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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), with ministers Gilad Erdan (left) and Yuval Steinitz (center), during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 23, 2014 (Ohad Zwigenberg/Flash90/Pool)

Diplomats fume as Foreign Ministry powers divided among 6 ministers

Ministry staffers warn lack of cohesion will undermine capacity to defend against ‘delegitimization’; Liberman scoffs at the confusion

AnalysisCan Dore Gold make Israeli diplomacy relevant again?

By Raphael Ahren

Gilad Erdan confirmed as minister, riling rivals

Government moves toward biennial budget

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem on May 10, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90, Pool)

AnalysisOp-ed

Netanyahu and the boiling frog

By David Horovitz

The PM says Israel must not become a bi-national state. It’s past time for him to act on that conviction

A photo from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border shows a smoke trail of rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 22, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)

Gaza rocket shot amid reported internal Islamic Jihad spat

By Jonathan Beck

Alarms reported in Ashkelon, Ashdod and Lachish regions outside Gaza as at least one missile launched; no damage or injuries reported as rocket hits near Gan Yavneh

Hezbollah fighters celebrating on the day the IDF left South Lebanon, May 24, 2000. (AP: Enric Marti)

Analysis

Why Israel’s retreat from Lebanon marked the birth of today’s Middle East

By Mitch Ginsburg

The May 2000 withdrawal seemed to be part of a larger land-for-peace trend; instead it raised the curtain on the wars of the 21st century

AnalysisNo wonder Nasrallah is nostalgic for May 2000

By Avi Issacharoff

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Misrepresenting Christians at Mount Zion

A combative ultra-Orthodox stance spurred by the Shavuot-Pentecost convergence is ‘pseudo-halacha’

Sheldon Kirshner

The tragedy Of Ehud Olmert

Olmert squandered his chance to go down in history as a tough-minded, flexible prime minister of vision

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, in Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu said open to drawing up boundaries for settlement blocs

After meeting with PM, EU’s top diplomat reportedly ‘very satisfied’ with his willingness to discuss territorial limitations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat tour a sports arena under construction in Jerusalem, on Thursday, May 15, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash 90)

Netanyahu names Jerusalem minister, piquing mayor

By Judah Ari Gross

In handing portfolio to Ze’ev Elkin, PM acted out of ‘narrow political considerations’ and broke his promise, Barkat says

Efrat Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (courtesy office of Rabbi Riskin)

Efrat’s Rabbi Riskin pushes back as rabbinate mulls sacking him

Prominent US-born spiritual leader tells officials to ‘climb down from their tree’ amid disagreements over conversions

Illustrative: The rebbe of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, center. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Haredi leaders urge Rivlin to help free US Jewish criminal

By Judah Ari Gross

In rare pilgrimage to president’s official residence, rabbis seek aid in the case of fraudster Rabbi Mordechai Samet

Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters celebrate what they said was a victory over Israel in Gaza City, August 29, 2014 (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

Iran said to pull Islamic Jihad’s funding over group’s neutrality on Yemen

By Elhanan Miller

Gaza operatives haven’t received salaries in months as Tehran moves to back rival organization, reports say

In this April 23, 2015 file photo, Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters regain control of the northern neighborhoods, after overnight heavy clashes with Islamic State group militants, in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Analysis

In endless Sunni-Shiite battles, blood keeps flowing as the pendulum swings

By Avi Issacharoff

The Sunnis’ great patron is Saudi Arabia, while Iran sponsors almost every known Shiite group in the region. Riyadh vs. Tehran is the name of the game, and Islamic State is only the most extreme player

Opposition candidate Andrzej Duda celebrates his victory (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Jews ready to cooperate with new right-wing president

By ToI Staff and JTA

In contrast to his predecessor in largely ceremonial post, Andrzej Duda has rejected apologizing for Poles’ role in Holocaust as ‘attempt to destroy’ country’s good name

A Bram Industries food container (Courtesy)

Israeli firm brings biodegradable plastic, and jobs, to Savannah

By David Shamah

Bram Industries, a major producer of food storage and kitchen products, is set to open a new plant in the US

Revelers watch the wood installations burn at the second annual Midburn festival, the Israeli version of Burning Man, on May 24, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Photo essay

Thousands descend on Negev for Midburn

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Revital and her husband with their twins. Revital is the second woman to have twins following a revolutionary procedure to freeze ovarian tissue and surgically reimplant it after having received treatment for cancer. (screenshot Channel 2)

Woman beats cancer, has twins after revolutionary operation

Yarden Gerbi celebrates her victory over Abe Kana from Japan in the semifinal of the World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, August 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Silvia Izquierdo)

Moroccan authorities take down Israeli judo team

Art Garfunkel, 2013 (Adam Schartoff/CC BY-2.0)

Troubled watersGarfunkel still thinks Simon is a ‘jerk’

By Stuart Winer

Reda el-Fouly, seen here, was arrested by Egyptian police on the charge of "inciting debauchery." (screen capture YouTube)

Behind barsEgypt woman busted over racy video

By AP and ToI Staff

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the middle in black, flanked by then-home front defense Minister Gilad Erdan, in blue, and then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg in May 2013. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIn from the cold

By Joshua Davidovich

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