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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 18, 2017

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President Donald Trump listens as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. (AP /Evan Vucci)

For now, Trump rules out moving embassy to Jerusalem

By Eric Cortellessa

Days before Israel trip, senior official tells Bloomberg US ‘not looking to provoke anyone when everyone’s playing really nice’

InterviewUnfazed by Western Wall row, Jerusalem mayor still expects Trump to move US embassy

By Raphael Ahren

New US envoy to Israel: Trump will not push for settlement freeze

By Alexander Fulbright

In ‘signal to Trump,’ Herzog says Israel must retain Ma’ale Adumim

By Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian protesters surround a car reportedly driven by an Israeli settler as it attempts to cross a crowd of demonstrators near the Hawara military checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank on May 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Settler attacked by Palestinian rioters opens fire, kills 1 man, injures journalist

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF says Israeli man’s car was swarmed by residents of Hawara, who pelted it with stones, smashed the windshield, before he shot at the attackers

Security forces confiscate cash given to families of 3 teens’ killers

Gazan woman charged with smuggling explosives as cancer medicine

Police cut loose settler who shot stone thrower

Illustrative: Smoke billows following a reported air strike on a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, on April 8, 2017. (Mohamad Abazeed/AFP)

Live updates (Closed)

US-led coalition strikes pro-regime convoy in Syria

By Tamar Pileggi

Bennett reportedly ‘buried chances’ of moving embassy; at least 1 killed, 20 hurt as car crashes into Times Square pedestrians in apparent accident; PM meets with Trump Mideast envoy, Israeli ambassador ahead of US leader’s visit

Palestinian men working in a keffiyeh factory in the West Bank city of Hebron on October 14, 2010. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinians to ask Trump for economic stimulus package

By Avi Issacharoff

Projects to be presented during US president’s trip include West Bank airport, Dead Sea hotels, power station and new city

Netanyahu to unveil economic incentives for Palestinians on eve of Trump visit

By Alexander Fulbright

Sissi urges Israelis to ‘seize opportunity’ of Trump’s peace push

Sudan leader Bashir, indicted for genocide, to attend summit with Trump

By AFP

In this June 19, 2013, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Special counsel appointed to lead probe into Trump-Russia ties

Justice Department taps former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead investigation after firing of agency head James Comey

Flynn blocked military move Turkey opposed – report

By AP

Trump camp had 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians during election – report

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Trump interviews Joe Lieberman, three others for FBI head post

By AP

US President Donald Trump returns to the White House, in Washington, DC. May 17, 2017. (AFP/Olivier Douliery)

Intel Trump gave Russians came from Jordan, not Israel – report

By Stuart Winer

Al-Jazeera cites Jordanian officials doubting Israeli spies have the kind of high-level access to IS that their own agents do

As special counsel named, Trump says probe will show no links to Russia

By AFP

Israel TV: Intel allegedly leaked by Trump came directly from Islamic State ‘capital’ in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Trump: No politician in history has been treated worse

By Vivian Salama and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Then-prime minister Levi Eshkol, center, and future prime minister Menachem Begin, right, greet troops in the Sinai Peninsula following the Six Day War on June 13, 1967. (GPO)

After Six Day War, cabinet debated West Bank’s future – and Charles De Gaulle’s nose

By Judah Ari Gross

National archives release transcripts from 1967 cabinet meetings, showing the intense discussions and petty squabbles before, after and during the conflict

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith performing the song 'Crazy' in Tel Aviv on May 17, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Talk this way: Aerosmith rocks out in Tel Aviv despite mic issues

By Jessica Steinberg

First Israel gig in 23 years by legendary rock band hit by some technical problems, but lead singer Steven Tyler says he’s ‘making Aliyah’ anyway

North Korean women in traditional attire. (Moshe Shai)

Photo essay

In North Korea, an Israeli photographer aims his lens beyond the facade

Moshe Shai takes photos of exhibition put on for visitors by repressive government, and when possible, daily life of the people

Trump is toast, but he’s not the problem

With or without its current president, US society, economy and global standing will continue to slowly implode

