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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 14, 2015

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MDA paramedics respond to a suspected terrorist car-ramming attack outside of the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut on May 14, 2015. (Courtesy Gush Etzion local council)

Four hurt in suspected car-ramming terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

One seriously wounded, another moderately and two more hurt at bus stop in Etzion settlement bloc; suspect detained

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents his new cabinet at a swearing-in ceremony in the Knesset on Thursday, May 14, 2015. (photo credit: Knesset spokesperson)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu presents new cabinet at stormy Knesset ceremony

PM lists 20 ministers, urges Likud No. 2 Gilad Erdan to reconsider joining government; Arab MKs removed from plenum during his speech

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaving his office in the Knesset on May 13, 2015. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Steinitz named energy minister, Ya’alon to stay in defense post

As Likud nabobs jockey for posts, reports indicate senior lawmakers Erdan and Shalom may be left without portfolios

Attorney general warns legal challenge could derail Deri ministerial post

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu government platform keeps peace on agenda

By AFP

West Bank settlers optimistic over new government

A conflicted coalition of 61*

To prop up their fragile government, some MK’s will have to violate the very values that led them to politics

Barry Freundel is just a symptom

The conversion system breeds abuse — the remedy is to bust the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over the process

At the shuk with the living and the dead

A reverie back to that childhood moment when she learned she had family in Israel — and that she didn’t

Injured Nepalese women wait to be treated by Israeli army medics at the Israeli field hospital on the second day of their mission in Kathmandu on April 29, 2015. (AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)

‘Rubble-washing’? Israel’s disaster outreach does little to help its image

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli aid teams invariably rush to assist in crises like the Nepal earthquake. Critics say this is partly for politically expediency. If so, the tangible benefits are negligible

A Hezbollah fighter stands behind an empty rocket launcher, May 22, 2010. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah hiding 100,000 missiles that can hit north, army says

By AP

If war breaks out, IDF warns, Israel will strike at south Lebanon’s rocket arsenals, wherever they are placed

Vitaly Churkin, left, speaks to John Kerry at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2014. (photo credit: UN/Eskinder Debebe)

Russia says no automatic sanctions snapback if Iran breaks deal

Moscow denies US claims that punitive measures will be reimposed immediately if Tehran fails to comply with nuclear accord; Czechs say shipment of sensitive equipment blocked

US President Barack Obama, right, and Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait, at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Saudis to warn Obama they will match Iran’s nuke buildup

By ToI Staff and AP

Riyadh and other Gulf capitals reportedly will insist they will have ‘whatever the Iranians have,’ as Camp David summit gets underway

Pope Francis welcomes Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, as he arrives at the Vatican, Sunday, June 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, Pool)

Vatican recognizes state of Palestine in new treaty

By AP and ToI Staff

Jerusalem says move not conducive to peace, will consider ‘next steps’ after Holy See announcement ahead of weekend meeting between pope, Abbas

Report: Egypt to buy S-300 air defense system from Russia

Israeli intelligence official says Jewish state not concerned by weapons deal, as Cairo is not viewed as enemy

Justin Zemser with his mother, Susan, in a photo posted on her Facebook page in November 2014. (photo credit: Facebook)

Jewish Navy cadet, start-up CEO among 7 killed in Amtrak crash

By JTA and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Justin Zemser, 20, was vice president of US Naval Academy’s Jewish Midshipmen Club; Rachel Jacobs, 39, was head of an education company in Philadelphia

Panelists at a session on Internet hate speech at the 5th Global Forum for Combatting Antisemitism in Jerusalem, May 13, 2015. From left: Facebook's Simon Milner, Prof. Raphael Cohen Almagor, Google's Juniper Downs, and UK Ministry of Justice's Paul Giannasi. (courtesy Eliram Mandel - MFA)

Google and Facebook need your help to police online hate

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Social media giants at a global conference in Jerusalem say the best defense is a good offense in countering racist screeds

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)

Cop filmed attacking Ethiopian-Israeli soldier fired

By Daniel Bernstein

As activists set to return to Tel Aviv, police chief says officer who attacked Damas Pakada may be indicted

Israel's Chief of Police Yohanan Danino in Jerusalem on November 13, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.)

Top cop calls for rethink on cannabis prohibition

By Daniel Bernstein

Yohanan Danino says Israel must ‘reevaluate its position’ and learn from other countries on marijuana use

Rabba Tamar Elad-Appelbaum of Kehillat Zion in Jerusalem (Courtesy Kehillat Zion)

A Jerusalem Day that seeks to bridge the east-west divide

By Jessica Steinberg

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Shmuel Barkan, dr(L) and Shlomo Gradman at ChipEx2015 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Internet of Things will be a backbone of Israeli tech, says expert

By David Shamah

MK Yakov Litzman speaks during a Knesset session in 2007. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Future Health Ministry head wants state to subsidize medical pot

By Daniel Bernstein

A masked Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl a stone at Israeli security forces outside Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Beitunia, on May 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

Americans in Israel warned ahead of Nakba Day

By JTA and ToI Staff

Egyptian army personnel supervise the destruction of tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip at the border, near the town of Rafah, northern Sinai, Egypt, September 2013. (photo credit: AP/AP Television)

Egypt cracks down on Gaza tunnels, but faces setbacks in Sinai

By ToI Staff and AFP

Leslea Newman wrote 'Heather Has Two Mommies' at the request of a woman who wanted a book to which her daughter could relate. (Mary Vazquez/via JTA)

Landmark Jewish LGBT children’s story celebrates 25 years

By Judy Bolton-Fasman

Gilad Erdan, left, Naftali Bennett, center, and Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset plenum on May 13, 2015. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWhen the music’s over

By Ilan Ben Zion

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