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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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The construction site of the new mosque in Abu Ghosh, May 2013 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Islam no longer a footnote in Abu Ghosh, as its vast mosque nears completion

By Elhanan Miller

Mayor of village beloved by Jewish Israelis says towering new place of worship — built with a little funding from Israel, and a lot from Chechnya — will espouse ‘only peace and tolerance’

Security forces are seen in the Beersheba bank where Itamar Alon, 40, killed four people before taking his own life on Monday, on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

One killer, four shattered families

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Two bank employees, specifically targeted by the Beersheba gunman, lost their lives, as did two bystanders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time

Deri: Bank rampage is a wake-up call from the poor

By Gavriel Fiske

Police briefly stripped bank killer of his firearm after 2011 incident

By Michal Shmulovich and ToI Staff

Bank killer had a history of personal, financial trouble

By Michal Shmulovich

Aliyah: A sacrifice too big?

Believing that moving to Israel is the right thing to do and opting not to do it: An uncomfortable inconsistency

Searchers rest from operations after the tornado in Moore, Oaklahoma, on, Monday, May 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/The Oklahoman, David McDaniel)

Netanyahu offers prayers for tornado victims

By Gavriel Fiske and AP

Monday’s twister flattened Oklahoma town, destroying whole neighborhoods and causing dozens of casualties

Supreme Court Judge Salim Joubran, February 17, 2009. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli Arab judge to chair elections committee

By Stuart Winer

Salim Joubran will preside over local council votes in October

Israeli soldiers stand guard in Alonei Habashan in the Israeli Golan Heights on November 11, 2012. (photo credit: Flash90)

Syrian army claims it destroyed Israeli vehicle and ‘those in it’

By ToI Staff and AP

IDF says jeep was lightly damaged by cross-border fire, and no one was hurt; troops fire back with long-range rocket

IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz in action during a live fire exercise for Israeli army battalion commanders taking place on the Golan Heights, on September 4, 2012. (Shay Wagner/Israel Defense Forces/FLASH90)

Officials warn of Syria conflict quickly spiraling out of control

The jeep with IDF markings reportedly found during fighting in Qusair, Syria. (screenshot / al-Madayeen news channel)

Syrians trot out IDF jeep ‘captured’ from rebels

By Lazar Berman and AP

Regime claims vehicle, carrying advanced equipment, seized from rebel forces; Israeli military says it is a holdover from Lebanese security zone, out of service for years

Dror Etkes, left, and Herzl, along the Green Line (photo credit: Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)

Houses, fences and fruit trees: A decade of watching settlements grow

By Matti Friedman

Hezbollah fighters hold party flags during a parade in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon (AP/Hussein Malla/File)

EU said preparing to add Hezbollah to terror list

By Aaron Kalman and Yoel Goldman

Britain reportedly files official request to blacklist Lebanon-based group

Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman of California (photo credit: CC BY cliff1066™, Flickr)

US lawmakers blast critics of visa waivers for Israelis

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Pro-Palestinian groups campaign against granting Israelis unfettered access to the US, citing ‘discriminatory’ security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport

Barbra Streisand in concert at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on October 11, 2012. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Streisand to be granted honorary PhD from Hebrew U.

Star to perform for first time in Israel next month, attend Peres Presidential Conference

Gideon's Bible. (photo credit: ohsarahrose via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)

Keep that Bible out of my room

By Kate Brumback and Russ Bynum

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An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

US study shows global increase in anti-Semitism, Shoah denial

Rabbi Chaim Halpern (photo credit: courtesy)

UK rabbi in sexual assault probe to conduct wedding

By Miriam Shaviv

Ira Forman (photo credit)

Ex-Jewish Dems chief tapped for anti-Semitism post

ZOA regains tax-exempt status

Northwest Airlines A320 upon takeoff in San Jose, California, 2007. (photo credit: Dylan Ashe, CC, via wikipedia)

Kvetching rabbi will have his day in (Supreme) Court

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Kitchen counters covered in Caesarstone (Photo: Courtesy Caesarstone)

IKEA kitchen buyers to get Israeli countertops

By David Shamah

Miriam Cohen, who was held hostage by gunman Itamar Alon in the Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba on Monday, is escorted out of the bank after Alon, who killed four people, took his own life (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewProfiling an ‘economic terror attack’

By Yossi Nachemi

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Arabic media reviewIraq spirals downward

By Elhanan Miller

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