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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 26, 2017

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in the Rotunda of the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, April 25, 2017.(AFP/MANDEL NGAN)

Talks underway for Trump to make first Israel visit in May

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hebrew media says US president aiming to expand European trip to include visit to the Jewish state that could coincide with Jerusalem reunification celebrations

President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance ceremony. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

‘We’ll confront anti-Semitism,’ Trump vows at Holocaust event

By Eric Cortellessa

In remembrance speech, president says, ‘Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this horrible evil’

AnalysisOn Jews and the Holocaust, Trump signals that he finally gets it

Full text of Donald Trump’s 2017 speech for Holocaust Days of Remembrance

Ivanka Trump visits Berlin Holocaust memorial

By AP and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and German Chief of Staff Peter Altmaier attend the weekly Cabinet Meeting in Berlin, on April 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL

Merkel regrets Netanyahu’s snub of her foreign minister

By Raoul Wootliff and AFP

PM’s allies blame Sigmar Gabriel for canceled meeting, saying he shouldn’t have sat down with left-wing rights group

AnalysisGerman-Israel relationship: No longer so special?

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Netanyahu takes credit for ‘unprecedented growth’ in Israel’s foreign relations

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas threats to cut Gaza funding

By Tamar Pileggi

Trump to visit Israel next month, UN envoy Nikki Haley to follow in June; police reportedly wrapping up Netanyahu gifts probe, to recommend indictment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Historians reject Netanyahu’s claim Allies could have saved 4 million from Holocaust

By Raphael Ahren

‘This is utter nonsense,’ says Yehuda Bauer, comparing PM’s thesis with his earlier derided assertion that the Mufti of Jerusalem convinced Hitler to enact the Final Solution

Anti-Semitic graffiti tops NYC subway hate crimes

By AP and ToI Staff

Ten Jewish tombstones smashed in Romanian capital

By AP and ToI Staff

A mother-of-pearl tablet inscribed with a menorah found in Caesarea, Israel, April 2017. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Unique mother-of-pearl menorah etching found in ancient Caesarea

By Ilan Ben Zion

Tablet decorated with candelabrum, likely part of a box for a Torah scroll, uncovered in ancient Roman temple; dates to circa 4th-5th century

Hana Khatib, who became the first female judge in Israel's Muslim sharia court system on April 25, 2017. (Justice Ministry)

In ‘historic’ step, first female judge appointed to Israel’s sharia courts

Justice minister says she hopes Hana Khatib will be a ‘bellwether for further appointments of women’

Israeli actress Gal Gadot at a screening of the film 'Keeping Up With The Joneses' at The London Hotel in West Hollywood, California, October 20, 2016. (Araya Diaz/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)

7 incredible new things the world can thank Israel for

By Andrew Tobin

Ahead of Israel’s 69th independence day, we’re thankful for Wonder Woman, a weed inhaler, a binge-worthy drama about the West Bank, self-driving cars and the doctors saving Syrian lives

Matti Friedman, left, and Haim Watzman in the Crusaders Hall, at the Tower of David Museum as part of the Times of Israel Presents on April 25, 2017. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Times of Israel Presents

The IDF is still a base for these two immigrant authors

By Yaakov Schwartz

Ex-North Americans Matti Friedman and Haim Watzman detail their aliyah experiences in a candid mutual interview

Aliyah, Step 1: Bureaucracy

On her Kafkaesque path to prove she’s Jewish, so she can make that move of all moves — to Israel

Lynette Nusbacher

Stopping the Shoah with a bombing raid?

Netanyahu claimed the Allies could have bombed the tracks and saved millions — If only it were true

Jonathan Garfinkel

My ‘Holocaust Cabaret’ is respectful

His Demjanjuk play employs dark humor to address the complexity of memory and the nature of war crimes trials

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Haredi extremism: Alive and growing

It is the moral and religious obligation of all people to stand against outrage — yes, every single time

British MP Andrew Percy holds a terror doll teaching aid used in Palestinian schools. (Jenni Frazer/ Times of Israel)

The Conservative member of parliament who went all the way for Israel

By Jenni Frazer

French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen (2R) shakes hands with an employee as she visits the meat pavilion at the Rungis international food market, near Paris, on April 25, 2017. (Charles Platiau/AFP)

