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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 12, 2015

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US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer, left, meet with other members of the US delegation at the garden of the Palais Coburg hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria, Friday July 10, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)

Iran nuke deal announcement planned Monday, diplomats say

By George Jahn and Matthew Lee

Provisional agreement could be ready Sunday before review in seven capitals, but State Department official cautions ‘major issues’ remain

Kerry ‘hopeful’ that Iran nuclear deal is near

Nuke deal will encourage Iranian terror, Foreign Ministry chief says

Iran trade with Gulf neighbors set to grow, but oil spat looms

By AFP

Gidi Gov at 'Tehran airport' in a new Bezeq ad (screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

Why I love Israel’s daft new Iran ‘Stop the Bomb’ ad

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: What kind of deranged minds thought up a crazy commercial like that at a dismal time like this? Creative, light-hearted, unquashable Israeli minds, that’s what kind

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran on June 13, 2015. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

Live updates (closed)

Rouhani: I fulfilled election promise to resolve nuke issue

By Marissa Newman

Iranian president indicates deal close; Senate majority leader says Iran deal will be ‘hard sell’ in Congress

Rabbi Charles Davidson, with Naftali and Michal Segev, whose halachic marriage he performed illegally, outside the framework of the Israeli Rabbinate (Channel 2 screenshot)

Risking jail, two Orthodox rabbis admit to performing non-rabbinate marriages

Chuck Davidson and Elli Fischer acknowledge their ‘crime,’ tell Channel 2 that Israel must separate religion from state

MK Stav Shaffir (to the right of wedding couple) participates in a Reform Jewish wedding ceremony in front of the Knesset, in protest of the Orthodox rabbinate's monopoly on marriage licensing and the lack of civil marriage in Israel. (Flash90)

AnalysisWhy is there no civil marriage in Israel?

By Eric Cortellessa

My wife and I are not legally married

Why he and his bride opted to have an Orthodox Jewish wedding in Israel with no help from the Rabbinate

Emily B. Landau

Taking stock of a failed negotiation

On the eve of a deal, it’s clear that the talks were a zero sum game and that US acquiescence was seen as weakness

Give the brave Kurds a fighting chance

While the US arms shaky and shady regional players, only one force, with subpar weapons, is beating back ISIL

A nun inspects the damage at the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, June 18, 2015. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Police arrest Jewish suspects in arson at ‘loaves and fishes’ church

Number of suspects and their identity under gag order; attack on historic site had sparked Vatican condemnation

Christopher Marinello, CEO of Art Recovery Group, poses for a photograph in central London on July 8, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N)

The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of Nazi-looted art

By Jessica Berthereau

A Palestinian man holds up a poster of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan in protest of Adnan's previous administrative detention, February 10, 2012. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Israel frees Palestinian detainee after hunger strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

Khader Adnan, said to be a leader of Islamic Jihad, was held for a year without trial; strike nearly led to his death

Palestinians salvage possessions at their destroyed houses during a 12-hour cease-fire in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Israel opens first investigation of senior officer over Gaza war

By Tamar Pileggi and Daniel Bernstein

Investigators suspect Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun may have ordered bombardment of a clinic as retribution for the death of a soldier

Smoke rises in Egypt's northern Sinai, as seen from the border of the Gaza Strip, amid fierce clashes between government forces and Islamic State-affiliated gunmen on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

An unlikely alliance between Hamas and Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Gaza’s ruling terror group is spying on Egypt, training IS jihadists and smuggling arms — all while cracking down on Gaza’s home-grown Salafis

Family of Israeli Arab held in Egypt: PM ignored us because we’re not Jews

By Tamar Pileggi

Ouda Tarabin’s family say no official has called or visited in the 15 years since the teen was jailed in Cairo for espionage

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 12, 2015. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Netanyahu shelves death penalty bill for convicted terrorists

By Avi Lewis and Raphael Ahren

Prime minister orders Likud lawmakers to vote against proposal that would see courts empowered to hand down capital punishment

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/File)

Khamenei: Iran will fight against US arrogance regardless of nuke deal

Supreme leader calls America ’embodiment of global arrogance,’ says challenging it is at core of Islamic Revolution

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), talks to a journalist from a balcony of the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, on July 10, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)

Iran managed to ‘charm the world,’ says Rouhani

Iranian president tells artists nuclear talks ‘showed the world that we are logical’ — even if they fail

Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin is the subject of a new book, 'Single Handed.' (YouTube screenshot)

The Holocaust survivor recognized, belatedly, as a Korean War hero

By Jerry Harkavy

Crowds gather outside the Italian Consulate building in Cairo after it was hit by a large explosion on July 11, 2015 (YouTube screen capture)

Egypt ramps up security after Italian consulate blast

By ToI Staff and AFP

Response comes after IS claims responsibility for deadly car bomb and warns Muslims to stay away from ‘legitimate targets’

Bar mitzvah-themed storytelling events such as Rebar in Brooklyn seek to prompt reflection on the ritual. (Emmanuel Abreu/via JTA)

NY project reboots iconic American bar mitzvah experience

By Julie Wiener

With the motto ‘Rewind to 13. Fast Forward to Today,’ the Rebar project encourages adults to consider what it would mean to come of age now

The biggest little superhero, Paul Rudd in 'Ant-man' (YouTube screenshot)

Paul Rudd is your friendly neighborhood Jewish superhero

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Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director Roger Rees in May 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File)

Roger Rees, dashing ‘West Wing’ diplomat, secret convert to Judaism, dies at 71

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran's 'Missile Strike' mobile game simulates a missile attack on Israel. It was unveiled on al-Quds Day, July 10, 2015.

Iran launches ‘missile strike’ on Israel in game app

By ToI Staff and Ilan Ben Zion

Part of the book cover to "Go Set A Watchman," a follow-up to Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird," set to be released on July 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Harper)

In new Harper Lee book, Atticus Finch is a racist

By Hillel Italie

Former British prime minister Tony Blair arrives at St. Paul's Cathedral in central London, March 13, 2015. (AFP / BEN STANSALL)

‘Tony Blair negotiating with Hamas for Israelis’ release’

Bodyguards try to protect Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic (C) from stones hurled at him by an angry crowd at the Potocari Memorial Center, near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica on July 11, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF)

Bosnia ‘strongly condemns’ Srebrenica attack on Serb PM

By AFP

File: Likud MK Benny Begin during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, May 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers debate softened version of ‘Jewish state bill’

By Tamar Pileggi

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri (right) speaks with United Torah Judaism leader MK Yaakov Litzman (left) during the opening session of the 20th Knesset, March 31, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Budget row threatens to topple Netanyahu’s government

Jewish Home lawmaker Uri Ariel at a press conference in Jerusalem on January 11, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Debate on Bedouin resettlement put on hold

An Iranian protester holds placards as he stands in front of prints of Israeli, US, British and Saudi Arabian flags during a demonstration to mark the Quds (Jerusalem) International day in Tehran on July 10, 2015. (AFP/ ATTA KENARE)

Hebrew media reviewDealing with the devil

By Joshua Davidovich

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