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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 9, 2015

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First Minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon, second left, celebrates with the results for her party at the count of Glasgow constituencies for the General Election, Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

'The people of Scotland are speaking'

Other big winner in UK elections wants to break up the UK

With 56 seats, Nicola Surgeon’s soaring Scottish Nationalists are now Britain’s 3rd largest party, and a major challenge for reelected Cameron

Cameron shapes new team after stunning UK election win

By AFP

Obama congratulates Cameron on ‘impressive’ election win

By AFP

Labour’s Miliband, Lib-Dems’ Clegg and UKIP’s Farage all quit

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

David Radzynski an American-Israeli concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, plays during a rehearsal in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2015. Radzynski is still getting used to his first job out of college as the new concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - and to being one of the youngest violinists to lead a major world orchestra today. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Fresh out of college, US-Israeli is new first fiddle in Philharmonic

By Daniel Estrin

At 28, New Haven-born David Radzynski is one of the youngest violinists to lead a major world orchestra

Gabriella Ginsberg-Fletcher

What’s a peace-seeking Israeli student to do at a Columbia University lecture by MK Hanin Zoabi?

Iran’s arc-of-fire gambit

Nukes aside, the stage is being set for a deadly conventional warfare scenario within several years

An x-ray shows a little boy in a suitcase, smuggled in from Africa to Spain, May 8, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP)

X-ray scan reveals child smuggled to Spain in suitcase

By AFP

Eight-year-old from Ivory Coast found in terrible state at crossing from Morocco; police arrest his father

Illustrative photo of a German Navy ship. (photo credit: CC BY AN HONORABLE GERMAN, Flickr)

German navy ships rescue migrants in Mediterranean

By AFP

Police officers guard an entrance to the Beaumont Army Medical Center/El Paso VA campus during the search for a gunman Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/The El Paso Times, Victor Calzada)

US bolsters security at military bases over terror threat

Pentagon worried about possible jihadist attacks against personnel, police following Texas shooting

The March 18, 2015 photo shows several undated family photos provided by Paul Schmitz, a son of a United States WWII soldier, showing him as a little boy with his mother, center right picture. Paul Schmitz talked to The Associated Press about his father and his life in post WWII Germany during an interview at the Allied Museum in Berlin. (Photo credit: AP)

70 years after WWII, German war kids look for Allied soldier dads

By Kirsten Grieshaber

In final days of Third Reich, 250,000 children were fathered by soldiers from US, UK, France or Soviet Union. Now they’re seeking their roots

Austrian Catholic, Protestant churches apologize to Jews

By AP

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)

Obama to meet Saudi king over Iran deal, Yemen

By AP and ToI Staff

Salman flies to Washington for discussions; by contrast, president won’t meet Netanyahu until after June 30 deadline for nuclear deal

Illustrative photo: Children receive oxygen in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province, Syria, after an alleged chemical attack, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)

‘Inspectors find undeclared chemical weapons in Syria’

By ToI Staff and AP

Diplomats say traces of sarin, VX nerge agent found at previously unknown military site, Reuters reports

Liberman rejects Likud offer of defense post, TV report says

Desperate to expand his coalition, PM now said trying to woo members of Liberman’s party; Lapid plans court battle over plan for extra ministers

Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid at the swearing-in ceremony for the 20th Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 31, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid: Herzog is waiting for call to join coalition

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)

Geller: No regrets about Muhammad cartoon contest

After Texas shooting, ex-media exec says next time she speaks up ‘in defense of freedom’ she’ll wear a bulletproof vest

A woman holds up a sign during a rally led by faith leaders in front of Baltimore City Hall calling for justice in response to the death of Freddie Gray, May 3, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Andrew Burton/Getty
Images/via JTA)

US Jews strive to make police uniforms a ‘sign of friendship’ again

By Ron Kampeas and Melissa Apter

Communities confront tensions between police and minorities, as increased terror threats change the paradigm of law enforcement

Menashe Kadishman in the Tel Aviv Museum next to some of his iconic sheep on May 15, 2007. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Famed Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman dies aged 82

By Jonathan Beck

Israel Prize winner was best known for series of sheep sculptures and portraits, and numerous public artworks in Israel and abroad

Ancient bronze model bull-driven cart (Photo credit: courtesy of the Jerusalem Bible Lands Museum)

Israel Travels

How did Abraham get from Mesapotamia to the Promised Land?

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the DC Superior Court House in Washington, February 19, 2015. (AP file Photo/Cliff Owen)

Prosecutors want 17-year sentence for mikvah-peeping rabbi

By JTA

Illustrative photo of Thai soldiers, May 20, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand (photo credit: AP /Apichart Weerawong)

In bizarre mix-up, 9 Israeli businessmen briefly detained by Thai army

By AFP

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Mubarak sentenced to 3 years in prison for corruption

Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. (screen capture: YouTube/USOSCE)

12 US Congress reps, European envoys to join ‘Solidarity Sabbath’

By JTA

An illustrative photo of a sand fly biting a human finger. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Emilio Floris)

Bugging outIsrael trip sponsors sued over sand flies

By JTA

British fashion designer John Galliano after the presentation of his Spring/Summer 2005 men's fashion show, in Paris (photo credit: AP/Jacques Brinon)

Out of styleUK Jews mull boycott of Galliano

By JTA

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, in Chicago. (photo credit: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

George W. knowsJeb Bush takes bro’s Israel advice

By JTA

Former TA district attorney Ruth David arrives at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, after being arrested in connection with the investigation against lawyer Ronel Fisher (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top lawyer suspected in major bribery case faints outside court

Screenshot from a Reuters video showing The Genie in action. (Photo credit: screenshot/Reuters)

Fantastic foodIsraeli invention to end cooking, hunger?

By Julie Wiener

Illustrative photo of health officials disinfecting a room that had been inhabited by suspected Ebola in Liberia, on September 30, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jerome Delay, File)

World Health Organization: Liberia free of Ebola

By Jonathan PAYE-LAYLEH

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