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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 5, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 5, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Kenya president vows to help Israel strengthen Africa ties

By Raphael Ahren

Hosting Netanyahu in Nairobi, Uhuru Kenyatta promises to back Israeli bid to regain observer status in African Union, says warmer relations vital in war against terrorism

Somalia’s president recently held first-ever meeting with Israeli PM

By Raphael Ahren

In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel

Uganda’s president declares: Israel was right to carry out Entebbe raid

By Judah Ari Gross, Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

The industrial area of Haifa Bay (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ryan: No place for anti-Semitic images in presidential campaigns

GOP House Speaker says Trump aide tweeted attack ad calling Clinton corrupt that featured Star of David atop pile of cash

American immigrant Nicole and her Israeli fiancé Zohar. Engaged in April 2016, their marriage was put on hold until the Israeli rabbinate accepted Nicole's US Orthodox conversion. (courtesy)

All I want is to have a Jewish family, says US convert rejected by Israeli rabbinate

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Nicole, who was converted by Ivanka Trump’s rabbi, Haskel Lookstein, talks with The Times of Israel ahead of her Wednesday appeal in Jerusalem

Court rules Ethiopian-Israeli rabbis were discriminated against

By Stuart Winer

Friends and family of an Israeli soldier whose remains are being held by Hamas protest outside the Ashdod port in southern Israel on July 3, 2016, as the Lady Leyla, a Turkish ship carrying aid for Gaza, arrives (Flash90)

Father of Israeli held in Gaza decries other families’ campaign

Sha’ban al-Sayed, whose schizophrenic son Hisham wandered into the Strip in 2015, calls for pressure on Hamas, not Israel

First Turkish aid enters Gaza in wake of Israel deal

Anger at Bar-Ilan lecturer who accused settlers of ‘psychosis’

IDF moves to demolish home of teen girl’s killer

By Stuart Winer

This photo taken on March 2, 2016 shows a combination of file photos of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on January 14, 2016 and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on February 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / PHOTO DESK)

Trump, Clinton campaigns clash over ‘Stargate’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Democrats claim GOP candidate’s Clinton money ad fans anti-Semitism, while Republicans dismiss ‘ridiculous accusations’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 14, 2016. (AP/Chuck Burton)

Trump adviser says candidate backs undivided Jerusalem

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 denies anti-Clinton money ad used Star of David

Illustrative photo of an El Al aircraft on a runway. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Swiss, French fighter jets scramble in El Al plane bomb hoax

By ToI Staff and AP

Flight 002 from New York lands safely in Israel hours after US authorities receive threat; passengers weren’t told of call

Sex, lies, and circumcisions

He’d never heard of a backroom brit milah until he performed one, an off-book operation that may have saved his life

The tragedy of the bats

A poignant story of immense cruelty that also reveals how amazing people with huge hearts answer the call of a moment

How I learned to love tahini

It took getting stuck in Israel for the next 7 years to induce her to taste the Israeli classics (she has no regrets)

That ‘West Bank bedroom’ headline

Those incensed over the wording on the horrific terror attack are looking for a fight in all the wrong places

Participants in the annual reenactment of the 1187 Battle of Hattin duke it out in northern Israel on July 2, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Reporter's notebook

How I LARPed across the Galilee in the footsteps of the Crusaders

By Ilan Ben Zion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a visit in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 04, 2016 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

In Kenya, PM says Africa trip will help rebuild world majority for Israel

By Raphael Ahren

It might take a decade, but Jewish state will succeed in swaying global voting patterns in its favor, Netanyahu says

Uganda’s Jews dream of recognition

By Michael O'Hagan

Uganda’s president declares: Israel was right to carry out Entebbe raid

By Judah Ari Gross, Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Uganda’s Jews dream of recognition

By Michael O'Hagan

Marlene Moskovitz (left) and her sister Martine Arnold at Entebbe for the 40th anniversary ceremony of the Israeli hostage rescue on July 4, 2016. Their brother Jean-Jacques was one of the four hostages who didn't make it back home. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

