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What Matters Most On Friday, May 3, 2019

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Illustrative. A plutonium core from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States in 1946. (US government/Wikimedia)

Israel had plutonium core ready to turn into nuke in ’67 war, US journal reveals

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Israeli atomic official Elie Geisler describes guarding the device, which he says was hidden in a former British police station in central Israel

Austrian members of the League of German Girls wave Nazi flags in support of the German annexation of Austria, in Vienna, March 1938. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Analysis

Vienna school finds out what became of the 50 Jewish pupils it expelled in 1938

Amid widespread ignorance about the Holocaust in Austria, a public high school launches a project to determine the fate of the students it booted under Nazi policies

Nazi SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein (Courtesy)

When a Nazi toured the Holy Land to find a solution for the ‘Jewish problem’

By Jonah Mandel

The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng (center), in Geneva, May 1, 2019 at the Second Global Summit on Religion Peace and Security. (UN)

UN official compares current climate in Europe to that before Nazis’ rise

White nationalist and neo-Nazi groups carry torches at the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11, 2017. Participants were said to chant: 'Jews will not replace us.' (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

Author interview'Western fears about Nazi return to power weren't unfounded'

‘Siren call’ of a Fourth Reich is spreading, warns Nazi Germany expert

By Matt Lebovic

‘Counterfactual’ historian Gavriel Rosenfeld’s new book takes on old-new fears of the Reich’s revival in our time

Illustrative: Protesters march with flags during a demonstration of the far-right party 'The third way' in Plauen, Germany, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (Sebastian Willnow/dpa via AP)

German Jews outraged after police allow neo-Nazis to march through town

By AP

Polish Bishop Andrzej Jeż gives an address in March 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Polish bishop delivers thinly veiled anti-Semitic sermon

By Cnaan Liphshiz

United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman participates in the March of the Living ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on May 2, 2019 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Interview

Friedman plays down statistics linking white supremacy to anti-Jewish violence

By Michael Bachner

At March of the Living, US ambassador tells Times of Israel ‘it’s a mistake to get caught up’ in analysis of numbers when attacks are not ‘a daily occurrence’

Illustrative: Swastikas found drawn on an elementary school playground in Queens, New York, February 22, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Most hate crimes reported in New York City are anti-Jewish, police say

By JTA

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 10, 2015. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Facebook bans anti-Semite Farrakhan, conspiracy jock Jones for hate speech

By AP

Paul Jospa, son of Hertz and Yvonne Jospa, meets Shaul Harel (right) for the first time as B’nai B’rith World Center Director Alan Schneider looks on, Jerusalem, May 1, 2019. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

Exclusive

Israeli survivor has emotional meetup with family of his Jewish wartime rescuers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Two Jewish sons, both hidden in WWII Belgium, embrace in Jerusalem as B’nai B’rith honors founders of Belgian-Jewish underground rescue group

Nate Leipciger participates in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, May 2, 2019. (Eynat Katz/courtesy)

For survivors marching from Auschwitz to Birkenau, an ’emotional roller coaster’

By Michael Bachner

A screenshot from a video uploaded by the IDF on Holocaust Memorial Day on May 2, 2019. (screenshot: IDF)

Showing the love

German army ‘likes’ IDF’s Holocaust memorial video

Instagram video features Israeli officers at former Nazi concentration camps declaring ‘Never Again’

Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, from left, hold a joint press conference after one year government in Austria in Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria has world’s strictest anti-Nazism laws, chancellor says

By Raphael Ahren

Players from the under-18 division of Britain’s Chelsea soccer club attend a March of the Living event in the former Auschwitz Nazi camp in Poland, May 2, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Chelsea soccer’s rising stars are shocked by what they see at Auschwitz

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Digital drawing of the proposed reading, end of line 31 of the Mesha Stele inscription. (© West Semitic Research/Michael Langlois)

David vs. Balak

High-tech study of ancient stone suggests new proof of King David’s dynasty

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After reading of 9th century BCE Mesha Stele replaces biblical king with Moabite figure, scholar says 3-D imaging proves ‘House of David’ is more likely, just as many thought

In this April 17, 2019 file photo, Palestinians watch a family house destroyed by Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem's neighborhood of Silwan. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

