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What Matters Most On Monday, May 16, 2016

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A figurine of the moon goddess Luna as discovered on the seabed at the site of the ancient sea port of Caserea, Israel. (Ran Feinstein)

Divers find huge trove of statues, coins in 1,600-year-old shipwreck

By Stuart Winer

In ‘biggest find in 30 years,’ archaeologists rescue rare bronze figures of gods, animals, that sank off Caesarea along with ship carrying metal for recycling

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in the Knesset plenum hall on March 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Army is subordinate to politicians, say PM, Ya’alon in bid to end row

Netanyahu and defense chief issue joint statement after ‘clarification’ meeting over generals being urged to speak out on ethical matters

Deputy IDF chief in 2006: Soldiers must risk lives to save Palestinian civilians

Defense minister denounces adviser who called Medal of Courage winner a ‘coward’

By Judah Ari Gross

Herzog said to signal he’ll join government for ‘rare peace opportunity’

Greek Orthodox Christian pilgrims walk by a sign warning of mines as they take part in a traditional Epiphany baptism ceremony, at Qasr el Yahud on January 18, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jesus’s baptismal site, long sealed off, to be cleared of landmines

Churches at Qasr al-Yahud have languished behind barbed wire for five decades; now a UK anti-mine group plans to rid area of 4,000 explosives, giving pilgrims access

Police at the scene of a large fire that broke at a warehouse in Givat Shaul neighborhood on May 16, 2016. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Zionist Union drops in polls as unity government talks stall

By Ilan Ben Zion

Firefighters extinguish Jerusalem blaze; ‘No debate’ that military is subordinate to government, say defense minister, prime minister

The Judean Desert's Cave of Skulls, where six Palestinians illegally dug for antiquities and were arrested on November 30, 2014. (Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

In new crackdown, antiquities authorities tighten noose around dealers, thieves

By Ilan Ben Zion

Regulatory agency mandates digital database, ‘closing the loopholes’ to prevent stolen artifacts reaching the Israeli market

IDF soldier Hannah Laskow Defore (Facebook)

Basic trainingBasic training

Viral makeup tutorial features IDF’s ‘camouflage palette’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In parody video, American IDF volunteer Hannah Laskow Defore deadpans how to blend in with the shrubbery

Trapped in the Qandil Mountains

A call for the world community to stop Turkey’s Erdogan before he destroys the whole region: eyewitness account

Zeev Ben-Shachar

Cleansing the Nakba

Teaching about what Palestinians term ‘the tragedy’ provides an opportunity to sort fact from narrative

Mediterranean magic

He missed the boat — literally — but met his destiny

Jacob Ma-Weaver

Online trading scams: Tips and red flags

10 ways Israeli policymakers can reign in predatory traders, plus 5 ways online investors can avoid being swindled

The scene of a stabbing attack on Jerusalem's HaNevi'im street, in which an Israeli man was lightly injured, on May 16, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

Man lightly injured in Jerusalem stabbing attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Assailant subdued after terror attack near Hanevi’im Street in ultra-Orthodox area of capital

Illustrative photo of NPR microphones. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Michigan public radio station refuses to air birthday greeting to Israel

By JTA

Station says Detroit Jewish couple’s message wishing Jewish state a happy 68th Independence Day ‘compromises impartiality’

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)

US condemns Iran’s ‘abhorrent’ Holocaust-mocking cartoon contest

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Washington concerned annual competition could breed ‘Holocaust denial, revisionism and egregiously anti-Semitic speech’

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at Trump Tower in New York, May 10, 2016. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Trump fights back on questions over women, taxes

By AFP

Presumptive GOP nominee calls report detailing unwelcome advances, crude comments towards female colleagues ‘a lame hit piece’

Brazilian acting President Michel Temer is seen during the first ministers meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on May 13, 2016. (EVARISTO SA / AFP)

Son of Lebanese immigrants, Brazil’s new president is friend to Jewish community

By JTA

Michel Temer appoints longtime supporter of Brazilian Jews as new FM, Israel-born economist as head of central bank

Illustrative: A Palestinian youth waves the national flag as the IDF searches for smuggling tunnels at the border east of Gaza City on May 15, 2016, the 68th anniversary of the 'Nakba,' a reference to the birth of Israel in 1948. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Palestinians mark Nakba Day with sirens, marches

By ToI Staff and AP

Clashes reported along Israel-Gaza border; right-wing Israeli protesters crash Tel Aviv event ‘to emphasize the lie’ of Palestinian dispossession

Marian Harper, owner of the Carnegie Deli, holds an overstuffed Pastrami sandwich (courtesy: Carnegie Deli)

For many NY Jews, delis are the ‘secular version of the synagogue’

By Cathryn J. Prince

Security guards stand outside Old Trafford stadium after the final soccer match of the season between Manchester United and AFC Bournemouth was abandoned due to a suspect package being found inside the stadium on May 15, 2016. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)

Manchester United faces multi-million bill for ‘bomb’ fiasco

By AFP

Realistic dummy explosive prompted evacuation of Old Trafford stadium minutes before final game of soccer season

Anthony Weiner’s surprising and scandal-ridden New York City mayoral campaign is the subject of a new documentary film. (Courtesy of Sundance Selects via JTA)

Anthony Weiner lets it all hang out in new documentary

By Curt Schleier

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A homeless woman walks around Ben-Gurion Airport in a report about the phenomenon aired on Channel 2, May 15, 2016. (Screenshot/Channel 2)

Terminal residencyHomeless women found living at Ben Gurion Airport

Illustrative photo of Israeli students at the Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year, October 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women better educated but earning less than men, report finds

By Stuart Winer

Children play in a water fountain near the Old City's Tower of David, Jerusalem, on April 17, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

More than 370 treated in record-breaking heatwave

From 'Personal Affairs,' Maha Haj's quiet film about an aging couple and their children, living in Nazareth, Ramallah and Sweden, which is being screened at the May 2016 Cannes Film Festival (Courtesy 'Personal Affairs')

Oui, we CannesStart-out sabras at this year’s Cannes

By Jessica Steinberg

View of the southern Israeli city of Eilat on April 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

5.0-magnitude earthquake shakes southern Israel

An Iraqi Christian woman, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, attends a mass celebrating the coronation of the Virgin Mary, on May 31, 2015 in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

From the webIraq’s ancient Christian population could be gone within 5 years in the face of IS

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon on October 6, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewClash of the titans

By Adiv Sterman

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