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What Matters Most On Friday, July 1, 2016

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An Israeli car hit in a drive-by shooting near Hebron that killed Miki Mark on July 1, 2016 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Yeshiva head killed, 3 family members injured in drive-by shooting near Hebron

By Judah Ari Gross and Itamar Sharon

Wife of Otniel’s Miki Mark in serious condition, 2 teens also hurt in terror attack; troops search for shooters, security cabinet set to convene Saturday

Relative of Kiryat Arba killer tries to stab cop in Hebron, is shot dead

Netanya victim was stabbed on eve of daughter’s wedding

Two Israelis wounded in Netanya stabbing attack

By Tamar Pileggi

Rina Ariel mourns over the body of her 13-year-old daughter Hallel Yaffa, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in her home, during her eulogy in the Kiryat Arba settlement on June 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reporter's Notebook

Hallel Ariel, ‘princess in white,’ mourned in Hebron funeral

By Judah Ari Gross

As young dancer killed by Palestinian terrorist is laid to rest, politicians and rabbi speak of building and annexation, while mother Rina thanks God for 13 years with ‘the light of my life’

Terrorists won’t drive us out, PM tells family of slain Kiryat Arba teen

Teen killed in Kiryat Arba terror attack was an American citizen

By Tamar Pileggi

Slain teen’s mom: A ‘miracle’ two other daughters weren’t home

By Stuart Winer

Israeli animal activist Nora Lifschitz holds a wounded fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) at her new bat shelter in Israel's central Elah Valley, south of Beit Shemesh, on June 22, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Israel’s ‘Batwoman’ works in secret to heal winged friends

By Jonah Mandel

At first, Nora Lifschitz took care of fruit bats in her Tel Aviv apartment, but growing numbers made her realize she needed to relocate

Palestinian terror, Muslim hypocrisy

The murder of a 13-year-old girl is not resistance and justifying such acts shows we don’t truly want peace

Don’t say ‘peace process’ today

A refusal to countenance any and all politics or platitudes on the day after a 13-year-old was stabbed to death as she slept

The Holocaust in an age of genocide

One can’t truly understand any mass extermination attempt without a deep and broad grasp on the Nazis’ Final Solution

Two kinds of fear

The spies were loathe to leave God’s desert and go out into the world — so they gave Israel a bad rap (Shelach)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in the Knesset, May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: ‘You don’t murder a sleeping child for peace’

Full text: In video message after terrorist kills Hallel Ariel, 13, PM slams brainwashing by ‘warped ideology,’ vows not to let ‘barbarism defeat humanity’

PM Netanyahu, his wife Sara, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and his wide Julie Fisher, at a US Independence Day celebration, June 30, 2016 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu vows to fight inciters and sponsors of terrorism

By Raphael Ahren

Rina Ariel mourns over the body of her daughter Hallel, a 13-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in her home, during her eulogy in the Kiryat Arba settlement on June 30, 2016. (AFP/Gil Cohen-Magen)

‘How can you say farewell to a child of 13?’ cries mother at funeral of terror victim Hallel Ariel

By Judah Ari Gross

‘I taught my daughter to love,’ wails Rina Ariel, castigating the mother of the Palestinian teenager who stabbed her child to death as she slept

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style campaign event at the former Osram Sylvania light bulb factory, Thursday, June 30, 2016, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Trump tells anti-Israel backer he’ll protect Israel ‘100%’

By ToI Staff and AP

At New Hampshire rally, GOP candidate calls Jewish state ‘very, very important ally,’ hints at concern over Muslim TSA officers

Then-US president Barack Obama (right), accompanied by then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, September 12, 2012. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Obama, Biden to join Clinton on campaign trail next week

By AFP

Palestinians and Israeli security forces clash at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah on July 1, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian dies in Qalandiya riot; IDF denies tear gas was cause

Israeli military source says man in his 40s suffered heart attack during mass protests at checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem

