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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 27, 2017

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Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, at the 2012 General Assembly in Baltimore, Maryland (photo credit: JFNA/JTA)

'To see the agreement go into dormancy... is a direct insult'

US Jews plan campaign to get Israelis in their corner, reverse Western Wall ‘sucker punch’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After meeting with Netanyahu, Federations head Jerry Silverman outlines two-pronged strategy to unfreeze pluralistic pavilion; will also fight conversion bill

In Knesset, Diaspora leaders vow to undo Western Wall decision

By Raphael Ahren

Jewish Agency takes out ad slamming Western Wall decision

Conservative Jewry, US federations decry ‘deplorable’ Western Wall reversal

Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 25, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Bennett: ‘Mistakes were made’ on Western Wall decision

Diaspora affairs minister says ‘misinformation’ caused US Jews to feel they were ‘slapped in the face,’ vows to rectify situation

Fuming opposition looks to fell government over Western Wall reversal

By Tamar Pileggi

Government official says work on pluralistic Western Wall space continuing

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

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?

Charging ‘betrayal’ over Western Wall, Reform leaders cancel Netanyahu meeting

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

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Some critics of Western Wall plan still unhappy after freeze

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative photo of a Dan bus. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox parties look to put brakes on Saturday bus service

By Stuart Winer

Lawmakers ask Transportation Ministry to cancel permits issued to a handful of cities for limited bus operations

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during a swearing in ceremony for newly appointed Supreme Court justices at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (Closed)

Justice minister criticizes Netanyahu for surprise Western Wall vote

Disabled protesters try to set themselves on fire outside PM’s residence; 6 Palestinians dead, 5 from a single family, in head-on collision in West Bank

The scene of a deadly crash on Route 60 near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, June 27, 2017. (Courtesy MDA)

7 Palestinians killed in West Bank bus-minibus collision

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump waves to the press after escorting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his car on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, June 26, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Poll: Only Israel and Russia prefer Trump to Obama

By Eric Cortellessa

Pew survey of 37 countries finds plummeting global confidence in US leadership’s ability to handle international affairs

Bennett disappointed by Trump’s settlement policies

By AP, ToI Staff and JTA

Former anti-Semitism envoys warn of ‘terrible loss’ of post under Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

North Korea: Trump, like Hitler, desires world domination

By AFP

Former National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror, October 14, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Stop building in settlements outside blocs, ex-Netanyahu security aide says

At panel on Mideast peace, Yaakov Amidror says Israel must preserve possibility of 2-state solution, argues biggest threat to Jewish state is demography

Chairman of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2017. (Flash90)

Election hacking likely to hit Israel, MK Lapid warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Yesh Atid leader calls for special task force to counter foreign intervention, says fake news may be even harder to protect against

Shin Bet head says over 2,000 terror attacks thwarted with cybertech

Global cyber-defense ‘very leaky,’ Israel expert says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Trump blasts Obama, demands ‘apology’ over Russia probe

By AFP

Illustrative: A yacht returns to Herzliya marina following the annual Ivy League yacht race, June 22, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Israel’s Ivy Leaguers take to the seas in annual yacht race

Sailing in the Mediterranean provides networking and social opportunity for alumni of top universities, who say they play outsize role in Israeli venture capital, business and politics

Eat, pray, love

The status quo at the Wall must be preserved, and if that means following Orthodox practice, so be it

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Is the Western Wall a kind of idolatry?

When the Six Day War turned the site of spiritual quest into one of nationalism, it began blocking the Divine Presence

At the Wall with strength and song

After a lifetime of humdrum synagogue attendance, praying with the Women of the Wall was inspirational

Charles Bronfman’s extraordinary life

In his memoir, Distilled, the Birthright co-founder paints a surprisingly candid picture of a life well-lived

Svetlana Khvostova, the Russian State Library employee in charge of keeping the Schneerson Collection. (Courtesy)

Look, but don’t touch: Moscow’s Schneerson Collection goes online

The Knesset plenum votes on the state budget for 2017-2018, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset gives initial okay to bill banning binary options

By Simona Weinglass

MK Dov Khenin (Joint List) calls for the law to be expanded to include additional ‘toxic’ financial products

Supreme Court justice and Elyakim Rubinstein in his Jerusalem office (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Over parents’ opposition, court orders mediation in Hadassah hospital crisis

Ex-Supreme Court judge Rubinstein will try to resolve dispute surrounding children’s cancer unit

Illustrative. An Israeli F-15 fighter jet. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Israel strikes Hamas posts in Gaza after rocket fire

Military says it targeted infrastructure in north and south of enclave following earlier launch from Strip that hit Sha’ar Hanegev region

An Israeli tourist looks at the Syrian side of the border from Mount Bental, in the Golan Heights, on June 25, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / JALAA MAREY)

Restive border area in Golan Heights closed off to civilians

Amid heightened tensions, army says only farmers will be allowed into sector hit by errant mortar shells in recent days

Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, welcomes hundreds to the Jewish Rally for Refugees in Battery Park, New York, on February 12, 2017. (Courtesy HIAS)

Jewish groups criticize Supreme Court decision to allow parts of Trump’s travel ban

By JTA

ADL, HIAS welcome ruling limiting scope of executive order, but say even partial enforcement is deeply harmful

Jared Kushner speaks during an event at the White House on June 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Kushner hires top lawyer for Russia probe

By AP and ToI Staff

Abbe Lowell to join legal team of Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, who’s said to have received a loan from a bank with ties in Moscow

The scene of a suspected gangland bombing in Ashkelon on June 27, 2017. (Israel Police)

Top mobster killed in latest gangland car bombing

By Raoul Wootliff

Victim in Ashkelon explosion said to have been senior underworld figure in southern Israel; incident may have been retribution for 2016 assassination of crime kingpin’s son

A banner made by one of the petitioners at the vigil for slain Seattle mother Charleena Lyles, right. (Rainer Waldman Adkins)

Police shooting, protests prompt Seattle Jewish Federation to halt annual award

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

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Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen departing Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle on July 11, 2016, for his first leave from prison since he began his 19-month sentence in February. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Ehud Olmert released from hospital ahead of parole hearing

Sheldon Adelson attends the final remarks of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sheldon Adelson ‘disappointed and angry’ at Netanyahu — report

The 2017 Bonei Zion winners following the June 26, 2017 ceremony at the Knesset (Courtesy Shahar Azran)

New kids on the blockKnesset honors Israel’s outstanding Anglos

The art of getting doughMariah Carey hits Israel to push ‘Premier’ cosmetics

By Melanie Lidman

Israeli musicians Ram Vashdi and Shoval Moshon (YouTube screenshot)

Latin loveChart-topping ‘Despacito’ gets Hebrew cover

By JTA

In this Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, file photo, a Jewish woman wears a prayer shawl as she prays at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's Old City. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Hebrew media reviewWill US Jews’ Western Wall blues fall on deaf Israeli ears?

By Joshua Davidovich

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