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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 5, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Flash 90/Emil Salman/POOL)

Netanyahu: Western powers ‘collapsed’ in nuclear talks

By Adiv Sterman

PM says emerging Iran deal is worse than the agreement with North Korea, which went on to produce atomic arsenal

Israel angrily warns powers caving to Iran in nuke talks

By ToI Staff and AP

Clinton: Hoping for Iran deal, though it won’t end threat

By AP and AFP

Key lawmaker backs softer language in urging tougher Iran stance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Analysis

Israel losing Democrats, ‘can’t claim bipartisan US support,’ top pollster warns

By David Horovitz

New survey by Frank Luntz shows almost half of Democratic ‘opinion elites’ think Israel is racist, barely half believe it wants peace, and three quarters feel it has too much influence on US policy

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini at a hotel where the Iran nuclear talks are being held in Vienna, Austria on July 2, 2015. (Carlos Barria/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin calls for Jews, Arabs to build trust to combat hate

President makes plea at traditional iftar break fast meal, says PA must do more to stamp out terror

Ephraim Bracha, at the time a chief superintendent, seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 20, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Head of Israel Police fraud unit commits suicide

By Stuart Winer

Ephraim Bracha, 55, shoots himself in his car near his home; was linked to high-profile bribery case involving influential rabbi

Police at the scene of where Deputy Commissioner Ephraim Bracha, head of the Israel Police’s National Fraud Unit, shot himself in his car near his home in the city of Modiin July 5, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior cop who took his own life had talked of suicide

By Stuart Winer

Does Judaism really favor pluralism?

Numerous scriptural sources promote tolerance for multiple viewpoints: Yes to Jewish unity — no to uniformity

Elham Nasser Eddin

Out of the hijab, into the fire

Opting to stop wearing the traditional headscarf has brought less suspicion, more freedom and awkward comments

Yossi Klein Halevi

It’s time to stop demonizing Michael Oren

Op-Ed: My friend has been called everything from a publicity hound to a virtual traitor. But he is one of the Jewish people’s most selfless public servants, and he wrote ‘Ally’ to challenge Obama’s Iranian policy, which is placing Israel under existential threat

The entrance to the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, November 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Conversion reforms struck down by cabinet

By Adiv Sterman

Ministers also vote to hand control of rabbinical courts to Shas, cementing significant gains for ultra-Orthodox parties

Illustrative photo of Palestinian security forces (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

PA determined to curb Hamas resistance in West Bank

By Avi Issacharoff

Abbas understands that recent terror attacks by group against Israelis are first and foremost a challenge to his rule

In this August 1, 2014, file photo, Palestinians carry their belongings through the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shujaiyah, close to the Israeli border. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Analysis

In war-ravaged Gaza, the same old story, only worse

By Avi Issacharoff

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

Analysis

Hamas, Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guards said to meet in Beirut

By ToI Staff and Avi Issacharoff

Terror group members, Iran officials break Ramadan fast in Lebanese capital in another sign of rapprochement

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv on July 4, 2015 against a plan to allow America's Noble Energy and Israel's Delek Group access to Israel's Tamar and Leviathan offshore natural gas reserves. (Tomer Neugberg/Flash90)

Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv against natural gas deal

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Demonstrations against US-Israel energy conglomerate to exploit offshore reserves also held in Jerusalem, Beersheba

Illustrative image of two dozen neo-Nazis demonstrating in London on July 4, 2015 against the 'Jewification' of Golders Green in London. They were outnumbered by some 200 counter-demonstrators. (Screen capture/TheBlaze/YouTube. Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

London neo-Nazis outnumbered by counter-protesters

200 demonstrators shout ‘Nazis off our streets’ as two dozen racists wave Palestinian, Confederate flags

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a party meeting at the Knesset on June 29, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: Netanyahu government won’t last the year

By Tamar Pileggi

Former ally says PM’s policies eroding Israeli deterrence against terror; calls decision to divide Foreign Ministry a ‘pogrom’

Jewish Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman in an ESPN photo shoot. (YouTube screenshot)

'Imperfection is beauty'

Jewish gymnast bares all on beam

Gold medalist Aly Raisman reflects on body image and athletic focus for a new, nude video on ESPN

Sighted and visually impaired members of the Israeli CanVelo organization on a tandem bike in the Czech Republic. (photo courtesy of Ken Milman)

Blind and sighted on bicycles built for two

By Ramona Tausz

Members of CanVelo, an Israeli organization for the visually impaired, cycle into a new adventure

Jerusalem-based chef Moshe Basson, owner of the Eucalyptus restaurant and cheerleader of the slow food movement, demonstrates at London's Gefiltefest on June 28, 2015. (Zoe Paskett)

London welcomes Israeli (foodie) invasion

By Jenni Frazer

More Headlines

Mayim Bialik's self-portrait after her 14-hour trip home from Israel with her two sons (Courtesy Mayim Bialik Twitter feed)

Blossom in the landMayim Bialik takes her kids to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

A man, reportedly former Palestinian Gaza Strip resident Issa a-Lakta, delivers a warning that the Islamic State group will topple Hamas. (YouTube/Usa News)

Over the humpIslamic State militant was booted from Hamas

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Site of the ancient royal city of Susa, or known in the Old Testament as Shushan, Iran (Wikimedia/ Pentocelo/public domain)

Susa, of Purim story fame, becomes World Heritage Site

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky, Pool)

Hebrew media reviewAngst over Iran, Sinai and the West Bank

By Ilan Ben Zion

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