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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 26, 2018

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American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Medicine Faculty buildings at Ariel University in the West Bank, June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

TV: Adelson rebuffed alleged Netanyahu bid to hatch illicit deal with publisher

Report says billionaire owner of Israel Hayom wouldn’t give consent to quid pro quo that would have hobbled his daily in exchange for positive coverage of PM from a rival paper

Guatemala’s FM: Adelson flew officials to Israel for embassy relocation

By AP

State witness said to give evidence PM knowingly engaged in graft in Bezeq case

Demonstrators set off smoke bombs near PM’s Caesarea home, with him inside

People from the "Yes" campaign react, as the results of the votes begin to come in the Irish referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution at the RDS count centre, in Dublin, Ireland, Saturday May 26, 2018. Ireland appeared to move away from its conservative Roman Catholic roots and embrace a more liberal view Friday as two major exit polls predicted voters had repealed a constitutional ban on abortion. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

‘Yes’ voters jubilant as anti-abortion campaign concedes defeat in Ireland

As final votes counted, polls show almost 70% say yes to repealing amendment which has made termination of pregnancy illegal except in cases where it endangers mother’s life

Writer Michael Chabon speaking at The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 10, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images for The New Yorker Festival via JTA)

Michael Chabon slams the occupation, Jewish inmarriage in speech to new rabbis

Novelist under fire for saying Israel ‘propagandizing hatred’ of Palestinians, asserting biblical exodus from Egypt was fiction, in commencement address

A group of Jews gather in Parliament Square, London, to recite kaddish for 62 Palestinians killed in Gaza, on May 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

A Jewish prayer gathering for Gaza victims makes British Jews lose their cool

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of Jews in Paris, January 12, 2015. (AFP Photo/Joel Saget)

In French poll, majority say Zionism is a Jewish conspiracy

By JTA

Brussels' Grand Rabbi Albert Guigui speaks during a ceremony at Brussels' Great Synagogue on June 2, 2014, following the May 24, 2014 fatal shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. (AFP Photo/Belga Photo/Laurie Dieffembaco)

Brussels chief rabbi declines to wear kippa publicly, citing security concerns

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rabbi Albert Guigui tells Belgian broadcaster he hasn’t visibly worn a skullcap since he was assaulted in an anti-Semitic attack in 2001

Sweden to try 3 migrants over December synagogue arson attack

By AFP

British blogger who sang about Holocaust denial convicted

By JTA

Pompeo pledges to fill vacant anti-Semitism monitor post

By JTA

Illustrative. A Gazan takes bolt cutters to a border fence in footage released by the IDF from May 14 violence at the border (Israel Defense Forces)

4 Gazans cross fence into Israel; 300 burning kites sent over border in a month

Infiltrators flee back into Strip under IDF fire after setting off petrol bomb; no injuries reported

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)

Arson suspected as fires break out near settlement twice in a week

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Palestinians face off with Israeli forces during weekly clashes along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on May 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Bomb hurled at IDF troops on Gaza border as hundreds protest

File: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a broadcast speech through a giant screen during an election campaign in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nasrallah: Hezbollah doesn’t want war with Israel, but will ‘assuredly win’ one

Terror leader says Israel behind Thursday night airstrikes in Syria, which reportedly hit targets belonging to Lebanese group

Screens at Iran airport said hacked with anti-regime messages

Putin: Collapse of Iran deal could hurt Israel’s security

US demands Syria withdraw as chair of anti-chemical weapons forum

Legendary TV writer and producer Norman Lear has died at the age of 101. (Courtesy)

At 95, Norman Lear shares secrets of how to live an applause-worthy ‘Last Act’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Bethlehem Endale performing on 'The Voice' Ukraine (Screenshot)

Meet the Jewish Ethiopian-Ukrainian singer staffing Birthright this summer

By Tracy Frydberg

Paul Nehlen, a candidate for Paul Ryan’s House seat in Wisconsin (Screenshot from YouTube/JTA)

Analysis

What can Republican party do about right-wing extremists in primaries?

The emergence of fringe candidates as the top challengers in several districts poses tough questions for GOP establishment

Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to US president Barack Obama (Magnolia Pictures)

Top Democrats want to know why Israeli firm was hired to spy on Obama officials

By JTA

The partially-demolished United Orthodox Synagogue sanctuary. (Tracy Frydberg/Times of Israel)

Months after Hurricane Harvey, Houston Jews fight to stay afloat

By Tracy Frydberg

Joshua Hammerman

Ari Ben Portnoy

Are we the fighter or the kvetcher? The noble or the nebbish? The Philip Roth – Leon Uris battle still resonates

Joseph C. Kaplan

Find out how to be a hero — read the obits

Took a close look at the lives of ordinary individuals who did the right thing in extraordinary circumstances

Some Conservative synagogues allow interfaith couples to celebrate their unions by taking part in an aufruf. (Lior Zaltzman)

Interfaith marriage

Conservative rabbis find ways besides marriage to celebrate interfaith couples

By Josefin Dolsten

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Harvey Weinstein appears at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, May 25, 2018. (Jefferson Siegel-Pool via Getty Images/AFP)

Wealthy celebrities like Weinstein better-armed to face sex charges

By Sebastian Blanc

This file photo taken on March 2, 2011 shows US novelist Philip Roth during a ceremony at the White House in Washington DC, where he received the National Humanities Medal.
(AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON)

Philip Roth won’t be having a Jewish funeral

By Josefin Dolsten

Handmaids in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2017. (Courtesy of HOT)

Praise be‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ season 2: One of the most powerful scenes involves a rabbi

By Gabe Friedman

Roman Abramovich, Russian oil billionaire and owner of English FA Premier League's Chelsea Football Club, walks at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem's Old City Tuesday Feb. 7, 2006. (AP)

Roman rumor offside?No confirmation billionaire Roman Abramovich immigrating to Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

A screenshot from a video of clashes between police and residents of the southern Bedouin town of Rahat on May 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

2 cops hurt after being attacked by mob with rocks, clubs in Bedouin town

Winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest Netta Barzilai seen as she arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Eurovision dismisses ‘speculation’ about tensions over Israel contest’s location

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A schoolbus in Lakewood, New Jersey. (YouTube screenshot/NJTV News)

Rabbi accused of stealing New Jersey school money pleads not guilty

By AP

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, architect Deborah Pinto Fdeda looks part of the installation at the Israeli pavilion, at the Biennale International Architecture exhibition, in Venice, Italy (AP/Antonio Calanni)

Model behaviorReal-world debates permeate Israeli Pavilion at Venice Biennale

By Colleen Barry

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