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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 27, 2017

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Police photograph items on the pavement in Whitehall, London, Thursday April 27, 2017, after a man was arrested by police. London police say they have arrested a man for possession of offensive weapons near Britain's Houses of Parliament. (Ross Kempsell‏ via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian man arrested by IDF with knife in Hebron

By Ilan Ben Zion

US, Israel officials seek Trump visit for May 22; Russian warship collides with freighter in Black Sea north of Istanbul

US President Donald Trump takes a question during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, April 12, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

White House confirms it’s ‘exploring’ a Trump visit to Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

US president planning a May trip — his first ever to the Jewish state — to coincide with Jerusalem Day

Trump expected in Israel last week of May; Nikki Haley to visit in June

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Trump tax cuts raise concern of outflow of Israeli startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli newspaper reports Trump will recognize entire Jerusalem as Israel’s capital during trip

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel before his meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, April 25, 2017. /Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Why Netanyahu gave Germany’s FM the Silence treatment

By Raphael Ahren

The way the PM sees it, he’s snubbed a waning politician from a country most Israelis believe has no right to preach democracy to Jews, for meeting a widely loathed fringe group

US defends Breaking the Silence as ‘important’ for Israeli discourse

By Raphael Ahren

Reform leader asks PM about fears for Birthrighters who oppose settlements

Israel up in press freedom index, but PM rapped for treating media as ‘enemies’

Children play in the fountains at Teddy Kollek Park in Jerusalem on July 26, 2016 (Zack Wajsgras/Flash90)

Israel at 69 has 8,680,000 citizens, 43% of world Jewry

By Stuart Winer

Central Bureau of Statistics figures show number of residents increased by 1.9% in the past year, including 174,000 babies

A photo taken from the rebel-held town of Douma shows flames rising in the distance which are believed to be coming from Damascus International Airport following an explosion early in the morning of April 27, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)

Intelligence minister appears to confirm Israeli strike on Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yisrael Katz says preventing weapons from reaching Hezbollah is ‘completely compatible’ with Jerusalem’s policy; Syrian state media says raid targeted military installation

‘Huge’ blasts near Damascus airport blamed on Israeli strike

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Liberman says Israel ‘won’t allow’ new Iranian front on Golan Heights

By Judah Ari Gross

Mass funeral held for victims of Syrian convoy bombing

By Maher Al-Mounes

The sea squirt Ciona intestinalis (CC-BY-SA-3.0 perezoso/Wikipedia)

Nobody's sucker

Invasion of the sea squirt could threaten Eilat coral reef

Fast-reproducing filter feeder, which attaches itself to underwater surfaces, thought to have arrived by ship via the Suez Canal

A Palestinian uses a gas lighter while he works inside his restaurant during a power outage in the Gaza Strip, November 17, 2013. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

PA tells Israel it will no longer pay for Gaza’s electricity

Hamas calls move ‘a dangerous escalation, and a fit of insanity’ as enclave’s energy crisis spirals

Hamas to unveil revised charter on May 1

By AFP

Fatah beats Hamas at university elections for 2nd time this month

World Bank: Gaza power cuts causing ‘humanitarian crisis’

By AFP and ToI Staff

This photograph taken on February 17, 2017 shows a member of Indonesia's Jewish community sweeping the steps to the synagogue ahead of a prayer service in Tondano, North Sulawesi. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP)

In Muslim Indonesia, tiny Jewish community keeps its head down

By Olivia Rondonuwu

Worshiping in secret and facing growing faith-based intolerance, Jewish minority insists it is integral part of country

The nascent flowering of our redemption

Does the creation of the secular state of Israel represent a stage in the coming of the messianic age?

