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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 2, 2017

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Beachgoers in Tel Aviv watch the military airshow on Israel's 69th Independence Day, May 2, 2017. (Flash90)

With grills and F-35 thrills, Israel marks 69 years of independence

Flyover of new fighter jets expected to be highlight of day as country celebrates holiday with barbecues, parties and more

Israelis move from mourning to feting 69 years of independence

In public debut, F-35 jets streak over Israel for Independence Day

By Judah Ari Gross

Rivlin: Independence Day is a celebration for Jews everywhere

By JTA

An aerial view of Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

On Independence Day, UNESCO okays resolution denying Israeli claims to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright

22 countries vote in favor of motion; 23 abstain, and 10 countries vote against; Israel envoy slams ‘new low, even by UNESCO standards’

Ahead of UNESCO vote, Netanyahu says Jews closest to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright

Blaming ‘mercurial’ Trump, UK lawmakers urge Palestine rethink

White House refrains from commenting on new E. Jerusalem homes

By Eric Cortellessa

View of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 29, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians hail UNESCO vote as victory for international law

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu calls UN cultural body’s resolution rejecting Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem ‘absurd’; Israeli Jew killed rushing army checkpoint left suicide note

Michael Steinhardt attends a meeting of Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein with the torch lighters of the 69th Independence Day state ceremony, at the the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 26, 2017.
(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview'Israel is the great Jewish miracle of the 20th century'

How a US billionaire’s Jewish spark became an Independence Day torch

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Honored at Israel’s official Mount Herzl ceremony, Michael Steinhardt, the atheist cofounder of Taglit-Birthright, is lighting a fire for secular Jewish culture

Filipina IDF soldier fights for the country that saved her grandmother

By Andrew Tobin

Despite protests, dozens gather to honor fallen ultra-Orthodox soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

Terror victim Ezra Schwartz posthumously inducted into Jewish frat

By JTA

Exiled chief of Hamas' political bureau Khaled Meshaal (2nd-R) speaks with Hamas deputy leader Musa Abu Marzuk (L) ahead of their conference in the Qatari capital, Doha on May 1, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / KARIM JAAFAR)

New Hamas program softens language, retains goal of eliminating Israel

By Agencies, Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

Policy document, rejected by Israel as a bid to ‘fool the world,’ calls for the ‘complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea’

Fatah demands ‘softened’ Hamas apologize for treason accusations

Israel dismisses purportedly ‘friendlier’ Hamas principles

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

Palestinian infighting is exacerbating Gaza crisis – UN report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, right, with Sagiv Lugasi, winner of the annual International Bible Quiz at the Jerusalem Theater, May 2, 2017. (Shlomi Amsalem)

For first time in 30 years, secular student wins top bible contest

Sagiv Lugasi takes top spot in Jerusalem’s traditional Independence Day competition; Belarus and US entrants among final four

69 extraordinary women of Israel

Celebrating those who have made the Jewish state their home, giving of themselves and their diverse talents

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

69 moments (plus one)

Israel is the many moments when we…laugh, mourn, pray, kiss stones, get lost and dive in

Deborah Dickson

69 free ways to celebrate

Hit the road folks: Sites all over Israel are opening their doors to the public — no tickets required

Why is this independence different?

The existence of Israel is the most important element of modern Jewish peoplehood

Arnold M. Eisen

The manifold goodness of Israel

How the Jewish state has changed what it means to live in the world — with gratitude

Helen Gottstein

Blue and white going green

69 ways you can change your household practices to protect the Israel you love (instead of just singing about it)

David P. Goldman

Gorka: Casualty of a Jewish civil war

Liberal Jewish media, blinkered by their politics, have smeared a White House aide who’s no anti-Semite

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers guarding a West Bank checkpoint, August 16, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Police: Jewish man believed trying to attack soldiers near Jerusalem is killed

By Stuart Winer

20-year-old runs toward forces at West Bank checkpoint with knife; sensing ‘immediate danger,’ troops open fire

Illustrative photo of a man receiving medical treatment at a Palestinian hospital in Ramallah, March 17, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA blames Israel after ex-inmate dies from kidney failure

Jordanian TV host Ayed Alqam quotes from 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' (Courtesy MEMRI)

Citing ‘Protocols,’ Jordanian TV tells viewers Jews are an ‘abhorred’ people

Host of 3-part series blames Judaism for Arab world’s woes, including high cost of living, citing fraudulent anti-Semitic text as proof

Fighters of the Shiite Hezbollah terror group attend the funeral in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta of a comrade who died in combat in Syria, March 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Mahmoud Zayyat)

Hezbollah nearly bankrupt, but Nasrallah awash in cash — report

German daily says military involvement in Syria and US sanctions have forced terror group to increasingly rely on illicit schemes to raise money

Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a press conference at the end of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders' summit in Manila on April 29, 2017. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP)

Philippines’ Duterte confirms he’s coming to Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Southeast Asian leader, widely criticized for mass extrajudicial killings, says he may be too busy to visit Trump in Washington

A group of high school students hears the history of one of Israel's fallen soldiers on the Mount of Olives on Memorial Day 2017 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A hunt for lost stories among Mount of Olives’ forgotten graves

By Jessica Steinberg

Ali Sahintuerk (L) of the First Vienna Football Club 1894 greets the fans after the regional League East game between First Vienna Football Club 1894 vs Parndorf in the Hohe Warte stadium in Vienna, on March 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ALEX HALADA)

Austria’s oldest soccer club, founded by a Rothschild, faces final whistle

By Simon Sturdee

123-year-old First Vienna FC, started by English gardeners for the banking heir, declares bankruptcy before relegation

Hilal Tubi, one-half of the brother pair who created hipster spirit, Tubi 60. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israel’s hipster drink Tubi 60 heads stateside

By Jessica Steinberg

A Syrian man taken to a small hospital in the town of Maaret al-Noman by civil defense workers, following a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, April 4, 2017. (Mohamed al-Bakour/AFP)

Syrian forces accused of using nerve gas in 4 recent attacks

By Carole LANDRY

Human Rights Watch says Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is ‘a deadly escalation and part of a clear pattern’

Sebastian Gorka participating in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/JTA)

5 reasons why Sebastian Gorka may be on his way out of the White House

Possibilities extend beyond the Trump adviser’s affiliation to the Nazi-allied Vitezi Rand

Israelis barbecue at Dolfinarium beach park in Tel Aviv on Israel's 68th Independence Day, May 12, 2016 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

On Independence Day, feel free to choose your celebration

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustrative: Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount, September 2014 (Michael Naftali Unterberg Facebook page)

2 IDF soldiers barred from Temple Mount for saluting

Members of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) march on May Day, 2016, in Borlänge, Sweden (YouTube screenshot)

Several hundred neo-Nazis march in Swedish town

Amos Regev, then-editor in chief of the Israel Hayom daily, arrives for questioning in 'Case 2000' at the Israel Police's Lahav 433 corruption investigation unit in Lod, January 17, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Editor departs Sheldon Adelson-owned Israeli newspaper

By JTA

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner. (Courtesy RAC)

Trump’s policies focus of US Reform movement conference

By JTA

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Nikki Haley remains boldly off-message at the UN

By Vivian Salama

A man is arrested after a fatal stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, on May 1, 2017. (Ray Arredondo via AP)

One killed in University of Texas stabbing spree

By AP and ToI Staff

A firearms officer from the the British Metropolitan police stands guard near Horse Guards Parade in central London on April 29, 2017. (AFP/Niklas Halle'n)

US warns Americans in Europe of ongoing terror threat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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