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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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In this Feb. 28, 1989 file photo, real estate mogul Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in New York, announcing the opening of his Taj Mahal Resort Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/David Cantor, File)

The curious case of Donald Trump’s 1989 (non-)visit to Israel

By Raphael Ahren

The release of state files showing extensive preparations to take the developer around Israel 28 years ago has been seized upon as proof that this month’s visit won’t be Trump’s first. Except there’s no record of him actually being here, and nobody can recall meeting him

Frenetic preparations underway for Trump’s Israel visit

By Alexander Fulbright

Arabic daily claims Trump to announce Netanyahu-Abbas talks during Israel visit

Security swells as Jerusalem prepares for Trump visit

By Stuart Winer

FBI Director James Comey at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Russian actions during the 2016 election campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump fires FBI director James Comey, calls him ineffective leader of agency

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bureau needs leadership that ‘restores public trust and confidence,’ president says; immediate termination based on advice of A-G Sessions

After Comey dismissal, Democrats call for special prosecutor on Russia probe

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump preparing certified letter denying Russia business ties

By AP

AnalysisTrump thrusts US presidency into perilous area

US Jewish leaders meet with the FBI director James Comey to discuss the ongoing investigation of bomb threats to JCCs on March 3, 2017. (Courtesy/Jewish Community Centers of North America )

Fired by Trump, reviled by Democrats, Comey will be missed by those who protect US Jews

More than most of his predecessors, the terminated director made the Jewish story central to the FBI mission

An Israeli flag at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Interview

Author of controversial ‘Jewish State’ bill insists it’s unprejudiced and fair

By Raoul Wootliff

Avi Dichter has been working for six years on legislation to define Israel as a Jewish state. Now, with government backing, he says he’s certain it will pass — to Israel’s abiding benefit

Full text of MK Avi Dichter’s 2017 ‘Jewish State’ bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Knesset advances ‘Jewish state’ bill in preliminary vote

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Ex-UN chief: Israeli-Palestinian peace impossible with current leaders

By AP and ToI Staff

Employees of the Channel 1's Mabat news broadcast sing Hatikvah during their final news broadcast on May 9, 2017 (Screencapture/Facebook/Channel 1)

With two hours’ notice, and after 49 years, Channel 1 news goes off the air

By Marissa Newman

In dramatic send-off, ‘Mabat’ anchor bursts into tears, employees sing ‘Hatikvah,’ as nightly staple of public broadcasting is abruptly shut down by government

Israeli broadcast authority employees outside the IBA headquarters in Jerusalem, on May 10, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu criticizes ‘shameful’ handling of Channel 1 news closure

A man looks at the wreckage of a Jewish shop in Berlin on November 10, 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, an organized nationwide attack carried out by Nazi paramilitary forces and German civilians over two days. (AP Photo)

Amid collusion allegations, AP releases review of its coverage of Nazi Germany

News agency disputes accusations that it collaborated with the Third Reich, but allows that it was insufficiently independent

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) speaks while posing for photos with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Live updates (closed)

Broadcaster shakeup forces Israel Radio off air after 81 years

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Trump hosts Russian FM amid row over Kremlin influence; Netanyahu speaks with Putin ahead of Abbas visit to Russia

Ukrainian schoolchildren recite poetry at the unveiling of a memorial to 1,000 Jewish children massacred by the Nazis in a forest in Uman in 1942. May 8, 2017. (Photo Sue Surkes)

In a Ukraine forest, terrible events of 75 years ago given resonance by handful of survivors

On VE day, Jews and Christians gather near Uman to unveil a monument to 1,000 Jewish children murdered by the Nazis

Arab students working on a project at Moona, a nonprofit technology incubator in the Galilee that aims to build bridges between Israeli Jews and Arab youth through space technologies (Courtesy)

Galilee Jewish-Arab tech collaboration shoots for the coexistence moon

By Shoshanna Solomon

Moona, set up by a former Israeli fighter pilot, uses technology to empower students and focus them on targets, not war

IAF Shimshon Hercules heavy transport planes seen over the beach in Tel Aviv during Israel's traditional Independence Day flyover on May 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

2 pilots imprisoned over near-accident on Independence Day

By Alexander Fulbright

Newly released footage shows the wings of Shimshon Hercules transport aircraft touching during flyover

Screenshot from the video created by an Israeli man to sell his second-hand, 21-year-old car. The clip has millions of views on YouTube.

