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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 9, 2013

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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews holding a prayer rally in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square in opposition of the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service, June 25, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers face jail from 2017

By Aaron Kalman

Ministerial panel says financial sanctions not enough; aims to limit exemptions on religious grounds to 1,800 per year

Anne Frank's diary is seen on her writing desk as visitors tour the first house of Anne Frank in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where the Frank family lived from 1933 to 1942. (photo credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Rival Anne Frank charities wage bitter fight

By Toby Sterling

Nazi comparisons fly as battle over Frank family archive threatens to tarnish reputations of Basel and Amsterdam institutions

3 great reasons for an anti-Jewish screed

The interests of the Church of Scotland are well-served by the deplorable report it issued last week

Sharing the sacred Kotel space

By praying in the women’s section, not hidden away, Women of the Wall offer a model of empowerment to their haredi sisters

Smart-Ass Nation

When the art of sabotaging political rivals trumps the imperative of true leadership, guess who pays the price

Waze navigation screen (photo credit: Courtesy)

Facebook said ready to drop $1 billion on Waze

By David Shamah

Israeli crowdsourcing navigation app consistently among top applications across multiple mobile platforms

Orthodox Christian worshipers celebrate Easter at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City during on May 4, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90).

Israel apologizes to Egypt for diplomats’ mistreatment

By Asher Zeiger

Deputy foreign minister meets with Cairo’s envoy after police detain diplomat, rough up Coptic bishop in the Old City

British physicist Stephen Hawking at a conference with Israeli high school students in Jerusalem in December 2006. (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Hawking is indeed boycotting Peres’s Jerusalem meet

By Asher Zeiger

After Cambridge U. inaccurately cited health reasons, British physicist confirms he’s bailing on Presidential Conference in solidarity with Palestinians

Illustrative photo of elderly men playing backgammon at a country club in northern Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli scientists may be closing in on cause of Alzheimer’s

By Aaron Kalman

Researchers see disease-like syndromes on mice injected with tomosyn

US President Barack Obama speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January 2012. (photo credit: Peter Souza/White House/File)

Obama phones Netanyahu over ‘regional security issues’

By AP and ToI Staff

Call comes days after airstrikes on weapons transfers in Syria and amid renewed peace push

Syria buying advanced Russian missile system, Israel says

By Joshua Davidovich

Jerusalem warns US that delivery of S-300 batteries, which can down fighter planes and intercept cruise missiles, could hamper intervention efforts, according to the Wall Street Journal

Syrian rebels from al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, wave their brigade flag as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter, at Taftanaz air base that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday January 11 2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Islamist rebel leader said injured in Damascus shelling

By Joshua Davidovich

Syrian rebels release video of captive peacekeepers

By Ilan Ben Zion

United Nations says it’s negotiating to free four Filipino soldiers who were kidnapped near Israeli border on Tuesday

Thousands of social protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Social protesters rev up over Lapid’s cuts

By Asher Zeiger

Demonstrations Thursday and Saturday; Bennett supports finance minister, says unpopular tax hikes a necessity

Nurses protest outside Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in December 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

from the webHadassah Hospital cuts hitting doctors, nurses, staff

The Ulpana outpost, adjacent to the Beit El settlement (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Defense minister okays 296 homes in West Bank settlement

By Aaron Kalman

Palestinians say move proves Israel doesn’t want peace; US says settlement construction counteractive to peace efforts

The Dohany Synagogue (Aaron Kalman)

Photo essay

‘Glory and disaster’ intertwine in Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter

By Aaron Kalman

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) talks to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on May 8, 2013. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel and China ink $400 million trade agreement

By Gavriel Fiske

Smoke rises from a building in the northern Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike on November 16, 2012 during Operation Pillar of Defense. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Army accused of failing to protect civilians in Gaza op

By Asher Zeiger

Bronx Science sophomores Theresa Wang and Justin Wu examine artifacts at the school's Holocaust Museum and Studies Center. (photo credit: Courtesy of Bronx Science High School)

NY high school houses hands-on Holocaust museum

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Soviet Jewish World War II veteran Matvey Gershman, 90, poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Friday, April 12, 2013, (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

The forgotten Jews of the Red Army

By Daniel Estrin

Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini and Finance Minister Yair Lapid hold a press conference announcing an agreement between the government and the labor union (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMinister in the middle

By Yossi Nachemi

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, left, speaks at a joint news conference as his Jordanian counterpart, Naser Judeh, listens in Amman, Jordan. Salehi wrote in an opinion piece in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar Wednesday, May 8, that it is up to the Syrian people to choose their political system and president, suggesting Tehran is not wedded to Assad's continued rule. (Photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)

Arabic media reviewArab commentators: Russia is outplaying US on Syria

By Michael Bassin

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