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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 4, 2017

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during their news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Saying deal not as hard as thought, Trump tells Abbas: We will get peace done

By Eric Cortellessa

‘I will do whatever is necessary to facilitate the agreement,’ president says to PA leader, who demands Palestinian state based on ’67 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital

Abbas: I wanted to meet Netanyahu in Moscow, but he ‘didn’t show up’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Minister: Peace talks likely, but ‘cool the excitement’ on deal

Abbas tells US Jewish leaders meeting with Trump was ‘good’

By Eric Cortellessa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the state funeral of late president Shimon Peres, held at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM pans Abbas for falsely telling Trump ‘Palestinians teach peace’

Netanyahu: They name their schools after mass-murderers of Israelis

AnalysisIn Trump Abbas-meet, hope springs eternal as peace prospects run dry

By Raphael Ahren

After Trump meet, Israeli right says Abbas doesn’t truly want peace

Zionist Union MK says opposition will back Netanyahu for peace moves

Nabil Shaath, the commissioner for external relations of the Fatah movement, seen in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 18, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PA official rejects ‘insane’ demand to stop paying terrorists

By Tamar Pileggi and Dov Lieber

Abbas aide says request to ‘resolve’ policy of issuing stipends to attackers’ families akin to ‘asking Israel to stop paying its soldiers’

White House: Trump told Abbas to ‘resolve’ issue of PA terrorist payments

By Eric Cortellessa

Full text of Trump-Abbas joint White House statements

Hamas leader urges ‘bold’ Trump to press for ‘equitable solution’

An M-16 assault rifle hidden in a child's bed that was allegedly used to carry out shooting attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers in the West Bank in April 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF: Terrorists stashed M-16 in child’s ‘Dora the Explorer’ bed

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet nabs 3 alleged members of a cell it says carried out 10 shooting attacks on northern West Bank settlements

US President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania step off a plane upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on January 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Live updates (closed)

Trump confirms 2nd Abbas meet in a month during Israel trip

By Raoul Wootliff

US president will also visit Vatican and Saudi Arabia during first foray abroad; German president to pass on Breaking the Silence meeting but planning to praise its work in speech

The Archbishop of Cantebury Justin Welby (l) and the British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, visit the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Archbishop of Canterbury prays at Western Wall with UK chief rabbi

At Yad Vashem visit, head of Church of England stresses imperative to fight anti-Semitism, calls it ‘the root of all racism’ within European culture

Britains Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, smiles during his visit to Lord's Cricket Ground to open the new Warner Stand, in London, May 3, 2017. (Arthur Edward/Pool/AP)

Britain’s Prince Philip to retire from public engagements

By AFP

Illustrative image of US President Donald Trump signing the Education Federalism Executive Order during a federalism event with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, April 26, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

For Trump, ‘religious liberty’ could mean curtailing freedoms

By Cathryn J. Prince

Draft of an executive order to be signed on Thursday has Jewish activists and scholars worried about exactly whose beliefs are being protected

US President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speak in the Roosevelt Room during a joint statement at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2017. AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Analysis

Trump’s welcome for Abbas is so warm he might have been hosting an Israeli leader

By David Horovitz

In gracious remarks, US president makes clear he considers PA president to be part of the solution, not part of the problem

Palestinians delight in warm Trump welcome, but they have causes for concern

By Avi Issacharoff

Trump adviser to update Israeli minister on Trump-Abbas meeting

Hamas rejects Abbas peace proposal outline to Trump

By Dov Lieber and Eric Cortellessa

Israel Air Force’ jets participate in the annual Independence Day flyover, May 3, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Hot shots

Fighter jets capture stunning footage of Israel at 69

By Andrew Tobin

Pilots share their own experiences in Independence Day flyover. ‘Our friends and family were waving at us, and we were looking for them’

Justin Bieber performs at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on Mar 3, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube/shlomyos)

50,000 fans at Tel Aviv Bieber show; over 150 require medical care

Concert-goers treated at venue for minor ailments, including fainting, dehydration; four hospitalized, and one woman goes into labor

Two mothers speaking at an Eshel retreat. (Courtesy)

'He was created in God’s image the same way I was'

Support group helps Orthodox parents of gay children out of the closet

By Cathryn J. Prince

Eshel was formed when relatives of LGBT kids in conservative communities needed a safe space in a homophobic storm

