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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 23, 2018

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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)

Friedman: 'I was more mortified than any Palestinian'

US Embassy: Image of Jewish Temple ‘thrust in front’ of envoy Friedman for photo

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US ambassador photographed with poster of Temple Mount, without Dome of the Rock; ultra-Orthodox non-profit apologizes for employee’s ‘cheap political act’

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make their way to the Oval Office for a meeting at the White House on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

European official said to warn Israel: ‘Trump won’t be president forever’

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin gives a speech as he attends the official reception on the occasion of the opening of the US Embassy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2018. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Angola fires diplomats for attending Jerusalem event on eve of US embassy move

Palestinians wave their national flag as they demonstrate near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Jabaliya, on May 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Israel lost the PR battle over Gaza. Was it unwinnable or just mismanaged?

The IDF spokesperson is taking heavy flak for his handling of last week’s border clashes; some say he’s a scapegoat

As Israel hits new Gaza tunnel, Liberman says Hamas military project a ‘failure’

Israeli jets strike Gaza seaport, Hamas tunnel

Video shows Gazans cross fence, destroy IDF post unhindered

By Judah Ari Gross

Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

1933-2018

Philip Roth, fearless narrator of sex, death and Jewish life, dead at 85

By Hillel Italie

A giant of American letters, Roth penned dozens of novels, essays, and articles and became the foremost chronicler of the American Jewish experience

In this September 8, 2008, file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, in New York, US. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Philip Roth: Five key works

By AFP

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk smiles after winning the Man Booker International prize 2018, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, for her book Flights, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. (Matt Crossick//PA via AP)

Polish winner of Man Booker Prize chronicles little-known Jewish sect’s history

By Bernard OSSER

The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

Palestinians expand bid for recognition, join world chemical arms watchdog

By AFP and ToI Staff

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says state of Palestine to become its 193rd member

US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

White House mulling possible move against Palestinian mission over ICC push

By Eric Cortellessa

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 18, 2012. (AP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)

ICC prosecutor won’t be rushed to probe Israel’s ‘crimes’

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysis

No guns blazing, Pompeo demands Iran’s unconditional surrender

US secretary of state vows ‘strongest sanctions in history’ but doesn’t explicitly threaten use of force, suggesting US betting on regime change rather than military confrontation

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Pompeo says he merely asked Iran to ‘behave like a normal nation’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Tehran rejects Pompeo demands, vows to push ahead with weapons development

By Michael Bachner

Hamas chief boasts of Tehran’s support, close ties to Hezbollah

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin (c), Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, (r) and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott, attending a security cabinet meeting at the Kirya, the IDF Headquarters, in Tel Aviv, on February 10, 2018. (Ariel Hermony/Ministry of Defense)

Israel’s security cabinet now holds its meetings in an underground bunker

PM decides to transfer discussions to new secure Jerusalem site for foreseeable future, signaling heightened sensitivity of discussions

A simulation showing the Torbuster torpedo defense system. (Courtesy Rafael)

Secret info on Israel’s submarine fleet said lost by contractor

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Damascus, Syria, April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syria says withdrawal of Iranian, Hezbollah fighters ‘not on agenda’

By AFP

Self-portrait at drawing table, René Goscinny, 1948. (© Anne Goscinny)

Drawing attention

The wild adventures of René Goscinny, Jewish inventor of Asterix and Obelix

By Jenni Frazer

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take part in a rally in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 5, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel seriously considering long-term cease fire with Hamas — report

Diplomatic officials say Jerusalem has given up demand that terror group demilitarize and is considering easing blockade in return for cessation of rocket fire and tunnel digging

6:21 pm

University of California cancels event celebrating 50 years of studying abroad in Israel
6:19 pm

Trump lawyer Cohen distances himself from tax-cheating "Taxi King"
6:17 pm

Assad meets Russia envoy, hails 'partners in victories'

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz speaking at an energy conference in Tel Aviv, February 27, 2018 (Dror Sithakol)

Minister: EU can ‘go to a thousand thousand hells’ for demanding police probe

Yuval Steinitz says it’s ‘height of insolence, hypocrisy’ for Europe to demand review of alleged police brutality in case of Arab activist whose knee was broken after Haifa protest

Arab Israeli NGO worker Jafar Farah, who alleges a police officer broke his knee after he was arrested. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Cop accused of breaking detained activist’s knee gives investigators his account

By Stuart Winer

Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Court freezes expulsion of top Human Rights Watch official

SOS from rocks which led to rescue of Leila (l) and Daniel (inset) on May 22, 2018, after they got lost during a hike in the Negev. (Har Hanegev Search & Rescue Team / Screen capture: Hadashot news)