A mother of victims killed the day before in a suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul's airport, cries on June 29, 2016 in Istanbul (AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)

3 Palestinians, one of them a child, among dead in Istanbul attack

Three-year-old dies a day after his mother, raising death toll in airport bombing to 43

British Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth walks out of the launch of the party's anti-Semitism report in London on June 30, 2016, after a Jeremy Corbyn supporter accuses her of controlling the media (screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish Labour MP harangued as party’s anti-Semitism report unveiled

After Corbyn supporter accuses her of controlling media, Ruth Smeeth says Labour under his stewardship not a ‘safe space’ for Jews

This photo released by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

US sailors divulged information during Iran capture

By ToI Staff and AP

Faulty equipment, poor judgment, lax oversight led to shameful January incident, Navy report says, accusing Iran of violating international law

A statue depicting the US Statue of Liberty decorated with a Star of David on its head is set ablaze by Iranian protestors during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on July 1, 2016.
(Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranians demand ‘Death to Israel,’ burn flag, at al-Quds Day rallies

By AP

US also condemned as tens of thousands of protesters march in Tehran, other demonstrations held nationwide

Presidential candidates Alexander Van der Bellen (left) and Norbert Hofer attend a television discussion after the second round of the Austrian President elections on May 22, 2016, at the Hofburg palace in Vienna. (AFP Photo/Joe Klamar)

Austrian far-right gets presidential election defeat annulled

By Simon Sturdee

Constitutional Court orders do-over of May 22 runoff, in which independent candidate barely beat Freedom Party nominee

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov talks to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on June 30, 2016. (Screen capture: UN)

UN envoy: Quartet report should be wake-up call for Israel, Palestinians

By Carole LANDRY

Ahead of publication, Mladenov says return to negotiations is only possible path, calls for action ‘on all fronts’

Writer Calvin Trillin, center, interviewing John Lewis in Birmingham, Alabama, as the Freedom Riders were boarding the bus for Montgomery in 1961. (LIFE Images Collection/via JTA)

No real change over 50 years in US race relations, says ‘seg beat’ writer

By Curt Schleier

Acclaimed journalist, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin worked his way up from the bottom — starting in Hebrew school

In this Saturday, April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

150 years after its founding, Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again

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German-born American physicist Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)

No respectGerman museum voters pass on Albert Einstein’s brain

By JTA

Sheriff Louis Ackal of Louisiana's Iberia Parish (YouTube screen capture)

Louisiana sheriff said to call federal prosecutor ‘Jew bastard’

By JTA

A Levi's jeans display. (Flickr/Mike Mozart/CC BY 2.0)

Tight fitIran police said to stop Levi’s catwalk show

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The Israel Navy launches its new 'Barak 8' missile defense system on November 26, 2015. (screen capture: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

India successfully tests missile defense system developed with Israel

Creative leader Cia Eriksson gives a tour at the Ikea Museum in Almhult, Sweden, on June 14, 2016. (Emil Langvad/TT News Agency/AFP)

Decades of design, and founder’s Nazi past, on display at Ikea museum

By Soren Billing

Meekan's Eyal Yavor (YouTube screenshot)

Swiss firm Doodle buys Israel’s Meekan for undisclosed amount

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Tamar gas rig, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) west of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. (AP/Albatross Aerial Perspective)

Post-reconciliation, Turkey eyes delivery of Israeli gas

Soul sister Joss Stone arrives in Israel this July to perform at Tel Aviv's Barby Club (Courtesy Joss Stone Facebook page)

Tell me 'bout itSoul singer Joss Stone heads to Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

American rocket engineer Simon Ramo. (YouTube/Heart of Experian)

Aerospace pioneer Simon Ramo dies at 103

By JTA

The mother and a younger sister of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, a 13-year-old Israeli girl who was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in her home, mourn during her funeral in the Kiryat Arba settlement on June 30, 2016. (AFP Photo/Gil Cohen-Magen)

No limits to evil

By Adiv Sterman

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