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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 7, 2016

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Incoming London Mayor Sadiq Khan gestures during his swearing-in ceremony at Southwark Cathedral in cental London on May 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Yui Mok)

Muslim Londoners jubilant as son of Pakistani immigrant elected mayor

By AFP

‘It will not help only the Muslims, it will make a difference for all communities,’ says resident of diverse British capital

Sadiq Khan: An immigrant son’s rise from London public housing to mayor

By Robin MILLARD

London elects first Muslim mayor, Labour’s Sadiq Khan

By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and ToI Staff

Another UK Labour member suspended for anti-Semitic remarks

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)

Analysis

Israel and Hamas are one misdirected shell away from war

By Avi Issacharoff

The IDF and Hamas are wrestling in a small area near the border fence, insisting they don’t want all-out conflict but coming dangerously close to it

Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire on south

Ex-Shin Bet chief: Israel must ease Gaza’s financial plight

Hamas blames PA, Israel for deaths of 3 children in Gaza house fire

Hany Baransi (left) visits Bill Foley in hospital. Foley was seriously injured in a machete attack on Baransi's restaurant in Columbus, Ohio on February 11, 2016. (Courtesy)

Terror attack turns Arab Ohio restaurant owner into fighter for Israel

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Certain he was target of Islamic terrorism, Christian Haifa native Hany Baransi feels called to ‘educate’ others about the Jewish state

I know how discrimination feels

As London’s mayor, he will be the British Muslim to finally root out extremism and radicalization from British society

Shoshana Kranish

The Undemocratic States of America

America’s 2-party system excludes dozens of American views, leaving many voters high and dry this election season

Dana International

Israel gave me the freedom to be me

Like the Eurovision song contest that brought her world fame, her country’s message is one of peace, tolerance and hope

A general view of the main wooden footbridge leading up from the Western Wall to the Temple Mount. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

UN official spurns Netanyahu’s Jerusalem history lesson offer

By AFP and ToI Staff

PM wants to educate all UN staffers in Israel after UNESCO ignored Jewish ties to Temple Mount; but Mideast coordinator says they know local history ‘all too well’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stares silently at the crowd while addressing the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York on October 1, 2015 (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)

After Temple Mount resolution, PM offers UN staff a Jewish history lesson

By ToI Staff and AFP

Venezuelan Ambassador to the UN Rafael Ramirez (screen capture: YouTube)

Venezuela’s UN envoy: Is Israel seeking ‘final solution’ for Palestinians?

Israeli ambassador fires back at ‘clear anti-Semitism in parliament of nations’ at meeting on protection for Palestinian civilians

Illustrative: A security fence around a Jewish settlement in the West Bank (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

US takes tougher tone on Israeli settlements in new report

By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper

Palestinian leaders will be chastised for failing to rein in violence, but main focus will be on surge of Jewish construction, legalization of outposts

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset on June 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Far-right MK: Israel must take ‘just revenge’ for Palestinian terrorism

By JTA

US President Barack Obama speaks about the economy and answers questions in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2016. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Obama blasts Trump: Presidency ‘is not a reality show’

By Andrew BEATTY and Michael Mathes

‘He has a long record that needs to be examined,’ says US president. ‘Take seriously statements he’s made in the past’

This April 22, 2016 file photo shows US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Bridgeport, Connecticut on April 23, 2016 . (AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Where Jewish conservatives stand on Trump: A running tally

While presumptive GOP nominee walked back comments on being ‘neutral’ on Israel-Palestinians, his lack of experience, broadsides against Muslims, Hispanics and women remain chilling for some

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump brings a group of people onstage who say their relatives were killed by illegal immigrants, at a campaign rally at the Orange County Fair and Event Center, April 28, 2016, in Costa Mesa, California. (AFP/David McNew)

Trump shrugs as more big-name Republicans abandon him

By Erica Werner and Steve Peoples

Kees van den Heuvel, standing, talking to guests about the Jewish family that once lived in what is now his home in the Netherlands town of Vught, April 30, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

For Dutch property owners, Holocaust commemoration begins at home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman accused of leaking damning report on 2014 Gaza war

Senior security official suggests former FM angling to discredit Ya’alon, replace him as defense minister

Israeli soldiers seen at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 25, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition, opposition MKs draw battle lines in storm over leaked Gaza war report

Journalist Can Dundar, center, and his wife Dilek look on just after the attack on Can Dundar outside city's main courthouse in Istanbul, Friday, May 6, 2016. (Can Erok, Cumhuriyet via AP)

Turkish journalist attacked by gunman outside court, then jailed

By Neyran Elden

Assailant shouting ‘traitor’ fires two shots at newspaper editor Can Dundar; hours later, he’s sent to prison for revealing state secrets

The Wall of Names, honoring hundreds of gentiles who saved Jews from the Nazis. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Echoes of heroism on the Avenue of the Righteous

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

Tom (right) and Jerry (left), the two cartoon stars of the animated series Tom and Jerry (YouTube screen cap)

Cat-astrophic cartoonsTom and Jerry fueling Mideast violence, Egypt says

A 3-D cutaway shows the interior of the Bent Pyramid.
(Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, HIP Institute and the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University)

The stuff of legendsScientists use ‘cosmic rays’ to peek inside Egypt’s pyramids

Herta Groves, who fled the Nazis in Austria, died on April 27, 2016 at the age of 96 when she was hit by a truck in London (screen capture: USC Shoah Foundation)

Queen’s milliner who fled the Nazis killed in London road accident

Still from Keywan Karimi's documentary "Writing on the City" about graffiti in the Iranian capital of Tehran (YouTube screen cap)

Iran filmmaker sentenced to 233 lashes only wanted to show graffiti

By AFP

Canadian Jewish reporter Carly Fleischmann is embraced by actor Channing Tatum in an April 29, 2016 interview for her online chat show (screen capture: YouTube)

A different voiceAutistic reporter charms Channing Tatum in ‘chat show’

Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi gestures from behind the defendant's bars during his trial at the police academy in Cairo on May 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Egypt court seeks death for 6 espionage co-defendants, but not Morsi

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Illustrative photo of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath (Mayyim Hayyim / JTA)

Rabbi building ‘first West Africa mikveh’ in Nigeria

By JTA

Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)

Polish town names square after Knesset deputy speaker’s family

By JTA

Israeli judoka Gili Cohen (in blue) takes on her competitor at the Grand Slam in Baku on May 6, 2016 (photo: G. Sabau/IJF Media)

Israeli judoka wins gold at Grand Slam in Baku

Illustrative photo of newborn babies in an Israeli hospital nursery. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

What's in a name?Isis falls from favor as baby name for Americans

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Alden Ehrenreich arrives at the premiere of Universal Pictures' 'Hail, Caesar!' at Regency Village Theatre on February 1, 2016 in Westwood, California. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage via JTA)

Now who's scruffy looking?New Han Solo is Jewish, discovered at bat mitzvah

By Julie Wiener

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