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What Matters Most On Friday, July 3, 2015

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New head of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Jonathan Arkush at the Golders Green Together rally on July 3, 2015. (Jenni Frazer/The Times of Israel)

Israeli flags not welcome at London rally against anti-Semitism

By Jenni Frazer

Speaking at pluralistic Golders Green Together counter-protest, ahead of a planned neo-Nazi rally, local MP Mike Freer says Israeli flags ‘don’t help’

Illustrative. A rocket is fired at Israel from Gaza on August 9, 2014. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

Two rockets explode in southern Israel

By Itamar Sharon

Israeli officials believe launch came from Sinai peninsula, though Gaza jihadists claim attack; no casualties or damage

Egyptians carry the coffin of 1st Lt. Mohammed Adel Abdel Azeem -- killed on July 1, 2015, in an attack by Islamic extremists in the Sinai -- during the funeral procession in his home village of Tant al-Jazeera, north of Cairo, Egypt, July 2, 2015. (Hassan Ammar)

Egypt warplanes strike back at extremists in troubled Sinai

Tensions soar after unprecedented terror attack devastates country as it marks second year since ouster of Islamist president

IDF shuts route along Egypt border after IS-linked Sinai attack

Israeli army says Hamas helping Islamic State in Sinai

Israel giving Egyptian army free hand in Sinai, official says

By Elhanan Miller

Lion in the garden of Palmyra Archeological Museum (Wikipedia)

IS destroys iconic lion statue at Syria’s Palmyra museum

By AFP

Irreplaceable Lion of al-Lat was 2,000 years old; brutal terror group also smashes other artifacts from Palmyra

Britain holds a minute’s silence for Tunisia terror victims

By AFP

Obama’s counterterrorism policy facing mounting criticism

By Ken Dilanian

Turkish PM denies plans for imminent intervention in Syria

By AFP

Greece’s porous, unpatrolled border

How risky is it to permit unchecked Mideast refugees to flow into Northern Europe?

The people that dwells alone?

Balaam’s description of an isolated nation has all too often been interpreted as Jewish destiny (Balak)

Peta Jones Pellach

17th of Tammuz: Why do I fast?

The eve of the weeks commemorating the Temples’ destruction is a time to love others and connect to the Divine

For Liberman, opposition is a gas

Our Knesset sleuth’s weekly round-up: Teflon Kahlon; Six-term Bibi? Oren Hazan’s comeback

An ultra-Orthodox Jew on the New York subway: ‘The wealth of New York’s Jewish cultural life blew my mind’. (Andrew Bayda/Shutterstock)

Reporter's Notebook

What shocked a European Jew on his first trip to America

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

Episcopal Church rejects Israel boycott resolutions

By ToI Staff and JTA

Separately, leading Mennonite group delays decision on divesting from companies tied to Israeli control of West Bank

Republican presidential candidate US Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on April 25, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

Cruz blasts Obama for opening embassy in Havana before Jerusalem

By JTA

Republican candidate, whose father immigrated from Cuba, says president appeases enemies, abandons friends

A same-sex marriage supporter celebrating in San Francisco following the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, June 26, 2015. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/via JTA)

In saying ‘we don’t’ to gay marriage, Orthodox Jews brace for consequences

American Orthodox Jewish groups worry tax status and government grants are now on the line

Palestinian security forces participate in a training exercise in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, November 23, 2013. (AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Analysis

PA arrests 108 Hamas members in West Bank

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Terror group accuses Abbas forces of working for Israel, says it won’t stop attacks against Israelis

Illustrative. The windshield of an IDF military vehicle is shattered by Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank, July 3, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Palestinian stone-thrower killed by IDF troops in West Bank

Youth attacks military vehicle, dies of wounds after being shot by forces north of Jerusalem; military investigating incident

An Iron Dome battery intercepts an incoming rocket during the summer 2014 war (photo credit: IDF)

Iron Dome gets mysterious upgrade

By Mitch Ginsburg

Defense Ministry announces an improvement to the missile defense system, against unspecified ‘unprecedented threats’

Human cancer cells with nuclei (specifically the DNA) stained blue. The central and rightmost cell are in interphase, so the entire nuclei are labeled. The cell on the left is going through mitosis and its DNA has condensed. (TenOfAllTrades/Wikipedia)

Analysis

Single-cell breakthroughs let scientists see exactly what we’re all made of

By David Horovitz

Suicide note posted on Facebook. The writer reportedly killed herself in October 2014 (Facebook)

Social media analysis may help prevent terror attacks, study shows

By David Shamah

‘Sentiment’ can tell whether a Facebook post means an act of terrorism or a suicide is likely, according to Eden Saig

Zack Weisfeld at the sixth Demo Day of MS Ventures Accelerator, June 29, 2015 (Courtesy)

Top Israeli tech firms ‘graduate’ for 6th time at MS accelerator

By David Shamah

Start-ups of the world’s most prestigious programs present their technology at a major Tel Aviv event

Opening night of the annual Jerusalem Film Festival is always held at Sultan's Pool, under the walls of the Old City. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Emotional upheaval, loneliness and love at Jerusalem Film Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Tractor hauling wagon caging 62 children, police stopped the driver in Shaab in northern Israel on July 2, 2015. Screenshot/Channel 2 News

Loaded questionDriver pulled over with unusual cargo: 62 kids

By Eytan Weinstein

Iranian actor Bahram Radan. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Reprehensible, not historicIran’s Brad Pitt sorry for pro-gay marriage tweet

Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin greet the freed hostages on July 4, 1976 (courtesy of IDF Archive)

39 years after Entebbe, IDF releases operation log

By Mitch Ginsburg

Rails in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, southern Poland, 2005. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

No fun, no gamesGoogle-owned video game sent players to Nazi camps

By ToI Staff and AP

Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK (Rafał Sosin)

Polish art museum features naked tag game in gas chamber

By JTA

Sir Nicholas Winton waits to be decorated with the highest Czech Republic's decoration, The Order of the White Lion, in Prague, October 28, 2014. Winton died July 1, 2015, at the age of 106. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)

Winton’s listWinton’s rescue of Jewish kids revealed after 50 years

By Naomi Koppel

A photo shared by the Egyptian military shows a weapons cache seized from IS-linked jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula, July 2, 2015. (Facebook/Egyptian army)

Hebrew Media ReviewJihadi dread in the Sinai

By Adiv Sterman

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