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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 14, 2017

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives at the podium to address the Arctic Council 20th Anniversary Welcome Reception in Fairbanks, Alaska, on May 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Tillerson: Trump weighing whether embassy move will help or hurt peace

By Josh Lederman

US president ‘very careful’ to factor in views from all sides, including ‘whether Israel views it as helpful,’ secretary of state says

Bennett: Israel must ditch ‘bunker’ diplomacy, or have its fate decided by others

Sorry stateTrump social media chief touts trip to ‘Palestine’

US, Saudi Arabia in ‘final stages’ of negotiating $300 billon arms deal

Security camera footage released by police shows the moments in which a Jordanian citizen stabbed an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem's Old City, May 13 2017 (Courtesy)

Israel fumes as Jordan calls killing of Jerusalem attacker ‘heinous crime’

Netanyahu’s office slams Amman’s reaction as ‘outrageous’; police release dramatic footage of stabbing of officer by Jordanian citizen

IDF arrests alleged senior terror figure in overnight raid

Osama bin Laden’s son calls for attacks on Jews, Americans

‘I acted to save civilians,’ says policeman stabbed by Jordanian

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson at the opening event for the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, 2013 (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Adelson to testify in Netanyahu probe during upcoming Israel visit — report

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says US embassy move will ‘shatter Palestinian fantasies’ that Jerusalem not Israel; Bennett says peace deal that divides capital ‘bound to fail’

Illustrative hacker image via Shutterstock

In Israel, cyber experts joined forces to help foil massive attack

By Shoshanna Solomon

Private and government professionals set up virtual war room to stave off WannaCry cyberattack, which affected over 150 countries

Illustrative: This photograph, posed as an illustration on May 12, 2017, shows the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a problem in its network, taken outside the Department of Health in London. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

Friday cyberattack hit 200,000 victims in over 150 countries

By AFP

Director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, left, and Director of Rome's Jewish Museum Alessandra Di Castro pose for a photo in front of a bas-relief showing a menorah at the end of a press conference in Rome, Monday, February 20, 2017. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

'The Menorah vanished into thin air'

Can Vatican display shed light on the fate of the Menorah?

By Rossella Tercatin

Starting Monday, a co-hosted exhibit about sacred Temple relic sets a new precedent for cooperation between the Holy See and Rome’s Jewish community

Financial payments fraud. (Illustrative: iStock)

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a money launderer

By Simona Weinglass

In the past, criminals who wanted to hide the source of their cash would buy a car wash or nail salon. With fintech, the risks and costs of money laundering have gone down — which helps explain the rise of scams like binary options

JTA Collage (Netflix/The CW/Amazon Prime)

For Mothers’ Day, 8 Jewish TV moms who are smashing stereotypes

By Lior Zaltzman

From transgender pioneer to charming, eccentric mom, these characters prove that Jewish matriarch is much more than an overbearing stereotype

Outgoing French president Francois Hollande, left, greets President Emmanuel Macron before the handover ceremony, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Emmanuel Macron, youngest French leader since Napoleon, sworn in

By AP and ToI Staff

After ceremony, outgoing president Hollande is applauded by staff – and his successor – as he leaves Elysee palace

French President Francois Hollande seen at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the abolition of slavery on May 10, 2017, at the Jardins du Luxembourg. (AFP Photo/Pool and AFP Photo/Eric Feferberg)

Hollande’s presidency marked by terrorism, love scandal

By Beatrice Le Bohec

Illustrative image of police at the scene of a crime (Police Spokesperson)

Arab man suspected of imprisoning brother to keep him from converting to Judaism

Police say suspect locked up his sibling at home after he expressed his desire to become a Jew and join the IDF

Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a big bonfire during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on May 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Hundreds of thousands flock to Galilee mountain for Lag B’Omer festival

Huge crowds defy state rabbinate’s delay of holiday to celebrate the ancient sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai near his tomb on Mount Meron

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn an effigy of an IDF soldier during Lag B'Omer celebrations in the ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim in Jerusalem on May 13, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu blasts ‘despicable’ burning of IDF soldier in effigy

