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What Matters Most On Monday, May 22, 2017

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Then-US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 22, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump makes history as first serving US president to visit Western Wall

By Marissa Newman

After walking to Church of Holy Sepulchre, president dons black kippah to visit Jewish holy site, slipping a prayer note into its stones

Trump at the Western Wall, a carefully calibrated act of respect

By David Horovitz

Trump in Israel says Saudi king left him encouraged over peace prospects

By Raphael Ahren and Marissa Newman

Live updates (closed)Trump tells Netanyahu a ‘lot of love’ will help bring peace

By ToI Staff and Tamar Pileggi

US President Donald Trump (R) gives a speech after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Arriving in Israel, Trump declares ‘rare opportunity’ for regional peace

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

US president hails ‘unbreakable bond’ between America and Jewish state; Netanyahu says Israel’s hand extended ‘to all our neighbors’

President Trump’s speech on arrival in Israel

Netanyahu’s speech welcoming Trump to Israel

Trump, Sissi said to agree on peace summit ‘very soon’

US President Donald Trump speaks as Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) listen upon Trump's arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2017, as part of his first trip overseas. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

Public diplomacy, and one MK’s ego, on display at airport welcome for Trump

By David Horovitz

Oren Hazan can’t resist the chance for a presidential selfie. More substantively, Trump stresses partnership and cooperation in peace bid, while Netanyahu makes plain he wants to maintain security control of West Bank

After Saudi Arabia, Trump heads to Israel in pursuit of ‘ultimate deal’

By Julie Pace and Josef Federman

Goodwill gestures to Palestinians came at Trump’s request, says PMO

Ministers okay economic package for Palestinians ahead of Trump visit

US President Donald Trump (L) poses for a selfie with MK Oren Hazan at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday, May 22, 2017. (Oren Hazan)

Officials fume over maverick lawmaker’s stolen Trump selfie

By Sue Surkes and Raphael Ahren

MK Oren Hazan insinuates himself among dignitaries at airport, resists Netanyahu’s opposition to take ‘historic’ picture

More than 10,000 police are securing areas where Trump will visit over the 28-hour period, including hundreds fanned out across the Old City in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem’s Old City deserted, on lockdown as Trump arrives

By Melanie Lidman

Residents shrug, tourists fume as area is emptied for US president’s stroll to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, visit to Western Wall

Trump’s Old City walk prompts unprecedented security

Trump visit, Jerusalem Day to tangle traffic in capital

By Stuart Winer

US President Donald Trump waits to deliver a speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Israel, barely mentioned by Trump, can only hope his focus on tackling terror yields results

By David Horovitz

Analysis: Unlike his predecessor, the president devoted almost no attention to the Jewish state in his speech to Muslim leaders. Still, unlike his predecessor, he’s now heading here to underline our alliance

Trump tells Muslim leaders to fight ‘Islamic extremism,’ ‘drive terror’ from their lands

By AP and ToI Staff

Full text of Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia

Human rights concerns prove no obstacle in Trump-Saudi ties

US President Donald Trump (center-left), Saudi Arabia's King Salman (center-right), and other leaders pose for a group photo during the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. (AFP/MANDEL NGAN)

Analysis

Ignoring Israel, Trump misses chance to push for peace where it counts

By Raphael Ahren

By not using his Riyadh pulpit to urge recognition of Israel and promote an agreement with the Palestinians, the US president passed up a rare opportunity to make real headway toward his ‘ultimate deal’

InterviewEx-Arab League chief: Only settlement freeze can thaw ties with Israel

Hamas cries bias after Trump labels it a terror group

By ToI Staff and AP

Trump, Saudi king excoriate Iran as ‘spearhead’ of world terror

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the Royal Terminal of King Khalid International Airport, Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Donald Trump brings God into the negotiation room

By Raphael Ahren

The former real estate magnate doesn’t see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a simple land dispute. As opposed to his predecessors, he focuses on the religious dimension

Gilead Sher and Jonathan Heuberger

Art of the Israeli-Palestinian deal

Op-Ed: Here’s how Donald Trump can help resolve the conflict using principles from his business bestseller

