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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 29, 2017

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Women praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall, between 1898 and 1946. (G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection/Library of Congress)

When men and women prayed together at the Western Wall

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A brief history of Jewish worship at Judaism’s holiest place of prayer, where, until it came under Israeli jurisdiction, a mixing of genders was the norm

Malcolm Hoenlein (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo credit: Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

Major US Jewish groups implore Netanyahu to ‘resolve’ Western Wall crisis

By Eric Cortellessa

Conference of Presidents says decision is dividing community, warns ‘a lack of unity could lead to an erosion of support’ for Israel

Crisis with world Jewry could cost Israel billions, deputy minister warns

By Raphael Ahren

High Court to hold hearing on Western Wall agreement in July

By Alexander Fulbright

Poll says most Israelis against Western Wall decision, conversion bill

By Tamar Pileggi

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein visits the Butyrka Prison in Moscow, where he was jailed for three months ahead of his trial in 1984, on June 28, 2017 (Courtesy Israeli Embassy in Russia)

Reporter's notebookFrom cell 138 to Israel... and back

Now a Knesset leader, former prisoner of Zion returns to his Moscow cell

By Marissa Newman

Returning to Butyrka prison, where he awaited a show trial 33 years ago for teaching Hebrew, Yuli Edelstein recalls the ‘gates of hell’ where his phylacteries, but not his zeal for Israel, were crushed

Edelstein tells Moscow: Syria spillover a ‘red line’ for Israel

By Marissa Newman

Syria, Russia accuse US of plotting ‘provocation’

By AP

Iraqi forces announce capture of landmark ‘hunchback’ mosque blown up by IS

By AFP

Satellite imagery released by Israel's UN mission on June 28, 2017, shows the Star of David being used as target practice by the Iranian military. (Courtesy United Nations)

Iran targeted Star of David in ballistic missile test, Israel says

Israel complains to UN as satellite imagery shows impact crater from weapons test next to Jewish symbol target carved in the desert

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during his visit to Katzrin the Golan Heights to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its founding on June 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Errant shell from Syria lands in Golan Heights as Netanyahu tours area

By Alexander Fulbright

In response, IDF strikes Syrian army position; PM vows Israel will not tolerate any ‘violation of our sovereignty’

Margaret Thatcher with Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem in 1986. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

How Margaret Thatcher’s family sheltered an Austrian Jew during the Holocaust

By Robert Philpot

Britain’s first female PM was known for an iconoclastic love of Jews and Israel. That was at least partly rooted in an early experience

A member of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, stands next to mock jails during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoner Day in Gaza City on April 17, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel freezes visits to Hamas prisoners amid talks over troops’ remains

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Terror group says move, demanded by lawmakers and relatives to up pressure as talks stall, is tantamount to declaration of war

UN chief distances himself from Palestinian summit on 50 years of occupation

By Stuart Winer

Outside the boxIn new vid, Israeli minister promotes Gaza island plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel denies PA claim it’s responsible for deaths of 3 Gaza infants

Aerial view of New York's financial district (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In biggest terror forfeiture in US history, NY jury finds against Iran-linked skyscraper

Prosecutors will not appeal Olmert parole; he walks free on Sunday; UN condemns fighting in buffer zone between Syria and Israel

Israeli actress Gal Gadot arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Wonder Woman' at the Pantages Theatre on May 25, 2017, in Hollywood, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/AFP)

In da club

Gal Gadot joins film academy in push for diversity

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli ‘Wonder Woman’ among 774 industry professionals from 57 countries to make up largest-ever group to join predominantly white male Oscars voting pool

Fragments of dyed woolen textile with red and blue stripes found in Israel's Timna Valley (Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

What color blue did King Solomon wear? New evidence tells us

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Excavations of copper mines find earliest Israeli traces of dye used for prestigious garments for skilled workers

Karlin-Stolin Rebbe dances with his daughter, son-in-law and son-in-law's father at their wedding, June 25, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Modern dance

Rebbe’s wedding dance with daughter causes a stir

Head of Karlin-Stolin Hasidim claims to reintroduce ancient custom by holding hands with bride, groom and groom’s father

Why Jews are losing the war on campuses

It’s because they fail to call out Hamas’s allies for what they really are: supporters of genocide

Hadar Tennenberg

Target practice

When Iran and Chicago anti-Zionists hate on the Star of David, they boost Jewish and Israeli defiant pride

Stephen M. Flatow

That Kotel thing? Just calm down

Enemy rockets, missiles, and mortars aimed at Israel — those might be just a bit more important

The Gospel against Affordable Care

A new American theology blames the less fortunate and bolsters the repeal of Obamacare

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)

Prison parole board grants early release to ex-PM Olmert

Panel shaves 11 months off 27-month sentence, decides probe into divulging of secret info in memoir not relevant; unclear if prosecution will appeal

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the courtroom of the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, February 2, 2016. (Gili Yohanan/POOL)

Politicians welcome Olmert parole, urge he be left in peace

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a wedding. (Shutterstock via JTA)

Get bent

Aussie woman refuses husband’s Jewish divorce

By Josefin Dolsten

Orthodox man sues in a secular court to force his wife to accept a legal religious divorce according to Jewish law

Then-Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, center, in brown cap, and then-Knesset member Dov Lipman, in jacket and tie at right, at a protest held by American and Israeli Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside the Chief Rabbinate offices in Jerusalem, July 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

New government-backed conversion bill targets the Orthodox, not the Reform

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Illegal weapon seized by IDF forces in Hebron on June 28, 2017. (IDF spokesperson)

Palestinian opens fire on soldiers in Hebron, is shot dead

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Man shoots at IDF forces searching for illegal weapons in the West Bank city, troops return fire

Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, May 24, 2016. (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jewish tech millionaire turned lawmaker could be first openly gay governor of Colorado

By Josefin Dolsten

Jared Polis wants to utilize his business know-how to bring free education to young children statewide — and use 100% renewable energy by 2040

An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

Upstate NY mikvah construction site vandalized with swastikas

By JTA

Nazi symbol daubed on building in new Hasidic neighborhood in Bloomingburg

Michael Daniel, a former cybersecurity adviser to US president Barack Obama, in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Interview

US cyber expert warns world is losing war against hackers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Michael Daniel, a former adviser to president Obama, says ‘we need to realign how we think about defense’

A monitor making sure vital signs of the patient are in check during open heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon , September 12, 2011. (Illustrative photo: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Large cyberattack on Israeli hospitals foiled

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Diego Schwartzman practicing in Buenos Aires, Feb. 1, 2017. (Gabriel Rossi/LatinContent/Getty Images via JTA)

Meet Diego Schwartzman, the best Jewish tennis player on earth

By Gabe Friedman

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump (not seen) in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Foreign Ministry formally announces ‘significant visit’ of Indian PM

By Alexander Fulbright

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)

Hadassah parents end hunger strike amid ongoing mediation

A screenshot from a music video showing a bus painted with Jewish symbols by Brooklyn artist Lev “Leviticus” Schieber.

Arson destroys Brooklyn minibus decorated in Jewish symbols

By JTA

Turkish journalist Seyma Eraz meets with Communications Minister Ayoub Kara at his office in the Knesset, in Jerusalem on June 27, 2017. (Communications ministry)

Israel apologizes after Turkish journalists ‘humiliated’ by guards

By Tamar Pileggi and Raphael Ahren

Illustrative view of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazil looks to Israel for ways public policy, academia can spur economy

By Micah Danney

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

Hebrew media reviewFalling out of favor with US Jewry

By Adiv Sterman

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