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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 30, 2017

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Mahmoud Abbas celebrates the return of released Palestinian security prisoners in August 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinians paid terrorists $1b in past 4 years, Knesset panel hears

Day after reports of Trump shouting at Abbas about incitement, former top official dismisses PA claims that it is making ‘social welfare’ payments, saying they are presented as ‘salaries’ in Palestinian budget documents

Abbas appoints jailed Israeli Arab terrorist to Fatah Central Committee

By Stuart Winer

Widower of terror victim Dafna Meir remarries

By JTA and ToI Staff

Police nab East Jerusalem teens with bag of firebomb ingredients

By Judah Ari Gross

Michael Oren speaks with David Horovitz at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, May 28, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Obama treated Israel ‘as part of the problem,’ says ex-envoy Oren. With Trump, ‘it’s love, love, love’

By Raoul Wootliff

At Times of Israel event, US-born deputy minister insists Netanyahu is ‘very serious’ about peacemaking, but sets out long list of terms which PM will ‘unequivocally’ reject

Netanyahu: Trump is ‘determined to get a deal’ with the Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Settler leader to White House: Pressuring Netanyahu could topple him

German FM: Trump has ‘weakened’ the West, hurt EU interests

By Damien Stroka

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L), along with MK Avi Dichter and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, visit a new section of the security barrier between Israel and the West Bank near Tarqumiyah on July 20, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu: We must retain full military control of West Bank

By Stuart Winer

Digging heels in on peace concessions, prime minister says ‘the idea that we can give up territory and achieve peace is not right’

Iran agrees to renew funding to Hamas — report

Foreign press complains of lack of media access to Netanyahu

Netanyahu praises Norway for defunding women’s center named for terrorist

By Marissa Newman

The Rawabi commercial and business plaza, known as the Q Center. (Courtesy)

‘Flagship’ Palestinian city opens $450m plaza, hoping to attract young techies

Businessman Bashar Masri believes the lure of Armani and Calvin Klein can help turn Rawabi into a West Bank ‘Silicon Valley’

A woman waves for taxi, as she stands in front of a digital billboard promoting the 2017 Wonder Woman movie, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon wants to ban ‘Wonder Woman’ because of its Israeli star

By AP and ToI Staff

Push to boycott film reportedly prodded by BDS group, which cites ex-IDF soldier Gal Gadot’s expressions of solidarity with Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas in Gaza

Justin Ito-Adler, left, with father James and photo of grandfather Sus Ito at Harvard. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)

Memorial Day'They showed a kindness, love that had not been seen in 1945'

These US soldiers liberated Dachau while their own families were locked up back home

By Rich Tenorio

Troops who rescued death march survivors honored on 75th anniversary of WWII order that forced Japanese-Americans into camps

Illustrative: Female Artillery Corps soldiers march and salute during a ceremony on February 25, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Twice as many religious women volunteering for IDF

By Tamar Pileggi

Rabbinical objections notwithstanding, new data shows rise in observant female soldiers from 930 in 2010 to 2,000 in 2015

Participants in a past Shavuot program at JCC Manhattan gather on the JCC's roof. The JCC's annual event lasts all night and features an array of classes and workshops. (Courtesy of JCC Manhattan/via JTA)

5 ways to celebrate Shavuot — without (necessarily) studying Torah

From interfaith study to feminist reinterpretation, US groups offer alternative spin on anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments

Shavuot classes bring religious, secular neighbors together

By JTA

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The brave convert

She’s not sure she’d join the Jewish people if she faced the (sometimes concocted) hurdles that converts do

A relay race from Sinai to the present

Staying up late on Shavuot night and connecting to Jewish tradition isn’t just for the Orthodox anymore

Break the tablets; then put ’em together

Judaism must be open-sourced, non-hierarchical, collaborative, and sustainable for the very world to survive

Harvest festivals

The Torah builds on whatever primitive systems of ethics and worship went before — and that is worth celebrating

The front cover of 'In the Land of Lobengulu, King of Zulu,' Nahum Gutman's first book about his adventures in Africa (Courtesy Nahum Gutman)

Artist Nahum Gutman’s African adventure comes to interactive life in Ramat Gan

By Jessica Steinberg

National Park Museum pegs exploration of connection between humans and beasts to nostalgia for children’s book ‘In the Land of Lobengulu, King of Zulu’

US President Donald Trump (left) meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Russians believed they had ‘derogatory’ information on Trump’

Moscow officials were caught in 2016 discussing embarrassing financial data they thought would provide leverage over the then candidate, CNN says

