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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 3, 2015

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Or Asraf seen in the Himalayas. (Screen capture: Channel 2 via Facebook)

Body of missing Israeli Or Asraf found in Nepal

Emergency relief group says 22-year-old’s body located and identified on Langtang trail; ‘complex’ mission to retrieve body to take place Monday

Protesters chant slogans, demonstrate against police brutality in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2015 (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Thousands block highway in Tel Aviv at anti-racism protest

By Adiv Sterman and Marissa Newman

Demonstration follows violent clashes in Jerusalem; sparked by footage of police beating an Ethiopian soldier

A Falash Mura man kisses the ground as the flight from Ethiopia lands at the airport in Israel in May 2008 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Minister to okay immigration for Ethiopian relatives of IDF veterans

A wounded protester is treated by Magen David Adom. Tel Aviv. May 3, 2015 (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Dozens injured in Tel Aviv amid intense clashes between police and anti-racism protesters

By Marissa Newman and Judah Ari Gross

Forty-one police and protesters hurt by rocks, stun grenades and tear gas, several demonstrators arrested as anti-racism rally in support of Ethiopian community turns into melee; Netanyahu: there’s room for claims, but not violence

John Kerry interviewed by Israel's Channel 10, May 3, 2015 (Channel 10 screenshot)

Critics of Iran deal are guilty of ‘hysteria,’ Kerry tells Israeli TV

In apparent reference to PM, secretary urges skeptics to ‘look at the facts,’ says inspections to prevent Iran bomb will stay in place ‘forever’

‘Not too late’ to thwart bad nuclear deal, Netanyahu says

Congressmen call for sanctions against Russia

By JTA

Iran, Yemen share common security, says Iranian official

By AFP

Mikie Goldstein

Dreams ripped to shreds

A decision to cancel a bnai mitzvah ceremony for children with disabilities in Rehovot is unacceptable

At the trial of an Auschwitz guard

She was in the courtroom when her father bore witness against Oskar Goering, who says he was just a small cog

I hate Lag B’Omer

The holiday’s bonfire tradition is way out of control — it’s time to stop the pollution, theft and burns

Hadash leader Ayman Odeh in the Knesset, January 28, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Ayman Odeh wants to be Israel’s Martin Luther King

By Haviv Rettig Gur

David Goldberg, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, died May 1, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Husband of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg dies suddenly

By Renee Ghert-Zand

David Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO and successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, was 47

An Israeli army medic team carry Krishna Khadka, who was pulled out alive from a collapsed building, to a more thorough medical check at the Israeli field hospital in Kathmandu on May 1 2015. (photo credit: AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Some of IDF team to leave Nepal, as search persists for missing trekker

Friends, relatives and rescuers keep hope alive for Or Asraf, even as Nepal officials say little chance anyone left alive under rubble

Or Asraf seen in the Himalayas. (Screen capture: Channel 2 via Facebook)

‘Don’t give up on Or,’ pleads family of Israeli missing in Nepal

By ToI Staff and AFP

Tunisian Jewish youngsters chat on May 16, 2014 in the Hara Kebira district on the Tunisian island of Djerba, the site of an annual pilgrimage. (photo credit: Fethi Belaid/AFP)

Tunisia rebuffs claim of terror threat against Israelis

By ToI Staff and AFP

Official in Interior Ministry says no knowledge of plan to attack Jews on pilgrimage after Jerusalem warns citizens not to visit North African country

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas shakes hands with former US president Jimmy Carter during their meeting on May 2, 2015, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Pool/Abbas Momani)

Carter says Hamas leader committed to peace, Netanyahu not

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ex-president doesn’t meet PM, says it would be a ‘waste of time’; claims Mashaal is ‘not a terrorist’ and ‘strongly in favor of peace process’

Jeb Bush, left, participates in a discussion with the Editor of the National Review, Rich Lowry during the National Review Institute 2015 Ideas Summit April 30, 2015 in Washington, DC. photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

On GOP campaign trail, fear over Iran and loathing for Obama

Ahead of primary, Republican candidates unite in expressing support for Israel and disdain for Tehran

British singer Robbie Williams performs in Tel Aviv before approximately 40,000 fans on May 2, 2015. (Photo credit: Flash90)

40,000 Israelis let pop star Robbie Williams entertain them

By Judah Ari Gross

UK sensation pleases the crowd in Tel Aviv with a raunchy set featuring covers of classics by Queen and U2, says his time in the country was ‘f***ing amazing’

A depiction of the Memorial of Names, a Daniel Libeskind-designed project awaiting approval to be constructed in Amsterdam's Wertheim Park. The memorial would be the Netherlands' first to list the names of more than 102,000 Holocaust victims, including 220 Sinti and Roma (courtesy: Dutch Auschwitz Committee)

‘Just not in my backyard’ for planned Dutch Holocaust memorial

By Matt Lebovic

Manny Pacquiao poses during his weigh-in on Friday, May 1, 2015 in Las Vegas. (photo credit: AP/Chris Carlson)

Boxer Pacquiao packs punch with Israel support

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ahead of ‘fight of the century’ against Mayweather, promoter recounts pugilist’s mansion full of mezuzahs and steadfast backing for Jewish state

Yishai Oliel is a two-time winner of the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl tournament in Florida, prompting soaring optimism for his future. (Courtesy of the David Squad/JTA)

British benefactor grooms rising Israeli tennis talent

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A file picture taken on November 20, 2005 shows Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya dancing during a performance in her honor on stage at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow (photo credit: AFP/ YURI KADOBNOV)

Russia mourns Jewish ballet rebel Maya Plisetskaya

By AFP

Demonstrators at Tel Aviv's Habima Square protest the deportation of African migrants on Saturday, May 2, 2015. (screen capture: Ynet)

Protesters call on government not to expel African migrants

Illustrative: A Saudi soldier sits atop an armored vehicle on the border with Yemen, at a military post in Najran, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Saudi Arabia sends ground forces into Yemen

By AP and AFP

A screen shot of a Tel Aviv-based development firm demolishing the historic Carlton Tavern in Westminster, London without permission in April 2015. (screen shot: The Daily Mail)

Like a wrecking ballIsraeli builder levels historic London pub

Illustrative photo of a marijuana bud (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Knesset members march in Tel Aviv for pot legalization

Rohingya people live in make-shift camps in Myanmar (the country is also known as Burma). (Photo credit: EU_ECHO/Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

Report: Condition ripe for Myanmar genocide

By JTA

Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, right, in an April 2012 photo. (Photo credit: Wikimedia commons/CC BY 3.0)

Trembling before GodRabbi: Nepal quake a warning to Jews

By Judah Ari Gross

Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian origin clash with police at a protest in Jerusalem, called to highlight alleged violence and racism against the community by police, April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewRaising a voice against racism

By Marissa Newman

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