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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 12, 2018

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David Friedman: Now we can say, 'This year in Jerusalem'

US ambassador gives first glimpse of new embassy in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump hails ‘big week’ for historic move; ‘Congratulations to all,’ he tweets ahead of May 14 opening

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman gives a first glimpse of the new US embassy in Jerusalem on May 11, 2018, ahead of its opening on May 14 (Screenshot)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis during a joint press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 10, 2016. (AFP/Abbas MomaniI)

PA blasts Hungary, Romania and Czechs for blocking EU censure of US embassy move

By Alexander Fulbright

Rabbi Moshe Azman, founder of the Anatevka community near Kiev, February 29, 2016. (R. Litevsky/Courtesy of the Office of Rabbi Moshe Azman)

Prominent Ukrainian rabbi inaugurates prayer for Trump’s success

By JTA

Analysis

Winning big with both Trump and Putin, Netanyahu had a royal flush of a week

Quoted by US president one day, hosted by Russia’s president the next, PM is on a high, including in the polls. But will this encourage his more divisive tendencies?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after the Victory Parade marking the 73th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

View of the US Consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel said to thwart EU condemnation of American embassy move

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, May 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House slams Iran for ‘reckless actions’ against Israel, Saudi Arabia

By AFP

Border Police officers are seen at the Old City of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Security in Jerusalem bolstered ahead of volatile week

Police gird for possible violence as US moves embassy, capital celebrates reunification; Israeli, Jewish centers abroad also on high alert, bracing for possible Iranian attacks

Trump to deliver video address at Jerusalem embassy opening

By Eric Cortellessa

Thousands rally in Turkey and Jordan to protest US embassy move

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Indonesians protest US recognition of Jerusalem as capital

By AP

A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw -- the most well-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which a boy holds his hands over his head while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction. (Wikipedia, public domain)

Poles fatally betrayed most of country’s Jews in hiding from Nazis, study claims

By JTA

Devastating research by Warsaw-based group indicates ordinary citizens played a role in hundreds of thousands of deaths — significantly higher than previous estimates

Christopher Lambert, right, portraying a German Nazi officer in 'Sobibor.' (Courtesy of Rosiya Segondiya/ via JTA)

Why a gory Holocaust film is a blockbuster in Russia

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski poses during a photocall for the film 'Cold War (Zimna Wojna)' at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 11, 2018. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)

Polish director of Holocaust film says he’s been blacklisted by government

By Sophie LAUBIE and Fiachra GIBBONS

Iran Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari in Brussels on January 11, 2018. (AFP/John Thys)

Iran threatens ‘industrial scale’ enrichment, as its FM sets out to save deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Zarif embarks on diplomatic tour in bid to salvage 2015 nuke accord, but nation’s atomic agency ordered to prepare for operations ‘without restrictions’

Netanyahu: Israel will win ‘ongoing’ conflict with Iran

AnalysisWhy leave the Iran deal now? Here are 3 reasons from supporters of Trump’s move

Iran embarking on diplomatic blitz amid nuke deal fears and Israel tension

By AFP

Minister of Housing and Construction Yoav Gallant speaks at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build new apartments in Haifa, March 19, 2018. (Flash90)

Top minister: Israel should eradicate any trace of Iranian entrenchment in Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Security cabinet member Yoav Galant says ‘An opportunity has arisen to uproot Iran, and we’ll take advantage of it’

An Israeli Air Force F-16, front, and F-15, rear, prepare to take off from the Ovda airbase near Eilat, southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

11 Iranians among dead in Israel’s strikes in Syria, monitor says

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers beside tanks near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights on May 10, 2018 (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

TV report: Israel believes Iran ‘got the message, won’t mess with us again soon’

Gas pipes on fire at the Kerem Shalom goods crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, May 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel to close key Gaza crossing while it repairs immense damage by rioters

IDF to shutter Kerem Shalom to repair gas lines and conveyor after Palestinian protesters sabotage infrastructure serving their own energy-starved enclave

Palestinian rioters sabotage Gaza’s own gas lines for 2nd straight week

Senior officer warns next week’s Gaza protests to be most violent yet — report

Israel using small remote-controlled airplanes to combat Gaza’s ‘attack kites’

Netta from Israel performs the song 'Toy' in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, May 11, 2018 during a dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Israel holds its breath as Eurovision carnival hits its peak at Saturday finals

By Daniel Silva

A self-portrait by Isaac Rosenberg. (Public domain)

War of words

The destitute UK Jew who became one of WWI’s greatest poets from the trenches

By Robert Philpot

Still from a video posted by Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque showing what it says is the conversion to Islam of 87-year-old Sal van Coeverden on May 4, 2019 (Facebook)

Dutch mosque claims to convert Holocaust survivor to Islam; Jews are skeptical

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Joseph C. Kaplan

You can go home again

When visiting the old neighborhood is more than nostalgia; it’s passing down family lore

The tolerance capital of the world

In complex Jerusalem, almost nothing is what you think it is and almost no one is who you think they are

In this file photo from May 1, 2018, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during a campaign rally in Baghdad, Iraq (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Al-Abadi defeated IS. Why won’t he sweep Iraq’s elections?

By PHILIP ISSA and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Despite Iraqi PM’s successes, split among Shiite voters and anger over economy are roadblocks in his bid for reelection Saturday

Voting underway in Iraq as campaign against IS looms over polls

By Salam Faraj and Mohammad Salim

Tunisia Islamists top municipal polls but fail to win majority

By Kaouther Larbi

Tunisian politician calls for normalization with Israel

More Headlines

This file photo taken on February 10, 2014 shows Tero Varjoranta, IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Deputy Director General for Safeguards, speaking to journalists as he arrives at the Vienna Airport from his trip to Teheran on February 10, 2014. (AFP/Dieter Nagl)

UN nuclear watchdog’s chief inspector resigns without explanation

By AFP

Then-Yesh AtidMK Yaakov Peri at the Knesset on June 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Shin Bet head admits to lying about army service

A wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza Strip on the eastern outskirts of Jabaliya on May 11, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Medical NGO: Israel must allow wounded protesters to leave Gaza for treatment

Illustrative: Police and fire personnel respond outside the Grand Mosque of Brussels on Thursday, November 26, 2015. Emergency personnel responded at the mosque after a suspicious package was found. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Saudi-financed Belgian mosques teach hatred of Jews, gays: intel report

By AFP

An undated image of Jacob Daskal, the president of the Shomrim Brooklyn South Safety Patrol. (screen capture: New York Daily News)

Head of Brooklyn Jewish patrol charged with raping 16-year-old girl

By JTA and ToI Staff

The West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, as seen from Sebastia (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Two car-ramming attacks in West Bank, soldier lightly injured

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown shown during a game against the Green Bay Packers at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, on November 26, 2017. (Justin K. Aller/Getty Images via JTA)

Kosher cribsNFL star Antonio Brown’s mansion has a synagogue in it

By Gabe Friedman

David Friedman on Feb. 16, 2017 (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

Charity headed by US envoy to Israel gave money to far-right Jewish group

Dr. Michael Lozman, foreground, fixing up a Jewish cemetery in Belarus. (Courtesy)

Remembering the Holocaust: Albany interfaith project to create outdoor memorial

By Lois Goldrich

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