At Entebbe, with the relatives of two who never made it back home

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 4, 2016. (Flash90)

Palestinian Authority said to sever ties with the Quartet

Ramallah has had enough of the international group’s ‘pro-Israel’ bias, reflected in its latest report, London-based daily says

The city of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Half of Israeli Jews oppose West Bank withdrawal — poll

Overall support tilts in favor of pullout if peace achieved; over 40% want only Jews to vote on withdrawal referendum

Eiman Kanjo, an Israeli-Arab women convicted to trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria. (YouTube/MEDIAIBA)

Israeli woman gets 22 months for trying to join Islamic State

By Stuart Winer

Iman Kanjou, PhD candidate and mother of 5, tried to enter Syria to teach jihadist ideology to new recruits

President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas addresses the media at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER)

Analysis

The beginning of the end of the Abbas era

By Avi Issacharoff

A rise in terrorism, and internal Palestinian violence, underline the growing instability in the West Bank — and the sense of an imminent leadership change

The West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, July 29, 2015. (Garrett Mills/Flash 90)

UN ‘deeply disappointed’ by Israel’s new West Bank construction

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ban Ki-moon urges Jerusalem to ‘halt and reverse’ plan for hundreds of new homes that ‘raises questions’ about its intentions

People stand by an explosion site in Medina, Saudi Arabia, Monday, July 4, 2016. (Courtesy of Noor Punasiya via AP)

Suicide bomber kills 4 at holy site in Saudi Arabia

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Blast at Prophet’s Mosque in Medina wounds five others; a second bomber attacks Shiite mosque in eastern city of Qatif

Sami Rohr winners and finalists Aviya Kushner (left), Yehudah Mirsky (second left) and Lisa Leff chatting with Rabbi David Wolpe in one of the events leading up to the Sami Rohr Prize ceremony taking place July 5, 2016, in Jerusalem (Courtesy YouTube)

Sami Rohr prize-winners tell of books that insisted on being written

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Work to contain an oil spill in Haifa Bay, July 5, 2016. (Environment Protection Ministry)

Oil spill in Haifa Bay forces beach closures

By Stuart Winer

A lab mouse. (photo credit: Flash90)

Mind over matterPlacebos physically boost immunity, Israeli study shows

By Marlowe HOOD

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn responds to questions at a Home Affairs Committee hearing on anti-Semitism in the British Parliament on July 4, 2016. (screen capture: www.parliamentlive.tv)

At anti-Semitism inquiry, Corbyn regrets calling Hezbollah, Hamas ‘friends’

A weightlifter participates in the women's 75 kg event in the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Israel is set to host its first European weightlifting championship in April 2014. (illustrative photo credit: CC BY Simon Q/Flickr)

Cyber attacks to surge at Olympics, Israeli security firm warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks during commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Kielce, Poland, Monday, July 4, 2016. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president: No room for anti-Semitism in the country

By AP

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman before the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 13, 2016 (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Liberman appoints party allies to top defense industry posts

Australian singer Jason Donovan (right) with Hilton hotel marketing manager Motti Verses overlooking the Mediterranean, July 4, 2016 (Courtesy Hilton Hotels)

Mission of loveJason Donovan takes his show to the Mediterranean

By Jessica Steinberg

This artist's rendering provided by NASA and JPL-Caltech shows the Juno spacecraft above the planet Jupiter. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

Hey JoveNASA spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter

By Alicia Chang

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (right) and interim police chief Benzi Sau at police headquarters in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Police secretly probing alleged foreign donations to Netanyahu

Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi celebrates his first goal in his debut match in China, July 2, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Dream startIsraeli soccer star shines in stunning China debut

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara surrounded by IDF pilots and officers (blurred out), in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewCry, the beloved airport

By Joshua Davidovich

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