UK woman stabbed to death by Palestinian on J'lem tram; 'Mother of bombs' kills 36 IS men; Anne Frank's final days; Did Hitler fake being gas victim?

Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser]( [The Times of Israel]( The one-stop news site covering Israel, the region and the Jewish people worldwide THE DAILY EDITION WHAT MATTERS MOST ON » FRI, APR 14, 2017 Share This: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [More...]( [Visit the timesofisrael.com - updated 24/7. The Jewish world's fastest-growing website. Click here!]( Shin Bet says killer recently tried to commit suicide [British woman stabbed to death in Jerusalem tram attack]( [Terrorist, an East Jerusalem resident, arrested by police after assault near Old City; two others hurt as light rail makes emergency stop]( By JUDAH ARI GROSS [Emergency services evacuate an injured person from the scene of an stabbing attack in Jerusalem Friday, April 14, 2017. Israeli police said a Palestinian man stabbed a woman in Jerusalem, seriously wounding her before forces apprehended him at the scene. She later died. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)]( Related article: [Palestinian arrested with knife in West Bank on Passover eve]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 'Any change to any letter to appease any party is a betrayal of the Palestinian narrative' [PA suspends ties with UNRWA over planned curriculum reform]( [Proposed changes to textbooks by UN agency, welcomed by Israel, reportedly include revised maps, a ‘balanced representation of Jerusalem,’ and excision of messages seen as incitement]( By DOV LIEBER [Palestinian children at a school in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)]( Related article: [China says lack of Palestinian state is ‘historical injustice’]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘Mother of bombs’ killed 36 Islamic State fighters]( [Afghan officials say the US’s largest non-nuclear device destroyed cave complex, caused no civilian casualties]( By AFP [In this May 2004 photo, a group gathers around a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) weapon, on display at the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla. (Mark Kulaw/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)]( [A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast weapon on display outside the Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida (Wikipedia/Fl295/public domain)]( [US drops largest non-nuclear bomb on IS target in Afghanistan]( By AGENCIES and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [In this undated photo distributed on Friday, April 14, 2017, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, watches a military drill at an undisclosed location. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo, distributed via the Korean Central News Agency and the Korea News Service. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)]( [N. Korea says ‘We will go to war if they choose’]( By ERIC TALMADGE [China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks to journalists with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault during a press conference after their meeting in Beijing on April 14, 2017 ( AFP PHOTO / Fred DUFOUR)]( [China warns war over N. Korea could erupt ‘at any moment’]( By AFP --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nanette Konig giving an interview to Estado TV, March 2015. (Courtesy of Estado)]( [Anne Frank’s final days, as told by her former classmate]( [Nanette Konig, 88, is one of few living friends of Dutch teenage diarist; they last saw each other during Frank’s final days at Bergen-Belsen]( By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ [White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to a reporter about a comparison he made between Syria's President Bashar Assad and Adolf Hitler during an earlier press briefing at the White House April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)]( [ADL offers to host Holocaust educational session for White House staff]( By ERIC CORTELLESSA and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [The swastika daubed on the Jewish community center in northern Virginia, April 11, 2017. (Screenshot from NBC Washington via JTA)]( [Suspect arrested in swastika attack on Jewish center near DC]( By JTA [Anti-Semitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. (Courtesy of Michaela Brown)]( [US anti-Semitism envoy’s office to remain empty — ex-official]( By BEN SALES --------------------------------------------------------------- [Adolph Hitler (seated, far right) posed with fellow soldiers during their World War I service for Germany (Public domain)]( [Did Hitler fake being a victim of gas warfare?]( [Almost a century ago, an injured German corporal named Adolf Hitler claimed to be a casualty of British-deployed mustard gas. But was it a smoke screen?]( By MATT LEBOVIC --------------------------------------------------------------- Fly me to the moon [Ocean world near Saturn a top contender for life beyond Earth]( [This June 28, 2009 image provided by NASA, taken by the international Cassini spacecraft, shows Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. (AP Photo/NASA)]( [Cassini spacecraft on final stage of mission discovers hydrogen in vapor plumes rising from the surface of Enceladus]( By MARCIA DUNN [Adina Karpuj Bortz]( [When I became the face of occupation]( [ADINA KARPUJ BORTZ She’s a pro-coexistence activist Israeli soldier who marches for justice, yet ended up on a BDS pamphlet as the enemy]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [The White House and the Soup Nazi]( [ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL Sean Spicer and others who keep making Holocaust gaffes should get some tips from a bunch of sitcom writers]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [J.J Gross]( [Four sons, two fathers]( [J.J GROSS Children turn wicked or wise as a result of how they are ignored or heard by their parents]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Piotr