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What Matters Most On Friday, May 23, 2014

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An Iron Dome missile defense battery near the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Thursday, December 26, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

US defense funding bill sends strong message on Iran

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Legislation that passed the House Thursday delineates preconditions for nuclear deal, offers strong support for Israel’s defense

Then-US president Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside an Iron Dome missile defense battery during Obama's visit to Israel in March 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US lawmakers vote to double funding for Iron Dome

By ToI Staff and AP

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wipes his cheek as he speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, May 22, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

West says rifts remain over Iran nuke pact

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Genesis Prize award ceremony at the Jerusalem Theater, on Thursday, May 22, 2014. (photo credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu: There is nobody to negotiate with in Ramallah

PM tells Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg Israel doesn’t want to take unilateral action, but is not getting anywhere with Abbas

Then Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 22, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett in favor of ‘unilateral moves’ in West Bank

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. (photo credit: FLASH90)

‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill aims to incorporate settlements

By Marissa Newman

An Arab-Christian turn toward Israel?

Hopes of a new alliance could be dashed if Jewish extremist hate crimes continue unchecked

The right to be forgotten

On a European court ruling requiring search engines to hide outdated or wrong personal information

In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minnesota. (AP/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

Germany can prosecute ex-SS man living in America, court rules

By AP

Berlin says Michael Karkoc held a ‘German office’ even though he is not German and his alleged crimes were not committed on German soil

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) poses for the media before voting for the European Parliament in Cudham, England, on Thursday, May 22, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Britain’s UKIP surges in local council elections

By AFP and AP

Anti-EU, anti-immigration party gains 89 seats, having previously held just one, in early results; Cameron’s Conservatives lose 97 seats

This Dec. 6, 2013 file image posted on his official Instagram account shows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hiking in the Tochal mountain area north of Tehran, Iran. (photo credit: AP/Office of Hassan Rouhani via Instagram/File)

Iran bans Instagram over ‘privacy concerns’

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

Photo-sharing app’s owner, Facebook, as well as Twitter and YouTube are already blocked in the Islamic Republic

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting with journalists in Ramallah a day before his Fatah faction signed a reconciliation agreement with Hamas, April 22, 2014. (Palestinian Press Office via Getty Images/JTA/File)

Analysis

Why did Abbas change course on applying to UN bodies?

By Avi Issacharoff

And how will he manage to secure US funding for a Hamas-backed unity gov’t? Our interview with the PA president yields more questions than answers

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, signs a request to join 15 United Nations-linked and other international treaties at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Standing next to him is Saeb Erekat. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

AnalysisIsrael denies Abbas claim that he gave warning before joining int’l treaties

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Egyptian military helicopters fly over the eastern Sinai Peninsula, October 18, 2012. (photo credit: Egyptian Presidency/AFP)

Head of Sinai terror group behind rocket fire, attacks on Israel, killed

By AP and ToI Staff

Egypt: Leader of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, organization responsible for 2011, 2012 deadly cross-border assaults, shot by gunmen

Image showing Raphael's "The Deposition" mashed-up with a photograph of an immobile Palestinian.

PA art exhibit for pope paints Jesus as Palestinian

Officially sanctioned mash-ups show Biblical scenes by the great masters mixed with contemporary images of Palestinian suffering

Far-right activists Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, Baruch Marzel, center, and Michael Ben Ari protesting the visit of Pope Francis, on Thursday, May 22, 2014 (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

On Mount Zion, protesting the pope and preaching the status quo

By Lazar Berman

Concert held to send message of Jewish unity and control of fraught religious site, but some ramp up anti-Francis rhetoric

Pope Francis I waving to the crowds on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty/via JTA)

Israel restricts more extremist Jews ahead of pope visit

By AFP and ToI Staff

Riot police detain a protester as they use water cannons and teargas to disperse people who were protesting the Soma mine accident that killed 301 miners, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, May 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo)

ADL blasts Turkish press, politicians for ‘Jewish conspiracy’ claims

By AFP and ToI Staff

Article in Turkish daily made connection between Jews, Soma mining accident which killed hundreds

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (right) in Ottawa, Canada, March 2, 2012 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Will Canada soon strip citizenship from dual passport holders?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Members of a delegation to the Israel-China Economic Summit at the Knesset in May 2014 (photo credit: Courtesy)

Top Chinese official: Arab boycott fears over

By David Shamah

From icy aloofness a decade ago, Chinese government and business officials are embracing Israel as a partner

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Two Israelis, British national arrested in Jordan

Israeli Navy vessels escort the Mavi Marmara to the port of Ashdod, May 31, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

From the webMavi Marmara lawyers reject Israeli compensation

Illustrative: Police in New York. (CC BY/Andre Gustavo Stumpf/Flickr)

Ex-student accused of stealing $50k from NY yeshiva

By JTA

The Bank of Israel in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Ester Inbar)

Bank of Israel goes ‘underground’ to avoid missiles

By David Shamah

The Korazim national park (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Goonies revisited5th graders strike gold at national park

A prop from a February 24, 2014, protest against the sale of the Israeli dairy company Tnuva to a Chinese firm (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewA Chinese company says ‘Cheese!’

By Yossi Nachemi

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (photo credit: An-Najah University)

Arabic media reviewRami Hamdallah to head new Palestinian government

By Elhanan Miller

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