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What Matters Most On Monday, May 21, 2018

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Heritage Foundation May 21, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

List of 12 demands shows 'scope of Iran's malign behavior'

US vows ‘strongest sanctions in history’ on Iran, will ‘crush’ terror proxies

By Eric Cortellessa and Agencies

‘This is just the beginning’: Laying out strategy after exiting nuke deal, Pompeo says Iran must come clean about nuclear program, stop threatening Israel, leave Syria, halt terror

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar Assad during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on May 17, 2018. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Tehran rejects Russian call for Iranian forces to eventually leave Syria

By Michael Bachner

An explosion is seen coming from an army base, allegedly used by Iran-backed militias, outside the northern Syria city of Hama on April 29, 2018. (Screen capture; Facebook)

Report: Explosions heard at Iranian facility near Damascus

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Live updates (closed)

Iranian FM dismisses Pompeo speech as a ‘sham’

By Alexander Fulbright

Zarif says new US strategy on Iran ‘repeats the same wrong choices and will thus reap the same ill rewards’

6:33 pm

UK's Johnson says 'jumbo Iran negotiation' sought by US will be hard to seal
5:42 pm

Zarif dismisses Trump administration's new Iran strategy as a 'sham'
5:33 pm

Ken Livingstone resigns from UK's Labour, denies allegations of anti-Semitism

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman arrives at the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

US envoy accuses ‘liberal media’ of ‘glorifying’ Hamas terrorists

In Fox News op-ed, David Friedman claims reporters were ‘enraged’ that embassy relocation passed peacefully, sought to denigrate Trump

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian protesters wave Palestinian and Moroccan flags during a demonstration in Rabat against US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital on December 10, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)

Over 10,000 Moroccans protest Gaza deaths, US embassy move

A picture taken from Kibbutz Nahal Oz across the border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers in position as Palestinians gather along the security fence, on May 14, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

In WSJ op-ed, IDF spokesman says world ‘fell for Hamas lies’ in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis blasts international media’s acceptance of terror group’s ‘theatrics,’ says he’d rather lose ‘international propaganda war’ than ‘lie like Hamas’ and win

Portuguese theater director Tiago Rodrigues (YouTube screenshot)

Portuguese director drops out of Israel Festival over treatment of Palestinians

By AP and ToI Staff

Paraguay President Horacio Cartes (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inaugurate Paraguay's new embassy in Jerusalem, May 21, 2018 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Paraguay becomes third country to open embassy in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

‘We have no better friends than you,’ Netanyahu tells President Cartes; Palestinians slam ‘provocative and irresponsible measure’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 14, 2018. ( ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

Abbas ‘regaining health, walking unassisted, should be discharged within 2 days’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

83-year-old PA leader was rushed to the hospital on Sunday, suffering from complications after minor ear surgery

Joel Zamel questioned; FBI flew to TLV, seized computers

As election probe spreads to Israel, Trump protests ‘witch hunt’ has gone global

US president slams New York Times over report on son’s meetings with an Israeli media specialist, Arab emissaries and a private military contractor ahead of 2016 election

US President Donald Trump addresses a meeting on prison reform at the White House on May 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

US President Donald Trump addresses a meeting on prison reform at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 18, 2018. (AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Trump demands Justice Department probe if campaign ‘infiltrated’

By Jonathan Lemire and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

In this file photo from April 26, 2018, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York City. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Investigators finally get look at materials from Cohen raid

By Larry Neumeister

Activists protest against the arrest of 21 for protesting on Friday night in Haifa, outside the Haifa Magistrate's Court, May 20, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Amid outcry over arrests, judge orders all 19 Haifa protesters released

Seven suspects accused of assaulting officer to be held until Monday afternoon, other 12 to be let go immediately, including activist who says cop broke his knee

Minister says claim cop broke activist’s knee while in custody must be probed

Demonstrators face off in Haifa after alleged police violence at pro-Gaza rally

Palestinian prisoners in Israel protest after inmate dies

People from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

IDF to punish soldier for protesting Polish Holocaust law at Auschwitz

Participant in Witnesses in Uniform program flashes sign in Polish reading ‘You too had a part’ in protest of controversial bill

German prosecutor, head of Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, Jens Rommel stands in the archives room of the institution on April 19, 2018 in Ludwigsburg, southwestern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)

Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time

By Yannick Pasquet

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Middle East historian Bernard Lewis at the Prime Minister's Office. (Government Press Office)

Netanyahu eulogizes Bernard Lewis as ‘great scholar, robust defender of Israel’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘Professor Lewis’s wisdom will continue to guide us for years to come,’ PM says, following death of influential Islam and Middle East historian

In search of Israel’s opposition

An increasingly tight noose of conformity is threatening democracy in Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Guide to Shavuot, now with half the facts

When nobody knows what you’re talking about, you have a great opportunity to fill in the details creatively

Painter Chaim Soutine on a park bench. (Courtesy Jewish Museum)

A bleak picture

Alienated until the end, master artist Chaim Soutine fled the shtetl for Paris

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Police are seen at a pro-Gaza rally in Haifa on May 20, 2018. (Police Spokesperson)

Israel media reviewBreaking point: 7 things to know for May 21

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli forces during a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on January 18, 2018. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

5 West Bank Palestinians arrested for suspected involvement in terror, violence

By Stuart Winer

In this Sunday, April 22, 2018 photo, Nahal, a 19-year-old transgender woman, smokes a cigarette on her balcony in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Transgender people in Iran face discrimination despite tolerance fatwa

By MEHDI FATTAHI and Nasser Karimi

Former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, talks during the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) fifth edition of the Commencement Exercises, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, May 20, 2018. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Kerry keeps mum on Iran deal pullout in UAE address

By AP

Illustrative photo of police in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, January 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)

Jewish siblings in Australia assaulted in suspected anti-Semitic attack

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, center, applauds at the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

Chelsea owner Abramovich reportedly stuck waiting for new UK visa

By AFP and ToI Staff

A map of Israel without the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza Strip, as it appeared in a since-deleted video posted on Spotify's Israeli Facebook page on May 20, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Spotify faces criticism in Israel after map omits West Bank, Golan

By Michael Bachner

Devorah Hirsch, who was shot dead in her car in 2016, in an undated photo (Facebook)

Crime boss arrested over murder of state witness’s ex-wife

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