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What Matters Most On Monday, May 30, 2016

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Jules Helfner north of Gottingen, Germany, in April 1945. (Jules Helfner)

Photo essay: Memorial Day

When my great-uncle liberated a Nazi concentration camp

By Ilan Ben Zion

Published here for the first time, a collection of pictures taken by Jules Helfner, a Brooklyn-born son of Russian immigrants, offer a rare first-person perspective of the march into Germany — the horror, the outrage, some rare moments of pleasure

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Avigdor Liberman, left, sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Cabinet unanimously okays Liberman as defense minister

Coalition deal goes forward after Netanyahu, Bennett agree on security cabinet overhaul; new ministers to be sworn in after Knesset vote

Lawmakers to take crack at Bennett in first-ever Knesset Q&A session

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu accepts Bennett’s cabinet reform demand, ending coalition crisis

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Dispelling rumors, Herzog says ‘no door’ to unity government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with ministers in Jerusalem on May 30, 2016. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman sworn in as defense minister, touts pro-peace credentials

55 in favor, 43 against; Likud MK Benny Begin abstains; in first address, hawkish new minister hails Sissi speech

Polish First Lady Agata Duda lights candles with Pawlak during a visit to the school (courtesy)

He found Judaism at 14. Today he’s at the forefront of Poland’s Jewish revival

By Sheldon Kirshner

In the midst of a steady post-Communist Jewish resurgence, Maciej Pawlak now heads the Lauder Morasha Jewish Middle School

A hell of a party

On a PA tribute to Ayyat Al-Akhras, the young terrorist who murdered “only” two Jews

Henry Ralph Carse

Toward a shared practice of holiness

A Kids4Peace initiative brings young Israelis and Palestinians together on Jerusalem’s paths to conquer the violence

Doing the Heimlich with Heimlich

A long-ago Hillel event provided lifelong inspiration from the doctor whose maneuver saved so many lives

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin with Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat during a meeting with high school students in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin: Rethink national symbols, anthem to be more inclusive for Arabs

President says Arab Israelis can’t be expected to sing about ‘a Jewish spirit yearning,’ hopes that every citizen will one day be able to identify with state

Screenshot from a video showing the burning of an Israeli flag in Mea Shearim during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.

Israeli flag burned in Lag B’Omer festivities in Mea Shearim

Young child slowly torches flag to cheers and applause from audience in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood

Rescuers at the site of a stabbing attack that left two elderly women moderately wounded, in Armon Hanatziv in southern Jerusalem, May 10, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

East Jerusalem teens nabbed in stabbing of elderly women

By Judah Ari Gross

2 allegedly carried out attack on group out for stroll in Peace Forest, near Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, while a third conspired with them, officials say

Illustrative image of suspects being brought to a court hearing. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police zigzag on racism motive in disabled woman rape case

By Stuart Winer

Prosecutors finally settle on nationalistic motivation, day after police say no evidence of it; court orders Palestinian suspect held until Thursday

Israeli tank from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the First Lebanon War seen on display at a Moscow museum. (Courtesy GPO)

Putin agrees to return Israeli tank captured in Lebanon War

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Russia to deliver Magach-3 tank, seized along with 3 IDF soldiers during bloody 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tour Ramat Hanadiv, a nature park in northern Israel, April 25, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Sara Netanyahu denies wrongdoing in graft cases

Prime Minister’s Office insists PM’s wife committed no offense, says allegations of fraud will be proven baseless

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (dccarbone/CC-BY, via Flickr)

‘Mein Kampf’ royalties plan roils Boston’s Jews

By Matt Lebovic

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Billings, Montana, May 26, 2016. (AP/Brennan Linsley, File)

Iran nuke deal drove Trump to run for president, son says

By Tamar Pileggi

Controversial 2015 accord was a ‘game changer’ for real-estate mogul on journey to becoming presumptive Republican nominee

Owner Hany Baransi discusses the machete attack on his Nazareth Restaurant & Deli in Columbus, Ohio. (YouTube)

Israeli’s Ohio restaurant closes doors in aftermath of machete attack

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Blaming government’s refusal to label attack as terrorism and compensate him, Hany Baransi files for bankruptcy

Illustrative photo of IDF Home Front Command soldiers participating in a drill as part of a nationwide exercise at the Yuvali HaNegev school in the Bnei Shimon regional council in southern Israel, on February 15, 2016. (Flash90)

Israelis feel prepared for missile attack, but not safe — poll

Over 90% say they know what to do in an emergency, only 25% say they would feel safe during a rocket barrage

Inspiration came from diverse sources for author Amy Gottlieb, from the Bible to Whitman, to Hasidic and Hindu wisdom, lending an eclectic energy to the novel's 70-year saga (courtesy)

Interview

Debut novel offers 70-year study of tragedy’s mystical ripples

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Sign warning drivers of camels on a Negev highway seen on August 26, 2007. (Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90)

Woman killed after driving into stray camels in Negev

The vehicle in Ashdod where a baby died of heat stroke after being left for hours in the sun. (screen capture: YouTube/MDA)

Toddler dies of heatstroke after being left in car

By Stuart Winer

Iraqi military forces prepare for an offensive into Fallujah to retake the city from Islamic State militants in Iraq, Monday, May 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi forces push into Fallujah as IS bombings kill 24

By Sinan Salaheddin

Actor Alan Cumming, in Israel for Tel Aviv's 2016 Gay Pride Week, is the host of PBS' 'Masterpiece Mystery' (Courtesy PBS)

Good Wife, great ScotActor Alan Cumming gets Tel Aviv Gay Pride envoy nod

By Jessica Steinberg

Then-Republican presidential candidates Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, left, and Donald Trump argue during a Republican presidential primary debate in Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 2016. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Being the bigger manRubio to Trump: Sorry about small penis jab

By Stuart Winer

A young paralyzed boy uses the Sesame Enable phone (Courtesy)

Israel accelerator invests in tech for people with disabilities

German Lorenz cipher machine used for sending coded messages during WWII (CC BY Timitrius/Flickr)

A mystery, inside a LorenzGerman WWII coding machine found on eBay

By AFP

A display of cell phones during a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mobile tracking demo in Washington in February 2014 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Cellphone radiation study raises concerns despite low risk

By Seth Borenstein

Firefighters work to put out a fire in the forest around Jerusalem's residential neighborhood of Ramot, May 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFighting fire with fire

By Raoul Wootliff

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