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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat during an interview in his office (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90/File)

Analysis

Barkat: Let the Palestinians rename Ramallah as ‘Jerusalem’

By David Horovitz

Jerusalem’s mayor rules out any notion of Palestinian rule in the capital, slams Olmert’s peace offer as a ‘terrible mistake,’ and says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that Jews can’t pray on the Temple Mount

Bennett steps into Western Wall prayer fray

By Gavriel Fiske

Reform movement leader supports Western Wall plan

By JTA and ToI Staff

Capital home to 804,400, Jerusalem Day stats reveal

By Gavriel Fiske

Anti-Assad protesters hold up a caricature placard representing Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during a demonstration at Kfar Nebel near Idlib, Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 (photo credit: AP/ENN)

Israel strikes a blow to conventional Arab thinking

By Elhanan Miller

‘Israel is still my enemy, but when my enemy does a neat job — I admit it,’ writes one Syrian commentator

Syria vows to retaliate for any future Israeli attack

By Elhanan Miller

‘Shock and shush’ strategy, meant to mollify Assad, may have run its course

By Raphael Ahren

Turkey, Iran scold Israel for airstrikes on Syria

Islamic human sacrifice

The deadly violence of extremist Muslims groups is spreading unabated and enlightened nations must take immediate action

The eclectic rungs of Jacob’s Ladder

Alt and Indie music were the standouts out at this year’s festival, which drew a well-behaved crowd of more than 3,000

A view of Efrat, a settlement near Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Netanyahu reportedly freezes new settlement construction

By Michal Shmulovich

PM said to have told housing minister to ‘rein in’ projects until June; Jewish Home indicates it may undermine budget in response

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

Keeping up marathon meetings, Livni and Kerry to parley

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

Chocolate falls at the Bayonne Chocolate Days festival. This year's celebrations take place May 10 and 11. (photo credit: courtesy)

France thanks Sephardic Jews for chocolate, 500 years too late

By Rebecca Benhamou

Ben Zygier. (Screenshot ABC TV via Youtube)

Aussie TV: Zygier ‘unwittingly sabotaged’ Mossad plan in Lebanon

By Michal Shmulovich and Stuart Winer

Mossad sources dismiss report that 30-year scheme to retrieve 3 soldiers’ remains went awry when agent exposed informant’s identity to Hezbollah

One shekel coins (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Budget draft includes tax hikes, deep slashes

By Gavriel Fiske

‘Stephen King, you have competition,’ Meretz head announces, recommending that Treasury proposal not be read before bedtime

Turkey and Israel close in on reconciliation deal

By Michal Shmulovich

Delegations meet in Jerusalem to finalize compensation over Gaza-bound Turkish activists killed or injured by Israeli commandos

Finance Minister Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid party meeting in the Knesset. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid nixes Netanyahu-backed referendum on peace

By Michal Shmulovich

Livni applauds Yesh Atid for putting ‘good of the people before politics’ in pursuing an agreement with the Palestinians

Gantz given fourth year in IDF top post

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon names Yair Naveh, expected to compete for top spot, head of Military Industries

Watchtower of the Egyptian army at the border with Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 19, 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Ex-Morsi adviser accuses Israeli diplomat of incitement

By Elhanan Miller

‘I was just responding to the nonsense he wrote,’ retorts former envoy to Cairo Zvi Mazel

Jaron Lanier (photo credit: Jonathan Sprague)

Tech guru Jaron Lanier prophesies a chilling virtual reality

By JP O’ Malley

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Ashton Kutcher, right, and Demi Moore at a Kabbalah confab in Tel Aviv in 2007 (photo credit: Flash90)

Red strings attachedIsrael trip on tap for Ashton Kutcher

A cloud of locusts in southern Israel in March 2013 (photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)

Billions of locust eggs hatch in the Negev

By Gavriel Fiske

An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars at a Syrian village from an army post on the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Syrian mortar shell lands in Golan

President Shimon Peres with the winners of 2013 Wolf Prizes (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Quantum theorist, popular geographer among ‘pre-Nobel’ winners

By David Shamah

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, visits the Umayyad Electrical Station on May Day, May 1, 2013, a day after a powerful bomb hit the capital (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Arabic media reviewAssad’s crimes ‘miraculously’ forgotten after Israeli strikes

By Elhanan Miller

Yair Lapid (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBudget cuts, army service cuts… tax hikes

By Ilan Ben Zion

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