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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 7, 2015

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Remains of a Roman street from Legio, a military camp from the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, next to Megiddo (courtesy)

In first, imperial Roman legionary camp uncovered near Megiddo

By Ilan Ben Zion

Archaeologists unearth remains of 2,000-year-old Galilee garrison of Sixth Legion Ferrata, where 5,000 men kept order at time of Bar Kochba Revolt — the only permanent Roman military camp ever discovered in region

Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay attends a Shas party meeting at the Knesset on June 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Religious services minister: Reform Jews aren’t Jewish, have lost their way

By AP and ToI Staff

Days after cementing hold on conversions, David Azoulay of Shas urges Jews to ‘return’ to Orthodoxy

Woman barred from Western Wall for wearing skullcap

By Tamar Pileggi

Panel recommends changes to Orthodox conversion

By Uriel Heilman

Breaking silence, Riskin urges rabbinate to be more inclusive

By JTA

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with foreign ministers of Germany, France, China, Britain, Russia and the European Union at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool photo via AP)

US says Iran nuclear talks to continue until Friday

By AFP and AP

US official says sides to remain in Vienna to ‘allow additional negotiations,’ but EU foreign policy chief insists deadline not extended

Ex-Iran president: Israel a fake, temporary regime

By Tamar Pileggi

As Iran nuke deadline nears, US resolve is tested

By Bradley Klapper

Iran says it took ‘major step’ in meet with nuclear monitors

By AFP

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with foreign ministers of Germany, France, China, Britain, Russia and the European Union at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

US official: If nuclear talks collapse, it would be ‘a tragedy’

By Marissa Newman

PM condemns minister’s ‘hurtful’ remarks against Reform Jews; US confirms Vienna negotiations to continue until Friday

Illustrative: A Palestinian man walks by a graffiti sign calling to boycott Israel seen in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, February 11, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State report: Boycott could cost Israel NIS 40 billion per year

Finance Ministry economists outline range of scenarios from boycott by European stores to broad EU sanctions

Clinton issues missives against Israel boycott movement

By Eytan Weinstein

Report: Israel asked UK to vote in favor of UN Gaza resolution

US mayors urge European counterparts to condemn anti-Semitism

By JTA

William A. Jacobson

Those Democratic Party opinion elites

Don’t panic over that dubious data — the end of bipartisan American support for Israel is not nigh at all

To win back the support of disillusioned American Jews, Israel must take real steps to end the occupation

A year after Gaza war, scars and healing

Folks at Kibbutz Nirim are moving on even while walking daily past the site where friends met violent deaths

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Beit Shemesh, where King David lost

The wanton and frenetic construction of ultra-Orthodox housing is bulldozing precious archeological history

The Jewish Standard's homepage

Analysis

Introducing Times of Israel Local

By David Horovitz

We welcome New Jersey’s Jewish Standard, our first partner in an exciting Times of Israel initiative to bring new resonance to local Jewish journalism. And we invite other publishers to consider joining us

Ahava Emunah Lange (Courtesy)

How social media helped an Israeli cancer victim beat big pharma

By David Shamah

In just a day, says Ahava Emunah Lange, her online friends convinced obdurate US drug firm Tesaro to release information she desperately needs for further treatment

Six Arab Israelis, four of them teachers, who were arrested by the Shin Bet for supporting the Islamic State (Courtesy/Shin Bet)

Israeli teachers indicted for backing IS, pushing jihad in class

By Marissa Newman

Others also charged; some in group, most of whom are Negev Bedouin, planned to join extremist fighters in Syria

A memorial dedicated to the 52 people that were killed during the 7/7 terror attacks in London is pictured in London's Hyde Park on July 6, 2015 (Niklas Halle'n/AFP)

Under Tunisia’s shadow, UK marks 2005 London bombings

By Alice Ritchie

Ten-year anniversary of terror attacks that killed 52 people comes days after commemorations of most recent jihadist victims

Muslims pray on the Temple Mount at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, July 28, 2014. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Jews barred from Temple Mount until end of Ramadan

Israel Police notes that the ban occurs annually, while Jewish activists call it a ‘surrender to terrorism’

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of Operation Protective Edge at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2015. (Gili Yohanan/Flash90/Pool)

At first Gaza war memorial, Rivlin warns next conflict could be worse

By Tamar Pileggi

President says Gaza can’t be rehabilitated unless renewed rocket fire stops; Netanyahu issues warnings to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and IS

Image taken from the video of HSBC staff in Birmingham performing a mock Islamic State execution. (Screen capture: The Sun)

UK bank fires staff for mock Islamic State execution video

By AFP

In film posted online, HSBC staff dressed in balaclavas, hold ‘knife’ over kneeling man in orange jumpsuit

Mutasim Ali speaks to Channel 2 television. (YouTube screen capture, Gadi Dan)

Weinstein orders asylum seeker freed after years of appeals

Darfur native Mutasim Ali to be released from Holot detention center, vows to keep fighting for fellow migrants

Illustrative: Athens's Jewish school. (JTA Photo)

Greek Jews struggle amid state’s financial crisis

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Due to banks closing, Athens Jewish Community cannot provide for the many who rely on welfare payments

President Reuven Rivlin (L) meets with Greek Foreign Minister Nikolaos Kotzias (R), at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin says he ‘shares pain’ of Greek FM over debt crisis

An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig off the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, June 23, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

US energy giant rules out more concessions on Israel gas deal

Noble Energy threatens to sink contentious agreement to drill for natural gas off Israel’s coast

Defendant and German former SS officer Oskar Groening, 94, dubbed the 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz,' reacts at the courtroom in Lueneburg, northern Germany, ahead of his trial on July 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / POOL/ PHILIPP SCHULZE)

Prosecutors seek jail time for ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’

By AFP

Oskar Groening, 94, stands accused of 300,000 counts of ‘accessory to murder’ in deporting Hungarian Jews to gas chambers in 1944

Branko Lusting, seen here in a photo from 2009. (Public domain/Wikipedia)

‘Schindler’s List’ producer to give his Oscar to Yad Vashem

Branko Lustig says Holocaust museum is most appropriate place for Academy Award statuette; Croatian president to attend ceremony

Illustrative image of bitcoins (Courtesy BitsofGold)

Think bitcoin is dead? Here’s why it’s making a comeback

By Simona Weinglass

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Actress Mila Kunis playfully pulls down the hat of actor Ashton Kutcher before a Los Angeles Lakers' NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz, January 3, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

Match made on TVKunis, Kutcher said to have secret wedding

By JTA and ToI Staff

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman on the cover of July 10's Entertainment Weekly, flanked by Ben Affleck's Batman (L) and Henry Cavill's Superman (R) (YouTube screenshot)

Super HeroineIsrael’s Wonder Woman gets cover girl treatment

Chart shows the level of Israeli exit activity in recent years (IVC-Meitar Exit Report)

2015 Israeli tech exits could beat record, report shows

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) congratulates then-incoming Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

Supreme Court judge: PM can’t head other ministries

By Jonathan Beck

Likud's Yuval Steinitz. in casual dress, sitting next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset late Monday night, in a photo tweeted by Zionist Union MK Shelly Yacimovich. (Screen capture Twitter)

Budget delay passes, with help from a slippered Steinitz

By Jonathan Beck

IDF to set up special commando brigade

By Jonathan Beck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with the owners of the Israeli start-up Waze in Jerusalem, January 15, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Google readies Tel Aviv beta for ride-sharing via Waze

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin attend a ceremony marking one year since Operation Protective Edge at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 6, 2015.(Haim Zach/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewA year on, saluting Israel’s fallen

By Marissa Newman

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