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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 22, 2016

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Illustrative: A missile launched from the Alborz mountains in Iran on March 9, 2016, reportedly inscribed in Hebrew, 'Israel must be wiped out.' (Fars News)

Iranian commander: We can destroy Israel ‘in under 8 minutes’

If supreme leader gives order, Revolutionary Guards ‘will raze the Zionist regime’ quickly, says senior adviser of elite al-Quds unit

J Street received over $500,000 to push Iran deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Zarif: ‘Hostile’ US policies an obstacle to trade relations

By AFP and ToI Staff

IS urges terror attacks on American soil during Ramadan

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, October 12, 2015. To his left stands Moshe Ya'alon, behind him Avigdor Liberman (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Why Netanyahu’s dumping of his defense minister is no ordinary political maneuver

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: On election day, Israelis ask themselves who is most capable of keeping their soldier-children safe. Netanyahu and Ya’alon were quite the team. Not so, Netanyahu and Liberman

AnalysisFarewell to Moshe Ya’alon, the man who kept Israel out of the war in Syria

By Mitch Ginsburg

AnalysisWhat will replace the Ya’alon doctrine?

By Judah Ari Gross

Hundreds protest Liberman’s appointment as defense minister

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)

Live updates (closed)

Israel returns ancient stolen relics to Egypt

‘Stop crying,’ Netanyahu tells critics of Israeli society; Zionist Union lawmakers pile on Herzog at faction meeting

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit Israel's border with Jordan on September 6, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Ya’alon-Netanyahu spat continues amid accusations of hypocrisy

Shortly before PM offered him post of defense minister, the Likud party mocked Avigdor Liberman as ‘unqualified’ to comment on military matters

PM vows wider coalition will pursue peace, holds out hope for Herzog

Likud, Yisrael Beytenu look to wrap coalition deal by afternoon

US said to deny Liberman posting will upset defense aid talks

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Izak Sagui (left) and his long lost brother Shep Shell reunite after seven decades with their biological mother in 'Aida's Secrets.' (Courtesy)

After 70 years, man born in DP camp meets unknown brother(s)

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Film documents the unraveling of a family mystery as an Israeli man discovers that finding one brother in Canada is only beginning of his search for the truth

WANTED: Leadership

Make no mistake: Netanyahu and Liberman are burying the hatchet for personal gain, and not the good of the country

Making a run for peace in Jerusalem

Jews and Arabs in the capital will soon be coming together to race for co-existence

Merri Ukraincik

How my son guilted me into making challah

Weekly baking for her family’s shabbat dinner became so much more than competing with the bakery

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In scrapped coalition deal, PM took positive stance on Arab Peace Initiative

Document setting terms for Likud-Zionist Union government pledged ‘readiness to enter dialogue with relevant Arab states’

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan at the scene of a stabbing attack outside IDF Headquarters in central Tel Aviv, on October 8, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After quitting, Ya’alon has deputy defense minister booted from army HQ

By Judah Ari Gross

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech during the Interministerial committee of rural life on May 20, 2016, Privas, southeastern France. (AFP/PHILIPPE DESMAZES)

French prime minister visits Israel in peace plan push

By AFP and ToI Staff

Manuel Valls calls for halt to settlement building, says outcome of peace conference not predetermined; Netanyahu says adding Liberman to coalition won’t affect talks efforts

An armored Israeli bus came under Palestinian fire on May 21, 2016 near the Tekoa settlement in the West Bank. No injuries were reported. (Courtesy)

Gunman opens fire on Israeli bus in West Bank

No injuries reported in suspected terror attack near settlement of Tekoa; armored vehicle sustains damage; security forces launch manhunt

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

Liberman said to drop demand for death penalty for terrorists

Bill would have allowed capital punishment for those convicted of ideologically motivated murder

A Palestinian worker adjusts bags of cement loaded onto a truck after it entered the southern Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, on April 29, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash 90)

Analysis

Israel to allow cement into Gaza after 6-week freeze

By Avi Issacharoff and Judah Ari Gross

Hamas official who diverted building materials to tunnel construction dismissed in deal to end halts on private imports

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on May 4, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)

Sissi says all options open on cause of EgyptAir crash

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

While many initially suspected the Islamic State, the jihadist group has yet to claim responsibility

Supporters of Right-wing Austrian Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer attend Hofer's final election campaign rally at the Viktor Adler Markt in Vienna, Austria on May 20,2016. (AFP/JOE KLAMAR)

Far-right on edge of power as Austria votes for president

By AFP

Predicted win by head of anti-immigration Freedom Party, Norbert Hofer, raises fears amid nationalist surge across Continent

An American MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle prepares to land after a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (US Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/USAF Photographic Archives/Public Domain/Wikipedia)

Taliban chief ‘likely killed’ in US drone strike: US

By AFP

Mullah Akhtar Mansour said responsible for waves of attacks that killed tens of thousands in Afghanistan

Hapoel Beersheba F.C. soccer players celebrate after winning the Israeli League championship for the first time in 40 years in Beersheba on May 21, 2016. (Danny Meron/Flash90)

In 40-year first, Hapoel Beersheba soccer club are national champions

Dramatic 3:1 win against Bney Sakhnin Saturday cements decade-long rise from second-tier league for southern team

Members of the Tzav Pius 13-year-olds’ soccer team in the city of Pardes Hanna during practice in an educational exercise meant to teach teamwork. (Ben Sales)

Kids’ soccer leagues aim to bridge Israel’s religious divide

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William Shakespeare (John Taylor, National Portrait Gallery, Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Simon Wiesenthal Center denounces ‘Israel-bashing’ Romeo and Juliet play

An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

Government approves new draft of troubled gas deal

The Reform Temple of Rockland (YouTube screen cap)

Shul for saleRockland County Reform temple goes on auction block

By JTA

Orthodox Jewish girls sing rap song about Dor Yeshorim, a genetic screening and matching organization. (YouTube)

Blood beatOrthodox girls rap on genetic testing in viral video

By Renee Ghert-Zand

This file photo taken on May 18, 2016 shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a fundraising event in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. (AFP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

‘Moving to Canada’: Trump fuels US relocation dreams

By Jennie Matthew

Palestinian teenager Mohammed al-Sheikh, 12, shows his skills on a table in Gaza City on April 28, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS

Spiderman, GazamanGaza ‘Spiderboy’ seeks to storm Guinness records

By AFP

French-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani poses on May 16, 2016 during a photocall for the film 'Paterson' at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)

Cannes spotlight puts Iranian cinema center stage

Roni Daniel, left, bangs his fist on the table during a Channel 2 studio debate, May 20, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Hebrew media reviewApoplexy now

By Joshua Davidovich

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