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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 28, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with the head of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

Sharansky: We may solve Western Wall and conversion crises. I’m not sure we can rebuild trust

By David Horovitz

Jewish Agency chairman, at forefront of incendiary dispute between Israel and Diaspora, decries PM’s actions, laments collapse of a painstakingly constructed relationship with Reform and Conservative leaders

InterviewMKs backing conversion bill not welcome in Chicago, Jewish leader warns

By Raphael Ahren

Israel’s consulates in the US gird for protests over Western Wall

Sharansky tells envoys to convey Diaspora’s fury over cabinet moves

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US Ambassador David Friedman delivering remarks at 2017 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism ceremony, Jerusalem, June 27, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Weighing in on Western Wall crisis, new US envoy calls for Jewish unity

By Raphael Ahren

In first public speech since taking office, Ambassador David Friedman slams unnamed Jewish organization for questioning ongoing support of Israel

Ultra-Orthodox threaten to bolt government if conversion bill endangered

US congressmen lament divisive Western Wall prayer plaza decision

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

From our partnerUK progressive Jews call Western Wall reversal a ‘betrayal’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at a Jewish Agency Board of Governors gathering in Jerusalem on February 18, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/flash90)

Netanyahu and the Wall: He broke it, he must fix it

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Non-Orthodox supporters of Israel overseas could convince themselves it was rain, not spit, when ultra-Orthodox MKs over the years denigrated their streams of Judaism as illegitimate. Until Sunday, when the government told them they’re just too… well… treif

Netanyahu aide defends freeze of Western Wall agreement

Young Jewish men pray at the men's section of the Western Wall, the most holy site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City on June 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Live updates (closed)

Major Jewish groups urge PM to resolve Western Wall crisis

By Tamar Pileggi

High Court to hold hearing on Western Wall next month; Israel says Iran using Star of David for target practice; Hamas creating buffer zone with Egypt; Errant mortar fire from Syria hits Golan

Tel Aviv's beaches -- as seen in 'Tel Aviv Beach' by Itamar Grinburg -- will open early for the season, just in time for Passover. (Courtesy of Karen Lehrman Block)

Fresh frame

These photos capture Israel’s beauty and diversity

By Andrew Tobin

Exhibition aims to show the country in a more flattering light, outside the conflict and the violence

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein addresses the Russian parliament on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 (Marissa Newman/Times of Israel)

Knesset speaker, once a prisoner in Siberia, addresses Russian parliament

By Marissa Newman

Former refusenik Yuli Edelstein asks Moscow to help vanquish Islamic extremism, the ‘Nazism of the 21st century’

UN envoy says US warning to Syria also aimed at Russia and Iran

By Richard Lardner

In Russia, Knesset speaker acknowledges tensions on Syria, Iran

By Marissa Newman

Mattis: Assad took Trump’s chemical warning ‘seriously’

By AFP

Illustrative - A standard IDF tear gas hand grenade (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Daboos Hassan/Wikipedia)

Interview

The peace process hasn’t brought peace. The case for moving on

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In a new book, philosopher Micah Goodman seeks to upend the debate about the West Bank, by urging Israelis — left and right — to set aside their dreams

Abbas blamed as 3 Gazan babies die after denied Israel entry permits

Police arrest 3 settler minors for stoning ambulance, soldiers

Army nabs would-be stabber at Bethlehem checkpoint

Health food company representatives prepare protein smoothies at a ShukTech event in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Micah Danney/Times of Israel)

Market visitors get a look at the future of food in Jerusalem

By Micah Danney

Fruit fly protein powder, branded ice cubes and seed-based yogurt are all on the menu at ShukTech event

Fans are pumped for the arrival of Britney Spears in Israel for her July 3 show (Courtesy Britney Spears)

One more time

Britney slams lip sync rumors ahead of Israel show

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Spears says she is ‘busting my ass’ singing and dancing during performances including upcoming July 3 gig in Tel Aviv

Participants in a Taglit Birthright program celebrate at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on January 14, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Vast majority’ of Jewish students are connected to Israel, insists Brandeis prof

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

15 years of comprehensive study leads Prof. Len Saxe to laugh off ‘devastating’ allegations that millennials are losing support for Jewish state

How will Morocco’s Jews be remembered?

