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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 13, 2017

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Security forces in Jerusalem's Old City after a Jordanian stabbed an Israeli police officer, on May 13, 2017. (Flash90)

Jordanian man stabs Israeli policeman in Old City, is killed by him

Officer, moderately hurt with wounds to neck and head, conscious and stable, after attack at Lions’ Gate; assailant said to have entered Israel a few days ago

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, May 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House: Trump to push Palestinian ‘self-determination’ on Mideast trip

By Eric Cortellessa

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster says the US president will demonstrate his hopes for ‘a just and lasting peace’

Herzog: Trump’s envoy ‘unequivocally’ stated president’s determination for peace deal

West Bank votes in polls underlining Palestinian split

By AFP

Norway’s main opposition party criticizes Israel boycott

By AP

US President Donald Trump meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office of the White House on May 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Analysis

How Donald Trump, darling of the Israeli right, reinvigorated Mahmoud Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

The Israeli coalition dreamed of regional agreements, fast-expanding settlements, and a White House cold-shoulder to the PA. Instead, the US president is on his way to Bethlehem to see his new Palestinian friend again

The Barghouti backfire

By Avi Issacharoff

A woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a problem in its network, in London on May 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

No current indication Israel was hit in global cyberattack, official says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Head of National Cyber Authority says picture will become clearer after Sabbath, when many networks come back online

Over 70 countries hit in global extortion cyberattack

By Jill Lawless and Aritz Parra

Organizations hit by unprecedented global cyberattack

By AFP

Renault hit by global cyberattack: management

By AFP

31-year-old Lea Heitfeld shares an apartment with 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Ben Stern. (Courtesy)

Odd couple: The Holocaust survivor who shares a flat with the granddaughter of Nazis

When 95-year-old Ben Stern got a call from 31-year-old Lea Heitfeld about becoming flatmates, he kept an open mind. After all, she is a Jewish Studies grad student

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a briefing at the White House April 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

White House won’t say whether Trump records Oval Office conversations

Spokesman Sean Spicer denies president’s warning to fired FBI chief Comey about ‘tapes’ was a threat

Tumultuous week puts Trump presidency on perilous path

By Andrew BEATTY

Trump considering numerous candidates for FBI director

By Jill Colvin and Ken Thomas

Comey declines to testify before Senate Intelligence Committee

By AP and ToI Staff

Dr. Jessica Zitter, palliative care expert and author of 'Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life.' (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)

Interview

For those who value life, Jewish doctor prescribes pre-arranging death

By Rich Tenorio

Dr. Jessica Zitter has literally written the book on palliative care, an emerging discipline aimed at bringing dignity to life’s end

Dexter Van Zile

This is peacemaking?

When America covers the Palestinian Authority’s debts, it subsidizes terrorism against Israelis

Fitness trackers: Health or obsession?

For some personality types, counting steps is a dangerously unhealthy activity

Four French-Tunisian sisters 79-year-old Fortunee (L), 87-year-old Henriette (CL), 82-year-old Eliane (CR) and 67-year-old Odette (R) visit the Ghriba synagogue in the Tunisian resort island of Djerba on May 12, 2017 as they participate in their annual pilgrimage to the synagogue on Tunisia's Mediterranean resort island of Djerba. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)

Festive mood and tight security for Djerba Jewish festival

By AFP

3,000 Lag B’Omer visitors expected at Africa’s oldest synagogue, 1,000 more than last year when Tunisia was reeling from jihadist attacks

Sprawling sand dunes in a nature reserve near the coastline in southern Israel. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Amid the sand dunes of Israel’s south, stories of struggle and loss

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

An Iranian woman walks past campaign posters on a commercial street in southern Tehran's Molavi neighborhood on May 11, 2017.
(Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran candidates exchange barbs in fiery final debate

By AFP

Tehran mayor focuses attacks on incumbent Rouhani, says his government only benefitted ‘top four percenters’ of population

George Soros speaks at the Festival of Economics in Trento, Italy in 2012. (Wikimedia Commons, Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Far-right activists film anti-Soros ‘raid’ on Budapest Jewish center

By JTA

Clip shows young men spraying hateful graffiti, putting up defaced posters of Jewish billionaire

Jewish American Heritage Month is celebrated every year in May. (Top left, clockwise, Obama photo: Aude Guerrucci/Pool/Getty Images; Wasserman Schultz photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images; Calendar photo: Dafne Cholet/Flickr, CC BY 2.0; Menorah photo: National Museum of American Jewish History; Trump photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images, Museum photo: Jeff Goldberg/Esto)

How May became Jewish American Heritage Month

By Josefin Dolsten

Eric Schneiderman in his New York office, April 3, 2017. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

This Jewish attorney general is leading the legal Trump ‘resistance’

More Headlines

Robert De Niro as Sam 'Ace' Rothstein in 'Casino.' (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Playing the JewRobert De Niro’s Jewish roles: A very short list

By Gabe Friedman

Joci Pápai from Hungary singing his country's entry to the Eurovision song contest (Screen capture YouTube)

Roma, Jews in Hungary laud Gypsy singer’s Eurovision progress

By JTA

The cast of Israeli drama series 'Fauda' (Ohad Romano via JTA)

TV series puts human faces on Israel-Palestinian conflict

By Delphine Matthieussent

A colonnade with funeral monuments at the Campo Verano, in Rome. (CC BY 2.0 Patrick Denker/Wikipedia)

Jewish, Catholic headstones damaged in main Rome cemetery

By JTA

The Great Court at Trinity College at Cambridge University (CC BY-SA, Andrew Dunn, Wikimedia Commons)

From Our PartnerCambridge students vindicated over anti-Semitism claims

Gad Elmaleh in a new Funny or Die! sketch ridiculing the Trump executive order banning entry to America of visitors from several Muslim countries. (screen capture YouTube)

Into the melting potMoroccan-Jewish comedian skewers Trump’s travel ban

By Gabe Friedman

Weiner’s campaign was designed to be redemptive — and instead it was plagued by another sexting scandal. (Courtesy of Sundance Selects)

Told YaWeiner’s sext partner warned him of imminent scandal

In this photo dated Thursday, March 29, 2017, airport staff inform passengers at the check-in area at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport, Morocco of the ban on in-flight laptops and tablets. (AP Photo/ Abdeljalil Bounhar)

US, EU in urgent talks on expanding laptop ban on flights

By LORNE COOK and John Leicester

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