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Her black hijab, my bottle of scotch

An encounter in Heathrow Airport didn’t go as expected

Andrew Silow-Carroll

This hyper-attention is killing me

The Trump government won’t let us look away for a moment

Daniel H. Freelander

Progressive Jerusalem

The holiest of cities is a great unifier of Jews; no one group has the right to bar any other from it

Acting assistant secretary for the US State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones speaks at a news conference at the US Embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, October 1, 2015. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

US extends Iran nuke sanctions relief, leaves 2015 deal intact for now

By Josh Lederman

Top diplomat says America still committed to punishing Tehran for support of Assad, Hezbollah; new sanctions announced over ballistic missiles

The suspect brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, under suspicion of Issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions around the world, on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Teen behind JCC threats has attempted suicide 5 times in jail, lawyer says

Attorney says suspect, who is said to be on autism spectrum, may be moved to psychiatric hospital inside prison

The historic Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue ablaze, May 14, 2017. (Screenshot from NBC New York via JTA)

14-year-old arrested in arson of New York synagogue

By JTA

View of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus seen from Jerusalem's Old City, on June 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu blasts Hebrew U over report it nixed Hatikvah to avoid offending Arab students

By Stuart Winer

Responding to censure, Jerusalem institution says graduation ceremony has followed same format for years, and that anthem is always aired at the state ceremonies it holds

Palestinian women walk past a wall bearing posters, including a portrait of prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, during a rally in Ramallah, in support of him and other prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on April 24, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Analysis

Barghouti is forcing Israel to decide between bad and worse

By Avi Issacharoff

To negotiate with the hunger-striking Fatah leader and terrorist would give him legitimacy; to ignore him would risk igniting the Palestinian street as Trump flies in

Surrogate sexy therapist Ronit Aloni (courtesy of the Ronit Aloni Clinic via JTA)

Tel Aviv therapist sells the healing power of sex with a stranger

By Andrew Tobin

Stephen Miller, White House senior adviser for policy, at a session on law enforcement held at the White House, Feb. 7, 2017. (Andrew Harrer – Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Aide behind travel ban said penning Trump speeches to Middle East

Stephen Miller, who also wrote a campaign speech criticized for ‘anti-Semitic overtones, reportedly writing presidential addresses to be delivered in Riyadh, Jerusalem

Israeli, Arab, Iranian and Turkish researchers meet in Fontainebleau, France, to set up joint research projects on April 28-30, 2017 (Courtesy)

‘The strength of weak ties’: Israel, Iran, Syria business scholars join forces

By Shoshanna Solomon

With wine, walks and talks, researchers hold hackathon-esque gathering in Fontainebleau, France, in bid to boost ‘peace economics’

Illustrative photo of Muslim women gathering for Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As so-called ‘honor killers’ get away with murder, Palestinians say law, judges outdated

More Headlines

Culture Minister Miri Regev (r) wears specially designed Jerusalem dress to Cannes film festival, May 17, 2017 (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Skirting the issueMinister makes Cannes statement with Jerusalem dress

This photo taken on December 23, 2011 shows Agnes Buzyn, then Head of the National Cancer Institute, attending a press conference in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOT)

France names daughter of Holocaust survivor as health minister

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Belgium’s Wallonia region bans ritual slaughter

By AFP

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

Man stabbed after apparently surprising burglar

By Stuart Winer

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Parole board report said to raise chance of Olmert’s early release

Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority (Courtesy)

Israel Innovation Authority eases rules on tech firms

By Shoshanna Solomon

The flags parade -- shown here from 2012 -- hosted by the city of Jerusalem in honor of Jerusalem Day, and attended by thousands, isn't how all Jerusalemites want to celebrate Israel's victory in 1967 (Noam Moskowitz/Flash 90)

A jubilee for the non-jubilant: Alternative events for Jerusalem Day

By Jessica Steinberg

US President Donald Trump sits in the driver's seat of a semitrailer as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House in Washington, DC, to discuss healthcare, March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Hebrew media reviewMr. Balagan and mismanagement

By Joshua Davidovich

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