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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 18, 2013

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Amos Yadlin, former director of military intelligence and current head of the Institute of National Security Studies (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Israel-Syria tensions remind me of pre-1967 war period, says ex-intel chief

Amos Yadlin warns Israel should be wary of carrying out further airstrikes on Damascus, says Russia is signaling that it won’t let the US touch Syria

Syrian rebels: Dozens hurt in chemical weapons attack in Damascus

US army chief slams Russia for arming, emboldening Assad

By Ron Friedman and AP

Israel is not seeking to topple Assad, top defense official says

By Adiv Sterman

A view of Gush Halav (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Gush Halav: Home to the Maronites

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Despite 14 centuries of persecution, these Galilee-based Christian followers of a hermit named Mar Maroun have refused to abandon their faith. Sound familiar?

Itamar Rabinovich

Syria: Time for Israel to reassess

With Russia upping the stakes and the US and Turkey opting out of the fray, Israel appears to be headed for a collision

Israeli police officers confront ultra-Orthodox demonstrators during a protest in front of the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, May 16, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Ministers blast violence at ultra-Orthodox rally

By Adiv Sterman

Deputy finance minister calls protesters’ actions at demonstration against draft law ‘shameful’ and a crossing of ‘all the red lines’

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

State of alert declared in Sinai after kidnappings

By Adiv Sterman and AP

International peackeeping forces operating in the peninsula ordered to exercise caution

Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17 (photo credit: AP/Adem Hadei)

Gunmen kill anti-terrorist policeman, entire family in Baghdad

By Sameer N. Yacoub

Cap. Adnan Ibrahim, his wife and two children, aged eight and 10, shot dead while sleeping; 4 more killed in latest wave of attacks

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves to the crowd during celebrations for their successful bid to win UN statehood recognition on Dec. 2, 2012. (photo credit: Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP)

Abbas: Netanyahu must choose between settlements and peace

Wrapping up Egypt trip, PA president says Israel can easily leave settlements, as it has in the past in Sinai

Activist protest in the Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on Friday, May 17 (photo credit: Flash90)

Activists march in East Jerusalem to oppose home eviction

In West Bank, police arrest settlers for clashing with Palestinians; Jordanian protesters mark Nakba Day with march towards border

A sign for a synagogue in Italy. (photo credit: CC-BY, oferiko, Flickr)

Moroccan jailed for plotting to bomb Milan synagogue

22-year-old man sentenced to more than five years for planned attacks on Jewish community

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Erdogan: Fatah must cooperate with Hamas for Mideast peace

By Ron Friedman

Visiting Washington, Turkish prime minister slams Netanyahu government for oppposing Palestinian state, calls on Israel to ‘retreat to 1967 lines’

In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, waves to his supporters, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

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‘Hezbollah exploits religion to intervene in Syria’

In interview with Al-Arabiya, Lebanese Shiite cleric Ali Al-Amin criticizes Nasrallah for urging Shiites to head to war-torn country

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Israelis wearing thick-rimmed glasses, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Meah Shearim, March 21, 2011(photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Don't make a spectacleBrooklyn yeshiva bans hipster glasses

By Adiv Sterman

Illustrative photo of Egyptian fertility god Min (center) at Deir al-Haggar. (photo credit: CC BY isawnyu, Flickr)

From the webCemetery reveals ancient Egyptian baby-making season

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,casts his ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, last May (photo credit: AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Iran may ban candidates who seek ties with US

Police suspect arson in Jerusalem forest fires

Lisbon to hold first Jewish film festival

Too-deep discounts get Rami Levy an iPhone import deal

By David Shamah

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