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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 22, 2014

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Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant smash an Assyrian statue. (photo courtesy of APSA/Abou Mouseb)

Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts

By Ilan Ben Zion

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters smash 3,000-year-old Assyrian statue in latest act of cultural genocide

Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Al-Jarba speaks at the United Nations headquarters in July 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)

Syria opposition expects Western military aid ‘within weeks’

By Elhanan Miller

Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz (photo credit: Flash90)

Interview

Livni must quit and proclaim that PM doomed the talks, says Meretz MK

By David Horovitz and ToI Staff

‘She’s now a fig leaf,’ says Nitzan Horowitz about Israel’s chief negotiator, while Abbas seeks a reconciliation ‘that would cement our presence in this land’

‘Netanyahu was ready to fire Livni for meeting Abbas’

By Lazar Berman

US: It’s up to Israel, Palestinians to pick up talks

PA court sentences Dahlan to 2 years prison in absentia

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Oh no, I failed the ADL survey

Plenty of Jews (and not those self-hating ones) agree with a few of the survey’s ‘anti-Semitic’ statements

Screwing up and coping

When you’re parenting a child with special needs and calamity strikes, the only option is to keep on keeping on

Jews of Europe – vote!

As xenophobia appears to be rearing its head across the continent, the EU elections matter more than ever

Allen S. Maller

Awesome Jewish woman

Three Hasidic rabbis who recognized the spiritual worth of the women in their lives

Robin Williams stars in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, a remake of an Assi Dayan movie (Courtesy The Angriest Man in Brooklyn)

Assi Dayan’s ‘Mr. Baum’ gets a (brief) new lease on life in Hollywood

By Jessica Steinberg

In this May 6, 2012 file photo, Golden Dawn party leader Nikos Michaloliakos speaks during a news conference in front of a banner with the twisting Maeander, an ancient Greek decorative motif that the party has adopted as its symbol, in Athens. (AP/Petros Giannakourism, File)

Why is Greece the most anti-Semitic country in Europe?

By Gavin Rabinowitz

69 percent of Greeks have anti-Semitic views, ADL finds, but the Golden Dawn party isn’t the only one to blame

The European Union flag (Serge Attal/Flash 90)

British, Dutch voters kick off fraught EU election

By AFP

Rudolf Höss, the Commandant of Auschwitz, at the death camp in 1943 (Public domain)

Auschwitz commander’s grandson visits Israel

By Lazar Berman

Rainer Hoess is an activist against European neo-Nazism and fights to raise awareness of the dangers of racism

Reproduction of a photograph of Adolf Hitler receiving the Nazi salute from Israel Nazi hunter Tovia Fridman archive. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Swiss court: Nazi salute ‘not always punishable’

By AP

Gesture is only a problem if is it used to promote, spread or advertise racism, say judges

Israeli Air Force commander Amir Eshel (photo credit: Sivan Farraj)

Air force chief lauds 400% firepower increase in 2 years

By Mitch Ginsburg

Amir Eshel says planes can strike in 24 hours the same number of targets hit throughout 34-day Second Lebanon War in 2006

Palestinian demonstrators help an injured friend during clashes with Israeli security forces outside Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Betunia, on Thursday, May 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

Film of Palestinians’ killing likely doctored, top official says

By Mitch Ginsburg and Lazar Berman

High-placed defense source recalls ‘Pallywood’ allegations against IDF in 2000; human rights group: ‘Grave suspicion’ shooting was willful

Labor MK Omer Bar-Lev speaks to the press outside of a session of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset on May 20, 2014 (Flash90)

Analysis

MKs seek more power over ballooning military spending

By Haviv Rettig Gur

With the IDF demanding yet another infusion, members of a key Knesset committee want to be more than just a rubber stamp

The three winning teams in the Entrepreneurs of the Future competition, with Chief Scientist Avi Hasson (back row, second left) (Photo credit: Zvika Goldstein)

Israel’s ‘Tech X-Factor’ victor wins NIS 100k prize

By David Shamah

Foot ulcer detection system best of this year’s tech crop, in a contest sponsored by the Chief Scientist’s Office

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South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane signs the guestbook at the residence of then-president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, February 28, 2013. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Interview

South Africa’s envoy: West Bank reminds me of apartheid

By Raphael Ahren

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Tnuva cottage cheese in a Jerusalem supermarket.(photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Chinese state company buys controlling stake in Tnuva

By Lazar Berman

American comedian Jay Leno reacts during an interview with the Associated Press in Jerusalem, May 21, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

InterviewIn Israel, Jay Leno says he’s enjoying retirement

Iranian Pharrell Williams fans dance in their rendition of the singer's hit song, 'Happy.' (screen capture: YouTube)

Iran said to free makers of ‘Happy’ video

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of internet browsing. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Rabbi among dozens charged in NY City child porn case

By AP

Sabra hummus (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Dip definitionSabra proposes US hummus law

By JTA

Uri Elitzur, the Editor of Makor Rishon passed away Thursday at age 68 after battling cancer (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

Leading pro-settler journalist Uri Elitzur dies at 68

By Adiv Sterman

Former Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a committee meeting at the Knesset in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThere’s the Ruby

By Joshua Davidovich

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