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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 24, 2018

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Illustrative: IDF soldiers search for the perpetrators of the terror attack that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the northern West Bank village of Burqin, on February 4, 2017. (IDF spokesperson)

IDF soldier critically injured by stone slab dropped on him in West Bank

By Michael Bachner

Serviceman from elite Duvdevan unit hit in head with chunk of marble during arrest operation in Palestinian refugee camp

Far-right activists hang poster of accused terrorist, noose in Jaffa

Palestinian shoots at Border Police south of Jerusalem, is arrested

By Michael Bachner

Security forces nab 2 Palestinians suspected of shooting at Israeli car

An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA/Ruhollah Vahdati)

Israel accuses Iran of testing 2 missiles this year, violating UNSC resolution

By Michael Bachner

UN envoy Danny Danon says Tehran secretively launched a Shahab-3 and Scud in January tests, with both missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads

Iran showed footage on Saturday, September 23, 2017, of a missile test (Screenshot/PressTV)

Evidence points to Iranian work on long-range missiles at secret base — report

By Stuart Winer

A photograph said to be of an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jet flying over the Lebanese capital of Beirut, which was apparently leaked to Israel's Hadashot news. (Screen capture)

Israel media reviewStealth messaging: 7 things to know for May 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during Labor Day at a workers' meeting, April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Iranian Supreme Leader's Website /HO)

Khamenei sets terms for Tehran to remain in nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian leader says Europe must vow not to seek limits on missile program and regional actions, and must protect Islamic Republic’s economy from American sanctions

Israeli TV airs apparently leaked photo of F-35 flying over Beirut

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu: Air force ‘crucial’ in thwarting Iran’s nuclear ambitions

Iran: If US attacks, its leaders will face same fate as Saddam

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Flames rising after an attack in an area known to have numerous Syrian army military bases, in Kisweh, south of Damascus, released by Syria's official news agency on May 9, 2018. (SANA, via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Large explosions at air base in western Syria — state media

Area believed to hold headquarters for Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, which support Syrian dictator Bashar Assad

6:48 pm

Legal opinion paves way for legalization of hundreds of settlement homes built on private Palestinian land
6:23 pm

Large explosions at air base in western Syria -- state media
6:22 pm

High Court rejects petitions against IDF's open fire orders on Gaza border

This May 7, 2018, satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, North Korea. (Satellite Image ©2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company via A)

North Korea demolishes nuke test site with series of blasts

By AP

Destruction of facility with foreign journalists on hand intended as goodwill gesture ahead of planned summit with US

In this photo taken on February 9, 2018 US Vice President Mike Pence (R) and North Korea's Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Stadium. (AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN)

North Korea slams Pence’s ‘stupid’ remarks, renews threat to quit summit

By Eric Talmadge

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, interviewed on Hadashot TV in his Jerusalem embassy office, May 23, 2018 (Hadashot Screenshot)

‘We are an honest broker,’ says US envoy to Israel from his new Jerusalem office

America wants a better future for the Palestinians, Friedman says. If they don’t even come to the table, ‘I can’t imagine that would be well received in the White House’

NY Times’ Friedman: Netanyahu ‘too cowardly’ to take steps necessary for peace

Washington weighs cutting funds to UN agencies after Palestinians join

74 Democratic lawmakers urge Netanyahu not to raze Palestinian villages

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Czech Republic's Foreign Minister Martin Stropnicky arrives for a press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, March 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech FM: Hamas alone responsible for deadly Gaza violence

By Raphael Ahren

In rare European expression of support for Israel, Martin Stropnický says attempts to breach border fence can be seen as ‘terrorism’

Israeli diplomats dominated media during Gaza riots, Foreign Ministry says

By Raphael Ahren

Israel said to consider long-term cease fire with Hamas

By Jacob Magid and Stuart Winer

As Turkey ties sour, Knesset to debate Armenian genocide recognition

By Marissa Newman

A photograph of the construction work being done for a new neighborhood in the Ma'ale Amos settlement on June 18, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Defense Minister: 3,900 settlement homes to be green-lit next week

Liberman says 2,500 units will gain final approval while an additional 1,400 will be advanced through planning stages; settlers mum until official agenda published

