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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 30, 2016

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Medics wheeling Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, into Jerusalem's Shaarei Zedek Medical Center on June 30, 2016, after a West Bank stabbing attack. Inset: Hallel Yaffa Ariel, in an undated photo. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 and courtesy)

Israeli girl, 13, stabbed to death by Palestinian in her West Bank bedroom

Hallel Yaffa Ariel killed by terrorist who entered her home in Kiryat Arba; civilian guard also injured responding to incident; attacker killed

‘A terrorist murdered my daughter in her bed,’ tearful mother says

IDF moves in on Kiryat Arba terrorist’s hometown after deadly attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Kiryat Arba killer had a death wish, Facebook posts show

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn discusses the party's anti-Semitism inquiry during a speech in London on June 30 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Outrage as British Labour leader appears to compare Israel to Islamic State

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel’s Labor leader Herzog slams Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘betrayal of Labour values, hatred of Israel’; Lapid urges Labor to sever ties with UK counterpart, so long as ‘anti-Semitism’-spouting Corbyn is in charge

Gove and May, top contenders to succeed Cameron, both firm Israel supporters

By Jenni Frazer

Boris Johnson, top UK leadership contender, exits race

By Jill Lawless and Gregory Katz

From our partnerJewish lecturer attacked in London for carrying ‘schlep’ bag

Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi is led out of the Knesset plenum after a row over her comments on the Israel-Turkey reconciliation agreement on June 29, 2016 (screen capture: Knesset Channel)

Bedlam in Knesset as Arab MK brands IDF soldiers ‘murderers’ for Gaza flotilla raid

Several outraged MKs charge toward podium as Hanin Zoabi speaks out; Zionist Union MK calls for her suspension; Likud MK wants her banned

PM seeks A-G’s aid to oust Arab MK who called IDF troops ‘murderers’

Zoabi doubles down on claim IDF troops are ‘murderers’

Rouhani: Israel behind Mideast’s woes, to distract from occupation

An ambulance and soldiers are seen outside a house in Kiryat Arba where a 13-year-old Israeli girl was stabbed to death in her bedroom by a Palestinian terrorist on June 30, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Live updates (closed)

US official: Teen killed in Kiryat Arba was American citizen

Man in his 40s seriously hurt, woman in her 60s lightly wounded in Netanya stabbing just hours after deadly attack near Hebron

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses people gathered for a traditional "iftar" Muslim feast at his palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, June 27, 2016. (Murat Cetinmuhurdar, Presidential Press Service, Pool via AP)

Erdogan blasts Gaza flotilla that sparked crisis with Israel

In dramatic change of tone following reconciliation deal with Jerusalem, Turkish leader says activists on 2010 voyage did not seek his permission to set sail

Rivlin sends condolences to Erdogan for ‘cowardly, murderous’ bombing

By JTA

AnalysisHow Erdogan went to sleep with dogs, woke up with beasts

By Avi Issacharoff

NGO to High Court: Overturn Turkey deal over Ankara’s Hamas ties

By Stuart Winer

Miriam Eshkol, wife of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, dancing with then Ugandan foreign minister Sam Odaka and army chief (and later president) Idi Amin on a visit to an army base outside Kampala, June, 1966. (GPO)

Photo Essay

When the Israeli prime minister’s wife took a twirl with Idi Amin

By Raphael Ahren

As Netanyahu prepares for a whirlwind trip to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda next week, Israel releases previously unseen pictures of previous PMs’ visits to Africa

This movie sucks

A plot that has a 13-year-old girl stabbed to death in her bedroom desperately needs a script doctor

The price of acceptance

For once and for all, outing yourself as gay does not mean you violate Jewish law! — a message for Rabbi Goldberg

Still and all, we owe Cameron our thanks

The outgoing British PM took political risks to stand by England’s Jewish community through difficult times

Watching Brexit, hearing Yeats

England’s decision to leave the EU raises fears that ‘the darkness drops again’ is not just a line in a poem

