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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 11, 2017

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Protesters support Palestinian prisoners who were on a hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on May 4, 2017. (Flash90)

We saved the life of Hamas’s Gaza leader, says Israel’s ex-prison chief, dismissing strikers’ complaints

Orit Adato, who handled huge rise in inmate population during Second Intifada, says terrorist convicts get better conditions here than almost anywhere else

Hamas says it caught assassin of top terror mastermind

By Dov Lieber and Agencies

Hamas assures critics Israel’s destruction still its goal

PA security services seize hundreds of weapons in West Bank

By Avi Issacharoff

The outdoor cage at an apartment where a 14-year-old has been allegedly kept in solitude by his parents in Hadera, seen on May 11, 2017. (Flash90)

Boy, 14, allegedly kept caged at home by parents all his life

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Due to stench from building, police break in looking for a body but find the teen, who was never registered with social or educational services

Baby dies after being left in overheated car in the West Bank

1-year-old girl was forgotten in mother’s vehicle for 5 hours at Avnei Hefetz settlement

Illustrative: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)

Most East Europeans don’t want Jews in their family, Pew finds

By JTA

Fewer than three-quarters want them as neighbors, 10% don’t want them as citizens; numbers higher in countries with highest Holocaust death tolls

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada set record in 2016, audit finds

By JTA

Russian TV uses Nazi film in segment advancing Jewish world domination theory

By Yaakov Schwartz

Nazi posters spark fury at South African university

By AFP

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

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: All embassies, especially US, should move to Jerusalem

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime minister tells Likud activists that Trump should lead other countries in recognizing ‘eternal capital of Jewish people’; 6 year old girl dies falling from 9-story building

This file photo taken on December 28, 2016 shows a partial view of the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev northwest of Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Ahead of Trump visit, Israel delays meeting of settlement planning body – report

By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu’s postponement said meant to keep construction from becoming obstacle in talks, avoid repeat of 2010 Joe Biden embarrassment

Abbas said to agree to summit with Netanyahu and Trump

By Alexander Fulbright

Despite wage assurances, Israeli diplomats still intend to disrupt Trump visit

By Stuart Winer

Trump ‘still reviewing’ embassy move to Jerusalem – White House

By Eric Cortellessa

Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

5 things to know about Rod Rosenstein, who helped get Comey fired

Deputy attorney general, 52, who wrote a scathing memo about FBI chief, also investigated the Clintons two decades ago

Sacked FBI chief: President can fire me for any reason, or no reason

By AFP

Comey was fired after asking for more resources for Russia probe

By AP and ToI Staff

Former Trump security aide Flynn’s papers subpoenaed in Russia probe

By AFP

You look older when you smile, Israeli and Canadian researchers say (Courtesy)

Say boo!

Smiling for the camera makes you look older

By Shoshanna Solomon

Researchers at Ben-Gurion and Canada’s Western universities say appearance of youth is enhanced by a poker face or, better yet, a surprised expression

Frank and Rose Hittler’s marriage certificate (NYC Municipal Archives via JTA)

When Hitler was a popular Jewish last name in New York

By Gabe Friedman and Marissa Roer

In 1933, more than 30 families across the city bore the surname of the man who became the leader of Nazi Germany

NJ man, a self-proclaimed Nazi, officially renamed Hitler

By AP

German defense chief bids to rid army of Nazi Wehrmacht links

By Frank Zeller

German officials: Increase in US Jews seeking citizenship since election

A drug deal is photographed in Berlin, 1924 (Public Domain/German Federal Archive)

Did stimulants fuel Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation?

By Matt Lebovic

A probe into drug and alcohol use during Nazi Germany’s ‘blitzkrieg’ assault on Europe opens a Pandora’s box of coverups and accusations

Mr. Trump, on Jerusalem just do nothing

The president will go down in history if he opts to not sign a waiver blocking the US embassy move

The forgotten Zionist dream

When anti-Semites deny the Jews’ history in Israel, they’re in sync with American Jewry’s focus on the startup nation

Rachel Grenadier

That’s no way to treat civil servants

Donald Trump underestimates the federal employees who remain at their posts when their bosses are out the door

Biblical slut-shaming

Shelomit, the only woman with a name in the book of Leviticus, got a bum rap from some commentators

A cannon on the INS Trishul, docked in Haifa as part of an official visit by the Indian Navy on May 10, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

After fighting Somali pirates, Indian Navy ships visit Haifa

By Judah Ari Gross

Three vessels from the South Asian nation arrive in Israel for three days to commemorate 25 years of ties

