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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 7, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, at Kigali, Rwanda, on July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Rejecting US criticism, PM denies settlements are preventing peace

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Palestinian incitement is key obstacle, charges Netanyahu, after State Department says plans for new homes in East Jerusalem, West Bank raise questions about Israel’s commitment to peace

After terror surge, Israel to funnel NIS 50m. to Hebron settlements

EU joins criticism of Israel’s East Jerusalem, West Bank building plan

By ToI Staff and AFP

Egypt slams ‘unjustified, incomprehensible’ settlement plans

By Tamar Pileggi

From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

In Rwanda, mourning the horrors of genocide, Netanyahu sets out a vision of how to prevent it

By Raphael Ahren

PM speaks out after visiting memorial in Kigali: Tackle incitement, take the death threats seriously, don’t rely on the international community, make sure you can defend yourself

Ethiopian-born MK decries Netanyahu’s snub of country’s Jewish leaders

By Raphael Ahren

Israel dismisses report of foiled plot to assassinate Netanyahu in Kenya

Netanyahu asks Ethiopia to help free Israelis held in Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: A Gazan man looking at a pro-Palestinian post on Facebook on April 7, 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)

As Israel goes after ‘terror-enabling’ Facebook, new bills may miss the mark

By Marissa Newman

Israel says online Palestinian incitement leads to terror attacks, slams social media platform as unresponsive, but legal experts call proposed laws to tackle the issue ‘clumsy,’ ‘scary’

Court okays home demolition for accomplice in deadly Jerusalem attack

New bill would strip benefits from terrorists in Israeli jails

Family of E. Jerusalem Arab teen petitions court to demolish homes of his killers

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Rina Ariel, the mother of slain teen Hallel Ariel, pays a visit on July 7, 2016, to the family home of Rabbi Miki Mark, who was killed in a terror attack a day after her daughter (screen capture: Channel 10)

Live updates (closed)

Parts of downed EgyptAir plane wash up on Israeli beach

Israel informs Cairo and Paris of discovery on Netanya shore, will coordinate with Egyptians to return the debris

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

Israeli scientist helps Juno probe unlock Jupiter’s mysteries

By ToI Staff and AP

Does the gas giant have a core? What’s it made of? How was it formed? Tel Aviv U. astrophysicist Ravit Helled may soon find out

Climate change, asteroid impact killed off dinosaurs

By Mariëtte Le Roux

In this Thursday Dec. 22, 2005 file photo, the then British prime minister Tony Blair meets soldiers at Shaibah logistics base, Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Pre-war, Blair quizzed Bush on response if Iraq struck Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Damning report says ex-British PM made commitment to US president shortly after war started that Saddam would be ousted

Trump trips on Saddam’s terror-busting record

By Calvin Woodward and Robert Burns

Condemned over Iraq, Blair fights for his reputation

By Katherine HADDON and James Pheby

Former president Bush praises UK’s role in Iraq War

By AFP

Do as I say, not as I did

Why talented, credentialed, qualified women should avoid careers serving the Jewish community

The vast potential of Israel-Africa

The 2nd largest and most populous continent is brimming with opportunity — it’s time to jump in with both feet

Israel is betraying its own people

The Chief Rabbinate continues to violate Jewish values and further alienate Diaspora Jewry from Israel

6 tried and true ways to beat BDS

Israel-haters got you down? Don’t panic! Some surefire tactics from the campus activists playbook

An IDF jeep and Palestinian vehicle after a possible car-ramming attack outside the Neve Daniel settlement in the West Bank on July 6, 2016. (Israel Police)

3 soldiers hurt in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Police, IDF still investigating, but say collision was apparently intentional; Palestinian driver also injured

French trader Arnaud Mimran arrives at the Paris courthouse on July 7, 2016 for deliberations in his trial over an alleged carbon tax scam.(AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAY)

French fraudster linked to Netanyahu convicted, jailed for 8 years

By ToI Staff and AFP

Arnaud Mimran, who says he has given donations to prime minister, also ordered to pay €1m fine over €283m euro fraud

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his French counterpart, Manuel Valls, in Jerusalem on Monday, May 23, 2016 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel ‘tampered’ with French PM’s cellphone — report

By Tamar Pileggi

Paris diplomats say phones, laptop stopped working after they turned equipment over to Israeli security before Valls’ private meeting with Netanyahu; Israel denies story

Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold a mixed men and women prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 7, 2016.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Despite heckles, pluralistic services at Western Wall pass ‘quietly’

Reform, Conservative Jews comply with attorney general’s order not to pray at holy site, but still draw protests from small group for singing and dancing

An image tweeted and then deleted by Donald Trump on July 2, 2016 that uses an apparent Star of David to call Hillary Clinton 'the most corrupt candidate ever!' (screen capture: YouTube)

Trump insists Clinton tweet isn’t anti-Semitic, praises Saddam again

By AP and ToI Staff

Republican candidate laments that image with six-pointed star atop piles of cash was deleted by his campaign

File: Attorney General Loretta Lynch, accompanied by FBI Director James Comey, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Clinton email probe closed with no charges

File: Police arrest a group of 22 Palestinians who were living in Israel illegally near the Besor Stream national park on March 10, 2016. (Israel Police)

Cops arrest 500 unauthorized Palestinian workers in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

In crackdown on West Bank residents entering Israel illegally, Southern District Police shutters factories, confiscates vehicles

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant speaks with the parents of Avraham Mengistu and late IDF soldier Oron Shaul outside the Prime Minister's Office, during a protest against the agreement with Turkey in Jerusalem, June 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Missing soldier’s family protests prison benefits for Hamas inmates

Parents of Oron Shaul, whose body is held in Gaza by the terror group, is ‘shocked to discover’ prisoners given special privileges

UK parliament briefly locked down over ‘suspicious package’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Police find no security threat after discovery of envelope prompts security alert

Benjamin Netanyahu, center, holds a Likud faction meeting in front of a photo of former party leader Menachem Begin at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Seeing Begin as the beginning of the end for traditional Zionism

By JP O’ Malley

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Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)

New prostate cancer test strives to slash biopsies

By Shoshanna Solomon

Actress Sarah Silverman, during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016, in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)

No jokeSarah Silverman ‘lucky to be alive’ after health scare

By JTA

Esther Levy says she was kicked out of a Mexican restaurant over her support for Donald Trump (screen capture: NBC News)

Mexican standoffMexican restaurant boots Jewish Trump supporter

By JTA

The Ark Encounter is seen July 5, 2016 in Williamstown, Kentucky. The Ark Encounter is a theme park centered around a 510 foot long reproduction of Noah's Ark. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images/AFP

Baby dinos and all, Noah’s ark readies for opening in Kentucky

Ilan Swartz-Brownstein and Josh Leviton perform on the 'America's Got Talent' television show. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Kickin' it old shulBeatboxers in kippahs dazzle on TV talent show

By JTA

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

Hebrew media reviewMissiles, discrimination and heart attacks outweigh a trial

By Ilan Ben Zion

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