As Israel expands tourism in East Jerusalem, Palestinian homes face demolition

By Isabel Debre and Areej Hazboun

Former US president Donald Trump looks on as Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, survivor of the Poway, California synagogue shooting, speaks during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 2, 2019. (AP/Evan Vucci)

At White House, Poway synagogue rabbi thanks Trump, ‘a mensch par excellence’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president hosts injured victims of California Chabad shooting, calls to fight anti-Semitism ‘with all our strength’

A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged 'included anti-Semitic tropes.' (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Cartoonist blames ‘Jewish propaganda machine’ for condemnation of his drawing

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, center, arrives for a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif. (AP/Denis Poroy)

Synagogue asked for security funds a year ago; they arrived days before attack

By JULIE WATSON and Don Thompson

The Holocaust as told on Instagram: Authentic, powerful

Eva.Stories honors the intense desire to live that burns so strongly in humans when faced with adversity

‘Not today!’ — Modern Zionism and Game of Thrones

This mantra of ’Today, we will stay alive’ has enabled the Jewish people to survive

Jared Kushner speaks at the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs, May 2, 2019 (Washington Institute screenshot)

Kushner underlines plan won’t offer two-state solution: ‘Let’s just not say it’

By Eric Cortellessa

Top Trump adviser says proposal will be detailed ‘starting point’ to resolve conflict; says he will discuss settlement annexation with Netanyahu when government formed

Jared Kushner participates in a panel discussion during the TIME 100 Summit 2019 on April 23, 2019 in New York City. (Brian Ach/Getty Images for TIME/AFP)

Israel media reviewPiecemeal plan: 7 things to know for May 3

By Joshua Davidovich

Soldiers place Israeli flags on the graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on April 16, 2018 ahead of Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF: 56 soldiers died since last Memorial Day, bringing total to 23,741

Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Annexation and immunity: Likud, Union of Right-Wing Parties open coalition talks

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

Far-right alliance demanding Netanyahu commit to annexing all settlements while pitching legislation that would see him evade prosecution for corruption

President Reuven Rivlin at the ceremony closing Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Day at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, May 2, 2019. (Mark Neiman, GPO)

Rivlin urges end to political divisions sundering Holocaust memorials

Then-state comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss in 2012. (Flash90)

Micha Lindenstrauss, anti-corruption crusader and ex-comptroller, dies at 82

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Michael Cohen testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, February 27, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Michael Cohen’s prison reality: ‘The Situation’ and Shabbat services

By Michael R. Sisak and Jim Mustian

Workers prepare the stage ahead of the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, on April 15, 2019. (Flash90)

BDS-backed Twitter bot network is targeting Eurovision, Israel charges

By AP and ToI Staff

Then-Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary-General Ziad Nakhaleh delivering a speech on August 14, 2018. (Screenshot: Palestine Today)

Islamic Jihad vows to hit major cities if Israel harms members of terror groups

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, speaks to foreign correspondents in his office in Gaza City, May 10, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Hamas leader Sinwar heads to Egypt to discuss truce with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks on June 29, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Hezbollah chief: IDF forces that enter Lebanon will be ‘destroyed on live TV’

The scene of an apparent gang-related car bomb in Haifa on May 3, 2019. (Israel police)

2 seriously injured in suspected gang-related car bombing in Haifa

Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Deconstructing WoodyNo one wants to publish Woody Allen’s memoir

By AFP

In this file photo taken on March 27, 2019, US Senator Michael Bennet listens during a news conference on climate change at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Colorado senator announces 2020 run, credits Holocaust survivor mother

The University of California, Berkeley. (Charlie Nguyen/ Flickr, CC BY 2.0/via JTA)

UC Berkeley establishes first faculty chair in Israel Studies

The University of Massachusetts Amherst. (CC BY-SA Tomwsulcer, Wikipedia)

Judge rules against bid to stop Roger Waters’ pro-Palestinian panel at UMass

By AP

An undated picture of Israeli tourist Haim Ben Baruch, who drowned off the coast of Panama on May 2, 2019. (Haim Ben Baruch, Facebook)

Body of drowned Israeli tourist found on Panama beach

Nano Dimension manufactures electronic products using 3D printing. The image compares a 3D-printed transceiver, right, with-a-traditional-transceiver (Courtesy)

Israel’s Nano Dimension says it has 3D-printed an IoT communication device

By Shoshanna Solomon

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