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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein speaks to new lawmakers ahead of the swearing-in ceremony for the 21st Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset Speaker Edelstein confirmed for third term in post

Incumbent receives backing from overwhelming majority of MKs to stay in position during opening session of new parliament

6:20 pm

Zuckerberg introduces redesigned Facebook app amid privacy concerns
6:16 pm

New Knesset's richest member asks to receive yearly salary of one shekel
5:39 pm

Dutch queen planned to swap Nazis for Belgian king -- report

A Jewish emergency crew and police officers at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded 6, including 4 police, at the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 28, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/via JTA)

ADL: Assaults on US Jews rise in 2018, anti-Semitism at ‘near-historic’ high

Last year saw a decrease in total number of incidents expressing anti-Jewish hatred reported to watchdog, but Pittsburgh shooting was single deadliest attack ever on American Jewry

This undated California Department of Motor Vehicles photo released by the US Department of Justice shows Mark Domingo, an army veteran who converted to Islam and allegedly planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks in March. (US Department of Justice via AP)

US army vet accused of plotting terror attacks on Nazis, Jews in California

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: the skyline of Montreal, Canada, June 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit record number for 3rd straight year

By David Lazarus

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during a conference at the national library in Jerusalem on June 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Mandelblit: The rule of law trumps Netanyahu’s win at the polls

AG rejects notion election results will impact his decisions in Netanyahu’s criminal cases, says claims PM was set up are ‘intended to delegitimize law-enforcement’

Rafi Peretz, head of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, holds a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

URWP head reportedly agrees to include PM immunity bill among coalition demands

Reporter's notebook

Knesset newbies day: Civics lessons, car choices, and a plea to serve the public

Before 21st Knesset officially begins, parliament’s fresh faces receive a crash course on lawmaking and get to enjoy their new seats… with one exception

New Knesset members from the Blue and White pose in their newly allocated Knesset plenary seats, April 29, 2019. At right is Miki Haimovich. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset)

21st Knesset set to be sworn in with largest freshmen crop

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewBack to school: 10 things to know for March 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Liberman digs in heels on coalition demands, says won’t cave on religion matters

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a visit to Aleh Negev, a rehabilitation village for disabled children and adults near Ofakim in southern Israel, on July 28, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Why the left keeps failing in the pro-Likud periphery, home to 25% of Israelis

Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of the pre-military academy in the West Bank settlement in Eli. (screen capture: Channel 13)

Embracing racism, rabbis at pre-army yeshiva laud Hitler, urge enslaving Arabs

By Tamar Pileggi

Recordings show instructors at settlement academy openly promoting Jewish supremacy; principal says Arabs want to live under Israeli occupation due to their genetic inferiority

Almog Peretz (L) and niece Lian Dahan, survivors of the April 27 shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, California. (Channel 13 screenshot)

Uncle reenacts rush for safety in Chabad attack as girls recover from nightmare

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Young sisters who experienced California synagogue shooting recount moments of deadly terror; Almog Peretz says gunman chased him and kids into playground

‘Everyone was her sister’: Family, friends mourn woman gunned down in synagogue

By AP and ToI Staff

Security Council marks minute of silence for attacks on synagogue, church

Poway shooter’s family denounces son as part of ‘history of evil’ against Jews

By AP

Heavily armed San Diego police officers approach a house thought to be the home of 19-year-old John T. Earnest, the alleged shooter in the fatal attack at a synagogue in Poway on April 27, 2019, in San Diego, California. (John Gibbins/ The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

How US Jewish communities can get trained to prevent shootings like Poway

Experts say American synagogues need to invest time in preparing their members, not just in hiring armed guards, in order to stay safe

Synagogue gunman charged with murder, hate crimes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In Poway, fear and grief follow deadly synagogue shooting

By Gabrielle Birkner

FBI got tips about threat minutes before synagogue shooting

By AP

Fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad terror group's military wing, take part in a military march in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

IDF accuses Islamic Jihad of Gaza rocket fire, cuts fishing zone as punishment

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says long-range projectile, which landed off the coast Monday night, was an attempt by the Iran-backed terror group to derail ceasefire agreements

