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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 16, 2013

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Israel ‘will bring down Assad’ if he retaliates for future airstrikes

Jerusalem conveys unprecedented threat to Syrian president, unnamed officials say; Israeli source tells NY Times further raids contemplated on weapons shipments

Chemical weapons used in Syria at least twice, US official says

Netanyahu to Putin: ‘Your missile sales to Assad could trigger war’

Islamist group says Hermon mortars fired to avenge ‘Nakba’

By Elhanan Miller and Michal Shmulovich

A man searches the trash in a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel has highest poverty rate in OECD

Country also plagued by wide income inequality gulf between rich and poor, new data shows, underlining imperative ‘to protect the most vulnerable’

Labor MK demands official inquiry into deficit

By Aaron Kalman

President living large, figures show

By Stuart Winer

Tel Aviv to be the world’s first ‘digitalized’ city

By David Shamah

The Politics behind the Picture of the Year

Here’s why the winning photo isn’t from Syria, say, where photojournalists have risked their lives to document atrocities

When Jewish schools have Arab teachers

A proven way to educate towards tolerance of “the other” is to hire “the other” as educators

Michelangelo's Moses, 1513-15, at San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome (Patricio lorente/ Wikipedia Commons)

Shape up for Shavuot

Michelangelo was right about tablets

Chabad rabbi urges synagogues to return to correct, non-rounded depiction of the two stones that bore the Ten Commandments

KFC (illustrative image: CC BY-ND loop_oh, Flickr)

Fry spell

Smuggled chicken tunnels into Gaza

KFC meals are making their way under the border from Egypt, and they’re only $30 a pop

Jordan mulling ‘diplomatic and legal’ measures against Israel

By Elhanan Miller

Senate speaker Taher Al-Masri accuses Israel of striving to replace Al-Aqsa Mosque with Jewish temple

The Givat Assaf outpost (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

State considering legalizing four West Bank outposts

By Aaron Kalman

Move is a slap in the face of US efforts to restart negotiations with Palestinians, Peace Now charges

Illustrative photo of an Egyptian armored personnel carrier (APC), in Sinai, along the border with Israel. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Egyptian officers nabbed near Israel border in Sinai

By Joshua Davidovich

Kidnappers grab five cops and soldier close to Rafah, reportedly demanding release of Jihadis from prison; security beefed up at border

A Palestinian girl gets a little help from Israeli pro longboarder Yoni Ettinger (photo credit: Yair Hasidof)

Photo essay

Goodbye gangs, hello longboarding

By Michal Shmulovich

Tzipi Livni and Naftali Bennett (composite image: Flash90)

Livni, Bennett trade barbs over Women of the Wall

Justice minister rejects notion of new prayer regulations at the Western Wall; religious services minister calls it ‘media spin’

An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

More signs of gas found at offshore drilling site

By Yifa Yaakov and ToI Staff

Geological data shows Karish 1 deposit may contain 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; energy minister lauds discovery

Illustrative photo of electronic boards showing the results of a vote in the United Nations General Assembly. (AP/Evan Schneider, United Nations)

UN slams Assad regime for heavy weapons use

By Edith M. Lederer

General Assembly approves Arab-backed resolution calling for political transition in Syria despite objections from Russia

A rabbi sharpens the knife to be used for traditional Jewish slaughter (illustrative photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

After ban, Poland may reinstate kosher slaughter

By Vanessa Gera

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Scouts standing at attention during a Boy Scouts of America Memorial Day ceremony. (photo credit: ShutterStock/Sandi Mako/JTA)

Jewish Scouting leaders vocal on gay inclusion

Amy Winehouse (photo credit: CC-BY, Berlinfotos, Wikimedia Commons)

Amy Winehouse exhibit for her 30th birthday

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (photo credit: CC-BY/dbking/Flickr)

US explores new ways to press Iran on nuke program

A UNIFIL patrol near the Israeli-Lebanese border. (Hamad Almakt/Flash90)

UNIFIL base overrun, 3 soldiers briefly kidnapped

By Yifa Yaakov and Gavriel Fiske

A man searches the trash in a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWho’s the poorest in the land?

By Ilan Ben Zion

This Tuesday, May 14, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the mother of a Syrian rebel cleaning a rifle, in Aleppo, Syria. Activists say Syrian rebels have detonated two car bombs outside the main prison in the northern city of Aleppo and are trying to storm the facility, where hundreds of regime opponents are believed to be held. (Photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Arabic media reviewSyrian rebels go straight for the heart

By Michael Bassin

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