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What Matters Most On Friday, May 29, 2015

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Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub addresses the FIFA Congress on May 29, 2015 (screen capture: FIFA)

Palestinians abandon bid to have Israel banned from FIFA

At last minute, Rajoub withdraws motion; Congress votes in favor of independent monitoring body; Israeli delegate calls for politics to be left out of soccer

PM: Anti-Israel push at FIFA shows Palestinians oppose our right to exist

Bomb alert briefly interrupts FIFA congress in Zurich

By AFP and AP

Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt FIFA congress

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on May 26, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/FLASH90)

Netanyahu backs ‘general idea’ behind Arab Peace Initiative

By Raphael Ahren

In rare press briefing, PM tries to explain his pre- and post-election flip-flop on Palestinian statehood

New government won’t harm Israel’s legal system, PM vows

By Raphael Ahren

Rivlin: Academic boycott a major threat to Israel

By Daniel Bernstein

Six foreign ministers headed to Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Leah Goldberg, pictured here in 1946, was a prolific writer and poet whose poetry was put to music only after she died (Courtesy The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives)

Leah Goldberg, the translator

By Annie Kantar

In helping birth modern Hebrew culture, she rejected purism and shaped a nation that might welcome strangeness

How to fix the Iran deal

A plan to hone the nuclear agreement in the coming weeks, and transform the strategic environment in the long-run

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

‘Not recognizing Israel as Jewish is anti-Semitic, Pope says’

Francis also said to backtrack on statements attributed to him to the effect that Abbas is a ‘bit an angel of peace’

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, rabbi of the Jewish settlement of Efrat, conducts the Pidyon HaBen ceremony for a 30-day-old first born son in Efrat, West Bank, on May 25, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

As Rabbinate targets Rabbi Riskin, battle lines take shape

Organizations come out in support of popular religious leader who faces the boot for his progressive policies

Then-economy minister Naftali Bennett speaks at an economic conference, on September 2, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Bennett slams rabbinate’s attempt to ‘stifle’ Riskin

By Gedalyah Reback

File: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in May 2015. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

2016 hopefuls Christie, Cruz court Jewish donors in New York

‘Our friends in Israel deserve better than what they’ve gotten in the last seven years from this White House,’ says NJ governor

The Israel Festival opens in Jerusalem on May 28, 2015 (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Israel Festival opens with boos for minister Regev, cheers for singer Hanoch

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Likud’s outspoken new culture minister hails pluralism and multiculturalism; crowd underwhelmed

Illustrative photo of a street in Larnaca, Cyrpus, May 2, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ YIANNIS KOURTOGLOU)

Lebanese man held for terror plot on Israeli tourists in Cyprus

Fertilizers containing chemical that can be used as an explosive found at 26-year-old’s home; links to Hezbollah investigated

Remeny and Des Staritt at the Christian Resources Exhibition in May 2015. (Jenni Frazer/The Times of Israel)

Amid rising national anti-Semitism, British evangelicals step up

By Jenni Frazer

Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo Boutros Marayati, center, the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, right, and Bishop Matteo Zuppi stand during a vigil to call for peace in Ukraine, Syria and all countries tormented by persecutions and war, at the Santa Maria ai Monti church in Rome, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Analysis

In al-Nusra Front’s Syria, no room for religious minorities

By Elhanan Miller

A rare interview with Islamist group leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani reveals the danger awaiting Syria’s non-Muslim groups after Assad falls

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, April 12, 2015 (AFP/Karim Jaafar/al-Watan Doha)

UN head likely to oppose placing Israel on rights abuse list

Ban Ki-moon inclined to reject recommendation to define Jewish state as entity committing violations against children

A reactor building of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, February 26, 2006. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

UN nuke agency reports that Iran probe stalled

IAEA wants to investigate alleged activities that point to attempts by Tehran to make atomic weapons

FIFA President Sepp Blatter speaks at the opening ceremony of the FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, May 28, 2015. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP)

Defiant soccer chief resists calls to resign amid scandal

By Graham Dunbar

Though not implicated in bribery indictments engulfing FIFA’s top ranks, Sepp Blatter seen by opponents as part of the problem

Palestinian police with riot gear stand guard as they stop supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from reaching the headquarters of PA President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 7, 2013, during a protest against negotiations with Israel (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

In Ramallah, Abbas’s top negotiator says they’re running out of patience

By Avi Issacharoff

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Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)

Reinventing the wheelUK Haredi rabbis ban women drivers

By Tamar Pileggi

Al Pacino, in London on May 18, 2015. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)

Pacino quits play over playwright’s support of Hitler

By JTA

Rapper Ice Cube performing live in concert, October 29, 2010 (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0/Stuart Sevastos)

Lost his cool?Ice Cube melts down, ‘beats up rabbi’

By JTA

Illustrative: Hitler ice cream on sale in India. (YouTube screenshot)

Cold warIndian ice cream named for Hitler

By JTA

The Jerusalem offices of the Interior Ministry. (Nati Shahat/Flash90)

Israel OK’s African-American family as citizens

By JTA

Palestine's 1939 soccer team. (JTA, British Pathé/YouTube)

They're all JewishWatch: Palestine’s 1939 soccer team

By Gabe Friedman

The new WeWork workspace center in Herzliya, where Visa Europe's Israel Collab will be located (Photo Credit: Visa Europe Collab)

Credit card giant Visa opens Israeli R&D center

By David Shamah

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva fined $1.2 billion in US antitrust case

By AP

Aerial view of the Caesarstone US manufacturing facility in Richmond Hill, Georgia. (Courtesy)

Israeli companies bring jobs to American cities

By David Shamah

FIFA President Sepp Blatter gives a thumbs up at the opening of the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich on May 29, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI)

Hebrew media reviewThe ball is in FIFA’s court

By Marissa Newman

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