The plans for a new urban warfare training facility in northern Israel that is meant to simulate a Lebanese village were unveiled on May 29, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

With eyes to Hezbollah, IDF unveils ‘Lebanese village’ training center

By Judah Ari Gross

Army breaks ground on first of four new facilities to prepare infantrymen, tanks and combat engineers for urban warfare

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrives for the US Military Academy Class of 2017 graduation ceremony at Michie Stadium on May 27, 2017 in West Point, New York. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)

Mattis: We’ve shifted to ‘annihilation tactics’ against Islamic State

By AFP and ToI Staff

Defense chief says US doing ‘everything humanly possible’ to avoid noncombatant casualties; critics blame Trump’s accelerated pace of combat for rising death toll

Britain's opposition Labour party Leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech to supporters at a party rally in Glasgow, Scotland, May 28, 2017. (AFP/ANDY BUCHANAN)

UK Labour leader Corbyn denies honoring Munich Olympics terrorist

By JTA

In statement to British Jews, spokesperson says opposition politician condemns 1972 Palestinian massacre of Israeli athletes

Police stand guard at the scene of a suicide bombing in which 23 people were killed during a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande in Manchester, England, on May 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Paul Ellis)

Arrested cousin of Manchester bomber posted anti-Semitic messages on Facebook

By JTA

In now-disabled account, Abderahman Forjani said ‘If only Hitler was still alive — these Jews would be burnt in chambers’

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran parliament speaker says Israel ‘a threat to humanity’

By Stuart Winer

Marking 17th anniversary of IDF pullout from southern Lebanon, Ali Larijani urges Palestinians to follow Hezbollah’s lead and ‘liberate’ lands

Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has spent the past decade filing lawsuits for the victims of terror attacks against the governments, banks and corporations that enabled or financed the violence. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel Presents

Terror-hunting attorney sets her sights on Western Union and Boeing

By Matthew Kalman

Members of Egypt's Social Solidarity Ministry 'Children Without Shelter' program train homeless children in first aid in Cairo's low-income district of Sayeda Zeinab, May 11, 2017. (AFP/KHALED )

Egypt’s generation homeless: Aid workers struggle to help street kids

Officials estimate 16,000 children are without shelter, but lack of documentation stalls efforts

Iraqi security forces and civilians inspect the site of a deadly bomb attack, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Twin bombings in Baghdad, one claimed by IS, kill 24

Terror group takes responsibility for first blast outside ice cream store, while the perpetrators of second attack remain unknown

Palestinian protesters attack a car reportedly driven by an Israeli settler as it attempts to cross a crowd of demonstrators near the Hawara military checkpoint in the northern West Bank on May 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Settler who shot attacking Palestinian rioters gets gun back

By Judah Ari Gross

Deputy minister fast tracks return of pistol to Israeli who opened fire at mob that assaulted his car, killing one

The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

IDF detains unarmed man who crossed into Israel from Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Security forces investigating why infiltrator broke through security fence in southern Golan Heights

More Headlines

A picture taken on May 29, 2017 shows the first "eTree" provided in Europe by Solar Tree Europ, a French-Israeli start up, during an inauguration ceremony in Nevers, northern France. (Philippe Desmzes/AFP)

Israeli solar panel ‘tree’ is planted in central France

By AFP

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

Deri grilled for 11 hours on wide range of graft allegations

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (R) seen with Supreme Court president Miriam Naor during a Judicial Selection Committee meeting at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Supreme Court president warns Shaked not to delay appointing her replacement

Illustrative photo of an Israir plane on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport, August 3, 2013 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli plane diverts to Slovakia over oxygen problem

A scene on 41st Street, the shopping and dining district of Miami Beach’s Orthodox Jewish community, Oct. 14, 2016. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

North Miami Beach Jewish school evacuated over bomb threat

By JTA

In this May 2, 1989 file photo, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega walks with supporters in the Chorrilo neighborhood, where he dedicated a new housing project, in Panama City. (AP/John Hopper, File)

Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83

By Juan Zamorano and Kathia Martinez

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

hebrew media reviewOnce a convicted minister, always a convicted minister?

By Adiv Sterman

Syrian artist Rashid Assaf, left, is seen on the filming set of television series 'Tawq al-Banat' in the village of Yaafur, some 20kilometers (12 miles) west of Damascus, May 14,2017. (AFP/Louai Beshara)

Lights, camera, distractionSyria war becomes backdrop of Ramadan TV dramas

By Maher Al-Mounes

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