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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM lashes out at ‘anti-Semitic’ Israel critics

By Adiv Sterman

Netanyahu urges Jerusalem conference to ‘fight and win the battle’ for fair representation of the Jewish state

Bat Yam synagogue daubed with swastikas

By Stuart Winer

French university slammed for play featuring Goldberg, the greedy money dealer

Polish professor axed for blaming Holocaust on Jews

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Syrian rebels near Israel border stole UN’s armored trucks

By Ilan Ben Zion

Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade now has two ‘virtually indestructible’ vehicles, which Israeli expert warns could be used in surprise attacks

Syria’s opposition urges EU to send arms to rebels

Russia’s UN envoy defends Syria missile deal

By Stuart Winer

Jordan: Nearly 60,000 Syrian refugees return home

Charley J. Levine

True allies in the war on Jew-hatred

Yes, some attendees at the Global Forum come from places where anti-Semitism is rampant…and that’s as it should be

The importance of being somewhat reasonable

Immigrants to Israel should stop kvetching and notice how much the country really doesn’t suck

Illustrative photo of a young man reading from a Torah scroll (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Oldest known Torah scroll found in Italian library

Parchment was wrongly catalogued as dating to 17th century when in fact it was written 400-500 years earlier

Spot the differences. A billboard depicting JCPenney's controversial 'Hitler kettle' alongside the real thing.

No tea for you

Web simmers over ‘Hitler kettle’

By Adiv Sterman

Billboard bearing JCPenney product attracts the attention of commuters due to an uncanny similarity to the Nazi leader

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas promotes the Arab Peace Initiative during a speech at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Jordan, May 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jim Young)

Hamas to Abbas: ‘Abducting soldiers is at the heart of our culture’

By Elhanan Miller

Kidnapping Israelis is a source of pride, not shame, declares spokesman in rebuttal to PA president’s speech

From left, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Moshe Ya'alon and Benny Gantz at a ceremony in May. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Strongman’s handcuffs: The futility of red lines

By Mitch Ginsburg

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman enters the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ahead of giving testimony in his corruption trial on Wednesday, May 29 (photo credit: Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)

Liberman, finally testifying in his corruption trial, denies any wrongdoing

By Stuart Winer

Former FM describes brief meeting with ambassador to Belarus, during which he was given a secret message that he promptly discarded and disregarded

Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar announced that daylight saving will be extended till the end of October, Wednesday 29, 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Ministry of Interior)

Daylight saving time to stretch till end of October

By Gavriel Fiske and Stuart Winer

Interior minister adopts committee suggestions to give Israelis a little more sunshine

Yaakov Peri (left) and Yair Lapid at the Knesset (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid hails new conscription bill as ‘historic change’

By Aaron Kalman and ToI Staff

Yesh Atid head tells ultra-Orthodox Israelis that no one is seeking to turn them into secular Jews, but they have to pull their weight; Amir Peretz says law won’t survive court appeals

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu wants US to help him meet with Morsi, Egyptians say

By Stuart Winer

Washington not keen to push for a parley between two leaders, claiming ‘timing is not right’

Soldiers during an emergency drill at Mount Scopus Hospital on Wednesday, May 29 (photo credit: David Katz/The Israel Project)

Netanyahu attends chemical attack exercise

By Aaron Kalman

Prime minister says Israeli lives come before all other considerations

Indian farmers learning Israeli olive expertise in Rajasthan. (photo credit: courtesy)

The Indian-Israeli olive agribusiness experiment

By Ofira Reuben and Paul Dharamraj

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Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Jerusalem, Wednesday (photo credit: Morag Bitan/PMO)

Netanyahu sets goal of 10 million tourists a year

By Aaron Kalman

Illustration. A private swimming pool in a villa, February 23, 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Drowned toddler awakes after three-day coma

By Stuart Winer

The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-US Mission Geneva/Flickr/File)

Israel ready to reengage with UN Human Rights Council

By Raphael Ahren

Police officers outside the Toulouse school in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Bruno Martin)

France arrests six in connection to Toulouse shooting

By Aaron Kalman

Series of ‘price tag’ incidents in Jerusalem, Jordan Valley

By Aaron Kalman

Illustrative photo of an Israeli ambulance (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Police investigating toddler’s death from nicotine overdose

By Stuart Winer

Attorney general’s wife agrees to plea bargain

By Adiv Sterman

Soldiers practice dealing with a non-conventional attack, Wednesday (photo credit: David Katz/The Israel Project)

Hebrew media reviewBenched by Syria

By Joshua Davidovich

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