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What Matters Most On Friday, May 25, 2018

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Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein surrenders to authorities May 25, 2018, in New York. (AFP PHOTO / Bryan R. Smith)

Harvey Weinstein arraigned in NY court, charged with rape and other sex crimes

By AFP and AP

Disgraced film mogul agrees to post bail at $1 million cash in cases involving two women, is ordered fitted with a GPS monitoring device; attorney says he”ll plead not guilty

Actor Morgan Freeman attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York, May 22, 2018. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Morgan Freeman apologizes after sexual harassment claims

By Frankie TAGGART

Philip Roth (Douglas Healey/AP)

Interview

The story behind Philip Roth’s final days

By Eric Cortellessa

The mother of Layla Ghandour holds her at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on May 15, 2018. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)

Gaza health ministry removes baby from border clash death toll

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Spokesperson says Layla al-Ghandour taken off list of those killed by Israel pending autopsy, amid suggestions she died of a congenital heart condition

Firebomb-laden kite causes huge blaze along Gaza border

High Court rejects petitions to stop IDF using live fire in Gaza border riots

Two Palestinians die of wounds from Gaza border clashes

By AFP

A graffiti referring to the FARC 36 front is seen on a billboard of the Ituango Dam, close to Ituango municipality, Antioquia Department, Colombia, taken on May 12, 2018. (AFP/ Joaquin SARMIENTO)

Guide who helped free Israelis from Colombian kidnappers found dead

By AFP and ToI Staff

Argentine Berenice Blanco convinced FARC rebels to let backpackers on cannabis tour go free, but was kept behind for ransom

Russian S-500 missile being prepared for testing. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Russia said to test missile that can down F-35 fighter jet

In world’s longest-range surface-to-air missile test, S-500 missile reportedly hits target 300 miles away

Israel media reviewBunker mentality: 6 things to know for May 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Strike on Syrian air base said to target Hezbollah arms depot

By Judah Ari Gross

Ministers reportedly pan air force chief for photo of F-35 over Lebanon

Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, carries his message to hang on a "tree of hope" as he leaves after attending The Manchester Arena National Service of Commemoration at Manchester Cathedral in central Manchester on May 22, 2018. (AFP/ Oli SCARFF)

Prince William due in Israel, PA on June 25 for first ever official royal visit

By Raphael Ahren

During trip to Jordan, Israel and West Bank, Duke of Cambridge to meet Netanyahu, Rivlin and Abbas — and may get inked in Jerusalem’s Old City

Britain's Prince Charles shakes hands with Israel's Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev and peaks to dignitaries as he attends 'Platinum – Israel at 70,' the Jewish community's celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Thursday, May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, pool)

From our partnerPrince Charles joins celebrations for Israel’s 70th at Royal Albert Hall

By Justin Cohen

BDS supporters with a pro-Palestinian banner urging Europeans to give "zero point to apartheid" and not vote for Israel's Eurovision entry in Lisbon, Portugal on May 12, 2018. (Eurovision boycott of Israel - ZERO points to the song of Israeli Apartheid/Facebook)

Israel calls on EU to end funding to pro-boycott groups

Strategic Affairs Ministry lists more than a dozen NGOs it says violate EU’s policy of opposing boycotts, provide support to terror groups

Including Israel in anti-Semitism definition, Congress wades into political mire

Louisiana signs anti-BDS law prohibiting state contracting to boycotters

By JTA

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Philadelphia Orchestra concert

By JTA

A newly discovered underground stalactite cave on the outskirts of Jerusalem, May 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot News)

Stalactite cave discovered 900 feet below Jerusalem

Workers digging route for new water pipe to Jerusalem and the West Bank find 46-foot-long subterranean cavern

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

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

If you’re asking about Abbas’s successor, you’re not paying attention

Amid the crisis surrounding the Palestinian leader’s health, the PA has continued to function fairly smoothly, and the West Bank public has showed no sign of panic

Palestinians slam Israel for flouting all laws in settlement announcement

Supreme Court approves razing West Bank Bedouin village

By AFP

Left-wing activist who turned in Palestinian land-sellers to be indicted

Brazil's Presidential pre-candidate and conservative lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro, speaks during a meeting of the "In Defense of Muncipalities" congress, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Diaspora diplomacy

As evangelicals bid to move embassy, ‘Brazil’s Trump’ says he will if elected

Peter Buchsbaum

Marriage is a basic right, ’til the rabbis pull rank

A new bill aims to extend the reach of Israel’s Rabbinate, the very body creating the problems the law is supposed to fix

Olga I. Deutsch

Ireland’s double standard on foreign meddling

How strange that the Irish fund left-wing Israeli NGOs, but prohibit foreigners weighing in on the abortion debate

Robert Festenstein

Remember those existential threats to Israel?

If you have no memory of the palpable risk of Israel’s destruction, you might just say kaddish for terrorists

God’s children

Make those you meet feel important, and ensure that people are never ‘just numbers’ (Naso)

Comedian Moshe Kasher performing in 'The Honeymoon Special' (Netflix)

Interview

Raised half secular, half Satmar, comic Moshe Kasher is half serious on Judaism

By Tracy Frydberg

More Headlines

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers seen during a raid on the al-Huriya radio station on suspicion of incitement to violence in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 31, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Elite unit soldier hit by marble slab during arrest still fighting for his life

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to discuss Iran's nuclear deal, on May 15, 2018 at EU headquarters in Brussels. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thierry Monasse)

Iran demands assurances after US pullout from nuclear accord

By Agencies and ToI Staff

These Jewish-minted coins from Yehud, a province of semiautonomous Jewish rule under the Persian Empire, were discovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. (courtesy Temple Mount Sifting Project)

3 tiny, extremely rare 4th century BCE Jewish-minted coins found in Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

This photo shows the public entrance to the Anchorage Correctional Complex on May 23, 2018, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

Muslim inmates in Alaska prison fed pork during Ramadan — activists

By AFP

Screen capture from video of Jackie Gothard, first female president of Beth Israel in the Lakeview section of New Orleans. (YouTube)

Rebuilder of New Orleans congregation after Hurricane Katrina dies age 83

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a ceremony of awards for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Need a ride?Netanyahu denies seeking armored car for his wife

By AFP

Protestors demonstrate outside the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on February 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers to mull bill allowing state to confiscate land sold by churches

In this undated photo, members of the Jerusalem Armenian community protest outside the Knesset, demanding that the State of Israel recognize the Armenian genocide. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Turkey says Israel will harm itself if it recognizes Armenian genocide

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of transplant surgery. (Flash90)

Israelis among donors and buyers as Kosovo court jails 2 for organ harvesting

By AP

Welfare Minister Haim Katz speaks at a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset on March 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s welfare minister to be indicted for corruption, pending hearing

By Stuart Winer

This January 20, 2016 file photo shows Julius "Jules" Reich in Scarsdale, NY. (Scarsdale Police Department via AP, File)

Husband pleads guilty in murder of prominent New York pediatrician

By JTA

Linda Sarsour speaking at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health’s inaugural commencement ceremony at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, June 1, 2017. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli firm gathered intel to discredit activist Linda Sarsour — report

By JTA

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