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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 28, 2013

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Israelis rallying against a planned prisoner release, with fake blood on their hands. (photo credit: Flash90)

PM certain of majority on prisoner release, but debate goes on

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Ron Friedman

Ministers Sa’ar and Landver to vote in favor of freeing 104 convicts, ensuring cabinet approval of controversial move; terror victims’ families protest outside PMO

Bereaved families skewer Netanyahu for prisoner release plan

Netanyahu set to free all pre-Oslo prisoners, says ‘it’s for the good of the country’

By Michal Shmulovich and Elhanan Miller

Israeli Arab prisoners skeptical about imminent release

By Elhanan Miller

An Egyptian grieves for supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, who were killed in overnight clashes with security forces, at a field hospital in Nasr City, Cairo, July 27, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt warns Islamist demonstrators against undermining stability

At least 72 dead in weekend violence; interim government says ongoing camps of pro-Morsi demonstrators a threat to public safety

Egyptian military launches major Sinai offensive

By Adiv Sterman and Lazar Berman

US calls on Egyptian military to allow demonstrations

By ToI Staff and AP

AnalysisEgypt’s burning, but don’t call it a civil war — yet

By Avi Issacharoff

News flash from the future

A reverie about what the start of peace between Israel and the Palestinians would look like

An unprincipled man

The move to release terrorists is the act of a brazen, dictatorial leader and a blow to the judiciary

Jewish summer camp: ‘Like’

These programs are the most successful long-term Jewish continuity endeavors in the Diaspora — and that’s worth sharing

Relatives of Israelis killed in terror attacks demonstrate ahead of the cabinet vote to free 104 Palestinian prisoners, outside the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem. The poster reads "Prisoner release form." (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

The wrong capitulation?

By David Horovitz

A woman sleeps at IKEA in Netanya after collapsing, apparently drunk, on one of the beds (photo credit: courtesy http://newsil.co.il/)

Swede dreams

Woman pukes at IKEA, stays for a nap

Apparently drunk shopper settles into a bed, sleeps until security guard wakes her at closing time

Birthright Israel participants visiting Yad Vashem, summer 2012 (photo credit: Taglit-Birthright Israel participants taken with permission inside Yad Vashem/JTA)

‘Teen told she can’t join Birthright without DNA test’

Youth program reportedly casts doubt on Russian woman’s Jewishness because her father didn’t register her birth until age 3

Illustrative: Ministers attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Cabinet approves referendum bill on relinquishing territory

By Stuart Winer

If approved by Knesset, law would require the government to win public approval to give up sovereign land to Palestinians

Cabinet unanimously approves Dermer as US ambassador

By Lazar Berman and Haviv Rettig Gur

American-born adviser to replace Michael Oren, but appointment may be delayed because of Foreign Ministry strike

Efraim (Jordan Feltner) and his father Moishe (Mitch Greenberg) no longer see eye to eye in Miki Bone's 'Division Avenue.' (photo credit: Miki Bone/courtesy)

Catholic Texan writes play about Brooklyn Hasidim

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hamas security men parade in Gaza city (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas patches up ties with Hezbollah, Iran

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Two senior representatives of Gaza terror group meet with Shiite organization in Beirut

Shahar Peer playing in 2011. (CC BY-SA Keith Allison/Flickr)

Peer reaches final in Baku tourney

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli tennis star defeats Polish qualifier in semis to advance toward sixth career title

Tom Jones performs at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in London last year (image capture: YouTube)

Tom Jones to wrap up Israel’s ‘summer of nostalgia’

73-year-old Welsh-born singer to play in Tel Aviv October 26

Canada and the US's junior teams battle for gold at the Maccabiah (photo credit: Aaron Kalman)

Maccabiah 2013

With rare northern exposure, Canada ices the US

By Aaron Kalman

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Then Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, talks with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry while watching election results at a hotel in Boston, in 2008 (photo credit: AP/Michael Dwyer)

John Kerry’s wife leaves Boston rehab hospital

Shimon Peres (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner/File)

Peres to visit Latvia, Lithuania

David Baddiel... Jew. (photo credit: via Twitter)

From the web‘Most people still see me as a bit of a lad’

(Illustrative) Young Arab girls seen studying during a lesson in an East Jerusalem elementary school, December 13, 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/FLASH90)

Arab school principals ‘obstructing national service’

By Stuart Winer

Hebrew media reviewPrison break

By Joshua Davidovich

Egyptians mourn supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi who were killed in overnight clashes with security forces, in a field hospital, in Nasr City, Cairo, Saturday, July 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Arabic media reviewEgypt: The body count dispute

By Elhanan Miller

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