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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 26, 2016

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Avigdor Liberman, left, and Yariv Levin during coalition talks on the morning of May 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister: Liberman appointment is none of America’s business

By Raoul Wootliff

Yariv Levin says coalition makeup is ‘an internal Israeli issue’; State Department said it has ‘legitimate’ concerns about new defense minister

US: Addition of Liberman to coalition ‘raises questions’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Nasrallah calls Liberman ‘show-off, insane, minister of war’

Arab MKs plan to defy ban, visit Temple Mount on Ramadan

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Mighty Iran forced world to strike nuke deal, supreme leader says

Ayatollah Khamenei warns against ‘soft war’ West is waging on Islamic Republic in bid to erode power from within

Arab fighters on the walls of the Tower of David (Chalil Rissas/The Central Zionist Archives)

For photogenic Jerusalem, a look at how locals first captured their city

Shot from every angle since cameras were invented, the capital has usually been viewed through an outsider’s lens. A new exhibit of residents’ pictures from 1900 to 1950 takes a first shot at filling the gap

Firefighters work to put out a fire near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, on May 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sanders and Trump camps in talks to arrange debate

By Joshua Davidovich

Move would be unsanctioned, but massive for TV ratings; blazes around Jerusalem vanquished, but still unclear if fires result of arson or negligence

An Israel Air Force F-16, December 31, 2015. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90/File)

Israel strikes in Gaza Strip in response to rocket attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Air force hits two Hamas sites in coastal territory; none hurt as terrorists target Sha’ar Hanegev area

UN alarmed by Hamas move to hold public executions in Gaza

By AFP

Authorities foil attempt to smuggle metal pipes, motors into Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Amnesty tells Europe to halt arms exports to Egypt

By AFP

PrePex device (Courtesy)

Israeli-developed circumcision device to be distributed in Africa

The World Health Organization wants to bring the PrePex to 14 sub-Saharan African countries

During an October 2015 advocacy conference at Northeastern University in Boston, George Deek of Israel's foreign service speaks about the Jewish state (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Pleading Israel’s case on campus? It helps if you’re not Jewish

By Matt Lebovic

As non-Jewish Israelis increasingly give ‘pro-Israel’ talks at US universities, campus activists say they provide the most credible defense of Jewish state’s record on minority rights

Cash prize refused by UK historian to fund TAU researchers of all backgrounds

Changing lives in style with Haboydem

A unique nonprofit sells used clothing in Jerusalem and offers a healing path for those with mental illness

Will Glick build the Temple?

The avenues by which the newest Knesset member can create the conditions for greater Jewish access on the Mount

Rachel Grenadier

The Once-Good Earth

When the best intentions to protect the environment collide with the needs of industry, natural resources suffer most

Haven’t Palestinians suffered enough?

Abbas’s visit to Zuma in South Africa this week is a true A-Z of failed leadership

Fire fighters work to put out a fire that spread in the woods around Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood May 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Homes evacuated as forest fires threaten Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

Rescue services battle huge blaze outside Ramot, in Romema area at entrance to city; flames break out at other locations in north and south of country

The faithful pray on Mount Meron on May 26, 2016as an ambulance stands by (Courtesy Magen David Adom)

150 people treated for injuries at annual Lag B’Omer festival

From left to right, opposition leader Isaac Herzog, MK Nachman Shai, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein tour 'Strips, Stars and Magen David' exhibition at Knesset's celebration of the American Jewish contribution to the State of Israel, May 25, 2016. (Isaac Harari/Knesset Media and Public Relations)

Netanyahu, Herzog bury hatchet for a day to celebrate US Jewry

By Renee Ghert-Zand

File photo of Yeshayahu Kirshavski, 60, who was killed in a car ramming attack in Jerusalem on October 13, 2015 (Courtesy image)

Car-ramming victim’s son sues phone giant for employing terrorist

Palestinian who killed Yeshayahu Kirshavski had praised Har Nof synagogue attackers — his cousins — on social media

MK Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union party as a new member of the Israeli Knesset, March 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

