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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 29, 2017

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Former French presidential election candidate for the right-wing Debout la France (DLF) party Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (L) and French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen, shake hands at the end of a joint statement at FN headquarters in Paris, on April 29, 2017. (AFP/Geoffroy van der Hasselt)

Le Pen’s PM pick blasted Israel during Gaza war, equated Netanyahu with Hamas

By ToI Staff and AFP

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan criticized France’s failure to rein in Israel during 2014 conflict, said Jerusalem’s actions ‘disproportionate’

Le Pen announces eurosceptic PM pick, if elected

By AFP

Three charged with supplying arms to terrorists in 2015 Paris attacks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Racism, anti-Semitism and WWII move to center stage for France’s rival candidates

By Angela Charlton

From L to R, Haim Oshri, Dr. Itzik Yifat and Zion Karasenti stand in front of the Western Wall in April 2017, 50 years after the three former paratroopers were resonantly photographed at the holy site by David Rubinger immediately after its capture in the Six Day War. (screen capture: Channel 2)

50 years later, 3 soldiers reenact, remember their iconic Six-Day war photo

Picture of paratroopers Zion Karasenti, Haim Oshri, and Itzik Yifat has become defining image of Israel regaining Western Wall; they’re still friends and they still argue

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the summit of the Arab League at the Dead Sea, Jordan, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Arab leaders are gathering for an annual summit where the long-stalled quest for Palestinian statehood is to take center stage. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Analysis

Eyeing his trip to Trump, Abbas takes on Hamas, reins in hunger-strike protests

By Avi Issacharoff

Why has the PA president chosen this moment to stop funding Gaza’s electricity, and why is he keeping the lid on West Bank anger? Because Washington beckons

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) in Cairo, Egypt, on July 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/HO/Egyptian Presidency)

Abbas in Egypt to coordinate stance ahead of Trump meet

London mayor Sadiq Khan at a Yom Hashoah ceremony on April 23, 2017. (Courtesy)

Interview

Once thorny, relationship between London’s Muslim mayor and the Jews now a bed of roses

By Jenni Frazer

Ahead of June’s general elections, Sadiq Khan encourages a vote for good local Labour candidates — almost despite his party’s leader

Noa Tnua founder Roy Schwartz Tichon, second from right, and board member Noam Tel-Verem, third from right, posing with volunteers before the launch of their bus service in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 6, 2015. (Avihai Levy)

Fed up with Shabbat laws, secular Israelis fund bus service to the beach

By Andrew Tobin

Noa Tnua, a tiny Tel Aviv busing cooperative, crowdfunds to expand its service to the coast on weekends, when most public transport shuts down

Cartoonist Bob Mankoff at the Crosby Hotel in New York City, Feb. 9, 2016. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Amazon Studios, via JTA)

JewdlingJewdling

New Yorker’s cartoon editor picks 7 Jewish favorites

By Gabe Friedman

Stepping down from his prestigious perch after 20 years, Bob Mankoff chooses some of his best-loved caricatures

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Trump visited Israel — and so did I!

What a coincidence: They both came in the 1980s and the only difference was everything

Krakow on a Sunday

These vows of lifelong poverty, chastity and obedience — why do he and his Dominican Order fellows do it?

Illustrative: Better education about the dangers of sun exposure are credited for helping bring Israel's skin cancer rate down from the world's second-highest a decade ago to 18th today. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The 3 cancers Jews need to worry about most — and how to reduce the risks

Pope Francis is surrounded by security while waving from above an uncovered Popemobile before the start of a mass on April 29, 2017 at a stadium in Cairo.
( AFP PHOTO / Andreas SOLARO)

Pope Francis leads mass for thousands of Egyptian Catholics

By Catherine MARCIANO and Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Huge security as pontiff circles Cairo stadium in a golf cart; worshipers release yellow and white balloons

Demonstrators wave Palestinian and Peace Now flags at West Bank protest against settler violence near Michmash Junction, April 28, 2017. (Times of Israel/Jacob Magid)

Police prevent left-wing rally at outpost against settler violence

250 activists, including 3 Meretz MKs, barred from reaching Baladim, scene of attacks last week; forced to hold protest at Michmash Junction

Firearms officiers from the British police detain a man on Whitehall near the Houses of Parliament in central London on April 27, 2017 before being taken away by police. (AFP/Niklas Halle'n)

Man arrested with knives outside UK parliament ‘was aboard Mavi Marmara in 2010’

By ToI Staff and AFP

27-year-old Khalid Omar Ali was on ship that attempted to run Israeli security blockade of Gaza Strip

Israeli and American flags seen in Chicago, Illinois, 2014. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Lawmakers introduce resolution to honor Israeli-Americans

By JTA

Republican and Democrat representatives affirm community’s ‘immense contribution’ to American society

Veteran rock producer Sam Cohen worked hard to wipe the 'smile' off of pop songs played on the 'The Man in the High Castle' soundtrack. (Sam Erickson/via JTA)

Had the Nazis won, American pop music would sound like this

By Gabe Friedman

Poster for the 2017 adaptation of 'A Bag of Marbles' (Courtesy)

LA’s French film fest debuts stunning Nazi escape tale

By Frankie TAGGART

Adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s autobiographical novel follows flight of two Jewish boys from Nazi-occupied Paris, and is timed to coincide with rise of Marine Le Pen

'Blood, Milk & Tears' installation at Fentster in Toronto, Candada, April 2017. (Justine Apple Photography)

Toronto art exhibit is window into experiences of Jewish and Muslim women

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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A Chechen gay man who fled persecution in his home Russia's Muslim region of Chechnya due to his sexual orientation, sits on his bed in Moscow on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Naira Davlashyan)

US Holocaust Museum condemns Chechnya’s reported persecution of gay men

By JTA and AFP

Elie Wiesel arrives for a roundtable discussion on the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 2, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

US lawmakers introduce bill to commission Elie Wiesel bust in Capitol

By JTA

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump attending the Comedy Central Roast of The Donald at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, March 9, 2011. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic via Getty Images/JTA)

Trump proclaims May annual Jewish American Heritage Month

Iranian presidential candidates, left to right, Hassan Rouhani, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Eshaq Jahangiri and Ebrahim Raisi attend a live debate on state TV in Tehran on April 28, 2017. (AFP/Jamejamonline/Mehdi Dehghan)

Tehran’s mayor attacks Rouhani in pre-election debate

By Nasser Karimi

Thomas Lopez-Pierre on the show 'Meet the Faith' in BET studios, New York City, 2006. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)

‘Anti-Semitic’ NY city council candidate says more anti-Semitic things

DNC Chairman Tom Perez walks on stage to speak to a crowd of supporters at a Democratic unity rally at the Rail Event Center on April 21, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images)

No one is assigned to Jewish outreach at the DNC. Who ya gonna call?

A huge poster of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is draped over part of a building in Istanbul on April 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)

Turkey blocks access to Wikipedia

By AFP

Illustrative: An undated image of a farmer in the western Negev inspecting a crop of cherry tomatoes. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Jamming Palestinian hunger strikers’ phones risks our crops, locals say

Members of the cast of 'Orange Is the New Black.' (Netflix/ via JTA)

Orange is the new blackmailHacker threatens to release stolen copies of Netflix series

By Michael Liedtke

Bobbi Jene Smith (C) accpets the Best Documentary Cinematography Award on behalf of Elvira Lind from Jurors David Wilson (L) and Barbara Kopple (R) during Awards Night during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 27, 2017 in New York City. (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival/AFP)

Step above the restFilm on US dancer in Israeli company wins at Tribeca

By AP and ToI Staff

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