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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 27, 2017

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Protesters hold up portraits of Marwan Barghouti in front of a statue of Nelson Mandela in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 3, 2017, during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

After Palestinians end hunger strike, Israel says it held no talks, conceded no demands

Rejecting Palestinian account, officials say deal granting security prisoners additional monthly family visit was brokered with Red Cross, will be paid for by PA

Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike, Israel says it met none of their demands

Clashes as hundreds of Palestinian protest across West Bank, Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Trump uses Ramadan message to urge end to violence

By AFP

A man holds a photo of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti calling for his release during a rally supporting those detained in Israeli jails after hundreds of prisoners launched a hunger strike, in the West Bank town of Hebron on April 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Analysis

Ending strike after 40 days, Barghouti is now Abbas’s undisputed heir

By Avi Issacharoff

The prisoners’ protest was not entirely successful for the jailed Fatah leader and convicted terrorist. And only one of his demands was met. But he is now a Palestinian national symbol

US President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wave after delivering a speech at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Taking Trump’s peace push seriously, Netanyahu said looking to broaden coalition

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

TV report says PM and Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog again in contact, as opinion poll shows Israelis backing two-state deal based by 47%-39%

Poll shows bump in support for Netanyahu after Trump visit

Former PLO negotiator calls to shut Palestinian Authority

Trump pushes on terror, listens on climate at G-7

By Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace

US president's senior adviser Jared Kushner is seen during a welcome ceremony in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Jared Kushner reportedly sought secret communications with Moscow

By AFP

Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser said to have suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in US to protect channel from being monitored

If FBI wants to talk to Kushner, lawyer says he’s ready

By Eric Tucker and Eileen Sullivan

After trip’s final day, Trump to return to tumult at home

By Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace

Clinton delivers stinging attack on Trump at graduation speech

By AFP

Police investigate a deadly stabbing on a Metropolitan Area Express train in northeast Portland, Ore., Friday, May 26, 2017. (Jim Ryan/The Oregonian via AP)

2 killed confronting man hurling anti-Muslim slurs in Portland

By AP

Oregon police say assailant on ‘hate speech’ rant stabbed bystanders attempting to intervene on behalf of young woman wearing a hijab

The front page of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, September 2017.

Golda Meir, Itzhak Perlman, Moshe Dayan... Gal Gadot?

Could Gal Gadot become the biggest Israeli superstar ever?

By Gabe Friedman

Featuring one of the few iconic female superheroes, ‘Wonder Woman’ carries the kind of symbolic weight that could turn Gadot into a global feminist torch-holder for decades

Ruth Tepler Roth

Mental illness isn’t ‘other people’

Her son was ‘at risk’ and she missed the signs; now, she speaks out to support and remove the stigma from those in need

Mayer E. Fertig

The Six Day War, inside Shaare Zedek

Archival material describes the ’round-the-clock care of the wounded, from (almost) the front lines

Sharona Margolin Halickman

‘My master’ vs. ‘my husband’

God Himself wants the relationship between husband and wife to be one of partnership and not one of mastery

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a general election campaign speech in central London on May 26, 2017. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

Corbyn under fire for implying UK wars are inviting terrorism

By ToI Staff and AP

Conservatives slam first comments since the Manchester attack as ‘monstrous’ attempt to justify terrorism

Well-wishers release thousands of balloons into the sky during a vigil to commemorate the victims of the May 22 attack on Manchester Arena at Tandle Hill Country Park in Royton, northwest England, on May 26, 2017. (AFP/Lindsey Parnaby)

Two more arrested in Manchester suicide attack probe

By Rosie SCAMMELL

UK police say a ‘large part’ of the network behind IS-claimed attack in custody; father and brother of bomber held in Libya

The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (CC BY-SA Thorkild Tylleskar/Wikipedia)

UN body said to bury positive report on Israel under Syrian pressure

World Health Organization passes anti-Israel resolution, ignores bombings of hospitals in Syria and Yemen

The Beit Bella Synagogue in Tallinn, Estonia (YouTube screenshot)

Estonian Jewry celebrates revival 75 years after Nazis declared it extinct

By JTA

Country’s president hosts Israeli politicians and rabbis to mark 10 years since establishment of first synagogue post-Holocaust

Dan Sofer, his wife and son in Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2016. (Dan Sofer, courtesy)

Among Lithuania’s Jews, a fight for communal control takes a nasty ethnic turn

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A US Marine fighter jet aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, which serves as a base for air strikes in Syria, September 10, 2015. (Marko Drobnjakovic/AP)

New US-led Syria strike said to kill 80 relatives of IS fighters

By AFP

Families were sheltering in municipal building; at least 33 children among the dead, monitor group says

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of 'Waking Lions.' (Courtesy)

Interview

Novel ‘Waking Lions,’ a moral critique of the land that ‘eats its inhabitants’

By JP O’ Malley

Relatives of killed Coptic Christians grieve during the funeral at Abu Garnous Cathedral in the north Minya town of Maghagha, Egypt on May 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)

Islamic State claims deadly attack on Egyptian Christians

Authorities raise official death toll from bus shooting to 29; Sissi launches retaliatory airstrikes on jihadist training camps in Libya

A general view shows people gathering outside the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Cairo, after a bomb blast struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Trump on Egypt attack: ‘Bloodletting of Christians must end’

By AFP

More Headlines

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves after a meeting with EU officials at EU headquarters, on the sidelines of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, in Brussels, on May 25, 2017. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)

Tillerson reportedly declines to host annual Ramadan event

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte walks past honor guards as he arrives at Manila international airport in Manila on May 24, 2017. (AFP/Noel Celis)

Philippines’ Duterte makes rape joke for martial law troops

By AFP

FILE - In this May 21, 2017 file photo people watch a TV news program showing a file image of a missile launch conducted by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

US plans first test of ICBM intercept, with N. Korea in mind

By Robert Burns

Pope Francis (R) exchanges gifts with US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump during a private audience at the Vatican on May 24, 2017. (Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP)

Pope, Reform leader meet at Vatican

By JTA

Histadrut labor union chairman Avi Nissankorn arrives to vote for the Histadrut elections at a polling station in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Nissenkorn retains leadership of labor union

American soldiers discussing the next step in the Battle of the Argonne Forest in 1918. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images/JTA)

This brave Jewish soldier saved an American battalion during WWI

By Josefin Dolsten

A reverse Lego system created by Ronen Bavli of Studio Magenta for the sixth Jerusalem Design Week. (Courtesy Lee Zakai)

‘Islands’ of ideas at Jerusalem Design Week

By Jessica Steinberg

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