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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 17, 2015

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Rabbi Moshe Levinger celebrates at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, December 3, 2003 (Flash90)

Obituary

Moshe Levinger, the brazen ‘sheriff’ who brought Jews to the West Bank, dies at 80

By Elhanan Miller

Unfazed by Israeli law, the rabbi who renewed the Jewish presence in Hebron saw deterrence as key to political sovereignty

Jewish Ethiopians attend a memorial ceremony in remembrance of those who fell on their trip from Ethiopian to Israel, on Mount Herzl, May 17, 2015. (Gil Yochanan/POOL)

Israel failed Ethiopian community, president says at memorial

By Judah Ari Gross

Rivlin admits mistakes, Netanyahu vows to make racism ‘contemptible and despicable’ ahead of new protests against police violence

Palestinian women hold a scarf bearing the Palestine name as Israeli youths carry their national flag in the "flag march" through Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations for Jerusalem Day on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)

On Jerusalem Day, Rivlin urges development of E. Jerusalem

By Marissa Newman

Tens of thousands attend Jerusalem Day march; 2 cops hurt in clashes near Old City; 2 Palestinians arrested

A 5-year vision to transform the capital into an innovative academic, scientific and technological powerhouse

Chabad: Here to disrupt

The group’s goal on campus is not to recruit new members but to inspire an unapologetic search for authenticity

Gideon D. Sylvester

A death camp lesson for Jerusalem Day

The hopeful tone at the annual trek to Auschwitz echoes a faith that Israel’s capital will fulfill its destiny

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday, March 20, 2014, (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Khamenei tangles with US over its role in the Gulf

By ToI Staff and AP

Iranian supreme leader says he wants American forces out, accuses Washington of orchestrating Yemen war

Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi sits in the defendant's cage during a court hearing in Cairo, Egypt, November 3, 2014. (AP/Mohammed al-Law)

Analysis

A death penalty for Morsi that Egypt won’t rush to carry out

By Avi Issacharoff

Cairo knows that implementing the harshest punishment for the Muslim Brotherhood’s ex-president could backfire

Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi raises his hands from behind the defendant's cage as the judge reads out his verdict sentencing him and more than 100 other defendants to death, at the police academy in Cairo on May 16, 2015. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

US ‘deeply concerned’ by death sentence for Egypt’s Morsi

By ToI Staff and AP

Hamas also speaks out against ruling which includes death sentences for 70 Palestinians among 120 people in total, including ousted leader; four killed in Sinai

Residents from the city of Ramadi, who fled their homes on May 16, 2015 as Islamic State (IS) group militants tightened their siege on the last government positions in the capital of Anbar province, a day after they seized the city's government headquarters, wait to cross Bzeibez bridge, on the southwestern frontier of Baghdad with Anbar province, after IS group jihadists took control of all the other routes connecting the province with the Iraqi capital. Taking control of Ramadi would constitute the group's most important victory this year in Iraq, and would give the jihadists control of the capitals of two of its largest provinces. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR

US raid in Syria said to kill 32 Islamic State members

By AFP

Monitoring group reports 4 leaders dead; American official confirms commandos fought jihadis in close combat in rare ground operation

Syrians walking in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra on March 14, 2014. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

Syrian army pushes back Islamists from ancient Palmyra

By AFP

World Heritage Site rocked by fighting between Islamic State and forces loyal to the government; 76 reported killed

Workers protesting layoffs at Israel Chemicals outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem in March 2015. According to an OECD report published in May, the size of the gap between rich and poor in Israel is second only to that in the United States. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands march in Dimona to protest factory layoffs

Opposition leader Herzog calls for government to hold cabinet meeting in south as three cities go on strike in solidarity with workers

19th century Catholic nuns Miriam Bawardy (L) and Marie Alphonsine Ghattas (R) are to be canonized by Pope Francis May 17, 2015. (Screen capture: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

Pope Francis canonizes first Palestinian saints

By AP, ToI Staff and AFP

With Abbas in attendance, Vatican sanctifies two 19th-century Catholic nuns in hopes of bolstering Mideast Christians

Chef Assaf Granit, of Mahneyuda and Top Chef Israel fame, will be one of the main guides to Jerusalem cuisine in the city's first Open Restaurants festival (Photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israel’s top chef talks food and fame

By Jessica Steinberg

Assaf Granit, co-owner of Jerusalem’s famous MachneYuda restaurant and London’s award-winning The Palomar, has big plans for the future

Thousands of Jews wave Israeli flags as they celebrate Jerusalem Day by walking the streets of Jerusalem, through Damascus Gate on their way to the Western Wall on May 20, 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Memorials and controversial march expected for Jerusalem Day

By Gedalyah Reback

Capital marks 48th anniversary of unification of city with ceremonies; heavy police presence planned for right-wing parade through Muslim Quarter

Arson suspected at two East Jerusalem synagogues

Palestinians from Shuafat refugee camp hurl stones at firefighters attempting to extinguish blaze in Pisgat Zeev

Daniel Koren bundles up against the cold in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

The philosopher-pianist whose talking heads laugh at themselves

By Judah Ari Gross

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Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah speaking in southern Beirut, November 3, 2014. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Nasrallah dismisses rumored ill-health as ‘psychological warfare’

US President Barack Obama speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC, March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/JIM WATSON)

Obama to mark Jewish heritage month at DC synagogue

By JTA

Neria Bendavid, an Israeli man held in India for alleged possession of LSD (photo credit: Facebook)

Israeli jailed in India attempts escape with US Jew’s help

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, throws punches with five-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield at a charity fight night event Friday, May 15, 2015, in Salt Lake City (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Boxing MittHolyfield jabs Romney for charity

By Brian Skoloff

The art installation known as the 'Temple,' a giant, climbable structure built to resemble three trees, was burned at the end of Midburn in 2014 after more than 24 hours of negotiations with police. (Sharon Avraham/MIdburn)

Israeli Burning Man faces permit challenges

By Melanie Lidman

Mugshot of Monte Hanson. (Courtesy Ravalli County)

Cold and clammyMan shoots dog over ‘treif’ drink

By ToI Staff and AP

Gilad Erdan of the Likud party, Tel Aviv, February 16, 2015 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPromises, promises

By Marissa Newman

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