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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shown recovering in a hospital on May 22, 2018, reading a newspaper. (Wafa news agency)

From hospital, Abbas shown reading newspaper with anti-Israel cartoon

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority president remains hospitalized for third day, no timeframe given for his discharge

Palestinians ask International Criminal Court to probe Israel’s ‘crimes’

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinians urge Arabs to sever ties with countries that moved embassies

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Lapid challenges Netanyahu: Would you accept Abu Dis as capital of Palestine?

By Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

Ken Livingstone departs Labour, but may have the last laugh on British Jews

Despite his resignation from politics, the controversial former London mayor will see his hard-left ideology live on as the party continues to rally around Jeremy Corbyn

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone visits the area of a blaze at Grenfell Tower, a residential tower block in west London, on June 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS/File)

Livingstone, ex-London mayor who says Hitler was once a Zionist, quits UK Labour

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israel's first two F-35 stealth fighter jets on their maiden flight as part of the Israeli Air Force on December 13, 2016. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel the first in the world to conduct strikes with F-35 jet, army says

By Judah Ari Gross

Showing picture of the aircraft over Beirut, air force chief reveals the stealth fighter was used in at least two operations, but not in May 10 attacks in Syria

Air force chief: Iranians fired 32 rockets at Golan on May 10

By Judah Ari Gross

US lawmakers look to block sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey

By Michael Bachner

Senior officials from around world in Israel for air force’s largest-ever confab

By Judah Ari Gross

General Ismail Kowsari, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Tharallah base, seen on Al-Alam TV on September 27, 2017. (YouTube screenshot/Middle East Media Research Institute)

Iranian officer: US secretary of state deserves ‘strong punch to the mouth’

Ismail Kowsari of Revolutionary Guard lashes back at Pompeo for threatening ‘the strongest sanctions in history’ on Tehran

Netanyahu hails tough new US strategy on Iran as ‘the right policy’

By Raphael Ahren, Eric Cortellessa and Agencies

‘No alternative’ to Iran deal, EU’s Mogherini tells US

By AFP

Israel media reviewPompeo’s listicle: 6 things to know for May 22

By Joshua Davidovich

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is pictured next to a man holding a poster of the Jewish Temple replacing the Muslim Dome on the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, at an event for the Achiya educational nonprofit in Bnei Brak, May 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Kikar HaShabbat)

Live updates

Poster of Jewish Temple, without Dome of the Rock, ‘thrust’ in front of US envoy

Achiya NGO, which helps children with learning disabilities, apologizes for employee’s ‘cheap political act’

6:31 pm

Israeli nonprofit apologizes for handing US envoy poster of Jewish Temple
6:23 pm

Education non-profit presents US envoy photo of Jewish Temple on Temple Mount
5:50 pm

Trump suggests summit with N. Korea's Kim could be delayed

A Tekoa resident sits in a pool overlooking the Judean desert. (Neta Mor/Unsettling)

In new film, Tel Aviv leftist picks up and moves to a West Bank settlement

While her cameras and political views initially spook Tekoa residents, in ‘Unsettling,’ Iris Zaki manages to get locals talking about their lives beyond the Green Line

An Israeli car hit by bullets in an apparent shooting attack near Ramallah in the West Bank, May 22, 2018 (courtesy)

Israeli car hit in suspected shooting attack in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians attack cars of the United States Consulate in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, May 21, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian crowd pelts US diplomats with eggs in West Bank

By AP

A Dutch parody of Israel's Eurovision winning song "Toy" that has been accused of being anti-Semitic (Screencapture/YouTube)

Dutch state TV accused of anti-Semitism in Israeli Eurovision song spoof

By JTA

Parody starts off criticizing Israel for its treatment of Palestinians, devolves into anti-Semitic cliches about Jews and money

A baby giraffe, named Toy, born at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, May 12, 2018. (Yaara Forest Tamari)

New ToyZoo’s baby giraffe named for Eurovision winning song

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a protest rally against Israel in Istanbul on May 18, 2018. (OZAN KOSE/AFP)

