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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 21, 2016

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Marchers at the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem on July 30, 2015, before a deadly stabbing attack. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Under unprecedented security, capital gears up for gay pride march

Some 2,000 police expected to keep eye on parade through central Jerusalem, a year after annual event was scene of deadly stabbing

Pride parade killer plotted new attack from prison, police say

Jerusalem mayor defends decision to skip Pride Parade

By Stuart Winer

After rabbi’s anti-gay comments, Ya’alon warns of national religious ‘radicalization’

By Stuart Winer

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., addresses the delegates during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Cruz refuses to endorse Trump, draws thunderous boos

By Julie Pace and Jill Colvin

Mike Pence accepts VP nomination, says that with Republican party ‘united’ at Cleveland convention, Trump’s ‘got backup’

‘Humbled’ Mike Pence accepts Republican VP nomination

InterviewSteve King: Trump lacks ‘long-term,’ ‘sustainable’ Israel policy

By Eric Cortellessa

Adelsons say they did not order Cruz turned away after anti-Trump speech

By ToI Staff and AP

The then director-general of the Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, speaks during a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting on July 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

If Paris goes ahead with peace summit, I doubt we’ll be there, says Israel’s Foreign Ministry chief

By Raphael Ahren

Dore Gold on Abbas (dabbles in the total denial of Jewish history), settlements (not a block to peace), and ties with the Arab world (the Saudis aren’t about to open an embassy in Jerusalem, but…)

Gay pride stabber Yishai Schlissel is led out of the courtroom, at the Jerusalem District Court on June 26, 2016, after being sentenced to life in prison and an additional 31 years (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM calls for unity at Jerusalem pride parade in memory of slain teen

Netanyahu says march not just for LGBTQ community, but for all those who believe in equality; police on high alert as last year’s stabber suspected of planning fresh attack from prison

A reclining beach chair produced by Keter. (Public Domain/Wikimedia)

UK-based company said set to buy Keter Plastics for $1.7 billion

By Raoul Wootliff

Huge sale would break up ownership of Israeli furniture giant, giving up to 80% to buyout investor BC Partners

Illustrative: A Haredi school in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, August 27, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

No math? No problem! Government flip-flops on Haredi core curricula

By Marissa Newman

Bennett moves to nix law conditioning state funds on lessons in math and English, making Yesh Atid MKs fume; ex-Haredim suing the government launch a Knesset lobby

Religious Jews must go to the Jerusalem Pride march

The same Torah that deems certain acts unacceptable demands that believers stand up to support the persecuted

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

The tools of tyrants and democrats alike

Use social networks to stage or halt a coup, but free society with the rich, multilayered discourse they don’t support

Can a bad diagnosis be good medicine?

A doctor realizes that stretching the truth would grant a child helpful treatment that the parents can’t afford

A speechwriter’s truth

Why the story of Melania’s speech was mesmerizing to one who knows how to craft another’s words with precision

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein speaking at the 'Zion and Jerusalem' convention in July 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Defense ministry summons military academy rabbi over anti-gay slurs

Ministry director expected to demand that Yigal Levinstein, who heads military academy, retract ‘deviants’ comments

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner at the dedication of a new kindergarten in the settlement of Beit El, on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Leading rabbis champion peer who called LGBTs ‘deviants’

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a security discussion at the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on July 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: Palestinian poet’s writings are like ‘Mein Kampf’

By Stuart Winer

Defense minister tells Army Radio chief following program on works of Mahmoud Darwish that his legacy cannot be part of Israeli narrative

Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, flashes a thumbs up as he arrives for son Eric Trump's speech during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Trump says he might not protect NATO countries against Russia

By AFP

GOP candidate questions US obligation to Baltic states if they don’t give anything in return; backs Turkish crackdown after coup attempt

US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with top Iranian nuclear official Ali Akbar Salehi on June 30, 2015, in Vienna, Austria. (US State Department)

Iran threatens faster uranium enrichment if nuclear deal is violated

Year after pact aimed at thwarting Tehran’s rogue nuclear program was signed, atomic chief and speaker of parliament discuss new enrichment plans

