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What Matters Most On Monday, June 26, 2017

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This file photo taken on October 19, 2016 shows Jewish worshippers performing the annual Cohanim prayer (priest's blessing) at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 19, 2016. (AFP/Gil COhen-Magen)

In first-ever direct challenge, Jewish Agency urges Israel to reinstate Western Wall deal

By Raphael Ahren

Hours after disinviting Netanyahu from gala dinner in protest at ‘deplorable’ move, board of governors calls on government to reinstate previous compromise that would formalize a pluralistic prayer area

Sharansky warns some Diaspora Jews are rethinking Israel ties over Western Wall crisis

By Raphael Ahren

Lawmaker seeks legal probe into cancellation of Western Wall prayer plan

Ministers were debating ‘the future of the Jewish people’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative: Conservative Jews pray at the section prepared for prayer for the Women of the Wall at Robinson's Arch in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)

Inside story

There is already pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall. Here’s what would have changed

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Robinson’s Arch prayer area has been in use since 2000. So why the need for the wide-sweeping compromise that was frozen Sunday?

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a committee meeting in the knesset on June 21, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With Western Wall deal quashed, ultra-Orthodox lawmakers lambaste Reform Judaism

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid flanked by Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, head of the Conservative movement, in the Knesset on June 26, 2017 -- a day after the cabinet froze a deal to formalize pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Flanked by US liberal Jewish leaders, opposition skewers Western Wall flip-flop

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

Religious Jewish women which are part of the Women of the Wall organization wear tfillin (prayer shawls) and tallit as they read from the Torah and pray at Robinson's Arch, near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The WOW organizes women's prayer groups at the Western Wall at the start of every new Jewish month (Rosh Hodesh). Jewish ultra orthodox communities oppose women's singing in the presence of men, reading from the Torah, and wearing the ritual garments and objects traditionally associated with men. March 12, 2013. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90

The tragedy of the Wall

By Yossi Klein Halevi

The government decision violates the essence of Zionism, which is to uphold the integrity of Jewish peoplehood

A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and members of the Women of the Wall carry Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

US liberal Jews decry ‘slap in the face’ from Netanyahu on Western Wall prayer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Conservative and Reform leaders may not be surprised by the latest development – years of experience have taught them better – but the sense of betrayal is powerful, and they’re determined to fight

Full text of Jewish Agency resolution on Western Wall decision

Liberman: Shelving Western Wall plan a ‘severe blow’ to Jewish unity

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Ministers okay bill cementing ultra-Orthodox monopoly on conversion

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, February 28, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu to millions of Jews: We don’t really want you

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The PM’s decision to freeze the Western Wall compromise plan is a blow to the heart and soul of world Jewry

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on June 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: No plans to attack Syria, but we won’t ignore provocation

By Raoul Wootliff

Defense minister rebuffs predictions of upcoming conflict on northern border despite recent skirmishes

IDF says stray fire from Syria hits UN position in Golan Heights

IDF girds for possible Hezbollah clash during border fence construction

Netanyahu tells thousands of Birthright youths they secure Israel’s future

A fire burns in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, November 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hundreds of Israeli buildings ‘as vulnerable’ as London’s Grenfell Tower

By Raoul Wootliff and Melanie Lidman

Fire department says it has no idea how many high-rises are at risk; admits that even if it finds dangerous materials, there is nothing it can do

A police van drives past the Chalcots Estate in the borough of Camden, north London, June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

UK: All building cladding samples tested thus far fail fire safety

Artifacts on display at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York in the 'Noah’s Beasts: Sculpted Animals from Ancient Mesopotamia' exhibit. (Courtesy)

On show

In NY, a wild exhibit on biblical Noah’s feral seafarers

By Cathryn J. Prince

Flood myths were common in the Fertile Crescent 5,000 years ago — and the Morgan Library and Museum has the artifacts to prove it

Donniel Hartman

An affront to Zionism

Israel needs the Kotel agreement not to secure political support from world Jewry, but to be a home to all Jews

Liberal Jews HAVE a place at the Wall

The fuss over the Kotel agreement is misleading: the Robinson’s Arch area is still open for egalitarian prayer

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

A crack in our foundation stone

Can we go on building our peoplehood, after one side has clearly said: ‘You don’t actually matter to us.’?

