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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 28, 2016

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File: French Jews waving Israeli and French flags outside the Hyper Cacher a year after four Jewish shoppers were killed in a terror attack on the Paris kosher market, January 9, 2016. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Natan Sharansky: There is no future for Jews in France

By JTA

Hostility to Jews among Arab immigrants and deep-seated anti-Semitism mean there will be ‘massive’ exodus to Israel among France’s 500,000 Jews, says Jewish Agency chief on visit to Paris

Muslim mayor to ‘do more to protect Jewish Londoners’

By JTA

UK PM slams racist incidents in wake of vote to quit EU

By AP

Abbas aide: ‘Wherever you see an Israeli, slit his throat’

Director-General of the Foreign Ministry Dore Gold arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, June 26, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli, Turkish officials ink reconciliation deal

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Foreign Ministry chief signs in Jerusalem, Turkey’s undersecretary signs in Ankara; accord faces opposition at security cabinet on Wednesday

Hamas rejects Israel-Turkey deal, but heeds Turkish call not to make a fuss

By Stuart Winer

Jewish Home ministers to vote against Turkey reconciliation

By Raoul Wootliff

Israelis push back against Turkey normalization deal

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at a United Nations school in Gaza City on June 28, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

UNRWA school in Gaza hides map of ‘historic Palestine’ as Ban visits

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN chief tours Strip, calls Israeli blockade on Hamas-run enclave ‘collective punishment’ that ‘suffocates its people’

Rabbi Donniel Hartman, dean of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Shalom Hartman Institute)

Analysis

God must not be our top priority, says Orthodox rabbinical revolutionary

By David Horovitz

Donniel Hartman, the head of an educational powerhouse, argues heretically that the great monotheistic religions are fatally flawed — by an obsessive focus on God that overwhelms what should be our prime imperative, to live decent, moral lives. Here, he explains how we need to fight back

The main terminal building at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, November 2013. (CC BY-SA/Wikimedia commons/Milan Suvajac)

Live updates (closed)

Turkish Airlines halts check-ins at Ben Gurion after Istanbul bombings

By Joshua Davidovich and Marissa Newman

Airports Authority says flights headed to Ataturk will most likely be diverted

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters at a presidential primary rally in New York, June 7, 2016. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Hillary’s VP possibles all support Israel, not so sure about its PM

By Eric Cortellessa

Former secretary’s running mate options, including Kaine, Warren and Castro, largely back the alliance with Israel, a two-state solution… and the Iran deal

Clinton’s VP thinking: Don’t harm Dem chances to take Senate

By Lisa Lerer and Julie Pace

Michael Oren and Omer Barlev

Ban Ki-moon, we have lost faith in the UN

Op-Ed: Knesset members Oren, Barlev call on the outgoing secretary-general, currently visiting Israel, to help rid the international body of its anti-Israel bias

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

No deal unless Turkey bans Hamas

Letter to the cabinet: Israel must require Ankara to expel the terrorist group as part of reconciliation deal

Teenage mountain climbing to talk to God

A sharp question from a puzzled adolescent sheds light on what it means to pray when you’re stuck in cloudy darkness

The facade of the Alte Pinakothek art museum in Munich, one of the Bavarian state galleries (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

German museums handed Nazi-looted art to top Nazi families after war, NGO says

By ToI Staff and JTA

Restitution group: Items taken from Jews were sold cheaply to family of Göring’s widow, wife of Hitler’s district governor

Israeli developer Rami Levy, who is building the first ever Israeli-Palestinian mall just a few meters from the West Bank. (Luke Tress / Times of Israel)

Israeli mogul erecting first Israeli-Palestinian mall near Ramallah

By Dov Lieber and Luke Tress

Survivors of Operation Thunderbolt, the Israeli rescue of over 100 hostages from the Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976, along with former Israeli president Shimon Peres and Dalia Rabin, a former member of Knesset and daughter of former prime minister Yitzchak Rabin, present Sorin Hershko with a certificate of appreciation during an event at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa marking 40 years since the kidnapping, on June 27, 2016. (Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