The aftermath of a suicide bombing at a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in August 9, 2001, that killed 15 and wounded over 100 more. (Flash90)

US court reverses judgment giving Iran building money to terror victims

By AP

Judge casts doubt on whether Tehran owns Manhattan tower, undoing record forfeiture for victims of bombings in Jerusalem and elsewhere

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver welcome more than 200 French Jews who immigrated to Israel aboard a special Jewish Agency Aliyah flight, July 20, 2016. (Nir Kafri for The Jewish Agency for Israel)

Days after Nice attack, 200 French Jews immigrate to Israel

Jewish Agency head Sharansky tells planeload of new arrivals they have a future in Israel, while future in France was uncertain

Pro-Erdogan supporters rally at Kizilay Square in Ankara on July 20, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)

Erdogan declares three-month state of emergency in Turkey

By Stuart Williams, Fulya Ozerkan and Frank Zeller

While post-coup measure vastly increases state security powers, Turkish president vows ‘no compromise on democracy’

Ilnur Cevik, an aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talks to Channel 2 television in an interview aired on July 20, 2016 (screen capture)

Erdogan ally: Coup attempt will tighten Israel-Turkey ties

By Stuart Winer

Ilnur Cevik tells Israeli TV that Ankara expects Israeli intel in fight against IS, says US must ‘think very clearly’ about request to extradite cleric

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 3, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Interview

Emotion on the wane, are US-Israel ties ‘becoming purely transactional’?

By JP O’ Malley

ABC Federal University, in the Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Google Maps)

Brazil university sorry for job ad linking Zionism, Nazism

By JTA

Education minister says it was ‘absurd’ for school to seek educator to teach Zionism as a racist concept alongside Nazism and apartheid

Israelis seen eating at Benedict's restaurant at the Sarona Market shopping center in central Tel Aviv, June 9, 2016, the morning after a deadly terror attack at the site. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Man accused of housing Sarona killers in makeshift storage unit

Abdelhadi Abu A’fash, of the Negev town of Segev Shalom, rented his warehouse to Palestinians who entered Israel illegally, not charged in terror plot

Tel Aviv's Electra Building is home to multiple binary options firms (Lior4040 / Wikipedia)

Follow the money: How one defrauded binary options ‘investor’ got his cash back

By Simona Weinglass

More Headlines

From left: President Reuven Rivlin, the late former president, Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try on virtual reality headsets at an innovation center event on July 21, 2016.(Courtesy)

New Peres center to showcase Israel tech, spark dreams

By Shoshanna Solomon

A general view of the New York City skyline during on July 11, 2016 (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for New Era/AFP)

At $153.4m, NY federation campaign grows for 7th straight year

By JTA

Former president Moshe Katsav leaves the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after being found guilty of rape. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Decision delayed on early prison release for ex-president Katsav

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

An anatomical chart posted on Facebook by Gazan Zahran Barbah on October 8, 2015, showing which parts of the body to aim for when stabbing a victim. (Courtesy of MEMRI)

Bill cracking down on social media incitement passes initial reading

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Stuart Winer

Shami Chakrabarti, interviewed on J-TV by Alan Mendoza, July 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Author of UK Labour’s controversial anti-Semitism probe mum on peerage

By Jenni Frazer

An Israeli Air Force M-346 Lavi jet trainer aircraft. (Defense Ministry)

Final plane in billion-dollar deal with Italy lands in Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion

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

That's a rapOrthodox duo boxed out of ‘America’s Got Talent’

By JTA

Marijuana. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

High officeBaggie of marijuana turns up in Knesset bathroom

By Stuart Winer

A man caught on security cameras as he burglarized the Chabad Center at the University of Southern California in july 2016. (YouTube/collivedotcom)

That's a wrapPhylacteries nabbed from LA Jewish center

By JTA

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting following the death of minister Uri Orbach, who passed away at the age of 54. February 16, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewNo love and no friendship

By Raoul Wootliff

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