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What Matters Most On Monday, May 13, 2013

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Yasser Abed Rabbo (photo credit: Issam Rimawi / FLASH90)

Exclusive: The covert channel

Revealed: Netanyahu’s secret talks with the Palestinians

By Avi Issacharoff

More than two years ago, the Times of Israel reports here for the first time, top PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo held a series of meetings with the PM’s peace envoy, Yitzhak Molcho, and ultimately met at length with Netanyahu himself, to discuss new negotiations. The prime minister seemed ready to restart talks on the basis of pre-1967 lines, but then discontinued the contacts

The weekly Cabinet meeting, April 28, 2013 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu scales back defense cuts, promises budget will pass today

By Stuart Winer

Ahead of Cabinet debate, prime minister backs NIS 3 billion ($840 million) reduction in military spending, not the expected NIS 4 billion ($1.12 billion)

Ultra-Orthodox men in Jerusalem protest intention to draft them in July 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite political will, ‘no money for universal draft’

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Austerity measures to follow taxpayers to the grave

By Asher Zeiger

Alon Tal

Sins of emission in the 2013 Budget

The Rider Bill’s proposed cuts to green energy programs make bad fiscal sense and harm Israel’s global standing

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking. (CC-BY elhombredenegro/Flickr)

Conference boycotted by Hawking has hosted Palestinian speakers every year

By ToI Staff and Aaron Kalman

Top West Bank figures, including key PA officials, regularly participate in Peres-hosted gathering that top British scientist is eschewing in solidarity with the Palestinians

Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall, Friday, May 10, 2013(photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Almost half of Israeli Jews back Women of the Wall

By Stuart Winer

Support for pluralistic prayer group highest among Western-born Jews, says poll released amid rising tensions at the Kotel

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

ADL raps journalism museum for honoring Hamas cameramen

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Group charges move by Newseum in Washington is ‘an insult to other journalists’; museum defends choice

Palestinian students in Gaza hold up pictures of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Egypt: Erdoğan welcome in Gaza

By Gavriel Fiske

Cairo says ‘doors open wide’ for Turkish leader to visit Strip via Sinai

Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)

After the survivors, only the stones will tell stories

Illustrative photo of a crime scene (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Bat Yam man slays wife, commits suicide

By Stuart Winer

Border policeman calls his brother-in-law to tell him he shot his sister before turning gun on himself

UN peacekeepers monitor the Syrian side of the border from an Israeli army post at Mount Bental near Kibbutz Merom Golan in the Golan Heights in July 2012. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Syria says it reserves right to invade Golan Heights

By Ilan Ben Zion

Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi accuses Israel of violating ceasefire, Turkey of turning its border zone into terrorist hotbed

Ricotta Flan with Raspberry Sauce is a lighter alternative to the traditional Shavuot cheesecake. (photo credit: From 'Helen Nash's New Kosher Cuisine'/JTA)

Celebrate Shavuot with the best of spring

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Israeli paratroopers in training. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Hopping madTroops sprayed instead of locusts

By Ilan Ben Zion

Screen grab from a controversial student union video (photo credit: YouTube)

Sick clipCollege removes ‘racist’ video

By Lazar Berman

Menachem Begin sleeping on the way to the United States in this undated archive photo. (photo credit: David Rubinger/Yedioth Ahronoth)

No frillsWill the real PM please rest up?

By Gavriel Fiske

Israel grounds drone fleet after crash

By ToI Staff and AP

A pigeon (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Alan D. Wilson, www.naturespicsonline.com)

Bird of oy veyPigeon blood peddled as wart cure

Illustrative photo of crop-dusting against locusts from March 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewA taxing situation

By Yossi Nachemi

Mourning relatives during the burial of one of the 46 victims killed in Saturday explosions in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Sunday, May 12, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Arabic media reviewTurkey roasts Assad

By Michael Bassin

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