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What Matters Most On Friday, May 8, 2015

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha return to 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, May 8, 2015, having won the previous day's elections. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Majority in hand, Cameron promises to govern as PM of ‘one United Kingdom’

By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and ToI Staff

Labour’s Ed Miliband resigns after dramatic rout by Conservatives, who defy polls with big win; Scottish nationalists soar; Lib-Dems collapse

AnalysisLabour’s election bid ruined by Scotland debacle

By Gregory Katz

Anti-Israel firebrand Galloway loses seat in UK vote

By ToI Staff and AFP

Dueling elections: Israeli, UK electoral systems

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets British Prime Minister David Cameron at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu delighted by Cameron victory, and maybe a little jealous too

By David Horovitz

His party didn’t get anything like a majority of the UK votes, and yet Cameron could claim victory within hours. What a contrast to Netanyahu’s 42-day coalition struggle

Dachau, Germany. Concentration camp prisoners raise the American flag after liberation. (Courtesy Yad Vashem Archives)

V-E Day

Letters from Jewish liberators

By Robert Rozett

In Dachau, when Sammy revealed that he himself was an American Jewish soldier, the Jewish prisoners ‘nearly went mad’

Europe marks 70 years since Nazi defeat, end of epochal war

By AP

Steven C. Wernick

When Israel turns its back on pluralism

Spurning the non-Orthodox is a Zionism of fear and prejudice that hastens the expiration date of Herzl’s dream

The economics of liberty

The Bible’s command to forgive debt shows Judaism’s deep concern with the corrosive effects of economic gaps

Brett Loewenstern

My Jewish American Idol Story

He has known thrilling success and utter despair: His ties to Judaism and Israel have helped him heal

Blue Stars of David painted in the foyer of the Amman courthouse where Jordanian-Palestinian judge Raed Zeiter, killed while crossing into the West Bank, worked. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)

Reporter's notebook

Dodging swastikas and Israel hate, Jordan’s secret Jews slip beneath the radar

The untold story of the Jewish-American aid workers living, studying and traveling in the Hashemite Kingdom

Illustrative photo of a construction site in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, on September 7, 2014 (Flash90)

Dutch said to cut Holocaust survivor’s pension for living in West Bank

90-year-old woman moved to settlement near Modiin in recent months, and Holland reportedly slashed her monthly stipend by 35%

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of VE Day in Latrun on May 7, 2015. (photo credit: Gili Yohanan/POOL)

Rivlin, Netanyahu honor Jewish WWII vets 70 years after VE day

President calls 1.5 million Jews who fought against Nazi Germany ‘link in intricate chain of Jewish heroes’ connecting Maccabees, IDF

US President Barack Obama (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) prepare for a press session in the White House in Washington, DC, September 30, 2013. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Obama congratulates PM on coalition, urges 2-state solution

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

President hails ‘deep and abiding partnership’ between US and Israel, says he ‘looks forward to working’ with Netanyahu

Bird's-eye view of Ramat Shlomo, March 1, 2013 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

New E. J’lem homes ‘damaging, disappointing,’ US says

By AFP and ToI Staff

As new Israeli government takes shape, State Department concerned about green light for building 900 units in Ramat Shlomo

Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards General Mohammad Ali Jafari. (screen capture: YouTube/Press TV)

Iranian general: War with the US would be ‘no big deal’

By Stuart Winer

Revolutionary Guard Corps commander says if West thought it could attack Iran it would have done so already

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker and Sen. Ben Cardin speak to reporters on Capitol Hill, Washington, April 14, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Andrew Harnik, File)

Jewish groups applaud passage of Iran oversight bill

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

As Senate bill clears final hurdle, 150 representatives sign letter of support for Obama’s efforts toward nuclear deal

Then Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 22, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

With new hawkish coalition, what hope for the peace process?

By Raphael Ahren

For first time in 20 years, talks with the Palestinians don’t appear in any coalition agreement, but if there is a will, there will be a way

Ayelet Shaked (Flash90)

Who is Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s new justice minister?

By Julie Wiener

After two years in politics, Jewish Home party MK Ayelet Shaked has risen to prominence as a secular woman in a religious Zionist party

A Women of the Wall member dons a kippa and tefillin, Jewish ritual garb traditionally reserved for men (Flash90)

US Jews concerned about religious coercion in new gov’t

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

After advances for non-Orthodox streams in previous Netanyahu coalition, new agreements with Shas, UTJ set a different tone

Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (screen capture: YouTube/التوحيد طلب العلم)

US airstrike kills al-Qaeda leader who claimed Charlie Hebdo attack

By AFP

Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi among fighters assassinated in April drone strike in Yemen, jihadist group says

Students in Israel work via video-conferencing and the Internet with students in Washington University in St. Louis on projects for Israeli start-ups (illustrative photo; credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

New accelerator backs those who focus on the big issues

By David Shamah

Terra Venture Partners will invest up to $5m in entrepreneurs who have the skills even if they don’t have the ideas

Celebrity chef Alon Shaya would make his savta proud

By Shannon Sarna

More Headlines

SS officials including Heinrich Himmler visit the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. (CC-BY-SA-3.0-de , German Federal Archives)

Nazi camp website hacked with child porn on WWII anniversary

By AFP

Tovei Ha'ir seniors' residence Chaya Subar (left) and Tobie Goldman with Nepali caregiver Sima Bhusal, Jerusalem, May 4, 2015. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel staff)

Jerusalem seniors raise Nepal earthquake relief funds

By Renee Ghert-Zand

US Marines monitor Eager Lion multinational military maneuvers in Quweira, south of Amman, Jordan, on June 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Syrian rebel training has started in Jordan

By Lolita C. Baldor

Russian army officers discuss a situation with a crew member of the new Russian T-14 Armata tank in Red Square during a rehearsal two days before the Victory Day military parade, Moscow, May 7, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

No cannon doRussia’s new tank stalls in parade drill

By AP

Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of fellow Shiite fighter Hamza Hussein Zeiter during his funeral on May 5, 2015 in the town of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The Hezbollah fighter was killed during clashes with members of Al-Nusra Front in the Syrian region of Qalamoun. (AFP)

Hezbollah denies deaths of 40 fighters in Syria clashes

By AP

Illustrative photo of men holding up an Islamic State flag. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)

Jihadist group claims mortar attack on Hamas in Gaza

By AFP

Pamela Geller, cofounder and president of Stop Islamization of America, is shown during the American Freedom Defense Initiative program at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, on May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Gregory Castillo/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

‘Maus’ author slams Pamela Geller group, lauds Charlie Hebdo

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on November 26, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewToo many bums, not enough chairs

By Joshua Davidovich

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