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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 7, 2017

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A Jewish-Israeli raising the Israeli flag near the Old City of Jerusalem, which has seen an influx of Jewish residents in predominantly Arab areas. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Reigniting old dispute, ministers okay new ‘Jewish State’ bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Legislation seeks to define Israel as nation-state for Jews, downgrades Arabic from official language to ‘special status’

Police officers attend the opening ceremony of the new police station in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on May 7, 2017.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel Police touts first station of its kind in East Jerusalem

French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a campaign meeting at the Place du Vigan in Albi southwestern France, on May 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / PASCAL PAVANI)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli MKs from left and right welcome Macron victory

By Raoul Wootliff

With 65% of vote, centrist Macron to become Republic’s youngest president; Knesset lawmakers offer congratulations ‘to France and democracy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Oded Balilty)

Ahead of Trump visit, PM declares support for his peace push

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says he and all of Israel ‘share the desire’ to renew Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

US lawmakers urge recognition of Jerusalem births as in Israel

Pro-Abbas Lauder, hawkish Adelson said battling to influence Trump on Mideast

Family of Trump son-in-law solicits Chinese investment

By AFP

A Jewish man looks at election posters outside the French consulate in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017 during the second round of the French presidential vote. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

France votes in pivotal presidential election

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

Centrist Macron faces off against far-right Le Pen, with the candidates offering starkly different views for country’s future

AnalysisIn French vote, two radically different visions for country’s future

By Joshua MELVIN and Guy JACKSON

On eve of French vote, unclear if massive hack will dent Macron’s lead over Le Pen

By Philipe Sotto and Raphael Satter

Macron rules out unilateral recognition of Palestine

US President Barack Obama speaks to CNN on August 7, 2015 about the Iranian nuclear deal. (Screenshot/CNN)

House launches probe into claim Obama hurt national security to seal Iran deal

By ToI Staff and JTA

Following Politico story, House and Senate members demand documents on Iranians freed or let off the hook to reach nuclear accord

Prince Charles seen during the funeral late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

UK government said to cancel Prince Charles’ visit to Israel

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Foreign Office reportedly puts kibosh on trip planned for fall of 2017 out of fears it would anger Arab allies

Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)

For the first time, Auschwitz guides taught to teach about Jews’ ‘spiritual resistance’

By Cathryn J. Prince

For 70 years the story of Jews clinging to faith and ritual in the death camps has been overlooked. Now docents are equipped to illuminate their struggles

Stephen Fry pictured at a 2012 Pride Parade in London (Photograph at WorldPride / Wikipedia)

Comedian Stephen Fry probed for blasphemy after calling God a ‘selfish maniac’

British Jewish-born star was asked on Irish TV what he’d say to God if he, she or it existed. Viewed on YouTube 7 million times, his bitter answer led to a police investigation

President Reuven Rivlin with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, during a tour at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, on May 6, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Photo essay

Rivlin, Germany’s Steinmeier live it up in Jerusalem’s iconic Mahane Yehuda market

Days after diplomatic row, the two presidents look to showcase friendly ties; Steinmeier also to meet Netanyahu, Abbas

Illustrative: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks to the press during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Vowing to stand by Israel, German president says ties will withstand spat

By Alexander Fulbright and AFP

I say yes to mixed & same-sex couples

The message in rabbinical school was ‘just say no’ to these weddings — and then reality set in

When the rabbis fail

On Bar Kokhba and the Holocaust: How the leadership erred, steering the people to their destruction

An Egyptian army watchtower on the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, July 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IS decapitates father, two sons in Sinai border town

By ASHRAF SWEILLAM

The terrorists had raided the family home, killed mother and kidnapped the 3 last week for alleged collaboration with authorities

The UN headquarters in Jerusalem (Wikimedia Commons)

UN can’t be evicted from Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry said set to tell ministers

By Tamar Pileggi

Miri Regev’s demand that world body’s local HQ be shuttered would violate treaties since it enjoys diplomatic immunity, official quoted saying

Ahmed Dawabsha, the sole survivor of a West Bank arson attack in Duma village, is carried by his grandfather Hussein at the Tel HaShomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel on Friday, July 22, 2016 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Relatives of firebombed Palestinian family to sue Israel for millions

By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff

Dawabsha family says state bears ‘responsibility’ for fatal attack blamed on Jewish terrorists, demands compensation

Election campaign posters for French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen are displayed in front of the polling station where Marine Le Pen will vote in Henin Beaumont, northern France, Saturday, May 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Russian effort suspected in French election hacking attack

By PHILIPPE SOTTO, John Leicester and Raphael Satter

Paris’s cybersecurity agency to probe leak of Macron campaign documents as expert notes ‘Cyrillic script in the metadata’ of hacked files

A student and teacher play the violin during a presentation on child victims of the Holocaust at the Midtown Workmen’s Circle School in Manhattan, April 23, 2017. (Ben Sales/JTA)

This Sunday school teaches kids Yiddish — and socialism

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd as he takes part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas's founding, in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

Analysis

New leader, same old Hamas, with Gazans now firmly in control

By Avi Issacharoff

By electing Ismail Haniyeh to head its political bureau, the terror group wants to show it is moderating – without, of course, accepting Israel

This file photo taken on August 27, 2014 shows Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya waving to the crowd during a rally in Gaza City (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Haniyeh: From refugee camp to Hamas leader

By ToI Staff and Agencies

German soprano Diana Damrau poses for pictures during an interview with AFP at the Warner Music headquarters in New York City on May 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Angela Weiss)

German soprano brings new life to work of Jewish composer

By Shaun Tandon

The work of Giacomo Meyerbeer, who was attacked by Richard Wagner and sidelined by Nazis, is getting a fresh look

This May 6, 1937 photo, provided by the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was taken at almost the split second that the Hindenburg exploded over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J. (AP Photo, File)

80 years ago, when the Hindenburg burst into flames

By AP

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The Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia)

Texas adoption agencies could reject Jews, gays, Muslims

By meredith hoffman

Former prime minister Ehud Barak at a Memorial Day event at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on April 30, 2017.(Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Ex-PM Barak said to have discussed Labor leadership bid

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 3, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Menahem Kahana)

PM suggests police will recommend to indict him to avoid admitting failure

Bottles of Coca-Cola Zero at a supermarket in Israel, December 3, 2014 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Right-wing NGO seeks to conceal Coca-Cola’s donation

MK Oren Hazan reacts at a plenum session in the assembly hall of Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

I'm with stupidLikud MKs fume over insulted intelligence

The Marmottan Museum in Paris. (CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons)

Pissarro seized in WWII turns up in Paris show

By AFP

IDC job fair, April 2017, when students meet prospective employers (Courtesy Ofer Amram)

IDC jobs fair highlights stiff race for top talent

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mac Miller performing at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., April 14, 2017. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Coachella via JTA)

Hip Hop Jews5 Jewish rappers you should know

By Gabe Friedman

A man walks past election posters plastered close to a polling station in Saint-Leu, Reunion, on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the French presidential election. (AFP Photo/Richard Bouhet)

Hebrew media reviewPick your poison

By Joshua Davidovich

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