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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 24, 2016

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A 2014 Middle East Monitor cartoon shows an Israeli war plane bombing Gaza while a 'BDS' missile heads toward the plane. (Courtesy)

Dysfunctional Israeli leadership failing utterly in battle against BDS, state watchdog warns

By Raoul Wootliff

Highlighting dismal propaganda performance during 2014 war, comptroller cites lack of overall strategy, absent funding, divisions between ministries, failure to coordinate with IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, sit aboard a plane at Ben Gurion Airport on on 24 August 2009 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Comptroller: Private donors, groups funded Netanyahu family trips, travel expenses

By Marissa Newman

Watchdog’s report covers current premier’s stint as finance minister in 2003-2005, says he never cleared payments with Knesset; PM denies criminal conduct

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to go on an official state visit to Poland, on June 12, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)

Police may reopen criminal probe into Netanyahu travel billing

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, left, speaks with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, November 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Treasury, Yisrael Beytenu said close to deal on pensions

In late-night meeting, Finance Ministry officials and Liberman’s representatives make progress on main coalition hurdle

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Knesset during a special plenum session marking Herzl Day on May 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu and Herzog open, close doors on unity government talks

Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, October 19, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu chides incoming MK Glick for Temple Mount visit

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev meet with Hapoel Beersheba F.C. soccer players and staff members in celebration of their winning the Israeli league championship, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 24, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu rips media’s ‘biased’ coverage of state comptroller report

By Ilan Ben Zion

PM dismisses Shapira’s findings as ‘making a mountain out of a molehill,’ A-G to hold urgent probe; 77% of suspected Jewish hate crimes don’t end in indictment, according to NGO report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande in Jerusalem, November 17, 2013. (Edi Israel/Pool/Flash90)

Analysis

Failure of coalition deal with Herzog imperils renewal of peace talks

By Raoul Wootliff

In a roller-coaster week of politics and diplomacy, efforts to restart negotiations between Israel and Palestinians went from pipe dreams to possible, and back again

Palestinians reject Netanyahu’s direct talks proposal

By Raoul Wootliff

Egypt trying to arrange Netanyahu-Abbas summit — report

Foreign press boycotts Netanyahu pics after journalist asked to strip

By Ilan Ben Zion

Cartoonist Roz Chast stands in front of a mural that greets visitors to her new exhibit, 'Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs, currently at The City Museum of New York and co-presented with the Norman Rockwell Museum. (Filip Wolak/Courtesy MCNY)

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast reflects on the little things in new show

By Cathryn J. Prince

Exhibit at The City Museum of New York features 200 pieces of Chast’s work that capture what it means to live and move around in the Big Apple

Malka Simkovich

The ‘old Jewish white guy’ and me

How celebrating her PhD provoked an investigation into her identity as a mother and as a Jew

The best side of ourselves

Israel must heed the enduring symbol of Jewish diversity that is Ethiopian Jewry and redeem its gritty urban plight

Shelley J. Klein

How to function in ‘premenstrual’ society

Americans, learn from Israel: When you face aggression, do not demure; stand your ground and meet it head-on

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) and philosopher Cornel West (right) at the second Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on November 14, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

BDS backer, critics of Israel among Democrats drafting party platform

Philosopher Cornel West, president of the Arab American Institute James Zogby, and Rep. Keith Ellison named to committee, day after Sanders urges focus on Palestinian rights

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, May 23, 2016, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Sanders: Democratic convention could be ‘messy,’ but so what?

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei poses for a portrait prior to delivering his message for the Iranian New Year, Sunday, March 20, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP)

Khamenei: US ‘can’t do a damn thing’ about our missile program

Supreme leader: West ‘extremely sad’ about failure to curb Iran’s military development; Guards chief: US forced to back down in region

Stephen Bullivant discusses his book, “The Trinity: How Not to be a Heretic.” Hosted by Doug Keck, March 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Christians in England, Wales now outnumbered by people of no religion

By Daniel Douek

Churches steadily losing members, study finds, as number of unaffiliated citizens grows

Pope Francis (right) talks with Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar Mosque Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed al-Tayeb during a private audience at the Vatican on May 23, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Max Rossi)

Pope and top imam embrace in historic Vatican meeting

By AFP

‘Our meeting is the message,’ says pontiff as he welcomes highest authority in Sunni Islam in boost to Christian-Islam ties

Demonstrators shout praise for terrorist Alaa Abu Jamal in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, outside the cemetery where he was being buried on May 23, 2016. (screen capture: Ynet)

Erdan freezes return of terrorists’ bodies over ‘incitement’

Minister nixes more funerals after seeing footage of Palestinians praising Alaa Abu Jamal, who killed an Israeli in an October terror attack in Jerusalem

Opposition fighters drive a tank in a rebel-held area of the southern Syrian city of Daraa, during renewed clashes with regime loyalists on May 10, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mohamad Abazeed)

While ascendant, Israel’s jihadi neighbor isn’t a serious threat

Islamic State affiliate just across Syrian border has an aggressive leadership, and is no longer afraid of fighting outside its heartland

In this May 23, 2016 image, Syrians gather at the site of multiple bombings that left tens dead in the northern coastal city of Jableh, between Latakia and Tartus. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

US envoy calls on Syria rebels to respect truce

By AFP

Setting up 'Life Object,' the living, breathing birds' nest created by a team of Israeli scientists and architects for the May 2016 International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy (Courtesy LifeObject team)

Flight of fancy

Architects and scientists create a living bird’s nest

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli team, including Nobel Prize winning chemist Dan Shechtman, builds ‘Life Object,’ a cooperative installation for Italian exhibition

Philippe Mora filming 'German Sons' 2010 (courtesy of 3 Days in Auschwitz)

Interview

Film scored by Eric Clapton depicts child of survivors’ three days in Auschwitz

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Likud MK Oren Hazan seen at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on March 6, 2016, for a hearing for a libel lawsuit Hazan filed against Channel 2 News reporter Amit Segal. (Flash90)

Breaking-up newsScandal-ridden MK: TV reporter the reason I’m single

Mikhail Fridman singing at Musical Marathon 5775 in Moscow on June 24, 2014. (Photo courtesy Russian Jewish Congress)

Daddy nobucksNo inheritance for my kids, rich Jewish philanthropist vows

Bob Dylan performing at the Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, March 23, 1975. (Alvan Meyerowitz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)

With Bob on our sideBob Dylan’s forgotten pro-Israel song, revisited

By Gabe Friedman

An architect’s rendering shows the planned new entrance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. (Moshe Safdie via JTA)

$15m grant awarded to update Reform movement’s Israel campus

By JTA

The IATI-Biomed conference and exhibition (Courtesy)

OrbiMed launches $307m fund for Israeli med-tech investments

Oktoberfest 2013 at the Platzl Brauhaus in Pomona, New York. (YouTube screenshot )

Lose the lederhosenNew Jewish day camp replaces NY German beer hall

By Julie Wiener

The lights are on in Jerusalem's neighborhood of Musrara this week, May 24-26, 2016, for MusraraMIx 16, an alternative arts festival run by a local art school and held in people's homes and yards (Courtesy MusraraMix)

MixmasterAn art festival on the seam of Jerusalem’s East and West

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Netanya man killed in suspected underworld hit

Hebrew media reviewFor Netanyahu, papers spy turbulence ahead

By Joshua Davidovich

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