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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 4, 2016

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File: A photo taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a Hamas outpost on a hill (right) along the border, February 25, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

As Gaza border heats up, explosion hits near IDF soldiers

Combat engineers return fire in third cross-border incident in 24 hours; earlier, patrol attacked with mortar shell

Three soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

By Ilan Ben Zion

Ya’alon to rule on returning Palestinian attackers’ bodies

Palestinians suspend security talks with Israel, to reconsider ties

By Stuart Winer

British PM David Cameron speaking in the House of Commons on May 4, 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Cameron demands Corbyn renounce his ‘friends’ Hamas, Hezbollah

By Stuart Winer

‘Are they your friends or not?’ British PM asks opposition leader, who says his earlier remarks were ‘not an approval’ of the Islamist groups; Labour suspends two more councilors for anti-Semitism

UK chief rabbi: Labour’s anti-Semitism problem ‘severe’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas official denies he welcomed UK Labour leader’s support

By Stuart Winer

Polish nationalist burns poster of mayor shown wearing kippah

By JTA

Jason Roy (Courtesy)

Analysis

Israeli binary options firm inadvertently tries to sell to Canadian fraud investigator

By Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz

Jason Roy couldn’t believe his luck when a salesman from what he later established was an Israeli company, Central Option, phoned him, and illegally tried to persuade him to ‘invest’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a primary night news conference, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Trump closes in on Republican nomination, battle with Clinton

By Julie Pace and Scott Bauer

After Indiana victory and Cruz exit, real estate mogul clears path to November showdown with Democratic front-runner

Trump: Israel should keep building West Bank settlements

Sanders vows ‘more victories’ like Indiana

Cruz ends White House bid, clearing Trump path to nomination

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers stand guard with their tank along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Live updates (closed)

Police arrest girl in Jerusalem’s Old City with knife

By Joshua Davidovich

Gaza airstrikes come after several mortars fired at Israeli troops operating to uncover tunnels near border; Rivlin, Netanyahu admit country has treated Shoah survivors poorly at Yad Vashem ceremony

Israel Academy of Science and Arts students Roy Jacobson, Emmi Cohen and Halel Regev on May 3, several weeks after their unique 12th grade Holocaust journey around Israel (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Eschewing Poland, a high school takes its annual Holocaust trip — inside Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem’s elite Israel Arts and Science Academy has a ‘legitimate alternative’ to the traditional 12th-grade visit to the death camps

Playing the Holocaust card

The 2nd generation lives with the rough hand it was dealt, and deserves sympathy, compassion, help and understanding

On a vist to a bucolic German village, he kicked back with his hosts in a house that once was his father’s synagogue

Melanie Takefman

The Holocaust can wait

Israeli schools do harm when they introduce the world’s tragedy to preschoolers in prepping for Yom HaShoah

Anthony S. Pitch

‘Who else will tell it?’

Survivor testimony is a critical safeguard against the forces that continue to deny and distort the Holocaust

A man wearing a kipah looks on, as people take part in a demonstration called by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France on July 31, 2014, in front of a Lyon synagogue. (AFP/Romain LaFabregue/File)

Anti-Semitic attacks worldwide drop to 10-year low — report

New efforts to defend Europe’s Jews drive attackers away from synagogues and toward unprotected cemeteries and memorials

A member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards chants slogans after attacking a naval vessel during a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran, February 25, 2015. (Hamed Jafarnejad/AFP/Fars News)

Iranian commander threatens to close Strait of Hormuz to US

By AP

Hossein Salami also says in speech aired on state TV that ‘Americans cannot make safe any part of the world’

Illustrative: NATO foreign and defense ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Oct. 14, 2010. (US Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison/DOD/Public Domain/Wikimedia)

Israel confirms upgraded NATO ties as Turkey said to end veto

By Raoul Wootliff and AFP

Jewish state gets permanent office at alliance’s HQ, in what expert says is ‘confidence-building measure’ with Ankara

NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, April 18, 2012 (CC BY Leon E. Panetta/Flickr)

In upgrade to ties, NATO accepts Israel’s official representative

By Raoul Wootliff

A test of the David's Sling missile defense system (Defense Ministry)

US-Israel aid talks stumble over missile defense — report

On top of $700 million more annually, Jerusalem said to seek separate funding for surface-to-air programs

Dov Khenin, formerly an MK for the Joint (Arab) List, seen during a committee meeting at the Knesset, December 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jewish MK slammed for Israel ‘ethnic cleansing’ claim

By Stuart Winer

Dov Khenin of Joint List refuses to walk back comments made to Sky News; Likud lawmaker says he is out of touch with reality

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

PM says he did hold high-level unity talks with Herzog

Netanyahu says deal on expanded government fell apart after opposition leader was named as suspect in graft probe

Guns and weapons uncovered in a police operation against illegal arms trading, May 3, 2016. (Israel police)

18 arrested, including IDF soldier, in weapon smuggling ring bust

By Stuart Winer

Police carry out raids across the country; student suspect allegedly stored explosives in her dormitory room

Yosef Haim Ben-David, center, the ringleader in the killing of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir last year, is escorted by Israeli policemen at the district court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2016. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Israeli man handed life in prison for grisly murder of East Jerusalem teen

By AFP and ToI Staff

Yosef Haim Ben David, convicted of kidnapping and burning Muhammed Abu Khdeir, apologizes to family, says it ‘wasn’t under my control’; relatives call for death penalty

File: Jordanian protesters chant anti-government slogans and demand from King Abdullah II swift political reforms and to end corruption in the kingdom, in Amman, Jordan, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Perceived corruption on the rise in Arab states

By AFP and ToI Staff

In nine Middle Eastern and North African nations, surveys find widespread sense of growing public sector graft, abuse

Eva Deutsch Costabel, a client of the Blue Card, is an accomplished painter and children's book author (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

For many Holocaust survivors, effects of wartime starvation still a plague

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Illustration of God either present or not in a magistrate's courtroom, January 18, 2016. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Divine interdictionMan seeks restraining order against God

By Stuart Winer

'Hamilton' creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda performing 'To Life! (L’Chaim!)' from 'Fiddler on the Roof' at his wedding in 2010. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

'Here's to my bride to be'A touch of Broadway at ‘Hamilton’ creator’s wedding

By Victor Wishna

View from inside an Israel Elecric Corporation power plant in Hadera on August 11, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ex-power company execs charged in massive Siemens bribery case

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Saturday, September 13, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

What's eating Ron Lauder?Jewish leader calls on Michelin to rank Israeli eats

By AP and ToI Staff

Uziya Zadok and the Amcha Choir, singing Yehuda Poliker and Ya'akov Gilad's song, 'When You Grow Up,' as part of a fundraising campaign created by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016 (Courtesy YouTube screengrab)

More than a memoryLight a candle, but help Shoah survivors too, video urges

By Jessica Steinberg

A Frutarom R&D lab in Germany (Courtesy)

Frutarom makes fifth acquisition of 2016

Desalitech’s ReFlex reverse osmosis systems treats water sources around the world using less energy and producing less waste than most competitors' systems. (courtesy)

Desalitech wins international award for water technology

Holocaust survivor Isaac Ernst Hecker lays flowers during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 16, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSomewhere between sadness and despair

By Joshua Davidovich

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