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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 1, 2013

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A man runs as riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a sit-in protest to try and prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul’s main square, Taksim. (AP Photo)

Police accused of massacre at ‘Turkish Spring’ protest against park demolition

By AP and Yifa Yaakov

Peaceful sit-in turns into furious anti-government rally after security forces crack down on demonstrators hoping to save Istanbul’s Gezi Park; Erdogan branded a ‘fascist’

Erdogan: Stop demonstrating, Istanbul redevelopment plan will not be halted

By BULUT EMIROGLU and Suzan Fraser

AnalysisArab reform movements shift into low gear

By Brian Murphy

Turkish police crack down on Istanbul park protest

A scene from 'Hannah Arendt' (photo credit: courtesy Zeitgeist Films)

Cinema review

Hannah Arendt gets the smart, nuanced biopic she deserves

By Jordan Hoffman

Hitting theaters Friday, a new movie shows how unhappy the German-Jewish, New York-based author was to have reached her incendiary conclusions about Eichmann and the ‘banality of evil’

In this photo released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, on Friday, May 31, 2013, presidential candidates from left, Saeed Jalili, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Ali Akbar Velayati, Mohammad Gharazi, Mohammad Reza Aref, Hasan Rowhani, Mohsen Rezaei, pose for a group picture, after their TV debate in a state-run TV studio, in Tehran, Iran (photo credit: AP/Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Mehdi Dehghan)

In first debate, Iranians get a taste of bickering presidential candidates

By Nasser Karimi

No clear winner as field of eight Khamenei loyalists in televised face-off spend much of their time complaining about the format

An Iranian cleric holds up a poster of presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, after the Friday prayer in Tehran, Friday, May 31, 2013. Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls to hard-line clerics. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AnalysisBrazen Iranian campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and Brian Murphy

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP/ Maxim Shipenkov)

PM indicated to Putin: ‘We’ll destroy your missiles if you deliver them to Assad’

After Netanyahu made clear he would not allow the S-300 anti-aircraft weapons to go into service, the Russian president reportedly suggested Israel buy them instead

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, gestures as he speaks during a news conference with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at the State Department in Washington, Friday, May 31, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Evan Vucci)

Kerry: Iran election unlikely to alter nuke policy

US secretary of state says possibility of Israeli strike draws closer, Jerusalem ‘will do what it needs to do to defend itself’

Destroyed homes in a government airstrike and shelling, in the neighborhood of Marjeh in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center)

Rebel group says Assad’s forces execute 50 in Aleppo prison

Second opposition report confirms 31 inmates and 40 government troops killed at jail — but says they died in rebel shelling

Marut (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

In the land of ancient prayer

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Sheikh Omar Kayal, imam of the Bilal mosque (right), sits with Israeli Muslim clerics at a reception for French Imam Hassen Chalghoumi in Majd Al-Krum, May 29 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

French and Israeli Muslims partner in the name of religious tolerance

By Elhanan Miller

In the aftermath of the Toulouse terrorist attacks, one imam’s transformative visit to Yad Vashem leads to a rare alliance

Arvind Mahankali is congratulated by his family after winning the spelling bee (Photo credit: YouTube screencapture)

Bubbie's proud

NY boy wins spelling bee with ‘knaidel’

Arvind Mahankali, 13, aces Yiddish dumpling, takes Scripps National Spelling Bee title

Swadesh Sharma helps Samantha place the small tube through her nostril. The kriya cleans out excess build up that accumulates in the nasal passage. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)

Reporter's notebook

How I stopped racing and conquered my nose tubes

By Michal Shmulovich

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Jerusalem vs. ZombiesSaving Israel, the world, and Brad Pitt

The princesses in action. (courtesy: Bravo)

Material girlsJewish princesses go wild on cable

Alicia Keys (photo credit: courtesy)

Alicia Keys to perform in Israel despite boycott calls

Lou Reed recovering after liver transplant

Belgian students vote secretly for boycott of Israel

Cécile Tormay (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons)

Budapest to review naming of street after anti-Semite

Nicole Lynn Mansfield (photo credit: AP/Mansfield Family Photo)

‘My mother was not a terrorist,’ says daughter of Michigan woman killed in Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

This archive photo shows Jaffa buildings damaged by fighting between Jews and Arabs during the 1948 War. (photo credit: Pinn Hans/GPO)

From the webMass Palestinian grave found near Tel Aviv

Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Germany to ask US for help with Nazi investigation

Pierre Mevy Azaria, CEO MCI Sport (photo credit: Howard Blas)

Honduras, then happinessFor soccer organizer, two big matches

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