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What Matters Most On Monday, July 29, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Immigration Minister Ze'ev Elkin. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

Deputy FM: ‘Netanyahu wrong to back Palestinian state, and it’s hurting him in Likud’

By David Horovitz and Raphael Ahren

Pro-settlement hawk Ze’ev Elkin sees little prospect of progress at talks, because ‘the Palestinians haven’t budged a millimeter for 20 years’

AnalysisCan Netanyahu go all the way in peace talks? And does it matter?

By Raphael Ahren

Livni to meet UN head in NYC ahead of peace talks

By Gavriel Fiske and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Israel-Palestinian peace talks to restart Monday, State Department says

By ToI Staff and AP

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

Cabinet votes to free prisoners, paving way for peace talks

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Ron Friedman

104 pre-Oslo convicts to be released in phases; no Israeli Arabs on the list; terror victims’ families rally outside PMO; Ramallah police clash with anti-negotiation protesters

AnalysisOn prisoners and peace talks

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Controversial prisoner release takes heat from right

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Security chief says inmate release dangerous, but will calm West Bank

By Asher Zeiger

Measures for avoiding past mistakes and keeping the renewed peace process on track for a speedy resolution

The chip on my shoulder

Re-encountering the mean girls of her freaky, outcast adolescence and waiting for the day when it just won’t matter anymore

Cap. (res) Gal Kali, a proud member of the gay community, in reserves several years ago (Photo credit: Courtesy: Gal Kali)

IDF’s gays find friends at the top, lingering homophobia on the ground

By Mitch Ginsburg

Hezbollah fighters take an oath during a parade to continue the path of resistance against Israel. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

One-upping EU, Gulf states blacklist all of Hezbollah

By Elhanan Miller

Arab group begins canceling visas, freezing Hezbollah transactions, both military and political

Then-presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani waves from a campaign bus in the western city of Sanandaj, Iran, earlier this year (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Congress letter urging engagement gets chilly response in Iran

By Gavriel Fiske and JTA

Bipartisan missive urging Obama to approach incoming Iranian president dismissed as sign of chaos in Washington

Ahmad Tibi addresses the Knesset on May 21, 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Knesset committee votes to raise electoral threshold to 4%

By Michal Shmulovich and Asher Zeiger

Opposition’s Arab and ultra-Orthodox parties attack proposal, saying it’s hypocritical and anti-democratic

People crowd outside the Haifa District Court on July 29, 2013 during the trial of seven Shfaram residents suspected of beating IDF soldier Eden Nathan Zada to death in August 2005 after Zada went on a shooting spree, killing four people on a Shfaram bus. (photo credit: Moran Mayan / POOL MAARIV / FLASH90)

Four guilty of attempted manslaughter in 2005 killing of Jewish terrorist

By ToI Staff and Mitch Ginsburg

All seven suspects cleared of attempted murder in incident in which IDF soldier killed four Israeli Arabs before being beaten to death by the crowd

$53 million in jewels stolen from Israeli billionaire

By Thomas Adamson

Cannes exhibition of diamonds and precious stones owned by Lev Leviev successfully targeted in broad daylight

Members of the Women of the Wall wear prayer shawls as they pray at the Western Wall on March 12, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women of the Wall request use of wall Torah scroll

Worshipers are not allowed to bring a Torah from outside the Western Wall, but requests to use one of site’s 100 scrolls have been rebuffed

Young immigrants from Russia at the Putin Bar in Jerusalem on November 18, 2008. (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)

Russian-speakers who want to make aliya could need DNA test

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Prime Minister’s Office says would-be immigrants from former Soviet Union may be asked to prove Jewish bloodline

British-born Beth Alexander lost her battle for custody of her twin sons, Samuel and Benjamin. (TOI archive)

Austrian court grants full custody to father of Schlesinger twins

By Miriam Shaviv

Judge stands by negative assessment of mother’s mental health, despite a conflicting subsequent, court-commissioned report

Illustrative photo of a mother breast-feeding her baby. (photo credit: CC BY-A Mothering Touch/Flickr)

Breastfeeding could help kids beat ADHD, study shows

By David Shamah

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Eric Burdon (photo credit: MitchD50/Wikipedia)

Animals’ Eric Burdon flies in for on again Israel show

The Komar sisters with their Maccabiah netball medals (photo credit: courtesy)

Maccabiah 2013Maccabiah enters last stretch as teams go for gold

By Raphael Gellar and Aaron Kalman

Sprawled in cherry-red chairs for the Coca-Cola Summer of Love festival (Courtesy Coca-Cola Israel)

Free Coke, bikinis and red-hot tents, all for NIS 200

By Leeor Bronis and Nicole Levin

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro and host Lior Lior Schlein on the Israeli political satire program 'Matzav Haumah' (State of the Nation), on July 27, 2013. (photo credit: screen shot, YouTube).

In the hot seatUS envoy yuks it up on Israeli TV

By Asher Zeiger

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

Shahar Peer loses in final of Baku Cup

By Gavriel Fiske and AP

Illustrative image of inmates it the Tsalmon prison in the Lower Galilee, July 01, 2013 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewCatch and release

By Aaron Kalman

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi pray at Nasr City, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Arabic media reviewEgypt: Compromises and blame games

By Elhanan Miller

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