Israel to free 2 Syrians * Family of Jewish teens killed in Sri Lanka talk of their loss * US to restore Iraq tomb of biblical Nahum * Israeli woman vandalizes Colosseum

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Saturday, April 27, 2019 [Israel to release Syrian prisoners as ‘goodwill gesture’ after return of Baumel]( By [TOI staff]( [Official says decision to free 2 Syrians wasn’t made in advance; ministers say cabinet hasn’t discussed it; body of Zachary Baumel, missing since 1982, was returned in early April]( [Two Syrians to be freed by Israel: Fatah man who planned attack, drug smuggler]( By [TOI staff]( [Russian envoy: ‘Israel to release Syrian prisoners as part of deal for Baumel’]( By [TOI staff]( [Family of Jewish teens killed in Sri Lanka talk of loss, plans to set up charity]( By [TOI staff]( [Brother, mother of Amelie, 15, and Daniel Linsey, 19, who died in Easter bombings, say they’ll start a foundation to support the Colombo hospital where the teens’ bodies were taken]( [Children among 15 dead as Sri Lanka forces raid jihadist hideout]( By [Amal JAYASINGHE and Ammu Kannampilly]( [Sunday Mass canceled across Sri Lanka a week after bombings]( By [Emily Schmall, Jon Gambrell and BHARATHA MALLAWARCHI]( [Photo essay / Amid horror, Sri Lanka church still shows beauty]( By [Manish Swarup]( [Poles look to charge Germans $850 billion to mark 80 years since Nazi invasion]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Lawmaker heading parliamentary team on potential war reparations says committee’s work should be done by September 1, the anniversary of the start of World War II]( [36 hours in Arad, at the edge of the Judean and Negev deserts]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Trump denies paying North Korea for release of US Jewish student Otto Warmbier]( By [AFP]( [Reports said a US official was made to sign a pledge to pay $2m in medical costs before being allowed to bring home the comatose torture victim, who died days after his return]( [US to donate $500K to restore tomb of biblical prophet Nahum in Iraq]( By [TOI staff]( [1,500-year-old building was for centuries the site of a major Kurdish Jewish pilgrimage every Shavuot]( [Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising Confederate general]( By [Agencies]( [Remarks come after Biden makes president’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ defense of white supremacists the center of his campaign launch]( [Corbyn refuses invitation to state dinner for ‘racist and misogynist’ Trump]( By [AFP]( [From our partner / Top Corbyn aide suggests complicity between Islamic State and Israel]( By [MATHILDE FROT]( [Man convicted of bombing Israeli bus stripped of US citizenship]( By [AP]( [Fifty-one-year-old Vallmoe Shqaire of California to be imprisoned, deported to Jordan for lying to immigration authorities about his role in 1988 terrorist attack]( [Hamas developing Bitcoin system for secure international funding, report says]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinians say 31 wounded as Gazans riot along border]( By [TOI staff]( [EU bashes Israel for East Jerusalem home demolitions]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Ester Steinberg’s ‘Hebrew School Dropout’ is the comedy album of our dreams]( By [Arielle Kaplan]( Top Ops [David Breakstone]( [8,000 empty chairs]( [Israel’s government faces numerous intractable problems. There is one it could solve overnight: bringing our Ethiopian brethren home]( [Oliver Spike Joseph]( [How many homeless did you pass today?]( [As a community, we must find answers for those who find themselves living in insecure housing and on the streets]( [Israeli woman arrested for carving initials into a pillar at Rome Colosseum]( By [TOI staff]( [The tourist, 39, will face vandalism charges after starting to scratch her family’s initials into a column of the ancient arena]( [Colleague of Israeli nabbed defacing Colosseum: No signs saying it’s forbidden]( By [TOI staff]( More Headlines [Vandals attack Tel Aviv yeshiva of rabbi slain in terror shooting]( By [TOI staff]( [Biden hits back at Trump, defends his interactions with women]( By [AFP]( [Some women of color frustrated by Biden’s presidential bid]( By [JUANA SUMMERS and ERRIN HAINES WHACK]( [Police say army vet drove into California crowd thinking people were Muslim]( By [Janie Har]( [50,000 visit Israel’s national parks as Passover holiday comes to an end]( By [TOI staff]( [Trump tells NRA he’s withdrawing from UN arms trade treaty]( By [Jill Colvin and LISA MARIE PANE]( [Nearing end of his tenure, US Deputy AG Rosenstein hits back at critics]( By [Eric Tucker]( [Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in US]( By [Paul Handley]( [Trump says measles vaccine ‘so important’; in the past, he warned about autism]( By [Ivan Couronne]( [Lawyers for neo-Nazi website head to quit anti-Semitic troll storm case]( By [Michael Kunzelman]( [Attorneys in Weinstein case buy some extra time before trial]( By [Michael R. Sisak and ALICIA RANCILIO]( [Putin raises possibility of meeting Ukraine’s president-elect]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved