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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 18, 2016

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

Herzog freezes coalition talks as Netanyahu courts Liberman

By Marissa Newman

Yisrael Beytenu leader says he’s willing to join government if demands are met; Likud ministers urge PM to seal deal with him

AnalysisThrowing a cog into coalition talks, Liberman has the last laugh

By Marissa Newman

AnalysisWith clock ticking, Herzog and Netanyahu move close to unity

By Raoul Wootliff

Sissi’s peace speech linked to Israeli coalition talks

When French-Israeli lawyer Deborah Abitbol filed suit on behalf of French victims, it set off a French criminal investigation (Courtesy)

As Israel turns blind eye to vast binary options fraud, French investigators step in

By Simona Weinglass and charlotte guimbert

Tens of thousands of French victims have lost some 4 billion euros to online investment scams in the past six years. Much of the cynical theft originates — and is still flourishing — in Israel

Are ‘regulated’ binary options companies any better?

By Simona Weinglass and charlotte guimbert

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to his wife Melania Trump speak to supporters at a campaign stop on April 4, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Darren Hauck/Getty Images/AFP)

Melania Trump says husband Donald is ‘not Hitler’

By Eric Cortellessa

Wife of presumptive GOP candidate says Jewish journalist’s profile of her ‘provoked’ anti-Semitic attacks by supporters

Adelson implores Republican Jewish leaders to support Trump

By Julie Bykowicz

Trump says he’d speak with N. Korean leader over nukes

By Matthew Pennington and Jill Colvin

Donald Trump to meet with Henry Kissinger this week

By JTA

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a press conference in the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 18, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu under fire for axing Ya’alon, ‘the last gatekeeper of the IDF’

MKs from center and left lambaste PM for offering defense portfolio to Liberman, Herzog for abortive bid to join coalition

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo on April 17, 2016 (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Egypt sees ‘real opportunity’ for Israel-Palestinian deal

By Raoul Wootliff and Agencies

President Sissi holds up his own country’s accord with Jerusalem as proof of the power of diplomacy; France postpones summit

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Abbas welcomes Egyptian president’s peace push

By Raoul Wootliff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

PM: Israel ready to work with Arab states on peace process

By Raoul Wootliff and Agencies

Haviv Rettig Gur

My cousin’s cousin

Genetics tell us how connected Jews and Arabs are — but then, we already knew that, didn’t we?

A politicized army is a threat to Israel

Any intervention of IDF commanders in domestic politics is the first step toward the end of democratic rule

The tragedy and triumph of the Palmach

Marking 75 years to the formation of the fighting units who valiantly paved the way for the State of Israel

That ‘largely non-violent’ Intifada

An erroneous, biased Presbyterian Church committee report on Israel and the Palestinians toes the BDS line

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses a primary election night rally in Carson, California, May 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK)

Sanders wins Oregon while Clinton claims Kentucky

Vermont senator vows to keep his long-shot bid alive; Trump draws closer to clinching GOP nomination with Oregon victory

Palestinians harvest strawberries in a field in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on December 30, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

In Gaza, using agriculture to grow the economy

By Melanie Lidman

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an IDF base on March 10, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg)

Analysis

Netanyahu and Ya’alon bury the hatchet — until the next time

By Judah Ari Gross

Tension between prime minister and defense minister appears settled for now, but underlying issues go unresolved

Palestinians wait outside Herod's Gate as security forces shut down the Old City of Jerusalem while searching for a suspect after a stabbing attack, on May 2, 2016. A Jewish man was stabbed and severely wounded (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

3 indicted for harboring stabber after Jerusalem attack

Also, Tel Aviv court convicts Palestinian of murder 2 years after he fatally stabbed a soldier in Tel Aviv train station

Israeli soldiers stand guard with their tank along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Southern residents told to evacuate in case of conflict outbreak

Amid tensions along Gaza border, those living near Palestinian enclave instructed to have packed bags at the ready

TV Personality Kim Kardashian West attends the 20th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, New York City, May 16, 2016. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images/AFP)

Cheeky claim

Iran: Kim Kardashian is a corruptive secret agent

By Stuart Winer

Amid crackdown against online modeling, Iranian Guard Corps accuses Instagram of waging anti-morality campaign

Meir Ettinger, the head of a Jewish extremist group, stands at the Israeli justice court in Nazareth Illit on August 4, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger to be freed from prison

After eight months of detention without charges, Meir Kahane’s grandson will be released on June 1

Comedian Louis C.K. performs on 'Saturday Night Live, May 16, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/JaySipher)

After Jerusalem tickets snatched up, Louis C.K. adds a show

By Stuart Winer

Provocative comedian to put on two performances on the same day at venue in capital

A Jewish student speaking during a debate featuring Alan Dershowitz at Oxford’s Chabad Centre, Nov. 1, 2015. (Courtesy of Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters)

Anti-Semitism charges roil the calm waters of Oxford

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Israeli forces take part in a training exercise simulating a plane crash at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, May 17, 2016. (Flash90)

Ben Gurion Airport holds plane crash emergency drill

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, with Intel Israel General Manager Maxine Fassberg, cuts the ribbon at the opening of Intel's new R&D center in Jerusalem, 2009 (Courtesy Intel)

Intel to close Jerusalem plant; most workers safe but transferred

Rabbi Chaim Parnes, left, and Rabbi Issac Rosenberg, who drowned in Miami beach on May 17, 2016 (Screen shot: CBS New York)

Two New York rabbis drown in strong Miami rip current

Social Affairs Minister Haim Katz attends a Labor and Welfare committee meeting in the Knesset, June 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

Likud minister questioned on suspicion of insider trading

A vintage blunderbuss seized by IDF troops in Hebron on May 18, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Blunder-bustedIDF confiscates a ‘dragon’ musket in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of an overturned vehicle (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Car crashes kill 3 Israelis in Switzerland, Colombia

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2015 on May 22, 2015, in the Dead Sea resort of Shuneh, Jordan. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Hebrew media reviewAnd the bromance became a threesome

By Joshua Davidovich

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