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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 16, 2017

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US President Donald Trump pauses while speaking to the press before take-off aboard Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, May 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

White House: Western Wall comments ‘unauthorized,’ do not represent Trump’s stance

By Eric Cortellessa

Official who said Jews’ holiest prayer site is not part of Israel does ‘not represent the position of US and certainly not of president’

Senior member of Trump team said to tell Israelis: Western Wall is not your territory

By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright

US officials said to be pressuring Trump not to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By Eric Cortellessa

Netanyahu denies privately urging Trump not to move embassy to Jerusalem

By Alexander Fulbright

New US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman (L), meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to present his credentials on May 16, 2017, in Jerusalem (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Heidi Levine)

David Friedman officially takes up post as Trump’s Israel envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Amid embassy speculation, president tells new ambassador it’s time the world recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital

Netanyahu welcomes envoy Friedman to ‘Jerusalem, our eternal capital’

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

Livin' on the edgeDavid Friedman runs into Steven Tyler at Western Wall

Adelson reportedly ‘furious’ with Tillerson for tying embassy move to peace deal

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (R) speaks with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, during the Arab Summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh on March 29, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Gulf states could upgrade Israel ties in exchange for peace overtures

By Stuart Winer

Reported plan would allow direct communications and use of airspace if settlements are curtailed and Gaza restrictions are eased

Palestinian envoy to US: It’s ‘too early’ for direct talks with Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

PA lawmaker photographed throwing rocks at Israeli troops

By Alexander Fulbright

Saudi king touts Trump’s Islamic summit as ‘new partnership’

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant at a conference in Latrun, near Jerusalem, on May 16, 2017. (Miriam Tzachi/Office of Yoav Gallant)

Israeli minister: ‘The time has come’ to kill Bashar Assad

By Judah Ari Gross

Yoav Galant says revelation the Syrian president is executing prisoners and burning their bodies ‘crosses a red line’

US accuses Syria of mass executions and burning bodies in crematorium

By AP

Syria says crematorium accusations ‘totally unfounded’

Trump, Erdogan seek to mend strained ties at White House meeting

By AFP

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Live updates (closed)

Israel source of secret intelligence Trump gave to Russians — report

By Raoul Wootliff

‘Israel has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States,’ Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer says

The closing of Hadassah's pediatric hematology-oncology ward puts lives at risk (Illustrative image from iStock)

My son finally stopped asking ‘am I going to die?’

By Gina Shaffer

On what it means to shutter Hadassah Hospital’s pediatric hematology-oncology ward

An elderly woman wears a cap reading 'Grandmother' (Illustrative photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israeli researchers claim breakthrough with new anti-wrinkle cream

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cosmetician’s hyaluronic acid product uses Bar-Ilan University team’s technology; marketing to start soon in Israel and globally

SecuredOptions (Screen Shot)

Tel Aviv binary options boss nabbed for fraud, extortion; company raided, computers confiscated

By Simona Weinglass and ToI Staff

After months-long undercover probe, police arrest Eliran Saada on suspicion of fleecing overseas victim out of more than $500,000

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira presents the State Comptroller's Report in the Knesset on November 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Watchdog finds Israel Police unfit to fight cybercrime

By Shoshanna Solomon

An employee from SESAME stands next to the particle accelerator in Allan, Jordan. (Sharing Knowledge Foundation)

The inside story of a unique scientific partnership

Open SESAME: At Middle East’s CERN, regional cooperation at light speed

Israel and its neighbors, including Iran and Pakistan, join forces to build the region’s first particle accelerator

Minister pulls out of science collaboration event in Jordan

By Stuart Winer

US President Donald Trump (left) meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)

After denials, Trump defends giving classified info to Russia

By ToI Staff and Agencies

While White House said president didn’t leak anything, he tweets that he has the right to decide who he shares top-secret intel with

Trump, accused of passing intel to Russians, to call Jordan’s Abdullah

White House grapples with newest crisis amid report Trump gave secret info to Russians

