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What Matters Most On Monday, June 29, 2015

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The Marianne of Gothenburg, a Swedish-flagged trawler leading a flotilla of boats sailing for the Gaza Strip, June 2015. (YouTube/Ship to Gaza Sweden)

Israeli Navy intercepts Gaza-bound ship, no injuries reported

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Naval commandos board Swedish-registered ‘Marianne’ about 100 nautical miles off coast; PM praises ‘efficient’ operation

Three of four flotilla vessels headed for Gaza turn back

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Israel to flotilla activists: Syria is thataway

By Tamar Pileggi

Hamas unveils ‘new tunnel’ it says reaches into Israel

Tunisian former president Moncef Marzouki in Tunis, March 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand, pool)

Analysis

A big Israeli welcome for the former president of Tunisia

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Three days after a home-produced gunman massacred dozens of tourists and destroyed his country’s relatively good name, does Moncef Marzouki still think sailing to aid Hamas in Gaza was the smartest use of his time and reputation?

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon attends an IDF exercise on May 7, 2015 (Diana Hananshvili/Defense Ministry)

Israel acknowledges it is helping Syrian rebel fighters

By Raphael Ahren

Defense minister says Jerusalem assists insurgents in exchange for promise Druze will be kept out of harm’s way

Hezbollah members mourn during the funeral of a comrade who was killed in combat alongside Syrian government forces in the Qalamun region, on May 26, 2015, in the southern Lebanese village of Ghaziyeh. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT)

General says next Hezbollah war theater will extend to Syria

By Eric Cortellessa

Islamic State fighters in a video produced by the group (YouTube screen capture/VICE News)

3,000 executed in Syria by IS in past year, monitor says

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 28, 2015. (Flash90/Alex Kolomoisky)

Live updates (closed)

Druze welcome support for Syria brethren, seek reassurances

By Adiv Sterman

Community’s spiritual leader approves of Jerusalem assistance to insurgents in exchange for promise Druze will be kept out of harm’s way

New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

Worldwide Jewry nowhere near pre-WWII numbers, says foremost Jewish demographer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Contrary to reports that the Jewish population is approaching, and may even have passed, pre-Holocaust numbers, it actually falls more than two million short, says Prof. Sergio DellaPergola. Maybe try again in 35 years

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I will TOO get my nose pierced!

Her dad’s in town and she is handling it with all due maturity

Should scientific evidence that religion is ‘all in our heads’ be cause for a crisis of faith?

‘Seeds of Conflict’ could sow confusion

A PBS program that paints early Arab-Jewish ties as idyllic ignores Islam’s historic persecution of Jews

Emergency personnel at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on June 29, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

Female soldier wounded in Bethlehem stabbing attack

Soldier in moderate-to-serious condition; female stabber arrested; earlier, Palestinian teen caught with assault rifle at checkpoint into Jerusalem

Former Foreign Ministry director general Dore Gold in Jerusalem, June 1, 2015. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Senior Israel, Egypt officials meet in Cairo for first time since 2011

Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold and Egyptian deputy FM said to see ‘eye-to-eye’ on key issues; Egypt says Palestinian problem ‘heart of the conflict in the region’

Israel to free Palestinian security detainee on hunger strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

Khader Adnan, senior Islamic Jihad member, has been in prison for a year under administrative detention

Dennis Ross (Flash90)

Take the offensive against anti-Israel academics, top think tank urges

By Eytan Weinstein

JPPI hands Prime Minister Netanyahu series of recommendations, including emergency immigration plan for French Jewry

A section of the border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Israel to build massive fence on southern border

Abutting Jordan, barrier to be erected alongside new Eilat airport; PM says it will ‘serve Israel’s security interests’

Israelis protest against Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, and the US-Israeli conglomerate Noble-Delek over a plan to develop Israel's natural gas reserves, in Tel Aviv, on May 30, 2015. (Flash90)

Knesset to vote on controversial natural gas deal

By Tamar Pileggi

Vote comes after cabinet overrode Antitrust Authority call to limit market dominance by US-Israeli conglomerate Noble-Delek

Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, gestures to supporters as she arrives to speak Saturday, June 13, 2015, on Roosevelt Island in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Hillary Clinton: An honorary Member of the Tribe?

Throughout the presidential candidate’s life and career, US Jews have played increasingly relevant roles

Illustrative photo of Tulkarem (screen capture: YouTube)

App Mishap

Oops! Waze directs soldiers to Palestinian city

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Two uniformed Israeli personnel, aiming to get to Jordan Valley, are returned safely from Tulkarem by PA security forces

Officials from El Al Israel Airlines and Boston's Massachusetts Port Authority carry the US and Israeli flags during a launch ceremony for El Al's new Boston-TLV nonstop flights, held on June 28, 2015 at Logan International Airport. (Matt Lebovic)

First nonstop Boston-TLV route launched by El Al

By Matt Lebovic

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Mariah Carey gets a kiss at the Kotel during a visit to Jerusalem on June 29, 2015. (Maria Carey, Instagram)

They belong together?Netanyahus meet with Mariah Carey

Jon Medved (L) and Robert Kraft review Israeli start-ups, Sunday, June 21, 2015 (Courtesy)

Football pros look to Israel to ease pain of the game

By David Shamah

A Yemeni man sits on the rubble as people search for suvivors in houses destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike on a residential area in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on May 1, 2015. (AFP/MOHAMMED HUWAIS)

Humanitarian AIDSIranian report: Saudi meds for Yemen tainted with HIV

By Tamar Pileggi

Members of Shirana choir singing in their new video. (YouTube screen capture)

Moms for peaceArab-Jewish choir updates WWI pacifist song

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Gas rigs in the Tamar field, off the coast of Israel, in June 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGas-trick bypass

By Joshua Davidovich

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