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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 13, 2016

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A V15 activist puts up a poster calling for a change in government. (screen capture: YouTube/Victory2015)

Right-wing lawmakers pan US ‘intervention’ in Israeli elections

State Department-funded database was used by V15, a group that campaigned to unseat Netanyahu, Senate inquiry finds

US funds aided 2015 campaign to oust Netanyahu, Senate probe finds

By Raphael Ahren

US voices concern for free speech over Israeli NGO bill

Senate probe finds ex-top US diplomat in Jerusalem deleted emails

By Richard Latner

A chicken inside a barn at the Givat Olam organic farm near the settlement of Itamar, in the West Bank, on April 09, 2012 (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

No harm, no fowl: Startup to grow chickenless chicken

By Andrew Tobin

SuperMeat, developed by a Hebrew University biomedical engineer, promises to be both vegan and kosher

Newly appointed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson waves as he leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on July 13, 2016 after new British Prime Minister Theresa May took office. (AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF)

Live updates (closed)

Boris Johnson named UK’s new foreign secretary in cabinet shakeup

By Marissa Newman

PM Theresa May takes office, moves Hammond to finance ministry; Israeli Rabbinical court nixes conversions by prominent New York rabbi Lookstein

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas takes part in a prayer session ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, in Ramallah on Wednesday, July 6, 2015. (Flash90)

Analysis

Abbas says Cairo peace summit only after settlement freeze

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian preconditions include talks on basis of pre-1967 lines, set timetable; Netanyahu said open to meeting Abbas under Egyptian aegis

Egyptians harrumph over photo of Netanyahu, Egypt FM watching Euro final

AnalysisTurkey, Egypt, Africa: How ‘hard-liner’ Netanyahu pulled off a diplomacy trifecta

Saudi-based center ranks Hebrew U. number 1 in Mideast, 26th in world

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks during a rally in Portsmouth, N.H. on July 12, 2016, where Sanders endorsed Clinton. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ending run, Sanders offers Clinton long-awaited endorsement

By Ken Thomas and KATHLEEN RONAYNE

Vermont senator calls for unity, vows to help Democratic rival beat presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump

Sanders to back Clinton. Will supporters follow?

By Catherine Lucey

AnalysisTrump, Gingrich could make strong – or combustible – ticket

By Laurie Kellman

Trump says Ginsburg must ‘get off the Supreme Court ASAP’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks with media at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, February 27, 2016. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran says it could restart nuclear program if needed

President Hassan Rouhani assures Iranians of consequences if world powers violate atomic agreement

US President Barack Obama in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, DC, June 12, 2016. (AFP/YURI GRIPAS)

Obama vows to veto Iran trade restrictions

By JTA

David Cameron — a friend in Number 10

Israel’s former UK ambassador says farewell to a PM with extraordinary affinity for Jews and the Jewish state

Starting with Akiva

As a Down syndrome diagnosis emerged, they proudly blessed their baby with names that mean tenacity and strength

Tel Aviv: The edgy city alive

A paean to the bustling seaside town, where life bursts out everywhere, reckless, churning and creative

The wisdom of women

Ever compare the exodus story to the process of childbirth? A female Torah teacher did, and it was eye-opening

Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim (left), nominated to become IDF chief rabbi, sits next to his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Rafi Peretz, on April 21, 2016 (Diana Khananashvili/Defense Ministry)

Amid protests, IDF chief sticks with controversial top rabbi pick

By Raoul Wootliff

Lawmakers feud over nomination of Eyal Karim after his contentious statements come to light seeming to condone rape during wartime, oppose drafting of women

Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim (left), nominated to become IDF chief rabbi, sits next to his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Rafi Peretz, on April 21, 2016 (Diana Khananashvili/Defense Ministry)

Controversial pick for IDF chief rabbi once said women incapable of court testimony

By Tamar Pileggi

A group of friends play Pokemon Go on their smartphones at Union Square, July 11, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

US Holocaust Museum asks visitors to stop chasing Pokemon

Cartoon monsters also spotted at ‘PokeStops’ in former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, New York’s Ground Zero memorial

Lt. Col. David Shapira, commander of Shimshon Battalion, arrives at the Jaffa Military Court, July 12, 2016, to testify in the case of Sgt. Elor Azaria. (Flash90)

Battalion commander says Hebron soldier ‘didn’t tell the truth’ after shooting

In testimony, Lt-Col. David Shapira also tells court that Elor Azaria had been under great stress over new role as company medic

Equipment at an arms workshop uncovered by IDF and Border Police forces in the West Bank town of al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem, early Wednesday, July 13, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Fearing ramming attack, police fire at car, killing Palestinian

Officers were raiding a weapons workshop in West Bank town of al-Ram when vehicle began accelerating toward them, army says

The Israeli border fence with Gaza (David Buimovitch/Flash90)

Bedouin man climbs border fence from Israel into Gaza

By Ilan Ben Zion

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault meets with the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bekerke north of Beirut, July 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)

Israel fumes at French FM for meeting with Hezbollah officials

By Raoul Wootliff

Jean-Marc Ayrault urged to follow example of Arab states, which consider the Lebanese militia a terror organization

Joint List party member Hanin Zoabi is removed by Knesset security during her speech at a plenum session in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Fresh from NGO bill win, lawmakers toughen MK suspension proposal

By Marissa Newman

Ahead of committee vote Tuesday on final draft, controversial bill amended to allow for dismissal of Knesset members for entire term

Shannon Holter, a resident of Chagrin Falls, waves an American flag at her six month old son, Ethan, outisde of Quicken Loans Arena on July 11, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio ahead of the Republican National Convention. (Angelo Merendino/Getty Images/AFP

Republicans okay platform excluding ‘two-state’ language

Party committee unanimously votes to omit references to a Palestinian state alongside Israel as solution to conflict

Giammarco Piacenti, CEO of the Piacenti restoration company, poses in front of a renovated mosaic wall inside the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 8, 2016. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Hidden angel mosaic at Bethlehem shrine sees the light

Tile by tile, ancient murals at the traditional site of Jesus’s birth are being renewed by a devoted but cash-strapped team of Italian restorationists

Israel's rhythmic gymnastics team, a favorite to medal in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, outside of Tel Aviv, July 12, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Ahead of Rio, largest-ever Israeli team hopes for Olympics rebound

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The site of deadly car crash near Arad, July 13, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

Man stabs ex-wife, drives off, is killed in car crash

Police and paramedics around a car where a baby died after being left on July 12, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2/MDA)

Infant dies after being left for hours in hot car

Shiri Appleby directing on the set of Season 2 of Lifetime’s 'UnREAL' airing Monday, July 11th at 10pm ET/PT. (Bettina Strauss/via JTA)

‘UnREAL’ star Shiri Appleby dishes on playing a feminist antihero

By Linda Buchwald

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)

Lookstein convert summoned again by Supreme Rabbinical Court

By JTA

This Sept. 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house , front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson,file)

Pommer house PutschAustria to take control of Hitler birthplace

By AP

Bianca Jagger in a 5 News interview on British television in March 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Express remorse like JaggerBianca Jagger ‘mortified’ over anti-Semitic tweet

By JTA

Tel Aviv University's Electronic Tattoo (Courtesy: American Friends of Tel Aviv University)

Tel Aviv U’s electronic tattoo said to read your face, and emotions

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim (left), nominated to become IDF chief rabbi, sits next to his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Rafi Peretz, on April 21, 2016 (Diana Khananashvili/Defense Ministry)

Hebrew media reviewGod won’t save you, but Google could have

By Joshua Davidovich

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