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What Matters Most On Friday, May 10, 2019

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Host Aviv Alush, left, and torch-lighter Marie Nahmias, 93, at Israel's 71st Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem, May 8, 2019. (Kan screen capture)

Israel Independence Day93-year-old great great grandmother sparks a moment of unity

Matriarch who fostered 52 Jews and Arabs enchants Israel with blessing of peace

Marie Nahmias spent her life raising unwanted, disabled children after ‘God heard her prayer’ for her wounded soldier son. Lighting Independence Day torch, she enthralled a nation

Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound at Jerusalem's Temple Mount on May 10, 2019 on the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

180,000 Muslims pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa Mosque on first Friday of Ramadan

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel eases restrictions on travel from West Bank; police deploy hundreds of officers to ensure worshipers can mark the holy month at the Jerusalem flashpoint

Arab Israelis wave Palestinian flags as they take part in the annual "March of Return" held on Israel's Independence Day, near the northern city of Umm al-Fahm, on May 9, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Thousands of Israeli Arabs mark Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of ’48 in annual march

A poisoned vulture is treated after being poisoned in the Golan Heights, May 10, 2019 YouTube screenshot)

Eight vultures die of poisoning in Golan, in ‘mortal blow’ to local population

Officials say the deaths cut species’ numbers in the area by half, amid painstaking conservation efforts

The USS Abraham Lincoln sails south in the Suez canal near Ismailia, Thursday, May 9, 2019 (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

Top Iranian commander: US ‘wouldn’t dare launch military action against us’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewTrumped-up war: 7 things to know for May 10

By Joshua Davidovich

Trump ‘open’ to Iran talks, but says John Kerry ‘tells them not to call’

US threatens Iran with ‘swift, decisive’ action as tensions escalate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki speaks during a press conference at the International Criminal Court on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Palestinian FM says US seeking to renew ties ahead of peace plan’s unveiling

By ToI Staff and Agencies

But Riyad al-Malki stresses Washington ‘will not find a single Palestinian to accept’ its deal if it does not provide for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, arrives at a news conference about a water-sharing agreement between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Ronen Zvulun)

Greenblatt bashes Security Council, urges it to back Trump peace plan

By AFP

The cover of 'P is for Palestine.' (Courtesy of Golbarg Bashi/via JTA)

NJ library postpones reading of ‘P is for Palestine’ after objections

By JTA

White Supremacists protesting a Holocaust memorial in Russellville, Arkansas, May 5, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

White supremacists crash Arkansas Holocaust memorial event

By JTA

Protesters in Russellville carry anti-Semitic signs, including one calling Shoah a hoax, in demonstration ostensibly aimed against ADL

Auschwitz museum slams Lapid ‘lie’ after he claims Poles helped run death camps

On anniversary of Nazi defeat, Putin vows to strengthen Russian military

Soccer fans beat Jew, sing about SS on Dutch liberation day from Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing on April 30, 2019, in San Diego. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Poway shooter told police the ‘Jewish people are destroying the white race’

By JULIE WATSON and Elliot Spagat

Prosecutors add 109 hate crime charges in synagogue shooting, including murder of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, charge for attempted murder of 53; no decision yet on requesting death penalty

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)

After Facebook ban, Farrakhan claims he doesn’t hate Jewish people

By AP and ToI Staff

Undated image of Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey. (Screen capture: WMC5)

Memphis judge shares link saying Jews should ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israel's Netta Barzilai celebrates after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal, May 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Visions of victory

Past winners get mystical when sharing the secret of Israel’s Eurovision success

Peggy Guggenheim at the 24th Venice Biennale in 1948 with 'Interior,' a work by her daughter Pegeen Vail. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, via JTA)

How Peggy Guggenheim helped put modern Israeli art on the map

By Karen Chernick

Laura Ben-David

I was attacked… by my own people

The day I learned first-hand that hooligans are hooligans, no matter what they’re wearing

Back-to-back Israeli holidays are emotionally manipulative

We think war is inevitable because of the dramatic, untouchable idealization of personal sacrifice; it doesn’t have to be that way

Israel wouldn’t be Israel without Diaspora Jewry

Spending Israel’s Independence Day in Boston woke me to just how invested non-citizens can be in a country far across the globe

Confronting death

Emily Dickinson and my experience in a kosher slaughterhouse taught me why kohanim (priests) are not allowed contact with a dead body (Emor)

The IDF is blowing people away with its social media game. (Photo by Quique Kierszenbaum/Getty Images; photo illustration by JTA staff)

#incendiary

On the social media ‘battlefield,’ the Israeli army has weaponized snark

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Memorial Day ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on May 8, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu lawyers ask to delay hearing on criminal cases beyond July 10 deadline

Chris Hughes speaks to NBC News, May 9, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

Break up Facebook, curb Zuckerberg’s power, says company’s co-founder

By AFP

Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, speaks at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, on May 9, 2013. (Flash90)

Rona Ramon posthumously awarded Israel Prize for lifetime achievement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks to International Bible Quiz for Youth winner Yonatan Weisman of Jerusalem, left, on Israel's Independence Day, May 9, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

At Independence Day contest, PM vows to put a Bible on the moon

The West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, October 21, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

State says Khan al-Ahmar won’t be evacuated before new government formed

The largest human menorah, ever, seen in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Bialik College via JTA)

Light unto the nationsAustralian school breaks world record for largest human menorah

By JTA

A general view of the fishing port in Gaza City, on May 5, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israel to reopen Gaza fishing zone as calm returns to border

Francesco Polacchi, regional coordinator of Casapound far-right political party, and founder of Altaforte publishing company, answers to reporters during a news conference, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Holocaust survivor opens Italy book fair after neo-fascist banned

By AP

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, of California, speaks after hearing Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, testify before a closed-door session of the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, March 6, 2019, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Leading Democrat Schiff warns of ‘turmoil’ if Trump refuses to accept 2020 loss

By Eric Cortellessa

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem on Independence Day on May 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After crashing out, Bennett says ‘those not ready to fail big won’t win big’

In this image made available by SussexRoyal on Wednesday May 8, 2019, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, joined by her mother Doria Ragland, show their new son to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. (Chris Allerton/SussexRoyal via AP)

BBC fires host after royal baby chimpanzee tweet

By Gregory Katz

King Abdullah II of Jordan addresses the World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea, Jordan on April 6, 2019. (WEF via AP, Pool)

Jordan again reshuffles cabinet to tackle economic challenges

By AP

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