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What Matters Most On Monday, May 27, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Why America’s peace push may actually make sense

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Never mind the slim chance of success. The US knows that, in an increasingly volatile Middle East, the real benefit is in the process

Kerry proposes $4-billion economic plan to boost Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

PA negotiator: Netanyahu the ‘one person’ hindering peace

By Gavriel Fiske

AnalysisBusiness-led peace bid unveiled in Jordan

By David Horovitz

People walk by military boots that were laid in tribute outside the Woolwich Barracks, in London, Friday, May 24, 2013, in response to the bloody attack on Wednesday when a British soldier was killed in the nearby street (photo credit: AP/Bogdan Maran)

Faced with a terrorist atrocity, the British keep calm and carry on

By Miriam Shaviv

Despite efforts by Islamists and far-right extremists, people are unlikely to fall for ‘crude propaganda’ and will maintain equilibrium, experts say

Let Nathan Blanc go

Agree with him or not, this imprisoned 19-year-old conscientious objector represents the best of who we Israelis can be

Blanc is no role model

A rebuttal to Noah Efron’s respect for the jailed conscientious objector: 19 is old enough to know why you can’t opt out

Aryeh Ben David

Giving prayer a prayer of a chance

Not connecting spiritually during services? Don’t stop, try harder! That’s most rabbis’ approach and it’s a colossal failure

President Shimon Peres speaks at the World Economic Forum in Jordan on May 26, 2013. (photo credit: image capture/WEF video feed)

Reporter's notebook

On Jordan’s Dead Sea shore, the Shimon Peres show

By David Horovitz

The president is the face of wise, tolerant, gentle, peace-loving Israel. If only he ran the country, you can almost hear the World Economic Forum delegates thinking

President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas meeting in 2008 at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Peres, Abbas powwow on sidelines of Jordan conference

A fragment from Maimonides' legal compendium Mishneh Torah, found in the Cairo Geniza (photo credit: Courtesy of the Cambridge University Library)

9th century, meet 21st: Supercomputer revolutionizes Cairo Geniza research

By Matti Friedman

Children in a school in Tel Aviv during a home front exercise, in the school's safe bunker, May 26 2010 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israelis take cover as chemical warfare drill continues

Blaring sirens simulate missile attacks on civilians, sending schoolchildren and workers to shelters

Illustrative photo of bearded religious soldiers. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yesh Atid threatens coalition over Haredi draft dispute

Yair Lapid’s party insists that shirkers face prosecution, while Likud wants to keep individual sanctions out of the legislation

Emad Abdel Ghafour speaking at the World Economic Forum, May 25, 2013 (photo credit: Youtube image/WEF)

Exclusive

Morsi’s Salafist adviser: ‘We have no problem with the peace with Israel’

By Elhanan Miller

Relations with Israel should proceed as normal, only with more Egyptian soldiers in Sinai, Emad Abdel Ghafour tells The Times of Israel

A photo of Nasrallah on the fence of the Lebanese border, 2008 (photo credit: Hamad Almakt/Flash 90)

Rocket reportedly fired into Israel from Lebanon

Residents near Metulla report loud explosion, IDF searching for missile remains

The Park Hotel in Netanya on the night of March 27, 2002, after a suicide bombing killed 30 people. (Flash90)

Sharon floated idea of deporting Arafat to Sudan in 2002

By Mitch Ginsburg

Former Mossad chief says the radical suggestion came up in the wake of the devastating Park Hotel Passover bombing

Robert and Gerald Finaly, the most notorious case of French baptized Jewish children hidden after World War II.

Jewish children hidden twice over by the Church

By Rebecca Benhamou

A French historian examines a 1946 directive forbidding Catholic authorities from handing over baptized Jewish children to their families after the Holocaust

First day of the Leo Frank Trial, 1915. (photo credit: public domain)

The ADL and KKK, born of the same murder, 100 years ago

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

The Killers in the music video to their hit song 'Mr. Brightside' (screen capture: YouTube/TheKillersVEVO)

On the BrightsideHot fuss as Killers head to Israel

By Stuart Winer

The four comedians of Comedy for Koby: Ralph Harris, Wayne Federman (seated), Dennis Regan and Avi Liberman (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Chuckle it upEasy laughs for visiting comedians

By Jessica Steinberg

MK Zvulun Kalfa (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK puts chief rabbi laws on hold

By Asher Zeiger

A Lebanese investigator takes pictures at a balcony where a rocket struck an apartment in a building at Chiyah district, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday May 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Arabic media reviewSyrian flames jump the border to Lebanon

By Michael Bassin

US Secretary of State John Kerry (center), Israeli President Shimon Peres (left), and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during the World Economic Forum in Jordan, Sunday May 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jim Young)

Hebrew media reviewPeres, Abbas and peace prospects at center stage

By Ilan Ben Zion

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