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What Matters Most On Friday, May 5, 2017

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US President Donald Trump walks after arriving on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 28, 2017, following a trip to Atlanta, Georgia. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Trump: I’ll visit Israel, after meeting Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia

By Eric Cortellessa and Dov Lieber

Expected here on May 22, president’s first trip abroad may also include Bethlehem, before he travels to the Vatican to meet the pope

Walls or bridges?Slum pope-billionaire: When Francis meets Trump

By Nicole Winfield

Trump removes tweet saying it was ‘honor’ to host Abbas

By JTA

Netanyahu warns Israel not bound by 2015 Iranian nuke deal

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump acknowleges supporters before boarding his plane after a rally at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 2016. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Analysis

Trump’s itinerary shows bid for coalition to back peace, tackle Iran, fight terrorism

By Eric Cortellessa and Raphael Ahren

President will start in Saudi, to discuss struggle against Islamic extremism and seek conditions for Palestinian breakthrough; then he’ll come to Israel, underlining difference from Obama

Vladimir Putin (left) and Mahmoud Abbas (right) in Bethlehem, 2011 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90)

Abbas to meet Putin in Russia next week

An aerial view of Jerusalem, on December 12, 2013. (Flash90)

UNESCO ratifies contentious resolution denying Israeli links to Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AFP

Executive board of cultural agency adopts text that raised Israel’s ire, led Netanyahu to announce another cut in payments to UN

French CRS anti-riot police officers are engulfed in flames as they face protesters during a march for the annual May Day workers' rally in Paris on May 1, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Zakaria ABDELKAFI)

My beloved France is burning

The tolerant land of his youth will be unrecognizable if Le Pen wins; she’ll start with the Muslims and end with the Jews

Brutal French presidential race enters final stretch

By Guy JACKSON and Joshua MELVIN

Bernie Sanders speaking to a crowd of supporters at a Democratic unity rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 21, 2017. (George Frey/Getty Images, via JTA)

Analysis

Why Bernie Sanders defending Israel on Al-Jazeera is a big deal

Standard-bearer of the American left robustly rejects Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement on TV network known for critical coverage of Israel

Fans of the Canadian pop star Justin Bieber wait for his arrival on stage before his first concert in Tel Aviv, April 14, 2011. (Gili Yaari / Flash 90)

Opening act

Bieber’s baby: First song sends concert goer into labor

Ultra-Orthodox woman from Bnei Brak, 23, begged medics to let her stay for rest of show even after her waters broke; would have called baby Justin but it’s a girl

Joan Nathan, chef and author of 'King Solomon's Table.' (Michelle Tomasi/Penguin Random House)

Interview'It’s not just a cookbook. Every recipe has a larger story'

Queen of Jewish cuisine Joan Nathan timewarps to biblical kings in new cookbook

By Rich Tenorio

‘King Solomon’s Table’ gives readers a taste of international Jewish culinary history, dating from the Bible

Illustrative: Saudi women visit the Saudi Travel and Tourism Investment Market fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 29, 2010. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Saudi Arabia said easing some restrictions on women

By AFP

Male guardian’s consent no longer required for study and travel

Florine Stettheimer in her Bryant Park, New York garden circa 1917-1920. (Public domain)

The genius feminist Jazz Age painter and poet overlooked in her own time

By Cathryn J. Prince

At the turn of the 20th century, Florine Stettheimer was quite the iconoclast, but the extent of the Jewish artist’s talent only became known long after her death

Arnold D. Samlan

My phone thinks I’m in Palestine

His not-so-smart phone had a surprise welcome for him when he landed at Ben Gurion Airport

Deborah Klapper

It takes men to make a minyan

Orthodox Judaism IS gendered, but each sex should still be treated with equal respect

Joshua Hammerman

Let all Jews vote in Israeli elections

He’s worked out almost all the details to unify Israel and the Diaspora — Step 1: Make world Jewry citizens of Israel

