‘Final act of kindness’ of UK student killed in J’lem terror; Moses & the Great Seal; Rabbi burns bible; ‘Saw Jesus,

‘Final act of kindness’ of UK student killed in J’lem terror; Moses & the Great Seal; Rabbi burns bible; ‘Saw Jesus,’ got tased; Blog: Not Yossi Klein

 

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TV report reveals Hannah Bladon’s ‘final act of kindness’
UK student was standing near killer because she gave up her seat for woman with baby
Bladon, 21, had been sitting further back on the light rail; Palestinian terrorist says he stabbed her to death because he wanted the soldier standing next to her to kill him
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Hannah Bladon, an English student who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem on April 14, 2017 (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
US said preparing strike to ‘utterly destroy’ N. Korean nuclear program
VP Pence jets into Seoul as Korea tensions ratchet up; British officials are told Washington is considering a preemptive attack
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AFP
In this image made from video provided by North Korean broadcaster KRT, missiles are displayed during a parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Saturday, April 15, 2017. (KRT via AP)
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks as his wife Karen Pence listens during a dinner with soldiers and family members after Easter Sunday church services at a military base in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Pence: North Korea ‘provocation’ shows the risk to military
By KEN THOMAS
Illustrative: A woman walks past a television screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on April 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)
US: North Korean missile explodes on test launch
By FOSTER KLUG and HYUNG-JIN KIM
In this March, 2017, photo supplied by Sandia National Laboratories, an F-16C from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada releases a mock nuclear weapon for a test at Tonopah Test Range near Tonopah, Nevada. (James Galli/Sandia National Laboratories via AP)
US tests upgraded aircraft-delivered nuke
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
Ben Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States included Moses parting the Red Sea. (Public domain)
When Moses almost parted the Red Sea on the Great Seal of the United States
New book contends Hebrew prophets influenced the Puritans who established America — and the patriots who led it to independence
By RICH TENORIO
Polls open in Turkey’s historic referendum on reforms
President Erdogan seeking to gain sweeping executive powers, which opponents fear will turn the country into a one-man show
By ELENA BECATOROS and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
A woman casts a ballot inside a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2017. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and his wife Emine, center, look at their granddaughter Mahinur as she casts a ballot inside a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Two killed in fight outside polling station in Turkey
By AP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
People cheer and wave Turkish national flags or flags reading "yes" while the Turkish president delivers a speech in Istanbul, on April 15, 2017, during a rally on the eve of the constitutional referendum. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
What changes under Turkey’s new constitution plan?
By AFP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech during a campaign rally on the eve of the constitutional referendum, on April 15, 2017 in Istanbul. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
Erdogan, Turkey’s pugnacious ‘chief,’ eyes new poll knockout
By STUART WILLIAMS
Undercover IDF soldiers detained by PA police in Nablus
Illustrative. Soldiers from the IDF's elite Duvdevan unit in the West Bank in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
Troops from elite Duvdevan unit exposed while on mission in northern West Bank; later released without harm
By JUDAH ARI GROSS
F170403HP24Housing Minister Yoav Galant speaks at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build thousands of new apartments in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh, outside Jerusalem, April 03, 2017. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
Minister warns of summer conflict with Hamas
By STUART WINER
Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at a rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)
Hamas leader hints prisoner exchange deal in the works
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Palestinian children play on a street during a power cut in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on January 4, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Gaza’s sole power plant runs out of fuel
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AFP
Illustrative: Religious Zionist students praying at a hesder yeshiva. (The hesder program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework.) (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
On not being Yossi Klein
Blog: The (other) columnist’s rage at religious Zionists highlights the real need for mature discourse among disparate camps
By YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI
UK rabbi-politician burns Christian Bible, sparking ire
Rabbi Shneur Odze, running as UKIP candidate for Manchester mayor, August 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)
UKIP Manchester mayoral candidate Shneur Odze criticized for tweeting image of smoldering scriptures on Passover eve
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
Terror won’t win
