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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 2, 2015

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President Barack Obama meets with new Saudi Arabian King, Salman bin Abdul Aziz, at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Israel’s military edge at risk as Obama ‘scrambles’ to placate Arab fears on Iran deal

NY Times says US could sell F-35s to UAE three years after Israel gets them, may offer Gulf allies defense pacts, joint training, upgraded status

House committee approves Israeli missile defense funds

By JTA

AIPAC opposes changes to Iran bill it would ‘ordinarily support’

By JTA

Iran FM: ‘We do not jail people for their opinions’

An Israeli-led rescue team carries Krishna Khadka, who was pulled out alive from a collapsed building on Thursday, April 30 2015, five days after a massive earthquake (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

One week on, Nepal rules out finding more quake survivors

By AFP and ToI Staff

Father, friends of last missing Israeli Or Asraf search ruins of guesthouse he may have visited; death toll tops 6,600; IDF field hospital open for 4th day

Patrick Asraf (L) and his son Or (R) who went missing in Nepal following the April 25 earthquake that has killed thousands in the Asian nation (Photo credit: Channel 2 news)

Father of Israeli missing in Nepal pleads for greater search effort

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli soldiers and doctors bring in an earthquake victim who arrived by jeep on Friday afternoon, May 1, 2015 (Photo credit: Melanie Lidman)

When disaster strikes: Where Jewish aid is going in Nepal

By Uriel Heilman

Israeli midwife Dganit Gery sits with Lata and Harendra Chang, whose baby was delivered at the IDF field hospital in Kathmandu on Friday, May 1, 2015. (Photo credit: Melanie Lidman)

Inside Israel's field hospital

Amid destruction in Nepal, signs of rebirth

By Melanie Lidman

Israeli medical teams race against the clock to save earthquake victims, while doctors deliver 3 babies in field hospital

Nepal: Israel ‘remembers the stranger’

A field hospital, 50 tons of medical equipment, 200 patients per day and a commitment to repairing the world

Andrew Silow-Carroll

From Newark 1967 to Baltimore 2015

The key difference between the two riots nearly half a century apart is that the black-white chasm has grown

Nazi book-burning incident during the 1930s. (screen capture: YouTube/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Germans said to increasingly view themselves as victims of WWII

Most now regard Allied victory as liberation from the Nazis, and only 9% as a defeat for Germany

Taking a break on Ashkelon's new promenade (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

At Ashkelon tel, they’ve found clay tickets but no theater — yet

By Aviva Bar-Am

Illustrative photo: Disabled child reading from the Torah with the Masorti movement in Israel. (via Facebook)

Israeli mayor bans disabled boys’ Masorti bar mitzvah

By JTA

Rehovot’s Rahamim Malul, an ex-Shas MK, accused of using kids as political pawns in battle against non-Orthodox Judaism

A screenshot of Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition agreements with UTJ and Shas. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Lapid: PM selling out country in deal with ultra-Orthodox

Netanyahu slammed for concessions to Shas and UTJ which will nullify many of Yesh Atid’s reforms

Illustrative photo of an Iranian warship (Alex Hicks, Wikimedia Commons)

Worried by Iran, US escorts ships through Strait of Hormuz

By Lolita C. Baldor

US Navy accompanies 4 American-flagged ships, British vessel, offers aid to other nations concerned with Tehran interference

Rabbi Daniel Burg joins African-American faith leaders and thousands of volunteers to clean up west Baltimore, April 2015. (Courtesy: Daniel Burg)

14 Baltimore-area rabbis attend rally for Freddie Gray

By JTA

Jews United for Justice activists also participate in march for police reform

Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Top cop praises officers’ restraint at violent Ethiopian rally

Danino hails police calm though demonstrators claim they faced excessive force; officials promise to examine racism claims

Under the cover of an Israeli army tank (foreground), Israeli soldiers arrest international peace activists holding placards outside the Church of Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, April 28, 2002. (photo credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Palestinian gunmen turn heroes in UK production of ‘The Siege’

By Jenni Frazer

2002’s hostage standoff at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity gets historically questionable treatment in play set to tour England

Israeli soldiers search Palestinians at a checkpoint in June 2014. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Palestinian youth tries to stab IDF soldier near Hebron

16-year-old pulls knife at checkpoint, arrested, taken for questioning; nobody hurt

A Palestinian boy sits near Israeli soldiers deployed in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, on the first Friday of the Muslim month of Ramadan. July 04, 2014. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Analysis

In Hebron, they support Hamas but dream of Tel Aviv

By Avi Issacharoff

While Islamic terror group has strong support among the youth, there is also talk of peace with Israel and a desire to live quietly

Seth Wong, left, and JJ Slatkin hope their new marijuana testing business will take them to new highs. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Young pot entrepreneurs hope for potent business

By Uriel Heilman

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Iraqi cellist Karim Wasfi performing in a Baghdad commercial district on April 28, 2015, hours after a car bomb exploded in the area, killing ten people. (Screen capture: YouTube)

The sound of solaceCellist plays at Baghdad car bomb site

Ronald Senator and his wife Miriam Brickman (photo credit: AOL screenshot)

Jewish composer and his musician wife die in NY house fire

By JTA

A 2012 group of Ukrainian Jewish olim arriving at Ben Gurion Airport on a flight sponsored by the International Christian Embassy in cooperation with the Jewish Agency. (courtesy)

Ukrainian aliya triples in first quarter of 2015

By JTA

Footage from a camera mounted atop an IDF sniffer dog in Nepal (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

Looking for lifeWATCH: Sniffer dog searches for survivors

Shabus organizers stand outside Jerusalem's Lev Smadar Theater, a secular Jerusalemite hangout on Saturdays, holding signs that read, 'There is a solution, Shabus' (photo credit: Courtesy Shabus)

Jerusalem group launches ‘Shabus’ transport service

By AFP and Jessica Steinberg

An aerial view of Ra’anana, a city in central Israel. (photo credit: Flash90/Moshe Shai)

Israeli city asks court to OK ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses event

By JTA

A Nobel prize for chemistry, awarded in 1927 to German scientist Heinrich Otto Wieland, that was put up for auction in April 2015. (photo credit: Nate D. Sanders)

Nobel medal of German scientist who shielded Jews fetches $395,000

By Stuart Winer and JTA

France’s far-right National Front party’s founder Jean-Marie Le Pen screams 'Help Jeanne d'Arc' after he places a wreath at Joan of Arc's statue during its annual May Day march, in Paris, France, Friday, May 1, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Francois Mori)

Chaotic scenes as France’s National Front family feud erupts on May Day

By Elaine Ganley

Tony Appleton, a town crier, announces the birth of the royal baby outside the Lindo Wing, St. Mary's Hospital, London, Saturday, May 2, 2015. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has given birth to a baby girl, royal officials said Saturday. (photo credit: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA via AP)

Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby girl

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI

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