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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 8, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 8, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Netanyahu upbraids top general for ‘outrageous’ Shoah comparison

Deputy IDF head Yair Golan’s statements that he sees echoes of Nazi Germany in Israel ‘create contempt for the Holocaust,’ Netanyahu tells cabinet; minister calls for Golan’s resignation

Yair Golan salutes after laying a flower wreath at a memorial during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem on May 5, 2016. (Noam Moskowitz/Pool)

Opposition leaders rip Netanyahu for ‘hypocrisy’ in attacking general

Matti Friedman, pictured during his IDF service in the late 1990s (Courtesy Matti Friedman)

Interview

From Lebanon, a sparkling, contemplative war memoir on the dimming of a generation’s hope

By Mitch Ginsburg

In his new book ‘Pumpkinflowers,’ Matti Friedman — an Israeli soldier in Lebanon, then a tourist there, and now a Jerusalem father of 3 — shows that the men who tried to kill him in the late 1990s were the pioneers of a new type of conflict, now in hideous full bloom

Britain's incoming London Mayor Sadiq Khan, center, attends his signing-in ceremony at Southwark Cathedral, cental London, May 7, 2016. (AFP/Yui Mok)

New London mayor to attend Shoah memorial as first act in office

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Amid anti-Semitism scandal embroiling Labour Party, Sadiq Khan to attend remembrance ceremony in Barnet day after vowing to be leader for all at swearing in

Britain's incoming London Mayor Sadiq Khan (L) sits with his wife Saadiya (2L), during his swearing-in ceremony at Southwark Cathedral in central London on May 7, 2016. (Yui Mok/Pool/AFP)

London’s new Muslim mayor condemns ‘Trump-style’ attacks

By Alice Ritchie

London's new mayor Sadiq Khan and his wife Saadiya attend the official signing ceremony in Southwark Cathedral, London, Saturday May 7, 2016. (Yui Mok/Pool via AP)

London’s new Muslim mayor vows to be leader for everyone

By Shawn Pogatchnik

Father Gabriel Naddaf, in his living room, alongside a likeness of Mary, which, he believes, saved his life in a road accident in 2011. (Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Priest who heads IDF initiative accused of sexual misconduct

Supreme Court upholds Aryeh Deri’s appointment as minister; London’s new Muslim mayor joins Holocaust memorial

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

Israel vows to press on with anti-tunnel operations amid Gaza tensions

Officials say Hamas does not seek escalation, is not behind rocket fire on communities; farmers to be allowed back to fields near border

Abbas confirms PA still paying terrorists’ salaries — report

Kuwaiti minister visits Temple Mount, Ramallah

US expresses ‘deep concern’ at Palestinian envoy comparing IDF to Nazis

By JTA and ToI Staff

Is it finally time to come home?

An invitation for all of Israel’s American Jewish critics

She put down her camera after Koby Mandell’s murder, but came to realize that using her gift was the better response

Let more Israelis vote from abroad

In this glob-trotting era, it’s time to cautiously loosen the constraints on absentee voting rights

The mother of the Abu Hindi family (L) mourns during the funeral of three of her sons who died in a fire caused by a candle at the family home, at the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on May 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED)

Analysis

In Gaza, deadly flames expose a very fragile standoff with Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

After a fire kills 3 Palestinian children, Hamas points most of the blame at the PA. Plainly, it doesn’t want a new war… for now

Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of three children who were killed in a fire caused by a candle, during their funeral in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Saturday, May 7, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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

Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes. (YouTube/The Atlantic)

White House official admits fudging of facts to sell Iran deal

By Stuart Winer

The need for reconciliation with adversaries can trump pleasing existing allies, Ben Rhodes acknowledges; Panetta no longer sure Obama would strike at Iran to stop it going nuclear

Turkish artillery fire from the border toward northern Syria, in Kilis, Turkey on Feb. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Halit Onur Sandal)

Turkish army kills 55 IS members in Syria: reports

By AFP

Ankara shells, destroys jihadist group’s missile launchers near Aleppo following rocket strikes on border town

Former Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski (C), his wife Anna (L), Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller (R) and other participants march during the annual Schumann Parade to support the idea of a United Europe in Warsaw, Poland on May 7, 2016. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP Photo/AFP)

240,000 Poles join pro-EU, pro-democracy march

By Damien Simonart

Amid constitutional crisis and criticism of rightist government, protesters say they are fighting ‘for Poland’s freedom’

Holocaust survivor Jerry Aviram speaks at a Zikaron BaSalon event in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘Living Room Memories’ allows Holocaust survivors to tell their stories at home

By Luke Tress and Brandon Berry

Former president Moshe Katsav, left, serving a seven-year sentence for rape, seen with his wife, Gila, leaving Ma'asiyahu Prison for a furlough over the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 3, 2015. (Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav appeals for pardon from jail

Family claims convicted rapist is in deteriorating mental state; parole board last month denied him early release

Leader of the banned northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah center, in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem January 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Islamist leader Raed Salah starts 9-month prison term

Hundreds, including lawmakers, rally for head of Northern Branch of Islamic Movement as he enters detention center for speech deemed incitement

A forensic team examines the scene where Shai Shirazi, 30 was shot dead and another person wounded after a gunman opened fire on their car in Tel Aviv, May 7, 2016. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Police brace for violence after mob hit kills son of crime boss

Driveby shooting in northern Tel Aviv Saturday leaves Shai Shirazi, son of Rico Shirazi, dead; manhunt underway for shooters

Haim Ramon in the Knesset in 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former minister: Israel must separate from East Jerusalem or lose city

Haim Ramon says if capital’s 320,000 Palestinian residents were to vote, next mayor ‘will be the Mufti’s grandson’

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, speaks to a gathering of supporters during a campaign rally at the Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, Kentucky, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Sanders wins big in Washington state, but still trails far behind

With over 93 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, Clinton appears set for early June win

The Bridge Ladies holding their wedding photos. Left to right: Bea Phillips, Bette Horowitz, Roz Lerner, Jackie Podoloff, Rhoda Meyers (Hannah Robinson)

In new memoir, resolution of mother-daughter conflict is in the cards

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Presidential candidate and Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte holds his national flag as he addresses his supporters during an election campaign rally ahead of the presidential and vice presidential elections in Manila, the Philippines, on May 7, 2016. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP)

Philippine president compares election frontrunner to Hitler

By Ayee Macaraig

The Dead Sea (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Dead Sea oil reservoir ‘entirely within Israel’ says company

A Kommando Freisler album cover (YouTube screen capture)

WJC: YouTube’s failure to remove neo-Nazi videos ‘beggars belief’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a press conference with his Singaporean counterpart on April 19, 2016 at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

A friend indeedNetanyahu is 10th most admired man in America – poll

In this image, the untreated control surface shows dense bacteria colonization (above), while the bottom area shows how the Cu-MCF coating prevents formation of biofilm. (Courtesy)

Ben-Gurion researchers not afraid to clean up the slime

Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli tech giant Mellanox to expand Yokne’am campus

Incoming Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (Shin Bet)

Nadav Argaman enters office as new Shin Bet boss

By AFP and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of pigeons. (Maya Levin/Flash90)

Jihad on the flyIS said to use homing pigeons to communicate

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, right, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office on September 10, 2014. (White House/Pete Souza)

Hebrew media reviewSpins, and the spinning spinners who spin them

By Joshua Davidovich

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