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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 5, 2013

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Despite hostile Syrian rhetoric, Israel hoping to avoid further escalation in hostilities

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Assad’s deputy FM calls Israeli airstrikes ‘declaration of war’; Damascus tells UN of fatalities in Israeli attacks, says Israel is fighting regime together with Islamic terrorists; Netanyahu convenes top ministers, deploys Iron Dome, but intends to go ahead with China trip

‘Strike in Syria sends a message to Iran,’ says former intel chief

By Gavriel Fiske

Obama: Israel has right to defend itself from Hezbollah

By AP and ToI Staff

Syrian military site hit by fresh Israeli strike early Sunday

By ToI Staff and AP

Zebra in the Ramat Gan Safari, December 11, 2004.
(photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Noah would be proud

Flying ark to give new life to Turkey

By Stuart Winer

Shipment of assorted animals from Ramat Gan safari set to bolster exhibits in Izmir

Shmuley Boteach

Porn and marriage do not go together

Fear of emotion drives many men to seek new flesh rather than cultivating the erotic charge of passionate monogamy

Thanks for the mammaries

When you’re having that medical test, the one where you find out if you’re gonna die, at which point do you call your mother?

A fully armed F-16 during take off. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Analysis

Syria strike shows Israel’s security burden increasingly borne by air force

By Mitch Ginsburg

US Congressman Ed Royce (Wikimedia Commons)

Analysis

Congressman warns against US redefining its red line on Syria

By David Horovitz

Sending a conflicting message to Assad ‘could create a misunderstanding as to the steadfast nature of our intentions on Iran,’ says visiting Foreign Affairs Committee head Ed Royce

A Patriot anti-missile system in Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Israel may join defense pact with Saudi Arabia, UAE

Jordan and Turkey to also play role in US-brokered plan to contain, rather than thwart, Iran, London’s Sunday Times reports

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 2011 (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Fayyad denies giving interview in which he slammed Palestinian leadership

By Ilan Ben Zion

Former PA PM’s office says he didn’t speak to the New York Times; yes he did, says NYT’s Roger Cohen

Simon Sa’adati seen on the Israeli side of the Israeli/Lebanon border, on May 5, 2013. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Safe homecoming for Israeli who crossed into Lebanon

After three days of interrogation by Lebanese security forces, Simon Sa’adati returns to Israel with Red Cross

African immigrants seen at a detention facility located in the south of Israel. August, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Migrants strike against detention policy

By Stuart Winer

Hundreds of inmates from Sudan and Eritrea refuse to return to their cells, claiming they are being held illegally

Footage from the Mavi Marmara security cameras shows activists on board as they prepare to attack incoming IDF soldiers on May 31, 2010. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Turkish delegation to arrive in Jerusalem Monday

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

On the table: Israeli compensation to families of Turks killed in the 2010 Mavi Marmara raid

Illustrative photo: Masked Jewish settlers, background, and Palestinians, foreground, hurl stones during clashes in the West Bank, Friday, May 3, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

10 injured in clash between settlers and Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Security forces intervene after violent melee follows stone-throwing attacks

The interior of Budapest's Dohany Street Synagogue. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

WJC assembly opens in Budapest following anti-Zionist rally

Hungarian PM set to address more than 600 delegates and observers

From left: Eli Yishai, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Aryeh Deri, the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party attend a circumcision in January, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

I promised Deri he’d return to lead party, Shas rabbi says

Ovadia Yosef says sidelined chairman Eli Yishai only had the job as a temporary ‘deposit’

Lisa Schroeder, the owner and chef of Mother's Bistro & Bar in Portland, dishes out advice along with her comfort food. (photo credit: Alicia J. Rose Photography/JTA)

Meet chef Lisa Schroeder, Portland’s Jewish mother in chief

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Portland, Oregon (photo credit: Stuart Seeger/Creative Commons/via JTA)

Why Starbucks and sacred space scarcely intersect in Portland

Maccabi Tel Aviv Team captain Shiran Yeini hoists the championship trophy before 33,000 delighted fans at Ramat Gan Stadium Monday, April 22 (image capture: Channel 5)

Maccabi Tel Aviv secures soccer championship

By Adiv Sterman

The weekly Cabinet meeting, April 28, 2013 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

From the webLapid settles on 4.65% deficit target for 2013

Pamela Geller (photo credit: Pamela Geller/Creative Commons)

Toronto Chabad rabbi drops plan to host Islam critic

Trendlines CEO Steve Rhodes speaks at an agritech roadshow event in St. Louis (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Taking Israeli agritech on the road

By David Shamah

Hebrew media reviewObsolete before they hit the stands

By Joshua Davidovich

This photo released on the official Facebook page of Syrian President Bashar Assad, shows Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, surrounded by bodyguards as young people, wave at him during the inauguration ceremony on Saturday of a statue dedicated to "martyrs" from Syrian universities who died in the country's two-year-old uprising and civil war, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, May. 4, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewSyrian violence reaches the coast

By Elhanan Miller

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