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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Abbas says he won’t join more international groups for now

By Avi Issacharoff

Speaking to The Times of Israel, PA president condemns Nakba Day killings of two Palestinian teenagers by IDF, and following day’s attack on Israeli journalists

Palestinian security prisoners declare massive hunger strike

By Elhanan Miller

Washington urges probe into Nakba Day killings

By Adiv Sterman

Ya’alon says troops in Nakba Day killings were in danger, acted as needed

By ToI Staff and AFP

Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page in concert in 1977. (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons/ Jim Summaria, http://www.jimsummariaphoto.com)

Lawyers for Jewish guitarist claim ‘Stairway to Heaven’ ripped off his song

Led Zeppelin toured with the late Randy California’s band Spirit in the late 1960s, and heard his instrumental ‘Taurus’ two years before ‘Stairway’ was recorded

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Macklemore knows how to say he’s sorry

The rapper gets mensch points for making a genuine apology and not the lame ‘sorry if I hurt anyone’ kind

Why Michelle Obama’s tweet matters

In the digital diplomacy age, the First Lady’s selfie is an official statement by the U.S. administration

Echoes of McCarthyism at UCLA

Why don’t university administrators and academics act when the victims of campus bullying are Zionist Jews?

Rabbi Abraham Skorka (left) and other rabbis with Pope Francis at the Vatican in January (photo credit: Ilan Dabush/AP)

Pope’s rabbi friend hails significance of wreath-laying at Herzl’s grave

By Raphael Ahren

Abraham Skorka says pontiff understands importance of Israel to the Jews, but stresses Francis will maintain ‘total balance’ on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

In this photo taken Monday, May 19, 2014, a welcome banner for Pope Francis with his picture hangs on a building in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)

Christian emigration looms over pope’s first Holy Land visit

By Daniel Estrin

A juice vendor walks past a poster of Pope Francis in Jerusalem's Old City on May 20, 2014 a few days ahead of a the top-level visit by the Pope to the Holy Land. (photo credit: AFP/GALI TIBBON)

Playlist

Chasing Francis: Five spots to catch the holy rolling pope

Conservative Rabbi Julie Schonberg (L.) responds to Yesh Atid MK Aliza Lavie (R.) at the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement in Dallas, Texas, Thursday, May 15, 2014. (screen capture, YouTube)

Conservative rabbis warn Israel losing Diaspora over lack of religious pluralism

MK Aliza Lavie vows at Texas convention to promote civil partnership, but receives bitter response from leaders infuriated by Rabbinate

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from behind bars as he attends a hearing in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Egypt’s Mubarak sentenced to 3 years in graft case

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Ousted president and two sons sent to prison after being convicted of embezzlement

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (Flash 90)

Analysis

In the chief of staff’s warnings, bitter memories of 2006

By David Horovitz

When the usually understated Benny Gantz sounds the alarm over budget cuts and cancels reserves training, it might be worth paying attention

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon visiting the Arrow II intercepting missile launcher at the Palmahim Israeli Air Force base March 2, 2015. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ya’alon: Cuts may leave IDF without crucial defense system

By Adiv Sterman

Cindy Corrie, center right, with lawyer Reem Masarweh in court Wednesday. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

Top court hears appeal on American activist’s death

Rachel Corrie’s parents seeking to overturn 2012 lower court ruling that rejected claims IDF was responsible for 2003 incident

Former Likud MK and presidential hopeful Silvan Shalom pictured at a joint press conference of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. (photo credit: Flash 90)

Likud minister Shalom said to nix presidential run

Decision comes after Netanyahu declines to endorse candidacy, sources close to both say

Crime boss Yitzhak Abergil, seen in court on May 20, 2014. (photo credit: FLASH90)

Building developer accused of funding crime ring

By Marissa Newman

Four suspects held, along with mob boss Yitzhak Abergil; police accuse company of money laundering, tax fraud

Herodian frescoes restored, returned to Masada

By JTA

The frescoes show geometric figures and prove that commanders in Herod’s army lived in the room

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

Australian company pulls out of Israeli gas venture

By AFP

Woodside Petroleum was to take 25% stake in Leviathan project, run all downstream gas production

(L to R) Ze'ev Goldberg, chairman of Unlimited; Yiftach Ron-Tal, IEC chairman; Communications Minister Gilad Erdan; Jonas Birgeson, chairman of ViaEuropa Israel; and Dov Lauver, Unlimited CEO at Tuesday's announcement event (Photo credit: Gideon Markovitch)

Israel gets ‘revolutionary’ fast fiber optic net

By David Shamah

Communications minister hails Unlimited’s dazzling fast new internet service

Danny Raz, Director of the new Israel branch of Bell Labs (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Bell Labs plans Israeli branch of its ‘idea factory’

By David Shamah

The researchers who invented everything from transistors to television get some help from the Start-Up Nation

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Get the Start-Up Daily newsletter, free by email, for selected top stories from our 24/7 Israeli high-tech coverage

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Britain's Prince Charles (CC BY-SA, Dan Marsh, Flickr)

Prince Charles: Putin acting like Hitler

By ToI Staff and AP

Equestrian show jumper and Olympic hopeful Danielle Goldstein practicing her routine in central Israel, May 12, 2014 (photo credit: Ben Sales/JTA)

With Olympic hopes, Israeli equestrian not horsing around

The lakeside resort town of Zell am See, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. (photo credit: Bestzeller/Wikipedia/public domain)

When in Zell am SeeAct more Austrian, Arab tourists told

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton addresses the American Jewish Committee Global Forum on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 (photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Clinton seeks to differentiate herself from Obama on Mideast

Prof. Jonathan Sarna is currently working on a text about a female 19th-century Jewish American writer and poet (photo credit: Mike Lovett)

Historian Jonathan Sarna in critical condition

By JTA

An officer distributing mail from home to soldiers in one of the forward positions on Mount Hermon, October 11, 1973 (Photo Credit: GPO/Eitan Harris)

Diary of a young manJournal of dead IDF soldier found

By Marissa Newman

Not pleasedIranians held over Happy video

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with American comedian Jay Leno, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 21, 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/ GPO/FLASH90)

Hosting the hostNetanyahu and Jay Leno have a chinwag

By Stuart Winer

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (center) stands with Israeli soldiers at the Palmachim Air Base on Tuesday while visiting the Arrow II unit stationed there. Ya'alon warned the budget crisis could harm Israel's missile defenses. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewTraining daze

By Yossi Nachemi

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