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What Matters Most On Friday, May 17, 2013

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Actress Angelina Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s May 14, 2013, New York Times, where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. (photo credit: AP/Carlo Allegri, File)

Angelina Jolie may not have gone far enough to prevent cancer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dr. Steven Narod, the foremost expert on BRCA gene mutations and their links to cancer, says the actress’s dramatic double mastectomy is only a good start

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 25, 2012. (Photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/FLASH90)

Unmoved by Israel, Russia will send top air-defense system to Assad

Moscow says it must honor its deal with Damascus, even though Netanyahu warned Putin that delivery of S-300 missiles could plunge the region into war

PM: I will go anywhere, meet anyone to protect Israelis

By Yoel Goldman

Russia sends at least 12 warships to Syria

From the webRussia sends more advanced missiles to aid Assad in Syria

Avraham Edelstein

Between a good living and a good life

Haredim have been heading to work without Dov Lipman’s help and may have a thing or two to teach about what really matters

Robin Wright stars in Israeli director Ari Folman's sci-fi drama 'The Congress' (photo credit: official promotional trailer screen cap)

‘Waltz with Bashir’ director returns to Cannes with sci-fi departure

By Adiv Sterman

CIA Director John Brennan. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CIA chief pays surprise visit to Israel

By Ron Friedman

John Brennan meets with defense minister to discuss escalating concerns over Syria

Israel's representative to the Eurovision 2013 song contest, Moran Mazor, performs 'Rak Bishvilo' (image capture: YouTube)

Israel hits sour note in failed bid for Eurovision finals

By Ron Friedman

Singer Moran Mazor stoic, despite Israel’s third successive early exit, but agent decries unfair judging; Malmo contest also marred by talk of terror and anti-Semitism

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate at a May 16, 2013 rally to oppose the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men rally against army service

By Asher Zeiger

9 cops, 3 demonstrators hurt as Jerusalem protest turns violent; 8 Haredis arrested for disturbing the peace

Illustrative: Anarchists and ultra-Orthodox men conversing in Jerusalem (photo credit: courtesy of Behadrei Haredim)

Ultra-Orthodox get unexpected support from ‘anarchists’

By Adiv Sterman

A frame from a video allegedly showing Syrian rebels and dead captives (photo credit: video capture YouTube)

Syrian rebels post grisly execution video

By Adaam J. Levin Areddy

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters kill Syrian soldiers on camera ‘in retaliation for Assad’s massacres’

Illustrative photo of a price tag attack, a form of Jewish incitement against Arabs (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Ministers seek to label ‘price tag’ attacks ‘terrorism’

By Asher Zeiger

Livni and Aharonovich aim to curb surge of Jewish extremist attacks that ‘threaten to undermine relations with Israeli Arabs’

Illustrative: The existing nuclear facility in Bushehr province, Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

Analysis

On Iran, the world’s efforts sadly ‘have not been successful’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

As Tehran gets set to chair the very disarmament forum it flouts, and former Obama officials suggest a bomb may not be preventable, signs are that diplomacy has run out of steam

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

Egypt closes Gaza crossing following abductions

By ToI Staff and AP

Rafah border terminal to remain closed until 7 Egyptian security personnel are released

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BlogYour funniest Israel moment: Do tell!

Coptic priest Father Arsanios struggles with several Israeli policemen in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 4, 2013. (photo credit: YouTube/Maariv)

Mistreated Coptic cleric, 85, threatens to sue

By Gavriel Fiske and AP

Police officers outside the Toulouse school in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Bruno Martin)

Suspected Merah accomplices arrested in Toulouse

US appeals court: Jewish inmate can sue for kosher meals

Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (photo credit: AP/Federal Bureau of Investigation/File)

Tsarnaev admitted to terror plot in note, sources say

By Yoel Goldman

Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) and television news anchor Geula Even. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Love and marriageIsrael’s top power couple tie the knot

By Asher Zeiger and Ron Friedman

FILE: Israeli security forces inspect the site of a terror attack at a bus stop at the Tapuah junction in the northern West Bank, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Congressmen urge Abbas to fire terrorist glorifier

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (photo credit: CC BY-SA Christliches Medienmagazin/Wikimedia Commons)

German FM sees ‘window of opportunity’ in peace process

By Yoel Goldman

A woman sits outside an underground bomb shelter in Nahariya. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

IED found in Nahariya stairwell

CIA Director John Brennan. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Hebrew media reviewMoments of truth

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