• Early speculation about Pope Benedict XVI’s successor suggests that the decision may be determined by the candidate’s ideology rather his location. [NYT]
• Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv’s mayor, has reportedly invited President Barack Obama to deliver a speech at Rabin Square, the site where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated following a peace rally. Other cities and universities in Israel and the West Bank have made similar invitations. [Times of Israel]
• Paul Schutzer has a collection of never-before-seen photographs of Anne Frank’s friends, recently unearthed from after the war. [Time]
• Want to be the next pope? Here’s an acerbic application for the position on Craigslist. [Craigslist]
• Armin Rosen looks at Rawabi, a middle-class Palestinian development in the West Bank that could either be a model or an anomaly for the future of Palestinian development and relations between the Israeli government and Palestinians. [Atlantic]
Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.