By AP and ToI Staff

White House denies Trump disclosed classified intel to Russians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The political capital of driverless cars

Americans need to get the message that AV cooperation with Israel bolsters their security and economy

Trump can change Jerusalem’s status

The president should do what the US Supreme Court said only he can do: decide that Jerusalem is inside Israel

A mole on the face of the occupation

The outcry against an op-ed’s wording is a distraction from Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians

Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein on May 19 announces that elections for presidency will take place on June 10. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

30 years after his release from Soviet prison, Knesset speaker to address Russian parliament

By Raoul Wootliff

In historic first, Yuli Edelstein will return to Moscow to speak at the legislature and visit the jail where he was held as a Prisoner of Zion

Uri Ariel touring a construction site in the settlement of Kokhav Yaakov, August 2013. (Flash90)

State watchdog: Jewish Home minister transferred millions to benefit his cronies

By Marissa Newman

Comptroller report urges attorney general to investigate conduct of Uri Ariel in 2013-2014, during his tenure as housing minister

Author Martha Hall Kelly in the garden which inspired her book, 'Lilac Girls.' (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

How a book on WWII Rabbits of Ravensbruck leapt into bestseller lists

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (L) at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. (Kobi Gidon/GPO)

Marking end to spat, Netanyahu meets with Ukraine’s Jewish premier

By Alexander Fulbright

After nadir in ties over Kiev’s support for anti-settlement UN resolution, PM says ‘friendship on a new path’

Former Sephardic chief rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, sitting center, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court surrounded by supporters who try to hide his face, May 15, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Former chief rabbi convicted of fraud, breach of trust

By Stuart Winer

Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron was part of scam by civil servants who used false rabbinic credentials to earn wage bonuses

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)

Israel publishes Barghouti’s hunger strike demands: More TV channels and air con

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan dismisses ‘over the top’ requests that include unlimited supplies of books and magazines

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, President Reuven Rivlin, and President of the Shariya Court of Appeals, the Qadi Abed Alhakim Samara, give a certificate to the newly appointed first female Qadi, Hana Mansour Khatib at the president's residence, on May 15, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Israel appoints first female judge to Sharia Court

By Melanie Lidman

Hana Khatib of Tamra ‘shatters another glass ceiling’ by becoming the first female qadi, or religious judge, says Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem develops techologies to help children overcome physical limitations (Courtesy)

ALYN sets up tech center to invent new ways to help special needs kids

By Shoshanna Solomon

Facility will allow entrepreneurs to work on assistive technologies with experts and patients at Jerusalem rehab hospital

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New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)

NY Times publisher defends hiring of conservative columnist Bret Stephens

By JTA

A woman and a man wearing the danish flag stand outside the main Synagogue in Copenhagen on February 15, 2015 following two fatal attacks in the Danish capital, a month after the Paris attacks. (photo credit: AFP/Claus Bjorn Larsen)

Denmark convicts jihadist teen over plot to bomb Jewish school

By AFP

Iftach Grady (photo credit: Iftach Grady, Facebook)

Killer of off-duty soldier sentenced to 15 years

Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld with his wife and Nazi war crimes investigator Beate Klarsfeld. (CC BY, Klarsfeld Foundation, Wikipedia)

Serge Klarsfeld recognized with top award by Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial

By JTA

Firefighters at the scene of a blaze in which a man and a woman died in Arad, southern Israel, May 15, 2017 (Magen David Adom)

Couple killed in fire; woman’s son and ex-husband arrested

Anne-Marie O'Connor, left, and Ora Ahimeir, just prior to a discussion as part of the Personal Pages: Meet the Authors series at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2017. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

At TOI event, bestselling authors present true stories of women of valor

By Yaakov Schwartz

New US ambassador to Israel David Friedman stands next to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch (R) while praying at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Hebrew media reviewWailing over the ‘West Bank’ wall

By Joshua Davidovich

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