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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 5, 2016

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Illustrative: a Hamas tunnel discovered by the IDF running under the Gaza border into Israel on May 5, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Second Gazan tunnel leading into Israel found, army says

By Ilan Ben Zion and ToI Staff

IDF confirms troops fired upon in flare-up were working on tunnel detection on both sides of Gaza border; passageway uncovered near one located last month in southern Strip, unclear how far it extends into Israel

IAF warplanes hit Hamas targets in Gaza following mortar fire at IDF troops

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israel arrests Hamas man moments after PA frees him from prison

By Ilan Ben Zion

AnalysisIsraeli troops still operating in Rafah amid Gaza Strip flareup — sources

By Avi Issacharoff

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan speaks at Holocaust Remembrance ceremony on May 5, 2016 (Channel 10 news)

Deputy IDF chief: Israeli societal trends akin to pre-Holocaust Europe

Yair Golan warns of growing callousness, indifference to others, says only national self-reflection will serve as ‘a true memorial’ to Nazi victims

Justice minister accuses deputy IDF head of contempt for Holocaust

Deputy IDF chief denies likening Israel to Germany in Remembrance Day speech

By Raoul Wootliff

Obama: US stands with Jews who face hatred around the world

By ToI Staff and JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 4, 2016. (Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Siren to sound at 10 a.m. Thursday

PM lambastes modern anti-Semitism as Israel remembers Holocaust

Jewish state marks annual memorial to the 6 million slain by the Nazis; PM and president say not enough done for survivors

Israel pauses to remember millions murdered in Holocaust

March of the Living marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz

By Raoul Wootliff

Films play special role in remembering Holocaust

Illustrative: The IDF excavation of a recently discovered tunnel running from Gaza into the Eshkol region of southern Israel on May 5, 2016. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Live updates (closed)

Ya’alon: Israel will not tolerate any Hamas aggression

Defense chief says Gaza terrorists must understand that attempts to disrupt life will be met with severe blow

Surviving Herero after an escape through the arid desert of Omaheke in German Southwest Africa (modern day Namibia), circa 1907 (Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin)

In Germany’s extermination program for black Africans, a template for the Holocaust

Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa – now Namibia – dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople in a systematic genocide. Here, Edwin Black reveals the full horrors of an eerie and odious precursor of the Shoah, and its legacy in the US

Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Why the Nazi hunters’ epic quest is coming to an unheralded end

By Matt Lebovic

Child Holocaust survivor can never remember her stolen past

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Donald Trump attends a press conference with members of the Veteran Police Association in Staten Island, New York, on April 17, 2016. (AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)

Prominent Republican Jews question loyalty to party under Trump

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

RJC offers cool support for billionaire left alone in the race, while others say they’re standing by the GOP unless the candidate crosses a line

Clinton’s foreign policy advisers stand out for not standing out

Trump’s open path to nomination causes agony for some in GOP

By Julie Pace and Steve Peoples

12 ways Trump did it his way

From the abyss: A letter to my parents

From the once-Polish town where most of his family was murdered: How did you find the strength to live?

Shimshon HaKohen Nadel

Can we forgive the Nazis?

An Auschwitz guard’s recent apology can’t reach those he wronged, and nobody else has the right to accept it

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Rembrandt and the Holocaust

What will he say when the millions who had no chance to live their lives ask him how did he live his?

Irene Rabinowitz

Only the cats moved on Yom HaShoah

What if those who perished could see the miracle of a thriving Jewish nation and know they were not forgotten?

Anguish, pride and Yom HaShoah

Named for an aunt who perished, she asserts you can love and miss those you’ve never met; the connection is real

A voter leaves a polling station in a church in south London on May 5, 2016, after casting a ballot for the city's next mayor. (AFP PHOTO/JUSTIN TALLIS)

Chief rabbi among voters in north London turned away from mayoral poll

Polling staff provided with incorrect voter lists, preventing many from casting their ballot

Left: The Conservatives' London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith speaks at a London Mayoral Accountability Assembly at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London on April 28, 2016; Right: Labour's candidate for London mayor Sadiq Khan speaks at an event in London on January 28, 2016. (AFP/Justin Tallis and Leon Neal)

Britain heads to local elections as Labour plagued by anti-Semitism crisis

By AFP and ToI Staff

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on April 26, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL)

Amid anti-Semitism scandal, Jewish support for Labour at historic low

By JTA

Only 8.5 percent of British Jews say they would vote for the party if general elections held today

Then prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, right, stands with then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before their meeting in Jerusalem March 3, 2009. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv/Flash90)

Clinton’s frustrations with ‘f-word’ Netanyahu detailed in new book

By Stuart Winer

Ex-NY Times White House correspondent says secretary declined to visit to Israel in June 2009 to do damage control after Obama’s Cairo trip

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Ahmed Shahaada, 36, during his funeral in Betunia, near the city of Ramallah, on May 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

East Jerusalem attackers’ bodies to be released for burial

State tells High Court it no longer opposes handing over bodies of Palestinians killed during assaults

Anushka Warshawski, center, smuggled her photo album out of the Kovno ghetto shortly before its liquidation and her death in 1943. (Courtesy of Richard Schofield/via JTA)

Smuggled out of ghetto, mystery photo trove turns out to be family of famous American scholars

By Uriel Heilman

Participants in an Israel trip aimed at Jewish mothers sponsored by the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project. (Aviram Waldman/JTA)

In first, Cubans to join ‘Birthright for Jewish moms’ to Israel

By JTA

Momentum Israel trip, partly funded by Diaspora Ministry, begins reaching out to Spanish speakers across Latin America

Officials look at an employee setting up a road sign reading the new name of Spanish village 'Castrillo Mota de Judios' which means 'Castrillo Mound of Jews' at the entrance of Castrillo Mota de Judios, near Burgos on October 23, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/ CESAR MANSO)

Spanish town suffers vandalism upon changing its anti-Semitic name

By Ciaran Giles

Signs, buildings in Castrillo Mota de Judios — Jews’ Hill Camp — repeatedly daubed with offensive symbols and messages against the name alteration

UK's Jewish News, print edition

Britain’s Jewish News is latest Times of Israel Local partner

Anglo Jewry’s most-read title joins forces with ToI in a growing Jewish journalism alliance that benefits newspapers and readers alike

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Holocaust survivors pose for a photo after celebrating their belated bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Holocaust Remembrance DayStudy shows survivors sicker but longer-lived than native-born Israelis

Iranian car workers assemble cars at the state-run Iran Khodro automobile manufacturing plant, just outside Tehran, Iran, April 25, 2015 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Chevrolet, the ‘Heartbeat of America,’ not coming to Iran

By AP

Bedoins seen riding camels in tdesert in Jordan, February 8, 2013. (Lucie March/Flash90)

Israeli hiker falls to death near Jordan’s historic Petra

By Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian al-Barghuti serves food to a customer at his food truck called "Food Train" which he runs with his friend al-Bibi in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 3, 2016. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

Meals on wheelsFirst Palestinian fast food truck tastes success

By Hossam Ezzedine

This combination of pictures shows Turkish Prime Minister and leader of Turkey's ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ahmet Davutoglu (left) in Ankara on May 3, 2016 and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) delivering a speech in Ankara on February 24, 2016
(ADEM ALTAN / AFP)

Turkey PM says he’s quitting as Erdogan tightens grip

By Fulya Ozerkan and Stuart Williams

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan speaks at Holocaust Remembrance ceremony on May 5, 2016 (Channel 10 news)

Hebrew media reviewCommemoration interrupted

By Ilan Ben Zion

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