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What Matters Most On Monday, May 29, 2017

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Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on January 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Lapid: Entire Israeli security establishment is worried by Trump’s Saudi arms deal

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

Kowtowing to US president, Netanyahu left Israel vulnerable by failing to prevent or even criticize massive, dangerous DC-Riyadh accord, says Yesh Atid leader

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: Saudis face ‘certain downfall’

By ToI Staff and AP

US President Donald Trump (L) and PA President Mahmoud Abbas leave following a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Trump yelled at Abbas: ‘You tricked me in DC,’ Israeli TV reports

President’s outburst in last week’s talks, alleging PA chief is engaged in anti-Israel incitement, was followed by shocked silence, Channel 2 claims; Palestinians insist meeting went fine

UN chief pulls support for Palestinian women’s center named after terrorist

Corbyn honored PLO official believed behind Munich massacre

Erekat: Israeli cabinet meeting in Western Wall tunnels a ‘provocation’

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Settlement leader warns White House that pressuring Netanyahu could topple him

UK Labour leader Corbyn denies honoring Munich attack killer; foreign journalists complain Netanyahu won’t answer questions

Banc De Binary CEO Oren Laurent in an interview posted on YouTube in August 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Wikipedia vs. Banc De Binary: A 3-year battle against binary options ‘fake news’

By Simona Weinglass

Binary options fraudsters employ experts to outwit Google, create laudatory news sites, engage on social media — anything to encourage new victims and keep the truth from coming out. One key battlefield: The online encyclopedia

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (l) and his wife Yaffa seen leaving their home in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid graft probe, police may request house arrest for minister Deri

Former Jerusalem mayor candidate Moshe Lion is one of 14 detained and interrogated, some under caution, in corruption investigation

File: Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri gives a statement to the media during a conference at the Ramada hotel in Jerusalem, on March 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri and his wife interrogated as police arrest 14 in probe

Screenshot from an anti-jihadist Ramadan ad running in late May 2017.

Mideast message

Anti-jihadist Ramadan advert goes viral

By AFP

Video featuring Emirati pop star Hussain al-Jassmi sends message to worship ‘with love, not terror’

A mock-up of the project shows cable cars running over the Hinnom Valley to the Old City (photo credit: Channel 10)

Cabinet approves building cable car to Western Wall

NIS 200 million plan to transport 3,000 visitors an hour from First Station to Dung Gate in 3.5 minutes

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting at the US Embassy, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Brussels. (AP/Evan Vucci)

No hold barred

Macron says he was ready to out-Trump Trump in handshake

New French president reveals white-knuckle encounter — which has gone viral — was pre-planned ‘moment of truth’

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

‘Jared doing a great job,’ says Trump amid reports of Kushner-Russia ties

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President defends son-in-law but relationship strained after Comey firing, attempts to oust Bannon, Spicer, New York Times reports

Trump eyes White House overhaul, outside lawyers and PR team

By Jill Colvin and Ken Thomas

Kushner reportedly encouraged to take hiatus as FBI probes Russia contacts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kushner ties to Russia questioned as Trump blasts media lies

By Hope Yen and Vivian Salama

Erin Davis performs at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City, February 2017 (Courtesy)

Jewish NYC ‘wing-woman’ makes love connections the old-fashioned way

By Matt Lebovic

After capturing the attention of comedy clubs and TV producers, matchmaker-turned-comic Erin Davis brings her Jewish dating shtick to new stages

She’s no laity

Titles Orthodox women clergy CAN use (well, maybe), since the one concocted to avoid ‘rabbi’ is out

Jeremy Benstein

The holiday for haves and have-nots

Shavuot, a harvest festival, could have celebrated wealthy landowners — here’s how it doesn’t do that

Appropriate my culture, please

Judaism has always interacted with its neighbors: go ahead, take our ethical system, or just have a bagel

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

They didn’t return in flag-draped coffins

On Memorial Day: Who are the fallen soldiers?

Memorial Day, Israel-style

How to honor the heroes who gave their lives so Americans can live in freedom, peace and prosperity

Illustrative photo of an IDF reserve-duty soldier in the Negev Desert in southern Israel (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Watchdog finds IDF efficiency drive not so efficient

By Judah Ari Gross

Report cites acute shortage of doctors and psychiatrists, units waiting months to fill positions, officers doing three jobs simultaneously

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers conducting training in a field near the border with Gaza in southern Israel, on July 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Dozens of guns stolen from IDF armory; soldiers, police search for culprits

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli police forces evacuate people from the synagogue the illegal outpost of Amona, on the second day into the eviction on February 2, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Construction okayed on new settlement for Amona evacuees

Residents want temporary outpost built on future West Bank site in the meantime, and threaten unilateral moves if ignored

A child places flowers at a memorial site for the victims of the suicide attack at an Ariana Grande concert, set up in a square in central Manchester, Britain, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

UK received early warnings about Manchester terrorist

FBI said to have given British MI5 specific intelligence about Salman Abedi, suicide bomber who killed 22 last week

A rocket propulsion system is tested over Israel on Monday, May 29, 2017 (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel launches propulsion rocket in early morning test

Observers speculate the Defense Ministry fired a Jericho missile, which according to foreign reports can carry a nuclear warhead

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) supporters and members of the Yahveh Yashua Synagogue (Yisraelities Biafra Region) celebrate Shabbat in Umuahia, on May 27, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI

Photo essay

Biafran Jews mark 50 years since failed bid for independence

By ToI Staff and AFP

Sam Glaser in concert. (Courtesy)

Bridging denominations, this Jewish musician puts the ‘soul’ in music

For over 25 years Sam Glaser has taken Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s lead and brought his heartfelt melodies to where the ‘yidden’ are

Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners ended a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)

Palestinians claim 80% of hunger strikers’ demands were met

Prisoners’ spokesman says they achieved a ‘fundamental transformation in living conditions,’ Israel denies any deal

The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)

Supreme Court rules Haifa ammonia tank must close

Judges say chemical storage facility must be emptied by July after government finds framework to prevent national shortage

Karin Abutbul (c), the wife of Asi Abutbul, head of the crime family in Netanya, seen at the court in Rishon LeZion after being arrested in connection to the murder of Moses Hadas in 2000. May 28, 2017. (Flash90)

Wife of mob boss arrested on suspicion of hiding corpse

Karin Abutbul jailed as cops continue search in Netanya for body of criminal Moshe Hadas, missing for 17 years

A bird's eye view of the Tower of David Museum, about to undergo a $30 million renovation (Courtesy Naftali Hilger)

Tower of David plans renovation, connecting east and west

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

The town of New Square, an all-Hasidic village in Rockland County (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

‘No Jews,’ painted on home for sale in New York

By JTA

The Chord's Bridge lit up in welcome for US President Donald Trump, May 22, 2017. (Jerusalem Municipality)

With free wifi and easier parking, Jerusalem of gold to become smart city

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)

Top Palestinian sharia judge: No Ramadan divorces while everyone’s hungry

By AFP

AclarTech's app enables users to assess quality and freshness of produce (Courtesy)

Fruit-pinching out as new app tests for freshness

By Shoshanna Solomon

View of the new Harel tunnels on Route 1, the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, on January 19, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

New 3-lane section to open on Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway

US President Donald Trump (L) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas give a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Hebrew media reviewChoose your own Trumpventure

By Joshua Davidovich

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