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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 19, 2018

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Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, gestures to demonstrators at a a protest camp during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City on May 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

IDF officer: 'This mob would have infiltrated communities'

Israel TV: Confident Hamas planned victory rallies for its leaders inside Israel

Hadashot news claims Gaza protesters given specific instructions by terror group, urged to bring ‘knife or handgun’ to rallies; IDF commanders recount violence hitherto unseen

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on May 18, 2018, at al-Omary mosque in Gaza City. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

1,000 protest on Gaza border as Hamas chief vows to lead new demonstrations

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Palestinian woman holding her national flag looks at clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018 (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

2 Gazans shot in border clashes die of injuries — Palestinians

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on April 26, 2018 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Liberman suggests Muslim ad money causes CNN, BBC, France 24 bias against Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Muslim worshippers pray near the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, during the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan on May 18, 2018 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Tens of thousands from West Bank attend Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem

The Kerem Shalom border crossing between Gaza and Israel is torched for the third time in weeks by Palestinian rioters (Israel Defense Forces)

EU donating $35 million to repair key Gaza crossing torched by rioters — report

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave from the West Door of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony. (AFP/ Ben Birchall)

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wed in Windsor as millions watch

By Gregory Katz, DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

The American actress arrived in a dress designed by British designer Clare Waight Keller; ceremony complete with Anglican prayers, a gospel choir, and a horse-drawn carriage

Bishop Michael Bruce Curry gives a reading during the wedding ceremony of Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and US actress Meghan Markle in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018. (AFP / Owen Humphreys)

African-American pastor fires up royal wedding with love sermon

By AFP

Israel's Ambassador Aviva Raz Shechter gestures during a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on May 18, 2018, which voted for an investigation into Gaza border violence. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Israel says it won’t cooperate with UN human rights council probe of Gaza deaths

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu denounces council as ‘a hypocritical and biased body whose purpose is to harm Israel and back terror’; Haley: ‘Another shameful day’

A television screen at the UN Human Rights Council shows how countries voted on a resolution approving an investigation into Israel's handling of deadly clashes on the Gaza border, on May 18, 2018. (Foreign Ministry)

UN Human Rights Council votes to investigate Israel for Gaza protest deaths

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Palestinian woman holding her national flag looks at clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018 (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Kuwait pushes Security Council resolution to send int’l force to protect Gazans

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Josef Ganz in the 1960s. (Courtesy Paul Schilperoord)

The people's car?

The unknown Jewish engineer behind Hitler’s vaunted Volkswagen Beetle

By Rich Tenorio

A skull fragment, that Russian officials claim came from Adolf Hitler's skull, is on dispay at an exhibition in Moscow, Wednesday, April 26, 2000. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)

Hitler definitely died in 1945 according to new study of his teeth, skull

By AFP

Russian secret service gives researchers access to the Nazi leader’s remains for the first time since 1946; he died from cyanide and a bullet in the head

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid: Netanyahu is ‘dangerously’ aligning Israel with conservative Republicans

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Opposition MK accuses prime minister of furthering partisan divide by not inviting Democrats to US embassy opening

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a protest rally in Istanbul on May 18, 2018, against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the US embassy move to Jerusalem. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

Erdogan likens Israeli ‘brutality’ in Gaza to Nazi murder of Jews

By Ezzedine SAID

‘There is no difference between the atrocity faced by the Jewish people in Europe 75 years ago and the brutality that our Gaza brothers are subjected to,’ Turkish presidents says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (2-R), Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and King Abdullah II of Jordan (2-L), pose with other participants for a family photo session at the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, on May 18, 2018.
(AFP PHOTO / Yasin AKGUL)

Muslim leaders call for international force to protect Palestinians

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani during an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on May 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Kayhan OZER)

Rouhani urges Muslim nations to cut Israel ties, ‘revise’ US economic links

Illustrative: A trainer walks with a service dog through the Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport as part of an April 2017 exercise put on by the Seeing Eye puppy program. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Israeli army recruits its first blind officer

By JTA

Hila Meudah, who lost her sight as child and was exempt from military service, appointed a legal adviser in the Air Force

Founder of Israeli Stage Guy Ben-Aharon, who has produced more than 30 staged readings and full productions of Israeli plays since 2010 (courtesy)

Boston theater producer happy to air Israel’s ‘dirty laundry’ on stage

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative: Michael Jacobs protesting BDS demonstrators in Amsterdam, November 17, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Not so ‘harmless’ activist trolls anti-Israel protesters daily in Amsterdam

By Cnaan Liphshiz

How US Jews pulled out of crime

Says Einstein: When you study for college entrance exams for a thousand years, you’re bound to succeed

Most relevant commandment in Israel today?

Consider the injustices dispensed by the religious establishment, claiming to speak in the name of God

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Protestors set fire to a structure in Kazeroon, Iran, May 17, 2018. (Screen capture)

2 killed, 48 injured in protests against local authorities in south Iran

US President's peace process envoy Jason Greenblatt, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the President's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

US Mideast envoy: Now is the time to redouble our efforts to reach peace deal

By ToI Staff and AP

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on a question during a town hall meeting on April 4, 2018 with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

After issuing video, Sanders won’t say if he backs Palestinian ‘right of return’

By Eric Cortellessa

This undated photo from Facebook shows Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who law enforcement officials have taken into custody and identified as the suspect in the deadly school shooting Friday, May 18, 2018, in Santa Fe, Texas, near Houston. (Facebook via AP)

Texas school shooting suspect posted photo with Nazi symbol

By JTA and AP

Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader and head of Hikma party Ammar al-Hakim (L) and Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr meet in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on May 17, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Haidar HAMDANI)

Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq election, but forming government far off

By AFP and AP

US President Donald Trump speaks (R) with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as Vice President Mike Pence (C) looks on during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

US trying to move forward after quitting Iran nuclear deal

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

David Tepper speaking at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City, May 12, 2014. (Brad Barket/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish billionaire David Tepper buys NFL’s Carolina Panthers

By JTA

Alden Ehrenreich attends the Premiere Of Disney Pictures And Lucasfilm's "Solo: A Star Wars Story" - Arrivals on May 10, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. ( Frazer Harrison/Getty Images via JTA)

The force is strong5 Jewish facts about the new Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ movie

By Gabe Friedman

Ari Goldstein, the former president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Temple University. (screen capture: YouTube/CBS Philly)

Ex-president of suspended Jewish frat charged with attempted rape

By CLAUDIA LAUER

An ad in the Telegraph newspaper, May 17, 2018 (Board of Deputies of British Jews/Twitter)

British Muslims denounce anti-Semitism in full page newspaper ad

By JTA

Hundreds take part in the Jerusalem SlutWalk protest on May 18 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds take part in Jerusalem SlutWalk against sexual violence

Kosovo police officers stand guard next to from left, Kenan Plakaj, Arton Ahmeti, center, and Leotrim Musliu, second row right, in court for the foiled attack against the Israeli team in a 2016 qualifying World Cup match in neighboring Albania, in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Friday, May 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

8 Kosovo Albanians jailed for foiled attack on Israeli soccer team

By AP

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