An Israeli system engineer keeps watch over a production line at the Teva factory in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High-tech boom may be over, Israel’s chief scientist warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

A lack of skilled workers is a central obstacle for growth of startups and more established tech companies

A Russian tank operating in Aleppo, Syria in 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

Thanks in no small part to Russia, Hezbollah is now a full-fledged army

By Avi Issacharoff

For now its focus is on the Syrian civil war, where it is sustaining heavy losses, but the Lebanese Shiite terror group has become a far more formidable player in the 10 years since the Second Lebanon War

A car on fire (illustrative photo: Shah rukh khan/Wikimedia Commons/public domain)

Israeli activists evacuated from Ramallah after car is set on fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Peace group downplays incident, says 9 were guests and ‘at no point felt threatened’; army to investigate incident

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov talks during a press conference in Gaza City, September 17, 2015. (AP/Adel Hana)

Quartet report on stalled peace process delayed again

By Raphael Ahren

Middle East group said to consider releasing key points Friday, pushing publication of full text to later date

CIA Director John Brennan. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Islamic State likely planning to attack US, CIA chief warns

By Deb Riechmann

Istanbul massacre bears hallmarks of IS ‘depravity,’ Brennan says; cautions against thinking ‘homeland is hermetically sealed’

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest against the pro-Brexit outcome of the UK's referendum on the European Union, in central London on June 25, 2016. (AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS)

British Jewish groups condemn post-Brexit hate crimes

By JTA

Community leaders speak out after spate of anti-immigrant violence; no rise seen in anti-Jewish sentiment or attacks

Barbara Streisand as Dolly Levi in the 1969 film 'Hello Dolly.' (Public domain)

Hello, Barbra

Streisand’s difficult rise to fame catapulted by face-off with anti-Semitism

By Amy K. Rosenthal

A view of the West Bank city of Nablus in 2013. (Creative Commons/Muataz Towfiq Agbaria)

Two Palestinian security officers killed in Nablus ambush

By Raoul Wootliff and AP

Forces shot at after fugitive opened fire on home of PA policeman injuring wife and daughter; 3 more Palestinians killed in shootout between clans

Al Franken attending the 68th Annual Writers Guild Awards at Edison Ballroom in New York City, Feb. 13, 2016. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images For The Writers Guild Of America via JTA)

Why not Al Franken? Senator, former comic could be Hillary’s VP

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jewish comedian turned politician is now a seasoned Minnesota Democrat, more than able to take the wind out of Trump’s sails

The cover of Shirley Graetz's 'Gilgamesh' series, about the Mesopotamian demigod, with artwork by Uriel Zohar (Courtesy Shirley Graetz)

The demigod Gilgamesh comes to life for young readers

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

This file photo taken on September 11, 2011 shows singer Paul Simon as he performs “Sounds of Silence” during the 10th Anniversary commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the lower Manhattan site of the World Trade Center in New York. (Stan Honda/AFP)

Just drop it all, PaulPaul Simon, 74, ‘ready to give up music’

By AFP

From left: Sean Taube, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, Taube Philanthropies founder and chairman Tad Taube, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, and Taube Philanthropies executive director Shana Penn celebrate as The Taube Family Campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is named in Jerusalem, June 29, 2016. (Avi Hayun)

Hebrew Union College saluted as ‘beacon of tolerance’ at Jerusalem campus groundbreaking

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)

Far-right Orthodox groups seek court ban on pluralism at Western Wall

Illustrative: A German edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' ('My Struggle') on display at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, December 11, 2015. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP, File)

US publisher to give ‘Mein Kampf’ proceeds to survivors

By AP

Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers Hall on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)

Statistics wiz Nate Silver gives Clinton 80% chance of winning presidency

Two photos of the winner of the Miss Hitler 2016 contest run by the British white supremacist group National Action. (National Action)

Model Anti-SemiteNeo-Nazi group names Miss Hitler 2016

By JTA

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: YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewHow do you solve a problem like Zoabi?

By Ilan Ben Zion

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