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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 11, 2019

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Omar Suleiman gives an opening prayer for a session of the US House of Representatives, May 9, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube via JTA)

Anti-Zionist imam delivers opening prayers in US House

Gunman told 911 ‘I just shot up a synagogue’ after Poway attack

By JULIE WATSON and Elliot Spagat

Farrakhan refers to ‘Satanic Jews’ while denying he’s anti-Semitic

By HERBERT G. McCANN

Poll of Ukrainian Jews shows deep divisions on the issue of anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo from 2004 of an industrial plant that strips natural gas from freshly pumped crude oil at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oil field at Shaybah in Saudi Arabia's Rub al-Khali desert. (AP Photo/Bruce Stanley, File)

'Israeli assessment: Growing prospect of US-Iran conflict'

Israeli TV claims Iran weighing attack on Saudi oil production facilities

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Channel 13 says Tehran has ruled out striking at US bases; quotes Arab sources saying some in IRGC want to hit Israeli targets, others warn of ‘suicidal’ risk of conflict with US

US President Donald Trump speaking on the phone in the Oval Office on June 27, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

US passes Trump’s direct phone number to Switzerland to give to Iran — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian demonstrators carry a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and an effigy of US President Donald Trump, during a rally in the capital Tehran, on May 10, 2019. (Stringer/AFP)

Iranian cleric says US aircraft carrier can be ‘destroyed with one missile’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks in a Roosevelt Room event at the White House, May 9, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Is the Trump administration sending mixed signals on the Iran deal?

As Iran threatens to completely bolt the nuclear accord, the US imposes more sanctions and bolsters its forces in the region, but then Trump says he’s waiting for Tehran to call

A nuclear explosion on April 18, 1953, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series, at the US's Nevada Test Site. (US National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office/Wikipedia/public domain)

US envoy: Agreement at 2020 nuclear treaty review will be ‘incredibly difficult’

By Edith M. Lederer

The Horsham, Pennsylvania, offices of Teva Pharmaceuticals (AP Photo/George Widman)

US states sue Teva for price-fixing in ‘multi-billion dollar fraud’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israeli drug manufacturer named as ‘consistent participant’ in conspiracy to raise prices, sometimes by more than 1000%; company denies wrongdoing, vows to defend itself

Illustrative: An Israeli agricultural engineer inspects marijuana plants at the BOL (Breath Of Life) Pharma greenhouse in the country's second-largest medical cannabis plantation, near Kfar Pines in northern Israel, on March 9, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

US turns to Israeli know-how for medical cannabis research

Linor Abargil presents Israel's annual Independence Day torch lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on May 8, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Ex-judge rapped for panning Independence Day host’s headgear, ‘tight’ dress

Oded Aligon refuses to apologize after attacking former beauty queen and women’s rights advocate Linor Abargil for ‘hypocrisy’ of wearing Orthodox head covering and ‘sexy’ outfit

AnalysisLapid criticism of ultra-Orthodox parties draws ire in Blue and White

By Shalom Yerushalmi

A screenshot from video of an ultra-Orthodox man in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood ripping an Israeli flag off a fire truck on May 9, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Anti-Zionists in ultra-Orthodox neighborhood attack firemen on Independence Day

Fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad terror group's military wing, take part in a military march in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Islamic Jihad leader warns of escalation if Israel doesn’t meet understandings

Khaled al-Batsh says his terror group can ‘obligate’ Israel to fulfill its side of a truce agreement brokered by UN, Egypt and Qatar

A Palestinian rioter hurls stones at Israeli troops as a woman wearing a traditional Palestinian outfit waves a national flag near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on May 10, 2019. (Photo by Said KHATIB / AFP)

Palestinian said killed in Gaza border riot in test of truce after fighting

Atletico forward Antoine Griezmann, left, Atletico midfielder Thomas Partey, and Barcelona's Sergio Busquets, right, vie for the ball during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday April 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Palestinian soccer chief urges Atletico Madrid to cancel Jerusalem game

By ToI Staff and AFP

A visitor peeks into an ancient burial cave in the Ketef Hinnom Archeological Garden in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Where the ancients left their dead: A walk through history in downtown Jerusalem

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Justin Zackham and his family in the Bahamas. (Courtesy of the Anderson Group/via JTA)

All in the family

This Jewish family is traveling to every single country

By Arielle Kaplan

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

What’s wrong with Trump’s leaked secret Deal of the Century

14 faulty assumptions by the US administration doom this plan (oh, and I have a cheaper, easier, quicker idea)

What we talk about when we talk about anti-Semitism

Liberals downplay the anti-Semitism of the Left; conservatives do the reverse — and both are drained and depleted by the time they face the real enemy

Eli Valley, a Jewish cartoonist whose work has long taken aim at Jewish leaders and institutions, has broadeded his scope during the Trump era. (Screenshot from Vimeo via JTA)

Jewish cartoonist Eli Valley’s savage comics spark angry anti-Semitism debate

'Ask Dr. Ruth' chronicles the life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist. (Austin Hargrave/via JTA)

Having the talk

Documentary on Dr. Ruth delves into the sex therapist’s Holocaust past

By Curt Schleier

Illustrative: Feyenoord's fans light up flares during a Champions League Group F soccer match between Feyenoord and Napoli at the Kuip stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on December 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Man in the Hague assaulted after he objected to group of 50 chanting about gassing Jews; police reportedly stood idly by

Israeli attacked at pro-Palestinian event in Berlin

By Josefin Dolsten

Row over German anthem erupts amid nationalism debate

By Deborah Cole

Holocaust survivor pities anti-Semites who ‘waste life’ hating

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Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite speaks to the members of press at a polling station during the advance presidential elections in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Voters to pick successor Sunday to Lithuania’s popular ‘Iron Lady’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Red Army veterans and supporters march in Haifa for Victory Day, celebrating victory over the Nazi regime in World War II, on May 10, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli Red Army veterans don their uniforms for Victory Day march

People react at the site of a shooting attack on the beach in front of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port el Kantaoui, on the outskirts of Sousse south of the capital Tunis, on June 27, 2015. (AFP/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)

Tunisia’s Jewish tourism minister says industry rebounding after terror attacks

By Caroline Nelly Perrot

Spanish island of Mallorca hosts largest Jewish event in centuries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

AnalysisWhy does Facebook fail to fix itself? It’s partly humans

By Barbara Ortutay

Kobi Marimi, who will represent Israel at the 2019 Eurovision song contest. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel quietly launches online anti-BDS campaign ahead of Eurovision

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Six people injured in collision between ambulance, car and pedestrian in Beersheba, May 11 2019 (Israel Police)

6 injured in Beersheba collision between ambulance, car and pedestrian

Illustrative: Visitors look around an exhibit of cover art from the New Yorker Magazine at Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, July 22, 2005. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

Israeli-born cartoonist who broke into a men’s club at The New Yorker dies at 80

By JTA

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