MK seeks probe on whether Netanyahu took ‎€1m. from alleged French fraudster

By Simona Weinglass

Protesting ‘scent of corruption,’ Zionist Union’s Ksenia Svetlova asks comptroller and A-G to investigate; PM has denied the claim

Members of Hezbollah attend the funeral of Ali Ahmed Sabra, a fellow fighter who was killed in combat alongside Syrian government forces in Aleppo, on February 6, 2016, in the Lebanese village of Jibshit. (AFP / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT)

Hezbollah in ‘worst financial shape in decades,’ US says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Treasury sanctions czar tells lawmakers the Obama administration continues to target Iranian support for ‘terrorist proxies’

Yehudah Glick during his swearing in as a member of Knesset on May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Newly installed MK vows to end Temple Mount prayer ban for Jews

At swearing-in, activist says he will do all he can to ‘end injustice’ of status quo on holy site, calls himself representative of West Bank and Gaza; UTJ’s Yaakov Asher also sworn in

Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

House votes to bar purchases of heavy water from Iran

By AP

Amendment won’t affect last month’s $8.6 million agreement between Washington and Tehran, but would thwart future purchases

Palestinian children play on a sand dune at the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2016. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

In Gaza, a wall of silence over child sexual assault

By Sakher Abou El Oun

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi listens to US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo on May 18, 2016. (Amr Nabil/Pool/AFP)

Palestinian official: Egypt peace bid ‘not in conflict’ with Paris push

Senior Palestinian speaks as Abbas packs for Cairo, amid talks of Egyptian plan for Abbas-Netanyahu meet

US President Barack Obama speaks at a press conference during the first day of the Group of Seven (G7) summit meetings in Ise Shima, May 26, 2016. AFP /JIM WATSON)

Obama: World leaders ‘rattled’ by ‘ignorant’ Trump

By AFP

Ahead of Hiroshima visit, US president says trip will underline the dangers of warfare and the need to work toward peace

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (center) imposed mandatory classes in tolerance for the start of the new school year in September 2015, hoping to offset the responses and violence of the summer. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Book review

Israel’s contentious new civics textbook illuminates country’s divisions

By Marissa Newman

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Amanda Borschel-Dan, the Times of Israel’s Jewish World editor. (Aurele Medioni)

Times of Israel editor wins B’nai B’rith journalism award

By Stuart Winer

Taylor Swift attending the 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards held at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, May 10, 2016. (Mark Davis/Getty Images via JTA)

Can't shake it offNeo-Nazis salute ‘Aryan goddess’ Taylor Swift

By Brian Schaefer

Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen), right, interviews Donald Trump (YouTube)

Cold shoulderThat time when Ali G. sat down with the Donald

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An illustrative photo of a woman breastfeeding her baby. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli teen mom says assaulted at school for breastfeeding

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presented with a diagram of his family tree during the inauguration ceremony of a new section of Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, May 24, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

A Spaniard in the worksNetanyahu reveals his roots go back to Spain

By Stuart Winer

A GetTaxi vehicle in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Volkswagen pumps $300 million into Israeli taxi app Gett

By AFP and ToI Staff

Packages of 'Kinder' bars with childhood pictures of German national soccer players, May 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop)

Bitter chocolateGerman far-right wails over immigrant soccer stars on candy

By AP

An image from 'Women in Sink,' a documentary set in a Christian-Arab hair salon in Haifa (YouTube screenshot)

Not so cut and dryArabs, Jews bond over shampoo at Haifa hair salon

By Gabe Friedman

Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)

Selfies from SyriaInstagram briefly ‘shuts down’ Iran general’s account

By AP and ToI Staff

An ambulance outside of apartment where a couple was found shot to death on Pika street in Rishon Lezion, on May 25, 2016. (screen capture: Ynet)

Man, woman found shot to death in Rishon Lezion home

By Daniel Stieglitz

The Netanya city coastline seen on April 16, 2013. (Flash90)

Two German tourists drown in Netanya beach

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich at the welcoming ceremony held in his honor, at the National Police Headquarters in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewCrying bloody murder

By Ilan Ben Zion

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