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Friday May 24, 2013
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Israel calls for world intervention in Syria, offers aid
Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz levels harsh criticism of Russia's seemingly complicit role in the Syrian uprising: "Best case, this is irresponsibility, and worst case, it is a partnership in the slaughter."
 
Dan Margalit | Assad will fall, but when?
Why hasn't any Arab come out and said that it is better to be under Israeli military control in the West Bank than a citizen with full rights in Syria?
 
Zalman Shoval | Migrants are not political refugees
Israel can't serve as an employment office or as a soup kitchen for all the needy people in the world.
Elliott Abrams | Economics may trump politics in Egypt
Millions of Egyptians wonder where their jobs and their food are going to come from.
Tal Pavel | Cyberwars
Collecting intelligence and sensitive information via social networks means nothing if there is no physical presence to support them.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | Don't turn back the clock
The story of Mishmar Hayarden, which was conquered by the Syrians in 1948, should serve as a warning signal to us all.
Pollard clemency campaign shifts into high gear with Peres visit
Freed soldier Gilad Schalit, Israeli Nobel laureates and intellectuals sign online petition asking President Shimon Peres to use his rapport with U.S. President Barack Obama during this week’s Washington visit to secure Israeli spy's release.
Kinder, gentler religious alternative to 'Torat Hamelech' emerges
Religious Zionist movements publish booklet by Rabbi David Ben-Zazon on a different perspective on how Jews may relate to non-Jews in Israel • Pamphlet intends to provide insight for youth confused in the wake of "Torat Hamelech."
Quick hits from around the web
Dress up as a Jew in Ukraine, French assailants with hammers, Tel Aviv residents ranked among world's most beautiful people, militants offer camels for Obama's head and more, in this week's hits from around the world.
IAEA: Iran talks regressing instead of progressing
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano says he is not optimistic about an upcoming third round of talks between Western powers and Iran in Moscow • Iranian official: The talks will fail, the West is behaving like a bully.
This virus will self-destruct in 5,4,3,2,1 ...
The operators of the highly advanced Flame virus activated a self-destruct mechanism over the weekend, removing any traces of the virus from infected computers they managed to control.
INTERVIEW: In treatment
Irvin Yalom, a celebrated writer and psychiatrist, has published a new book that puts him in touch with Jewish roots • "I understand Netanyahu when he says Iran must not be allowed to do in minutes what Hitler tried to do in eight years."
Yiddish policemen's union?
Committee tasked with formulating alternative to Tal Law examines possibility of establishing military and security related tracks enabling ultra-Orthodox men to serve in the police, prisons system and Public Security Ministry.
'Starting today, South Sudanese infiltrators will be arrested'
Despite announcement saying South Sudanese migrants had a week to voluntarily leave Israel, Interior Ministry begins making preparations for their deportation and will begin arrests • High-ranking official: They might be put on commercial flights.
Israeli ambassador elected vice president of UN General Assembly
Ron Prosor, Israel's envoy at the U.N., was chosen to be one of 20 vice presidents of next General Assembly • Prosor only third Israeli to be elected to position after Abba Eban, Dan Gillerman.
PM says wife convinced him to go ahead with Schalit prisoner deal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara reveal information about their private lives to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag • Bild interviewer Stephanie Bilges: Sara appears spirited and compassionate.
State encourages employers to drop prejudices, hire Arabs
Prime Minister's Office launches campaign to encourage employers to hire educated non-Jewish job applicants • Poll finds non-Jews are not hired due to prejudice • 22% of those polled admit they discriminate against Arab, Druze and Circassian applicants.
IDF soldier killed as Humvee flips near Syrian border
During routine border patrol, Humvee carrying four Artillery Corps soldiers overturns, killing 19-year-old Cpl. Dor Jan, injuring three others • IDF believes driver was traveling too fast • Jan planned to study medicine, decided on combat unit instead.
Abbas returns to UN, says he will ask for non-member status
Palestinian Authority president says at press conference with French President Francois Hollande in Paris that Palestinians will renew dialogue with Israel only in exchange for release of prisoners and transfer of weapons to Palestinian police.
England football players take eye-opening tour of Auschwitz
England team, in Poland for 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, accompanies former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, whose family was murdered in the Holocaust, to the infamous Nazi camp.