Arafat Irfaiya, charged with the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court on February 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian accused of teen’s rape-murder to undergo psychiatric evaluation

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Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has developed a drone that it hopes will help farmers do labor-intensive fruit-picking (Courtesy)

Startup says time is ripe for fleets of drones to help farmers pick fruit

By Federico Maccioni

Netanel Sandrusi is taken to the traffic court in Jerusalem after being arrested on suspicion that he ran over an 11-year-old child, critically wounding him, and then fleeing the scene, April 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Judge orders suspect jailed for week in hit-and-run that left boy critical

This combination of 2018 photos shows Representatives Ilhan Omar (Democrat-Minnesota), left, and Rashida Tlaib (Democrat-Michigan), in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster,)

Progressive US movement endorses Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for 2020

People watch as an Israeli acrobatic team fly over during Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

After 2018 panic, IDF publishes Independence Day flyby practice schedule

By Judah Ari Gross

An El Al plane is inspected on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport after making an emergency landing on April 29, 2019 (Israel Airports Authority)

El Al plane makes emergency landing at Ben Gurion Airport

Illustrative: The Jerusalem Light Rail passing the Notre Dame Pontifical Institute. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Citipass withdraws from tender to run expanded Jerusalem light rail

Otto Warmbier arriving at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images/JTA)

Bolton says US stiffed North Korea after promising to pay for Warmbier

The SSCV Thialf crane vessel laying a foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field, January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

US-Israel fund seeks to finance R&D projects in renewable energy, natural gas

By Shoshanna Solomon

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