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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 25, 2017

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Prayer services at the pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall, on July 17, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Bowing to ultra-Orthodox pressure, cabinet halts pluralistic Western Wall deal

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Alexander Fulbright

Israel’s Reform movement says freezing the plan to build mixed-gender prayer plaza harms Israel and its connection to the Jewish people; Jewish Agency expresses ‘deep disappointment’

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at his office in the Health Ministry, Jerusalem, April 13, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Haredi minister hails freezing Western Wall plan as blow to Reform Jews

By Tamar Pileggi

IDF strikes Syria over errant fire; PM freezes pluralistic Western Wall pavilion; Israeli indicted for attempting to join IS; ministers okay bill sealing Haredi monopoly on conversion

Zolfaghar missiles, right, are displayed during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on June 23, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)

Amid Hezbollah threats, Israel said to warn Iran against arming group

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem reportedly using friendly nations to tell Tehran it would ‘not tolerate’ construction of weapons factories in southern Lebanon

Denying Israeli claims, Iran insists all its missiles struck IS targets

Liberman: Assad regime will continue to suffer consequences of attacks

IDF releases footage of strikes on Syrian military targets

Illustrative image: iStock

As Knesset prepares to vote on binary options ban, more tragedies emerge

By Simona Weinglass

Two desperate women from opposite corners of the world allegedly believed the false promises of Israel-based binary options brokers, lost all their money, and now are dead

Patrick Andrews and Brianna Borger in 'Parade.' (Michael Brosilow)

Theater reviewIt is an uncomfortable America where racism goes unchecked

Powerful musical recounts Atlanta lynching of falsely accused Jewish man

By Ronit Bezalel

A century after the murder of Leo Frank, ‘Parade’ — now staged in Chicago — is a devastatingly relevant piece of drama

Love of Israel begins at home

Why touring the holy land should not be a ‘one-and-done’ bucket list item, but a place to return again and again

The reversibility of Israeli settlements

Sure, the Palestinians could do more to move toward peace, but Israel’s West Bank presence isn’t helping matters

Peace without the Palestinians

As long as terrorists are in charge, any agreement will have to be imposed from the outside

What’s a pro-Israel student to do?

His personal version of intersectionality opens hearts to his story of Israel and overcoming victimhood

Dr. Michael Weintraub, former head of the Hadassah's Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department speaks with Israeli kids at the Hema-ontology protest tent in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, June 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Parents threaten hunger strike as PM urges quick end to cancer ward crisis

By Stuart Winer

Parents of Hadassah pediatric cancer patients set up field hospital protest tent in Jerusalem park; state adamant it won’t open another treatment center in Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017, on June 23, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Trump wishes Muslims ‘warm greetings’ for Eid

By AFP

In lieu of end-of-Ramadan dinner, US president sends statement affirming ‘the importance of mercy, compassion, and goodwill’

Illustrative: Hundreds of ultra Orthodox Jewish men pray near the compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus early on June 10, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/File)

20 arrested for trying to visit Joseph’s Tomb in West Bank

By Stuart Winer

Jewish pilgrims intercepted on road to Palestinian city out of bounds to Israelis; rights group claims 4 were beaten by PA security personnel

Pakistani rescue workers gather near burned bodies after an oil tanker caught fire following an accident on June 25, 2017. (AFP/ STR)

Over 120 killed in Pakistan highway blaze after tanker overturns

By AFP

Scores who gather at scene to collect spilling fuel are burned beyond recognition; death toll expected to rise

Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Yuval Steinitz Yuval Steinitz seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 27, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Energy minister: Israel should restore full power supply to Gaza

Steinitz says Jerusalem should not accept dictates from Abbas on policy: ‘We do not want a humanitarian disaster in Gaza’

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on May 8, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Resisting left’s overtures, Lapid insists Yesh Atid is ‘centrist’

Former finance minister, eager to replace Netanyahu, says PM’s corruption scandals should be enough to see him step down

Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett backs probe of leftist NGO activist who claimed he beat Palestinian

By Stuart Winer

Education minister says Breaking the Silence spokesman admitted publicly to committing crime, so a trial is justified

Former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner delivers a speech in Buenos Aires on June 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / EITAN ABRAMOVICH)

Argentine ex-president Kirchner launches political comeback

By AFP and ToI Staff

Leftist firebrand has been accused in the death of Jewish prosecutor Alberto Nissman, who alleged she tried to cover up Iran’s role in the AMIA bombing

Tiran Island, in the Red Sea, Egypt, February 10, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt’s Sissi ratifies handover of islands to Saudi Arabia

By AFP

Deal has been the subject of a confusing legal battle and heated anti-government protests

In this photo provided by Alex Styer, Alice Ye, left, demonstrates her technique for folding dumplings to Jay Polakoff, center, and Elliott Maser, right, during a June 5, 2017, dinner at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. (Alex Styer/Bellevue Communications Group via AP)

US initiative bridges cultural divisions, one meal at a time

By Natalie POMPILIO

Jews and Muslims share deserts while Chinese and Mexican Americans bond over dumplings as part of ‘Breaking Bread; Breaking Barriers’

Journalist and author of 'The Unchosen,' Mya Guarnieri Jaradat. (Courtesy)

Interview

A Jewish American who immigrated to Israel asks why refugees can’t

By JP O’ Malley

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Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked speaking at Cyber Week in Tel Aviv, June 25, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel getting better grip on online incitement, justice minister says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Medics at the scene of a stabbing near the Elyakim Junction in northern Israel on Saturday night, June 25,
2017 (United Hatzalah)

Man killed, another injured in brawl in northern Israel

Models present creations by Israeli designer Hed Mayner during the Men's Fashion Week for the Spring and Summer 2018 collection in Paris, on June 23, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOT)

Hot cultureDesigner draws from Israel’s many tribes

By Anne-Laure MONDESERT

Illustrative photo of an Israel police car (Flash90)

Man arrested on suspicion of raping his 6-year-old granddaughter

Illustrative: The Jordanian Parliament. (Jordan Parliament official)

Jordan to cancel ‘marry the victim’ clause shielding rapists

A woman and a child stand next to the fence of the industrial pig farm situated at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, Czech Republic, on June 24, 2017, during the 'Dignity for Lety' commemorational event (AFP PHOTO / Michal Cizek)

Activists demand removal of pig farm from Roma Holocaust site

By AFP

Musicians Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead perform on the Coachella Stage during day 1 of the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival,
April 21 2017. (Trixie Textor/Getty Images for Coachella/AFP)

From our partnerRadiohead met with Palestinian flags, anti-Israel slogans at UK show

View of a protest tent in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, June 4, 2017, the protest tent built by parents of young cancer patients in the Hema-ontology department in Hadassah Ein Kerem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSaber rattling and sick kids

By Tamar Pileggi

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