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What Matters Most On Friday, June 21, 2013

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Security guard shoots, kills man at Western Wall

By Yoel Goldman and Ron Friedman

Jewish victim Doron Ben Shlush reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and reached into his pocket; guard arrested pending investigation

Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur (photo credit: Jean-François Paga)

No liberté and égalité in France for women rabbis

By Rebecca Benhamou

Promoting a progressive French Jewish movement is a Sisyphean battle, says Delphine Horvilleur, one of only two female rabbis

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Rabbis and research on sparing the rod

While tradition does sanction hitting children, the sources also make the case for parenting for compassion

Absent from the party, absent from the table

Wishing the guests at Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday celebration had included Palestinians

Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger in his office last year (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Chief rabbi denies graft, released to house arrest

Police believe Yona Metzger took bribes from nonprofits and distributed them to family members; three associates remain in custody

Jewish-American singer Barbra Streisand in concert at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Barbra Streisand thrills audience of 16,000 in Tel Aviv

The iconic diva gives her first-ever performance in Israel, concluding with an emotional ‘Hatikva’

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., meets with President Shimon Peres (left) prior to the opening of the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on June 18, 2013. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Cisco CEO: Super-fast Internet will make Israel ‘test case’ for digital world

By David Shamah

Blazing-speed fiber-optic connections will change the way society works, says John Chambers

Kaveret at Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem (photo credit: Flash90)

Concert review

Kaveret: The glorious twilight of Israel’s greatest start-up

By David Horovitz

Image of the interview with the state witness who escaped from police protection early Thursday morning (photo credit: screen capture/Channel 2)

Informant in Bar Noar case gives TV interview while on the lam

Police believe the state’s witness jumped out of a window; manhunt latest twist in murder saga

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (photo credit: An-Najah University)

Two weeks after appointment, Palestinian PM resigns

By Elhanan Miller

Rami Hamdallah bemoans limited authority; President Mahmoud Abbas has released no comment

Illustrative photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the Israeli Presidential Conference in 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

New Iran leader a ‘change in style, not of substance,’ Netanyahu says

By Gavriel Fiske and Joshua Davidovich

Prime minister says Hasan Rowhani won’t change course on nukes; also calls for Israeli ports to be reformed, defends gas export decision

A sea of black at the Tomorrow 13 reception Tuesday night (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Dos and don'ts

What they wore for Peres’s party

By Jessica Steinberg and Sarah Tuttle-Singer

A look at the fashion choices made for the gala celebration held Tuesday night

Former defense minister Ehud Barak, center, speaks to US soldiers during a joint Israeli-hosted military exercise, October 23, 2012 (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90/File)

US cuts military aid to Israel by five percent

Measure is part of across-the-board spending cuts; reduction expected to affect F-35 purchases, joint exercises

Dr. Ruth Westheimer giving her 'master class' on sex at the 2013 Israeli Presidential Conference. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)

Sex, science and sojourns to Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

The Israeli Presidential Conference had much more to offer than President Shimon Peres’s birthday or Sharon Stone’s visions for peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin (photo credit: AP/RIA Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin/Government Press Service/File)

No regrets

Germany, Russia clash over looted art

Coinciding with a meeting between Merkel and Putin, St. Petersburg’s Hermitage displays works stolen by Soviet soldiers at end of WWII

An Israeli emergency rescue team examines the remains of a bus bombed in Bulgaria in July, 2012, allegedly by Hezbollah. (Dano Monkotovic/Flash90/JTA)

Bulgaria reveals new evidence on Hezbollah-Burgas link

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sofia says a Hezbollah operative is directly connected with fake documents that facilitated the July 2012 bus bombing

Shin Dong-hyuk, center-left, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles during a screening of a film about North Korea, 2009. (Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance)

'Maybe worse than the Holocaust'

N. Korean camp survivor urges world’s attention

By Cnaan Liphshiz

‘Hitler and the Nazis mostly killed people they did not see as their own, but in North Korea our people are doing this to each other,’ says Shin Dong-hyuk

A Yemenite family walking through the desert on its way to a transit camp set up by the JDC, in 1949. (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Kluger Zoltan, Wikipedia)

On World Refugee Day, Israelis and Palestinians demand recognition for their refugees

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Moroccan-born MK: Arabs must ‘accept responsibility for driving out a million Jews’; Ashrawi: Israel must rectify ‘injustice’ to 5.3 million Palestinians

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Israeli infantry soldiers training in the Golan Heights earlier this month. (photo credit: Flash90)

Mortar shells from Syria fall on Golan Heights

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, April 16, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

UNESCO adds Yad Vashem testimonies to world register

Latvia bans Nazi, Soviet symbols at public events

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90/File)

Woman accused in ricin case to undergo psych exam

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo/File)

Thousands rally in support of Egypt’s Morsi

A Palestinian woman walks past a poster of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in the West Bank town of Ramallah on 09 August 2006 (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

No rift with Hezbollah, Hamas official insists

By Elhanan Miller

Tzachi Hanegbi, left, with Yesh Atid MK Yaakov Peri in January. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yesh Atid minister backs Arab peace plan

Rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda sit on a truck full of ammunition in northern Syria, January 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Spain arrests 8 al-Qaeda recruiters

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (photo credit: Marko/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewGood and bad police work

By Aaron Kalman

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