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What Matters Most On Friday, May 22, 2015

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US President Barack Obama clapping his hands in New London, Connecticut, on May 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Obama: US must criticize Israel if it is to defend it

In Atlantic interview, president lashes Netanyahu over Election Day comments, suggests anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, insists Iranian regime is ‘rational’ about its survival

Senior Likud MK: Obama’s criticism of PM ‘hypocritical’

AnalysisIn interview, Obama tries to set terms for US-Israel ties

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Joe Lieberman: Next president will bring warmer Israel ties

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)

Toronto man recognizes himself in Bergen-Belsen photo

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Holocaust survivor Yehuda Danzig overwhelmed emotionally as he spots image in The Times of Israel

Partial view of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, March 14, 2014 (AFP/Joseph Eid, File)

After Palmyra, Islamic State said to control half of Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jihadists seize last Syrian-regime held border crossing to Iraq; US admits coalition airstrike killed two children

In this image made from a video posted on YouTube on April 3, 2015, a militant hammers away at a face on a wall in Hatra, a large fortified Iraqi city recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (AP, File)

Photo essayFrom Nineveh to Mosul, the wrecked relics under IS control

By AP

David Makovsky and Raquel Saxe

BDS’s useless politics of confrontation

Protests should be aimed at ending a conflict that has persisted for decades—not fueling the fire

The gatekeepers of Jewish conversation

There are many ways to be Jewish but it seems that Tzavta and Tzohar didn’t get the memo

Shavuot, the holiday for all

Criticism alleging exclusionary practices by Tzohar Rabbis is undeserved — they respect and embrace all Jews

Former president Shimon Peres (right) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) on the opening day of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2015, taking place in the Dead Sea resort of Shuneh, Jordan, on May 22, 2015. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Abbas: Israel settlement expansion blocks any peace deal

By AP and ToI Staff

At World Economic Forum, PA president says he’s committed to two-state solution; Peres says ‘clear majority’ of Israelis back it

Tzipi Hotovely in the Knesset. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Israel’s top diplomat tells colleagues ‘entire land is ours’

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Evoking medieval Bible commentator, Deputy FM Tzipi Hotovely orders envoys to ‘tell the world that we’re right’

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset, May 4, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman apologizes for derogatory reference to autism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Former FM calls those who support a return to pre-67 lines ‘autistic’; upbraided, he later says sorry for any offense

Prof. Syndey Engelberg holds baby during his Hebrew University class. (Sarit Fishbaine/Facebook)

A study in child care

Why baby-holding Israeli prof struck a chord

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Parents worldwide impressed by Sydney Engelberg’s family-friendly teaching approach, which has some unique-to-Israel aspects

Senior Adviser to Supreme Leader in Military Affairs Yahya Rahim Safavi at an inaugural ceremony marking the opening of the 4th international general assembly of the Shiite Ahlul-Bayt in Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2007. (AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)

Iran: If Israel attacks, Hezbollah will ‘destroy Tel Aviv’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tehran’s proxy Hezbollah has more than 80,000 rockets ready to target Israel, says supreme leader’s military adviser

US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United Nations General Assemby April 27, 2015, in New York. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Wary Israel watches latest UN bid to force it to come clean on nukes

State Department official holds talks in Jerusalem as US denies it will abandon pledge to protect Israel from damaging international pressure

Hadash leader Ayman Odeh at a memorial service during a rally marking Nakba Day at Tel Aviv University, May 20, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

PM tells skeptical Arab party head he’ll tackle inequality

By Daniel Bernstein

In first meeting with Joint List leader Ayman Odeh, Netanyahu promises new plans for Arab development

President Reuven Rivlin (back row, center) with pupils and teachers and the Givat Gonen School in Jerusalem (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin: Arab citizens shouldn’t be forced to sing national anthem

By Jonathan Beck

President says he is ‘touched’ by ‘Hatikva,’ but recognizes others’ opposition to it; says text shouldn’t be changed

Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in Ramallah, February 12, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian soccer player detained at Jordan crossing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jibril Rajoub sends complaint to FIFA head; Israel says footballer stopped for security reasons

Undated photos provided by the Baltimore Police Department show Baltimore police officers, top row from left: Caesar R. Goodson Jr., Garrett E. Miller and Edward M. Nero; and bottom row from left: William G. Porter, Brian W. Rice and Alicia D. White, charged with felonies ranging from assault to murder in the police-custody death of Freddie Gray. A grand jury indicted the six officers, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said on May 21, 2015. (Baltimore Police Department via AP, File)

6 Baltimore cops indicted in death of Freddie Gray

By JULIET LINDERMAN

Charges range from second-degree ‘depraved heart’ murder to assault, in incendiary case of death in police custody

The faces of Jewish heritage? Barbra Streisand, left, Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler at a gala celebrating the opening of the National Museum of American Jewish History, November 13, 2010. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images/JTA)

Jewish American heritage is more than entertainers and sport heroes

Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)

Expert: State has failed ex-Soviet would-be converts

By Gedalyah Reback

Amid decline in conversions, Israel Democracy Institute’s Netanel Fisher says more must be done to remove obstacles

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Slow-cooked ox tail from the May 5, 2015 dinner. (YeahThat’sKosher/Instagram via JTA)

NYC investigates food poisoning reports from exotic kosher meal

By JTA

Eli Groner (GPO).

US-born Eli Groner to head Prime Minister’s Office

A dating app. (Courtesy)

Swipe rightDating app takes aim at Mideast conflict

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative photo: The Holocaust memorial at Terezin, Czech Republic on January 27, 2015 (Times of Israel/Marissa Newman)

US couple leaves $850K life savings to… America

By AP

Jewish student Jeremiah Duggan who was found dead on a German highway in 2003. (screen capture: YouTube/laroucheplanet's channel)

Coroner says Jewish student’s death in Germany not a suicide

By ToI Staff and JTA

Which type of apps do men and women download? (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Man or woman? New Israeli tech uses smartphones to find out

By David Shamah

Bizzabo offers new services as event-planning business heats up

By David Shamah

US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, soon after Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress, March 3, 2015. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Hebrew media reviewCan you hear Obama now?

By Joshua Davidovich

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