RACHEL SHARANSKY DANZIGER The light rail captures Jerusalem’s spirit, its pain, and courage too, when an young woman is murdered on the train
Dasee Berkowitz
Question marks
DASEE BERKOWITZ How did the parents of the Haggadah’s 4 archetypical kids relate to them, and how did that affect their seder?
Danny Burkeman
The United Airlines fiasco and Passover
DANNY BURKEMAN While everyone obsesses about the passenger dragged off Flight 3411, there are a few other items of importance
US tourist wielding steel bar yells at cops to shoot him after 'Jesus told him to go north,' in northern Israel, April 13, 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube, police spokesperson)
Israeli cops tase raving US tourist who ‘saw Jesus’
Wife of 31-year-old says ‘Jesus told him to go north and destroy the credit cards’
Police search for three youths who went missing on the Sea of Galilee on April 16, 2017. (Police spokesperson)
Navy joins search for 3 missing on Sea of Galilee
Special boat, elite divers dispatched on fifth day of search for young men swept away from shore
Tamar&Netanel, the American folk-singing Israeli duo, performs at Jerusalem's Confederation House on Thursday, April 20, 2017 (Courtesy Yarden Lior)
Jerusalem folk duo sing about love, including their own
Tamar&Netanel will perform from their upcoming second album at Confederation House
A 2016 Mimouna celebration attended by Knesset member Isaac Herzog (second from left) in Beit Shemesh (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
Post-Passover, many make time for Mimouna
Bid farewell to a diet of matzah the Moroccan way, with floury crepes, beers, bbqs and live music
One tip from the experts: Don't pretend matza or matza meal can replace standard ingredients. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon / Flash 90)
Matzah is more fattening than you think
How is this bread different from all other breads? It contains almost twice as many calories
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi)
Netanyahu pokes fun at his own fluctuating coif
PM extols the colors of Israel’s spring landscapes, and of his famously fickle hair
French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen speaks during a campaign rally in Perpignan on April 15, 2017. (AFP/Raymond Roig)
France’s Le Pen accuses rival Macron of being soft on Islamists
National Front leader and centrist candidate are leading in the polls with eight days before the French presidential vote
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Hannah Bladon, an English student who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem on April 14, 2017. (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
The maiden and the madman
Hebrew newspapers pay homage to a woman murdered on Jerusalem’s light rail, but are divided on whether to call the killer a terrorist
Rouhani: Iran does not need ‘permission to build missiles’
Iranian president says country’s weapons development solely for ‘deterrent power’ against US and ‘cancerous tumor’ Israel
By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech after registering to run for re-election at the interior ministry in the capital Tehran on April 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
Related article: Ahmadinejad says Trump can’t hurt ‘powerful’ Iran
Trump-Abbas White House summit said set for May 3
Fatah official says Palestinian leader will be preceded in Washington by a preparatory PA delegation on April 23
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
US President Donald Trump on February 3, 2017 (L); Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on January 30, 2017 (Mandel Ngan/AFP; Zacharias Abubeker/AFP)
Related article: In weekly address, Trump wishes Jews a happy Passover
High Court upholds ban on Israeli tourists in Sinai
Judges agree security assessment justifies closing Taba Crossing into Egypt over Passover holiday
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Tourists wait to cross to Egypt at the Israeli side of the Taba crossing near the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Related article: Fear and grief mar Easter Mass celebrations in Egypt
Judith Leiber sits with some of her designs. (Courtesy)
This spring, a Judith Leiber renaissance is in the bag
The 96-year-old handbag designer who learned her craft in Hungary during the Holocaust is seeing a resurgence with three concurrent exhibitions
By LISA KLUG
Binyamina mayor, a wounded vet, dies from heart attack in Vietnam
Col. (res.) Pinhas Zoaretz, who lost a leg to an explosive in Gaza in 2004 but returned to active service, remembered as ‘inspiring, legendary officer’
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Binyamina Regional Council head Pinchas Zoaretz. (Facebook)
Zev Moses, director of the Museum of Jewish Montreal. (Julie Masis/Times of Israel)
Canada’s oldest Jewish community welcomes new addition – a history museum
Focusing on the Jewish impact on the city’s culture, the Montreal institution covers Leonard Cohen, art, landmarks — and even cuisine
By JULIE MASIS
Orthodox Christians celebrate ‘Holy Fire’ in Jerusalem
Tens of thousands attend Easter ceremony in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where tradition holds Jesus was buried, resurrected
By AFP
Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles during the ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 15, 2017, during Orthodox Easter ceremonies. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
Water-Gen's technology uses a series of filters to purify the air, take out the humidity and transform it into clean drinking water. (YouTube screenshot)
Extracting water from air, Israeli firm looks to quench global thirst
Water-Gen, controlled by Russian-Israeli billionaire Michael Mirilashvili, eyes mass assembly of water-producing units by year end
By SHOSHANNA SOLOMON