At the synagogue of a dying community distributing Ramadan parcels to needy Muslims

Michael Derek Tanju

My exodus, our exodus

He was terrified when he saw Israeli soldiers standing over him with guns, and then something strange happened

Melanie Takefman

Child soldiers, elderly warriors

The year is 2017, but the gender stereotypes are medieval

Malka Simkovich

Clothing makes the person

Separate how you dress from your Orthodox Jewish identity and reap the benefits of both your attire and your Judaism

US presidential adviser Jared Kushner meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on June 21, 2017 (PA press office)

US ‘not pulling out in any way’ from Mideast peace efforts, says official

State Department rejects ‘false’ report of Abbas-Kushner rift, but concedes ‘some meetings more difficult than others’

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifying at the House State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee, June 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley promises to block any appointment of Palestinian official to senior UN post

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Staff monitoring the spread of ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in Seoul, May 15, 2017. (AFP/ YONHAP)

Israeli companies said hit in global wave of cyberattacks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Three firms reportedly affected as part of modified ‘Petrwrap’ virus that began in Russia and Ukraine and quickly spread

The Mossad stand at Cybertech 2017 (Courtesy: Gilad Kavalerchik)

Eyeing new spy tech, Mossad says it will pump money into startups

By Shoshanna Solomon and Raphael Ahren

Intelligence agency will invest in technologies, forgoing stake in firm or IP, in return for license to use developments

Screen capture from video of Michael Daniel, cybersecurity coordinator for US president Barack Obama, September 2016. (Tom Billington)

Obama’s cybersecurity adviser certain Russians didn’t hack election results

By Stuart Winer

Michael Daniel confident outcome reflects will of American people; says investigation will show if Trump colluded with Moscow

Illustrative: Parents and supporters of young cancer patients from the hematology-oncology department at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem protest against Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and the hospital's CEO Zeev Rotstein in Jerusalem on June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Angry parents of cancer patients block entrance to Jerusalem with hospital beds

Disappointed at court order for more mediation in dispute over hospital blood cancer ward, families, supporters hold protest at Chords Bridge

James Packer at a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, October 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Police set to question James Packer in Netanyahu gifts probe

By Raoul Wootliff

With investigation said nearing end, prosecution reportedly considering dropping planned corruption indictment of PM, moving forward only with conflict of interest charges

An unconscious Syrian child receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Omar Haj Kadour)

Assad said to visit Iranian-run chemical weapons center

Syrian opposition reports US administration learned Assad planning another sarin attack

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border shows smoke rising near the Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights during fights between the rebels and the Syrian army inside Syria, June 25, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF reopens restive border area on Golan Heights to civilians

Region around Quneitra had been declared off-limits as stray fire incidents stoked tensions with Syria

A marcher waves a Jewish Pride flag at Jerusalem's 2012 Gay Pride Parade. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

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A young girl staring at a TV. (illustrative photo: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Netflix and competeTelecom company Partner launches new TV service

By Jessica Steinberg

View of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a large game reserve in Narok County, Kenya on September 3, 2014. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Kenya hopes Israeli tree tech takes root in remote deserts

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative: Harold Grinspoon, the founder of PJ Library, reads one of the program’s books with a gaggle of children. (PJ Library)

PJ Library’s free books for kids spur Jewish connections, study finds

By JTA

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)

Fake musePhony Trump ‘Time’ cover hangs in his clubs

Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, founder of ArtScroll Publications, who died June 23, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

Founder of ArtScroll Publications dies at 73

By JTA

Uri Yakir, a parent of a child at the hemato-oncology department in Hadassah Ein Kerem, yells at the hospital's head Zeev Rotstein at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe emperor of all dramas

By Joshua Davidovich

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