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What Matters Most On Friday, May 6, 2016

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US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk away after a news conference at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 20, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sympathy for Palestinians over Israel up sharply among younger Americans

By Uriel Heilman

Pew study finds threefold rise in past decade of millennials who say they’re more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israel

In rare joint appearance, Saudi prince, ex-Netanyahu adviser spar over peace

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian with knife arrested at Tomb of the Patriarchs

No Israelis killed last month in terror attacks, in first since August

By JTA

Sheldon Adelson, 2014 (Ethan Miller/Getty Images, via JTA)

Sheldon Adelson will support Trump as Republican nominee

By ToI Staff and AFP

‘I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican,’ says Jewish casino magnate and mega-donor to GOP; ‘he won fair and square’

Trump ‘totally disavows’ racist David Duke after anti-Semitic tirade

Warning against Trump, Clinton urges Democrats to unite

US Jewish cabinet member: ‘Fear of the other’ is rising in US

By JTA

A World War II veteran walks past an honor guard of Israeli soldiers during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on May 5, 2016. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Analysis

The many Holocausts of the Jews

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The memory of the industrial extermination of European Jewry unifies the fractured Jewish world as nothing else can – and confers a desperate significance on what divides us

Mapping the Holocaust: How Jews were taken to their final destinations

Thousands mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz

By Agencies and ToI Staff

No joking matter: 1940s political cartoons warned US of Holocaust

By Cathryn J. Prince

Ken Livingstone denounces Israel in a May 4, 2016 interview (Memri screenshot)

Ken Livingstone: Creation of Israel was ‘a great catastrophe’

In Arabic TV interview, Labour’s ex-London mayor blames Israel for IS attacks in Europe and mass expulsion of Jews from Arab world, again claims Hitler supported Zionism

Despite anti-Semitism scandal, Labour suffers only minor losses in England

By AFP and ToI Staff

London looks set to elect first Muslim mayor

By Alice Ritchie

Anti-Semitism charges suggest drubbing for Labour among London Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Future prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, right, and his wife, Leah, in 1968 (Israel Government Press Office/via JTA)

Yitzhak Rabin narrates his own posthumous cinematic autobiography

By Curt Schleier

Tired of hearing analysts dissect the assassinated prime minister, filmmaker Erez Laufer lets him speak for himself in ‘Rabin in his Own Words’

Was it good for you too?

The very people who test special-needs children insult them, making a mockery of the charge to serve each child

‘Never again’ is not enough

The Israeli government must head off the coming war by dismantling Hamas and make living on the border safe

The courage to admit mistakes

Honest self-criticism is an unmistakable mark of spiritual greatness, as the parsha’s high priest demonstrates

On becoming un-assimilated

It began with Facebook vitriol during the Israel-Gaza clash and led her to divide the world into Jews and gentiles

Joseph Bau's drafting table and tools, still in their place in his studio, under a portrait of him with his wife, Rebecca (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Believing in miracles, Israel’s ‘Walt Disney’ survived Holocaust by the sleight of his talented hands

By Jessica Steinberg

Palestinian Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gives a speech during a rally in Gaza City, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Analysis

Hamas: We don’t seek war, but won’t accept Israeli ‘incursions’

By ToI Staff, Judah Ari Gross, AFP and Avi Issacharoff

Ismail Haniyeh says IDF soldiers entering enclave ‘on pretext of searching for tunnels’ … a day after Israel finds tunnel

Hamas operative Mahmoud Atawnah, picked up by Israeli security forces last month, in a photo released on May 5, 2016. (Shin Bet)

Israel arrested Hamas tunnel expert, Shin Bet reveals

Mahmoud Atawnah, nabbed last month, provided trove of info on Hamas tunnel activities, including routes, use of private homes

A screenshot from an 11-minute video showing a Hasidic principal handling a young boy. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Undercover video of Hasidic principal handling boy prompts sex abuse probe

By Uriel Heilman

While advocates demand justice, police refuse to comment on whether case is under investigation

Illustrative: Satmar Hasidim in the United States. (screen capture: YouTube)

New video shows 2nd boy being caressed by Hasidic NY principal

By JTA

Meir Dagan speaks to Channel 2's Ilana Dayan in an interview aired almost two months after his death, May 5, 2016. (Screenshot/Channel 2)

Netanyahu brought about Iran nuke deal, says ex-Mossad head in last interview

In final media sit-down before his death, Meir Dagan slams PM, accuses him of making an enemy of Israel’s closest ally

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens on April 22, 2016 in New York. (AFP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

120 nations, led by Iran, protest US court ruling on assets

By Edith M. Lederer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C ), Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (R ), and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (L) visit the Hatzor Israeli Air Force base on August 27, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

State comptroller excoriates leadership over 2014 Gaza war

Draft report accuses Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz of failing to anticipate Hamas tunnel threat, withholding info from cabinet

In this Thursday, April 21, 2016 photo, a cow walks past Israeli military APC in the Golan Heights near the border with Syria. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Not cowed

Israeli cowboys live frontier life on Syria’s doorstep

By Aron Heller and Ariel Schalit

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Israeli drag queen Yossale performs on stage at the Video bar in Jerusalem's Old City on February 23, 2016. (AFP Photo/Gil Cohen-Magen)

Running in heelsDrag queens raise holy hell in only gay bar in Jerusalem

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

“Downfall,” a German film starring actor Bruno Ganz as Hitler, is the subject of dozens of web parodies in which filmmakers insert fake subtitles to skewer an unrelated topic. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Must-watch movieBank settles $40M lawsuit over Hitler parody video

By JTA

Israeli army soldiers secure the main entrance of the Qalandiya checkpoint, a main crossing point between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 27, 2016. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Police to probe killing of Palestinian siblings at Qalandiya

By Daniel Douek

A pottery fragment discovered in Teruel depicting a Jewish man. (Courtesy of Sefarad via JTA)

Spanish archaeologists identify rare pottery portrait of a Jew

By JTA

An Ecoppia robot cleaning-crew system (Courtesy)

Israeli solar panel robot cleaners ‘outsourced’ to India

Anne Frank (L) plays with her friend Hanneli Goslar (R) on the Merwedeplein square in Amsterdam, May 1941. (AP Photo/Anne Frank House Amsterdam/Anne Frank Fonds Basel photo collections)

In memoriamBook signed by Anne Frank sells for $62,500

By AFP

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan lays a wreath at a memorial during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2016. (Olivier Fitoussi/Pool)

Hebrew media reviewA Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember

By Adiv Sterman

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