An F-15I fighter jet performs an acrobatic display during a ceremony in the Hatzerim Air Base near Beersheba on June 23, 2013. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Top air force officer to Syria: Don’t attack us, we won’t attack you

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli aircraft operating constantly over Syria to prevent Iranian entrenchment, senior officer says

Illustrative image of a US F-18 fighter jet flies over the USS George H.W. Bush as the vessel travels toward the Strait of Hormuz on March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Syria accuses US of striking regime positions in country’s east

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Intelligence and Transportation Minister Israel Katz attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

‘Perfect time’ for US recognition of Golan sovereignty, intel minister says

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, at the Knesset on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Top ministers agree to axe law allowing PM, defense minister to declare war

Following concerns of measure’s overreach, Security Cabinet members agree to roll it back to original form, enabling the high-level forum to make decisions without full cabinet

Israeli chief of police Roni Alsheich arrives at the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police chief says he wants to stay on for a fourth year

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with coalition head Likud MK David Amsalem at a Likud party faction meeting in the Knesset on May 21, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Coalition whip submits bill to hamstring prosecution appeals

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

Wait, which side are the bad guys on?

Governments agree: All countries are capable of violating human rights…except their own country

Checkbook Judaism

There’s no law that you have to be a wealthy white male to run a major US Jewish organization

On prosecuting poets

Dareen Tatour has some responsibility for violence her words may inspire, but she should not be under arrest

The caricaturist and the master: On Wolfe and Roth

The American writers who died within days of each other were both iconoclasts, one was quintessentially Jewish

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (R) and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, (L) leave Windsor Castle in Windsor on May 19, 2018, in an E-Type Jaguar after their wedding to attend an evening reception at Frogmore House. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Steve Parsons)

From our partner

Five reasons the Royal wedding was so Jewish

From bride’s best friend to quoting of the Shema, Britain’s big day had a distinctly Yiddish flavor

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

Richard Benjamin, right, as Alexander Portnoy in a 1972 film adaptation of 'Portnoy’s Complaint.' Lee Grant, on left, played Portnoy’s mother. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images via JTA)

First person

Philip Roth showed me how to be an American Jew

Though misogyny was ever-present in his works, the author captured my experience of otherness, and helped me make sense of our shared history and collective identity

Philip Roth: A generation’s defining voice

By Hillel Italie

Novel perspectives10 writers not named Roth who capture female US Jewish experience

By Emily Burack

Philip Roth, teller of American extremism, appalled by Trump

By Hillel Italie

Aaron Davidman in 'Wrestling Jerusalem.' (Courtesy)

Pinning down the issue

‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ dramatically grapples with intricacies of Mideast peace

By Jordan Hoffman

More Headlines

Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018 in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

New legislation seeks to define anti-Semitism in US education system

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Two Israelis sentenced to prison for 2016 assault of Palestinian man

A member of the Islamic State's Sinai affiliate purporting to show Israeli-made munitions found in the rubble of an airstrike in a video released by the Amaq news agency on May 23, 2018. (screen capture, Amaq)

Islamic State claims ‘proof’ of Israeli airstrikes in northern Sinai

Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Woody Allen’s son says father did not molest daughter

By AFP

The "Mobileye" mounted on a car windshield, May 27, 2015. (Shai/FLASH90)

From the webIsrael’s defense expertise drives tech boom for autonomous cars

Jared Kushner at a White House meeting with US President Donald Trump, January 11, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Jared Kushner reportedly granted security clearance

By Eric Tucker and Jonathan Lemire

A view of the Powell Library at UCLA. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

UCLA Israel event canceled over Gaza violence

By JTA

In this May 25, 2006 photo, Pope Benedict XVI visits the tomb of Polish Cardinal August Hlond in Warsaw's St. John Cathedral. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Jewish group questions sainthood for WWII-era cardinal

By AP and ToI Staff

Gal Gadot at the 'Wonder Woman' premiere at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, May 25, 2017. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/via JTA)

Wonder WomenFrom superhero to producer: Gal Gadot signs on to Fidel Castro drama

By Tracy Frydberg

Massive murals amid the gritty urban landscape of Jerusalem's Talpiot industrial zone formed the background for Hiphopland, an opening event for Israel Festival 2018 (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)

First there was the wordSpeaking out at Hiphopland, the Israel Festival opening event

By Jessica Steinberg

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