Erdogan says he will reevaluate economic ties with Israel

By Stuart Winer

Turkish president also calls on Islamic countries to take steps against countries that move embassy to Jerusalem

New flotilla set to leave Denmark in bid to break blockade on Gaza

Israel rebukes Spanish, Slovenian envoys for backing UN Gaza probe

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians cross Gaza fence, set fire to empty IDF post

By Judah Ari Gross

3,400-year-old limestone ostracon of the Egyptian 18th dynasty from the excavation of Theban Tomb 99. (Nigel Strudwick)

Aleph is for 'elta

First written record of Semitic alphabet, from 15th century BCE, found in Egypt

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Analysis

Even hawks are wary of new law that lets PM, defense minister declare war

A reform allowing 2 people — or even just 1 — to send Israel into full-scale conflict was approved with little fuss, and nobody has yet appealed it. What’s going on?

Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the cockpit of a F-15 fighter jet at Hatzerim Air Base in southern Israel in August 2009. (Israel Defense Forces /Flash90)

How Israelis hear criticism from US Jews

To claims that the American Jewish community’s decline is our fault, we say: Look in the mirror

A prying shame: The public scrutiny of get refusers

We need to stop publicly prying into the nitty gritty of people’s marriages and divorces in agunah cases

David Barak-Gorodetsky

Post-secular healing for Israel and the Diaspora

When an Orthodox shul you don’t go to doesn’t cut it anymore

Sivan Rahav Meir

A night of perfect grace in Jerusalem

If you weren’t there, among those learning and worshiping till dawn on Shavuot, you might never know it happened

King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in the newest Israeli animated feature, 'The Legend of King Solomon' (Courtesy Eden Productions)

New film animates a young, swashbuckling King Solomon

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

In this file photo released on Sunday, April 22, 2018 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, smoke rises after Syrian government airstrikes and shelling hit in Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood held by Islamic State militants, southern Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP)

After 7 years, Syrian government declares Damascus back under its full control

Yaron Atias and his wife Mazal Dadon Atias pictured with their children in September 2015. (Facebook)

Female lawmakers boycott MK’s speech after he invites divorce refuser to Knesset

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Activist groups launch campaign to break up Facebook

By AFP

A broker at the Tel Aviv Stock exchange. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hackles raised, NGOs demand details of deal that sold TASE stake to Manikay

By Shoshanna Solomon

Nadav Ben Yehuda at the top of Mount Kazbeck on Thursday. (Anna Godg'bidzh/ GPO/ Flash90)

Left for dead, Israeli mountaineer rescued after fall in Himalayas

In this May 20, 2017, file photo, US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The princes, the president and the fortune seekers

By Desmond Butler and Tom Lobianco

Stephanie Reimann, right, will head Volkswagen's Konnect innovation campus in Tel Aviv; to her right. Peter Harris, Chief Customer Officer, Volkswagen Group; second from left, Israel's Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen at the inauguration of Konnect; May 22, 2018 (Elad Malca).

Volkswagen officially opens Tel Aviv campus to tap into mobility technologies

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela at the Prime ministers office in Jerusalem on May 17, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Citing Israeli intelligence, Panama says 1994 plane crash was terror attack

By AFP

Illustrative: Dignitaries lead the 53rd annual Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue in New York City, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Israel minister, diplomats to take part in NY celebration despite security fears

Former teacher Shaul Shamai arrives to the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court on May 21, 2018. (Flash90)

Teacher jailed for 7 years for indecent assault of young girls in class

Moovit co-founder and CEO Nir Erez, May 10, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

InterviewIsraeli founder of Moovit app sees himself as the ‘Marco Polo of transit’

By Shoshanna Solomon

The latest three American comics to appear in Israel for a Comedy for Koby show, with Moody McCarthy (left), Jessica Kirson and Alonzo Bodden (Courtesy Comedy for Koby)

The 'fun' in fundraiserTrio of comics to perform in latest season of Comedy for Koby

By Jessica Steinberg

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