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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 6, 2017

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Supporters of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Ahrar movement protest against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on May 2, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Analysis

As winds of war rise, Israel must decide whether to pull the plug on Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

The PA won’t pay for the Hamas-run Strip’s electricity any longer. Should Israel finance the power supply for a terrorist regime committed to its destruction?

Ismail Haniyeh elected new head of Hamas

By ToI Staff and AFP

Haniyeh: From refugee camp to Hamas leader

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Abbas warns of painful steps against Palestinian rival Hamas

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)

US delegation coming back to Israel to finalize Trump itinerary

President set to arrive on May 22, accompanied by wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner

Will Trump save the Middle East peace process?

By Dave Clark and Nicolas Revise

Ivanka Trump to review climate change as US mulls Paris pullout

By Josh Lederman and Catherine Lucey

Arabic daily claims Trump declined invitation to mark Six Day War in Israel

Achinoam Nini (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Michigan synagogue cancels Noa concert in face of right-wing protests

By JTA

Israeli singer Achinoam Nini has been outspoken in support of a two-state solution and Jewish-Arab co-existence

French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement, Emmanuel Macron, center, speaks during a campaign rally in Arras, northern France, April 26, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Denis Charlet)

Macron team blasts ‘massive hacking attack’ as campaign documents leak

By Elaine Ganley and NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE

Centrist frontrunner slams bid to ‘seed doubt and disinformation’ just before France’s Sunday presidential vote

French authorities warn against spreading leaked Macron data

By AFP

Macron, the political newbie who may become French president

By Sylvie Corbet

In last pre-election interview, Le Pen claims she ‘changed everything’

By Elaine Ganley

Aerial view of Masada (Andrew Shiva/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)

When Donald Trump wanted to hold Miss Universe pageant at Masada

US president reportedly believed that having a beauty contest at palace built by Judean king Herod would be a good PR opportunity

Illustrative: German soldiers prepare to fire a V1 rocket in 1944 (PK-Lysiak/Transocean-Europapress German Federal Archive via Wiki-commons)

Article claims Nazis, building V1 rocket site, killed 40,000 on occupied UK island

Co-written by ex-British army commander Richard Kemp, extensive piece in the Daily Mail radically challenges accepted WWII history of Alderney, asserts Nazis came close to firing chemical weapons

Michael Saenger

Bernie Sanders’ lesson for the left

The US senator is willing to be evenhanded in pursuing reason as a guide to political conversation

United Jerusalem? No such thing

What is there to celebrate in a city so deeply torn by economic disparity and mutual animosity?

How to fix American Jewish Heritage Month

10 ways the month can become the best answer to the anti-Semitism epidemic sweeping the US

Off-screen, Liev Schreiber has trained as a boxer for 18 years. (Sarah Shatz/Courtesy of IFC Films/via JTA)

Interview

How his Jewish grandpa inspired Liev Schreiber

By Curt Schleier

Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani hold his portrait during a campaign rally in the capital Tehran on May 4, 2017. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Rouhani: Revolutionary Guards tried to sabotage nuke deal with anti-Israel slogans on missiles

By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani

In pre-election debate, president also appears to takes issue with testing that heightened tensions with US

An illustrative photo of a protest in Amman in February 2017. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordanians rally for Palestinian hunger strikers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Protest, organized by Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and youth groups, draws hundreds in Amman after Friday prayers

A Carlo-style submachine gun used by a Palestinian suspect in a gunbattle with Israel Police forces in Ramallah on March 6, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Trying to stop West Bank shooting attacks, the IDF goes for the guns

By Judah Ari Gross

12 months of raiding weapon workshops quintuples cost of home-made submachine guns, making them far less accessible for spontaneous terrorist acts

Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Jihad terror group take part in a protest in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis on April 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Islamic Jihad rejects Palestinian state limited to 1967 borders

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran-backed terrorist group expresses concern over what it sees as softer language in new Hamas program

Secure Community Network director Paul Goldenberg addresses a conference in Washington of Jewish security professionals on May 4, 2017. (SCN via JTA)

Jewish communities, US agencies step up ties in wake of threats

Top US officials brief Jewish security professionals at Washington summit that comes, in part, following wave of JCC bomb hoaxes

Filmmaker and photographer Ezra Soiferman at Tweed's Smiths Falls, Ontario facility (Bilal Rizack, ©Perpetuum Productions)

As artist-in-residence at a cannabis company, a photographer’s creativity is sparked

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Rabbi Shneur Odze, a UKIP candidate who came in sixth in the May 2017 race for Manchester mayor. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Scandal-hit, Bible-burning rabbi limps in 6th in UK mayoral bid

An aerial view of the Stuttgart airport. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia commons)

Calling all godsPrayer booth in German airport offers ‘Shema’

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C) gives a speech in 'Balna' cultural center of Budapest on October 2, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK)

EU official: Hungarian PM’s crusade against Soros is anti-Semitic

By JTA

Maryland high school basketball player Je'Nan Hayes, who was left out of her team's final game of the season in March 2017 because she was wearing a hijab (YouTube screenshot)

Free to throwWorld basketball body lifts ban on yarmulkes, hijabs

By JTA

Scrutineers count votes at the end of the Algerian parliamentary elections late on May 4, 2017, in the capital Algiers. (AFP/Ryad Kramdi)

Algeria’s ruling socialist-nationalist coalition wins legislative elections

By Amal Belalloufi

Illustrative photo of an Airbus A320 belonging to EgyptAir taking off from Vienna International Airport, Austria, on August 21, 2015 (AP Photo/Thomas Ranner)

EgyptAir crash an accident, say French investigators

By AFP

Photo of a fence along US-Mexico border. (Wikimedia Commons)

Swimmers cross US-Mexico line to support immigrants

By Elliot Spagat

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