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What Matters Most On Friday, May 10, 2013

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Members of Women of the Wall gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday, May 10. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)

Ultra-Orthodox teens clash with Women of the Wall at holy site

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

Three men arrested, two policemen injured as thousands of Haredis flock to Western Wall in failed bid to keep group from holding prayer session

One quarter of the 3000 km.-long Euphrates River runs through Syria but Turkey, situated upriver, has drastically reduced the flow of water (Photo credit: CC BY Verity Cridland, Flickr)

A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next

By Mitch Ginsburg

Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza are also in deep trouble, he warns

Hezbollah head says Syria will supply ‘game-changing’ arms

By AP and ToI Staff

Syria vows to strike back at future Israeli attacks

By Adiv Sterman

Philippines mulls pullout of Golan peacekeepers

Shmuley Boteach

It turns out that Hawking is no Einstein

How can Stephen Hawking understand the universe so well yet lack simple common sense on Israel?

Pamela Geller (Courtesy)

Pamela Geller as self-appointed spokesperson for moderate Muslims

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The Times of Israel asks the controversial activist whether she is, as the ADL claims, a bigot, or merely an impolitic and impolite campaigner against extremist Islam

China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu review an honor guard at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

Analysis

China offers subtle signals of encouragement for Netanyahu

By Alex Pevzner

By granting the PM plenty of leadership face-time, a web chat, and the rare privilege to address future leaders, Beijing indicates to Israel that it seeks to be an honest broker with a greater Middle East role

Egyptian men chant anti-Israeli slogans during a Muslim Brotherhood-staged anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday. (photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP)

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood stages anti-Israel rally

In first such protest since fall of Mubarak, group rails against detention of top Palestinian cleric and airstrikes on Syria

An Arab site defaced with a message from the Israel Elite Hacker Team. (photo credit: Screenshot)

Israeli hackers ready to defend US sites, as #OpUSA flops

By David Shamah

Anonymous had planned to follow up its #OpIsrael attacks with a mass hacking of American sites

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

Fellow ALS sufferer to ‘hero’ Hawking: Reconsider Israel boycott

Photojournalist Esteban Alterman, who met and photographed the astrophysicist before a 2006 lecture in Jerusalem, says misguided decision undermines battle against their shared disease

Stephen Hawking (photo credit: CC-BY elhombredenegro/Flickr)

Hawking battered over Israeli conference boycott

By Aaron Kalman

US President Barack Obama (left) and President Shimon Peres are greeted by children waving Israeli and American flags at a welcoming ceremony held for Obama in Jerusalem in March. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Poll reveals Israelis more confident in Obama

61 percent of Israelis, but only 15 percent of Palestinians, back the US president’s handling of foreign affairs

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Washington Institute for Near East policy on Thursday. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video)

Hagel: Despite shrinking Mideast footprint, US can stop Iran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

US Defense Secretary insists region remains ‘top defense priority’ for Obama administration, and that ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’

The Muqata'a in Ramallah, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/PalestinianLiberator/File)

El Salvador establishes diplomatic ties with PA

Palestinian foreign minister set to sign agreement with Honduras on Friday

A government drone captured by Sudanese rebels was reportedly manufactured in Iran (photo credit: Courtesy)

Iran says it has built new drone

Tehran defense minister says his country constructed a radar-evading UAV that can do surveillance and fire on enemy targets

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, delivering a Joint Statement with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani in Washington, April 29, 2013. (photo credit: US State Department/JTA)

Why Qatar? Why now? And what about Hamas?

Oil-rich gulf state, pushing to make its name as a Mideast peace broker, is driving the revivification of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative

A Palestinian contestant stands in front of the judges during a taping of the program "The President" in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The show offers contestants a chance to address the Palestinian people on what they would do on a variety of subjects if elected president. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians choose a president… on reality TV

New show offers 15 contestants the chance to say how they’d run things better

Alana Kayfetz and Rachel Singer used their social-media savvy to unearth community support to 'Save the CJN.' (photo credit: Courtesy of Rachel Singer)

Tech-savvy duo use social media in bid to save Canada’s Jewish weekly

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Parents sleeping with child. (photo credit: Illustration via Artistico/Shutterstock/JTA)

EssayA Jewish mother rethinks her approach to the bedroom

By Amy Bromberg

The Newseum journalists memorial (photo credit: CC BY-SA jsmjr, Flickr)

DC museum to honor two Hamas journalists

By Adaam J. Levin Areddy

Rome Jewish community head billed for convicted Nazi’s fees

Israeli models Bar Refaeli (L) and Bar Paly (photo credit: CC BY Facebook)

Model IsraelisMaxim hot list goes Bar hopping

Medical devices in use in an Israeli hospital. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the webIs red tape slowing Israeli biomedical field?

From the webOrthodox Jewish women find new ways to be fashionable in Crown Heights

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

Boston bomber buried in secret location

By Jay Lindsay and Michelle R. Smith

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (photo credit: AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

From the webErdogan: Syria has crossed red line, used chemical weapons

Actors in character for the grand opening of Jerusalem's First Station (photo credit: Davidi Saad)

Top Five: ShavuotWheat, cheese and Torah, go celebrate

By Jessica Steinberg

Hebrew Media ReviewWinds of warning

By Yossi Nachemi

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