Israeli couple lost in desert for two days saved after writing SOS in rocks

Two hikers in their 30s attract attention of helicopter with stone appeal; they’d taken shelter in a hole, caught lizards for food, after veering off track in Negev’s Nahal Nekarot

In this September 16, 2017, photo, a swimmer participates in the annual Sea of Galilee swim. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

‘Israel is drying out again’: Water Authority relaunches conservation campaign

By David Sedley

Omer Yefet, one of two Israelis held by a Colombian drug cartel for several hours while touring the South American country, talks to Channel 10 about his ordeal, May 23, 2018. (Channel 10 screenshot)

2 Israeli backpackers abducted by drugs cartel in Colombian jungle

During an outing in 1922, Walter Hollander (third from left) with friends (public domain)

Who was Anne Frank’s gay Uncle Walter?

By Matt Lebovic

After being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Walter Hollander fled Germany. Once settled in Massachusetts, he attempted to help the Frank family flee Europe

Original Anne Frank Chestnut Tree. (CC BY huliana90212, Wikimedia Commons)

Sapling from Anne Frank’s tree twice cut down in Holland park

By JTA

President Reuven Rivlin, left, meets with Britain's Prince Charles following the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 30, 2016. (Gali Tibbon, Pool via AP)

Prince Charles to attend event for Israel’s 70th at London’s Royal Albert Hall

By Michael Bachner

Event this week to feature music and dance performances by Israeli artists, with Balkan Beat Box as headliner

Brazilian musician cancels Israel gig due to ‘sensitive times’

By David Sedley

French PM cancels planned trip to Israel, citing domestic reasons

By Sue Surkes and AFP

Well-known Tunisians caught on hidden cameras agreeing to cooperate with Israel

By AFP

The kaddish I recited for Gaza calls for peace

I have a lot of questions for my Jewish community, starting with when did debate become threats of violence?

Israel is the reason I’m not running for US Senate

I feel so strongly about the need for bipartisan Israel support, I will vote for the Democrat I almost ran against

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Hello, my Jerusalem home

I didn’t know if we’d ever be able to buy in our neighborhood, but timing and good fortune miraculously aligned

Doing away with all-male negotiations

Women can pull us out of the current rut of zero-sum games in conflict resolution

More Headlines

An Iranian woman walks past a mural on the wall of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 8, 2018. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)

Israel media reviewThe plot against Iran: 7 things to know for May 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Netta Barzilai celebrates after winning the Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Lisbon, Portugal, May 12, 2018. (AP/Armando Franca)

‘Don’t book flights yet’: Eurovision casts doubt over 2019 contest in Israel

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Russian Jewish entrepreneur and co-founder of the Breakthrough Prize, Yuri Milner, attends a press conference in London on July 20, 2015, where he and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking announced the launch of Breakthrough Listen Initiative, a new effort to detect intelligent life in the cosmos. (AFP photo/Niklas Halle'n)

A complete guide to the Jewish machers in the Russia probe

A Mobileye self-driving car running a red light in Jerusalem in May 2018. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Asleep at the wheelMobileye autonomous vehicle runs red light in Jerusalem

By Michael Bachner

A Renault electric car recharges at a charging station in Ramat Hasharon. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi sees Israeli tech as key to future of cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Israel protests ‘disgraceful’ Dutch TV sketch accused of anti-Semitism

By Michael Bachner

Then Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony welcoming Alsheich to the job, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

AG hints Netanyahu could be barred from picking new police chief

Israeli gold-medalist judoka Tal Flicker on the mat at the Judo Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi, where local judo authorities banned all Israeli symbols, October 26, 2017. (YouTube screen capture)

Lawsuit seeks to force Arab states to allow Israeli symbols at sport events

By Michael Bachner

Lava erupts and flows from a Kilauea volcano fissure, near the Puna Geothermal Venture plant , on Hawaii's Big Island on May 21, 2018. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

Israeli-owned geothermal plant in Hawaii under fire as lava oozes nearby

By AP

A cherry tree torched in an apparent hate crime attack in the settlement of Kfar Etzion on May 23, 2018. (Yaron Rosenthal/Kfar Etzion Field School)

Israeli, Palestinian fields set ablaze in suspected arson incidents

Grape vines from a West Bank Palestinian vineyard destroyed in an apparent hate crime on May 22, 2018, (Halhul municipality)

Hundreds of Palestinian grapevines destroyed in second incident in week

Illustrative: A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community center, after a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Rostock, northern Germany, January 8, 2009. (AP/ Thomas Haentzschel/File)

Poll finds 68% of Israeli teens report encountering anti-Semitic content online

By Michael Bachner

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