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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 16, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, during their meeting in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2013. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

New EU directive bars all dealings with Israeli-held areas over the pre-1967 lines

By Gavriel Fiske

Jerusalem source calls move ‘earthquake’; future deals with Europe will require Israel to acknowledge West Bank is outside the state

AnalysisWhen Europe demanded Israel surrender the Western Wall

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Israeli leaders blast EU directive as bad for peace

By Haviv Rettig Gur

‘EU set to add Hezbollah to list of terror groups’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Inside story

Poland’s Jewish leadership slammed for failure of ritual slaughter bill

By Miriam Shaviv

Powerful Diaspora figures tell The Times of Israel offers of help were rebuffed; Chief Rabbi Schudrich: I tried, I failed, but all is not lost

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

What kind of mom forgets her baby? This Mom.

Actually, it is easy to forget. So how do we make sure this doesn’t happen?

Yaniv Salama-Scheer

‘We condemn the destruction of your temple!’

A confusing conversation with a French official on Tisha B’Av a few years ago provided some brief comic relief during a particularly difficult period for Israel

Shmuley Boteach

Politicians and repentance

The return of Spitzer and Weiner to the political stage raises the question: What behavior by elected officials is truly unforgivable?

An Israeli F-15I at the Hatzerim Airbase (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Analysis

Israel scratching its head after US officials (again) leak Syria strike

By Avi Issacharoff

Sources in Jerusalem say ‘there’s no anger’ over American reports of Latakia bombing; only an attempt to figure out the leakers’ motives

Religious Jews visiting the Temple Mount, March 27, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Police shut Temple Mount to non-Muslims

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Closure meant to prevent clashes between Jews observing Tisha B’Av and Muslims marking Ramadan; deputy foreign minister barred from entering

Praying, fasting and mourning the Temple's destruction on the Ninth of Av, Tisha B'Av. (Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

Photo essay

Thousands gather at Western Wall for annual fast

By Nicole Levin and Leeor Bronis

Jews in Israel and around the world mourn the destruction of Jerusalem and other calamities

Rabbi Benjamin Lau. (Courtesy Israel Democracy Institute)

The bearable lightness of being Rav Benny

An ultra-Orthodox man observes a group of soldiers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem (illustrative photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Posters call for killing of ultra-Orthodox soldiers

By Ilan Ben Zion

Religious rights group files complaint with police, but others say the campaign bears the hallmarks of parody

Egyptian army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle, backed by a helicopter gunship, during a sweep through villages in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, in May 2013. (AP)

Analysis

Israel allows two more Egyptian battalions into Sinai

By Avi Issacharoff and Ricky Ben-David

Cairo now has 11 battalions deployed in peninsula, in what Jerusalem calls the first serious crackdown on terror cells there

Cheryl Sanders (photo credit: Franklin County website)

Fla. county chairwoman apologizes for ‘jewing’ use

Cheryl Sanders says the issue has ‘been blown out of proportion’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Stepping down, Ahmadinejad’s future remains a mystery

By Brian Murphy and Nasser Karimi

Iranian president’s term ends August 4, but analysts predict he’ll remain a political player

In this May 22, 1973 file photo, then acting White House counsel Leonard Garment briefs the media at the White House on President Nixon's statement about the Watergate affair in Washington. Garment died Saturday, July 13, 2013 in New York City at age 89. (photo credit: AP Photo/File)

Ex-Nixon adviser Leonard Garment dies in NY at 89

By Deepti Hajela

Later clients included televangelist Oral Roberts and financier Marc Rich

Israelis and tourists look at a fire, caused by fighting in Syria, from an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Golan Heights and Syria, Friday, June 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Three shells explode on Israeli Golan, none hurt

Mortar fire from battles between Syrian army and rebels strays into Israel for the second time this week as fighting intensifies along border

Golani Brigade soldiers, on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)

From the web

Golani mutiny: 15 soldiers refuse to guard base

Ynet: Troops claim maltreatment by their officers; 13 sentenced to 20 days in jail for insubordination, 2 still AWOL

Author David Rakoff during an interview in Toronto, 2010 (Frank Gunn/AP Photo/The Canadian Press)

For writer David Rakoff, a posthumous debut

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

A Saudi Arabian airlines Airbus 300. (photo credit: Ercan Karakas, Wikimedia Commons)

From the webSaudi Airlines won’t sell tickets to Israelis

The HeadSense device (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Start-up of the weekAiming to make holes in the head a thing of the past

By David Shamah

Cleveland Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis (photo credit: Flickr/ Keith Allison CC BY-SA)

Slim pickings for Jewish fans at 2013 MLB All-Star Game

By Lazar Berman

The nuclear reactor located in the Sorek Valley in the Judean Hills. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Arabs ready anti-Israel resolution over nukes

Neta and Amit play a concert with their band at their home in Katamon, for the Jerusalem Season of Culture (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

Home entertainmentLive, from their living room

By Leeor Bronis

Ambulances at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLeave the cannoli, take the baby

By Ilan Ben Zion

US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns meeting with Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, on Monday, July 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Facebook page of Egypt's army spokesman)

Arabic media reviewRebels find a new foe: al-Qaeda

By Elhanan Miller

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