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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 28, 2017

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US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pose for a photograph during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Live updates (closed)

Trump yelled at Abbas, ‘You lied to me,’ Israeli TV reports

33 assault rifles stolen from IDF base in south; UN chief’s office slams ‘glorification of terrorism’ at Palestinian women’s center; 8 dead in Mississippi shooting rampage

Israelis participate in a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv, May 27, 2017. Yellow signs read: '50 years is enough, peace now' (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Thousands rally for peace in Tel Aviv amid renewed US efforts

Herzog calls for Kulanu, Yesh Atid parties to join ‘one big political bloc’ as left-wing leaders slam government’s diplomatic inaction

Trump: Netanyahu, Abbas vowed to reach for peace — I believe they mean it

By ToI Staff and AP

6 Palestinians, including police, suspected of shooting at IDF troops

Back home after foreign trip, Trump faces slew of challenges

By Jill Colvin and Ken Thomas

Palestinians hold posters showing Dalal Mughrabi, A Palestinian terrorist involved in a 1978 attack in which 38 Israelis were killed, file (Issam Rimawi / Flash 90)

Norway demands PA return funds for women’s center named after terrorist

Oslo also calls for removal of country’s logo from facility honoring Dalal Mughrabi, says it won’t back future projects under current conditions

Meir Goldstein, acquitted of the murder of his wife on grounds of insanity, May 28, 2017 (Channel 2 screenshot)

In legal precedent, man who beheaded his ex-wife deemed insane, acquitted of murder

Court orders Meir Goldstein sent to mental institution for 25 years

Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)

Chance find reveals only known footage of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg

By Stuart Winer

Sharp-eyed researcher recognizes famous Swede, who saved tens of thousands of Jews, in anonymous archive film broadcast on Swedish TV

Children saved from Nazi camps unveil monument to parents

By AP

Case of Venetian masterpiece looted by Nazis closed 80 years on

Estonian Jewry celebrates revival 75 years after Nazis declared it extinct

By JTA

Renee Black and Sadiq Patel mourning the victims of the Manchester terror attack, May 24, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

Jew and Muslim in viral Manchester photo tell of decade-long friendship

Renee Black and Sadiq Patel say their close relationship is a testament to what all people have in common, an ‘example of thousands of friendships and acts of kindness we don’t see’

UK police release photo of concert bomber, ask public for info

By Jill Lawless and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

UK: Manchester attack investigation still at ‘full tilt’

By AP

After UK, Egypt attacks, Libya seen as jihadist haven

By RAMI MUSA and Hamza Hendawi

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chief rabbi implies immodest secular women are like animals

Yitzhak Yosef says religious people have great respect for woman’s dignity; instructs male soldiers to remove spectacles if confronted with a female singer

Illustrative: View of the Tel Aviv skyline in a dense sandstorm, September 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Derelict economy could sink ‘Titanic’ Israel, experts warn

By Raoul Wootliff

New research paints worrying picture of decades of neglected national priorities leaving the country without the resources to face existential threats

Sivan Rahav Meir

New Middle East — new Jews

Donald Trump arrived in the region armed with moral clarity and accompanied by proud members of the Tribe

The story of Ruth and the IDF

She’s an Orthodox Jew who thinks you don’t have to be religious to immerse in traditional Jewish texts

Joshua Hammerman

The pope’s gift

President Trump should take note: The world’s major religions agree on climate change — it must be real!

Adam Sandler (R) gestures next to Emma Thompson during a press conference for the film 'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in southern France, on May 21, 2017 (Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP)

Cannes and Cannes-not: Jews abound, but no Israeli films at the festival

By Jordan Hoffman

This file photo taken on April 27, 2017 shows White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner walking to the White House. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Kushner back channel with Russia ‘involved Syria’

By Vivian Salama

Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser allegedly wanted line of communication with Moscow to help develop policy toward war-torn country

Illustrative: A South Korean army soldier walks by a TV news program showing a file image of missiles being test-launched by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Stoking tensions, N. Korea test launches ‘new’ weapon system

By AFP and ToI Staff

With Trump ramping up pressure, Kim Jon-Un said to personally oversee missile dispatch, says anti-aircraft apparatus will ‘spoil enemy’s wild dream to control the air’

Government ministers seen at a cabinet meeting held at the Old City of Jerusalem's Western Wall tunnels in honor of the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem Day on May 28, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Cabinet approves Western Wall elevator for the disabled

By Alexander Fulbright

Ministers also set to green-light multiple other projects related to Jerusalem, in honor of jubilee marking city’s unification

The Tel Aviv Municipality building lit in the colors of the Egyptian flag on May 28, 2017 to show solidarity with Christian Copts killed in a terror attack near Cairo a day earlier. (Tel Aviv Municipality)

Tel Aviv City Hall lit with Egypt flag in solidarity with Copt terror victims

In first such gesture toward Arab country, municipality building shows Eagle of Saladin after 29 Christian Copts killed by IS gunman

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

ADL condemns ‘brutal’ Oregon killings by anti-Muslim attacker

By ToI Staff and AP

Group calls stabbing in Portland an ‘act of terror,’ says it shows the need to confront ‘right-wing extremists’

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking at a meeting in Tehran, November 1, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iran’s supreme leader: Saudi Arabia is ‘a cow milked’ by US

By AP

Khamenei says ‘stupid Saudi government thinks it can attract the friendship of enemies by giving them money’

IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria arrives for a court hearing at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Prosecution refuses mediation in sentencing for Hebron shooter

Lawyers for both sides present closing arguments at final hearing in Elor Azaria trial, with neither showing openness to compromise

The scene of her husband's death in an excerpt from 'Last Things' by Marissa Moss. (Courtesy)

Interview

A graphic memoir of loss and love in which the writer stars as anti-hero

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Illustration: Pakistani Muslims pray before breaking their fast on the start of the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Peshawar on May 27, 2017. (AFP/Abdul Majeed)

Ramadan begins for world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, violently for some

By AFP

Likud MK Ayoub Kara attends a meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on December 30, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Ayoub Kara promoted to communications minister

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Donald Trump arrives for a family photo during the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 26, 2017 at the ancient Greek Theater in Taormina, Sicily. (AFP/Miguel Medina)

Sounds of silence? Trump’s body language speaks volumes

By Nancy Benac and Jonathan Lemire

Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky seen at the Knesset on January 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police grill lawmaker over sexual harassment allegations

Illustrative: Line of taxis waiting for passengers (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Deal to lower airport taxi fares collapses

Israel Police officers equipped with body cameras have begun patrolling in the Tel Aviv region. (Screen capture: YouTube)

All police to be equipped with body cameras – report

SAP's new building in Ra'anana, Israel (Courtesy: Uzi Porat)

SAP sets up new $67 million HQ in Ra’anana

By Shoshanna Solomon

Barbra Streisand with her pet poodle Sadie on July 7, 1966. (AP Photo)

My pupBarbra Streisand mourns her ‘beloved girl,’ Sammie the dog

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinians in Bethlehem show support for prisoners hunger striking in Israeli jails as US President Donald Trump meets with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in the city, on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

Hebrew media reviewState of downplay

By Joshua Davidovich

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