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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 30, 2016

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Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog to UK Labour leaders: Visit Yad Vashem, remember what happened to the Jews

Opposition head weighs in on anti-Semitism row in British party after unrepentant Livingstone is suspended for claiming Hitler backed Zionism

Livingstone blames ’embittered Blairites’ for outcry on anti-Semitic remarks

Corbyn announces independent probe into Labour anti-Semitism

By AFP and ToI Staff

Livingstone doubles down on Hitler backing Zionism: ‘They don’t teach it in Israel’

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is pictured as he leaves his home in London on April 29, 2016. (AFP/Leon Neal)

Top Labour MPs ‘plot coup’ against Corbyn over anti-Semitism row

UK paper says senior party members fear fallout over Livingstone scandal will cost ‘hundreds of seats’ in upcoming local elections

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sits with his wife Melania Trump while appearing at an NBC Town Hall at the Today Show on April 21, 2016 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish reporter says Trump supporters bombarding her with anti-Semitic rhetoric

After penning an unflattering profile of candidate’s wife, Julia Ioffe is threatened with Hitler speeches, Auschwitz photos

A scan of a page from E. Joels's graphic novel 'Dompie Stompie Meets the Cannibals' (Courtesy of Jet Naftaniel/via JTA)

How a comic book kept Dutch Jewish couple out of Nazis’ reach

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Emmanuel Joels sent his future wife Hetty messages of hope in the form of graphic novels, as they hid in safe houses less than a mile apart

Sheldon Kirshner

British Labor’s self-inflicted wound

Recent anti-Semitic rhetoric by 2 lawmakers reflects their party’s leftward lurch and the opinions of many British Muslims

Nepal: A mission and a helping hand

What it means for the IDF Medical Corps to be an ongoing partner in saving lives wherever aid is needed

Ken Livingstone, using Hitler to demonize Israel

Op-ed: In nurturing the obscene notion that Hitler was a Zionist, the former London mayor hopes to convince Britons that all those who rightly abhor the Nazis must likewise abhor and oppose Israel

A tribute ceremony in the Maale synagogue in Brussels days after the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and the Hyper Cacher kosher market, Jan. 14, 2015. (Thierry Roge/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

First person

As Jews flee Belgium, a seder marks a family exodus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A protester holds up a sign during a protest outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel where republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was speaking in Burlingame, California on April 29, 2016.
Hundreds of protesters jostled with police in riot gear outside a California hotel where Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was to give a speech, forcing the candidate to duck into a back entrance. (AFP PHOTO / Josh Edelson)

Trump smuggled in via back entrance to avoid California protesters

By AP and AFP

Demonstrators lob eggs at police officers, break through barricade to hotel where Republican front-runner speaks

Police on horseback and on foot clear the anti-Trump demonstrators after a Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rally at the Pacific Amphitheatre on Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Costa Mesa, Calif. (Michael Goulding/The Orange County Register via AP)

Trump making case to GOP insiders after chaotic rally scene

By AP

Israeli police officers guard an entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Passover, on April 24, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

Arab rioters on Temple Mount hurl stones at police

Eight arrested and 30 others detained after Friday prayers

Sgt. Elor Azaria, accused of killing a disarmed Palestinian attacker in Hebron last month, arrives for a court hearing at Jaffa Military Court on April 18, 2016. (Flash90)

IDF investigators ‘say Hebron soldier motivated by twisted ideology’

Document obtained by Vice News says Elor Azaria repeatedly told troops at scene he shot assailant because he ‘needs to die’; report blasts soldiers’ failure to treat wounded man

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, on February 16, 2016, after a joint cabinet meeting. (AFP /Odd Andersen)

Report: PM making Germany wary of unconditional support for Israel

Der Spiegel says growing frustration with Netanyahu has led Berlin to conclude that peace deal is impossible while he is in power

A still image from a video claiming to be taken from a headcam worn by an Islamic State fighter during a battle against peshmerga forces in Iraq in March 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Headcam footage shows IS fighters confused, fleeing

Video from Islamic State headcam, obtained by Vice, reveals frantic scenes as vehicle is hit by peshmerga rocket in Iraq

This image made from video released by Qasion News Agency, a media opposition platform that relies on a network of activists on the ground, on Friday, April 29, 2016 shows people scrambling through rubble following airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria. (Qasion News Agency via AP)

Rising violence kills over 200 in a week in Syria’s Aleppo

By Albert Aji and Bassam Mroue

Surge in fighting between Assad’s army and rebels causes collapse of 2-month ceasefire brokered by US, Russia

Iraqis shout slogans in front of security forces during a demonstration asking for reforms on April 26, 2016 at an entrance to the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)

Thousands of protesters break into Baghdad ‘Green Zone’

By AFP

Rioters storm restricted area housing parliament, PM’s office and foreign embassies, decrying fresh failure to approve new cabinet

The citadel near Ashdod, built by Caliph Abed el Malek, who also built Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock in 691 (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

In tourist-friendly Ashdod, where the coastline has witnessed Israel’s history since Jonah

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Palestinians carry national flags during a protest marking Land Day in front of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, March 30, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Eurovision says Palestinian, Islamic State flags unwelcome

By AFP and ToI Staff

A screenshot from Channel 10 showing an entrance to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, south of Tel Aviv, where a dead fetus was found in a trash can, April 30, 2016. (Screenshot/Channel 10)

Dead fetus found in garbage bin at hospital near Tel Aviv

Still from the scene of a mass brawl in the northern Israeli village of Kafr Manda, Friday, April 29, 2016 (YouTube screen cap)

Stones, firecrackers hurled during mass brawl in Galilee Arab village

Iranian family members display their ink-stained fingers after casting their ballot to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections at a polling station in the town of Robat Karim, some 40 kms southwest of the capital Tehran, on April 29, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Rouhani allies win big in Iran elections second round

By AFP

The home on Tel Aviv's Herzl Street where an elderly woman was killed during a violent argument with her daughter on the evening of Apri 29, 2016. (Courtesy Magen David Adom)

Woman jumps out of window after row which led to mother’s death

Croatian leaders honor the victims of the Balkan country's most notorious World War II death camp in Jasenovac on April 22, 2016. The ceremony was boycotted by critics who accuse rulers of tolerating a revival of pro-Nazi ideology. (STR/AFP)

Croatia’s Jews fear growing intolerance under conservatives

By Lajla Veselica

A still image taken from the music video for Mashrou’ Leila's hit song Fasateen (Dresses), which challenges the traditional role of marriage. (screen capture: YouTube).

Jordan ends ban on Lebanese band with gay frontman

By AP

US President Barack Obama hosts a Passover Seder for family, staff and friends in the White House in 2015 (Official White House Photo/Pete Souza)

How is this night differentObama and staff mark last Seder in White House

Serbian Orthodox Christian pilgrims carry a large metal cross from Serbia along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering), during the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City on April 29, 2016. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem

By AFP

US Vice-President Joe Biden (R) is pictured at the end of an audience of Pope Francis (top) to the participants of the International Conference on the Progress of Regenerative Medicine and Its Cultural Impact, on April 29, 2016 at the Paul VI audience hall in Vatican. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)

Biden takes ‘Moonshot’ cancer campaign to Vatican

By AFP

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