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What Matters Most On Friday, June 30, 2017

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Shas leader Aryeh Deri (left), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu announces six-month delay of controversial conversion bill

New committee will seek compromise between demands of ultra-Orthodox parties and US Jewish leaders; no progress on Western Wall dispute

AIPAC leaders meet PM, highlight ‘dissident, discordant voices’ in US over frozen Western Wall deal

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Ex-UK chief rabbi says all denominations have a place at Western Wall

By JTA

Women Torah readers at French synagogue threatened, insulted

By JTA

Students for the Temple Mount chairman Tom Nisani places a ring on the finger of his fiance Sarah Lurcat at the Temple Mount on June 29, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish activist couple marries surreptitiously on Temple Mount

Wedding ceremony carried out in act of protest, since Israel bars Jews from prayer or rituals at flashpoint holy site; police to question the groom

Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff leads a religious service at Wilson's Arch at Jerusalem's Western Wall in 1983. (Department of Defense/Public Domain)

The day Israel gave its blessing to egalitarian prayer at Western Wall

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

US Navy Chaplain Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff led an unprecedented — and never repeated — ecumenical egalitarian worship service at the site in 1983

Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)

Scrapped: Basel event to mark 120 years since Herzl’s First Zionist Congress

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu was to travel in August to Swiss city where Herzl in 1897 ‘founded the Jewish state.’ But poor planning has doomed the celebration, and recriminations are flying

This file photo taken on January 27, 2005 at Auschwitz-Birkenau shows French President Jacques Chirac (L) and former Auschwitz prisoner and former French Health Minister Simone Veil, at the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp, before ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than one million people died. Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who played a leading role in legalizing contraception and abortion in France, died on June 30, 2017 aged 89 (AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK)

Simone Veil, French feminist and politician who survived Auschwitz, dies at 89

Towering political figure was seen as something of a secular saint for her unwavering stance on moral issues

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

Syrian shell lands on Israeli Golan in 16th spillover incident in a week

No one hurt and no damage reported; latest instance follows multiple Israeli strikes on Assad forces in response to previous fire

Sarin nerve gas used in deadly Syria attack, says chemical weapons watchdog

UN tells Syrian forces to leave buffer zone on border with Israel

By Edith M. Lederer

Iraq says IS ‘caliphate’ at its end as Mosul mosque recaptured

By Emmanuel Duparcq and W.G. Dunlop

Illustrative: Olives are crushed to make olive oil in the West Bank vilage of Beit Ola near Hebron, on October 24, 2010. (Najeh Hashlamoun/ Flash90)

Good press

Olive oil helps prevent Alzheimer’s, study shows

New research finds that in addition to protecting against memory loss, staple of Mediterranean diet boosts learning ability

Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks next to a picture of slain Border Police officer Hadas Malka at the United Nations on June 29, 2017. (Courtesy)

Danon slams PA for legitimizing terror groups at UN event

Israeli envoy says Palestinians ‘have no shame’ after senior PLO official claims Hamas, PFLP are not terrorist groups

PA to again allow Gazan patients to be treated in Israeli hospitals

From our partnerUK pro-Palestinian event to go ahead despite fears of terrorist links

From the webEast Jerusalem pupils encouraged to study Israeli curriculum

Vote with your feet at Robinson’s Arch

Coalition politics will crumple under one million Jews praying annually at the mixed section of the Kotel

Descartes’ error

Science says good decision-making depends on not reason, but emotion, which may explain the irrational mitzvot (Hukat)

Up Shittim Creek

The Israelites built God’s house, but only after terrible divine rebuke reformed their excesses of whoring and idolatry

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in the Butyrka Prison in Moscow, where he was held for three months ahead of his trial for teaching Hebrew in 1984. (Courtesy Israeli Embassy in Moscow)

Interview

Russia yet to grapple with past crimes, says Knesset speaker, an ex-refusenik

By Marissa Newman

In Moscow, Yuli Edelstein frets about modern Stalin-worship; he says Israel is treating the bilateral relationship with caution, and denies ‘fake news’ is rooted in the country

