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What Matters Most On Monday, May 15, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Abir Sultan)

PM: Embassy move will help peace by ‘shattering Palestinian fantasy’

By ToI Staff and AP

Netanyahu claims relocation to Jerusalem would ‘correct historical wrong’ after Tillerson says US weighing whether move would advance peace process

Israel won’t commit suicide over US Embassy move, top lawmaker says

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

By Josh Lederman

Top Likud minister: No point talking about peace at this time

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (right) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speak in the Roosevelt Room during a joint statement at the White House on May 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

President Trump, you can start making peace. Here’s how

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Demand an end to incitement, an end to the glorification of terrorism, the creation of a ‘culture of peace,’ and you might, just might, get somewhere. I’m one of the doubters you spoke about, but I’d love you to prove me wrong

Israel must apologize for ‘Nakba,’ says top PA negotiator

Abbas visits India ahead of Modi trip to Israel

By AFP

Palestinians hope for settlement curb if peace talks resume

By AP

Illustrative: A Jewish man covers himself with a prayer shawl while praying near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the Passover priestly blessing on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

New US envoy: I went to Western Wall, prayed for Trump’s success

Five new sharia court judges, including first woman qadi, sworn in; defense minister acknowledges clash with Washington over US embassy move

US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/SAUL LOEB)

Trump set to become first sitting US president to visit Western Wall

By Raphael Ahren

As candidates, many US politicians stop by the Jerusalem holy site, but once in the White House, they’ve all stayed away

Palestinians take part in a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 3, 2017. (Flash90)

Palestinians, Shin Bet meet in failed attempt to end hunger strike

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian officials warn that onus is on Israel to heed prisoners’ demands in order to prevent crisis from escalating

Palestinians block Ramallah roads in solidarity with prisoners

Barghouti urges Palestinian ‘civil disobedience’ on Monday’s Nakba Day

By Avi Issacharoff, Jacob Magid and AP

Security forces gear up for ‘Nakba Day’ protests in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

In this May 10, 2017 photo, supporters of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold his posters for May 19 presidential election in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Analysis

With a non-reforming ‘reformist’ and a supreme vetter, Iran fakes democracy

By Avi Davidi and Hamidreza Zarifinia

Fiery TV debates? Moderates versus conservatives? Don’t be fooled. Friday’s presidential election is a PR show for global and local consumption, choreographed to showcase ostensible freedom and widespread backing for what is a highly oppressive regime

A supporter of Iranian conservative presidential candidate and Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf attends a campaign rally in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 14, 2017, with her hand wrapped with a band carrying the colors of the Iranian national flag and ink on her palm reading in Persian: "With action not by speech you can finish the job and work." (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran hardliners turn to reformist-dominated social media

In this undated photo, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami watches a video on his laptop in his office in Tehran, Iran. Many reformists are expected to sit out the June 14 voting in a silent protest over the crackdowns that have left them leaderless and demoralized. Others unwilling to boycott the election are rallying around a last-ditch call for help to Khatami, who is seen increasingly as their only credible hope at the ballot box. (AP Photo/Office of Mohammad Khatami, Asghar Khaksar)

Iran’s reformist ex-president Khatami endorses Rouhani

Meir Ephraim Goldstein, suspected of beheading his wife in burning her body in Tiberias, is seen at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court as he arrives for a hearing on March 30, 2017. (Flash90)

Tiberias man who brandished ex-wife’s head found ‘not sane’

Psychiatrists find that Meir Goldstein ‘could not tell right from wrong’ at the time of the murder and decapitation

Rachael Risby-Raz

The Great Lag B’Omer Debacle

How the mighty Ministry of Education discovered the possibility of compromise, and the chaos it wrought

Thoughts on Nakba Day

Arab and Jews need a process of reconciliation to get past a ‘catastrophe’ Arabs brought upon themselves

Deborah Housen-Couriel

Israel has dodged a cyber bullet…so far

The WannaCry ransomware attack highlights the need to step up safety in the the private sector

Haredi textbooks reinforce barricades

School curricula portray a hostile, us-them world and the biggest enemy is modernity itself

Kugel and knaffeh

How chance Tel Aviv encounters in the wee hours became a flash seminar in Jewish-Arab relations

A fire broke out at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue in Manhattan's Lower East Side, May 14, 2017. (Screenshot)

