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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 24, 2014

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Pope Francis is welcomed in Amman by Jordan’s Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed (R), King Abdullah II's religious affairs adviser, on Saturday, May 24, 2014 upon his arrival. (photo credit: Osservatore Romano/AFP)

Pope Francis received in Amman with flowers

By AFP and AP

Catholic leader greeted by Jordanian political and religious dignitaries as he begins Middle East ‘pilgrimage of prayer’

In Amman, Pope Francis urges religious freedom in Mideast

By AFP and AP

‘Outreach’ and ‘interfaith’ buzzwords for Pope’s Israel trip

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Vandals deface Beersheba church ahead of pope visit

By AP and ToI Staff

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

Putin’s TV station sneers at UK royal family’s Nazi links

By ToI Staff and AFP

WATCH: Russia Today highlights embarrassing ties in deepening row over Prince Charles’s comparison of Russian president to Hitler

Members of Kiev’s Jewish Self-Defense Force train at the a Jewish school on May 21, 2014. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Shaken by Ukraine’s turmoil, Kiev Jews form self-defense force

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A new model for Israeli Arab identity

A unique educational experiment aims to empower students to take responsibility and leadership

Deconstructing Amos Oz

The renowned Hebrew writer represents a literary tradition that wants to eliminate Israel’s Jewish identity

Raphael Freeman

No Lego in Russia? Time for a latte

Even house cleaners have gone high-tech these days

An Israeli soldier salutes fallen soldiers during a ceremony held on the Mount of Olives in preparation for Memorial Day, May 4, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Brothers push for Israeli-style moment of silence for US Veterans Day

By Matt Lebovic

Proposed legislation passes House of Representatives, a result of siblings’ four-year quest to honor US fallen as Israel does its own

Tzipi Livni speaks at a meeting of her Hatnua party in the Knesset, on Monday, May 19, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Livni: I was not scolded by Netanyahu

Defiant over meeting with Abbas in London last week, chief negotiator says she’s trying to save Israel from right-wing extremists

Mourners pray for the bodies of Palestinian teens Mohammed Abu Dhaher, front, and Nadim Nawara, behind, during their funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 16, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Analysis

An itchy IDF trigger finger or a ‘Pallywood’ movie?

By Avi Issacharoff

Some IDF efforts to discredit footage ostensibly showing the shootings of two Palestinians on Nakba Day are unconvincing, but one major question remains

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage (R) smiles after signing a copy of his book for a supporter in Basildon in Essex, east of London, on May 23, 2014, as results continue to come in from local council elections in Britain. (photo credit: Ben Stansall/AFP)

Analysis

UKIP surge challenges Britain’s three-party mold

By AFP

Rise of euroskeptic Farage should prompt mainstream parties to address working-class concerns, say top papers

Pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine plans to elect least bad candidate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

As crucial vote nears, activists warn presidential hopefuls: Don’t betray us

Philip Roth receives an honorary doctorate at the Jewish Theological Seminary's commencement in New York, May 22, 2014. (JTA/Ellen Dubin Photography)

Philip Roth, onetime ‘enfant terrible,’ gets seminary honor

By Beth Kissileff

Jewish writer once denounced as profane gets honorary doctorate from Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary

3-G Holocaust survivor children at target practice (Anthony Weiss/JTA)

Holocaust survivors’ children say Never Again — with a gun

By Anthony Weiss

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman waves as he arrives to give his farewell speech at the end of his six-year term, at the presidential palace, in the Beirut suburb of Baabda, Lebanon, Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Fearing power vacuum, Lebanese president wants successor named

By Diaa Hadid

Michel Sleiman calls on squabbling politicians to reach consensus over next president as Hezbollah demands sympathetic candidate

The Mavi Marmara is tugged out of Haifa harbor long after the raid (photo credit: Herzl Shapira/Flash 90)

Comatose Turkish man injured on Mavi Marmara dies

Uğur Süleyman Söylemez, 51, passes away after 4 years in a coma, raising death toll of 2010 incident to 10

The cake of human ashes from Dachau that will be interred in Durham, NC this Memorial Day Weekend. (Courtesy of Sharon Halperin)

Remains of Dachau victims come to rest in North Carolina

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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A sign plastered outside the New York Times' Times Square offices, accusing it of 'unfair' treatment of both former executive editor Jill Abramson -- and Israel. (photo credit: Twitter)

On camera‘NYT firing as unfair as Israel coverage’

Illustrative photo of the villa where the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. (photo credit: Adam Carr/WIkimedia Commons)

Eichmann’s interrogator reburied in Germany

By David Rising

Muna al-Beheiri tells US President Barack Obama to shut his 'mouse' on live television, February 2014. (screen capture, YouTube)

Not keeping quietShut ‘mouse’ Obama woman strikes again

Illustrative photo of Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City (Serge Attal/Flash90)

US charges four rabbis with conspiracy, kidnapping

By AFP

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

Bank of Israel goes ‘underground’ to avoid missiles

By David Shamah

Los Angeles Clippers former owner Donald Sterling sits with his wife, Shelly, during the Clippers NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles, in November 2010 (photo credit: AP/Mark J. Terrill, file)

Sterling reportedly surrendering Clippers control

By Tami Abdollah

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