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What Matters Most On Monday, May 12, 2014

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Syrian rebels of unknown affiliation hold their weapons as they prepare to fight against Assad regime troops in Homs province, June 18, 2012 (photo credit: AP/File)

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Jihadists capturing southern Syria, local fighter warns

By Elhanan Miller

While Arab countries close their doors, Israel opens them to us, says Free Syrian Army spokesman in Daraa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres seen during a ceremony laying a founding stone for the National Memorial Hall for IDF victims of war on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 30, 2014. (Photo credit: David Vaaknini/POOL/Flash 90)

AnalysisOp-ed

Abolishing the presidency? Think again, Netanyahu

By David Horovitz

This is so patently a dreadful idea that you have to wonder what on earth is going on in the prime minister’s head, and in his office

Behind Newsweek’s anti-Israel canard

The one named source for the magazine’s spying allegations is an ex-CIA man with a documented dislike of Israel

Calev Michael Myers

Apartheid wall or security fence? (WATCH)

Guess how much of the separation barrier is actually a high cement wall

A woman attends a demonstration in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, May 5, 2014, urging the government to increase efforts to rescue hundreds of abducted female students from a government secondary school. (photo credit: AP/Sunday Alamba)

Israel joins search for Nigerian schoolgirls

By AFP

Citing Jerusalem’s ‘globally acknowledged anti-terrorism expertise,’ President Goodluck Jonathan welcomes offer of help

Misha Defonseca, author of Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

Author of hoax Holocaust memoir to pay $22.5 million

Misha Defonseca, who lied about being Jewish, was found to have made up the events in her book about WWII

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during a ceremony at the Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) in Tehran on May 11, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/HO/ PRESIDENCY WEBSITE)

Iran says it could go back to 20% enrichment

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rouhani vows Tehran won’t accept ‘nuclear apartheid’ or give up right to maintain program

MK Ze'ev Elkin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Key Knesset committee gets a chairman at long last

By Haviv Rettig Gur

With placing of Ze’ev Elkin at helm of Foreign Affairs and Defense panel, Likud-Beytenu retains all top security posts

Benjamin Netanyahu during a memorial ceremony marking Memorial Day on May 5, 2014 at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. To his right are Shimon Peres and Yuli Edelstein. (photo credit: AFP/POOL/JIM HOLLANDER)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s presidency gambit: A sign of fear?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The PM’s push to weaken the presidency could have been a savvy political move — if it didn’t look so desperate and disheveled

Illustrative: A housing construction site in Jerusalem, October 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Plan will benefit IDF veterans who buy an apartment

By Stuart Winer

‘We won’t apologize for being Zionists,’ Lapid says to accusations of discrimination against Arabs, ultra-Orthodox

IDF out of funds, senior official reportedly says

As crisis over budget comes to a head, military claims it needs ‘billions of shekels’ to stay afloat

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An early 2013 artist's rendering of the proposed orbit launch for the SpaceIL craft. (Courtesy)

Israeli Lunar XPrize team shoots for the moon

With a dishwasher-sized craft, 3 young men hope to make the Jewish state the fourth ever to land on the lunar surface

Meir Shalev, pictured here at a previous festival, will be speaking Thursday, May 22, at 7 pm (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Jerusalem and its poet, Yehuda Amichai, spotlighted at writers festival

By Jessica Steinberg

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Cartoon published in PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida shows Palestinian 'reconciliation' cutting off the head of Israeli snake (Photo credit: Courtesy Palestinian Media Watch)

In PA cartoon, ‘reconciliation’ smites Israeli snake

Russell Crowe in 'Noah' (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Flood of namesNoah tops US charts for 2013 boy’s names

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling watches the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2010. (photo credit: AP/Danny Moloshok)

'A terrible mistake'Clippers Sterling sorry for racist talk

By Rebecca BRYAN

Kunis talks to Ellen. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

In a pickleMila Kunis opens up about pregnancy

Lana Del Rey (Courtesy Lana Del Rey - Israel Facebook page)

Rey of sunshineLana Del Rey adds Tel Aviv to world tour

By Jessica Steinberg

Sunrise over Nablus in 2011 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Shin Bet foils plot to kidnap Israeli soldier

Cranes building new apartment buildings in Beit Shemesh, in 2011. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHouse-hunting on Mars

By Joshua Davidovich

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