40 years later, youngest Entebbe survivors tearfully recall hijacking, rescue

By Judah Ari Gross

In a bittersweet ceremony hosted by Shimon Peres and Dalia Rabin, former child hostages piece together memories of 1976 ordeal

Masked Palestinians hold stones during clashes with Israeli police on the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem's Old City, June 28, 2016. (Muammar Awad/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor slams rioters as Temple Mount closed to Jews

By Raoul Wootliff

Nir Barkat says decisions must not be made ‘under pressure from violent disturbances’; police arrest 17 Palestinians for throwing rocks

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

Israeli army cancels controversial Hannibal Protocol

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF chief puts an end to ‘last resort’ measure that allowed troops to use massive force to prevent soldiers from being captured

Illustrative: Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Brexit could curb Israeli appetite for London share sales, fintech activity

By Shoshanna Solomon

Impact on Israel’s economy and high-tech sector is expected to be limited, economists and commentators say

Illustrative: Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2016. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish groups laud Supreme Court for throwing out abortion law

By Eric Cortellessa

After court strikes down Texas law restricting access to abortions, ADL and JWI express support

Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down as Turkey's then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, December 3, 2012. (AP/Tolga Bozoglu, Pool)

Turkey walks back offer to compensate Russia for downed jet

By AFP and ToI Staff

Erdogan, Putin to speak in effort to rebuild ties amid tensions over backing opposite sides in Syrian war

Egyptian journalist Liliane Daoud. (YouTube screen capture)

Egypt deports prominent female TV host

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Liliane Daoud, who is critical of el-Sissi government, is fired, arrested and put on a plane to Lebanon

Oliver Rosenberg, left, challenged Jerry Nadler, who has been a congressman since 1993. (Courtesy of Rosenberg campaign/Mike Coppola/WireImage for NARAS/Getty Images via JTA)

In New York race, a gay religious Jewish upstart challenges a 12-term incumbent

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William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk from the television program Star Trek. (NBC Television/Wikipedia/public domain)

Science FrictionWhen Captain Kirk slugged it out with Jesus

Albert Einstein (CC-BY-Ferdinand Schmutzer, Wikimedia Commons)

Picking his brainEinstein’s brain competes at Frankfurt museum

By JTA

The Israeli flag raised at the Paralympic Games (photo credit: Noah Ram/courtesy ISAP)

Chabad to offer kosher food for Brazil Olympic visitors

By JTA

94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning arrives for his trial in Detmold, Germany, February 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-Auschwitz guard, 94, appeals accessory to murder conviction

By JTA

Clockwise from top left: Fran Drescher (Wikimedia Commons), Larry Kramer (Courtesy of HBO), Rabbi Steven Greenberg in 2014 (Wikimedia Commons), Jazz Jennings (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Trevor Project)

9 Jewish LGBTQ activists you should know

By Gabe Friedman

A bus in Denver Colorado carries an anti-Israel ad paid for by the website notaxdollarstoIsrael.com and Colorado BDS. (screen capture: notaxdollarstoisrael.com)

New Jersey legislature passes anti-BDS law

By Eric Cortellessa

The Queen Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) is reflected in a puddle as a man walks by in London, on 27 June 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Leon NEAL)

AnalysisCould Britain still row back from Brexit?

By Jacques KLOPP

Sunset in the Negev Desert near Yeruham. (Wikimedia Commons/Matthew Parker)

From the webIsrael and Cisco sign strategic digital agreement

Iceland's midfielder Aron Gunnarsson (R) and England's forward Daniel Sturridge vie for the ball during Euro 2016 round of 16 football match between England and Iceland at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice on June 27, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT)

Football karma?England kicked out of Europe, days after it voted to leave EU

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a special cabinet meeting for Jerusalem Day at Ein Lavan spring in Jerusalem, June 2, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewTurkish delight – now in bitter pill form

By Joshua Davidovich

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