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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Secretary John Kerry with President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the World Economic Forum in Jordan in late May 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Analysis

Memo to Kerry: It’s not the economy, stupid

By David Horovitz

The secretary’s ridiculous talk of $4 billion in private investment for the Palestinians demonstrates that the path out of our conflict is not going to be cleared by Washington

Palestinians reject Kerry’s new focus on boosting their economy

By Michal Shmulovich and Raphael Ahren

‘This government is in favor of two states for two peoples’

By Raphael Ahren

Gantz: We won’t ease West Bank rules of engagement

By Aaron Kalman

An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

Keep Israel’s gas at home, urge a growing body of experts

By David Shamah

Proven reserves are much smaller than most people believe, numerous critics warn, and exports do not serve the best interests of the public

Grandpa’s German rifle

The audacious tale of how Nazi weapons ended up being used by Holocaust survivors to fight in Israel’s War of Independence

Sorry, Rabbi, it’s not OK

Rabbis who prevent trained experts from handling sex abuse cases in their communities are not worthy of their title

A Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system on display at an undisclosed location in Russia (AP)

Steinitz savages Russia’s ‘totally wrong’ sale of missiles to Syria

By Raphael Ahren and AP

Minister says Ben Gurion Airport would be in range of S-300s, can’t fathom why Moscow aiding brutal Assad regime; defense minister says Israel ‘will know what to do’ if weapons reach Damascus; Moscow calls them ‘a stabilizing factor’

An Egyptian man chants anti-Israeli slogans during a Muslim Brotherhood-staged anti-Israel rally in Cairo, May 11 (photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP)

Amid controversy, Foreign Ministry kicks off anti-Semitism conference

By Raphael Ahren

Critics bash forum for hosting top officials from Hungary, Greece, Lithuania and Ireland — countries with ‘tainted records’ — on battling Jew hatred

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, February 2013 (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Crisis averted as Netanyahu tells Ya’alon to back down on draft bill

PM tells Defense Minister Ya’alon to drop opposition to automatic criminal penalties for ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers

A Better Place recharging station in Tel Aviv i in 2012. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

The car’s out of juice, but the Better Place vision may drive on

By David Shamah

A day after the pioneering electric car company announced bankruptcy, some argue that the eulogies are premature

A Better Place sales showroom in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

From the webBetter Place workers sue for May salaries

A portrait of Russian Gesher Theater director, Yevgeny Arye (photo credit: Gadi Dagon)

A master of drama brings his ‘Enemies’ to New York

By Jessica Steinberg

A manuscript from the Dead Sea Scrolls collection on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on September 26, 2011 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

News of Dead Sea Scrolls for sale highlights complex legal status

By Matti Friedman

Israel might want the treasured fragments, but there is no obvious legal barrier to selling them on the private antiquities market, officials say

Sunrise over Nablus in 2011 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

PA hands over two Israelis who entered Nablus

By Gavriel Fiske

Circumstances of duo’s entry into restricted area unclear, authorities say

Thomas Elexander Aleinikoff speaking at the World Economic Forum, May 26 (photo credit: Youtube image/WEF)

UN appeals to private sector for Syrian refugee aid

By Elhanan Miller

International corporations have both an economic and a moral imperative to pitch in, says deputy high commissioner

Still from Ari Folman's 2013 'The Congress,' based on Stanisław Lem's 1971 Polish science fiction novel, 'The Futurological Congress.' (photo credit: Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

What was kosher (and not) at Cannes

By Jordan Hoffman

More Headlines

Max Liebermann's "Garden in Wannsee," 1923 (photo credit: Courtesy of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Israel Museum (briefly) returns painting seized by Nazis

By Matti Friedman

Labor Party councilor Shaoquett Moselmane (photo credit: via Twitter)

Australia’s Muslim lawmaker rips Israel lobby as ‘cancerous, malicious’

Bar Refaeli (photo credit: CC BY-SA Laurent Jean Philippe, Flickr)

Bar's starsRefaeli to host ‘X Factor Israel’

By Michal Shmulovich

Illustrative: Baking tea cakes with lemon, olive oil and lavender. (Andrea Brownstein/Photoli Photography)

Food for thoughtA drizzle of olive oil in a batch of tea cakes

By Shira Buzelan

The Eindhoven High Tech Campus in Brabant (photo credit: Courtesy)

Dutch province wants Israeli tech, BDS be damned

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of Israel Defense Forces reserve soldiers taking part in a surprise drill on an army base in northern Israel, April 2013. (photo credit: Shay Wagner/Israel Army Spokesman via Flash 90)

Army to cut back on reserves call ups

By Aaron Kalman

A schoolgirl waits in a shelter on Monday as an air raid siren sounds during an IDF Home Front Command drill simulating a bombing attack (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewSounding the alarm

By Yossi Nachemi

Syrians participate in the funeral prayer for Youssef Ghazi al-Sarmani who was killed in fighting between rebel and government forces, Monday, May 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)

Arabic media reviewHezbollah in Syria irks Arab columnists

By Elhanan Miller

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