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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 8, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (second from right) and Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin (third from right) at a Rosh Hashana celebration in 2011. (Photo credit: Itzik Biran/Flash90)

PMO, distancing itself from deputy minister’s comments, says gov’t wants two-state solution

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

After Danny Danon tells Times of Israel that majority in coalition would block Palestinian state, sources close to Netanyahu say PM wants to resume talks right away and discuss ‘all issues’

Labor would ‘reconsider joining the coalition’ to advance peace talks

By Michal Shmulovich and ToI Staff

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)

Kerry bound for Israel, Palestinian territories next week

Al-Manar TV shows "illuminating bombs" bearing Hebrew lettering, June 7, 2013 (photo credit: youTube)

IDF derides Hezbollah report of Israeli bombs found in Qusair battle zone

Military source says footage of ‘mortar bombs’ purportedly found in Qusair actually shows ‘illuminating bombs’, with no explosive use, left behind in Lebanon pre-2000

Assad adviser: Israel orchestrating Syrian rebels

By Michal Shmulovich

Hezbollah entry in Syrian conflict fans Shiite-Sunni fires

Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops seize central villages

Hannah Wacholder Katsman

My lesson in tolerance

Demanding that WoW change their behavior in order to show tolerance for Orthodox sensibilities is the height of intolerance.

Actors rehearsing a scene from 'Bibelen,' a six-hour play based on a nontraditional interpretation of the Bible. (photo credit: AP Photo/Per Maning, Det Norske Teatret)

Bible’s strong comeback surprises secular Norway

By Saleha Mohsin

Samantha Power gets early boost from pro-Israel voices

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Facing Senate confirmation with a trail of controversial quotes, Power’s pro-Israel bona fides win endorsement from ADL, Alan Dershowitz, Joe Lieberman

Turkish protesters clash with riot police near the former Ottoman palace, Dolmabahce, where Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintains an office in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Senior EU official calls for ‘swift, transparent’ probe of Turkish police violence

By Elena Becatoros and Suzan Fraser

As Stefan Fule mulls Ankara’s bid to join the European bloc, he says ‘democratic standards and practices’ are highest possible aspiration

The inaugural Elsa High School graduating class. (photo credit: Denise Pontak)

Hong Kong graduates its first Jewish high school class

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

Noble drills to confirm size of Cyprus gas field

Houston-based company, which owns significant shares in major Israeli offshore deposits Tamar and Leviathan, probes new Mediterranean find

A Sunni gunman fires his machine gun during clashes that erupted between pro and anti-Syrian regime gunmen, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, May 23, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Lebanese army cautions citizens to stay out of Syria war

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

Concerned that growing involvement in conflict next door will plunge the country into chaos, military urges public to eschew violence

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Sochi, Russia, on Friday, May 17, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)

Putin offers troops to replace Austrians on Golan, speaks with Netanyahu

By AP and ToI Staff

UN says no after Russian president suggests his soldiers could join the UN peacekeeping force on the Israeli-Syrian border

Israelis and tourists look at a fire, caused by fighting in Syria, from an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Golan Heights and Syria, Friday, June 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

As fighting looms closer to home, IDF confronts increased jihadi presence in Golan Heights

While Israel isn’t interested in getting involved in Syrian civil war, it must protect Israel from dangers there, says Golan Division head

Round Roman tower (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Berko Park, aka ancient Tiberias

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Iranian presidential candidates from right, Mohammad Gharazi, Mohammad Reza Aref, Saeed Jalili, Ali Akbar Velayati, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, Hasan Rowhani, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and Mohsen Rezaei, attend a TV debate in a state-run TV studio, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Mehdi Dehghan)

Iranian presidential candidates debate talks with West

Former and current nuclear negotiators trade barbs in televised eight-way debate between competing politicians

A young child crying. (Illustrative photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

For excluded grandparents, a ‘living bereavement’

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Patrick Mercer (photo credit: Courtesy)

UK MP describes female Israeli soldier as ‘a bloody Jew’

By JTA and AP

Ahlam Shibli’s photo “Untitled (Death No. 33),” which shows the house of a Palestinian suicide bomber, is currently being exhibited at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. (photo credit: Courtesy, Jeu de Paume/JTA)

Paris museum opens photo exhibit of Palestinian suicide bombers

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

After boycott, Israel eyes return to UN rights body

Mimi Leveque, a freelance conservator, cleans Padihershef, a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy at Mass General Hospital in Boston, Friday, June 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Gretchen Ertl)

Ancient faceliftNot quite ER: Boston cleans mummy

Aerial view of the rising water of the flooding River Danube approaching the Parliament building, center, in Budapest, Hungary on Friday. (photo credit: AP Photo/MTI, Sandor Ujvari)

Floods wreak havoc in Hungary, central Europe

By JTA, AP and ToI Staff

State Dept hands over 97 pages of Benghazi info

A Santa Monica police officer leads children on a field trip from Citizens of the World Charter School in Los Angeles out of Santa Monica College, where they had gone for a planetarium show, following a shooting in the area in Santa Monica, California on Friday. (photo credit: AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Man kills 4 in California before police shoot him dead

The IDF awareness campaign is to prevent soldier kidnappings (screen capture: IDF)

Palestinian terrorists step up attempts to abduct Israelis

Surgeons and nurses performing surgery in an Israeli hospital on January 15. 2007. (photo credit: Nati Shohat /Flash90)

From the webAfter tech success, Israel seeks life sciences growth

Golden Dawn Party insignia against Greek flag

Greek neo-Nazi lawmaker indicates he is a Holocaust denier

EU tries to keep a close eye on fighters in Syria

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo/File)

Egyptian president dismisses calls for early vote

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Tony G. Gabriel

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