Islamic Jihad denies firing rocket after Israel limits Gaza fishing zone

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

In shift, army taps new spokesman from business world, a former aide to Livni

By Judah Ari Gross

Trump mulls terror designation for Muslim Brotherhood

Helene Le Gal during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)

Israel rebukes French envoy over colleague’s ‘apartheid’ accusation

By Raphael Ahren

Hélène Le Gal summoned to Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem over statement by Paris’s outgoing Washington ambassador; Gérard Araud says he was referring to the West Bank only

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at an event in Detroit, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya/File)

After cartoon uproar, Israel’s US envoy calls NY Times a ‘cesspool of hostility’

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, on July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

Trump’s Mideast envoy blasts NY Times over ‘dangerous and despicable’ cartoon

Illustrative: Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)

Despite Brexit and Corbyn, immigration to Israel from UK is dwindling

By Raphael Ahren

Only 534 Brits moved to Jewish state last year, compared to 770 in 2015; Jewish Agency official says immigration is ‘practically never motivated by one single push or pull factor’

Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

UK Labour suspends member for call to march on synagogue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Educating Lia: The trauma stops here

A bat-mitzvah ceremony that would pair my daughter with a specific child murdered in the Holocaust? I don’t think so

Less bureaucracy, fewer tests, more studying

Six big ideas for an incoming education minister who wants to leave a mark

This image made from video posted on a militant website on April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP)

IS chief Baghdadi emerges on video for first time in five years

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Terror leader admits battle for group’s last Syria stronghold over, says Sri Lanka bombings were revenge on West; notes Netanyahu winning Israeli vote as apparent proof clip is new

A salesman covers the face of a mannequin with a niqab cafe veil at a women's clothing shop in Kattankudy, Sri Lanka, April 29, 2019. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

After attack, Sri Lanka uses emergency law to ban Muslim face coverings

By Jon Gambrell and GEMUNU AMARSINGHE

Women and children fleeing the battered Islamic State-held holdout of Baghouz in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor walk with covers and suitcases into a nearby area held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on February 12, 2019. (Delil souleiman/AFP)

Parents of IS fighters stage protest in Germany to allow kids back

By AFP

More Headlines

A member of the Syrian security forces walks near the border post with Israel in the Syrian town of Quneitra in the Golan Heights on March 26, 2019. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Report: Syrian prisoners to be released in swap for remains of more IDF soldiers

The Calosoma olivieri beetle. (Dr. Uri Shalom, Ministry of Environmental Protection)

Every little thingBeetles invade Israel, but ministry says let them be

Singer Omer Adam performs in the city of Modi'in on August 28, 2011. (Jorge Novominsky/ Flash 90/ File)

Minister vows to cap ‘massive’ local spending on glitzy Independence Day events

Former Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld speak during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

French Nazi hunter berates Trump for ‘failing to see danger’ of far-right

By Sébastien BLANC

This Nov. 16, 2018, image provide by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via AP)

What if an asteroid was about to hit Earth? Scientists ponder question

By Ivan Couronne

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Culture Minister Miri Regev meet with Israeli medal winners from a judo tournament in Abu Dhabi, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on November 8, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahronoth/Pool)/Flash90)

Netanyahu officially invited to Eurovision, Regev said to be snubbed

2018 Eurovision Song Contest winner Netta Barzilai gives an interview on November 3, 2018, in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel’s Eurovision winner: Calls to boycott song contest are spreading darkness

By AFP

Illustrative - Girl with EEG electrodes attached to her head. (Luaeva, Getty Images)

Israeli researchers discover MS drug could help epilepsy patients

In this photo dated May 8, 2014, Bernard Dargols poses during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in La Garenne-Colombes, outside Paris, France (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Bernard Dargols, only French GI to fight at Omaha Beach in WWII, dies at 98

By AFP

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

Jordan, Egypt said to mediate between Israel and PA over tax transfer standoff

Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon's Druze minority, speaks during a press conference after meeting Druze religious leadership in Beirut, Lebanon on June 12, 2015. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Druze leader: Disputed Shebaa Farms not part of our country

Jewish Fatah member Ilan Halevi (photo credit: Youtube/ screengrab)

West Bank city to name a street after late Jewish member of Fatah

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