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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 4, 2014

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Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones, seen visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, a day before the band's concert in Tel Aviv (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Mick tours CaesareaMick tours Caesarea

The Stones meet The Wall

By Itamar Sharon and ToI Staff

While Wood and Watts visit Jerusalem, Jagger goes to north ahead of Wednesday show at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park

Rolling Stones gear up for first Israel gig

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Palestinian boy wears a green headband with the Arabic slogan "'Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam brigade" and green Islamic flags while holding a toy gun during a rally to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Hamas militant group, in Gaza City, December 2012. (photo credit: Adel Hana/AP)

Analysis

Hamas opts for the Hezbollah model

Gaza’s Islamists aim to use Nasrallah’s Lebanese ‘bullets plus ballots’ approach to gain a military and political foothold in the West Bank, the PA, and the PLO

US defends ties with Palestinian unity government

Palestinian analysts: Hamas ceded power to save face

By Sakher Abou El Oun

Jordan pans limited Muslim access to Temple Mount

Lapid’s reform: Cheap Stones tickets

The finance minister sends a message to cash strapped Israelis that sometimes they can get what they want

Andrew Silow-Carroll

American Jews and the ‘Case for Reparations’

The Jewish experience has much to say about African-Americans’ quest for a reckoning with institutionalized racism

Does money grow on trees in Silicon Valley?

A veteran of both sides of the tech funding game talks about his experiences

A picture released on June 1, 2014, shows the 29-year-old suspected gunman in the Brussels Jewish Museum attack, French-Algerian Mehdi Nemmouche. (AFP)

‘France was warned in advance about Brussels killer’

Germany indicated that the jihadist was a security threat, but he was able to reach Brussels undeterred, paper alleges

Alan Gross and his wife, Judy, at the Western Wall in spring, 2005. (photo credit: Courtesy of Jewish Community Relations Council of Washington)

US State Dept: No Bergdahl-like swap for Alan Gross

The US is exchanging five Taliban leaders for captured army sergeant, but opposes a prisoner swap for US aid worker, who lingers in a Cuban prison

A video released by the Taliban purports to show Bowe Bergdahl being handed over to US troops. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Taliban airs video of Bergdahl’s release

By AFP

Footage shows the US army sergeant being handed over to US troops in Afghanistan

A Guardium UGV on patrol along the Gaza border fence (Photo credit: Courtesy IDF)

As Google dreams of driverless cars, IDF deploys them

By David Shamah

Soldiers are seen during a clash with Palestinian youths near the West Bank settlement of Beit El, February 2014. (illustrative photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Knife-wielding Palestinian held outside IDF base

Man arrested after walking towards gate with knife and Palestinian flag in his hand, shouting ‘Allahu akbar’

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem casting his vote in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus on June 3, 2014 (Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA)

Amid war and shelling, Syrians vote for president

By Diaa Hadid and Albert Aji

Assad loyalists wave photos and dance in show of support for leader, in election which opposition calls a charade

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech under portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) and Iran's founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (right), on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death on June 3, 2014 (Photo credit: Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s president vows to defend nuclear rights

By AP

On 25th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomenei’s death and ahead of negotiations, Rouhani seeks to pacify hardliners

A supporter of Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the nation’s former military chief, hugs his poster during a celebration at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Sissi, elected with 97%, tells Egyptians: ‘Time to work’

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

President-elect calls on countrymen to strive to restore stability; Iran’s Rouhani invited to inauguration

Illustrative. Young American Jews participating in a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Dudi Vaknin/ Flash90)

Israel vows big investment in world Jewry project, but details remain fuzzy

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Hitler youth on bikes. (photo credit: CC BY-SA German Federal Archive, Wikimedia Commons)

Wrong role modelAlabama youth group pulls Hitler billboard

By JTA

Members from Jincheon Jungang Presbyterian Church attend a service at their church in Jincheon, South Korea, Monday, February 17, 2014, the day after a Sinai terror group targeted a bus filled with Korean members of the church at Taba, Egypt. (photo credit: AP/Yonhap, Kim Hyung-woo)

As Presbyterians again weigh divestment, Jewish groups lobby, warn and worry

The popular bridge club gathers at the Wilkes-Barre JCC, where the Jewish community is aging and has declined in numbers. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Jews gamble $11m. to save fading Pennsylvanian community

By Uriel Heilman

An undated photo of Edward Snowden, a former contract employee at the US National Security Agency. (YouTube screen capture)

Leaker LeakerOliver Stone to direct Snowden film

The late Agudath Israel rabbinical leader Rabbi Yaakov Perlow speaking on May 27, 2014 in New York City. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

AnalysisOrthodox condemnation of Reform and Conservative nothing new

By Uriel Heilman

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