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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 9, 2017

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during Istanbul Youth Festival in Istanbul on May 4, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

Erdogan lashes ‘racist’ Israel, calls for Muslims to flood Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and AFP

Turkish president warns against moving US embassy to Jerusalem; slams mosque-muffling bill; Israel rejects his ‘baseless slander’

Erdogan says he is working to halt ‘judaization’ of Jerusalem

Foreign Ministry rebukes Turkey envoy over Erdogan comments

By Raphael Ahren

Carl Bernstein calls Israel the ‘epicenter’ of today’s geopolitics

By David Horovitz

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier review the honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah on May 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Abbas says he’s ready to meet Netanyahu as part of Trump peace push

By AFP

PA president tells reporters he looks forward to US president visiting him in Bethlehem, possibly in two weeks’ time

Abbas told Trump to base peace talks on 2008 Olmert maps – report

Uneasy Palestinians pleasantly surprised by Trump, adviser says

Shaked: When two-state deal goes nowhere, Trump will think out of the box

The Palestinian flag is raised outside the headquarters of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, in a formal ceremony marking Palestine’s full admission into the organization as its 195th member, in December 2011. (UN/UNESCO/Danica Bijeljac)

It could get worse: Israel frets ‘Islamic troika’ may take helm at UNESCO

By Raphael Ahren

In November, the Israel-bashing UN cultural agency will choose a new director-general and fill two other key positions; top candidates hail from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Iran

Channel 1 news anchor Geula Even Saar announces the imminent last broadcast of the main nightly 'Mabat' news broadcast in an emotional farewell message during her news show earlier on the evening of April 9, 2017. (screen capture: Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

With 2 hours’ notice, Channel 1 news airs final news broadcast

By Tamar Pileggi

No indication of radioactive leak at US nuclear facility collapse; White House delays decision on Paris climate deal; police arrest London man threatening Jews with a meat cleaver

The Palestinian flag flies over Dublin's City Hall for first time ever May 9, 2017 following a vote by the city council. (Michael Riordan/Times of Israel)

Palestinian flag flies over Dublin City Hall

By Michael Riordan

Ignoring pleas from Israeli ambassador, local leaders in Ireland’s capital vote to raise banner in protest of 50 years since Israel captured the West Bank

In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years. (Courtesy)

Refused a divorce for 17 years, hunger-striker takes fight to Knesset

By Marissa Newman

Outside parliament, Zvia Gordetsky implores lawmakers to adopt bill that would allow ‘chained women’ to annul marriages even when the husband refuses

Illustrative photo of elderly residents in a nursing home. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israeli study finds missing protein may contribute to Alzheimer’s

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ben-Gurion University researchers say high levels of SIRT6 facilitate DNA repair, recommend focus on how to maintain production in the body

Protesters hold up portraits of Marwan Barghouti in front of a statue of Nelson Mandela in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 3, 2017, during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

Analysis

Video of Barghouti eating hasn’t taken a bite out of his popularity

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel’s plan to undermine leader of Palestinian hunger strike may backfire, turning imprisoned terrorist into a Nelson Mandela figure

Newly elected Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh, gestures as he meets with protesters at a sit-in supporting Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, May 8, 2017 (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

New Hamas chief backs hunger-striking prisoners

Trump embarks on a fool’s errand

The president will soon learn that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the lynchpin for Mideast peace

You’re not kidding anyone, Hamas

So now their charter only targets ‘Zionists’ and promises religious freedom? Try putting up a Christmas tree.

