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What Matters Most On Monday, May 6, 2013

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Illustrative photo of IAF F-15I fighter jets being refueled by a Boeing 707, during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots at the Hatzerim air force base in the Negev desert, on Thursday, June 28, 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Analysis

Confident strikes on Syria send a message to the nervous US

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Washington is wary of striking at Tehran’s nuclear program because it fears the Iranian response; Israel wants to show the consequences can be minimal

US not notified before air raids on Syria, intel source says

Yair Golan as IDF Northern Commander (photo credit: IDF/FLASH90)

IDF scales down drill in north, as top general dispels ‘winds of war’

By Stuart Winer

Airspace around Syrian and Lebanese borders reopened to civilian flights; Lebanon places soldiers on alert

Beijing slams Syria strikes as Netanyahu starts China visit

By AP and ToI Staff

AnalysisIsrael’s perilous calculus in Syria

By Mitch Ginsburg

AnalysisIsraeli strike exposes Syrian challenge for Arabs

By Brian Murphy and Sarah El Deeb

Stop saying no to the best deal ever

The Arab League peace plan is in line with Israeli interests – Netanyahu’s government must embrace it or make a better offer

Laura Ben-David

When sleazy almost met lazy

Why did an Instagram photo suddenly get some love from a popular rock band? Digging to find out, then digging a bit deeper.

Illustrative image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a general view of damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (AP/SANA)

‘Damascus airstrike killed dozens of elite troops’

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Syrian military official says soldiers died guarding critical facilities, some of which were close to presidential palace

A group of new IDF recruits at Meitav Induction Base in 2010 (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Army service may be shortened

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

IDF heads give go-ahead to Peri Committee plan to cut mandatory service by four months

The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem (photo credit: Courtesy Hadassah)

PA health minister in first visit to Hadassah hospital

By Adiv Sterman

Hani Abdeen meets with Jerusalem medical facility director; seeks to advance bi-national medical cooperation

Illustrative photo of a victim of an alleged chemical weapons attack on Homs, Syria, December 23, 2012 (screen capture: YouTube)

Syrian rebels used nerve gas, UN investigator says

Carla Del Ponte cites ‘strong, concrete suspicions’ of sarin use — not by Assad, but by his opponents

Guido Westerwelle speaks at the WJC, Monday (photo credit: screen capture/WJC)

World Jewish Congress

German FM says Israel has ‘absolute right’ to self-defense

By Aaron Kalman

Guido Westerwelle calls on Europe to fight the ‘root causes of anti-Semitism’; warns that a nuclear Iran is a global threat

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (photo credit: screen capture/WJC)

WJC pans Hungary PM for falling short against anti-Semitism

By Aaron Kalman

From left, Lisa Taurasi, Lucy Rodriguez and Luis Barbosa, all of Worcester, Mass., hold protest signs as they stand across the street from Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass. on Sunday evening, May 5, 2013. They are upset about the possibility that Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be buried in the United States, and that the body is being held at Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors while a search for a cemetery willing to bury him continues. (photo credit: AP/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Betty Jenewin)

Uncle reluctantly arranges Boston bomb suspect’s burial rites

Small protest outside funeral home; ‘Do not bury him on US soil,’ reads sign

Al Jolson in 'The Jazz Singer.'

Stars of David over Hollywood

By Jordan Hoffman

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

Reform movement leader supports Western Wall plan

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rabbi Rick Jacobs says proposed compromise for an expanded egalitarian section at holy site is a unique opportunity

Martin Himel (left) with Alex Linder, webmaster VNN Forum, who advocates exterminating all Jews. (photo credit: courtesy)

New gateways to old hatreds

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Satirical video game Supermoneyo (photo credit: screen capture)

Yair the plumberSabra Supermoneyo video game vitriol

By Gavriel Fiske

The undated file photo provided by German federal criminal investigation office BKA in December 2011, shows terror suspect Beate Zschaepe after her arrest. (photo credit: AP Photo/BKA, File)

German neo-Nazi trial begins in Munich

Shlomo Nimrodi (Photo credit: Courtesy Ramot)

$100 billion Tata shops for tech innovation in Tel Aviv

By David Shamah

Eli Yishai (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Former Shas head considering run for Jerusalem mayor

By Gavriel Fiske

IDF boots on a tank during Operation Cast Lead (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewSleep with one shoe on

By Joshua Davidovich

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a general view of damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/SANA)

Arabic media reviewSome Syrians support Israel’s strikes — but what was the target?

By Michael Bassin

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