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What Matters Most On Monday, May 2, 2016

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Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, center, leaves after giving a speech at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS)

Labour officials suspended for anti-Israel posts as scandal widens

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nottingham Councilor Ilyas Aziz and Blackburn Councilor Salim Mulla newest UK politicians exposed calling for relocation of Jewish state as party battles charges of rampant anti-Semitism within its ranks

UK Labour chief Corbyn rejects call to denounce Hamas, Hezbollah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli envoy to UK urges Labour chief to visit, would ‘love to’ meet him

By ToI Staff and AP

Muslim, Jewish candidates face off Thursday in London mayoral vote

By Ouerdya Ait Abdelmalek and Florence Biedermann

Ronnie Wood, guitarist for The Rolling Stones, visits the Western Wall before the band's 2014 concert in Tel Aviv. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

How do international acts get to Israel? With a concerted effort

By Jessica Steinberg

As performers book gigs in Tel Aviv and elsewhere, promoters explain what draws them here… and what really keeps some of them away

University of Chile law school approves boycott of Israel

By JTA

Israeli army paramedics evacuate the body of a Palestinian man at the Qalandiya checkpoint after an alleged attempted stabbing attack, on April 27, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Father of Palestinian siblings killed at crossing demands footage

By Avi Issacharoff

Salah Abu Ismail says his son and daughter, whom Israel says were at Qalandiya to stab police, were unarmed and took a wrong turn

Islamic Jihad activist killed in Gaza explosion

Hamas suspect charged with planting bombs, shooting rockets

Iran sues US at Int’l Court of Justice over order to pay terror victims’ families

By AFP and ToI Staff

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, center, leaves after giving a speech at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS)

Live updates (closed)

Police hunt for attacker after Old City stabbing

By Raoul Wootliff

Assailant on loose after moderately injuring ultra-Orthodox man near Old City’s Lions’ Gate

The Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in Aventura Florida. (Screen capture: Google Street View)

FBI said to arrest man plotting to bomb Florida synagogue

By Joshua Davidovich

Sting operation nets suspect before he can hurl explosive at Miami-area Jewish center during Friday night services, according to local station

Ex-president Shimon Peres greets US President Barack Obama at a reception held in Obama's honor at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Imitation game

As Obama exits stage, is he using Peres’s script?

By James Inverne

US president’s new YouTube film on him mulling how to spend post White House life is funny, owes more than a little to his former Israeli counterpart

The day after ISIS is defeated

Crushing Islamic State militarily isn’t enough: The Mideast needs a diplomatic plan that would create 4 new states

Shelley J. Klein

A unity borne by Yom HaShoah

Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds all Jews that Israel represents ongoing hope with limitless possibilities for good

The ongoing fight for historical justice

A call to action for the next generation to pursue Holocaust restitution, a nod to history that goes beyond property

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at the Century Center on May 1, 2016 in South Bend, Indiana. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Sanders makes last-gasp play for party insiders’ backing

By AP

Reeling from losses to Clinton, outsider candidate looks to make up lost ground by flipping Democratic superdelegates support, an unprecedented maneuver

Illustrative image of an Israeli soldier guarding near the Kedumim settlement, with the Palestinian village of Kadum in the background, on November 13, 2009. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Shaked revives bid to extend civil law to settlements

By Tamar Pileggi

Justice minister will ‘prioritize’ controversial legislation to protect Israelis in the West Bank from ‘discriminatory’ martial rule

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)

Germany denies reconsidering Israel support, says policy unchanged

Berlin official rejects claims by Der Spiegel of deteriorating ties with Jewish state over Merkel’s ‘frustration’ with Netanyahu

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club fighting with police in the stands at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium on May 1, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube/ONE)

Beitar fans arrested in fracas after drubbing by Arab club

Jerusalem supporters hurl firecrackers, smoke bombs onto field after losing playoff game 3-0 to Bnei Sakhnin

Illustrative: A young woman stands outside a south Tel Aviv brothel, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

In anti-prostitution battle, Israel takes a trick out of Europe’s book

By Marissa Newman

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with a delegation of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Tehran on Sunday, May 1, 2016. (Khamenei's Twitter page)

Khamenei: US is main enemy, ‘Zionist regime’ a close second

In meeting with Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief, Iranian supreme leader says ‘defending Palestine’ is ‘defending Islam’

Still image from a November 2010 video showing Robert Levinson, which was received by his family. (YouTube: Help Bob Levinson)

Seeking information, son of abducted ex-FBI agent traveled to Iran

By JTA and ToI Staff

Dan Levinson, son of Robert who was last seen in 2007 on Kish Island, says Obama administration must do more to secure dad’s release

Yom HaShoah Commemoration in Boston on May 1, 2016, at the New England Holocaust Memorial on the city's Freedom Trail after Mourner's Kaddish (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Boston teacher feted for averting Holocaust denial in classroom

By Matt Lebovic

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Illustrative photo of kosher wine production in Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Operation ManischewitzMontreal cops seize 8,000 bottles of illegal kosher wine

By JTA

Front cover art for the book King Ottokar's Sceptre by Belgian artist Herge. (Wikimedia)

Tintin ‘King Ottokar’s Sceptre’ art sells for $1.2 million

By AFP

A still life by photographer Avi Ganor, currently on display through May 7, 2016, at the 4th International Photography Festival at the Jaffa Port (Courtesy Avi Ganor)

PhotoshopA festival of the camera’s lens

By Jessica Steinberg

Former Polish president Lech Walesa (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia/MEDEF)

Ex-Polish president Walesa ‘regrets’ he is not Jewish

By JTA

Phil Kives, president of K-Tel International, poses for a photo in Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 2, 2009. (Wayne Glowacki/Winnipeg Free Press, via The Canadian Press, via AP)

TV infomercial pioneer Philip Kives dies at 87

A woman wears a Livia system (Courtesy)

The Israeli invention that could end period pain

David Blatt of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on during the first quarter against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on December 15, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images via JTA)

Sacramento Kings said to mull David Blatt as coach

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in November 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSeeking a pardon and answers

By Ilan Ben Zion

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