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What Matters Most On Friday, May 3, 2013

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Google gives ‘Palestine’ online statehood

Internet giant replaces the phrase ‘Palestinian territories’ on google.ps homepage; Israel not ‘feeling lucky’

John Kerry and Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem in March 2013. (photo credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy/Flash90)

Livni optimistic after talking peace with Kerry

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left), and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at a peace conference in Washington, DC, on September 2, 2010. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

China offers to broker Netanyahu-Abbas meeting

By AP and ToI Staff

Heavily armed Connecticut State troopers on the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/The Journal News, Frank Becerra Jr.)

Why do Jews and Israel so often feature at center of conspiracy theories?

In the Internet era, crackpot explanations for acts of terror like the Boston Bombings, Sandy Hook and 9/11 — theories frequently focused on Jews — spread faster than ever

Property, taxes and the interbreathing of all life

The fate of humanity and the Earth hinge on whether we embrace the precepts of sustainability in Leviticus 25 & 27

What keeping kosher can teach us about dieting

Why is it easier to follow religious dietary laws than to stick to a diet? Readers are welcome to weigh in on the question

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility. (AP/DigitalGlobe)

US bulks up ‘bunker buster’ to combat Iran threat

To persuade Israel away from a unilateral attack on the Fordo nuclear complex, America stresses its upgraded military capabilities

Palestinian child Mohammed al-Farra is seen at the Tel Hashomer Hospital near Ramat Gan, central Israel, on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Disabled Gaza toddler lives at Israeli hospital

By Diaa Hadid

Abandoned by his parents and the Palestinian government, 3-year-old Mohammed has been at Tel Hashomer Hospital all his life

The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Injured Syrian let into Israel for treatment

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, in Jerusalem, 12 August 2007. photo credit: Flash90)

Lapid said to secretly meet with Netanyahu’s big dollar backer

By Stuart Winer

Finance minister held clandestine sit-down with billionaire political string-puller Sheldon Adelson, and the PM wasn’t there

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel escorts British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond into the Pentagon, Thursday, May 2. (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hagel says White House considering arming Syrian rebels

By AP and ToI Staff

US defense secretary tells reporters administration exploring a range of options to up support for anti-Assad fighters

The security fence running through the hills near Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Court halts work on fence near West Bank village’s historic terraces

Defense Ministry given two months to change construction plans near Battir after locals, environmentalists warn of damage to landscape

Iranian nationals Sayed Mansour Mousavi, center, and Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad, right, in the Nairobi magistrates court in Nairobi, Kenya, where they faced charges related to the possession of explosives. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Senosi, File)

Kenyan court convicts Iranians of terror plot

Two members of Iranian IRGC-Quds Force found guilty of plot to attack Western targets in Kenya; accomplice still at large

NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel (center), with NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas (left), and NBC photographer John Kooistra (right), after they were taken hostage in Syria. Undated amateur video posted on the Internet. (photo credit: AP)

In Syria, it’s open season on journalists, says rights group

By Raphael Satter

Amnesty International report states government, as well as some rebel groups, actively targeting reporters

A Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village, according to SANA, receives treatment by doctors at a hospital in Aleppo. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

US losing track of Assad’s chemical weapons, officials say

By Lazar Berman

Senior American sources tell Daily Beast that intelligence on the location of Syrian chemical weapons is dangerously lacking

Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

S&P drops Israel’s credit rating after Lapid suggests raising deficit

Finance minister takes Netanyahu and Fischer by surprise as he declares his new plan for reducing the country’s overdraft

Danny Ayalon (right) and Avigdor Liberman in court in 2013. The two men, once close allies, did not speak (Yossi Zamir/POOL/Flash90)

Liberman-Ayalon court clash shows no love lost between former allies

By Matti Friedman

An Israel Aerospace Industries' Harpy drone (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)

Israeli killer robots could be banned under UN proposal

By Peter James Spielmann

Israel Aerospace Industries’ Harpy drone, designed to automatically destroy radar emitters, among examples on new report

Shas founder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) flanked on the left by MK Eli Yishai and on the right by MKs Aryeh Deri and Ariel Atias, at the rabbi's house in Jerusalem, October 2012. (photo credit: Shas/Flash90)

Shas rabbi gives Deri nod to head party solo

Former political leader to become solitary chief once more as tripartite leadership scheme is abandoned

Reza Pahlavi, son of the toppled shah of Iran and spokesman of the Iranian National Council, speaks to the Associated Press in Paris, Thursday. (AP/Michel Euler)

Toppled shah’s son becomes pro-democracy spokesman

By Elaine Ganley

Reza Pahlavi heads new movement aiming to mobilize civilians to challenge Iran’s clerical regime, demand free elections

Shots fired at Israeli car in West Bank

By Gavriel Fiske

No injuries reported in attack near Mitzpe Yericho; IDF searching area for shooter

Dozens of settlers protest dismantling of outpost

By Yoel Goldman and Stuart Winer

Site was built in memory of Evyatar Borowsky, 31, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian nearby on Tuesday

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Leopold Engleitner (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Oldest known concentration camp survivor dead at 107

Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Aleppo Codex’ wins Canadian book award

Illustrative image of El Al planes at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. (Serge Attal/Flash90/File)

Flights resume at Ben Gurion after night of heavy fog

By Yoel Goldman

Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (photo credit: AP/The Lowell Sun, Julia Malakie)

Bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s remains claimed

By Bridget Murphy

Bomb threats called in to two Houston synagogues

Israel's first fan-owned team, Hapoel Katamon, celebrating a win (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Top fiveDoldrums? What doldrums?

By Jessica Steinberg

US President Barack Obama with Michael Froman and Penny Pritzker in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama taps Pritzker, Froman for top US commerce posts

By Nedra Pickler and JTA

Illustrative photo of Syrian soldiers preparing an anti-aircraft gun, 2001. (photo credit: AP/File)

AnalysisSyrian air defenses pose formidable challenge

By Barbara Surk and RYAN LUCAS

Illustrative photo of a woman applying eyeshadow. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

No foundationOrthodox mom sues over faded makeup

By Gavriel Fiske

Odessa-born actress Mila Kunis was aided by HIAS as a new immigrant in the US. (via Shutterstock)

Bar noneMila Kunis declared sexiest of them all

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDeficit and defeat

By Ilan Ben Zion

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