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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 28, 2016

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The government of Israel at the President's Residence on May 19, 2015. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO)

TV report: Top Israeli politicians believe coalition could soon fall apart

As Netanyahu loses a second minister in eight days, strains in PM’s relations with other coalition members prompt speculation about early elections

Likud deputy minister says Liberman not fit for the job

AnalysisAbbas, Sissi discuss French peace push in Cairo

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Top Israeli reporter doubles down on ‘not sure I want my kids to stay here’ critique

Ta’alin Abu Hanna, shortly after winning the Miss Trans Israel pageant on May 27, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Israeli Catholic wins first ‘Miss Trans Israel’ pageant

By AP and JTA

‘I’m proud to be an Israeli Arab,’ says Ta’alin Abu Hanna, 21, from Nazareth. ‘If I had been in Palestine or in any other Arab country, I might have been in prison or murdered’

Chris Evans playing the title role in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War (Screenshot from YouTube/JTA)

Captain America is a secret Nazi, and people are going crazy about it

By Lior Zaltzman

New comic book’s last page revelation seen by some as a betrayal of Marvel superhero’s WWII-era Jewish creators

Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service flash the "V" for victory sign on December 29, 2015 in the city of Ramadi after Iraqi forces recaptured it from the Islamic State jihadist group. AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Analysis

If Islamic State loses Fallujah and Raqqa, the ‘caliphate’ will be over

By Avi Issacharoff

Attacked on numerous fronts, the brutal jihadist group is no longer certain to survive; it may ultimately become ‘just’ another evil terrorist organization

Hundreds of civilians flee Iraq’s Fallujah area

By AFP

IS clashes with rebels in northeast Syria town

By AFP and AP

UN: Syria impedes humanitarian aid to besieged

By Michael Astor

Jewish settler Eliaz Cohen, left, and PLO member Muhammad Beiruti sit together near Efrat, in the West Bank. The two are members of the new movement Two States, One Homeland. (Screen capture Channel 2)

Settlers, Palestinians come together to seek EU-model end to conflict

Unlikely initiative, supported by leading figures in settler movement, envisions 2 states, but one homeland — where ‘anyone can live anywhere they want’

Israeli ex-officers issue peace plan, condemn gov’t inaction

Rivlin says Jordan’s role at Temple Mount to remain strong

NY Times removes quotation marks from Israeli ‘occupation’

By JTA

Rachel Lasry Zahavi

Report card on child poverty: D-

More than 25% of Israel’s children are poor, and not just on the periphery — but it’s not too late to reverse course

Helen Gottstein

A different kind of Jerusalem Day

Rather than triumphant marches through Arab neighborhoods, let it be a day of inter-communal compassion

Illustrative: Iranian women in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Naked repression

Iranian youths get 99 lashes each for mixed-sex party

By AFP

30 students arrested for ‘indecent behavior’ at half-naked, boozy, graduation celebration

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 warns of Western ‘schemes’ as his new MPs meet

By AFP

Supreme leader urges freshly elected parliament to stand strong against ‘impudence, charms’ of Iran’s enemies

Relatives and friends chant slogans against Israel during the funeral in Hebron on May 28, 2016, of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, a wounded Palestinian assailant who was shot dead by an Israeli soldier after lying wounded on the ground in the city of Hebron on March 24, 2016. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Palestinians hold mass funeral for assailant killed by Hebron soldier

1,000 take part in the event, with cries of ‘Allahu akbar’ heard from the crowds

Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)

Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales

By Matt Lebovic

Steven Spielberg delivers the commencement speech at Harvard University, on May 26, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Anti-Semitism is on the rise, Spielberg warns in Harvard speech

By JTA

In commencement address, award-winning director says he was wrong as a kid to think anti-Jewish sentiment ‘was fading’

Director Yvan Attal, right, and Gilles Lellouche -- who plays Jesus -- during filming of 'They are Everywhere' in Israel in 2014 (Wild Bunch Productions/via JTA)

Irreverent comedy on anti-Semitism gets first screening — by French Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

This file photo taken on May 10, 2016 shows US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she speaks at a rally in Blackwood, New Jersey.
(AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)

GOP uniting under banner: ‘Never Hillary’

By Julie Bykowicz and Julie Pace

Republicans’ deep disdain for the likely Democratic nominee helps Donald Trump pile up endorsements

The Ghetto Heroes Monument stands at the location of the first clashes between Jewish fighters and Nazis in 1943. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Warsaw works to recognize its Jewish heritage

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Camp Shoshanim near Lake Como, Pennsylvania (Facebook via JTA)

Crash kills 3 workers at Jewish camp in Pennsylvania

By JTA

Adolf Hitler (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)

Austria tries to seize house where Hitler was born

By AFP

A shrimp dish (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish vegans rejoiceUS company develops new kosher ‘shrimp’

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, American Reform Rabbi Zachary Shapiro, center left, and other American and Israeli Reform rabbis pray at the Western Wall. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Poll: Most Jewish Israelis back equality for Reform movement

By JTA

The entrance to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, January 30, 2011. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

US health firms, Haifa hospital team up to ‘incubate’ digital medicine start-ups

By JTA

Spellers Nihar Saireddy Janga, left, of Texas and Jairam Jagadeesh Hathwar of New York hold a trophy after the finals of the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee, on May 26, 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

'Chremslach' anybody?Spelling bee champ nails obscure Yiddish word

By Gabe Friedman

Drake and Sarah Silverman (Instagram via JTA)

Fantasy ShidduchDrake has a crush on Sarah Silverman

By Gabe Friedman

Dr. Henry Heimlich talks about his life in 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

No chokerHeimlich uses his life-saving maneuver for first time… at 96

By AP

In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, health workers get ready to spray insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus, under the bleachers of the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, used for the Archery competition in the 2016 summer games. (AP/Leo Correa, File)

Rio Olympics should move due to Zika concerns, urge 150 experts

By AFP

A rendering of the Beit Hatfutsot-Museum of the Jewish People’s updated Synagogue Hall. (Courtesy: Beit Hatfutsot)

At Museum of the Jewish People, an iconic exhibit breaks new ground

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