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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 12, 2013

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Netanyahu slammed for spending $127,000 on bed for flight to London

PM’s sleeping requirement for the five-hour flight he and his wife took to Thatcher’s funeral last month prompts complaints from opposition MK, Movement for the Quality of Government

Ministers to debate deep cuts to defense spending

Thousands take to the streets to protest tax hikes

Austerity measures to follow taxpayers to the grave

By Asher Zeiger

(illustrative flower image via Shutterstock)

Jewish battered women shed ‘happy tears’ on Mother’s Day

Sending flowers to shelters via a Jewish Women International project raises abused mothers’ spirits — and public awareness

At the Kotel I lost the love of my life

A young Orthodox man went to the Wall on Friday seeking joy and song and instead found obscenity

One Jew in a jail full of neo-Nazis

Serving a 13-year sentence in state prison, surrounded by skinheads and discovering that above all, he is Jewish

This composite photograph shows Tsarnaev Tamerlan, 26 (left), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing (photo credit: AP/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young)

‘Mounting evidence’ Boston bombers were behind gruesome 2011 murders

By ToI Staff and Haviv Rettig Gur

Forensic evidence at crime scene said to link both Tsarnaev brothers to killings of three young men, two of whom were Jewish

The late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin together with the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the president's palace in Alexandria, Egypt. September 19, 1993. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90

Rabin told Mubarak peace with Syria was ‘at hand’

Two weeks before the prime minister was assassinated in 1995, he telephoned the Egyptian president to reveal the breakthrough, says ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters, Saturday, April 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP/ Tarek el Gabbas)

From the webMubarak says it’s too early to judge Morsi

‘Israel opens diplomatic mission in unnamed Gulf state’

By Gavriel Fiske

Foreign Ministry document reveals 11 new embassies and missions since 2010

UN says 4 peacekeepers held by Syria rebels freed

By AP and ToI Staff

Filipino UNDOF operatives released in good health, transferred to Israel

A woman cries at the scene of one of the explosion sites in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, on Saturday, May 11, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Anadolu Agency, Cem Genco)

Turkey arrests 9 in connection with deadly bombings

By AP and ToI Staff

46 reported dead and 50 still hospitalized from Saturday blasts; Ankara blames Syrian intelligence for attacks; Syria denies allegations

Prosor warns UN to rein in Hezbollah

By Asher Zeiger

Prosor warns UN to rein in Hezbollah

By Asher Zeiger

EU threatens pullout of south Lebanon peacekeepers

By Gavriel Fiske

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 25, 2012. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/FLASH90)

Netanyahu to meet Putin in bid to dissuade Russia from missile delivery to Assad

By ToI Staff and AP

Two leaders hurriedly schedule talks, amid reports that Moscow is set to supply highly sophisticated S-300 defense systems to Damascus

A detail of the mosaic floor of a Byzantine-era building recently unearthed in southern Israel (photo credit: Israel Antiquities Authority/Yael Yolovitch)

Byzantine mosaic unearthed in southern Israel

By Matti Friedman

Excavating ahead of the construction of a new interchange, archaeologists uncover the ornate floor of a public building from 1,500 years ago

Tourists ride Segways near the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2013. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US Jews call on Israel to rethink tax hike for tourists

Revoking VAT exemption may ’cause many to reconsider’ trips to the country, warns letter to PM from Conference of Presidents

MK Rabbi Dov Lipman sitting in the plenum hall of the Knesset during an introduction day for new parliament members, February 03, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lipman is not an ‘apostate,’ he’s just an ‘unintentional sinner’

By Raphael Ahren

MK’s former yeshiva head apologizes, kind of, but tells the US-born legislator to quit Yesh Atid and change his stance on Haredi education

An illustrative photo of an electricity company control room. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IEC’s ‘cyber-gym’ gives good-guy hackers a workout

By David Shamah

A special ‘practice’ system, duplicating the actual working one, will enable Israel Electric Company to protect computer systems from cyber-attack

Air force shoots down drone after engine fails

Navy searches for debris from downed aircraft off Israel’s Mediterranean coast

Yosel Tiefenbrun in his days as an apprentice tailor at Maurice Sedwell in London. (David Nyanzi/JTA)

Dapper Chabad fashionistas take cues from the Rebbe

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Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known surviving biblical manuscripts dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE, on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88

Convicted child sex abuser Yosef Kolko. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Ex-yeshiva teacher faces sex assault charges in NJ

By Katie Zezima

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

From the webNoam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott

Former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party Nawaz Sharif, center, addresses his supporters as his brother Shahbaz Sharif, right, and daughter Maryam Nawaz, second from left, listen at a party office in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan’s Sharif declares election victory

By Rebecca Santana and SEBASTIAN ABBOT

Hungary: 3 men convicted of anti-Semitism

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).

Egyptian Copts visiting Israel in throngs

By Asher Zeiger

Secular and ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem stand side by side at a protest in Jerusalem against the impending budget cuts proposed by Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Saturday May 11. (photo credit: Yifa Yaakov/The Times of Israel)

Hebrew media reviewGuns or butter

By Joshua Davidovich

The site of one of several explosions that killed at least 50 people and injured dozens near Turkey's border with Syria, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Protesters on Wednesday accused the Turkish government of putting the country at risk by openly supporting Syria's armed insurgency. (photo credit: AP/IHA)

Arabic media reviewTurkey roils following twin bombings

By Elhanan Miller

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