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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Then-prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, November 2008. (Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)

Hand-drawn map shows what Olmert offered for peace

By Stuart Winer

Hastily drawn 2008 sketch by Abbas, made public for the first time, illustrates former prime minister’s dramatic territorial proposal for ‘Palestine’

US Secretary of State John Kerry (center) poses for a group picture with, from left to right, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, Minister of International Relations Yuval Steinitz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni, at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on May 23, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart

By AP and ToI Staff

Some of the Al-Aqsa beams were brought to the settlement of Ofra in the 1980s. Pictured: Ze'ev Erlich, who helped truck the ancient wooden pieces from a junkyard north of Jerusalem (photo credit: Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)

Did ancient beams discarded in Old City come from first and second temples?

By Matti Friedman

A collection of neglected wooden beams from the Al-Aqsa mosque offer a glimpse at ancient Jerusalem — and possibly at the biblical temples themselves

Shmulik, where are you?

In 1977, he had an unforgettable adventure on the Amazon with an Israeli companion: Today he’s hoping to find Shmulik

A history erased in stone

In Vilna, Jewish gravestones used to build residences and schools could have become a memoria: Instead, they were erased

Deena Levenstein

Confessions of a talisman tallis owner

The story of a woman and her ‘lucky’ prayer shawl, which she’s now ready to part with for good

Jordan hands back border-hopping ultra-Orthodox family

Couple and their six children, barred by the courts from leaving Israel, crossed illegally into Hashemite kingdom en route to join cult in Canada

Michael Adebolajo speaks to a cameraman shortly after attacking and killing Lee Rigby, last May (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears

By Cassandra Vinograd and Paisley Dodds

‘We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,’ says one of two killers — apparently British Muslims — after beheading a soldier in London

Minister Yuval Steinitz at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting in Jerusalem on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Intel minister Steinitz says UK-Israel ties souring

‘Difficult to say’ if London still a good friend, Steinitz tells British paper, lashing out at Stephen Hawking for ‘disguised anti-Semitism’

Israel Air Force chief Amir Eshel (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Air force chief warns of ‘surprise war’ with Syria

Amir Eshel says Assad’s ‘immense arsenal’ could be turned on Israel at any moment, accompanied by rockets from Gaza and Lebanon

The bride, Hana Batya Pener, is entreated to a "mitzvah tantz" at her wedding to Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the grandson of the Belz Rabbi, on Tuesday. The dance is a highlight of the wedding ceremony, in which the bride holds one end of a sash while her father and other important men in the community dance on the other end. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Photo essay

Wedding bells for Belz as heir to Hassidic dynasty ties knot

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) (photo credit: CC BY-Glyn Lowe Photoworks, flickr)

Senate backs Israel in event of strike on Iran nuclear weapon program

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Vote urging support should Israel be forced to act passes Senate unanimously; ‘resolution makes clear nuclear Iran not an option’ co-sponsor says

The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Muslim clerics visit Nazi death camp

By Gavriel Fiske and JTA

‘I tried to prevent my tears from my eyes because it’s very difficult to see how many people were killed without any reason,’ Ramallah imam says

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks with Sir David Frost (photo credit: Yakir Zur)

Frost/Sacks

Legendary interviewer speaks with Britain’s chief rabbi

By Miriam Shaviv

Intra-Jewish differences, same-sex marriage, and the nature of God: Notes from an evening in honor of the retiring Lord Jonathan Sacks

Mohammed Morsi waves to supporters after giving a speech at Tahrir Square in Cairo, on June 29, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Hamas blamed for Egyptian jail breaks in 2011

By Hamza Hendawi

Attacks freed some 20,000 prisoners, including current president Mohammed Morsi, in final days of Mubarak regime

The crime scene outside the Bank Hapoalim in Beersheba where four people were killed by a local gunman on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

New footage reveals harrowing minutes of Beersheba bank spree

Security cameras show police arrived soon after Itamar Alon fired his first shot; a full hour went by before he took his own life

High school students take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Furious students add threats to the equation over math test

By Stuart Winer

Education ministry coordinator wasn’t involved in writing the matriculation exam, which many deemed way too difficult

The Ori Light series by Studio Mikabarr and Studio Producks (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Top five

Israeli art — get it while it’s fresh

By Jessica Steinberg

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Samy Bouzaglo on 'Kitchen Nightmares.' (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Pack your knivesInfamous eatery owner headed home?

By Gavriel Fiske

President Shimon Peres and FC Barcelona president Sandro Rosell at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2013 (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

PA objections doom Barcelona soccer match against Israeli-Palestinian team

By Gavriel Fiske

President Obama and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaking at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, May 2011. (photo credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson/via JTA)

Pressing Poland on restitution poses dilemma for US, Jewish groups

Security and rescue forces at the site of the Beersheba bank shooting, May 20 (photo credit: Greenspan/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNorth and south — surrounded by tragedy

By Ilan Ben Zion

A injuried Tunisian police officer is helped by colleagues during clashes with radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend. (Photo credit: AP/Nawfel)

Arabic media review‘Tunisia is not the land of jihad’

By Michael Bassin

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