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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 19, 2016

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File. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a memorial ceremony for Defense Ministry personnel who fell in the line of duty, May 9, 2016, in Tel Aviv. (Dana Shraga/Defense Ministry)

Scorned Ya’alon says Israel has lost its ‘moral compass’

By Judah Ari Gross

In first public remarks since his position was offered to Liberman, defense minister blames vocal minority for upheaval

Netanyahu said set to offer ‘hurt’ Ya’alon Foreign Ministry

By Joshua Davidovich

Critics blast ‘worrying’ Liberman defense appointment

By Joshua Davidovich

Liberman said to accept defense minister post in coalition shakeup

By Raoul Wootliff

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog holds a press conference at the Zionist Union headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2016. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Press association ‘strongly condemns’ Hamas for harassing journalists

By Marissa Newman

FPA raps ‘thuggish’ group for repeatedly forcing reporters ‘to undergo uncomfortable questioning’ going in or out of Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman announce the formation of a united Likud and Yisrael Beytenu list for the upcoming elections, October 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Offering Liberman the defense job, Netanyahu embraces a politician who despises him

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Has the PM calculated wisely — for Israel’s sake and his own — in giving this most sensitive of positions to a brusque, ambitious and derisive rival?

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks with vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon during a session in the Knesset, June 2009 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Is Israel trading Bogie for a bogeyman? Not so fast

By Avi Issacharoff

The loss of Ya’alon, who helped build security ties with the region and even kept Palestinian anger at bay, will be deeply felt, but Liberman is too much of a pragmatist to follow through on his threats

MK Avigdor Liberman visits the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, following a terror attack, on March 9, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Liberman lacks military cred, makes up for it in opinions

By Judah Ari Gross

If Yisrael Beytenu’s leader takes the Defense Ministry, the job would pass from a lieutenant general to a corporal

Blair, Kerry, Sissi said behind shattered effort to bring Herzog into coalition

Zionist Union MKs call for Herzog’s head over coalition talks debacle

By Raoul Wootliff

From afar, Lapid bashes coalition talks as politics of self-interest

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Illustrative image of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 (AP/Kevin Cleynhens)

Terror attack most likely cause for EgyptAir crash, experts say

By Juliette MICHEL and Tangi QUEMENER

Missing Airbus A320 was relatively new, considered a reliable, modern, safe aircraft; technical fault unlikely to have caused sudden plummet

A relative of a passenger who was flying aboard an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo overnight cries as family members are transported by bus to a gathering point at Cairo airport on May 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)

Hollande confirms Paris-Cairo flight ‘crashed’

Antoine Kleinfeld

The Seine is overflowing

The view from France: After the high-profile attacks on Jews came a quietly rising tide of unchecked hatred

Jason Dov Greenblatt

A Trump presidency means a safer Israel

His candidate has Israel’s back — and the business chops to facilitate a peace deal where others have failed

Don’t lock me out

Those who can brave an inclusive Modern Orthodoxy should come together under the spiritual big tent of the new PORAT

Illustrative: Taglit-Birthright participants in Caesarea. (Photo by Melanie Fidler /Flash90)

Birthright participant dies in suicide during Israel trip

Organization says body of young American man was found in hotel room Wednesday, remainder of 10-day trip to continue as planned

A wooden Egyptian sarcophagus, confiscated by the Israel Antiquities Authority in 2012, that was set to be returned to Egypt on May 22, 2016 (Courtesy: Israel Antiquities Authority)

After 4 years, rare sarcophagi smuggled into Israel to be returned to Egypt

By Ilan Ben Zion

Antiquities Authority held stolen artifacts during deep freeze in bilateral ties, plans handover now new ambassador instated in Tel Aviv

Flames rise from a gas pipeline explosion in el-Arish, Egypt in July, 2012. The pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan has been attacked many times since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak. (AP/File)

Israel may forgive half of Egypt’s $1.7b gas fine

Reported move would push along stalled talks over energy imports, amid steadily warming ties

A Palestinian child stands in front of a mural of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Belgian lawmakers nominate jailed Palestinian Barghouti for Nobel

Members of Belgium’s Senate and House say terrorist serving 5 life sentences for murder holds key to peace in the region

Mira and Emanuel Riva, an Israeli couple killed in the terror attack on the Brussels Jewish Museum on May 24, 2014. (Courtesy)

Belgium declines Israeli teens’ aid request after parents killed in museum attack

By JTA

Tel Aviv teenagers Shira and Ayelet Riva lost their mother and father in 2014 terror assault

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

In about-face, ex-president Katsav appeals parole rejection

After being denied early release, convicted rapist continues bid to cut his 7-year sentence

The Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

FBI raids, scrutiny on yeshivas bring sense of siege to Hasidic town

By Uriel Heilman

Satmar community in Kiryas Joel fears loss of control amid probes over alleged sex abuse, education standards and misuse of government funds

Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on August 5, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash 90)

Top Israeli diplomat may be headed to Istanbul for summit

High-level official visit would mark latest sign of efforts to revamp moribund ties; Jerusalem refuses to confirm

Soldiers from the IDF's Golani Brigade seen during Krav Maga training at the Regavim Army base on April 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

From the IDF to Hollywood: Krav Maga’s meteoric rise

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU and SARA PUIG

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Historian Fritz Stern during an interview in 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Fritz Stern, prominent Holocaust historian, dead at 90

By AP

A ritual circumcision ceremony in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/File)

US House passes bill protecting circumcision, ritual slaughter

An illustrative photo of a hand grenade (photo credit: CC-BY-SA J-L Dubois, Wikimedia Commons)

Police catch 60,000 grenade springs headed to Gaza

Children place flowers on a tomb in the old cemetery of Bar Elias in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on May 13, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID)

For Syrians in Lebanon, no resting place in life or death

By Alice Hackman

Gold medalist Greece's Andreas Vazaios (C) poses for a photograph with silver medalist Israel's Gal Nevo (L) and bronze medalist Portugal's Alexis Manacas Santos (R) after the final of the men's 200-meter individual medley swimming event at the European aquatics championships in London on May 18, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK)

Israel’s Gal Nevo takes silver at European swimming finals

By Tamar Pileggi

Avi Abutbul,left, sits in the Tel Aviv District Court, September 22, 2009. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Underworld suspect in mob shooting ordered kept in custody

By Stuart Winer

Goldie Michelson in 2008 by the theater that bears her name. (Clark University)

Golden Goldie7 fun facts about 113-year-old Goldie Michelson

By Gabe Friedman

Hebrew media reviewBiberman redux

By Ilan Ben Zion

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