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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 14, 2016

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Rabbi Avraham Sinai (L) and son Amos look out at the Lebanese border (Channel 2 news)

'Here it's heaven, there it's hell. Why would I go back?'

From Hezbollah to Israeli army: The extraordinary journey of a father and son

Rabbi Avraham Sinai, once Ibrahim Yassin, spied on the terror group for Israel. This week his son Amos, born in Lebanon, received a presidential citation for service in Golani brigade

Former Argentine president says Hezbollah killed his son

By AP

Adnan Badreddine, left, brother of Hezbollah terror chief Mustafa Badreddine, grieves at his brother's picture in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Analysis

Hezbollah terror chief blown up. Israel not blamed!

By Avi Issacharoff

The Shiite terror group, most unusually, is not accusing Israel of assassinating Mustafa Badreddine, killed in Damascus. So who did it?

Syrian watchdog refutes Hezbollah claim top commander killed by Islamist rebels

By ToI Staff and AFP

Hezbollah expansion threatens all of Lebanon, UN envoy warns

By AP

Iran FM Zarif extends condolences to Hezbollah after terror chief killed

By ToI Staff and AP

Sheldon Adelson, 2014 (Ethan Miller/Getty Images, via JTA)

Adelson formally endorses Trump, says alternative is ‘third term’ of Obama

If Republicans don’t unite behind presumptive nominee, says casino billionaire, the risk is giving Obama ‘a third term in the name of Hillary Clinton’

Bill Clinton defends his and Hillary’s Israel record, spars with heckler over Gaza

By Eric Cortellessa

‘Self-funded’ Trump preparing to seek big-donor money

By Julie Bykowicz

‘Trump-Putin kiss’ graffiti shows misgivings in Baltic states

By AFP

Cover detail from 'Shtum' by Jem Lester, a new novel about a family coping and thriving with the challenges of autism (courtesy)

Novel explores how autism can teach a family to communicate

Centered around a nonverbal autistic son and Holocaust survivor grandfather, Jem Lester’s semi-autobiographical debut ‘Shtum’ wins hearts and acclaim

Goldie Michelson (JTA/Screenshot)

113-year-old Jewish woman now oldest person in the US

By JTA

Goldie Michelson of Worcester, Massachusetts is likely the oldest Jew in the world too

Michael Fumento

Trump’s tough guy problem

The Donald is desperate to be seen as macho — and that’s precisely because he’s really just a bully

Vladimir Lazarevik

Macedonia’s bribery scandal and Israel

Israel’s justice system must address the alleged role of an Israeli company in his country’s political turmoil

Shmuley Boteach

Donald Trump is best for Israel

A bid of support for the Republican frontrunner: Hillary just promises more of Obama’s failed foreign policy

An Iranian man takes a photo of an anti-Israel cartoon displayed at the second international exhibition of drawing and cartoons on the Holocaust in Tehran on May 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Head of Iran’s hate cartoon fest equates Holocaust with Israeli actions in ‘Palestine’

US Holocaust museum debunks Tehran regime’s claim not to support the competition; WJC says Iran making a mockery of itself and of the world community

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Netanyahu slams Hollande for backing ‘shameful’ UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem

In blunt letter, PM says he is ‘astounded’ that Paris supported a ‘distortion of truth’ that ignored Jewish ties to Temple Mount

British and French diplomats Mark Sykes (L) and François Georges-Picot (Public Domain)

100 years since Sykes-Picot: The deal that changed the Mideast forever

By AFP

British-French WWI deal to carve up areas under Ottoman rule has been blamed by many for region’s woes; others say that’s an excuse for failed leadership

Stuart Levey (US Treasury Department)

Obama sending mixed messages on Iran, charges ex-sanctions officer

Stuart Levey says Islamic Republic has not decreased problematic activities separate from its nuclear enterprise

The Muslim/Jewish couple social experiment (YouTube screen cap)

Love conquers

New Yorkers respond to Jewish-Muslim couple experiment

By Gabe Friedman

YouTube personalities set out to test public’s reactions as members of different faiths walk together and hold hands

A screenshot from an 11-minute video showing a Hasidic principal handling a young boy. (Screenshot from YouTube)

FBI raids of Hasidic Kiryas Joel ‘part of sex abuse probe’

Child abuse investigation said to stem from 2 videos in which a yeshiva principal intimately touches two young boys

Originally from Strasbourg, Rabbi René Pfertzel, center, came to Britain 15 years ago and now leads a French-language service at a London Liberal Jewish Synagogue. He's pictured here in Amsterdam, August 2014 (Courtesy of Pfertzel/via JTA)

At home in London, French Jews dread upcoming Brexit vote

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Amid talk of the refugee crisis and economy, some fear they will come between the hammer and the anvil should Britain vote to leave the EU

Detail from 'Petticoat Lane, Sunday market, with stall-holder,' by Dorothy Bohm, taken in 1960s London (courtesy)

92-year-old photography doyenne found her focus in fleeing the Nazis

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A member of the Iraqi security forces stands guard as civilians look at the damage following a car bomb attack in Sadr City, a Shiite area north of the capital Baghdad, on May 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

16 killed in Baghdad attack on cafe of Real Madrid fans

By AFP

Illustrative: IDF soldiers in the northern Jordan Valley, June 26, 2015 (Basel Safadi/Flash90)

Palestinian boy bitten by snake gets treated by IDF medics

By Ilan Ben Zion

A cropped part from an ad published by the Mossad in Israeli media outlets. (Courtesy)

Tinker, tailor, soldier, hackerNew Mossad ad quizzes would-be cyberspies

British boxer Tyson Fury (YouTube screencap)

British boxing champ warns of ‘Zionist, Jewish’ brainwashing

By JTA

A Romanian coin bearing the likenesses of former governors of the National Bank of Romania from left) Ion I. Câmpineanu, Mihail Manoilescu and Ion I. Lapedatu. The coin is one of a series of three in gold, bronze and silver. (Romanian National Bank)

Poorly mintedUS knocks Romania for ‘anti-Semitic’ coin

By AP

Israeli activists chant slogans, as they carry placards, during the 5th annual 'SlutWalk' march through central Jerusalem on May 13, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Jerusalem SlutWalk marchers say police demanded cover-up

Gili Mosinzon (Facebook)

Fast breaking newsIsraeli baller comes out on Independence Day

By JTA

William Shatner arrives at the NBC Universal Summer Press Day at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif, April, 2015. Shatner first swaggered onto the bridge of the starship Enterprise in 1966. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Beam me up, ScottieWilliam Shatner looks at 50 years of Star Trek

By DAVID FISCHER

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