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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 20, 2017

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US President Donald Trump (C) receives the Order of Abdulaziz al-Saud medal from Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh on May 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Trump receives royal welcome, honors from Saudi leader

By Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire

King Salman bestows US president with country’s highest civilian medal as entourage is greeted with pomp and circumstance

Bare-headedMelania Trump skips headscarf in Saudi Arabia

By AP

Trump to tell Muslims on first foreign trip: Drive out terrorists

By Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire

Saudi Arabia looks to assert regional role with Trump summit

By IAN TIMBERLAKE

US President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speak in the Roosevelt Room during a joint statement at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Report: Trump to offer 6-12 months of peace talks, without settlement freeze

Arabic newspaper claims US leader will present Israelis and Palestinians with new approach during visit this week; Abbas said ready to agree

Erekat, Livni optimistic about Trump’s push for peace

By ToI Staff and AP

Poll: Trump’s popularity sinks among Israeli Jews

By JTA

Controversial WH adviser reportedly writing Trump’s speech on Islam

By Josefin Dolsten

This handout photo released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shows President Donald Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)

‘Horrified’ Israeli intel officials ‘were shouting at US counterparts’ over Trump leak

Foreign Policy reports tense meetings between sides after president revealed classified info to Russians

White House legal team said to be researching impeachment

By ToI Staff and AP

Russian officials ‘boasted of their ability to influence Trump through Flynn’

By ToI Staff and AP

Comey ‘a nut job,’ Trump reportedly told Russians

By ToI Staff and AP

Moti Almoz (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters compare top IDF official to Hitler, army service to Auschwitz

Police launch probe into extremists’ actions; chief-of-staff expresses ‘revulsion’; defense minister calls behavior ‘intolerable’

Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty on a donkey in Haiti before the outbreak of World War II. (Courtesy/Memorial Society)

The unbelievable heroic story of Ireland’s overlooked ‘Oskar Schindler’

By Michael Riordan

Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was wanted for saving hundreds of Jews in Rome during elaborate disguised operations that earned him the name ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’

UKIP suspends candidate who justified Holocaust

By JTA and ToI Staff

Auction of Anne Frank poem will finance Holocaust memorial

By JTA

Swastikas painted on synagogue, rabbi’s headstone smashed in Ukraine

By JTA

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures during a campaign rally in the northwestern city of Ardabil on May 17, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Behrouz MEHRI)

Rouhani declared big winner in Iranian elections

By AFP and AP

State TV says incumbent has won second term with 57% of vote, beating hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi who received only 38%

Russia, EU congratulate Iran’s Rouhani on re-election

By AFP

Mattis: Convoy hit by coalition in Syria likely ‘Iranian-directed’

By AFP

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

By Avi Davidi and Hamidreza Zarifinia

A car drives by the street where a group of Palestinians attacked an Israeli settler, who fired back, killing one person and wounding another, in Hawara, in the northern West Bank on May 19, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Despite dangerous route through Hawara, Itamar residents won’t use safer bypass

Settlers determined not to take 30 minute detour around Palestinian flashpoint town, even after driver comes under attack and opens fire there, killing a Palestinian

Police arrest knife-wielding 14-year-old girl in West Bank

Hundreds of Palestinians riot in West Bank, Gaza

Palestinian cleric says US, Israel try to control Arabs’ mood with drugs

Gary Rosenblatt

4 writers wrestle with their Israel

As ’67 War anniversary nears, authors measure the distance between the Jewish state and the diaspora.

Trump and the New State solution

The right place for a contiguous Palestinian political entity is in the Sinai Peninsula

Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov and her mother Sylva Zalmanson at the airport from which the filmmakers parents tried to make their escape. (Courtesy/Franz Koch/ Israel Broadcasting Authority)

Crime and punishment

Israeli filmmaker chronicles parents’ failed attempt to hijack a Soviet plane

Yeshivat Maharat graduates at their ordination ceremony at Ramaz High School in New York City, June 16, 2013 (photo credit: Joe Winkler/JTA)

Orthodox Union asks women clergy to change their titles

Move follows February ruling by umbrella group that bars females from serving in positions of spiritual authority

IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)

Petition urges Trump to demand return of fallen IDF soldiers’ bodies

Families will deliver appeal to US Consulate ahead of president’s arrival, calling on him not to restart peace talks before remains given back

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert addresses Israelis in a video released hours before he was slated to begin serving out his prison sentence, on Monday, February 2, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Olmert attorney caught with classified material from jailed former PM — report

Authorities investigating imprisoned ex-premier’s handling of secret information as he writes memoir from his cell; Olmert denies wrongdoing

View of Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border, November 10, 2016. (Doron Horowitz/FLASH90)

Hezbollah says it caught Iraqi man spying for Israel in Lebanon

Local media reports say agent was tasked with providing info on Lebanese army and enlisting other spies

Former US Rep. Anthony Weiner leaves Federal court, on May 19, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/ Mary Altaffer)

Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting charge

By AP and JTA

Ex-congressman admits transferring obscene material to a minor: ‘I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse’

Rabbi Daniel Greer (JTA/YouTube screenshot)

Prominent Connecticut rabbi to pay $20m. for alleged sex abuse

By JTA

Jury order comes following civil lawsuit in which yeshiva student claimed to have been molested, raped by Daniel Greer over a period of 3 years

Idra Novey, author of 'Ways to Disappear.' (Donata Zanotti)

Interview

The award-winning novel that appeared out of nowhere

By Cathryn J. Prince

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A view of the Kremlin from the Moscow River, in Moscow, Russia (photo credit: Pavel Kazachkov/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Russian court orders a 2nd Chabad rabbi deported this year

By JTA

Kevin Pillar of the Toronto Blue Jays makes a diving catch on a line drive on August 3, 2016 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jewish baseball player suspended for homophobic slur

By JTA

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on May 4, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)

Food cart shut down? Ask Egypt’s president

By Hamza Hendawi

In this April 14, 2016 file photo, actor Jesse Eisenberg accepts the Male Star of the Year award during the CinemaCon 2016 Big Screen Achievement Awards n Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Silent heroEisenberg to play Marcel Marceau in WWII film

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 23, 2017. (JTA/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Sheriff's Star of DavidDo Israel’s traffic cops have a friend in Sheriff David Clarke?

Palestinians watch dogs fight during the first dog show in Gaza City, on February 5, 2016, organised by dog owners in the Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Call off the dogsHamas bans dog walking in some parts of Gaza

Culture Minister Miri Regev wearing a dress featuring the old city of Jerusalem in Cannes on May 17, 2017 (AFP Photo/Antonin Thuillier)

Hemming and hawingRegev’s Cannes Jerusalem dress sparks meme frenzy

By JTA and ToI Staff

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