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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 3, 2018

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) gestures during the Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah on April 30, 2018. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Yad Vashem blasts Abbas for anti-Semitic bid to blame Jews for their own murder

Palestinian Authority head ‘assaults Holocaust remembrance’ by turning it into ‘into a propaganda tool, blatantly falsifying history’

Palestinian official: Abbas didn’t deny Holocaust, Israel distorted his words

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

NY Times calls for Abbas ouster over ‘vile’ claim on Jews and Holocaust

By Tamar Pileggi

German Palestinian group slams Abbas Holocaust speech

By JTA

Yossi Klein Halevi (Ilir Bajaktari / The Tower)

InterviewNew book coincides with storm over incendiary Abbas comments

Who we are, why we’re here: Israeli author explains Zionism to the Palestinians

By David Horovitz

We’re rightly outraged by enemy attacks on our legitimacy, says Yossi Klein Halevi. But we’ve never bothered to tell them our story. Hence his ‘Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor’

Computerized footage of an ultrasound device in development by Israeli startup PulseNmore. (Screen capture: Hadashot)

Israeli device would let pregnant women take ultrasound scans on phone

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

PulseNmore has conducted ‘successful tests’ on product, says it’s nearing completion; images can be sent directly to physicians

A lab at Ben-Gurion University (Courtesy)

Israeli researchers say new treatment could boost fertility in women and men

By Shoshanna Solomon

Members of the Israel Cycling Academy team finish the memorial ride at the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. Insert: Gino Bartali during the 1938 Tour de France, which he won. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel, courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Legendary cyclist Gino Bartali gets honorary citizenship ahead of Giro Israel

By Melanie Lidman

A bronze coin that was found in a limestone cave near Modiin, that dates to the final years of the 132 CE Bar Kochba revolt against the Roman Empire. (COGAT spokesman)

For Freedom of Jerusalem

Unearthed Bar Kochba coin points to far-reaching support for rebels against Rome

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A broker at the Tel Aviv Stock exchange. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

How did a New York-based hedge fund get to buy 20% of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange?

Capital market players bemused by process in which Manikay Partners purchased stake in Israel’s stock exchange, after private deliberations, with no tender; ISA yet to approve deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Jewish Home to bring High Court bill to ministerial vote despite PM’s request

By Tamar Pileggi

Coalition sources say no progress made on compromise after Netanyahu meeting with Supreme Court president; right-wing party rejects bid to postpone vote again

6:20 pm

Likud: Delay in High Court vote 'reasonable' in light of security developments
6:05 pm

Top PA official 'deeply disturbed' by anti-Semitism accusations leveled at Abbas
5:31 pm

Shaked said to refuse Netanyahu request to again delay vote on High Court bill

An explosion at a Lag B'Omer bonfire in Stamford Hill, London, on May 2, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

London Lag B’Omer bonfire erupts into fireball; said to injure 30

By Michael Bachner

Source of large blast appears to be fuel poured on pyre; smartphones also placed on combustible pile

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance around a bonfire in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on May 2, 2018, during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Hundreds of thousands flock to Galilee tomb for Lag B’Omer celebrations

By Tamar Pileggi

Jewish pilgrims take part in the annual pilgrimage at the Ghriba synagogue in the Tunisian resort island of Djerba on May 2, 2018. (AFP/Fethi Belaid)

Jewish pilgrims gather in Tunisia for Lag B’Omer festival

By AFP

Smoke and flames rise from grassland Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel after Palestinians flew a kite laden with a Molotov cocktail over the border on May 2, 2018. (Screen capture/Rafi Bavian)

Palestinian ‘fire kite’ sparks massive blaze in Israeli fields along Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

Largest blaze since Gazans started new arson tactic burns for six hours; 10 firefighting crews working since early afternoon to bring flames under control

Shin Bet: Palestinian student leader received €150k for Hamas through Turkey

By Michael Bachner

IDF shoots, arrests Palestinian damaging Gaza fence

By Judah Ari Gross

Gazan injured in border clashes last week dies of wounds

African migrants and their supporters demonstrate in Jerusalem on April 4, 2018, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cancellation of an agreement with the UN aimed at avoiding forced deportations. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Netanyahu said to resume contacts with UN on deal to resettle African migrants

PM reportedly trying to improve terms of arrangement he scrapped last month that would have seen 16,500 asylum seekers leave and a similar number given temporary Israeli residency

Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, right, with Labour's Emily Thornberry after arriving for the declaration at his constituency in London, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK Labour’s pick for top diplomat would consider arms embargo against Israel

By Raphael Ahren

In Ramallah, Emily Thornberry ignores Abbas’s anti-Semitic speech, slams Netanyahu’s ‘blatant contempt for the interests of peace’

Bertha Reynolds, born Bertha Hurwitz in Poland, served as a White House secretary in the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations. (Courtesy of Shirley Thaler/via JTA)

Recalling Aunt Bertie, the longest-serving Jewish staffer in White House history

Dorrie Jacobson, 83, models lingerie. (Jodi Jacobson)

Forever young

At 83, former Playboy bunny relaunches career as Instagram lingerie model

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, California, June 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma/File)

Amazon sending signals of long-awaited Israel service, but will it deliver?

By Jessica Steinberg

Imagine the Orthodox world without vitriol

If we regard alternate approaches to Orthodoxy as the best approach for each community, we’ll judge favorably

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The lessons of Mahmoud Abbas’ Holocaust remarks

The Palestinian leader’s recent anti-Semitic diatribe helps explain why two-state solution is dying

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance around a bonfire in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on May 2, 2018, during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Israel media reviewFire in all the wrong places: 7 things to know for May 3

By Joshua Davidovich

Cadets in the IDF Cyber Defense Unit course, June 10, 2013 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Highlighting cyber vulnerabilities, rogue ex-soldier revealed to have hacked IDF

File: Waqf officials and others prepare to pray outside the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, rather than enter the compound via metal detectors set up by Israel following a terror attack, July 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Turks, Saudis, UAE said to pump quarter billion dollars into East Jerusalem

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

Man arrested in connection with Afula bus driver stabbing

Michael Twitty speaking at the annual Food Book Fair in New York, May 13, 2017. (Clay Williams/JTA)

Jewish author wins James Beard award for book about African-American food

By JTA

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations event in Jerusalem on February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid opposes US pullout of Iran nuclear deal

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Miriam Goldfisher, director of a kosher supervision class for women, studying Jewish dietary laws in preparation for the Israeli Chief Rabbinate exam on the topic. (JTA)

In first, women can apply to be Knesset rabbi

Ancient artifacts, smuggled into the US in violation of federal law and shipped to Hobby Lobby stores, are shown at an event returning the artifacts to Iraq May 2, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

US returns 3,800 smuggled ‘biblical’ artifacts to Iraq

By AFP

Then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at Ben Gurion Airport, June 25, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Liberman to Russian media: Israel ‘did not join’ Western action against Moscow

By Judah Ari Gross

Rescue forces near the scene where 10 young Israelis were swept to their deaths in flash floods in the Tzafit riverbed, near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Body found in search for truck driver missing since flash floods

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