Huge traffic

Israeli creates elaborate video ad to sell old car

Clip showing 1996 Suzuki Vitara’s CGI-aided ‘adventures’ garners over 3 million views, hundreds of positive comments

Anne-Marie O'Connor, left, and Ora Ahimeir will be discussing their work Monday, May 15 at the Tower of David Museum. (Courtesy)

The revealing secret lives of mysterious Jewish women

By Matthew Kalman

‘The Lady in Gold’ author Anne-Marie O’Connor and ‘Bride’ author Ora Ahimeir to discuss their bestselling work at Jerusalem event in English on Monday

What’s BDS done for Palestinians lately?

‘They are engaged in a self-serving narrative aimed at making them look like heroes’

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Everyone is policing free speech

He wishes those on both sides of the political divide would hear each other, or what’s democracy for?

Trump, Nixon and the high priests

The firing of FBI director Comey raises the old question: Who’s in charge?

Joseph C. Kaplan

Separate seating at a wedding?

As gender separation increases in Modern Orthodox life, women’s exclusion is also on the rise

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

Rivlin reinvites UK royal family after reported cancellation

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

British Foreign Office said to have put kibosh on Israeli trip planned for fall 2017 for fear it would anger Arab allies

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)

Pizza Hut runs ad mocking hunger strike leader Barghouti

By Alexander Fulbright

Restaurant chain apologizes for offense caused amid calls to boycott the chain by Palestinian activists

Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Sharon Afek speaks at a conference on the law of armed conflict outside Tel Aviv, on April 25, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Israel’s military advocate general defends trial of Hebron shooter

By Judah Ari Gross

In interview with Bar Association magazine, Brig. Gen. Sharon Afek discusses ‘landmark’ Azaria case, plea deal for general accused of rape, and being a role model for LGBT community

Reuven Rivlin at the Western Wall after winning the presidency, June 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In jab at Turkey, Rivlin says Jerusalem has Jewish majority since Ottoman rule

By Marissa Newman and Raphael Ahren

Responding to Erdogan comments on ‘Judaization’ of Israel’s capital, president says Israel will continue to ensure freedom of religion for all faiths

In top photo, from left: Tzion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri standing on the Tel Aviv University campus in Ramat Aviv, Israel, May 7, 2017. They were featured in the iconic photo by David Rubinger after the Six-Day War in 1967. (Andrew Tobin/David Rubinger/GPO)

On US tour, Israeli paratroopers to re-create iconic photo from Six Day War

By Andrew Tobin

A fighter from the US-backed SDF walks next to the group's flag flying in the village of Kabsh Gharbi, on the northern outskirts of Raqqa, on May 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ayham al-Mohammad)

Trump OKs arms for Syrian Kurds, over Turkish objections

By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor

US says decision to equip Kurdish-led SDF ‘necessary to ensure a clear victory’ over the Islamic State in Raqqa

Former 'Saved by the Bell: The New Class' actor Isaac Lidsky, who went on to graduate from Harvard Law and clerk for Sandra Day O'Connor. (Courtesy)

This ‘Saved By the Bell’ actor lost his vision, but still sees a glass half full

By Rich Tenorio

Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar, center, with Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and translator Pavel Palazhchenko. (Courtesy)

Meet the female chess grandmaster who checked male privilege

By Rich Tenorio

More Headlines

Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia speaks to journalists on June 22, 2014, in Paris. (AFP/Fred Dufor)

French chief rabbi urges working with Muslims against nationalists

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: American Jewish day school students studying outside. (Courtesy of Hillel Day School/JTA)

In first, Florida allocates money for Jewish school security

By JTA

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio addresses the Anti-Defamation League annual National Summit at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on May 9, 2017 (screen capture)

Rubio touts bipartisan commitment to fighting anti-Semitism, defending Israel

Screen capture from video showing General secretary of Nottingham Labour Students Committee Bethany Barker introducing UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn at a campaign rally in Nottingham, April 2017. (YouTube/2Four7)

UK Labour student leader resigns over racist tweets

By Stuart Winer

Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir (YouTube screenshot)

Human Rights Watch’s Israel-Palestine director barred from Bahrain

By AFP and Jacob Magid

A man with a meat cleaver and a large knife allegedly threatened Jewish girls and tried to enter kosher shops in London. (Twitter/Shomrim via JTA)

London man with meat cleaver threatens Jews, is arrested

By ToI Staff and JTA

Smartphone apps can help with everything from putting on tefillin correctly to finding a minyan to locating a kosher restaurant. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

iJewThese 7 smartphone apps make life easier for religious Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

Employees of the Channel 1's Mabat news broadcast sing Hatikvah during their final news broadcast on May 9, 2017. (Screen capture/Facebook/Channel 1)

Hebrew media reviewGood night and good luck

By Joshua Davidovich

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