Firefighters put out massive blaze at historic New York synagogue

Inspectors open probe into fire at landmark shul in Lower East Side, once home of oldest Russian Jewish Orthodox congregation in US

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi speaks during a joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry in the Jordanian capital Amman on May 14, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Khalil MAZRAAWI)

Rebuffing Netanyahu, Jordan says it opposes terrorism but still condemns killing of its Jerusalem stabber

FM Safadi says Amman is investigating Saturday’s death of Jordanian citizen who repeatedly stabbed Israeli policeman before being shot

American billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (R) and his wife Miriam meet Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, May 13, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)

Adelsons to testify in PM probe during upcoming Israel visit — report

Cops to question billionaire couple after guaranteeing they are not suspects in corruption investigations, Channel 2 says

This picture taken on April 15, 2017 shows an unidentified rocket, reported to be a Hwasong-type missile similar to the one used in a May 14, 2017 test launch, at a military parade in Pyongyang. (AFP PHOTO / Ed JONES)

North Korea: New long-range missile can carry heavy nuke

Experts estimate that Pyongyang’s test of new arsenal could be game changer, posing urgent challenge to region

Tayseer Abu Sneineh (Facebook photo)

Palestinian terrorist in killing of 6 Jews elected Hebron mayor

By ToI Staff and AFP

Tayseer Abu Shneineh to head biggest West Bank city; Fatah wins few seats, despite Hamas refusal to run

Illustrative. Palestinian fishermen at the Gaza City port, May 13, 2015. (Aaed Tayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian vessels try to run Gaza blockade, 1 killed

By AFP

Navy gunfire seriously injures 1 man who later dies; navy boards 2 boats to detain 6 fishermen

In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years. (Courtesy)

With bill shelved, woman denied divorce for 17 years ends hunger strike

By Marissa Newman

Rotation of activists will keep fasting for Zvia Gordetsky, 53, whose husband refused her a divorce again on Monday; rabbinical courts say ‘no solution’ to her plight

The studio of the new Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation on May 14, 2017. (Yossi Aloni/Kan)

Amid reports of sabotage, new state broadcaster kicks off to bumpy start

By ToI Staff and AFP

Inaugural radio programs riddled with technical errors as Kan corporation takes place of shuttered predecessor

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Army beefs up cyber-defense unit as it gives up idea of unified cyber command

By Judah Ari Gross

Military Intelligence to keep collected intel with coveted Unit 8200; IDF’s Computer Service Directorate to be charged with protection and counter-attack, officer says

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz holds a press conference, after being appointed as head of the country's center-right People's Party (OeVP) on May 14, 2017, in Vienna, Austria. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Fears of far-right resurface as Austria calls snap elections

By Simon Sturdee

Coalition falls apart over economic reforms, raising concerns that Freedom Party may take power

Zeke Finn sings about his upbringing and unicorns. (Ahron Moeller)

Interview

The hip young rapper who sings about unicorns

By Madison Margolin

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The ad from The Academy of the Hebrew Language, advertising the institution's contest to find a new Hebrew word for fidget spinners (Courtesy The Academy of the Hebrew Language)

Tongue twisterWordsmiths toy with Hebrew word for fidget spinner

By Jessica Steinberg

Moshe Dayan at the Temple Mount, June 7, 1967 (Ilan Bruner / GPO)

Tweet from the pastPre-Six Day War Israel gets its own Twitter account

By Stuart Winer

The Acentria's fritillary (Melitaea acentria) is a new butterfly species discovered in Israel on the Hermon ski resort. (Dr. Vladimir Lukhtanov/Pensoft Publishers for Press Release Use Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)

Once every centuryResearchers discover new butterfly species in Israel

A group of 102 Bnei Menashe who just completed the absorption process in Kfar Hasidim, May 2017. (Photo credit: Yehuda Schwartz/Shavei Israel)

102 Bnei Menashe set to leave absorption center and settle down

By JTA

A dejected soccer fan watching Hapoel Tel Aviv lose as the team falls to second division, on May 13, 2017. (Roy Alima/FLASH90)

Rivals’ funeral for relegated Tel Aviv soccer club draws red card

Illustration of bacteria (Courtesy)

BiomX raises $24 million to boost bacteria based drugs

By Shoshanna Solomon

The US Embassy in Tel Aviv (photo credit: CC BY-Krokodyl/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Hebrew media reviewAn embassy of peace

By Adiv Sterman

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