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What Matters Most On Monday, May 20, 2013

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MDA ambulances at the scene of a Beersheba bank robbery, Monday (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

Disgruntled customer kills four in Beersheba bank rampage

Former Border Police officer, apparently denied credit line, kills self after standoff with police; bank manager, worker, and customer among his victims

The pillar is of a type associated with monumental construction during the time of the First Temple in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Binyamin Tropper/Kfar Etzion Field School)

Despite secrecy, interest builds around mysterious First Temple find outside Bethlehem

By Matti Friedman

A 2,800-year-old pillar discovered by a tour guide under a Palestinian orchard points to major construction dating from Biblical times. So why isn’t it being excavated?

Betty Herschman

Not one Jerusalem, not undivided, not open to all

While Nir Barkat works wonders for the capital’s business environment, 36% of its population slip ever further into despair

When a sex crime is really in the news

The case of a media personality’s ongoing harassment of his colleagues could transform how this crime is treated in public

A Hungarian speech signifying nothing

Prime Minister Orban downplayed a surge in anti-Semitism and took no clear stand against neo-Nazis and historical revisionism

A screen capture of the video showing the Muhammad al-Dura incident.

Father of al-Dura disputes Israeli claim, says open to probe of death

By Joshua Davidovich and Mitch Ginsburg

Jamal al-Dura rejects report that his son was not shot by Israeli forces and not killed in 2000 incident

Slogan calling the Women of the Wall 'villains' that was scrawled on the wall outside the apartment of one of its members, 20th May 2013. (photo credit: Facebook/Peggy Cidor)

Vandals target home of Women of the Wall activist

By Stuart Winer

Peggy Cidor: It takes more than this to scare me; Jerusalem mayor condemns attack; threats, insults daubed in stairwell walls and on apartment door

Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, May 1, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Lapid urges PM to secure his ‘place in history’ by making peace, hails Fayyad’s vision of Palestinian state

In quotations left out of New York Times interview but subsequently posted on Facebook, finance minister also backs Women of the Wall, praises ‘capable’ Netanyahu

Dead Sea Scrolls displayed at the Boston Museum of Science. (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Largest exhibition of Israeli artifacts premieres in Boston

By Matt Lebovic

Google recognizes Palestine as a state, and what about Funland?' (photo credit: screen shot via Facebook)

What's next, Funland?

Google’s ‘Palestine’ sends Likud pol viral

By Raphael Ahren

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon says name change ‘strengthens violence and terror,’ wonders whether Internet giant will soon also come up with a ‘State of Funland’

Illustrative photo of a couple posing for pictures before their wedding. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Religious Affairs Ministry to promote wedding reform

By Asher Zeiger

Naftali Bennett and Eli Ben Dahan announce their support of the ‘Tzohar laws’ to ease access to marriage in Israel

Filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler tries a Hasidic man's suit on for size in her new web series, 'Dude, Where's My Chutzpah?' (photo credit: courtesy of Jessie Kahnweiler)

Dude, a Jewish project that is all about the journey

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour (photo credit: AP)

Jordan’s PM: Parliament shouldn’t meddle in treaties

By Elhanan Miller

Criticizing MPs’ anti-Israel vote, Abdullah Ensour says legislators’ role is to advise, not decide

Another crew of happy diners from an EatWith meal (Courtesy EatWith)

Rent your home, eat dinner with strangers… lend out your PJs?

By Jessica Steinberg

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The departure terminal at Ben-Gurion Airport (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Sobbing souvenirTear-gas grenade in American’s luggage

Negotiators from the Claims Conference, left, meet with German government officials regarding compensation for Nazi victims who live in the former Soviet Union, 2012 (photo courtesy: The Claims Conference)

Claims Conference looks to quell storm over cover-up allegations

Atilla Petrovszki (left) sporting his anti-Semitic tattoos in a mixed martial arts fight. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube)

‘Death to Jews’ tattoo costs Hungarian fighter Prague gig

An Anonymous member at a protest in Florida. (photo credit: CC BY Anonymous9000, Flickr)

Anonymous ‘gold bugs’ to hack oil, national sites

By David Shamah

A screen capture of the video showing the Muhammad al-Durra incident. (Image capture from YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewThe boy who didn’t die

By Aaron Kalman

An Egyptian border policeman shouts at the closed Rafah, Sinai border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip to protest the abduction of his colleagues last Thursday in northern Sinai, in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Rafah, the main crossing point into the Gaza Strip, was closed by policemen Friday, barring people from going in or out of the Palestinian territory. Scores of protesting Egyptian police have also shut down the Awja commercial border crossing with Israel Sunday. (Photo credit: AP/Roger Anis)

Arabic media review‘Save us like Shalit’

By Michael Bassin

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