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What Matters Most On Monday, July 4, 2016

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Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gives a speech after his arrival at Entebbe airport Uganda, Monday, July 4, 2016. Netanyahu is on a four-nation Africa tour to Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

In Entebbe, PM says legendary rescue proved Jews ‘were powerless no more’

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu kicks off Africa visit with ceremony marking 40 years since Israeli commandos saved 103 hostages from terrorist hijackers

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara speaking to the press at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 4, 2016, at the start of a trip to Africa. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Heading to Entebbe, PM looks to mark raid while boosting Africa ties

By Raphael Ahren

Spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Mwenda Njoka says that without Kenyan coordination, the operation at Entebbe would have been impossible. (Courtesy)

How Kenya played a vital, silent role in Entebbe, ‘the most audacious hostage rescue in history’

By Lilian Muendo

A fire rages at the scene of a suicide bombing in the Muslim holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia on Monday, July 4, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Police probing Netanyahu over foreign money, report says

Tanzania announces it will open an embassy in Israel, as PM meets African leaders in Uganda

Alementu Lake, 25, a drink seller who lives near the center of Gondar, with her two-year-old daughter, Habtam, on April 15, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

In Ethiopia, putting a face to the ones left behind

By Melanie Lidman

As Benjamin Netanyahu makes his way to Africa, these 11 Ethiopian Jews are among the thousands who have been waiting up to two decades in Gondar and Addis Ababa to immigrate to Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 03, 2016. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch)

Israel okays 800 new homes in East Jerusalem, West Bank

In wake of attacks, Netanyahu says settlements must be strengthened; 600 homes in Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa also approved

Netanyahu draws fire from right for okaying Arab construction in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

Rivlin hosts iftar meal, calls on PA to condemn terror surge

UN envoy: Chances for peaceful future slipping away

An Israeli car hit in a drive-by shooting near Hebron that killed one person and injured three on July 1, 2016. (Judea and Samaria Fire Department)

Palestinian describes aiding settler family hit by shooting attack

Couple helped surviving members of Miki Mark’s family escape overturned vehicle and administered first aid until ambulance arrived

As husband is buried, woman wounded in drive-by attack wakes up

In nighttime raid, IDF detains 2 brothers of Kiryat Arba stabber

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel bars Hebron governor for visiting terrorists’ families

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo: Israeli orthodox child studying in his classroom (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

We need no longer scream in silence

By Yehuda Pogrow

FROM THE BLOGS: The brother of Meir Pogrow — a rabbi and teacher recently denounced as a sexual predator — charges the Yeshiva school system with covering up widespread cases of sexual, physical and emotional abuse

Back to Africa?

Israel never left the continent and it has the chance now to build a solid foundation of ties based on mutual benefit

What’s a counterterrorist to do?

He isn’t nostalgic for the attacks of yore, but he can’t ignore the fact that they were more negotiable

Enough with the “Wonderful”!

Indiscriminate superlatives dull the senses; it’s time to stop damning with high praise

Clockwise, from top left: Bob Dylan’s childhood home in Hibbing, Minnesota (Wikimedia Commons); Temple Beth Sholom in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania (Wikimedia Commons); Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles (Flickr Commons); Beth Jacob Cemetery in Galveston, Texas (Wikimedia Commons) (Images via JTA)

Nine iconic sites that celebrate American Jewish history

By Gabe Friedman and Andrew Silow-Carroll

An image tweeted, and then deleted, by Donald Trump on July 2, 2016, which uses a Star of David to call Hillary Clinton the 'Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!' (screen capture: YouTube)

Trump’s Star of David tweet traced to white supremacists

By Stuart Winer

Anti-Clinton image posted by Republican presidential candidate was featured a week earlier on an anti-Semitic forum

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a speech, June 4, 2007. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Khamenei calls for united student front against Israel, US

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iranian leader also vows his soldiers will never coordinate with American troops in Syria

Khalid Muhamra, left, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, center, and Muhammad Muhamra, right, speak with an attorney during their indictment in a Tel Aviv District Court on July 4, 2016. The three Palestinian men have been charged with murder in connection with the terror attack at the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. (Flash90)

Sarona gunmen were ‘inspired’ by Islamic State, Shin Bet says

By Judah Ari Gross

Terrorists who killed 4, wounded 16 in a Tel Aviv market originally planned to shoot up a train, according to indictment

Explosions from the fighting in Syria seen from the Israeli side of the border on the Golan Heights due, June 16, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel hits Syrian army after errant shells land near border

By Judah Ari Gross

No IDF soldiers hurt by stray fire near border fence the previous day; army says it will defend country while maintaining policy of non-intervention

People embrace outside the Fifth Avenue Synagogue during the funeral for Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel on July 3, 2016 in New York. (AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR)

Mourners say farewell to Elie Wiesel at New York funeral

By Thomas URBAIN

Holocaust survivor, author, educator and Nobel Peace laureate honored at private ceremony in synagogue before burial

Elie Wiesel during a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, in 2009. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, file)

Israel mourns Elie Wiesel as one of its own

MK Tzipi Livni speaks at a Zionist Union party meeting in the Knesset on June 27, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel takes UK to task for Livni ‘war crimes’ interrogation bid

By Tamar Pileggi

After ex-foreign minister dodges British police inquiry, Jerusalem says it ‘expected different behavior from a close ally’

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, seen during a meeting with Khaled Mashaal, Hamas' then chief in exile, center, and Gaza-based leader Ismail Haniyeh in Ankara, Turkey, on June 18, 2013. (AP/Yasin Bulbul, Prime Minister's Press Office)

Turkey consulted Hamas, PA before signing Israel reconciliation deal

Erdogan claims Ankara’s ‘main concern’ while in talks with Israel to end acrimonious ties was welfare of Gazans

Daniel Hoffman and his violins (Courtesy Daniel Hoffman)

The fiddler on a Tel Aviv roof

By Jessica Steinberg

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Yuneec-'s Typhoon H drone with Intel's camera technology developed in Haifa (Courtesy)

Intel uses Israeli vision technology in new Yuneec drone

By Shoshanna Solomon

Robert Indiana's 1977 sculpture 'Ahava' at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem is always a good place to visit, but particularly during the 2020 coronavirus (Wikimedia Commons/ Pikiwikisrael CC BY 2.5)

Moonlight sonatasSinging stars out at night among Israel Museum sculptures

By Jessica Steinberg

Family and friends of Yosef Salamsa protest for justice in Tel Aviv on July 3, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

12 arrested as Ethiopian-Israelis renew police brutality protests

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

From the webIsraeli startups raised record $1.4b in Q2

A file photo from 2004 of the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (State Department)

Suicide bomber strikes near US diplomatic site in Saudi Arabia

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-minister Ben-Eliezer hospitalized with suspected stroke

Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, July 29, 2014 (Ron Sachs)

Ron Dermer to speak at B’nai B’rith journalism prize ceremony

The children of Rabbi Miki Mark mourn at a service prior to his funeral at the Otniel yeshiva, where he was a principal, July 3, 2016. Shlomo Mark is on the left. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewTwo funerals and a wedding with Africa

By Ilan Ben Zion

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