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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 2, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the state funeral of late president Shimon Peres, held at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu: Abbas peddles the ‘most contemptible anti-Semitic slogans’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Foreign ministry takes PA leader to task for ‘Holocaust denying’ speech blaming Jewish ‘social behavior’ for Nazi persecution

American ambassador says Abbas ‘reached new low’ in speech denigrating Jews

Lipstadt: With ‘classic anti-Semitism,’ Abbas ending career the way he started

By Marissa Newman

Germany slams Abbas for ‘anti-Semitic’ remarks; EU, UN call speech unacceptable

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, is welcomed by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on March 16, 2015 at the European External Action service headquarters in Brussels.(photo credit: AFP/ EMMANUEL DUNAND)

AnalysisThe Mossad haul and Iran's Clause 14 problem

Very existence of Iran’s secret nuclear archive may be a violation of nuke deal

By Raphael Ahren

Israel’s exposé of Iran’s own nuke documentation shows why 2015 pact was so important, say defenders of the deal. Jerusalem’s retort: If the deal worked, the archive wouldn’t exist

White House: Iran nuclear capabilities ‘far more advanced’ than implied in 2015

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Netanyahu said to tell ministers to keep quiet about Iran

Kerry defends Iran nuclear deal from Netanyahu critique

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A warehouse in Shorabad, south Tehran, where Mossad agents discovered and extracted tens of thousands of secret files pertaining to Iran's nuclear weapons program (Prime Minister's Office)

Mossad agents snuck nuclear files out of Iran with authorities ‘on their tails’

US officials say Israel behind latest Syria strike, preparing for war with Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Ex-Mossad chief says Netanyahu’s show on Iran had ‘nothing new’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Israel not seeking war with Iran, Netanyahu tells US media

Rabbi Eli Sadan speaks during a protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Officers and gentlemen? Religious Zionist flagship academy comes under scrutiny

Friends and family mourn near the fresh grave of Ella Or during her funeral in Mishor Adumim on April 27, 2018. Or was one of 10 Israeli teens killed in a flash flood on April 26, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Academy head resigns under cloud of suspicion over flood disaster

Yuval Kahan says he is ‘torn and broken’ in wake of desert hike in which 10 high school students were killed

Oren Ableman, scroll researcher at the Dead Sea Scrolls unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority, examining the ink traces that have been discovered. (Shai Halevi, The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library)

Dead Sea Scroll fragment unveiled in Israel may point to an unknown manuscript

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A bus in Afula that crashed into a fire hydrant after the driver was stabbed. (Screen capture/MDA)

Live updates (closed)

Bus crashes in northern Israel after driver stabbed; motive unclear

Police say two young men boarded bus and attacked driver causing vehicle to ram into a smaller car before crashing into a fire hydrant in Afula

6:59 pm

Former chief military prosecutor's home was built on private Palestinian land -- report
6:35 pm

Hebron settlers burn Palestinian flags at Lag B'Omer bonfire
6:19 pm

Bus crashes into fire hydrant in northern Israel after driver apparently stabbed; motive unclear

The still-unfinished office of Guatemala's new embassy in Jerusalem, May 2, 2018 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Guatemala starts moving its embassy to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu says he is moved to see country’s flag at capital’s Malha Technology Park, two weeks before official inauguration

Palestinian terror groups trying to kidnap soldiers on Gaza border — IDF chief

By Sue Surkes and Jacob Magid

Palestinians said set to withdraw recognition of Israel

By Stuart Winer

Japan’s PM said to tell Abbas there are no plans to move embassy to Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AP

Yohanan Plesner

Supreme Court override clause paves the way to tyranny

Israel’s High Court must be able to check and balance legislation, or we risk our basic protection of democracy

To stop Haredi army shirkers: inspect yeshivas

To draft the fraudsters who ‘learn Torah’ to avoid army service, checking attendance is a good start

The Haredi Spring

The young people of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community are making their move to integrate into Israeli society

PHOTO ESSAY: This exceedingly good land

70 unaltered photographs of Israel — its landscapes, creatures, people, and milestones

David Broza singing at the May 1, 2018 Times of Israel Presents event at Beit Avi Chai (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

‘It Will be Good’: Eternal optimist Broza gives intimate talk, show at ToI event

By Jessica Steinberg

Guitarist and songwriter tells stories about his childhood, army experiences and career in a Times of Israel Presents conversation, then plays a mini-concert

Rachel Prather, Etai Benson and Ariel Stachel in the Broadway remake of 'The Band's Visit.' (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

‘The Band’s Visit,’ based on Israeli film, gets 11 Tony nominations

By JTA

Unemployed men queued outside a Depression-era soup kitchen opened in Chicago by the mobster Al Capone in 1931. Economic uncertainty fueled Americans’ anxieties about taking in large numbers of refugees from Europe. (National Archives at College Park-Still Pictures via JTA)

Exhibit shows ordinary Americans knew a lot about Holocaust as it was happening

Chief Rabi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, says prayers for the dead at a cemetery where eight Jews killed by the Germans in 1944 were buried, along with the Polish Ulma family that was sheltering them, in Jagiella, Poland, on Thursday, March 17, 2016 during ceremonies honoring the Ulmas and hundreds of Poles who lost their lives trying to save Jews in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Interview

Amid raging Holocaust law controversy, Poland’s chief rabbi urges nuance

By Yaakov Schwartz, Raphael Ahren and Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dana Rogozinski (right) with her grandmother Ella Lucak Rogozinski in 2015. (Courtesy)

A treasured legacy

Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors makes jewelry featuring Nazi tattoo numbers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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District of Columbia City Council President Phil Mendelson speaks during an impromptu news conference outside City Hall, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 in Washington, as other council members listen. (AP Photo/Ashraf Khalil)

Rabbi interrupts DC council meeting to demand action on anti-Semitic comments

By AP and ToI Staff

MK Rachel Azaria speaking at a panel discussion at the Schecter Institute on April 30, 2018 concerning the need for Israel to still find its' Jewish identity. (Eyal Weiss/Schecter Institute of Jewish Studies)

Who is a stakeholder?Event meant to build bridges between Israel and Diaspora goes up in flames

By Tracy Frydberg

Dr. Evgeny Reznitsky, educational director of the Natural History Museum in Jerusalem, standing next to a dinosaur statue in the museum's outer garden on May 1, 2018. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)

Despite outrage, Jerusalem museum vows to keep censoring evolution exhibit

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: View of the Tel Aviv skyline in a dense sandstorm, September 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IMF says Israeli economy robust but social gaps threaten long-term stability

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a helmet while riding a bicycle in a video released on April 25, 2018, ahead of the Giro D’Italia cycle race to be held in Israel in May. (Screen capture: Twitter video)

Organizers hope Giro D’Italia gets more Israelis pedaling

By Melanie Lidman

Participants in the National Walkout to protest gun violence marching toward the US Capitol, April 20, 2018. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)

On issues like gun control and refugees, Jewish organizations play it safe

Reuven Rivlin begins the first visit by an Israeli president to Ethiopia, May 1, 2018. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin lands in Ethiopia for first visit by an Israeli president

People gather to protest US President Donald Trump's travel ban in front of the US Supreme Court, on April 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

ADL report: 90% of Islamist attacks in US since 2002 were homegrown, not foreign

Rabbi Eliezer Berland covers himself with his talit (prayer shawl) at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court during his trial for sexual assault charges on November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Sex offender rabbi to be honored at Lag B’Omer festival

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel he says proves Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel media reviewJury’s out: 6 things to know for May 2

By Tamar Pileggi

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