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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 17, 2013

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Secretary of State John Kerry with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Washington, DC, in February 2013. (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Analysis

The first casualty of the EU settlement directive: John Kerry

By Avi Issacharoff

Europe’s new ban further reduces chances of drawing the PA back to negotiations; it also reminds Israel that it can’t forever ignore the ‘shrapnel in the butt’

EU says Israelis overreacting to anti-settlement measures

By Stuart Winer

Netanyahu lashes out at EU, rejects ‘foreign dictates about borders’

By Ilan Ben Zion and Haviv Rettig Gur

To work with EU, Israelis must prove no links to ‘territories’

Polish animal rights demonstrators hold a rally in Warsaw opposing ritual slaughter, or shechitah, July 11, 2013. (photo credit: Empatia PL Facebook/JTA)

Dispute over kosher slaughter in Poland prompts surge in anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Despite years of government-led projects celebrating Jewish tradition, shechitah controversy underlines the country is no paradise for its 40,000 Jews

Calev Michael Myers

Palestinians should protest

The European Union’s decision to stop funding Israeli West Bank entities is an assault on the human rights of Palestinians

Vicious, divisive, sacrilegious

That’s how I would have described the race for the office of Chief Rabbi of Israel

Tisha B’av, meet my eating disorder

Reflections on battling anorexia, and the difficulties and merits of purposely fasting not from an unhealthy place

Baby Alert's ChildMinder system (photo credit: Courtesy)

New clips, alarms and apps can stop parents forgetting tots in cars

By David Shamah

After three deaths in two weeks, a range of fresh technologies could prevent further tragedies

A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 19, 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

This time in Sinai, the Egyptians mean business

By Avi Issacharoff

11 battalions are fighting armed groups in the peninsula, and systematically closing the smuggling tunnels. That could trigger economic crisis in Gaza, and rocket fire at Israel

Yad Vashem representatives Norbert and Marie-France Bensaadon, right, stand next to Douarnenez mayor Philipe Paul, center, and members of the Le Guellec family, left, at a monument unveiling ceremony in Douarnenez (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

In a French fishing town, Holocaust bravery remembered

By Elhanan Miller

Illustrative photo of fighters from the Kurdish YPG militia alongside the group's flag in northern Syria (al-Jazeera video screenshot , YouTube)

Syrian Kurds to declare autonomy from Damascus

By Ilan Ben Zion

Clashes between Kurds, Islamists precede planned July 19 announcement; Ankara fires at Syrian targets after cross-border fire kills at least 1

Illustrative: The ultra-Orthodox city Modi'in Illit (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel set to approve 1,071 new units in West Bank

Announcement comes at heels of 6th Kerry visit to region and new EU guidelines limiting cooperation with Israeli entities linked to settlements

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (right) in Ottawa, Canada, March 2, 2012 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Canadian Jews leery of Ottawa’s stance on refugees

By Arno Rosenfeld

Modern pro-Israel stance is welcome, but the country’s denial of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust is a driving factor in Jewish opposition to Bill C-31

Israeli infantry soldiers on the Golan Heights, near the Syrian border (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Syrian gunmen hide in unmanned IDF post; Israeli patrol shot at

Military outpost located east of the fence, in the demilitarized zone; IDF troops return fire; no injuries reported

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk toward Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 2010. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox man stabbed six times near Damascus Gate

By Adiv Sterman

Two alleged Arab assailants flee the scene; police say attack racially motivated

Finance Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem. July 15, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Finance minister scales back budget cuts

By Stuart Winer

Lapid hammers out a deal with Knesset committee to soften impact of measures on lower- and middle-class

Mike Carter (center) with his boys, Ben and Timothy, before the 19th Maccabiah (photo credit: Courtesy)

Maccabiah 2013

For the Carters, Maccabiah basketball is a family affair

By Raphael Gellar

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Cory Monteith, left, and Lea Michele at the 2012 Do Something awards in Santa Monica, California, Aug. 19, 2012 (photo credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Monteith was to move in with Lea Michele, friend says

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and AP

Pedal to the metal. (photo credit: CC BY-SA anonymous to you, Flickr)

SchooledDriving teacher busted going 190 kph

Teva’s tax breaks in 2006-11 totaled NIS 12 billion

An illustrative photo of workers building a home in East Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, June 2011. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewEU de toilette

By Joshua Davidovich

This image released by the Egyptian Presidency on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 shows interim President Adly Mansour, center, with his new cabinet ministers at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewThree women and a general

By Elhanan Miller

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