Travelers make their way up the arrival ramp at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump’s travel ban takes effect, but less chaos expected

By Matthew Lee and Alicia A. Caldwell

New rules tighten already-tough visa policies on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, as well as refugees

The building at 650 5th Avenue in New York at the center of a case related to compensation for victims of Iran-sponsored terror. (Screen capture: Google street view)

US set to seize NYC skyscraper whose owner violated Iran sanctions

By Larry Neumeister

US attorney says the 36-story office tower ‘gave the Iranian government a critical foothold in the very heart of Manhattan’

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifies during a US House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 28, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

US accuses UN of failing to address Iran’s ‘repeated’ flouting of nuclear deal

By AFP

In rebuke to Security Council, Ambassador Haley cites Tehran’s ‘ballistic missile launches’ and ‘proven arms smuggling’

A picture taken on June 27, 2017 shows a T-shirt featuring the US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin with a sign "We Love Russia" on sale at a souvenir shop in Saint Petersburg. (Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)

Trump to meet Putin at G20, seek ‘more constructive’ ties

By AFP

H.R. McMaster: US president’s goal is ‘to develop a common approach to Russia’ but he will discuss ‘whatever he wants to talk about’

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)

Olmert to go free on Sunday as prosecution forgoes parole appeal

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Decision comes after panel takes 11 months off the former PM’s 27-month sentence for good behavior

Illustrative: IDF soldiers man a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Hebron, on July 2, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian with knife stopped at Hebron checkpoint

Soldiers detain man after he tries to hide blade, in second such incident of the day in the West Bank city

Germany gears up to fine social networks for Holocaust denial

By Frank Jordans

New bill would target sites that fail to remove illegal hate speech; critics warn it could be a blow to freedom of expression

A photograph of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and a white rose are seen next to a book of condolences for Kohl at the conservative Christian Democratic Union's regional party congress in Berlin on June 17, 2017. (Maurizio Gambarini/DPA/AFP)

Netanyahu to attend funeral of former German chancellor Kohl

By ToI Staff and AFP

PM to join world leaders at Saturday’s Strasbourg service for one of ‘Israel’s greatest friends’

A mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil is seen June 29, 2017 after a man tried to drive a car into a crowd in front of the Islamic religious facility. (AFP PHOTO / Benjamin CREMEL)

Man held after driving 4×4 into barriers protecting Paris mosque

By Romain FONSEGRIVES and Gregory Danel

No injuries after ‘attempted attack’ by 43-year-old Armenian, who has been taken for psychiatric evaluation

In this Wednesday, June 28, 2017 photo, US President Donald Trump speaks during an energy roundtable with tribal, state and local leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

If you tweeted like Trump, you could be fired

By Barbara Ortutay

Experts say employees should not imitate US president’s attacks on critics, as many companies have policies against shaming on social media

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Washington DC's Glover Park neighborhood. (Screen Capture/YouTube)

Anti-Semitic, white supremacist fliers target DC neighborhood

By JTA

'The Last Supper' by Angelika Sher at The Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin (Courtesy The Mediterranean Biennale)

International artists shun exhibition in northern Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Israelis take part in the first annual Gay Pride parade in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on June 22, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Some 5,000 people celebrate Haifa’s 11th annual Pride Parade

Senior South African trade unionist Bongani Masuku speaking at a BDS South Africa event in December, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

South African official must apologize for hate speech

By JTA

Microsoft signs deal to buy US-Israeli startup Cloudyn

By Shoshanna Solomon

IAI's BirdEye650D is a small unmanned system intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) uses; the system will be sold to a South American country (Courtesy)

IAI snaps up two foreign firms in cyber-defense push

By Shoshanna Solomon

Six Lakewood residents accused of benefits fraud appear in Ocean County Superior Court via video conference, June 28, 2017. (Screen capture: Asbury Park Press video)

Lakewood rabbis warn that welfare fraud is ‘not justified’

By JTA

American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new Medicine Faculty buildings at the Ariel University in the West Bank, on June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRich uncles, poor Bibi

By Joshua Davidovich

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