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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 5, 2023

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Israeli security forces stand guard as Palestinians pray in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount on April 5, 2023 during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Fighting raises fears of wider conflagration

Air Force strikes in Gaza after rocket fire; 350 detained in Al-Aqsa clashes

By Ash Obel, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF says it hit Hamas weapons factory, storage facility in response to attacks; heavy unrest in Jerusalem overnight saw cops enter revered mosque and brawl with rioters at the site

Police walk inside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, early on April 5, 2023 after clashes erupted during Islam's holy month of Ramadan. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Arab League to meet on Al-Aqsa clashes; Netanyahu: We’re committed to calming tension

By Ash Obel and AFP

Police clash with Palestinians inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 5, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rockets fired at Gaza border towns following clashes inside Al-Aqsa Mosque

A cartoon depicting opposition leader Yair Lapid as a pig counting money, published in the Behadrei Haredim Haredi news site, April 2023. The banners read: "Demonstration" and "Never mind what it's about" -- references to the mass protests against the government's controversial judicial overhaul, which Lapid has sometimes addressed. (Twitter photo screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Haredi outlet’s cartoons depict Lapid as a pig, judge as dragon, protester as wolf

Opposition leader accuses ultra-Orthodox site of using antisemitic imagery in its caricatures

A policeman detains a youth with a lamb he is suspected of intending to sacrifice on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 5, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police detain several people seeking to carry out animal sacrifice at Temple Mount

Cops stop a number of individuals with goats or lambs as they try to bring them to sensitive holy site to perform ancient ritual; act seen as having explosive potential

Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai at a security exhibition in the South Sharon Regional Council on March 21, 2023. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Police chief warns force will disintegrate if new national guard put under Ben Gvir

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Bruce Brill examines barley in Jerusalem, Israel on March 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)

'Spiraling back to the roots of the Torah while evolving'

As Karaites undergo a resurgence, why is their Passover different from all others?

By Canaan Lidor

An ancient stream of Judaism whose members distrust rabbinical authority, Karaism is seen growing in popularity among skeptical Israelis

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‘In every generation’: Why Seder is the time to discuss a path out of Israel’s crisis

This Editor’s Note was sent out on Tuesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. We are instructed, in the Haggadah that we will read at Wednesday night's Seder, to retell the story of our ancestors'... Continue Reading

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara receive a box of matzah from Chabad Representatives prior to Passover, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, April 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai attend a special committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘They kill each other’: Israel Police chief says it is Arabs’ ‘nature’ to murder

Top Arab politician calls for ouster of Shabtai, who accuses Ben Gvir of leaking contents of phone call amid feud over establishment of national guard

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A sunflower for Ukraine? A tomato for farmworkers? I’m sticking to seder plate basics

If we need account for every tale of oppression, we risk missing some – and lose the universal truths of the Exodus

Shin Bet chief: Over 200 ‘significant’ terror attacks foiled so far this year

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at a pre-Passover toast on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a pre-Passover toast, with Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at right, April 4, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

PM fails to mention defense minister in frosty pre-Passover toast

Masked Palestinians burn tires during clashes with Israeli security forces following the funeral of Mufid Khalil in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, November 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Soldier lightly injured by gunfire during operation in West Bank village

Former US president Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Trump arraigned in New York courtroom, in first for a former US president

By Michael R. Sisak, Eric Tucker, Jennifer Peltz and Will Weissert

Businessman, who is seeking return to the White House, pleads not guilty to 34 charges at brief court session over 2016 hush-money payments to porn star, Playboy model

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Mar-a-Lago Club April 4, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Back at Mar-a-Lago, Trump denounces hush money charges as ‘an insult to our country’

By Gerard Martinez and Frankie TAGGART

A general view shows the Rikers Island jail complex in the East River of New York, from Queens, on January 13, 2022, with a Passover seder and matzah illustration. (Ed JONES/Getty Images/ Illustration by Mollie Suss via JTA)

'Inmates have beautiful insights about freedom and hope'

Next year as free men: On Rikers Island, a Passover seder for Jewish inmates

Known for its harsh conditions, the oft-overlooked NYC prison allows a yearly ritual that provides a rare ray of hope for those incarcerated there — and the volunteers who lead it

File: Israeli soldiers patrol on the border between Lebanon and Israel in northern Israel, March 15, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Blasts heard in northern Israel as Iron Dome fires at false threat

Military says preliminary information indicates interceptor missiles were launched in error, with country on edge before Passover and after rockets fired from Gaza

People view the damage in a residential neighborhood after an early morning Israeli airstrike in the capital city of Damascus, Syria, February 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Israeli strikes on Syria intensify as tensions with Iran rise

Mourners attend the funeral procession for two of Iran's revolutionary guard forces allegedly killed by Israel in Syria, held in Tehran on April 4, 2023. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

After airstrikes, Syria warns Israel not to drag region toward ‘total escalation’

Ariel University's Dr. Yonatan Adler. (courtesy)

ToI podcastHear about the 'Passover Papyrus' from 419 BCE

What Matters Now to archaeologist Prof. Yonatan Adler: The origins of Judaism

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ariel University prof discusses his ‘excavation’ into the evidence for the practice of the Jewish religion – and points to when we know with certainty that Passover was observed

An Iranian long-range Ghadr missile with "Death to Israel" written in Hebrew down the side is displayed at a defense exhibition in city of Isfahan, central Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Morteza Salehi/Tasnim News/AFP)

Iran claims it foiled drone attack on defense facility in Isfahan

Authorities say no damage caused to facility; incident comes as Israel appears to step up activities against Iranian interests in Syria

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader: Israel’s demise coming faster than I expected

A man holding an umbrella walks past a Jewish restaurant that Greek officials believe was one of the targets of a planned terrorist attack, in central Athens, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Official: Pakistanis nabbed before attack on Athens Chabad had Iran-based handler

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform, Monday, April 3, 2023, at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Concert reviewNo, not Yiddishkeit, but certainly righteous

Proving it all night, 73-year-old Springsteen rocks a first-timer’s socks off in NYC

By Jordan Hoffman

At an April 3 show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, The Boss treats fans to a non-stop 3-hour set, making a $334 dream come true for a nice Jewish boy who shares his NJ hometown

An illustration by Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi in 'For Our Freedom,' a new Haggadah in Ukrainian, an initiative of Project Kesher, available for Passover 2023 (Courtesy Project Kesher)

A story of hope

Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover with fresh start and new Haggadah

By Jessica Steinberg

‘For Our Freedom’ includes vivid illustrations by Kyiv-born Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi

Artistic freedom on display at historic high school’s Passover biennale

By Jessica Steinberg

The first Autonomous Art Biennale opens at Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv, offering ‘Experiments in Learning’

Boxes of Trader Joe's matzah for sale. (Isabella Armus via JTA)

The fifth question

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Food welfare organizations report sharp rise in requests as Passover approaches

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