Thomas Bossert, assistant to the US President Donald Trump for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, speaks in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2017. (Courtesy)

US, Israel set up team to combat cybersecurity threat

By Shoshanna Solomon

The world needs Iron Dome ingenuity as threats move from missiles to malware, US official Thomas Bossert says at Tel Aviv conference

Costin Raiu, Director, Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab during a visit to Jerusalem, June 14, 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Interview

Virtual detectives prowl the web’s ‘dark forest’ for criminal tracks

By Shoshanna Solomon

By studying past cyber-attacks you learn how to fend off new ones, Kaspersky Lab’s chief researcher says

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (L) poses for a picture with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster at 10 Downing Street in London on June 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

UK Conservatives sign power deal with Northern Irish party

By AFP

Theresa May’s spokesman confirms agreement reached but won’t reveal details; DUP leader calls pact ‘a very good one’

A Jewish settler sits outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ahead of UNESCO vote on Hebron, Israel bars fact-finding mission from city

By Raphael Ahren

Since move to add Tomb of Patriarchs to list of endangered sites seems like a foregone conclusion, Jerusalem says expert commission a waste of time

Illustrative: International Red Cross members securing transport for sick Palestinians from Gaza into Israel for medical treatment at the Erez Crossing on June 19, 2007. (Ahmad Khateib/Flash90)

Amid Hamas feud, PA said delaying Gazans’ medical treatment in Israel

By Alexander Fulbright

Gaza residents and NGO report longer waits for permits, coinciding with increased pressure on Strip’s terrorist rulers

Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Hadassah cancer doctors beg parents to halt hunger strike

Request comes hours before High Court due to debate parents’ petition to open new child’s cancer unit at rival hospital

This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, delivering a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 8, 2016; and President-elect Donald Trump, right, at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AFP)

Trump eager for big meeting with Putin but some advisers wary

By Vivian Salama

Despite American president’s enthusiasm, administration officials say US must maintain distance when 2 leaders are in Germany next month

Israeli driver Alon Day smiles during an interview prior to racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, June 25, 2017, in Sonoma, California (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Israel’s first NASCAR driver completes debut race

Alon Day, 25, who trained via computer simulation until Israel got a racing track, comes in 32nd out of 40

Attorney Yoram Sheftel (Flash90)

Attorney who represents Hebron shooter to defend JCC bomb hoaxer

By David Horovitz

Parents hire Yoram Sheftel for son, who is being kept in closed facility at Ramle jail for 23 hours a day, given unfamiliar medications, they say; medical evaluations confirm autism

IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria, who shot dead a disarmed and injured Palestinian attacker in the West Bank city of Hebron in March 2016, is surrounded by family and friends as he awaits to hear his sentence in a courtroom at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on February 21, 2017 (Jim Hollander/POOL)

Hebron shooter Elor Azaria undergoes tests after fainting

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Participants in the San Francisco Pride Parade showing their Jewish and Israeli pride, June 30, 2014. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

3 asked to leave Chicago LGBT march over ‘triggering’ Star of David flags

By JTA

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Husband, 77, stabs wife, 74, in her sleep

File: Yehudah Glick and his wife at a press conference at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on November 24, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK who survived 2014 assassination attempt asks for prayers for ill wife

Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, center, attends the final speeches of US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Adelson testifies for second time in Netanyahu corruption probe

By Alexander Fulbright and Sue Surkes

Getting the groove on with the Rabin Square earphones party for White Night, Thursday night, June 29 (Courtesy Guy Yechiely)

Party till morning at Tel Aviv’s White Night

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli actress Gal Gadot signing autographs for fans during the 'Wonder Woman' premier in Mexico City, May 27, 2017. (Victor Chavez/WireImage via JTA)

Lasso of truthGal Gadot ranked most popular actor on social media

By JTA

Liberal Jewish activists enter the Western Wall carrying Torah scrolls on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 (courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewThe right to wail over the wall

By Joshua Davidovich

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