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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 15, 2016

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Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on May 15, 2016 during a meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. (AFP/POOL/MENAHEM KAHANA)

French FM: Peace confab to go ahead despite Netanyahu opposition

By Raoul Wootliff

After meeting with Israeli, Palestinian leaders, Jean-Marc Ayrault says summit will start process to bring about direct negotiations

Young Arabs march in Negev for a ‘return’ that would end the Jewish state

By Dov Lieber and Luke Tress

Nakba rally faces right-wing protest at Tel Aviv University

Suspected arson attack near Jerusalem military base

Donald Trump speaking at a caucus night watch party at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 23, 2016. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump has history of questionable conduct with women — report

NY Times interviews over 50 people, male and female, to reveal pattern of often inappropriate behavior in private and professional settings

Adelson set to give over $100 million to Israel-supporting Trump

By ToI Staff, JTA and AP

Prominent Republicans weigh third-party run to unseat Trump

Clinton, Trump must choose a VP: Who’s in the running?

By Michael Mathes

An Iranian woman looks at an anti-Israel cartoon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the second international exhibition of drawing and cartoons on the Holocaust in Tehran on May 14, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran ‘preparing another Holocaust,’ Netanyahu charges

After meeting French FM, prime minister calls on world to condemn Islamic Republic for ‘denying and mocking’ the Shoah

US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with top Iranian nuclear official Ali Akbar Salehi on June 30, 2015, in Vienna, Austria. (US State Department)

Iran says it is ‘enhancing’ nuclear activities, including uranium enrichment

A Palestinian holds a slingshot to throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a rally to commemorate the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" in Arabic in reference to the establishment in 1948 of the state of Israel on May 15, 2016 in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (AFP/HAZEM BADER)

Live updates (Closed)

PM responds to Ya’alon: General’s comparison was wrong, caused us damage

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu says he supports officers’ rights to speak on subjects they know about; Herzog said to signal he’ll join government for ‘rare peace opportunity’; several treated for heat-related ailments as country sizzles

Eduardo and Mariana Zagury held a third birthday party for their twins Gabriel and Daniela at a fancy “party house” in Rio, but chose the venue for its innovative educational approach. (Courtesy of the Zagury family)

Brazil’s Jews scale back, a little, on their tots’ birthday extravaganzas

By Marcus M. Gilban

Be it for modesty, or economic necessity, some families are cutting back on the four-hour long, ‘millionaire market’ of deejayed parties for 100-plus friends of the birthday boy or girl

Trump’s dangerous neutrality on Israel

The US needs a president who will stand by Israel, not suggest it is the problem in the Mideast peace process

Let’s dance for peace – in Chinese

The improbable eastward journey of that ultimate Israeli cultural artifact — the local folk dance

30 movers and shakers of Jerusalem

Presenting the people helping to invigorate the capital with culture, entrepreneurship, learning and meaning

Edgar Bronfman: Last words

The late philanthropist’s posthumously published book articulates what makes Judaism compelling for a secular Jew

Illumigyn's signature product, the Gynescope, is a sophisticated imaging device that fits inside the handle of a standard speculum used by gynecologists. (Courtesy)

Israeli medical company hopes to save thousands of women’s lives per year

Illumigyn is developing a system it believes will revolutionize healthcare by minimizing deaths from cervical cancer and other diseases

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, February 3, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu calls on Yisrael Beytenu party to join government

Liberman dismisses outreach as ‘spin,’ says he’d consider joining forces with slim coalition once he gets ‘reasonable’ offer

Settlers and right wing activists hold evening prayers after attending a march in the area known as E1 near the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim on February 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Plan to apply Israeli law in West Bank: Equal rights or ‘creeping annexation’?

Illustrative photo of Border Policemen on May 2, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )

Border cop indicted in fatal shooting of comrade

Gilad Weizman, 21, hit with manslaughter charges after killing Avi Grunov, 19, during ‘friendly conversation’ in 2015

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)

At Eurovision, Israel takes 14th – but an Israeli wins 6th

By Jessica Steinberg

‘We feel great,’ says Israel’s contender Hovi Star; France’s Amir Haddad, an Israeli dentist, comes in sixth with ‘J’ai cherché’

Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song "1944," attends a press conference after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 grand final in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 15, 2016. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Ukraine stuns Russia to win politically-charged Eurovision

By Hugues HONORE

One of the Open Water Israel events taking place on the coastline of Beit Yannai in September 2015; the event in Achziv will take place on May 14 Courtesy Open Water Israel Facebook page)

Find the right festival for any state of mind

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative photo of an Israeli fire-fighting plane, March 29, 2012. (Omer MironFLASH90.

Army flares spark large fire near West Bank settlement

By Judah Ari Gross

Over a dozen families evacuated from their homes as rescue services battle blaze in Negohot, in the Hebron Hills

Illustrative photo of firefighters extinguishing a forest fire, April 25, 2016. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Brush fires flare up as heatwave envelops Israel

By Stuart Winer

Fire trucks and aircraft called in to tackle large blaze near Beit Shemesh; copse catches fire in Haifa

View of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus seen from Jerusalem's Old City, on June 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew University campus gate firebombed; no injuries reported

Molotov cocktail thrown at Mt. Scopus campus, causing blaze; earlier, police say fire near Jerusalem army base was arson attack

The Memorial of Names designed by Daniel Libeskind for Amsterdam (courtesy)

Amsterdam finally to move forward on Holocaust memorial

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

A Turkish Airlines flight (photo credit: CC BY-SA BriYYZ/Flickr/File)

Cold TurkeyIsrael bars Turkish Airlines pilot with Iranian passport

Former mayor of London and Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip Boris Johnson rides away after delivering a speech on the European Union ahead of the June 23 EU Referendum, May 9, 2016. (Leon Neal/AFP)

EU trying to do same as Hitler, says UK’s Boris Johnson

By AFP

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she speaks to British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, during a reception in Buckingham Palace in London, May 10, 2016. (AFP/Paul Hackett)

Queen to announce major crackdown on extremism in UK

By Stuart Winer

In this frame grab taken from surveillance video, a school bus burns after it was set on fire by children Sunday, May 8, 2016, in the Crown Heights section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Beth Rifkah School via AP)

Jewish school bus blaze evokes tension of 1991 Brooklyn riots

By Verena Dobnik and Colleen Long

Former president Moshe Katsav, left, serving a seven-year sentence for rape, seen with his wife, Gila, leaving Ma'asiyahu Prison for a furlough over the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 3, 2015. (Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav won’t appeal parole rejection

Palestinian/Syrian refugee Ayham Ahmad, also known as "the pianist of Yarmouk" poses prior to a performance at Berlin's Heimathafen concert hall on May 12, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL

Syrian pianist plays to Germans’ hearts

By AFP

eyeSight singlecue (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Gesture tech firm eyeSight nabs $20 million Chinese investment

Illustrative photo of police inspecting the aftermath of a car bombing near Tel Aviv, on January 19, 2016. (Flash90)

Family wounded in suspected gangland carbombing

Members of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah carry a portrait of Mustafa Badreddine in Beirut on May 13, 2016. (AFP/Anwar Amro)

Hebrew media reviewIt was the colonel in the airport with the phone bomb

By Joshua Davidovich

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