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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 6, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at the memorial for the Rwandan genocide in Kigali on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

At genocide memorial in Rwanda, Netanyahu vows ‘Never again’

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Opening third stop on Africa tour, PM lays a wreath in memory of the dead, notes ‘haunting similarities’ to Holocaust

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

Benjamin Netanyahu holds an Israeli flag after a joint press conference with Kenya's President on July 5, 2016 at the State House, in Nairobi. (AFP/SIMON MAINA)

Reaching out to Muslims, Netanyahu plans Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan trips

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli soldiers check a car as they block vehicles from crossing from the West Bank city of Hebron to the town of Yatta on July 6, 2016. (AFP/HAZEM BADER)

Live updates (closed)

NIS 50 million earmarked for Hebron projects after deadly attacks

By Joshua Davidovich

Government plan spearheaded by hard-line minister, and likely to draw ire, includes millions to upgrade area around flashpoint Tomb of the Patriarchs, hours after Netanyahu rejects US criticism over settlement building

Head of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky is flanked by Efrat Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (right) and former MK Dov Lipman at a July 6, 2016, demonstration in front of the Jerusalem-based chief rabbis offices in support of the conversions of New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. (Ezra Landau)

Rejecting Rabbi Lookstein, who converted Ivanka Trump, ‘delegitimizes’ Israel, says Sharansky at protest

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Luke Tress

Ahead of convert Nicole’s appeal hearing, activists emphasize her case is only one of many instances of rabbinate intolerance

Illustrative: Union for Reform Judaism president Rabbi Rick Jacobs participating in a prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 4, 2016. (Courtesy of the URJ)

At Western Wall egalitarian service, Reform head calls for pluralistic prayer space

By JTA

Illustrative: An Israeli woman in a nursing home in Jerusalem. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)

What kind of person would rob an old woman?

By Simona Weinglass

How is it that thousands of seemingly normal Israelis wake up each morning and go off to work cheating people of their life savings? Ex-binary options employees explain

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump admires his portrait on a cover of a magazine during a campaign event at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts on July 5, 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Sara D. Davis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump offers praise for Iraq’s Saddam Hussein

By ToI Staff and Agencies

At rally, presumptive GOP candidate says dictator was a ‘really bad guy’ but an effective killer of terrorists

Trump’s son-in-law: He’s ‘tolerant,’ couldn’t have intended anti-Semitism

‘No way’ six-point star in Trump tweet was sheriff’s badge, white supremacist says

Trump rips ‘rigged’ system as FBI clears Clinton over emails

By AFP

Cpt. Sharon Ogen, the medical training officer of the IDF's Southern Command, in her home in Ramat Hasharon. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

For gay soldiers, IDF seen as ‘more progressive’ than the state

By Judah Ari Gross

Cpt. Sharon Ogen speaks with The Times of Israel about coming out, finding love and starting a family while in uniform

To that guy who shouted about Hitler

All those spouters of Jew-hatred remind him of his sacred mission: to stand up with pride and be counted as a Jew

Izabella Tabarovsky

What you don’t get about conversions

When the rabbinate rejects a conversion it rejects a profound journey of personal courage and soul-searching

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Lookstein was there for Sharansky

A sense of Jewish responsibility freed Soviet Jews; now, it must unify world Jewry across the Israel-Diaspora divide

Adam S. Ferziger

Bureaucratic Judaism vs. Rabbi Lookstein

A refusal to honor the NY rabbi’s credentials reveals how centralized authority can smother religion’s vitality

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Israel, US test missile defense systems against thousands of simulated rockets

By Judah Ari Gross

David’s Sling, Arrow and more take part in 5-day intercontinental exercise, as Jerusalem and Washington hammer out aid package

Elor Azaria in court on July 5, 2016 (Flash90)

Brigade chief: Hebron soldier was wrong to kill attacker

Colonel Yariv Ben Ezra tells military court there was no fear of explosives on incapacitated stabber when Elor Azaria shot him

A worker at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim in March 2011 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

US accuses Israel of systematically seizing Palestinian land

By ToI Staff and AFP

State Department says plans for new homes in East Jerusalem, West Bank raise questions about Israel’s commitment to peace; Netanyahu: Palestinian incitement is the problem, not Israel building

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lays a wreath on the grave of late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, in Ramallah on Wednesday, July 6, 2015 (FLASH90)

Abbas urges UN Security Council to reject Quartet report

Rina Ariel and a younger daughter mourning during her funeral ceremony in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the West Bank, on June 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mother of slain teen rejects Women of Wall plan to pray in daughter’s name

