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What Matters Most On Friday, May 13, 2016

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A C-130J Super Hercules flies over the city of Ashdod as part of the Israeli Air Force's annual flyby on Independence Day, May 12, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

First person

High above Israel, my (very) turbulent Independence Day flyby

By Judah Ari Gross

The country seems beautifully quiet and calm from the cockpit of an IAF Hercules. But on board, for a Times of Israel reporter, things were anything but serene

(From L-R) Lebanese Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem, head of the Hezbollah Executive Council Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, and the brothers, Annan Badreddine and Hassan Badreddine, of top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine who was killed in an attack in Syria, receive condolences in a southern suburb of Beirut, on May 13, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)

Hezbollah mourns ‘great jihadi leader,’ stays mum on cause of blast that killed him

By Bassam Mroue

Shiite terror group pays tribute to its commander in Syria, Mustafa Badreddine, killed in Damascus attack initially blamed on IDF

Hezbollah announces probe into killing of top Syria commander attributed to Israel

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

Top Hezbollah commander in Syria killed by Israel, Lebanese TV says

Hezbollah chief: Islamic State carrying out new Nakba in Mideast

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers questions on Twitter live, at his residence in Jerusalem, as Israel celebrates its 68th Independence Day. May 12, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM strikes playful, conciliatory tone in #AskNetanyahu Q&A

By Raoul Wootliff

Poking fun at some of the online mockery ahead of event, Netanyahu takes to Twitter to answer questions on his world view, commitment to peace

Netanyahu says he’s ready to meet Abbas for talks ‘right now’

Israelis mob national parks, beaches for 68th Independence Day

Right-wing activists held over bids to ascend Temple Mount, block Muslims

A One Israel Fund tour group visits the hills near Karnei Shomron in the West Bank (Eliyahu Kamisher)

US tourists visit the ‘total heaven’ of West Bank settlements

By Eliyahu Kamisher

Arguing that settlements are underfunded by the Israeli government, a US-based charity takes American tourists on a day trip designed to show how they can help fill the gap and why they should

Talli Rosenbaum

Sanctity and pleasure, feminists and rabbis

A call for competent prep for a joyful, meaningful marital life, in response to recent haredi critique of sex education

In search of Jewish identity

On what it means to be a Jew (Kedoshim)

Open your eyes and you will find inspiring accomplishments by those with disabilities everywhere you look

A message to the Diaspora

There is no dividing the fate of Israel and the rest of the Jewish world; rather, today’s issues require solidarity

Illustrative: Hasidic Jews trying to see the burial of Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum in the upstate New York village of Kiryas Joel, April 25, 2006. (Stephen Chernin/Getty Images via JTA)

Federal agents raid New York Hasidic town of Kiryas Joel

By JTA

Raid appears to target Satmar-affiliated United Talmudical Academy, whose principal was recently caught on video kissing male students

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

How the US presidential election is upending pro-Israel orthodoxies

Bipartisanship on Israel is falling by the wayside, and even evangelicals now back a candidate who proclaims he won’t ‘pander’ to pro-Israel Americans

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton shake hands before the start of a presidential debate in Miami, Florida, on March 9, 2016. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Fearing Trump, some Democrats up pressure on Sanders to exit

By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas

This photo released by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

US Navy officer fired over Iran’s detention of 10 sailors

By Lolita C. Baldor

In statement, military says Cmdr. Eric Rasch’s lack of oversight, complacency led to embarrassing capture by Iranian forces

In this Feb. 16, 2016 file photo Deputy National Security Adviser For Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

White House defends aide Ben Rhodes over Iran deal accusations

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

Republican chair of House oversight committee Rep. Jason Chaffetz to hold hearing about claim officials were misled on nuclear accord

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Herzog: Rumors of breakthrough in coalition talks premature

Amid harsh internal criticism, opposition leader says if appropriate offer is made by Netanyahu, he would seriously consider it

Arab-Israeli protesters hold Palestinian flags as they march near the southern Israeli town of Rahat on May 12, 2016. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Thousands of Arab Israelis march for Palestinian ‘return’ to Israel

By AFP and Dov Lieber

Rally for first time in the Negev, protesters in Rahat, including Arab Knesset members, swear to defend land and uphold Palestinian rights

Illustrative: Lufthansa Airlines planes at the Frankfurt airport in Germany (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Lufthansa ordered to compensate passengers for 2014 Gaza war cancellation

Israeli court demands high payout from German carrier ‘to encourage passengers to exercise their rights’

Ambassador Danny Danon is joined by Fiddler stars Danny Burnstein (Tevye), Jessica Hecht (Golde), and ambassadors from around the world (Nir Arieli/ Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN)

In NY, UN ambassadors celebrate with Israel at Broadway’s ‘Fiddler’

By Cathryn J. Prince

Musabbir Ali, a former East London campaign officer for the Labour Party. (Twitter screen shot)

Labour member suspended for claiming Jews commit ‘genocide’ in UK

By JTA

East Londoner Musabbir Ali wrote blog post arguing that ‘Jews control Britain and are committing genocide on us’

Dr. Maria Kiss Madi, recent posthumous recipient of the Righteous Among the Nations Award (courtesy of the Madi/Walton Family)

70-year-old diary earns woman posthumous Righteous Among Nations award

By Karena Elliott

More Headlines

Donald Trump and butler Tony Senecal, at Mar-a-Lago, September 18, 2012. (Tony Senecal Facebook page)

Trump’s ex-butler urged Obama be hanged for treason

By Jill Colvin and Alicia A. Caldwell

Illustrative: A scan of a German, 19th century steel engraving of Jesus Christ (Public domain work of art)

Tiffany and Co. exec claims firing for alleged Jews killed Jesus comment

By JTA

French Foreign Minister Jean Marc Ayrault (left) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (right) attend a meeting on the Mideast crisis at the Quai d'Orsay ministry in Paris, on March 13, 2016. (AFP/Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool)

French FM set to meet with PM in bid to sell peace plan

By ToI Staff and AFP

Bene Israel Jewish Synagogue at Madhupura, Ahmedabad, India. (Emmanuel Dyan/Wikipedia/CC BY 2.0)

Study: Indian community has genetic evidence of Jewish roots

By JTA

Actor George Clooney poses for photographers during a photo call for the film 'Money Monster' at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, France, May 12, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

In Cannes, Clooney vows Donald Trump won’t be president

Members of the ultra-Orthodox Toldot Aharon community attend a computer and Internet lecture in Ramat Gan, after receiving authorization from their rabbis. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel at 68 online: Connected, curious, and a bit apprehensive

Hovi Star representing Israel celebrates as he advances to the Grand Final, after qualifying in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 12, 2016. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)

Reaching for the starsIsrael’s Star performer makes it to Eurovision final

A bird's-eye view of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Man impersonating Jew accused of burglaries in Jewish Brazilian district

By JTA

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFireworks, fanfare, and political flimflam

By Ilan Ben Zion

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