Stop dancing in the end zone

Jews have the right to march through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, but they shouldn’t

Childhood memories of the bomb shelter during the Six Day War — and her grandmother who refused to take cover

Daughters of Jerusalem

The women who embrace the holy city’s diversity may be the only ones able to implement its legacy as a place of peace

Border police secure the site of a stabbing attempt at the Kiosk Junction near the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis, November 10, 2015. (Photo courtesy of Israel Police)

Police: Palestinian attacks border cops near Jerusalem, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

Alleged stabbing attempt occurs east of the capital, as President Trump visits Old City

US President Donald Trump, left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud take part in a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh on May 20, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Analysis

‘How can it hurt?’ Why Israel says it’s not worried by Trump’s huge Saudi arms deal

By Judah Ari Gross

Unprecedented $110 billion weapons sale flies through approval process in record time, as US president tries to show Riyadh he’s their man

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaking at the 53rd Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, February 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Christof Stache)

Iran hits back at Trump after Islam speech, Saudi arms deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli researchers say they have new way to combat heart disease, stroke

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ben-Gurion U and Sheba Medical Center scientists announce creation of nano-polymer that may be better than statins

A screenshot of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, in the DC Comics film being released in Israel June 1 (Courtesy 'Wonder Woman')

Isn't it wonderful

Early reviews praise Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’

By Jessica Steinberg

Critics are calling the long-awaited female superhero tale ‘funny,’ ‘charming’ and ’empowering’

Masked Hamas terrorists attend the funeral of Mazen Fuqha in Gaza City, March, 25 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas cries bias after Trump labels it a terror group

By ToI Staff and AP

Official accuses US president of taking Israel’s side after inclusion on list of terror groups in Riyadh speech

US President Donald Trump watching the lighting of memorial candles during the annual Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, April 25, 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images via JTA)

The Holocaust elevator pitch, perfected for Trump

By Raoul Wootliff

The US president will spend 15 minutes in Yad Vashem — enough to lay a wreath and hear a short explanation. Here’s what historians and educators think he should be told

Activists hold hands as they make their way to the Sumud Freedom Camp in the South Hebron Hills on May 19, 2017. (Credit: Gili Getz)

IDF raids West Bank ‘freedom camp’ built by Diaspora Jewish activists

Army, accused of assaulting demonstrators, says they erected illegal structures meant for Palestinian village in a closed military zone

Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir backstage in 1977. (Peter Simon)

Interview

A Jewish filmmaker’s long strange trip to documenting the Grateful Dead

By Jordan Hoffman

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An illustration of the outside of the planned Mobileye office campus (Courtesy: Moshe Zur Architects & Town Planners Ltd.)

Mobileye unveils new Jerusalem office campus

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) arrives at the Ma'asiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle on February 15, 2016 as he begins a 19-month term for bribery and obstruction of justice (AFP / JACK GUEZ)

Olmert: They never told me I couldn’t send documents from jail

Protesters hold Palestinian flags in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are on a hunger strike in Israeli jails, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 16, 2017. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Hundreds of Hamas prisoners to join hunger strike

By Avi Issacharoff and AFP

A screenshot of US President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sissi touching a glowing globe to launch the opening of an anti-extremism center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. (Screenshot)

Global dominanceTrump grabs glowing Saudi orb, sparks jokes, memes

By ToI Staff and AP

People watch a TV news program showing images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the missile launch, published in the North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea says it’s ready to deploy missiles that can reach US bases

By Eric Talmadge

A car crash in Tel Aviv an hour before US President Donald Trump was due to land in Israel raised fears of a terrorist attack until police confirmed it was an accident, on May 22, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Terror attack ruled out in Tel Aviv car crash

By Sue Surkes and Judah Ari Gross

SkyX partial team with first two export models of SkyOne drones. CEO Didi Horn third from left (Courtesy)

SkyX to get $5 million boost from China’s Kuang-Chi

By Shoshanna Solomon

A worker vacuums the red carpet ahead of the arrival of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Hebrew media reviewGreat expectations (really, nobody has greater expectations)

By Joshua Davidovich

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