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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 8, 2014

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Israel's then-president Shimon Peres (L) seen with Labor MK and would-be president Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer at the opening session of the Knesset on February 05, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Politicians empathize with Ben-Eliezer, lament ‘ugly’ presidency race

By Spencer Ho and Adiv Sterman

Shimon Peres phones scandal-hit Labor MK after he withdraws candidacy for prestigious post 3 days before elections

Presidential vote to take place as planned

PM said to revive plan to postpone presidential vote

By Spencer Ho and Adiv Sterman

Scandal-hit Ben-Eliezer quits presidential race

By Spencer Ho and Adiv Sterman

Shimon Peres arriving in Rome Sunday. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg / Times of Israel)

Peres skewers Palestinian unity ahead of peace prayer

By Mitch Ginsburg and Joshua Davidovich

Ahead of joint service with Abbas and Pope Francis in Vatican, president blasts Palestinian reconciliation as ‘contradiction’

Vatican readies for peace prayer session with Peres, Abbas

By AFP

NY Times: US must be cautious of new Palestinian leadership

Berlin prayer house unites Jews, Christians, Muslims

By AFP

The unique challenge of Israel’s presidency

All Israelis must be provided with the in-depth education needed for an ever-changing world

A socially oriented president

After 40 years in public service, a Moroccan-born candidate hopes to illuminate the dark corners in Israeli society

The ‘extra soul’ of Israeli democracy

The president’s role is to be a politically neutral figurehead, symbolizing dialogue, partnership, and compromise

Portrait of Mohammed Dajani, a former Fatah founder and prominent Palestinian academic. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Palestinian lecturer who led Auschwitz trip quits after backlash

Prof. Dajani, castigated for taking students on unprecedented trip to death camp, had expected university to back him, reject his resignation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 30, 2014. (Danny Meron/Flash90)

Hamas set to gain more control in West Bank, PM says

By Gavriel Fiske

Netanyahu calls for international pressure to break up Palestinian unity government, says Abbas must ‘demilitarize’ Gaza Strip

Illustrative: Palestinians celebrate at the welcome reception for released Palestinian prisoners, at the Muqata'a in Ramallah, in the early hours of Tuesday, December 31, 2013. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ministers approve bill quashing prisoner releases

Bill blocking pardons for prisoners serving life to move to Knesset; could complicate future negotiations with the Palestinians

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA to seek wider Arab reprisal against Australia

By Spencer Ho and Stuart Winer

Erekat: Palestinians will urge Muslim states to review ties over Canberra’s decision to no longer refer to East Jerusalem as occupied territory

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi during his swearing in ceremony, on June 7, 2014, in Cairo. (screen capture, Egyptian TV/AFP)

Sissi sworn in as Egyptian president

By Emmanuel GIROUD

Ex-army chief who ousted Morsi and unleashed crackdown on Islamists vows to ‘respect constitution and law’

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (YouTube/Press TV/File)

Direct nuclear talks with US ‘essential,’ Iran says

By AFP

Ahead of first full-scale bilateral discussions in decades, Tehran’s chief negotiator says ‘serious phase’ beginning

A man takes part in a solidarity ceremony of the World Jewish Congress after the killings at the Jewish museum in Brussels on June 2, 2014. photo credit: AFP/ BELGA / BENOIT DOPPAGNE)

Brussels attack underscores threat of returning jihadists

By Cnaan Liphshiz

European Jewish institutions left to reckon with danger of Islamist extremists coming home from Syria with new skills and increased fervor

Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko left, walks past US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day in Ouistreham, western France, Friday, June 6, 2014. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Kerry marks D-Day at family estate in France

By AP and ToI Staff

US secretary also has Jewish heritage; two of his grandmother’s siblings were killed in concentration camps

The updated price for riding the fast lane at any given time is posted on electronic boards hung one kilometer before the start of the lane (Courtesy Fastlane)

Life in the (Tel Aviv) fast lane

By Jessica Steinberg

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Elbit to supply drones to Swiss Defense Department

Reuters: The Israeli systems can fly longer and further than anything the country is now using, officials say

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Lady Gaga wowing the crowds in Ft. Lauderdale. (photo credit: Kevin Mazur)

Two times a ladyGaga to cap summer with September gig

Evening view of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Girls abducted by dad to Thailand return to Israel

This photo provided by The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art of Dallas, shows Monuments Man James Rorimer, with notepad, as he supervises American GI's hand-carrying paintings down the steps of the castle in Neuschwanstein, Germany in May of 1945. (photo credit: AP/National Archives and Records Administration)

Appeals court revives case for Nazi-looted art

By AP

Bubbe Gigi sometimes talks about the weather. (YouTube screenshot)

Weather 'girl'Bubbe Gigi won’t let you schvitz

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon's minority Druse sect, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, as he sits in his garden house, in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese Druze head urges Hezbollah to fight Israel, not rebels

By Bassam Mroue

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer photographed in Tel Aviv in April. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewFarewell, Fuad

By Ilan Ben Zion

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