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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 2, 2013

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US Secretary of State John Kerry with Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani, second from left, and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby, April 29, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Analysis

Arab Peace Initiative, take 2: Major development or ‘scam’?

By Raphael Ahren

Could the amended formula for a two-state solution yield a breakthrough? The consensual answer seems to be, ‘Maybe, but…’

Netanyahu affirms support for referendum on peace

By Michal Shmulovich

Hamas leader dismisses Arab peace initiative

By Elhanan Miller and Michal Shmulovich

Olmert hails Arab peace proposal as ‘historic opportunity’

By Gavriel Fiske

Lt. Arin Shaabi in her folder-filled office (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

The Israeli army’s most improbable Arab prosecutor

By Mitch Ginsburg

Lt. Arin Shaabi is a Christian, a Jew, an Arab, an Israeli. And in the military courts of the West Bank, she is fighting a rising tide of Palestinian nationalist crime

UC Berkeley killed BDS

First impressions aside, a recent vote at America’s most radical campus spelled the end of Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement

Robbie Gringras

Israel’s heartbreaking ethnic demon

The ugly history of discrimination against Israelis from Arab countries is far from over

Former deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon (L) at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in Jerusalem next to his former boss, Avigdor Liberman, Thursday, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/POOL/Flash90)

‘Avigdor Liberman leaned on me to promote ambassador’

By Stuart Winer

Danny Ayalon testifies that as foreign minister, his former boss pulled strings for a diplomat who had done him a favor

Police clear the area at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon as medical workers help injured following explosions in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Charles Krupa)

Three more Boston bombing suspects in custody

College friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrested, accused of obstructing justice and lying to investigators

Illustrative: Reporters and photographers during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem in 2011. (photo credit: Mark Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Israel downgraded in press freedom report

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Citing economic pressure on print media and the ‘anomalous’ indictment of a Haaretz journalist, Freedom House ranks country’s media as only ‘partly free’

Prince Dimitri Romanov (center) and his wife, Princess Dorrit, in Jerusalem last week. On the right is former ambassador Danny Ayalon. (photo credit: Courtesy of Hila Solomon/Spoons)

Dinner with the Romanovs

By Matti Friedman

A Syrian rebel in an Aleppo arsenal (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Don’t arm rebels before vetting them, Israel urges US

Presence of Islamist groups like Jabhat al-Nusra among Syrian fighters leads to fears of weapons falling into wrong hands

A lab mouse. (photo credit: Flash90)

Scientists say key to aging discovered deep inside brain

By Joshua Davidovich

Blocking protein in hypothalamus helps mice live longer, and could play a role in developing new drugs, researchers at Yeshiva University find

Yair Lapid (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid plans to halve proposed budget cuts, raise deficit

By Joshua Davidovich

Move would put NIS 6.5 billion back into coffers, but give country record deficit ceiling of 4.9 percent

A wheat field at Kibbutz Nahal Oz near the border of the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash 90)

Food for thought

Freek of nature

By Phyllis Glazer

More Headlines

CT scan image of the conjoined twins separated by Rambam Medical Center doctors (photo credit: courtesy Rambam Medical Center)

Haifa hospital performs rare separation of conjoined twins

By Gavriel Fiske

Louise Harrison's Beatles cover band, The Liverpool Legends (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Harrisongs in HolonHere comes the sister

By Michal Shmulovich

Hila Betzaleli poses at the Mount Herzl parade grounds, two hours before the tragedy in which she lost her life. (Channel 2 News screen capture)

Grandfather of Mt. Herzl tragedy victim jumps to his death

By Gavriel Fiske

Will his testimony convict his former boss? Danny Ayalon is expected to testify in the trial of Avigdor Liberman on Thursday. In this picture, Ayalon is speaking at a 2012 conference about the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries (photo credit: Oren Nahshon / FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewAt the Buffett table

By Yossi Nachemi

In this Monday, November 29, 2010 file photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty

Arabic media reviewArab world urges Palestinians to seize the moment

By Michael Bassin

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