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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 31, 2012

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President Shimon Peres greets judges at a swearing-in ceremony of the new Supreme Court justices at the Supreme Court on Thursday (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Peres, quoting Bible, condemns racist rhetoric against African migrants

By Hillary Zaken

President, at ceremony for two new Supreme Court justices, reminds Israelis that ‘you were strangers in Egypt’

Vadim Rabinovitch at the ceremony naming a square in his honor in April 2012. (photo credit: screen grab from YouTube)

Why was Old City square named after Ukrainian oligarch, 500 years before his time?

By Hillary Zaken

Bylaws reserve such honors for those who died before 1500; Vadim Rabinovitch paid for a $3 million gold menorah that sits in ‘his’ square

Lenny Ben-David

Should we be welcoming reports that Hamas is teaching ‘the language of the enemy?’

Emanuele Ottolenghi

The real ‘spring’ is not Arab

Even if the demise of the Arab state is not assured, the revolution presents the promise of freedom for non-Arab ethnic groups and the non-Muslim religious minorities of the Middle East

Members of the Palestinian security forces take pictures as they stand around coffins containing the remains of bodies of Palestinian terrorists transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority in 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)

Bodies of 91 Palestinian terrorists transferred from Israel to PA

By Ilan Ben Zion, Ron Friedman and AP

Delivery of bodies takes place despite High Court petition by victims’ families

Hanit Elbaz, who desperately needs a bone marrow transplant, is one of the faces of a nationwide sampling campaign held on Thursday. (screen capture: Ezer Mizion/youtube)

Nationwide bone marrow sampling drive focuses on ethnic groups

By Stuart Winer

Organizers hope to attract thousands of Middle Eastern and Caucasian origin to bolster its inadequate donor pool

Illustrative photo of people smoking cigarettes. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

What a drag

426 million packs of cigarettes a year

By Hillary Zaken

World No Tobacco Day finds one in five Israelis still lighting up

.A father and son near the outpost of Havat Gilad (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)

Will panel throw out a lifeline for disputed settlements?

By Mitch Ginsburg

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Jerusalem teen arrested for putting a knife to teacher’s throat

By Stuart Winer

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (photo credit: AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

Arabic media reviewIraq may oust a prime minister; Egypt may execute a president

By Elhanan Miller

Uri Blau (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFighting Flame with fire

By Joshua Davidovich

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