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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registering his candidacy for president in May 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s presidential shortlist exposes a fearful regime

By Elhanan Miller

The removal of two outspoken Khamenei critics indicates the narrowing of legitimate discourse in the Islamic Republic, experts say

Meet the candidatesEight vie for Iran’s presidency

Iran ups uranium enrichment capabilities, diplomats say

Israel to hold massive chemical warfare drill

By Michal Shmulovich

French nationals in Israel cast ballots at their consulate in Tel Aviv for the presidential elections, April 2012 (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

For Franco-Israelis, a chance to elect their own ‘congressman’

By Raphael Ahren

This Sunday, 65,000 expats can choose a member of parliament to represent their interests at the National Assembly in Paris. Passions are high among the candidates; less so among the voters

Robert S. Wistrich

Wagner was not your garden-variety Jew hater

On the composer’s 200th birthday: He clearly was not just Hitler’s muse, he was the very model of a modern genocidal tyrant

Shmuley Boteach

Elie Wiesel’s healing Jewish spirit

In which we learn of the acclaimed author’s leading role in a high-flying first-time tefillin experience

Why I interrupted Naftali Bennett’s speech

The Jewish Home party chairman’s politics are dangerous and racist: Keeping silent would have been a moral failure

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston on April 15, 2013 (AP/Charles Krupa)

FBI kills man linked to Boston Marathon bombings

Suspect, who reportedly knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev through martial arts, was shot after he attacked an agent

Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti votes early Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013, in Los Angeles. (photo credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Garcetti elected Los Angeles mayor over Greuel

By Michael R. Blood

Politician is the first Jew elected to the position, by a record low turnout in an extremely close race

IDF soldier Roi Alphi was killed in a mine-clearing accident in the Golan Heights Tuesday, May 21 (photo credit: IDF Spokesman's Office)

Soldier killed clearing mines told friends he was looking forward to mission

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Army still investigating explosion in Golan minefield which killed Combat Engineering Corps soldier Roi Alphi, 19

The dangerous red palm weevil beetle (photo credit: Shimon Biton/Courtesy)

Beetle mania

Beware of falling palm trees

By Aaron Kalman

Agriculture Ministry urges public to notify officials if they spot invader beetle, which eats away at trees from the inside until they fall over

Actor Sean Penn leaves Bolivia's presidential palace after meeting with Evo Morales, whom he's pressed for Ostreicher's freedom. (Juan Karita/AP)

Sean Penn lobbies for haredi man imprisoned in Bolivia

Actor suggests putting pressure on sponsors of money-making Dakar Rally to reroute race until Jacob Ostreicher freed

A woman was treated for shock and rushed to the hospital after she was held hostage by a gunman in a Beersheba bank, Monday, May 20 (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Bedouin family accuses police of mistreating bank shooting victim

By Aaron Kalman

Brother says Omar Wallid was seen as a suspect because of his ethnicity; police insist officers were following regulations

Minister of Public Security Yitzhak Aharonovitch speaks to the media at the Beersheba bank where a local gunman shot and killed four people in May. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Gun reforms on agenda following Beersheba shooting

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to AIPAC on March 4, 2013 (photo credit: JLTV Screen Shot)

‘Jewish heritage is American heritage,’ says Biden

By Aaron Kalman

US vice president delivers gushing speech at Democratic Party’s Jewish heritage month event, credits Jews with social change on gay rights

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

After flying bed scandal, state comptroller to probe expenses

By Aaron Kalman

Yosef Shapira says clearer rules are needed on use of taxpayer money by public figures

Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)

Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud

By Uriel Heilman

Was the organization negligent in its internal investigations, or, after stealing $57m., is Semen Domnitser simply a shrewd criminal mastermind?

Yoel Razvozov (photo credit: Flash90)

Freshman flummox

Russia detains MK over visa confusion

By Aaron Kalman

Yesh Atid lawmaker Yoel Razvozov only spared indignity of expulsion thanks to last-minute embassy intervention

Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle with his children, Rosabelle and Carl, Jr. (photo credit: Courtesy of the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C./via Museum of Jewish Heritage)

Exhibit opens on US Jews who helped refugees from Nazis

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Egyptian army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle, backed by a helicopter gunship, during a sweep through villages in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, in May 2013. (AP)

Seven security men kidnapped in Sinai freed

Yossi Ben-David (photo credit: screen capture radiomerkaz/Youtube)

Yehud mayor arrested on corruption charges

By Aaron Kalman

Alleged NJ synagogue bombers plead not guilty

Police arrest mother of killed sisters

By Aaron Kalman

Boruch Spiegel (photo credit: AP)

Warsaw Ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Time will tell if this is manly enough behavior. A Palestinian youth with skates on his feet stands on his hands in the southern Gaza town of Rafah during a rally for solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in April 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90).

Hamas He-MenGazan cops told to man up

By Asher Zeiger

A photovoltaic field in the Negev (Photo credit: Courtesy Enerpoint)

$20 million deal seen as key to Israel’s solar revival

By David Shamah

IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz tours the Israeli-Syrian border on May 21 (photo credit: Tal Manor/IDF Spokesman/Flash90)

Arabic media reviewNorthern frights

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