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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 2, 2015

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Egyptian soldiers stand guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, on May 26, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

For Egypt, avenging Sinai attack may include striking Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

Cairo has already begun to punish the Islamic State for Wednesday’s massive assault; Hamas, which may have supplied anti-aircraft weapons to the militants, may not be immune either

Analysis Ending honeymoon, Sinai turmoil sends Gaza back to square one

By Elhanan Miller

Hamas has close ties to IS affiliates in Sinai, say Israel, Egypt

PM: Sinai bloodbath a sign terrorism ‘knocking on Israel’s borders’

By ToI Staff and AP

Masked members from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades carry a model of a rocket during a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement Hamas at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Central Gaza Strip, December 12, 2014 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas ‘directly assisting’ Islamic State, IDF says

Gaza-based group has been providing weapons and medical aid and training IS fighters in Sinai, according to army

Olga, a Jewish-Ukrainian IDP currently living in a makeshift IDP camp in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye, with her daughter Polina (Anna Moskalkova/WJR)

Reporter's notebook

Tanks, guns and broken glass: The Ukraine war’s nearly forgotten Jewish victims

By Raphael Ahren

A year after fierce fighting engulfed the region, The Times of Israel visits the Jewish community of Zaporozhye, which absorbed hundreds of IDPs

Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, right, shakes hands with the head of the UN's atomic watchdog Yukiya Amano during a meeting in Tehran on July 02, 2015. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)

Nuke watchdog, powers look to pin down Iran deal in fresh push

By AFP

As ministers try to hash out high-stakes pact in Vienna, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano visits Tehran to convince leadership to come clean on past activity

Britain: ‘No breakthrough moment yet’ in Iran talks

By AFP

Influential NY senator urged to tip balance in Iran talks

By Andrew Tobin

UN report positive on Iran nuclear commitments

By George Jahn and Matthew Lee

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

A year after tragedy: Silver linings

On the anniversary of the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, currents of compassion, respect and unity

Shmuley Boteach

Gay Marriage and the End of Days

The Bible clearly opposes homosexuality, yet the Supreme Court ruling is a victory for dignity and equality

Aryeh Ben David

On a New York City subway

He gave a beggar a dollar and in return he got back way more

Edmon J. Rodman

July 4th weekend dilemma: Feast or fast?

What’s an observant Jewish American patriot to do when Independence Day falls on a traditional day of mourning?

Jeremiah Duggan (L) was allegedly hit once at high speed, then got up and ran into traffic again in a suicide attempt before his 2003 death in Germany. His mother Erica (R), in her London home. (courtesy)

Did German police cover up anti-Semitic killing of UK Jewish student?

By Jenni Frazer

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert arrives in court in Jerusalem on May 25, 2015. (David Vaaknin/POOL)

Ex-premier Olmert appeals sentence in Talansky affair

Former PM asks for eight-month sentence on graft charges to be pushed off to a later date

A Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 photo from files of Sir Nicholas Winton waiting to be decorated with the highest Czech Republic's decoration, The Order of the White Lion at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic. Winton, who saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 106. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

‘Britain’s Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton dies at 106

By Naomi Koppel

As a young clerk in Nazi-occupied Prague, Winton saved more than 650 Jewish children from transportion to concentration camps

MK Basel Ghattas from the Arab (Joint) List on board the Gaza-bound Marianne of Gothenburg ship, June 30, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Footage shows Israeli soldiers debating activists before boarding Gaza-bound boat

By Daniel Bernstein

In video, officer heard reprimanding ex-Tunisian president and telling Arab MK ‘there is no shortage in Gaza’; MK earlier filmed sitting next to Hamas official

Former commander of the Tzabar battalion of the IDF Givati Brigade Liran Hajabi (R) seen in court in Tel Aviv on July 2, 2015. (Flash90)

IDF officer accused of sexual harassment demoted

By Marissa Newman and Stuart Winer

Liran Hajbi reduced to a major, ordered to pay NIS 5,000 fine and given two-month suspended sentence

Israelis hold signs and wave flags during a demonstration outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act against recent Palestinian attacks against Israelis. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israelis protest against deadly Palestinian attacks

By AP

Spate of shooting, stabbing attacks sparks Jerusalem rally demanding that Netanyahu ‘stop the terror wave’

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas, Hezbollah said to discuss Israel ceasefire

Moussa Abu Marzouk visits Beirut in secret to meet Hassan Nasrallah over reported backchannel talks with Israel

The late Amy Winehouse is the subject of Asif Kapadia's emotional documentary "Amy." (Mark Okoh, Camera Press)

Film Review

In Winehouse doc ‘Amy,’ celebrity is the villain

The Al-Midan theater in Haifa (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Haifa city funding of ‘terror’ play theater draws fury

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Council member claims his approval of restoration of monies was forged; MK Liberman calls on mayor to resign

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey (R) participate in a news conference July 1, 2015 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Iran among states posing ‘serious security concerns,’ says US military

By AFP

Quadrennial strategy report warns of Russia, China role in growing ‘global disorder,’ erosion in US technological edge over enemies

Toronto's College Street streetcar. (Screenshot from 'Der Konduktor' by Jeffrey P. Nesker)

Toronto composer revives streetcar conductor’s Yiddish poetry

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

The Roman bootprint found in northern Israel. Inset: a 3D scan of the print (courtesy Michael Eisenberg)

Historical footnoteRoman boots leave 2,000-year impression

By Ilan Ben Zion

Chanel Efraimov of Sderot. (Screenshot/Channel 1)

It takes a villageLittle Chanel’s happiest birthday ever

Passenger at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Popular rabbi nabbed at airport over sex crimes accusations

French President Francois Hollande, right, bids farewell to President of the European Jewish Congress Moshe Kantor, left, after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Hollande: Paris center ensures French Jewry’s future

By JTA

Some of the over 2,000 attendees at the Amazon AWS Summit in Tel Aviv, June 25, 2015 (Courtesy)

Amazon to expand its operations in Israel

By David Shamah

Former SS officer Oskar Groening, 94, sits in the courtroom in Lueneburg , northern Germany, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP)

Former Auschwitz guard asks God for forgiveness at trial

By David Rising

In this Nov. 6, 2014, file photo, an Egyptian armored vehicle is seen on the Egyptian side of the border across from Rafah in north Sinai. (Ahmed Abd El Latif, El Shorouk Newspaper/AP)

Hebrew media reviewTaking stock of the war next door

By Ilan Ben Zion

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