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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 8, 2014

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Illustrative photo: Children receive oxygen in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province, Syria, after an alleged chemical attack, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)

Israel: Assad has killed with poison gas 30 times since August

By Mitch Ginsburg and Adiv Sterman

Regime, which signed convention against use last summer, developing range of ‘non-classic’ chemical weapons, senior IDF officer says

Sait Ali Bayrak, seated, and members of the Heylani Kebir tribe (Photo courtesy of Sait Ali Bayrak)

A Kurdish tribal heir, a secretive Swiss bank, and $2 billion in missing gold

By Lazar Berman and Rebecca McKinsey

In a colorful tale featuring spies and grisly murders, Sait Ali Bayrak claims Credit Suisse is hiding his family’s fortune, as it did with Holocaust accounts. The bank insists it has no record of the treasure

12 ways Rouhani is no human rights moderate

Despite the Iranian president’s moderate speech, his regime continues to abuse, imprison, execute and torture

Why do Christians fund the anti-Zionist fringe?

Support for groups that reject Israel’s existence is a giant step backwards for Jewish-Christian reconciliation

Micha Odenheimer

Judaism’s next great gift to humankind

Shmita, the biblical Sabbatical Year, offers a blueprint for putting the common good ahead of commercial interests

TMI and teacher-student boundaries

I read my student’s blog and learned he has emotional problems. Should I try to help him or keep quiet?

Jerusalem, May 7 (photo credit: Yishai Fleisher)

Roads blocked, schools closed as freak rains flood country

Unseasonable storm wreaks havoc in south; flash floods reported from Eilat to Dead Sea

Members of Kiev's Jewish rapid-intervention force, some with faces masked digitally by emoji. (photo credit: JTA/Courtesy)

Armed with bats, Kiev Jews look to combat anti-Semitism

By JTA

Members of eight-man unit set up in recent weeks in Ukrainian capital have IDF experience or martial arts skills

President Barack Obama, left, sits next to movie director Steven Spielberg, right, during the USC Shoah Foundation’s 20th anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity gala in Los Angeles, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Obama: World needs to confront rising anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

President issues staunch defense of Israel at gala event marking 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation

Iranian technicians working at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, in 2009. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

By Stuart Winer

Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

Palestinian mourners wave the green flag of the Islamist movement Hamas at a funeral on April 30, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Top Egyptian official: Hamas must recognize Israel

By AFP

Ex-FM Amr Moussa supports Palestinian reconciliation, but says Gaza-based terror group should back the 2002 Arab initiative

Peres to Rice: World must pressure Hamas to recognize Israel

By Marissa Newman and AP

Blair: I am unaware of secret 2011 Peres-Abbas deal

By Itamar Sharon

Erekat: Netanyahu kept Peres from meeting Abbas

By Elhanan Miller

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is surrounded by supporters as he arrives at a Likud party conference at Ganei HaTaarucha in Tel-Aviv, May 07, 2014 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

In key vote, Netanyahu quells Likud insurgency

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The collapse of peace talks and a new focus on engaging the party faithful brings domestic tranquility to Israel’s ruling party

Swiss museum named ‘sole heir’ of priceless Nazi art trove

By AP

German art collector leaves possessions to Bern gallery, as officials say a probe into looted paintings continues

Tal Ofer at No. 10 Downing Street while working for an MP. (courtesy)

Expat Israeli aims for Parliament, via London municipal elections

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Mango, a 19-year-old male Syrian brown bear, rests on a bed as zoo veterinarians and staff prepare him for surgery in the Ramat Gan Zoological Center's animal hospital near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. The 250 kilogram (550 pound) Syrian brown bear is going into surgery to repair a herniated disc in his back after it was discovered in an x-ray, said Sagit Horowitz, the zoological center spokeswoman. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Bear necessitiesMango the bear has disc fixed

By AP and ToI Staff

Two Jordanian journalists tear up a TV studio during an argument over Syria's civil war (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Overturning the tablesJournos trash studio in dispute over Syria

Illustrative: Portraits of Anne, her sister Margot, and mother Edith, inside the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

New Anne Frank play attempts to wrest girl from symbol

By Maude Brulard

Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. appears at his arraignment on capital murder and first-degree murder charges on April 15, 2014 in New Century, Kansas. (photo credit: David Eulitt-Pool/Getty Images/JTA)

Anti-Semitic material found in JCC shooter’s home

By JTA

A 'raw,' uncorrected image taken underwater (L.) and the same image taken with the Technion's Stella Maris technology (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Virtual periscope keeps submarines submerged and stealthy

By David Shamah

Lightning flashes over Jerusalem Wednesday night as a line of thunderstorms battered Israel (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIsrael vs. Israel

By Yossi Nachemi

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