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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 12, 2015

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A Nepalese man runs to safety after a second earthquake hit Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)

At least 42 killed as another large quake hits Nepal

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and KATY DAIGLE

Massive temblor strikes less than a month after a devastating earthquake killed 8,150 people in the hilly Asian country

Rescue team officials arrive to search for survivors at a collapsed house in Kathmandu May 12, 2015, after an earthquake struck. (photo credit: AFP/PRAKASH MATHEMA)

Israel may send new aid team to Nepal following quake

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Hezbollah cannon directed toward Syria in a military position for the group in the fields of the Lebanese border village of Brital, Lebanon, May 9, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Bassem Mroue)

Live updates (closed)

IDF officials warn Hezbollah positions putting civilians at risk

By Jonathan Beck

US paper shown aerial photos with infrastructure embedded in south Lebanon communities; Israel: We won’t spare those targets

Infantry soldiers operating on the ground during Operation Protective Edge, July 20, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Analysis

Breaking the Silence bids to place IDF, Hamas on level field

By Mitch Ginsburg

At the heart of the NGO’s headline-making report is an effort to compel Israel to treat enemy civilians the way it would its own. And that, say those who set the IDF’s ethical guidelines, is both impracticable and immoral

Commander of the South Front Command, Sami Turgeman, speaks during a press conference, August 5, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

IDF sees no alternative to Hamas rule in Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Southern commander says more rounds of fighting are inevitable, but status quo preferable to total chaos in the Strip

AnalysisHamas, beholden to Iran, lets Shiite group operate in Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

Gaza engineer seeks solution to water woes

By Adel Zaanoun

Hamas gives Gazan 15 years for spying for Israel

By AFP

She has returned to her faith on her own terms, reaching in to that place of infinite goodness inside her

Great deal on US property? Not so fast

Dodgy firms are selling real estate at inflated prices to Israelis who fail to do their due diligence

Fire in a crowded alley

On the court decision to OK the Jerusalem Day march route through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter

The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas, in September 2014. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Think tank fumes at foreign diplomats for skipping anti-Semitism event

By Raphael Ahren

160 no-shows as JCPA launches convention declaring anti-Semitism an international crime; not even Israel has indicated it will sign

John Kerry interviewed by Israel's Channel 10, May 3, 2015 (Channel 10 screenshot)

Israel, US tight-lipped on Kerry’s curious TV plea for help on UNESCO vote

By Raphael Ahren

What did the secretary mean when he said he’d asked Netanyahu to ‘waive’ US law that cost administration its voting rights at UN body?

Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd left) and Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council pose for photographers at the Chief of Mission Residence in Paris, France, to discuss Middle East concerns about an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, May 8, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

US poll: Many approve Iran deal, but most don’t trust Tehran

By Lolita C. Baldor and EMILY SWANSON

Just 3% of Americans believe Iranians will keep to terms of agreement and allow inspections of nuclear sites

In a Sunday, May 3, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama salutes as he steps off of Marine One, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he returns from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. (Photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster, File)

White House denies Obama’s Gulf overtures on Iran are unraveling

Most heads of state to skip presidential summit meant to allay fears over nuclear deal with Tehran

This undated photo shows al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. (AP)

White House denies claims it misled public on bin Laden killing

By AFP and AP

US says article alleging Pakistan involved in 2011 raid, was holding al-Qaeda leader prisoner, riddled with ‘outright falsehoods’

Defense Minister Pinchas Lavon, left, and IDF Chief of the General Staff Moshe Dayan, with Shimon Peres in the background, on February 8, 1953 (photo credit: GPO/ courtesy of IDF Archive in the Defense Ministry)

New revelations in Lavon Affair raise more questions than they answer

By Mitch Ginsburg

IDF Archives releases intriguing new documents and protocols related to the criminal, covert plot to keep Britain in Egypt 60 years ago

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog speaks with Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid and Zionist Union MK Eitan Cabel during a plenum session on expanding the number of ministers in the new cabinet, on May 11, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition to put up fierce fight against bill to expand cabinet

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

MKs to submit ‘thousands’ of objections after amendment passes first Knesset hurdle by 61-59; second, third readings expected Wednesday night

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (R) seen in the Tel Aviv District Court, May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Flash90)

Popular rabbi sentenced to a year in prison

By Stuart Winer

Yoshiyahu Pinto will pay NIS 1 million over bribery conviction, is expected to turn state’s evidence against senior cop

Israeli youth chant outside an Arab store in the Old City during Jerusalem Day's 'flag march,' May 21, 2009. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

High Court okays Jerusalem Day march through Muslim Quarter

By Tamar Pileggi

Judges warn that participants shouting anti-Arab slogans or engaging in nationalistic violence could face charges

(L to R) Nefesh B'Nefesh 2015 Bonei Zion Prize recipients: Professor Charles Sprung; Chana Reifman Zweiter; Rabbi Dr. Seth Farber; Tal Brody; Staff Sgt. Asaf Stein, PhD; Asher Weill; and Jon Medved (Photo credit: Sasson Tiram)

Crowdfunding pioneer sees Israel’s best tech days ahead

By David Shamah

Jon Medved, set to be honored for his contributions as an immigrant to Israel, is bullish on his adopted country

Maktabat al-Fanoos (Lantern Library) book program stimulates shared reading between parent and child. (photo credit: Rami Jabareen)

Book project helps Arab kids bid goodnight moon, with a bedtime story

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

File: Video footage showing policemen pummeling an Ethiopian-born IDF soldier, Damas Pakada, who alleged he was the target of a racist attack. (screen capture: YouTube)

Policeman who beat Ethiopian-Israeli soldier called for dismissal hearing

By Stuart Winer and JTA

US-Palestinian Florida resident Tariq Abu Khdeir, who was seen in a video being beaten by Israeli police, speaks of his ordeal. (screen capture: YouTube/CAIRtv)

White House hosts US-Palestinian teen beaten by Israeli cops

By Stuart Winer

President Reuven Rivlin (R) and Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman (L) take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the 'Gleis 17' (platform 17) memorial of the deportation of Jews from Berlin to concentration camps at the Grunewald railway station in Berlin on May 11, 2015. Photo credit: Odd Andersen/AFP)

Rivlin visits Germany to mark 50 years of diplomacy

By Tamar Pileggi

Relatives of deceased Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das react after seeing his body in Sylhet on May 12, 2015. (photo credit: AFP)

Third secular blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

By AFP

Main opposition candidate Andrzej Duda greets supporters during his election night as first exit polls show he won the first round of the presidential balloting, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, May 10, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Shock result in Polish vote could signal larger power shift

By Vanessa Gera and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Rifles found in the attic of the house of an elderly woman living on Kibbutz Shoval, May 2015. (photo credit: Israel Police)

Granny get your gunArsenal found in elderly woman’s attic

By Jonathan Beck

Ehud Barak speaks at the opening of the Globes Business Conference, in Tel Aviv on December 8, 2014. (Flash90)

Ehud Barak joins cyber-security start-up

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) seen with other members of Knesset, after a Knesset vote on enabling an increase in the number of government ministers, May 11, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFat chance against a slim majority?

By Joshua Davidovich

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