Rybak at a rally in his honor in Warsaw last year. (Krzysztof Bielawski/JTA)]( [Polish court sentences man in burning of a Jew in effigy]( [Piotr Rybak set fire to figure he said represented George Soros at anti-Muslim protest against accepting Syrian refugees in 2015]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Syrian boy hospitalized in Israel has his first taste of matzah, April 7, 2015. (Courtesy Ziv Hospital)]( [Arab group demands end to Passover bread ban in hospitals]( [Adalah sues for third consecutive year for right to bring leavened products into Israeli hospitals during 7-day festival]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Przemyslaw Wierzbowski, Esperanto association president in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok and French student Amelie Chartier, who came to Bialystok to work at the Esperanto association through a European volunteer program stand in the Esperanto Cafe in front of the portrait of Ludwik Zamenhof on April 5, 2017. Zamenhof, the creator of the synthetic language of Esperanto, was born in 1859 just a few steps away from where the cafe is located. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)]( [Esperanto alive and well, 100 years after Jewish inventor’s death]( [International language created by hopeful doctor is now spoken by 1 million worldwide]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Samantha Gross (Facebook)]( [A story of spending the Seder with strangers goes viral]( [Boston University student Samantha Gross was expecting a lonely Passover in London — until she found a tweet from a welcoming CNN reporter]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US doctor charged with genital mutilation on girls]( [Michigan woman faces a maximum sentence of life behind bars for procedure on girls aged six to eight]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dr. Mark Wainberg speaking on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)]( [Renowned AIDS researcher drowns during Passover vacation]( [Mark Wainberg, 71, who discovered first treatment for HIV, pronounced dead after swim in Florida]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 . (Wikimedia)]( [Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King, dead at 100]( [Leader of Conservative congregations in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, took part in famed march to Montgomery in 1965]( [US charges 2 terrorists for 2010 murder of American tourist in Israel]( [Arrest warrants issued for Palestinian stabbers, currently jailed in Israel, who killed Kristine Luken and seriously wounded another]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [Ayad Fatafta and Kifah Ghanimat, convicted of murdering Kristine Luken and injuring Kay Wilson in a stabbing attack in the Jerusalem Forest on December 18, 2010, seen at the Jerusalem District Court on November 24, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maj. Eliyahu Gabay speaks with workers creating a berm near the Lebanese border at kibbutz Hanita on March 22, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)]( [With berms, cliffs and concrete, a Sun Tzu-quoting major works to keep Hezbollah out]( [Relentlessly preparing for a third Lebanon war, Eliyahu Gabay is literally changing the landscape on the northern border]( By JUDAH ARI GROSS --------------------------------------------------------------- [Assad denial of chemical attack is ‘100% lies’ – French FM]( [Jean-Marc Ayrault slams Syrian president’s comments on chemical attack that killed more than 80 people]( By AFP [France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault speaks to journalists during a press conference with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi (not pictured) after their meeting in Beijing on April 14, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)]( Related article: [Assad says chemical attack ‘100 percent fabrication’]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stability or autocracy? Turkey divided over key referendum]( [Country goes to the polls Sunday over President Erdogan’s bid to greatly enhance his powers]( By SUZAN FRASER [In this late Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during a referendum meeting in Istanbul. Turkey is heading to a contentious April 16 referendum on constitutional reforms to expand Erdogan's powers.(Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool Photo via AP)]( Related article: [Turkey detains five IS suspects ‘planning polling day attack’]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Egyptian Copts mark solemn Good Friday after church bombings]( [Rites are especially mournful for the Christian minority following last Sunday’s suicide attacks that killed 45]( By AFP [Coptic priests stand near the coffins of victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day during a funeral procession at the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of the northern port city on April 10, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iran’s Rouhani registers to run for re-election]( [The president behind the nuclear deal faces mounting criticism over economic stagnation]( By AGENCIES [Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures to the camera after registering to run for re-election at the interior ministry in the capital Tehran on April 14, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / ISNA / ATTA KENARE)]( Related article: [Over 600 candidates register for Iran presidential race]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Writer and comedian Alan Zweibel. (YouTube screenshot)]( [Now known for his hilarious body of work, Alan Zweibel got his start playing a corpse]( [An original writer on Saturday Night Live who worked with giants Gilda Radner and Billy Crystal, the comedian’s back-stage life now competes for the limelight]( By LISA KLUG [Forward this email to a friend]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( The Times of Israel · 4 George Washington St. · Jerusalem 9418704 · Israel