Baroness Valerie Amos

The urgent need to hear opposing views

On why SOAS University of London hosted Israel’s ambassador despite strong opposition

That end-of-life chat won’t kill anyone, and it just might energize your remaining time together

French Jewry’s dire political challenge

Israel supporters will need to engage with a Macron government — the stakes couldn’t be higher

Gideon D. Sylvester

While survivors are still here

The March of the Living educational program is exceptional thanks to those who witnessed the Holocaust first-hand

Steven Levenson, writer of Tony-nominated musical 'Dear Evan Hansen' play 'If I Forget.' (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

This nice Jewish boy just nabbed 9 Tony nominations

IDF technology automatically transcribes video into text. (Courtesy)

IDF tech uses AI to watch and describe objects in video footage

By Shoshanna Solomon

New system could eclipse human monitors’ ability to watch security camera feeds and identify threats, R&D officer says

In this January 15, 2017, photo, a Palestinian family warms up with a fire outside their makeshift house during a power cut in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Abbas stops funding Gaza electricity to pressure Hamas

Move to ‘dry up’ finances of terror group comes as PA leader set to meet Trump at White House on reviving peace talks

In a tribute to the victims of the ramming attack in Jerusalem, the Israeli flag is projected onto the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, January 9, 2017.
(AFP/dpa / Michael Kappeler)

Amid crisis, Berlin and Jerusalem urged to allow dual citizenship

By Raphael Ahren

‘Shattered porcelain’ in German-Israeli relations should be improved by reforming dual nationality laws, German MP Volker Beck says

MP Meyer Habib speaks at the National Assembly in Paris, November 28, 2014. (screen capture)

French-Israeli settlers receive election notices addressed to ‘Palestinian territories’

Jewish MP blasts ‘demeaning provocation’ by Paris; some said to have boycotted presidential vote in protest

Likud MK Oren Hazan reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Controversial Likud backbencher Hazan endorses Le Pen

MK draws jeers for offering support for French presidential candidate despite Israeli policy of shunning her far-right FN party

Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal (R) looks on during a news conference in the Qatari capital, Doha on May 1, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / KARIM JAAFAR)

Analysis

New Hamas policy document a PR exercise aimed at undermining PLO

By Avi Issacharoff

Program does not replace terror group’s charter, aims to convey moderation at a time when funds are drying up

Israeli soldiers and security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack in Hebron, May 4, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Police: Palestinian attempts to stab officer in Hebron, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

No Israeli troops injured in incident near Tomb of the Patriarchs; would-be attacker hospitalized

Iranian submarines and warships participate in a navy drill in the Sea of Oman in December, 2011 (AP Photo/Young Journalists Club, Mohammad Ali Marizad)

Iran missile test fails from sub in Strait of Hormuz

US officials say attempted launch in strategic waterway unsuccessful, weeks after Tehran showed off sea-borne cruise missiles

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)

Why it’s a big deal that a secular student won Israel’s Bible contest

More Headlines

A coffee in a cafe in Jerusalem, Israel on July 14, 2015. (Garrett Mills/Flash 90)

Thanks a-LatteCoffee chain slashes prices for polite customers

By Josefin Dolsten

Police investigating 'price tag' graffiti threats made against Ramat Hasharon Mayor Avi Gruber, May 4 (Police spokesperson)

Bullet, menacing note left on Ramat Hasharon mayor’s car

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video of Derk Walters, a Dutch reporter for the NRC Handelsblad daily newspaper. (YouTube/NRC)

Israel refuses to extend visa of critical Dutch journalist

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of an El Al plane at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al to begin nonstop Tel Aviv-Miami route

By JTA

The newly-built control room at the offices of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in Tel Aviv. August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Cabinet approves bill stripping new public broadcaster of news division

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (Courtesy)

Alt-writeShmuley Boteach accidentally tweets Bannon’s to-do list

Bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore (photo credit: courtesy)

JerusavisionLionsgate TV teams up with Jewish author on Jerusalem

By Yaakov Schwartz

A woman delivering a sermon while draped in a tallit from the documentary '4 Your Eyez Only,' by rapper J. Cole. (Youtube/Dreamville)

Strings attachedWhat’s black and white and all over pop culture?

By Yaakov Schwartz

US President Donald Trump (right) giving a joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 3, 2017. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Hebrew media reviewTrump-Abbas enthusiasm has press putting on peace goggles

By Joshua Davidovich

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