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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 29, 2015

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Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC, May 1998. (AP/Karl DeBlaker/File)

Jonathan Pollard, jailed spy for Israel, to be paroled November 20

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

Lawyers for former US Navy analyst pass on his thanks to supporters, urge Obama to allow him to leave US for Israel

Pollard parole will do nothing to improve US-Israel ties, experts say

By Raphael Ahren

US won’t let Pollard move to Israel for five years, official says

By ToI Staff and AP

Israel ‘looking forward’ to Jonathan Pollard’s release, Netanyahu says

By ToI Staff and AFP

Pictured: Israeli security forces watching as a tractor begins to demolish two buildings in the Israeli settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)demolish two buildings in the Israeli settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

As two buildings torn down at Beit El, Netanyahu approves 300 more

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Bulldozers demolish illegal structures amid protests from settlers; MK says court should be razed for upholding demolition

Israeli security forces walk by a building in which Israeli settlers had barricaded themselves to resist an evacuation at the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank town of Ramallah on July 28, 2015. (Flash90)

High Court orders 2 settlement buildings torn down

The European Union flag (Serge Attal/Flash 90)

Live updates (closed)

EU demands Israel walk back green-light for settlement building

By Judah Ari Gross and Avi Lewis

European Union officials say decision to authorize 800 units calls Jerusalem’s desire for peace into question

A detail from the cover of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited

Dylan was still writing the lyrics as we recorded

By Harvey Brooks

Bass guitarist Harvey Brooks was only 21 when he got the call to play on Highway 61 Revisited. 50 years later, Brooks recalls the sessions, and the creative genius of Bob Dylan, an artist at work

Disengagement’s silver lining

Since Israel departed Gaza in 2005, an empowered Hamas and the PA have fought each other instead

Richard L. Cravatts

What Kaukab Siddique is allowed to say

The tenured professor’s employer says his anti-Semitic rants are OK because they are his private views

File: Members of Israel's Maccabi team at Berlin's so-called 'Maifeld,' where the Nazis once held mass rallies, on July 28, 2015. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)

Maccabi Games open in Berlin in ‘triumph over evil’

By AFP

Illustrative: An explosion on the Syrian Golan Heights on June 16, 2015, as the al-Nusra Front fights against Assad's troops near the Syrian Druze village of Hader. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Analysis

Several killed in reported Israeli strike in Syria

By Joshua Davidovich, Avi Issacharoff and AFP

Members of Hezbollah, regime-backed group, said killed in strike near Hader, according to reports by Lebanese media, watchdog

Smoke billowing following an IDF strike east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. (AFP/SAID KHATIB/file)

Israel rejects ‘flawed’ war crime claim by rights group

By AFP and ToI Staff

Amnesty International says ‘strong evidence’ that bombardment after capture of IDF soldier disregarded civilian lives

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Edward Royce with Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Kerry: Without deal, Iran would push for the bomb

By Tamar Pileggi

In House hearing, diplomat seeks to clear up ‘public distortions’ on deal; GOP panel chair says agreement lackluster on sanctions, inspections

Secretary of State John Kerry, center, flanked by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, right, and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Iran nuclear agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

In Congress, Kerry unsure if Iran wishes to destroy US

By ToI Staff and AP

Top US diplomat tells Republican Ted Poe that despite ‘great enmity,’ there’s no known plan ‘to actually destroy us’

Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington after attending a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and the House Democratic Caucus to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, July 15, 2015. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

7 Jewish lawmakers could tilt the scales on Iran deal

Critical group of members of Congress shut out the noise as they consider how to vote on nuclear accord

US Secretary of State John Kerry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Netanyahu said to bitterly attack Kerry for placing Israel ‘on the menu’ of Iran deal

Responding to secretary’s decision to skip Israel on Mideast trip next week, PM reportedly snipes ‘he has no reason to come here’

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) greets his French counterpart Laurent Fabius prior to their talks in Tehran on July 29, 2015. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits France during the last week of January 2016. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

Iran president invited to Paris as sides seek to boost ties

By AFP

French FM Fabius, visiting Tehran, calls for a kickstart to bilateral relations following nuclear accord

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades (R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) upon his arrival on July 28, 2015, at the presidential palace in the capital Nicosia during an official visit. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / PETRON KARADJIAS)

On visit to Cyprus, Netanyahu accepts invite to address EU leaders

By Daniel Bernstein

Cypriot president extends similar invitation to Abbas, says leaders will be able to convey positions directly without ‘filters’

Entrepreneurs, investors and guests gather at the Microsoft Ventures Demo Night in Tel Aviv June 29. 2015 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Tech investments in Israel hit new high

By David Shamah

$1.12 billion poured into Israel’s high-tech ecosystem in second quarter of 2015 – and it’s coming from a better ‘class’ of investors, says top industry research fund

Israeli entrepreneurs work on a new start-up project in Tel Aviv (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv top tech site outside US, report says

By David Shamah

Although falling from its number two perch for ‘technical reasons,’ Israel’s tech center is still among the best, according to the Compass study’s authors

The sanctuary of Boston’s Vilna Shul, including the sloped women’s gallery in the background, as photographed on July 17, 2015. (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Layers of colorful history revealed at Boston’s ‘comeback shul’

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

John Nuttall and Amanda Korody (Canada Star screenshot)

Canadian police: Couple plotted to kill Jewish kids

By JTA

Two indicted for Church of Multiplication arson

By Mitch Ginsburg

Mooki, the bearded husband, father and son who shocks him family when he shaves his beard for a BBR commercial (Courtesy YouTube screen grab)

Hair yesterday, gone todayMan shaves after 14 years, makes family cry

By Jessica Steinberg

Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina reads out an op-ed by ToI’s David Horovitz at the House hearing on the Iran nuclear deal, July 28, 2015

David Horovitz op-ed read aloud at House hearing on Iran

Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2015: As a musician, she performs under the name J-Lo. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images/JTA)

It's complicated10 other ‘J’ things for JDate to sue

By Gabe Friedman

The Krugolov family, Alex, Anna and their two sons, Daniel and Michael, were among 161 Ukrainian immigrants who arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport on July 27, 2015. (Anastasia Vlasova)

Ukrainian Jew who transported 137 faceless corpses starts over in Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti. (Flash90)

FBI investigating anti-Semitic vandalism at Jewish camp

By JTA

File photo of Jonathan Pollard, 1998. (AP/Karl DeBlaker/File)

Hebrew media reviewPollard in a Pandora’s box

By Adiv Sterman

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