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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 3, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Israeli soldiers as he tours the southern Israeli border with Gaza. May 03, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Troops come under fire on Gaza border, after PM visits area

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian media says IDF returning fire near Nahal Oz, shortly after Netanyahu visits frontier communities further south

Israel says it foiled shipment of ammonium chloride into Gaza

After 8 years, Israel to open Gaza’s Erez Crossing to commerce

By AFP and ToI Staff

Author Rita Gabis was born to a Lithuanian Catholic mother, and a Jewish father. (Rina Castelnuovo)

The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews

By JP O’ Malley

Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light in Rita Gabis’s book, which explores the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Trump: Israel should keep building West Bank settlements

By Marissa Newman

Republican front-runner says Netanyahu a ‘very good guy’; reiterates he would like to negotiate peace deal

Border policemen stand guard outside at Damascus Gate, a main entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, late on May 2, 2016, following a stabbing attack. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Suspected accomplice in Jerusalem stabbing attack nabbed

Police believe 18-year-old Palestinian from Jerusalem aided West Bank man in assault on Israeli man in the Old City

Palestinian teen convicted in killing of Dafna Meir

Police nab Palestinian suspect in Jerusalem stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF razes home of Hamas man linked to Henkin killings

Composite photo of musician Stevie Van Zandt and former London mayor Ken Livingstone (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA/Wikimedia Commons, goodadvice.com, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Analysis

On Israel, Springsteen’s guitarist outriffs Ken Livingstone

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Labour’s ex-London mayor would have you believe it’s all Israel’s fault. But as Steven Van Zandt insists on Twitter, it’s complicated

Springsteen guitarist slams ‘obnoxious idiots’ who back BDS

By Andrew Tobin

The real Museum of the Bible

The planned museum’s president responds to The Times of Israel: It’s non-sectarian and it will not proselytize

We got played by UK Labour moderates

Desperate to de-radicalize their party ahead of elections, Labour leaders pulled out the anti-Semitism card

In Hebrew, it has to be he or she

Hu is he, he is she and there is no neutral word for ‘it’: The Hebrew language’s gender problem

The lessons of Nuremberg

The odious Nazi race laws as well as the trials that held Nazis accountable teach humanity to stand up to hate

Mordechai David Naseck

Israel on the cutting edge of health & wellness

Mordechai speaks to macrobiotic guides and teachers Sheldon and Ginat Rice about the Whole Health Forum featuring 92 speakers on 50 different health topics

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech from the top of a double-decker bus at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JUSTIN TALLIS)

UK’s Labour ‘secretly suspended 50 members for anti-Semitic, racist comments’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Report comes as Corbyn for first time concedes that party does have problem with anti-Semitism in its ranks, but insists it is ‘not huge’

Slackliner Heather Larsen makes her way between two ancient citadels at Jerusalem's Tower of David Museum on May 2, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Above ancient stones, tightrope walker negotiates already-taut Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

An Antonine-era mummy portrait of a young woman from the University of Zurich restituted to the heirs of a German Jewish publisher in April 2016. (Frank Tomio/University of Zurich)

Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis returned to Jewish family

By Ilan Ben Zion

Rare Roman-era paintings confiscated by Germany, acquired by author of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ sold to University of Zurich, given back to heirs

A man holds a Syrian flag and a poster of President Bashar Al Assad during a pro-Syrian army protest in Majdal Shams, June 2015. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Druze resident of Israel freed after 12 years in Syrian prison

Bargas Awidat disappeared in Damascus in 2004; seven years later, his family learned he was serving a life sentence for ‘spying’

In this Wednesday, April 13, 2016 photo, A woman makes her way with her donkey in sewage water in Mighraqa neighborhood on the outskirts of Gaza City. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza sewage poisoning Strip’s residents, threatening Israel

By Fares Akram and Daniella Cheslow

Untreated waste pouring into Mediterranean is damaging Palestinians’ limited fresh water, decimating fishing zones — and now heading north

People ride horses near the new mosque, partially funded by Chechnya, in the Arab town of Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, March 23, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

After outcry, plans for Arafat center in Israeli-Arab town shelved

Abu Ghosh business man says ‘vigorous’ opposition led to initiative’s demise; mayor says the project was only an idea

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts on May 2, 2016 in Carmel, Indiana. Trump continues to campaign leading up to the state of Indiana's primary day on Tuesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says he will try to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace deal

‘You got to use our best people. And I know the best people,’ GOP front-runner says at Terre Haute rally ahead of Indiana primary

Sky News releases first photo of 'Jihadi John,' the Islamic State's infamous British executioner, named by US and UK media as Mohammed Emwazi, February 27, 2015. (screen capture: Sky News)

UK said using ‘covert propaganda’ to stop Muslims joining IS

Guardian reports that efforts could backfire as government role in campaign targeting young people is kept low key

Ofir Gross, an Israeli tourist who went missing in April 2016 in Hungary. His body was located by Hungarian authorities on May 1, 2016. (Facebook)

Israeli man found dead in Hungary was beaten to death

By Daniel Douek

Ofir Gross’s body was hidden under construction waste after he was struck repeatedly with bricks, police finds

Boris Fishman, author of 'Don't Let My Baby do Rodeo,' HarperCollins 2016. (photo by Stephanie Kaltsas/via JTA)

Books to mark

A fresh crop of nine Jewy spring reads

By Victor Wishna

More Headlines

Bar Refaeli in a commercial that was censored for Israeli TV, May 2, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Bar barredBar Refaeli swimsuit ad too hot for Israel TV

By JTA

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Herzog agreed to join coalition, but party colleagues nixed deal — report

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during the first official visit to Israel of an Indian leader, October 14, 2015 (Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO)

Too soon?India wishes Israel happy Independence Day — 9 days early

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israelis stand in front of a sign for the hi-tech company Intel. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

From the webIntel Israel hands out layoff notifications

File: (Left to right) Khalid El Bakraoui, Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui, who carried out the deadly suicide bombings in Brussels on March 22, 2016, in a photo distributed by Belgian authorities. (Belgian Federal Police)

Danish ‘martyr’ exhibit to show Brussels, Paris bombers

By AFP

Dr. Ruopeng Liu, Chairman of Kuang-Chi Group (Courtesy)

Chinese group seeks to invest $300m in Israeli ‘deep science’

Naftali Bennett at a high school in Ramat Gan on February 12, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewLearning the power of my way or the highway

By Joshua Davidovich

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