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What Matters Most On Friday, July 17, 2015

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A bullet ridden picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, is displayed in Bent Jbail, Lebanon. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images, via JTA)

Iran ‘played the West like a harp,’ sighs one of many wary exiles

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In Europe, in wake of nuke deal, dissidents warn that the mullahs can’t be trusted

Poll: 47 percent of Israelis back Iran strike following nuke deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Saudi prince: Iran deal worse than failed N. Korea pact

We never thought Iran deal was cure-all, Hammond tells Israeli TV

By Judah Ari Gross and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Jerusalem, July 16, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / DEBBIE HILL)

Netanyahu rebukes UK’s Hammond for ‘failure of diplomacy’ on Iran

By Tamar Pileggi

PM hits back at visiting British foreign secretary, who on Wednesday claimed there was no deal that would have been ‘welcomed in Tel Aviv’

AIPAC to fight White House head-to-head in battle over Iran deal

Sen. Schumer squeezed on Obama’s Iran nuclear deal

By Erica Werner

AnalysisRepublicans are against Iran deal, with or without reading it

File: Wendy Sherman in Jerusalem, February 2014. (YouTube/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israel’s input was ‘essential’ in developing Iran deal — top US official

By Raphael Ahren

Wendy Sherman claims 24-day notice of inspections is a ‘very, very short time,’ reveals PM has rebuffed US offer of upgraded defense assistance

Nathalie Lastreger signing her ketubba (marriage contract) ahead of her 2004 Conservative unreported private wedding ceremony. (courtesy)

Though she may be jailed, observant woman won’t enter rabbinate court for divorce

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Conservative rabbinical student Nathalie Lastreger ready to be civil marriage’s ‘Rosa Parks’. Won’t let the Orthodox control her life, will take fight to Supreme Court

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

A Jewish-Muslim perspective for Ramadan

As the monthlong Moslem holiday concludes, a look at two religious geniuses, Maimonides and Al-Ghazali

Shmuley Boteach

Chabad must now embrace Zionism

The global network exists to serve the Jewish people — and the future of the Jews depends on the State of Israel

In 100 feet, turn east: How Waze helped me find my way home

The billion dollar sale of the navigation and mapping firm did more than just make its investors money

Sergei Ustinov, director of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia and vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress (YouTube screen capture)

Moscow’s Jewish museum chief shot in the neck

By ToI Staff and JTA

Sergei Ustinov, vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, seriously injured in possible anti-Semitic attack

Daniel Charkow admires the creations of Israeli shoe designer Kobi Levi. Clockwise, from left: Watermelon, Miao, Banana and the Madonna-inspired Blond Ambition (Courtesy of Kobi Levi via JTA)

Fantastical footwear

Meet Lady Gaga’s Israeli shoe designer

Kobi Levi’s creations are wearable works of warped and dreamy art

Aaron and Tracy Beavers and family at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on their way to Israel to make aliyah, July 13, 2015. (Courtesy of Shahar Azran/Nefesh B’Nefesh/JTA)

Americans make aliyah, with lacrosse, IDF service and real estate dreams beckoning

By Gabe Friedman

Avigail and Yael Gross (Courtesy of the Gross family)

Parents of girls poisoned to death sue for NIS 11 million

Year after extermination accident killed their daughters, Michal and Shimon Gross file negligence suit against host of defendants

Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the suspected gunman in the Chattanooga shootings, July 16, 2015

Chattanooga shooter an ‘all-American kid’… with a bitter blog

By AFP

‘My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?’ suspected gunman Muhammad Abdulazeez wrote in high school yearbook

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (unseen) in Jerusalem on July 16, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

PM slams ICC demand to reopen probe into Mavi Marmara raid

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says judges motivated by ‘cynical, political reasons,’ vows to defend IDF against ‘hypocrisy’ in international arena

Oren loves riding his bike, wearing hats and playing ball. He has polymicrogyria, which affects the development of his brain (Rick Guidotti)