Palestinians protest in solidarity with security prisoners on a hunger strike in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on April 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Musa Al Shaer)

Analysis

In the Palestinian hunger strike, politics is only half the story

Marwan Barghouti may win big from the mass fast, but an Israeli criminologist argues Israel could benefit from giving at least one of his demands consideration

Palestinians take part in a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 3, 2017. (Flash90)

Israel said considering bringing foreign doctors to force feed hunger strikers

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier addresses the media after talks in Berlin on October 15, 2015. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

German president won’t meet Breaking the Silence — report

By Raphael Ahren

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who arrives in Israel on Saturday, is expected to praise left-wing group in speech at Jerusalem university

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, center left, visits the archaeological site al-Maghtas in Jordan Wednesday believed to be the place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus of Nazareth on May, 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

Archbishop of Canterbury makes surprise Gaza visit

Head of Church of England tours two hospitals and a World War I British cemetery as part of his 10-day Holy Land trip

The Lebanese-Israeli border near kibbutz Hanita on March 22, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Six soldiers to be punished after Lebanese man walked into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Deputy company commander dismissed from position, battalion head censured for failing to prevent border infiltration

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Rose Garden of the of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, asking the IRS to use "maximum enforcement discretion" over the regulation, known as the Johnson Amendment, which applies to churches and nonprofits (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ADL slams Trump’s order on religious freedom while OU commends it

By ToI Staff and AP

Jewish civil rights group says measure is troubling as Orthodox Union praises president for upholding religious freedom for all Americans

In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photograph, crew bring an F-18 below deck on the USS George H.W. Bush as it travels through the Persian Gulf. The carrier soon will begin launching airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Moscow says Syria safe-zone deal bans US-led coalition aircraft

By AP

Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed to establish areas across the war-torn country where Assad’s air force would be barred from flying

The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa, Canada (MarcBruxelle/iStock)

As Israeli bill to ban binary options stalls, Canada prepares law of its own

By Simona Weinglass

Binary options are not legal in Canada, but new legislation will make that fact explicit. Official vows endless battle, as some Israeli firms move operations overseas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara take part in Independence Day festivities in Jerusalem, May 2, 2017. ( Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Top prosecutor hints PM heading for indictment

Lawyer leading Netanyahu corruption probe seems to dismiss his main defense in case of gifts from wealthy friends

This file photo taken on April 15, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waving from a balcony of the Grand People's Study house following a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, in Pyongyang. (AFP/Ed Jones)

N. Korea accuses CIA of plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un

By AFP

Pyongyang claims US spy agency tried to poison the young leader with ‘biochemical substances’ and says plan is a ‘declaration of war’

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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika talks to his nephew after casting his vote at a polling station in Algiers on May 4, 2017 during parliamentary elections. (AFP / RYAD KRAMDI)

‘Hit them with a stick’: Algeria PM tells wives to make their husbands vote

By Abdellah Cheballah

Jessica Golloher (YouTube screenshot)

Fox radio reporter in Israel sues for unfair dismissal

By AP

Tomer Kapon re-creating an iconic Six-Day War photo in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2017. (Gabriel Baharia)

The way we wereIsraeli celebrities re-create iconic photos

By Andrew Tobin

Nadav Zelner in a promotional video produced by the Foreign Ministry showcasing Jerusalem for the 'Jubliee Year.' (screen capture: YouTube)

Twinkle toesIsraeli dancers offer different Jerusalem tour

By Andrew Tobin

A man looks at fallen tombstones at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery, February 26, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA. (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)

Mural urging respect to be erected at vandalized Jewish cemetery in Philly

By JTA

White House staff member Omarosa Manigault attends a US President Donald Trump news conference on February 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

Omarosa says she has good relationship with Louis Farrakhan

By JTA

Benny Elon, an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli parliament for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009, on October 2, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former tourism minister Benny Elon dies at 62

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, before signing an executive order aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for churches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hebrew media reviewAll the king’s horses and all the king’s men

By Ilan Ben Zion

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