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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 31, 2015

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Ofir Shaer (left) with his son Gil-ad Shaer, who, together with Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah, was kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian terrorists in June 2014. (Courtesy)

Interview

A year on, slain teen’s dad seeks to ‘translate pain into something positive’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ofir Shaer speaks of brutal killings of son Gil-ad, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach, as families’ foundation to award unity prize in their memory

Secretary of State John Kerry rides his bicycle along the shore of Lake Geneva after holding meetings with Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif over Iran's nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday March 18, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool)

Kerry breaks leg in Geneva bike accident, hospitalized

By Bradley Klapper

Secretary of state had been holding talks with Iran but will now head home, scrapping plans to join conference on tackling Islamic State

Netanyahu: Iran the ‘greatest threat’ to world peace

Iranian official slams France over military site inspections

By AFP and ToI Staff

World powers said to agree on ‘snapback’ sanctions mechanism

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, holds a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Jerusalem on May 31, 2015 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Several Americans being held in Yemen, US says

By Joshua Davidovich

Washington working to free unspecified number of captives from war-torn country, State Department says

Please help me, I don’t want to die

As a gay Palestinian convert to Christianity, Canada’s plan to deport him is, he says, a sure death sentence

Palestinian Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gives a speech during a rally in Gaza City, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas condemns dropped FIFA bid as missed opportunity

PA can’t be trusted after giving up on effort to oust Israel from world soccer, terror group says; soccer chief Rajoub mocked on social media

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)

FIFA chief commends ‘exceptional Palestinian gesture’

Sepp Blatter says decision to withdraw proposal banning Israel showed heart; Palestinians and Israelis both claim success at soccer congress

The Israeli border fence with Gaza (David Buimovitch/Flash90)

Hamas paves road near Gaza border ‘to attack Zionists’

Construction on Palestinian side of fence is ongoing; Israeli officials say work does not currently pose threat

Israeli soldiers take part in an emergency drill held at a girls' school in Pisgat Zeev on February 24, 2014. (Flash90)

Country-wide drill to prepare for massive three-front rocket attack

Army, police, medics and others to hold annual exercise imagining missile barrage from Gaza, Syria and Lebanon; sirens to sound twice on Tuesday

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

Hotovely urges German FM to prevent labeling of West Bank products

In Jerusalem, deputy foreign minister tells Frank-Walter Steinmeier that initiative harms both Israelis and Palestinians

Russia said scaling back its support for Assad

By Elhanan Miller

According to a-Sharq Al-Awsat, Moscow has recalled over 100 experts and diplomats; refuses to repair Syrian fighter jets

File: Turkish Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva at a commemoration organized by the City of Istanbul for 781 Jewish refugees who drowned in the sinking of the Struma ship in 1942 (JTA/Courtesy of the City of Istanbul)

Turkish Jews not leaving yet, but eyeing exit amid Erdogan’s hostile rhetoric

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Joe Biden, right, is seen with his son Beau Biden in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. (AFP/Paul J. RICHARDS)

Beau Biden, son of US vice president, dies of cancer

By AFP and AP

Family of Joe Biden says it is ‘saddened beyond words’ after oldest son succumbs to brain disease at 46

Reproduction of a photograph of Adolf Hitler receiving the Nazi salute from Israel Nazi hunter Tovia Fridman archive. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

US paid $20 million in benefits to ex Nazis, state watchdog finds

By AP

Social Security Administration report details millions paid out to 130 suspected Nazi war criminals

Ultra-Orthodox children playing in a construction site in Beit Shemesh on December 26, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

The growing pains of Beit Shemesh

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Not lovin' itAnti-logos shame FIFA sponsors

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Palestinian man smokes a cigarette in the alleys of Jerusalem's Old City, on June 12, 2013. (Neal Badache/Flash90)

8,000 smokers die in Israel each year, report says

David Blatt of the Cleveland Cavaliers on May 26, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio (Jason Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

Almost colleagues, coaches Kerr and Blatt are rare rookies in NBA finals

By Antonio Gonzalez

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) congratulates then-incoming Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

Deputy health minister moves to restore water fluoridation

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid seen during a swearing in ceremony for the 20th Knesset on March 31, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid: Netanyahu offered me Foreign Ministry

By Itamar Sharon

Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt speaking at the Riverdale Jewish Center in New York on February 26, 2014. (Screen grab: YouTube)

Sexual misconduct allegations against NY rabbi spark debate

By Tamar Pileggi

Mac DeMarco. (Coley Brown/Courtesy)

InterviewLo-fi master Mac DeMarco comes to Tel Aviv

By Judah Ari Gross

The US Embassy in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Ori~/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Place your bidsIn first, TA’s US embassy hosts auction

Palestinians hold banners as they demonstrate in the center of Ramallah, demanding the suspension of Israel from FIFA, May 20, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Hebrew media reviewIsrael not booted out of soccer — so now what?

By Adiv Sterman

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