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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 31, 2016

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Incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (2-L) and Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot (2-R) listen to the Hatikva national anthem during a welcoming ceremony for Liberman at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, on May 31, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

With fanfare, Avigdor Liberman enters Defense Ministry

After ceremony at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Yisrael Beytenu boss set to meet IDF chiefs for first security overview

Bennett makes nice with coalition partners after shakeup

By Marissa Newman

Veteran Likud MK blasts Liberman’s ‘stupid’ supporters

By Stuart Winer

Avigdor Liberman sworn in as defense minister, backs 2 states

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (left) hold a press conference in the Knesset on Monday, May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM partially embraces Arab peace plan, says it could ‘revive’ talks with Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu offers to negotiate revisions to 2002 bid; new Defense Minister Liberman also sees ‘very positive elements’ to it

Netanyahu: Normalization with Turkey ‘very close’

PM urges all supporters of peace, security to join coalition

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Bernie Sanders: Israel has a right to US protection

By JTA

A plane filled with Iraqi Jews photographed on arrival at Lod Airport outside Tel Aviv in early 1951 (Teddy Brauner, GPO)

Loyal citizens, community had been in Iraq for 2,600 years

The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews

Bent on destroying Israel, and gripped by anti-Semitism, Baghdad ‘pauperized’ its Jews and forced them to leave for nascent Jewish state in 1951-2. It was Iraq that suffered

Four cities to mark 75 years since Baghdad pogrom

By JTA

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Shaked says no Palestinian state while Jewish Home in coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Justice minister rejects Netanyahu statements in support of Arab Peace Initiative; PLO Secretary General Erekat says pro-peace comments worthless without action

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his French counterpart, Manuel Valls, in Jerusalem on Monday, May 23, 2016 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Analysis

Israel braces itself for Paris peace confab… by doing nothing

By Raphael Ahren

While Jerusalem pooh-poohs French initiative, Ramallah hopes it can shift ‘the inequitable power dynamic’ in its favor

Former interior minister Gideon Saar (L), former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon (2L), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2R) and former energy minister Silvan Shalom in the Knesset on May 1, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

As Netanyahu’s friends fly the coop, should he fear a palace coup?

By Marissa Newman

If disillusioned ex-Likud ministers Ya’alon and Sa’ar team up, they would make a dent, but a new centrist party would likely require unity with Kahlon or Lapid — and the latter don’t seem especially eager

We are all bad parents

How a band-aid became a reminder of all a mother can — and cannot — do to protect her kids

Shulamit S. Magnus

The Kotel deal — at what price?

A refusal to accept the haredi banishment of her group to Robinson’s Arch, on behalf of the Original Women of the Wall

Dinner in Dubrovnik

A conference in Croatia brought together a group of familiar strangers for an unforgettable Sabbath meal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman announce a coalition agreement, May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Reform Jewry waits for answers as Knesset reboots

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)

Hamas executes three accused murderers in Gaza

Human Rights Watch condemns killings, which Strip’s leaders claims are necessary to preserve stability in the territory

Israeli reality TV star Liron Orfali. (YouTube/reshettv)

TV reality star joined hunt for Tel Aviv stabber

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Liron Orfali, who was filming near attack on soldier, chased after assailant, who was eventually cornered in a stairwell

Former Prime Minister's Residence employee Guy Eliyahu speaks with the media as he arrives for his lawsuit against the Prime Minister's Office at the regional Labor court in Jerusalem, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court awards PM’s former worker NIS 120,000 in damages

By Stuart Winer

Guy Eliyahu to be compensated by Prime Minister’s Office, HR company for abuse at Sara Netanyahu’s hands

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Emil Salman/POOL)

A-G, police chief said to clash over Sara Netanyahu fraud notice

By Raoul Wootliff

Yonatan Hilo appeals his 20-year sentence for murder at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 1, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court reduces sentence for man who killed his rapist

Yonatan Hilo to serve 12 years in jail instead of 20; verdict downgraded from murder to manslaughter

A swearing-in ceremony for new recruits to the IDF's Armored Corps on May 9, 2013. (Israel Defense Forces/File)

IDF: Once an ‘only child’ becomes a fighter, there’s no backing out

By Judah Ari Gross

Parents will no longer be able to revoke permission for combat units; army considers new designation for soldier whose body is held by Hamas

Palestinian students who support the Hamas movement take part in an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 (AFP/Abbas Momani)

MKs clear far-reaching anti-terror bill for Knesset vote

Legislation would send supporters of terrorism to prison for 3-5 years, assign up to 15 years to any who aid attackers

A brother hugs his sister at Tower of David Museum's Purim program for families with children with special needs, March 2016 (Ricky Rachman)

Families marginalized by disability find warm welcome at Tower of David

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaking before an emergency session of the Security Council, March 3, 2016. (Courtesy)

A third of Americans say it’s legitimate to boycott Israel

By Stuart Winer

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, May 27, 2014. (Flash90)

Prosecutors to former Labor leader: Pay NIS 11m and avoid jail

Elad Goldberg, CEO of eBay Israel, presents the results of the poll Sunday in Tel Aviv (Shlomi Mizrachi)

Israelis top internet charts for online shopping

Toronto's 46th annual Walk with Israel, Toronto, Canada, May 29, 2016. (YouTube/CIJnews.com Shneider)

20,000 walk through Toronto in support of Israel

By Stuart Winer

Disabled Palestinian women take part in a basketball training session with top US coach Jess Markt in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2016. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Will and powerGaza gets first women’s wheelchair basketball team

By AP

Illustrative: a computer (Pexels)

Slowly but surely, software piracy rate in Israel shrinks

Avigdor Liberman, in tie, at Etzion Junction in the West Bank on December 27, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDefense Minister Jekyll and Defense Minister Hyde

By Joshua Davidovich

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