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What Matters Most On Monday, May 8, 2017

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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron, left, and outgoing President Francois Hollande attend a ceremony to mark the end of World War II at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Monday, May 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Stephane De Sakutin)

Macron to be sworn in as president on Sunday

By Sylvie Corbet and Lori Hinnant

Outgoing French President Hollande announces inauguration of his successor, as two appear together at WWII victory commemoration

Unbowed Le Pen looks ahead to parliamentary elections

By Elaine Ganley

‘France has won,’ says new French president-elect Macron

Macron wins French election, but Marine Le Pen wins a contest for legitimacy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An Israeli soldier votes at the French consulate in Jerusalem during the second round of the French presidential vote on May 7, 2017 (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

French-Israelis vote overwhelmingly for Macron

By Alexander Fulbright

Fear of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen seen as factor driving strong support for president-elect among Jews

Saying ‘anti-Semitism defeated,’ Israelis fete Macron victory

French Jews ‘relieved’ Macron won but worried over Le Pen’s electoral gains

By JTA

Macron overwhelmingly defeats Le Pen to win French presidency

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

Marwan Barghouti seen in video footage released May 7, 2017, unwrapping a candy bar in his cell while ostensibly leading a hunger strike among Palestinian prisoners. (Screen capture: Israeli Prison Service)

Prison service snared hunger strike leader Barghouti – report

By Alexander Fulbright

Official says cookies and candy bar were planted in former terror chief’s cell to produce footage of him breaking his fast

Video allegedly shows hunger-strike leader Barghouti sneaking food

By Judah Ari Gross

PA sought to bring Trump to Arafat’s grave – report

By Alexander Fulbright

3 weeks into hunger strike, Palestinian inmates add vitamins

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump April 28, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Live updates (closed)

US embassy in Riyadh removes Israel from Trump travel annoucement

By Tamar Pileggi

Erdogan calls on Muslims to go to Temple Mount to oppose Israel, warns against mosque-muffling bill and US Embassy move; Israel calls Turkish leader’s remarks ‘baseless slander’

Natan Sharansky signs books at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, May 7, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

At ToI event, Sharansky talks of freedom, and how Israel went wrong propping up a dictator

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Video by Luke Tress

The former Soviet refusenik serves up serious analysis, with a side of levity, to a packed Jerusalem English-speaking audience

In this photo illustration, a woman holds a fidget spinner, May 5, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Hot new kids’ toy has roots with Palestinian rock-throwers

Catherine Hettinger, inventor of original fidget spinner, wanted to find a way to distract children from violence

President Reuven Rivlin visited the Google offices in Tel Aviv on the Safe Internet Day, February 10, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Good job

Google ranked best place to work in Israel

Annual report finds many tech companies in top places for salary and job conditions

Zcash, the Israeli-developed virtual money, starts to make its mark

Bitcoin competitor hopes its expanded privacy protection will overcome inability to guarantee full transparency

Tiffany Mualem, Ayelette Robinson and Aneela Qureshi discuss script changes during a
rehearsal break for 'More Courage.' (Courtesy JWT)

'We look for ways that our humanity transcends our Jewishness'

The Muslim-Jewish women’s show with the ‘chutzpah’ to connect

Now running, ‘More Courage’ is an interfaith exploration of bravery that bridges cultural gaps

The day they let the bullies win

Cancelation of her performance in Detroit was a victory for a vocal, intolerant minority

Helen Maryles Shankman

My mother’s china cabinet

On that time when she and her mother found common ground in Lord and Taylor

The fallacy of right and left extremism

Attempts to equate ‘disloyal’ critics with rabid fascists are an offensive bid to protect the status quo

French independent centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with well-wishers as he leaves the polling station after casting his ballot in the presidential runoff election in Le Touquet, France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. (AP/Christophe Ena)

World leaders congratulate Macron on resounding win in French election

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump says looking foward to working with new president-elect; Clinton takes aim at Russia, tweets victory was ‘defeat to those interfering with democracy’

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaking in Jerusalem on May 7, 2017. (Dov Smith/Hebrew University)

Aiming at Netanyahu, German president warns against blackballing groups

By Raphael Ahren

Without naming Breaking the Silence, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says democracy can take a critical look at itself, autocrats cannot

Defense Minister and leader of Israel Beytenu party, Avigdor Liberman, leads the faction meeting at the Knesset on March 20, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman expects Trump’s peace push to be ‘real’ and ‘honest’

By Marissa Newman

Defense minister compares modern Palestinian leadership to Nazi-supporting mufti of Jerusalem, wishes Barghouti ‘bon appetit’

Members of the Dawabsha family speak at a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing their decision to sue the State of Israel on May 8, 2017. (Flash90)

Relatives of firebombed Palestinian family sue Israel for NIS 10m

By Alexander Fulbright

Dawabsha family say state’s settlement policies constitute ‘criminal negligence,’ led to attack blamed on Jewish terrorists

Knives and assorted weaponry found by the IDF during a raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on May 8, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Army seizes knives, nabs 13 Palestinians in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

In Jerusalem, police arrest 4 residents suspected of setting off fireworks at officers after attempted stabbing in Old City

Israeli and foreign fighter jets fly in formation through cloudy skies over the Negev desert during the 'Blue Flag' exercise at Ovda Airfield near Eilat on October 27, 2015. (Israeli Air Force)

US planes to fly in Israeli Air Force exercise this week

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli, American pilots head to Ovda air base, north of Eilat, for joint maneuvers in the skies over the Arava desert

A German bunker built on the Channel island of Alderney (Andree Stephan/ Wiki media Creative commons)

Authors claim UK covered up tens of thousands dead at Nazi camps on Channel Island

40,000-70,000 slave laborers were killed on German-occupied Alderney — 100 times the official number — researchers assert, claiming to identify sites of mass graves

Ambulances are pictured on May 7, 2017, in Hanover, during the evacuation operation. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Peter Steffen)

50,000 evacuated in Germany over unexploded WWII bombs

By AFP

Renen Schorr, the director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School (at right of picture), reflects on 28 years at the helm (Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Israel’s filmmakers are country’s ambassadors, says film school pioneer

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

A man waves a French national flags next to people gesturing and shout on the French avenue of the Champs Elysees by the Arc de Triomphe on May 7, 2017, in Paris following the announcement of the results of the second round of the French presidential election. (AFP/ GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT)

Hebrew media reviewThe French correction

By Joshua Davidovich

The proposed design of the Jerusalem Arts Campus, slated to open in 2020 (Courtesy UJA-Federation of New York)

Cornerstone laid for $50 million Jerusalem arts campus

By Jessica Steinberg

Chris Rock promotional photo for his "Total Blackout Tour" performance in Tel Aviv on January 8, 2018 (Courtesy)

Monday night liveChris Rock to perform in Israel in January 2018

Frankie Valli comes to Israel for the first time this coming July 4, 2017 (Courtesy)

Our day will comeFranki Valli and 4 Seasons to celebrate July 4 in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (Zack Snyder/Warner Bros)

The little (Diana) prince‘Wonder Woman’ trailer shows off Amazon’s dreams

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Private equity investment in Israel totals $316 million in 1Q

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Statue of Liberty. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

US, Israel set up program to forge closer economic ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

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