Laurence Kohler-Berkowitz

College doesn’t make Jews less Jewish

Alarming claims that higher education equals more assimilation miss the bigger, more nuanced picture

A car daubed with 'administrative price tag' in East Jerusalem, May 9, 2017. (Amar Arouri/B'Tselem)

Cars, homes vandalized in rash of suspected hate crime attacks

By Stuart Winer

Tires slashed and ‘price tag’ slogan daubed near East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, Galilee village of Na’ura

Magen David Adom paramedics arrive at the scene of a suspected terror attack outside of a Tel Aviv hotel on April 23, 2017. (courtesy)

Palestinian teen, in Israel on peace visit, charged for Tel Aviv stabbing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset on May 08, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shrugging off criticism, PM backs Jewish state bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Despite opponents saying bill discriminates against Arab minority, Netanyahu says ‘no contradiction’ between proposed legislation and equal rights in Israel

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, talks to fellow Anglican leaders in Amman, Jordan, May 2, 2017. (AP/Sam McNeil)

Archbishop of Canterbury says Mideast peace talks may need to include Hamas

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Justin Welby, in the Holy Land, stresses timing of such talks must be right to bring rewards, because otherwise there is the risk of ‘a complete meltdown’

US President Donald Trump gives the thumbs-up as he makes his way to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on May 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

US Embassy in Saudi Arabia posts video editing out Israel from Trump’s trip

State Department apologizes, says it was an ‘inadvertent mistake’; clip replaced with full version of president’s announcement

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein during a plenary session, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset aides say unprepared MKs fail to oversee government

By Raoul Wootliff

FBI Director James Comey speaks to the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington, May 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FBI director laments increase in anti-Semitic acts, hate crimes

By Eric Cortellessa

Comey tells ADL gathering he makes every FBI agent visit Holocaust Museum to learn how ‘good people helped murder millions’

French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron looks at some of the 2,500 photographs of young Jews deported from France during the WWII Nazi occupation, during a visit to the Shoah Memorial on April 30, 2017 in Paris. (AFP/Pool/Philippe Wojazer)

French Jews certainly wanted Macron over Le Pen, but friction may lie ahead

By Cnaan Liphshiz

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron gestures during a victory celebration outside the Louvre museum in Paris, France, on Sunday, May 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Netanyahu congratulates Macron in post-election phone call

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Two leaders discuss cooperation in fight against terror and promotion of economic and technological ties

Men sit in village square in Iwaniska, Poland in 'Scandal in Ivansk' (Blumenfeld Pictures)

New documentary digs up controversy as Polish Jewish cemetery restored

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Israel's Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Diplomats call strike aimed at disrupting Trump visit

By Stuart Winer

US Vice President Mike Pence (L) administers the swearing-in ceremony for David Friedman (C) as the US ambassador to Israel, as his wife Tammy Sand looks on, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, on March 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Fake envoyForeign Ministry retweets faux David Friedman account

By Raphael Ahren

Hartman High School students take their matriculation exams in mathematics (: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

In tech, girls study more than boys but are less confident – survey

By Shoshanna Solomon

Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer costar as mother and daughter in 'Snatched.' (Screenshot YouTube)

Lil orphan AmyAmy Schumer asks Goldie Hawn to adopt her

By Yaakov Schwartz

Reza Parastesh, a doppelganger of Barcelona and Argentina's soccer player Lionel Messi, poses for a picture in a street in Tehran on May 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Double trouble Things get Messi for Iranian lookalike

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot awards Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford with a Medal of Appreciation at the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 9, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Returning favor, IDF chief awards Dunford Medal of Appreciation

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A Donald Trump supporter holds a poster of Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the alt-right movement, at a campaign event in Bedford, New Hampshire, on September 29, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/JTA)

Pepe the Frog, racist hate meme, finally croaks

By AFP

Ultra-Orthodox Jews seen near a big bonfire, during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fuming parents go to High Court over Lag B’Omer date change

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein was on target for a second time with his ceremonial first pitch for the Mets. (Courtesy of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun via JTA)

Jews on firstIvanka Trump’s rabbi does Mets first pitch

By JTA

File: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the Istanbul Youth Festival in Istanbul on May 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ozan Kose)

Hebrew media reviewWord of mouth

By Ilan Ben Zion

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