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn an effigy of an Israeli soldier during celebrations marking the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, May 14, 2017. (Screen capture: Chaim Goldberg/Channel 2)

Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem burn effigy of Israeli soldier

I always hated Mother’s Day

The Israeli ‘Family Day’ has the obvious advantage over the American model: not every family has a mother

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Ma, thank you for the life you led

A tribute to his mother, whose story traversed the 20th century, and her passion for country, people, and family

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

She went to Rome and found Jerusalem

Emperor Hadrian might be startled by how well Rabbi Akiva’s legacy survived Rome’s supression of the Bar Kochba revolt

Lauren Smith Brody's first days with newborn Will. (Courtesy)

Interview

How to survive the ‘emotional bloodbath’ of work after having a baby

By Judy Batalion

A television showing Channel 1, displaying a message reading "Our broadcast has ended." (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

With emotional Eurovision farewell, Channel 1 signs off

By Raoul Wootliff

Over 200 million worldwide viewers watch Israel part with its oldest channel, before station fades to screen announcing: ‘Our broadcast has ended. 1968-2017’

A Palestinian leads a donkey cart on the red carpet during a film festival showcasing films focusing on human rights, in Gaza City on May 12, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abedi)

Gazans walk the ‘Red Carpet’ for film festival, and trample on Balfour Declaration

By AFP and ToI Staff

With no movie theaters in the Strip, Palestinians flock to a week of outdoor screenings — with simultaneous shows in Haifa and Ramallah

In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, a boy walks by graffiti of Palestinian flags with Arabic reading: "The flag is four colors that shine on the face of the sun" in the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

For Palestinians in Lebanon, 69 years of despair

Illustrative: A South Korean army soldier walks by a TV news program showing a file image of missiles being test-launched by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea may have fired ‘new type of missile’ with longer range

By AP

After 30-minute flight with unusually high trajectory, officials say weapon may be capable of reaching 4,500 kilometers; Japan vows to respond

Israel's late president Shimon Peres shakes hands with Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish (R) during an Iftar meal at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 9, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Founder of Israel’s Islamic Movement dies at 69

After initially supporting violence, Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish went on to lead the movement’s Southern Branch, rejecting terror and espousing democratic values

An image from a video showing Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the northern West Bank on April 12, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube/YeshDin)

Clip purports to show troops standing by as settlers attack Palestinians

By Tamar Pileggi

Army denies soldiers failed to stop stone-throwing in West Bank scuffle seen in video published by left-wing watchdog

A US Navy P-8 Poseidon plane flying over Jacksonville, Florida in January 2013. (Public Domain, US Naval Personnel Specialist 1st Class Anthony Petry, Wikipedia)

Russian jet said to ‘buzz’ US reconnaissance plane

In second incident in a week, armed Su-27 fighter reportedly comes within 20 feet of American aircraft over Black Sea

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Katz’s Delicatessen has been a staple on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since the late 19th century. (Courtesy)

Pastrami by postIconic NY deli to ship its delicacies overseas

By Karen Matthews

Gal Gadot starring as Diana Price, aka Wonder Woman, in the new Warner Bros. studio film of the same name (Courtesy DC Comics)

Warrior princessGal Gadot’s Wonder Woman unleashes feminist message

By Jessica Steinberg

Muhammad Shinawi, Khaled bin Atef Abu Kleib and Ihab bin Ayoub Yusef‬ enter a Haifa court on January 30, 2017. Shinawi is accused of murder and attempted murder for shooting attacks in the northern port city earlier this month. Abu Kleib and Yusef are charged with assisting him. (Screen capture)

Terror suspect punches prison guard at court hearing

Aerosmith performs Wednesday, May 15 in Tel Aviv for the first concert of its supposedly farewell tour (Courtesy official Aerosmith Facebook page)

Walk this wayAerosmith’s Steven Tyler touches down in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: a computer (Pexels)

Hebrew media reviewTrans-cyberian failway

By Joshua Davidovich

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