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What Matters Most On Friday, May 9, 2014

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US Middle East envoy Martin Indyk (Screen capture: Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

US envoy Indyk insists peace process not dead

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Washington’s top negotiator criticizes both sides for failed talks, saying Netanyahu was ‘flexible’ despite approving settlements

US Middle East envoy Martin Indyk (Screen capture: Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Full text of remarks by Martin Indyk on negotiations breakdown

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni during a meeting at the Knesset on January 8, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Tzipi Livni: Settlement activity hurt negotiations

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un uses binoculars to view South Korean territory from an observation post on Jangjae Islet, in March 2013. (photo credit: AP/KCNA via KNS)

Healing Asia

After fleeing North Korea, help from Israel

An Israeli NGO is putting down roots in Seoul, and joining the shadowy network helping Kim Jung-un’s defectors adjust to freedom

Sigall Horovitz

They can’t sue Palestinians at Hague

A report that the NGO Shurat Hadin plans to file an international criminal case misunderstands how the court works

Simcha Jacobovici

Jesus’ soccer team

Heaven is apparently smiling on an improbable group of players from Israel’s northern border

Greg Kinnear listens to, or perhaps coaches, his son in 'Heaven Is For Real.' (courtesy: Sony/Tristar Pictures)

‘Heaven’ is a real success story

By Jordan Hoffman

An American preacher and Jewish-born producer strike gold with a child’s story

Illustrative photo of anti-Christian graffiti reading "Price tag, David the king, Jesus Junk for the Jews" spray painted on the Romanian Church in Jerusalem on May 9, 2014 (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Church defaced in Jerusalem in suspected ‘price tag’ hate attack

By Ilan Ben Zion and ToI Staff

Words ‘Jesus [is] garbage’ spray-painted on wall; ‘Death to Arabs’ graffiti also found on another street in the city

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein looks on as PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum in the Knesset, April 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash 90)

‘Netanyahu may postpone presidential elections’

By ToI Staff and AP

Knesset speaker Edelstein may fill in post temporarily after Shimon Peres ends his term in July

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice, May 8, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Mohamad Torokman, Pool)

Rice: Every $1 spent on Israel’s security is an investment

By AP and ToI Staff

National security adviser says new deal on Iron Dome system signed, bringing spending on missile defense project to $900 million

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Susan Rice, United States National Security Adviser, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2014. (Matty Stern/US Embassy TLV/Flash90)

Rice reassures Israel on Iran nuclear ambitions

By AFP

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands (Vincent van Zeijst/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Human rights groups urge Abbas to join ICC

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Palestinian leader says ‘all international organizations are open’; Israel dismisses appeal to PA as ‘unsolicited advice’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 4th Likud Party conference in Tel-Aviv. May 07, 2014. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Netanyahu reported to say legal system based on Talmud

By Marissa Newman

Ultra-Orthodox member of the Likud party also says PM told him Israel would officially adopt Hebrew calendar

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Father Gabriel Nadaf in his Jerusalem office, August 5, 2013 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/Flash90/GPO)

Orthodox Arab priest denies he’s been fired for backing IDF service

By ToI Staff and AFP

Amid reports he was dismissed from Nazareth post, Father Gabriel Naddaf says he has received no such notification

Illustrative: Travelers standing in line at the departure hall at Terminal 1 of Ben Gurion International Airport (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

El Al flights canceled after pilots fail to show up

By Lazar Berman

Move comes amidst ongoing labor dispute; passengers furious as they are left without explanations

Former chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger speaks to women attending a seminar on the laws of Kashrut in 2010. (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

In a first, Israeli women take test for kosher supervisor

By JTA

Chief Rabbi David Lau’s ruling paves way for approval by religious authorities

Atop the kastel (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels: Independence Day

The Kastel, where the siege of Jerusalem was finally broken

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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

Potential Israel partner Cyprus looks to speed gas search

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

Rabbi Abraham Skorka during an interview at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York on October 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Tina Fineberg)

Rabbi, Muslim leader to accompany pontiff to Israel

By JTA

Screenshot from the Al-AQsa TV show "Pioneers of Tomorrow," broadcast in Gaza on May 2, 2014, translated by MEMRI. (Photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Bad educationKill ‘all’ Jews, Hamas TV host urges kids

Mein Kampf dust jacket (photo credit: New York Public Library Digital Collection)

US welcomes removal of anti-Semitic books from Abu Dhabi fair

By JTA

Jerusalem, May 7 (photo credit: Yishai Fleisher)

Hebrew Media ReviewAfter the storm

By Marissa Newman

Syrian government forces inspect damage in Homs, Syria, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewThe fall of Homs

By Elhanan Miller

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