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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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Arab women watch Jerusalem Day celebrations through their bus window, May 20, 2012 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Netanyahu puts the brakes on ‘segregated’ West Bank buses

By Elhanan Miller

Left-wing Knesset members decry ‘apartheid’ plan that would oblige Palestinian workers to use checkpoints on return from Israel

A Palestinian man rides the bus near the city of Bethlehem, December 18, 2014 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rivlin: Segregating West Bank buses ‘unthinkable’

By Gedalyah Reback and Elhanan Miller

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 19, 2015 at the presidential residence in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Live updates (closed)

Pentagon okays $1.9 billion arms sale to Israel

By Marissa Newman

Weapons include Hellfire missiles, bunker buster bombs; deal needs approval from Congress; PM reiterates commitment to two-states

File: Israel national football team players training in Tel Aviv on Sept. 4, 2013. (Flash90)

Could Israel really be barred from world soccer?

When Palestinian motion comes up for FIFA vote on May 29, it will need a three-quarters majority to pass. If it does, Israel’s teams would be banned from int’l competition

Israel urges UNESCO to knock Palestinian bid for FIFA ban

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

No to peace match, yes to Israel soccer ban, Palestinians say

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisPA soccer chief looks to outmaneuver Israel on diplomatic field

By Avi Issacharoff

Yehuda Danzig of Toronto was shocked to see himself and his brother Michael in this still image from 'German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,' showing children smiling through barbed wire at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few weeks after liberation. Danzig is the boy in the dark cap on the right, and his brother is behind him in the light cap. (Imperial War Museum)

70 years on, Hitchcock Holocaust doc finds an audience

By Gabrielle Birkner

‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,’ which almost did not see the light of day, premieres in New York

A message for the scolds at the Western Wall who called her and other women worshippers a disgrace

A call to abs! The IDF reserves

On why he’s pumping iron in Brooklyn to get in shape for an army training exercise he could easily skip out on

Julie Rosenzweig

The city’s 5-year plan uses the same bombastic approach that got us into this mess: It’s time to think small

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

As Illinois quashes Israel boycotts, some see watershed in fight against BDS

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Israeli border policemen standing guard, on April 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian driver rams cops in Jerusalem, is shot dead

By Stuart Winer

Two Border Police officers lightly wounded; alleged attacker said shot after attempting to run them over a second time

Briana McHam, the 20 year old American tourist who plunged to her death at Masada, May 19, 2015. (Facebook/briana.mcham)

American tourist, 20, plunges to death at Masada

By Jonathan Beck and Marissa Newman

In separate incident, 56 US students extricated from hike in southern Israel amid searingly hot weather

An F-35 on the tarmac on May 12, 2012, at Edwards Air Force Base in California (AP Photo/ Lockheed Martin)

US, Israel said to discuss ‘compensation’ in wake of emerging Iran deal

Additional F-35 jets, anti-missile defense batteries reportedly part of package to win Israel’s quiet acceptance of nuclear accord, Israeli media reports

Illustrative photo of a Mahan Air Airbus (Shahram Sharifi/Wikimedia Commons)

Israel: US let Iran break sanctions to purchase aircraft

By JTA and ToI Staff

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (screen capture: YouTube/PressTVGlobalNews)

As talks resume, Iran vows no inspection of military sites

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Supreme leader says he won’t allow Iranian scientists to be ‘interrogated’ by foreigners

Illustrative - A child being vaccinated at a children's medical center in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, September 10, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State to ‘anti-vaxxers’: No vaccination, no child support

By Marissa Newman

Pope Francis welcomes Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a private audience on May 16, 2015 in Vatican (AFP photo pool/Alberto Pizzoli)

Vatican: Pope’s ‘angel’ comment to Abbas not meant to offend

By Marissa Newman, Raphael Ahren and AP

After confusion, agencies issue correction, writing that Francis did not call Abbas an ‘angel of peace,’ but rather ‘a bit an angel of peace’

Professor Robert S. Wistrich (screen capture: YouTube)

Anti-Semitism scholar Robert S. Wistrich dies at 70

By Stuart Winer

Prolific author, who often warned of resurgent hatred of Jews in Europe, suffers a heart attack in Rome

The Backstreet Boys perform for Israeli fans in Ra'anana, May 19, 2015. (Backstreet Boys/Twitter)

Backstreet Boys play to more than 8,000 Israeli fans

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

At first of three gigs, 90’s boy band apologizes for not making it to Israel sooner, promises to come back

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 19, 2015 at the presidential residence in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Netanyahu to retain final say on Palestinian peace deal

By AFP

Official says Silvan Shalom will hold meetings, but prime minister ‘is responsible for the negotiations’

Sergeant Chalachew Mekonen receives a citation for service during Operation Protective Edge from Southern Command chief Sami Turgeman in February 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Soldiers say Israel still won’t let Ethiopian siblings immigrate

By Gedalyah Reback

Absorption Ministry puts kibosh on Interior Ministry’s permit to allow infantrymen to bring relatives to Israel

An illustration of an elderly brain. (photo credit: Aging image)

Hebrew U brain research center garners accolades, donations

By David Shamah

Safra Foundation adds $30m to initial $20m funding of university’s Center for Brain Sciences

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IS rings discovered by customs at Ben Gurion International Airport (Israel Tax Authority)

You shall not passIslamist bling seized at airport

By Gedalyah Reback

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road in Mosul, Iraq, on June 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/File)

A killer vacationIS guide touts ‘plush holiday resort’

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative image of a woman using a laptop computer. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Israeli court jails East Jerusalem man for Facebook incitement

By AFP and Stuart Winer

Finance minister and leader of the Kulanu party, Moshe Kahlon, at the opening meeting of the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, May 18, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Kahlon takes aim at housing crisis with rent control plan

By Jonathan Beck

The Apple Watch introduced on stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube video)

New Jewish Apple Watch app lets users ‘pray different’

By David Shamah

Writing on a table surface to input data onto a smartphone? Phree can do that (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Digital pen aims to ‘Phree’ users from paper

By David Shamah

Radi Kauf wearing his ReWalk system (Photo credit: Courtesy)

ReWalk’s benefits go beyond ambulation, company says

By David Shamah

A Middle Eastern-inspired cheesecake made with Israeli white cheese and whipped cream sitting on a bed of knafe (Andrea Brownstein/Photoli Photography)

A traditional Israeli cheesecake enveloped by knafeh

By Shira Buzelan

Yitzhak Abergil seen at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion on May 19, 2015. (Photo credit: Moti Kimchi/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewOf big fish and West Bank bus-blunders

By Joshua Davidovich

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