Gen. Joseph Dunford testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, October 27, 2015. (AP/Kevin Wolf)

Hezbollah presence in Syria a big threat to Israel, Dunford says

By JTA

Reservist soldiers take part in an IDF drill on March 21, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

In efficiency drive, IDF cuts a fifth of its reservists

By Judah Ari Gross

Army increases benefits for reserve soldiers and their families; Tel Aviv again provides the most reserve soldiers

Jamil Tamimi, 57, who stabbed and killed Hannah Bladon on the Jerusalem Light Rail is brought into the Jerusalem District Court on May 11, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian man charged with murder of British student Hannah Bladon

By Alexander Fulbright

Court asked to keep Jamil Tamimi in custody for duration of trial for stabbing attack on Jerusalem train

A studio at the offices of Israel Radio in Jerusalem on the night of the radio station's last broadcast on May 10, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fentonr/Flash90)

At 7:04 p.m., after 81 years, Israel Radio fades to music

As part of changeover to new public broadcaster, the ‘Voice of Israel’ will only broadcast tunes, and news on the hour, until Monday

Israel Radio employees during their final broadcast on May 10, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fentonr/Flash90)

Knesset okays changes to new public broadcaster, ending years-long fight

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative: Young girls peek through a curtain next to the bride at an ultra-Orthodox wedding on January 18, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

For first time, majority of Jewish Israelis want marriage outside rabbinate

Survey by religious pluralism group finds greatest support among secular, with 13% of religious Zionists backing them up

Palestinian women hold a scarf bearing the Palestine name as Israeli youths carry their national flag in the "flag march" through Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations for Jerusalem Day on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

How the Six Day War changed American Jews

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby holds a press conference at the Saint John Eye Hospital compound in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2017. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Anglican head backs Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace effort

By AFP

Justin Welby says he will pray for US president’s success, hopes dialogue with Hamas will be possible in the future

IDF troops filmed by a Palestinian activist with the left-wing B'Tselem human rights organization in February 2017. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)

IDF accuses B’Tselem of ‘manufacturing’ conflicts

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel's Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC on May 10, 2017 (screen capture)

In DC, Israeli justice minister speaks out against Trump’s peace push

By Eric Cortellessa

Ayelet Shaked urges US president to pursue an ‘economic deal’ rather than unrealistic, unreachable permanent accord with Palestinians

At a dress rehearsal of 'Divine Right,' Rabbi David Golinkin (right, in green robes), holds forth as Nahmanides (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Centuries later, Nahmanides’ medieval drama plays out on stage

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Israeli Ambassador to Brazil Yossi Shelley (Twitter)

There are no settlements, Israel’s new envoy to Brazil says

By JTA

Screen capture from video of Rabbi Dovber Pinson. (YouTube/TheIYYUNCenter)

Facing criticism, rabbi apologizes for dancing with pope

By JTA

Antiquities recovered in a police raid on a Palestininan home in Beit Ula, near Hebron on May 10, 2017. (Police Spokesperson)

Police recover stolen ancient coins, lamps, other antiquities near Hebron

From (L-R) Chief Business Officer Murat Sonmez, Chief Commissioner of Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority Hani Mulki, former British prime minister Gordon Brown, Vice-Chairman of GE John Rice, Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Petroleum Majid Jafar, and Chief Executive Officer of Meridiam Infrastructure Thierry Deau attend a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Middle East and North Africa 2015 on May 23, 2015 in the Dead Sea resort of Shuneh, west of the Jordanian capital, Amman (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Israel, US startups to join 100 Arab firms at World Economic Forum push

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rotem Rabi brought in a bevy of online backers on her way to the Miss Israel crown. (Moshe Sasson/Courtesy of La’isha via JTA)

Photo finishMiss Israel 2017, the social media-savvy beauty queen

By Andrew Tobin

Illustrative photo of cheese. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Fake kosher cheese lands distributor in court

By JTA

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy looks on during a forum against abstention in Paris, on May 5, 2017, two days ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ)

Pie and democracyJewish French philosopher gets pied in face in Belgrade

By AFP and JTA

This file photo taken on January 22, 2017 shows US Vice President Mike Pence, 2nd left, shaking hands with then FBI Director James Comey, right, watched by Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy, left, and US President Donald Trump, 3rd right, during the reception for law enforcement officers and first responders in the Blue Room of the White House. (AFP/ MANDEL NGAN)

Hebrew media reviewAll the president’s victims

By Joshua Davidovich

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