Instead, Rina Ariel calls for people to ascend to Temple Mount and pushes to rename Mughrabi Gate for Hallel, killed in stabbing attack

Iraq Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot speaks as he comments on the findings of his report, inside the QEII Centre in London on July 6, 2016. vAFP PHOTO / POOL / Jeff J Mitchell)

UK’s Iraq war inquiry delivers damning verdict on Blair

By Alice Ritchie

Chilcot report finds decision to take part in 2003 US-led invasion was based on faulty intel, ‘went badly wrong’

The Boston 'Al-Quds Day' demonstration on July 1, 2016, outside the Boston Public Library in Boston, Massachusetts (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

‘Al-Quds Day’ protests castigate Israel from Baghdad to Boston

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank on January 17, 2016 (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

At least 10 Palestinians hurt in IDF raids in West Bank

Palestinian media reports say some of those injured in Dura clashes hit by live fire; 4 others arrested near Ramallah

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd as he takes part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas's founding, in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas leader: No swap talks until ‘Shalit prisoners’ freed

During Eid al-Fitr speech, Haniyeh also says his group is prepared for a new war with Israel but doesn’t expect one soon

From right to left: Avi Cohen, Gil Devora, Hedva Ber and Moises Cohen at the launch of The Floor in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Global banks, Intel join Israel’s fintech scene

By Shoshanna Solomon

HSBC, RBS, Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo and Banco Santander are partners in a new fintech hub in Tel Aviv

Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, September 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

7 countries benefit most from technology innovation

By AP

New survey says Israel is one of the top earners from the digital revolution

Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and the author of books and scholarly works dealing with the Middle East. (Screenshot: YouTube)

The West fundamentally misunderstands the ethos of the ‘caliphate,’ writes Muslim author

By JP O’ Malley

US president Barack Obama (R) speaks during a campaign rally with democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on July 5, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

FBI recommends no charges in Clinton email probe

By Eric Tucker and Ken Thomas

Lifting major legal threat to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, agency chief slams her for ‘extremely careless’ approach to classified material

World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder meets The Times of Israel at Jerusalem's King David Hotel on June 15, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Interview

Ronald Lauder works to spark the flames of Jewry’s future

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Islamic State group militants took this photo of Yazidi girl Nazdar Murat, as part of a database the militants have put together of Yazidi girls and women they have enslaved. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Islamic State tightens grip on captives held as sex slaves

By Lori Hinnant, Maya Alleruzzo and Balint Szlanko

Labour MP Naz Shah was elected in May of last year to represent the Bradford West district (Facebook)

British Jewry welcomes return of repentant Labour MP suspended for anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Members of the Jerusalem Armenian community protest outside the Knesset following the Israeli government's recent diplomatic agreement with Turkey, demanding that the State of Israel finally recognize the Armenian Genocide, July 5, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset speaker urges Israel to recognize Armenian genocide

By Marissa Newman

Comic Amy Poehler is in Israel regarding her purchase of the comedy 'Zero Motivation' for possible development as a TV series (David Shankbone/CC BY 3.0)

Meetings and recreationAmy Poehler visits Tel Aviv on the sly for adaptation

By Jessica Steinberg

Ecstasy pills (Willy Turner/Wikimedia Commons)

Am Yisrael highUltra-Orthodox man nabbed with 13,000 ecstasy pills

Netanyahu speaks from Africa, July 5, 2016 (Screen capture: Facebook)

Caught snappingNetanyahu joins Snapchat, pokes fun at himself

An illustrative photo of a bride and groom taking portraits prior to their wedding, in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2015. (Flash90)

Study: 1 in 4 British Jews intermarry, half the rate of US Jews

By JTA

Australian opera director Barrie Kosky, new director of the Berlin opera house Komische Oper poses on June 22, 2016 in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / Charlotte SIEMON)

Adventurous Aussie wins over new audiences at Berlin opera

By Simon Morgan

Ghana's midfielder Andre Ayew (L) speaks to coach Avram Grant during the 2015 African Cup of Nations final soccer match between Ivory Coast and Ghana in Bata on February 8, 2015. (AFP/CARL DE SOUZA)

Algeria nixes soccer match over Ghana’s Israeli coach

Bones of a prehistoric woman discovered in a burial site in the Hilazon cave in northern Israel. (Naftali Hilger)

12,000-year-old grave of Shaman woman unearthed in Galilee

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

Haifa area beaches reopen to swimmers after oil spill

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the 95th Representative Assembly of the National Education Association July 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewAs Clinton email case closes, Israeli papers don’t all cc it the same

By Joshua Davidovich

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