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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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Palestinians mourn the death of Nadeem Abu Qaraa and Muhamed Abu Daher at their joint funeral in the West Bank town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, on May 16, 2014. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90)

Clip purports to show unarmed Palestinians shot by IDF

2 youths were killed after Nakba Day clashes had subsided, NGO footage ostensibly shows; army says film edited to distort events

TV's favorite cult series has a significant Jewish backstory. (photo credit: Courtesy HBO)

The Jewish legacy behind ‘Game of Thrones’

TV’s favorite cult fantasy has two Jewish creators and material sourced from a French-Jewish novelist

Iran should not be open for business

Hundreds of multinational companies are propping up a rogue regime with nuclear ambitions and ties to terror

Israel’s new friend in New Delhi

India’s prime minister elect is a declared friend of the Jewish state with a lon record of close economic ties

A moral path out of the wilderness

Brutal repression in Brunei has prompted Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills to boycott a local hotel

Bruce R. Rosengard

J Street and the challenge of debate

Calling for a conversation instead of an effort to squash the screening of a film that criticizes J Street

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

Danon: Government has frozen settlement expansion plans

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Deputy defense minister protests ‘silent freeze,’ urges annexation of 60% of West Bank, says price tag attackers need psychological help

US President Barack Obama, right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Monday, March 17, 2014 (photo credit: Saul Loeb/AFP)

White House said ready to work with PA unity government

By JTA and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz at the Western Wall Monday, after participating at his son bar mitzvah, May 19, 2014. Photo by Flash90

All Israeli army reserve training canceled for 2014

IDF chief of staff Gantz cites unprecedented financial constraints, laments changing national priorities

Lima, Peru. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Imperial94, Flickr)

Playlist

Six places closer than Mars with homes for under NIS 600k

By Joshua Davidovich

Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Confusion over Temple Mount prayer law used to fan tensions

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinian official warns Israel over changing the status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, though bill refers only to compound

An Israeli emergency rescue team examines the remains of a bus bombed in Bulgaria in July, 2012, allegedly by Hezbollah. (Dano Monkotovic/Flash90/JTA)

Bulgaria vows to bring Burgas bombers to justice soon

By Raphael Ahren

PM Plamen Oresharski stops short of seeking to blacklist all of Hezbollah, saying he doesn’t want to ‘disturb the process’

Maccabi Tel Aviv head coach David Blatt (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90

Maccabi Tel Aviv coach eyes NBA career

By Gavriel Fiske

US-born David Blatt says he would be ‘very interested’ in returning to the States to coach pro ball

The crowd in Rabin Square Monday night. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

Rabin Square turns yellow and blue to celebrate Maccabi

By Debra Kamin and AP

A frame from an Iranian animated film showing Israeli planes poised to attack Iran with nuclear weapons. (screen capture, YouTube)

Invasion simulation

Persian film shows nuke war with Israel

Video titled ‘Point of No Return’ and peppered with Islamic themes shows Iran ’emptying’ Haifa, Tel Aviv of population

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Ambassador’s Residence in Amman, Jordan, on March 26, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/File)

Young people hold online Middle East talks

Group’s Israeli founder says its size and scope — almost 500,000 participants — shows that youth in the region want peace

Logos of iBario web brands (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Meet iBario, Israel’s $100 million Internet empire

By David Shamah

In its first English-language interview, web giant’s co-owner talks about the many secrets of its success

Ziv, the new male lion at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, getting comfy in his new lair (photo credit: Flash 90)

The rather shy lion of Zion

By Rebecca McKinsey

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MK Omer Bar-Lev (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

MK suspended from top Knesset committee over leak

Tyrese Rice, coach David Blatt and Sofoklis Schortsanitis in the latest meme making the rounds (Amir Schiby/Twitter)

'It's an empire'Twitter lovefest over Maccabi win

By Jessica Steinberg

Video reportedly showing some of the 276 school girls kidnapped by Islamic group Boko Haram, May 12, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/AFP news agency)

Israel experts join search for Nigerian schoolgirls

By AFP

Macklemore in the offensive outfit (Youtube screenshot)

Macklemore apologizes for ‘Jew mocking’ costume

By AP

Frontal assaultSeeing Hitler on your daily commute

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Some Poe with your pie?Safran Foer edits paper cup literature

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein on May 19 announces that elections for presidency will take place on June 10. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSave the date, savor the moment

By Joshua Davidovich

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