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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 29, 2016

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The daughter (center) of Siddik Turgan, who died in the June 28, 2016 Ataturk airport attack that killed 41 people, reacts as her father's coffin is carried nearby during his funeral ceremony on June 29, 2016 in Istanbul. (AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC)

Istanbul death toll rises to 41 as Turkey hunts for perpetrators

By AFP

At least 13 foreigners among those killed in triple suicide bombings at Ataturk airport; 239 hurt, with 130 still hospitalized

Istanbul airport resumes partial operations after suicide attacks

Turkish president vows continued fight against terror after Istanbul attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Turkish PM says terrorists arrived by taxi, rules out security failings at airport

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Turkish police officer directs a passenger at Ataturk airport in Istanbul,June 28, 2016, after a terror attack at Turkey's biggest airport (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

Analysis

Horrific Turkey attack shows why airport security worldwide is a deadly farce

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: What’s the point of stringent checks at the departure gates if anybody can walk into an airport terminal and start killing people?

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant speaks with the parents of Avraham Mengistu and parents of late IDF soldier Oron Shaul outside the Prime Minister's Office, during a protest against the agreement with Turkey in Jerusalem, June 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite protests, ministers give go-ahead to Turkey reconciliation deal

As families of Gaza captives rally outside, cabinet members Liberman, Bennett and Shaked vote against newly inked detente agreement

Netanyahu faces tough but winnable battle to get Turkey deal approved

Cancel Turkey deal, plead families of missing Israelis after Ban talks

Relatives of Gaza captives rally against Turkey deal as ministers meet

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi, center, confronted by fellow lawmakers in the Knesset plenum over her comments on the Israel-Turkey reconciliation agreement on June 29, 2016 (screen capture: Knesset Channel)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu consults with A-G on booting Zoabi from Knesset

By Marissa Newman

Prime minister slams lawmaker’s ‘actions and lies,’ says ‘she crossed every line and there is no room for her in the Knesset’

Workers assess damage at the explosions and attacks site in Ataturk airport's international arrivals terminal on June 29, 2016, a day after a suicide bombing and gun attack targeted Istanbul's airport (AFP/OZAN KOSE)

Israelis condemn ‘hideous’ Turkey airport attack

By Stuart Winer

Knesset speaker blasts terrorists ‘who sanctify death’; MK Yair Lapid chides world for criticizing Israel more than Muslims who kill Muslims

Palestinian confirmed killed as Istanbul attack death toll climbs

International community condemns ‘despicable’ Istanbul attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

All Israelis accounted for after Istanbul attack

By ToI Staff and AP

The author in the Almora Mountains, India (Courtesy: Shalev Paller)

First person

Lifting away the weight of 3 years: Why we Israelis go to India after the army

By Shalev Paller

It is almost the norm for soldiers, on leaving the IDF, to fly to India to ‘decompress.’ Here, a tank commander who served in the 2014 Gaza war explains the appeal, and details the process of regaining control over his life after ‘3 years of alarms each morning, of always having an assignment, of constant uncertainty as to when I’d be home next’

Netanyahu: Of kings and apricots

The prime minister would do well to learn daring — indeed, leadership — from the cool kids on the playground

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The joy of doubt

Grapple with Torah’s deep, uncertain core to redeem Judaism from its muck of obsolete ideas and defensive practice

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Where did I go?

Sometimes our brains can f&ck with us. And we need to talk about it

Not really going to hell in a handbasket

If you learn to recast problems as solutions, you’ll open yourself to new ways of tackling any challenge

Liran Avisar-Ben Horin

The Real Story of the ‘Israel Backpack’

Backpacks can represent the new knowledge, skills, experiences and connections a traveler acquires, and allow them to nurture a relationship with both Israelis and Jews from around the world

A scene from the 2016 film 'The BFG,' directed by Steven Spielberg for Walt Disney Pictures (courtesy)

Was beloved children’s author Roald Dahl a raging bigot?

By Matt Lebovic

Family and friends attend the funeral of Esti Weinstein at the Yarkon cemetery in Petah Tikva on June 28, 2016. (Photo by Avi Dishi/FLASH90)

Tensions mar funeral for woman who fled Hasidic life, committed suicide

Hundreds pay last respects to Esti Weinstein, 50, who penned book on ultra-Orthodox world; father recalls her first 43 years, ‘when you were pure’

Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky addressed the Jewish Agency Board of Governors at the Knesset June 23, 2014. (Lior Daskal for The Jewish Agency for Israel)

Jewish Agency rips rabbinate’s rejection of prominent US rabbi’s conversion

By JTA

Sharansky says local rabbinical court ‘knows nothing about world Jewry’ after it rejects conversion by rabbi who wed Trump’s daughter

Eve Goldberg, whose son died of an opioid overdose in 2013, now runs an organization in his memory that seeks to create a community of young adults recovering from addiction. (Ben Sales)

Jewish groups putting up a fight against growing opioid epidemic

In 2014, nearly 30,000 people died from opioid overdose in US, a 14 % jump from previous year; rise also seen among American Jews

Researchers prepare to scan a mass grave at Ponar, outside Vilnius, Lithuania. (Ezra Wolfinger, NOVA)

New tech reveals forgotten Holocaust escape tunnel in Lithuania

Researchers uncover hidden passage where 80 Jewish prisoners painstakingly dug their way out of the Ponar forest death pits by hand

Ken Livingstone appears before a parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism in London on June 14, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Livingstone says he deplores anti-Semitism; slams Israeli ‘ethnic cleansing’

By Jenni Frazer and ToI Staff

In new submission to Parliament, former Labour mayor of London supports two-state solution though last month he called creation of Israel ‘fundamentally wrong’

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas give a joint press conference after a meeting on June 28, 2016 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

UN chief meets Abbas, urges ‘courageous steps’ from Israel, slams blockade

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ban Ki-moon wraps up farewell visit to Israel, territories, says Palestinians face challenges, need to see ‘political horizon’

Investors pitch their technologies at TechCode Tel Aviv event (Courtesy)

Israeli startups pitch to China at virtual Tel Aviv roadshow

By Shoshanna Solomon

Omeq Medical, InovyTec among 10 medical device companies that presented at TechCode event

More Headlines

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

Picking his brainEinstein’s brain competes at Frankfurt museum

By JTA

Taj Patterson was allegedly beaten by a group of Hasidic Jews, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2013. (YouTube screen capture)

Black beating victim sues NYC, Orthodox security patrol

By JTA

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman awards an unnamed Military Intelligence officer with the Israel Defense Prize, alongside President Reuven Rivlin and Director-General of the Defense Ministry Udi Adam, left, during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 28, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

It’s classified: Israel Defense Prize awarded for top-secret work

By Judah Ari Gross

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York. (Courtesy)

In NY, pro-Iran deal Jewish lawmaker beats out gay religious challenger

By AP

Director Quentin Tarantino will attend the 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival, starting July 7 (Courtesy Jerusalem Cinematheque)

Killer billTarantino and non-reservoir dog flick hit Jerusalem Film Fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Charismatic solo artist Morrissey in Tel Aviv in 2016 (Courtesy Orit Pnini)

How soon is nowEx-Smiths frontman Morrissey returning to Israel in August

By Jessica Steinberg

A Turkish riot police officer patrols Ataturk airport`s main entrance in Istanbul, on June 28, 2016, after explosions followed by gunfire hit Turkey's largest airport. (AFP/ OZAN KOSE)

Hebrew media reviewBlood-soaked on the Bosphorus

By Ilan Ben Zion

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