Marine Le Pen: Ban halal and all ritual slaughter

By JTA

French far-right presidential candidate doesn’t cite kosher abattoirs, but says all slaughter without stunning should be prohibited

Israel's Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev, interviewed by the BBC on May 1, 2016 (BBC screenshot)

Israel’s envoy to visit first UK campus to back anti-Israel boycott

Defying protests by students and professors, Mark Regev set to speak at London’s SOAS, whose students endorsed academic boycott in 2005

This file photo taken on January 10, 2015 shows French police officers standing guard in front of a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, a day after four people were killed at the Jewish supermarket by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly during a hostage-taking. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)

10 held over deadly attack on Paris Hyper Cacher store

By AFP

Among those charged with 2015 assault on Jewish market in which 4 were murdered is arms dealer with links to French far-right groups

Israeli security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack outside Bani Na'im, near Hebron, September 20, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian shot trying to stab soldiers, IDF says

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says assailant attempted to attack troops in the northern West Bank in 2nd incident in 24 hours; no Israelis injured

Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir (YouTube screenshot)

Israel grants work permit to once-banned Human Rights Watch staffer

Acknowledging political differences with Israeli government, HRW says decision is ‘important step’ that shows openness to criticism

Palestinian youth show their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)

Explosion in Gaza injures 2 at reported Hamas military site

One man critical, another moderately hurt in second such incident this month

Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Sharon Afek speaks at a conference on the law of armed conflict outside Tel Aviv, on April 25, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

In Israel, international law grapples with 21st century war

By Judah Ari Gross

With the world now facing many of the issues the Jewish state has been struggling with for decades, the IDF hosts a conference on the laws of armed conflict, with 100 representatives from more than 20 countries

Illustrative: A housing construction site in Jerusalem, October 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

City hall said looking to revive huge East Jerusalem housing project

Jerusalem Municipality expected to approve program for 10,000 homes in ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, frozen in the Obama years

File photo of the USS Mahan destroyer, seen in September 2002. (Public Domain/Photographer's Mate Airman Rex Nelson, US Navy/Wikipedia)

Iranian ‘attack craft’ approaches US Navy destroyer in Persian Gulf

USS Mahan shifts course to avoid Iranian vessel, sounds danger signal, fires flares and mans its weapons

Yossi Sassi and Michael Greilsammer jam for their collaborative effort on Greilsammer's latest album, "5x2" (Courtesy Michael Greilsammer)

Fiddler’s balancing act: Seeking success, but not at the kids’ expense

By Jessica Steinberg

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The new president of the UK National Union of Students Malia Bouattia (YouTube screenshot)

Divisive pro-BDS student leader ousted in UK

Medics at the scene of an explosion that killed two children in a Negev encampment on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 (Magen David Adom)

Two children killed in explosion in the south

A boy looks at a bear at the Qalqilya Zoo. (YouTube screenshot)

Bear bites off boy’s arm at Palestinian zoo

Annette Edwards holds her three foot long rabbit, Simon. A United Airlines plane is depicted in the left hand corner. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Hare today gone tomorrow Celebrity’s giant rabbit dies on United Airlines flight

By AFP

In this March 28, 2016 file photo, then-Miami Heat forward Amar'e Stoudemire shoots during warmups before the Heat met the Brooklyn Nets in an NBA basketball game, in Miami. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper, File)

NBA’s ‘Basketball Without Borders’ heads to Israel this summer

By Jon Krawcynski

Rasmea Yousef Odeh, November 10, 2014. (AP/Carlos Osorio, File)

Palestinian ex-terrorist pleads guilty to US immigration crime, will be deported

Parliamentary candidate Ashuk Ahmed, suspended by the UK Liberal Democrat Party on April 25 after anti-Semitic social media posts were exposed. (YouTube screenshot)

UK Lib Dems suspend candidate over ‘virulent anti-Semitism’ claims

Cazzie David with her father Larry David at a ceremony honoring Mel Brooks at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, June 6, 2013. (Michael Kovac/WireImage)

Curb her enthusiasmLarry David’s daughter has a new web series

By Gabe Friedman

German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel briefs the media on his July 20 visit to Iran during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Hebrew media reviewNetanyahu’s spat in Germany’s face

By Ilan Ben Zion

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