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What Matters Most On Friday, May 4, 2018

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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new neighborhood in the Etzion settlement bloc meant to resettle the evacuees of Netiv Ha'avot outpost on March 27, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Liberman rejects Abbas apology, calls him a ‘pathetic Holocaust denier’

Palestinian Authority president says sorry ‘if people were offended’ by speech that claimed Holocaust was caused by Jewish banking practices

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he chairs a Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah on April 30, 2018. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

After blaming Jews for Holocaust, Abbas apologizes and condemns anti-Semitism

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he chairs a Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah on April 30, 2018. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI/File)

Abbas re-elected head of PLO executive amid furor over anti-Semitic speech

Analysis

When the NY Times says Abbas is no partner, something fundamental is shifting

World response to PA head’s vile speech shows a growing awareness that peace requires Palestinian recognition of Jewish rights here. That’s not to say Israel will get a free pass

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) is welcomed by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini prior to attending a EU foreign affairs council at the European Council in Brussels, January 22, 2018. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

France, Britain blast Abbas for anti-Semitic speech

Army warns Gazans against flying firebomb kites into Israel

Arab Israeli poet convicted of incitement to violence

By AP and ToI Staff

Australia's rider of team EF Education First - Drapac Mitchell Docker rides during the 1st stage of the 101st Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy, on May 4, 2018, a 9,7 kilometers individual time-trial in Jerusalem. ( AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEX)

Largest sporting event ever hosted by Israel

Giro d’Italia bike race starts with historic ride through Jerusalem

By Melanie Lidman and ToI Staff

176 riders from 22 teams sweat through heat wave for first-ever major European cycling competition held outside Europe — in front of some 10,000 spectators

Central Jerusalem shuttered in run-up to world-famous cycling race

Tunisia bid for 2022 Youth Olympics frozen over ban on Israeli athletes

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli cyclists look to make their mark at home-terrain Giro

By Michael Blum

Still from video of IDF soldiers singing in Persian, which went viral on Iranian social media on May 3, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Video of IDF soldiers singing Persian love song goes viral in Iran

By David Sedley

IDF asks proud dad to take down clip of some 50 trainees in Intelligence Corps, but not before Iranian accounts repost the footage

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for photographers as he arrives to cast his vote for local council elections at a polling station in Holloway, London, Thursday May 3, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Amid anti-Semitism row, British Labour loses in heavily Jewish London borough

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Says one defeated councillor: ‘Every Jewish Labour household we visited, people said, Not this time. Activists were being told, This is an anti-Semitic party’

Live updates (closed)

431 Palestinians said injured in Gaza border clashes

By Alexander Fulbright

Army says 2 attempts to breach fence, cross into Israel thwarted during 6th straight week of violent ‘March of Return’ protests

5:25 pm

Palestinians break into Gaza border crossing, damage gas pipelines
4:48 pm

431 now said injured in Gaza border clashes
3:51 pm

Netanyahu speaks with PMs of Australia, India and UK about Iran nuke files

A satellite image from April 29, 2018, showing recent activity at the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (ImageSat International ISI)

Israeli satellite firm reports ‘unusual’ activity at Iran nuclear site

By Judah Ari Gross

Images of Fordo show full parking lot, open gates to ‘uranium enrichment tunnels,’ but no indication of illicit activity

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, April 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump ‘all but decided’ to withdraw from Iran deal – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this September 22, 2017 photo, an Uber App is displayed on a phone in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Israeli diplomat in US booted from Uber for speaking Hebrew

Ride service suspends driver pending investigation as Itay Milner forced to get out of car in middle of highway in Chicago

Judas Iscariot (right), retiring from the Last Supper, in painting by Carl Bloch, late 19th century (public domain, via wikipedia)

Attempted antiquities looting at site linked to blood money of Judas Iscariot

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

30-year-old Jerusalem man nabbed with excavation tools at ancient Christian graveyard in Jerusalem

Students at King David Elementary School in Birmingham, England, celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary, April 19, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Now majority Muslim, kids at UK’s King David Jewish school still pray in Hebrew

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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)

IDF’s top lawyer to become first openly gay major general

By Judah Ari Gross

Military Advocate General Sharon Afek will be promoted in light of international law’s growing importance in warfare

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has attained pop culture icon status in the last decade. (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures/via JTA)

Courting fame

‘RBG’ filmmakers hope to inspire Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s millennial fans

By Josefin Dolsten

Shulamit S. Magnus

The planned spontaneous March of Return

Really, this is a Hamas show, manufactured in large part as a tactic against the Palestinian Authority

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Why counting the Omer matters

The weeks after Passover signify how to serve God independent of His overwhelming presence

We are what we do not own

The world and everything in it belong to God; people hold it in trust to use for good (Behar)

‘Sinful’ chocolate cake? No such thing

Just don’t talk about food, diet, or weight — it’s too easy to trigger disordered eating, especially in kids

An elderly Russian woman sits in the reception of the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Not so suite-life

After purchase by US Embassy, Diplomat Hotel’s residents face uncertain checkout

By Tracy Frydberg

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the press at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

One step ahead: 7 things to know for May 4

By Adiv Sterman

Facebook adds balloons and confetti when wishing "mazel tov" (Screenshot: Facebook)

Trigger happySaying ‘mazel tov’ on Facebook brings on the confetti

By Josefin Dolsten

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2018. (Flash90)

Ehud Olmert said to withdraw request to erase his criminal record

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Jake Gyllenhaal at a talk at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, November 19, 2017. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images via JTA)

Jake Gyllenhaal will play Leonard Bernstein in biopic

By JTA

Haim Saban, center, creator of Power Rangers and Chairman and CEO of Saban Capital Group, poses with the Rangers outside the Bandai booth at the American International Toy Fair, Sunday, February 10, 2013, in New York. (Diane Bondareff/Invision for Saban Brands/AP)

Israeli mogul Saban sells Power Rangers for $522 million

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a ceremony of awards for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu said to prefer jail over admitting guilt, paying fine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud again delays bill to rein in High Court, raising Jewish Home’s ire

Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (public domain)

Sleuths probing betrayal of Anne Frank snag a book deal

By AP

The campus of Towson University. (CC BY Mitch LeClair, Flickr)

Jewish university students targeted in suspected anti-Semitic attack

By JTA

Screenshot from Australian TV's "60 Minutes" broadcast about live shipments, "Sheep, Ships and Videotape," shown April 8, 2018.

Sixty senior rabbis call for end to ‘evil crime’ of live animal shipments

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the press at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu removes post claiming Arab soccer fans celebrated hikers’ deaths

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebookWhat weather warning? In Jerusalem, where there’s Lag B’Omer, there’s fire

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