What Lapid got wrong on Barghouti

Every people fighting for autonomy, including Israelis, were called terrorists by those who ruled them

Last chance for restitution

Many countries are failing to honor their obligation to compensate the few remaining Holocaust victims

We need education, not felafel

If you want Diaspora Jewish kids to connect with the land, you mus teach them that Israel is the home of all Jews

The names on the bricks are arranged by date of death, regardless of the soldier's rank or unit, April 27, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Israel unveils Remembrance Hall for fallen soldiers ahead of Memorial Day

The site, located at the entrance to the Mount Herzl national cemetery, will commemorate each of the country’s 23,000 killed

Illustrative. An Israeli tank parks in position overlooking the Gaza Strip on December 25, 2013. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF troops come under fire near Gaza, respond with tank fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli tank targets Hamas position in the enclave after soldiers are attacked while operating near security fence

Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir (screen capture: YouTube)

Terror victim’s mother to court: Withdraw visa of human rights staffer

Mother of Erez Orbach, killed by Palestinian truck driver in Jerusalem, protests government decision to allow boycott proponent to work in Israel

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on March 5, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Israel bans PA event in Jerusalem hotel

Public security minister Erdan blocks what he says is latest Palestinian attempt to ‘strengthen presence in Jerusalem‘

Shop owners sit outside their closed shops as Fatah movement supporters roam the streets of the West bank town of Bethlehem to control the general strike in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on April 27, 2017. (Musa al-Shaer/AFP)

Palestinians hold mass strike in support of hunger-strikers

By AFP

Public transportation halts, stores closed throughout West Bank and East Jerusalem in what an official describes as ‘unprecedented’ work stoppage

Linda Sarsour speaking onstage during the Women’s March on Washington in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2017. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images via JTA)

Choice of Palestinian anti-Israel activist for NY college commencement speaker draws fire

By JTA

State lawmaker Dov Hikind, right-wing Jewish group urge dropping Linda Sarsour, an organizer of last month’s Women’s March

Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

UAE jails Iranian for 10 years for aiding nuclear program

By AP

Businessman sentenced over attempt to smuggle electric motor and other devices into Islamic Republic

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) arriving for a military parade in Pyongyang marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, in an April 15, 2017 picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

What the North Korea crisis says about the Iranian nuclear deal

A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)

France detains 10 in weapons probe from 2015 Hyper Cacher killings

By JTA

Alleged arms trafficker Claude Hermant one suspect in probe of how jihadist Amedy Coulibaly obtained firearms with which he killed four in the Jewish supermarket

Directors Claude Lelouch, left, and Alexandre Amiel attend a panel discussion at the Colcoa French Film Festival, in Los Angeles, California, April 25, 2017. (AFP/VALERIE MACON)

‘Why do they hate us?’ documentary probes France’s anti-Semitism

By Frankie TAGGART

Kamal Khatib from the Islamic movement is brought to arraignment at the municipal court in Jerusalem on October 4, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Hardline Muslim clerics slam appointment of Israel’s first female sharia judge

Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement leader warns justice minister ‘not to intervene in matters of Islam’

A scene from 'Impossible Dreamers,' by Eric Goldfarb and Erik Howell. (screenshot)

Aged 60-94, senior athletes teach a whippersnapper filmmaker to dream big

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli cyber authority says it stopped ‘major’ hacking attack

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: American Jewish day school students studying outside. (Courtesy of Hillel Day School/JTA)

Most highly educated American Jews are least religious — study

By JTA

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett (R) and his wife, Gilat seen cast their vote during the party's preliminary elections, in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett poised to gain as Jewish Home votes in leadership primary

By Raoul Wootliff

A GetTaxi vehicle in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Israeli rideshare rivals Gett, Juno join forces

By AFP and Luke Tress

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Israeli parliament during a vote on a law changing the structure of the new Israel Broadcast Corporation news division, at Knesset on April 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

TV report: Police will ‘unequivocally’ recommend graft charges against PM

Workers held signs as they protested near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem against the closure of an ammonia tank in the northern city of Haifa, March 29, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Hundreds hold up traffic in Tel Aviv to protest ammonia tank closure

Illustrative: Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

What would Jefferson do?US Senate wins free speech offender prize for anti-Semitism bill

By AP and ToI Staff

View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset finalizes delay of new broadcaster launch

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump attends a meeting about healthcare in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Hebrew media reviewGearing up for Trump

By Ilan Ben Zion

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