Photographer zooms in on beauty of the disabled

Rick Guidotti’s ‘Positive Exposure’ exhibit in Ramat Aviv looks to change perceptions of people living with albinism, dwarfism

Deputy FM to require foreign dignitaries to visit Western Wall

By Judah Ari Gross

Hotovely wants to add Old City to itinerary for visiting diplomats, even though world doesn’t recognize Israeli sovereignty there

Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat (left), with Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, at a MadeinJLM event on May 21, 2014 (Courtesy)

Jerusalem techies show each other, and the world, a little love

By David Shamah

Firgun Day, July 17, is an opportunity to tell others how you appreciate them, and to appreciate one of the world’s emerging tech hubs

Safed Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, accused of sexual crimes against several women. (YouTube screen capture)

Safed yeshiva head is the rabbi nabbed for alleged sex crimes

At his seminary, popular Kabbalist Ezra Sheinberg’s books have been trashed: ‘He is an abomination in the eyes of students’

Palestinians, foreigners and Israeli peace activists demonstrate in the southern West Bank village of Sussiya against the demolition of the Palestinian village in the Hebron Hills, on June 5, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

US warns Israel against demolishing Palestinian town

By Itamar Sharon and JTA

State Department urges authorities to find solution to illegally built Sussiya, whose eviction ‘would be harmful and provocative’

Egyptian students from Cairo University, supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, demonstrate on campus, March 19, 2014. (AFP/Topshots/Mohamed el-Shahed)

Six dead as Egypt police clash with protesters

By AFP

Officials say pro-Islamist demonstrators attacked security forces in Cairo

Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar, August 2014 (screen capture: Yahoo News)

Hamas leader Mashaal meets with Saudi king

By ToI Staff and Adiv Sterman

Top officials from terror group, monarchy convene for first time in 3 years, discuss Palestinian unity and regional developments

Yemeni fighters loyal to exiled President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi hold the movement's flag and brandish their weapons in Aden's Khormaksar district, on July 15, 2015. (AFP/Saleh al-Obeidi)

Aden ‘liberated,’ says exiled Yemen VP

By AFP

Four months of fierce combat over the rebel-held city have come to an end, according to Khaled Bahah

'Ripped Stockings' by Angela Strassheim, from the Israel Museum's 'Happy Birthday' exhibit (Courtesy Israel Museum)

Summer is in full swing, with much fun to be had

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

OP-EDUnlike Netanyahu, Dermer blasts the Iran deal with facts

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plays with a soccer ball as he meets young cancer patients and the FC Barcelona soccer team, prior to FC Barcelona's open practice in Jaffa's Bloomfield Stadium, near Tel Aviv, Sunday, August 4, 2013 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Just for kicksIn high-school soccer, Netanyahu was left-winger

By AP and ToI Staff

Josh, Shelly, Sarah and Maura (formerly Mort) mourn the death of Shelly's second husband in 'Transparent.' (Courtesy Amazon Studios)

Emmy nominees include ‘Who’s Who’ of A-List Jews

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of people walking and talking on their phones in Jerusalem. (Louis Fisher/Flash90)

Listen up!3 years jail for phone theft? Absolutely, says appeals judge

Marijuana. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Smoke a boneJoint relief: Marijuana helps mend broken bones

By Judah Ari Gross

Samsung Electronics headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, file (AFP)

Samsung removes cartoons mocking Jewish hedge-fund founder

By JTA

From left to right: RoboDrink inventors Zorik Gechman, Michal Friedman and Yoav Mizrahi (Courtesy)

Next robot revolution — a virtual bartender?

By David Shamah

Facebook login page (photo credit: CC BY Jim Whimpey/Flickr)

LogDog raises $3.5m for ‘gate protection’ service

By David Shamah

A view of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor (Youtube screen capture)

Hebrew media reviewSounding the alarm on Iran deal

By Adiv Sterman

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