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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 25, 2014

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Shimon Peres, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, flank Pope Francis on the red carpet at a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion international airport on May 25, 2014. photo credit: Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Pope in Israel liveblog (now closed)

Pope ends first day of Holy Land visit with message of unity, brotherhood

By Ilan Ben Zion

Peres, Abbas agree to meet in Vatican; pontiff calls Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘increasingly unacceptable,’ makes unscheduled stop at West Bank wall, condemns Brussels museum killings

Francis bows head in impromptu prayer at security barrier

By John DAVISON

Francis calls for end to ‘unacceptable’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Karin Laub and Nicole Winfield

Peres to pope: Israel will greet you with love, appreciation

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Belgian police at the site of a shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Brussels police hunt for lone gunman in Jewish Museum attack

By AP

‘All options are still open’ regarding identity of assailant who killed three people, two of them Israelis, in assault Saturday

Israeli victims of Brussels shooting named as Mira and Emanuel Riva

By ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu: Anti-Israel ‘slander and lies’ caused Brussels attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Anti-terror expert: Brussels museum attack follows Toulouse pattern

By JTA

Francis seeks a moment of symbolism

No, a planned Peres-Abbas-Francis Vatican prayer meeting won’t produce a peace deal. But it could yield a rare, resonant picture of unity for a common cause

The Pope’s visit is not mainly about us

The central theme of the Pontiff’s visit to the Holy Land is the unity of the Church

The road to perdition

In the absence of any peace process, Netanyahu is testing the waters for a unilateral land grab

Naava Pasternak Swirsky

Can we talk about the mikvah?

Lifting the veil of silence on ritual immersion lets women understand this private and complicated experience

Simcha Jacobovici

Peace talks have collapsed: Hooray!

Continuing to insist that the Palestinians recognize the Zionist narrative actually brought peace closer

View of Paris suburb Créteil. (CC BY Christophe Pinard/Flickr)

Two Jewish men attacked, badly hurt outside Paris synagogue

Brothers hospitalized in serious condition after brutal assault in suburb of Creteil; attackers fled on foot and bicycle

Israeli civics teacher Adam Verete seen in Tel Aviv on January 30, 2014. Verete, who teaches civics at the ORT school in Kiryat Tivon, was accused by student Sapir Sabah of expressing opinions “against the state,” in a letter she wrote to Education Minister Shai Piron. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Controversial far-left teacher axed ‘due to budget cuts’

Adam Verete, previously accused of anti-IDF incitement and indoctrination, dismissed after Haifa-area school cancels Jewish thought classes

Moshe Arens (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Group backs former defense minister Arens for president

Newspaper ad urges support for Likud veteran, 88, who brought Netanyahu into politics and who has not declared an interest in the presidency

Money found in the possession Muhammad Abed, the Israeli lawyer (photo credit: courtesy of Shin Bet)

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Fitch affirms Israel’s currency ratings at A, A+

Lapid welcomes decision as ‘further expression of confidence in the Israeli economy’ and his own policies, Globes reports

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Sitting in the herb garden that is part of the Tower of David Museum's new exhibit, 'Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis.' (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

This Week

Exhibit highlights a history of medical coexistence in fractious Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni at the joint press conference where Livni announced she was joining Netanyahu's government as minister of justice, February 19, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Livni will be fired if she meets Abbas again, says top minister

Yuval Steinitz: Netanyahu has been ‘merciful’ thus far; Livni has vowed to see PA chief again if necessary

A still from a clip shown at the 'Invisible' exhibit in Ottawa's city hall (photo credit: Public ART public - Ottawa/Facebook)

Envoy to Canada protests display featuring Palestinian terrorists

Rafael Barak calls on Jewish groups in the country to urge removal of Ottawa exhibition that ‘glorifies terrorism’

Fire trucks are parked outside the IV Deli Mart on Pardell Road in Isla Vista, Calif., Friday, May 23, 2014, after a drive-by shooter went on a rampage near a Santa Barbara university campus that left seven people dead, including the attacker, and seven others wounded (photo credit: APThe Daily Nexus, Daniel Slovinsky)

Seven dead in drive-by shooting in California

By AP and ToI Staff

Gunman, named as 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, found dead after rampage near a Santa Barbara university campus

An Ukrainian policeman stands guard at a polling station in Krasnoarmiisk, in the Donetsk province, eastern Ukraine, on May 24, 2014, one day ahead of the presidential elections. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Fabio Bucciarelli)

Tense Ukraine picks president amid bloodshed

Authorities say computerized ballot system hacked, votes to be counted manually; pro-Europe billionaire clear front-runner

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

Ambassador Blatt?Maccabi TA coach wants DC envoy job

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Kirsty Sparrow, the owner of seven-year-old cat Baz, says her pet was attacked because it looks like Hitler (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

Animal crueltyCat beaten because it looks like Hitler

"Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem." (photo credit: Cannes Film Festival stills)

Sibling ThrivalryIsraeli film ‘Gett’ gets US distribution

Policemen stand guard around the site of a shooting near the Jewish Museum in Brussels, on May 24, 2014. (AFP/Belga/Nicolas Maeterlinck)

Hebrew media reviewSix shots, then silence

By Joshua Davidovich

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