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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 1, 2017

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The USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Haifa, July 1, 2017 (Momi Gabay/Haifa Port Authority)

Vessel is too big to enter the port

World’s largest warship docks at Haifa

Nimitz-class USS George H.W. Bush arrives for 4-day visit, with crew set to tour the country and Netanyahu expected to hop on board

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the movement’s biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (Courtesy URJ)

Interview

Reform leader: This is our ‘moment to be smart and strategic about all the money we give to Israel’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ricky Ben-David

Rabbi Rick Jacobs welcomes conversion bill delay, hails ‘unprecedented’ US Jewish opposition to Israeli government decisions on conversion, Western Wall prayer

Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during mixed men and women's prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s office denies trying to blame liberal Jews for Western Wall crisis

By JTA

Illustrative image of Women of the Wall group praying at the women's section of the Western Wall, Sunday, June 25, 2017. (Michal Fattal/Courtesy Women of the Wall)

Major US Jewish philanthropists decry Western Wall backtrack, conversion bill

Retired US fighter pilot Roy “Bubba” Segars and retired Israeli fighter pilot Jacob “Booby” Daube holding a photo they took together during the 1973 Yom Kippur War at the same Tel Nof airbase in Israel, June 28, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson, courtesy)

US pilots from vital Yom Kippur War mission reunite with Israeli ‘brothers in arms’

By Andrew Tobin

10 American airman who volunteered to deliver fighter jets to the IDF return to the country they helped defend 44 years ago

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)

After UN hosts 2-day anti-Israel event, Israel’s envoy says it colludes with terror supporters

By Cathryn J. Prince and ToI Staff

At ’50 years of occupation’ gathering, Nobel laureate Jody Williams says Israel trying to silence Palestinian narrative

B’Tselem chief: Israel sabotaging fight against anti-Semitism to retain West Bank

UN cuts peacekeeping budget after pressure from Trump

By Edith M. Lederer

UN cites ‘notable trend’ of displaced Syrians returning home

By AP

Sheikh Nidhal Siam preaches at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, in a clip published on YouTube and subsequently translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. (MEMRI)

Palestinian cleric calls on Allah to help us ‘slaughter Americans, Europeans’

In sermon at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa, Sheikh Nidhal Siam also denounces Saudis, Qataris as ‘collaborators’ of Western powers

Israeli forces enter Jenin to remove monument to terrorist

Gazan married to Israeli-Arab woman jumps fence back into enclave

Arab cleric claims Israel in league with Al-Jazeera

A Roma girl holds a flag as she stands in front of the fence of the industrial pig farm situated at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, Czech Republic, on June 24, 2017, during the "Dignity for Lety" commemorational event organized by the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM). (Michal Cizek/AFP)

Here a oink, there a oink

Czech leader under fire over pig farm at ex-Nazi camp

By AFP

President Milos Zeman says relocating would cost $44 million; critics say he’s exaggerating

Moevenpick Hotel, Ramallah. (HotelsCombined.com)

It has new, low-cost, rave-reviewed luxury hotels, but Ramallah struggles to lure tourists

The PA’s seat of power is well-liked by reviewers, but few vacationers are being wooed. Where Israelis are concerned, that’s hardly surprising

Kenneth Jacobson

More ominous than the Zionist regime

An Iranian politician calling Israel’s establishment the worst event of the 20th century is the ultimate irony

An Israeli Navy Dolphin-class submarine. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Germany okays deal to sell nuke-capable submarines to Israel

Navy to receive 3 more Dolphin-class vessels, in $1.3 billion deal overshadowed by corruption allegations surrounding Netanyahu

Labor party chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during a primary campaign event in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2017 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor aims for relevance with Tuesday’s leadership election

Can a new chairman can return the party to the glory days of Ben-Gurion and Rabin, or will it continue to languish in the opposition?

A screenshot from the new 'Hallelujah' nighttime attraction at the City of David in Jerusalem. (courtesy AVS)

Futuristic tech dramatically illuminates the City of David’s past

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Leaders sit during an homage ceremony to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, at the European ceremony in Strasbourg, eastern France, Saturday July 1, 2017 (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

World leaders bid farewell to German chancellor Helmut Kohl

By ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu attends Strasbourg ceremony, elects not to speak due to the Sabbath

People take part in a rally to protest restrictive guidelines issued by the US on who qualifies as a close familial relationship under the Supreme Court order on the Muslim and refugee ban at Union Square on June 29, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

For Iranian-Americans, Trump travel ban keeps families apart

Members of the community, many of whom came to US seeking freedom after 1979 Islamic revolution, frustrated by the new limitations

Syrian President Bashar Assad inspects the Russian Hmeimim air base in the province of Latakia, Syria, June 27, 2017 (Syrian Presidency via AP)

Analysis

A Syrian conundrum: Can IS be ousted without Assad’s help?

By Zeina Karam and Josh Lederman

Washington abhors the Syrian leader, but is faced with the reality that the regime is best placed to secure chaotic territory

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, June 25, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israeli plane hits Syrian army after shell lands in Golan

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Supporters of the African Student Organization listen to asylum seekers talk about their experiences studying at Israeli universities in Tel Aviv, on June 21, 2017. (courtesy Eli Tesma)

African asylum seekers hit the books thanks to new student group

By Melanie Lidman

More Headlines

Nabra Hassanen (via gofundme.com)

Some murders aren’t hate crimes — so?

By Hannah Spiro and Andrew Hanauer

The muddy Ashalim stream flowing on June 30, 2017, after acidic water leaked from a fertilizer plant nearby. (Environment Protection Ministry)

Acid leak threatens plants, wildlife in Judean Desert

Israeli actress Gal Gadot, star of the new 'Wonder Woman' movie. (Clay Enos/DC Comics, via JTA)

Qatar outQatari cinemas quit airing ‘Wonder Woman’

French-Tunisian Jewish actor and comedian Michel Boujenah in a TV appearance from June 17, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Boycotting Jewish comedian is anti-Semitism — Tunisian NGO

By JTA

A World War II monument in Simferopol, in Crimea. (CC BY SA 3.0 Rumlin/Wikipedia)

Thieves exhume Holocaust victims from Crimean killing trench

By JTA

Jeffrey Rackover (YouTube screenshot)

NY jeweler to the stars denies helping neighbor cover up alleged murder

By JTA

United Nations soldiers on the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 9, 2011 (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

UN cuts peacekeeping budget after pressure from Trump

By Edith M. Lederer

Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF detains man who crossed from Gaza into Israel

Quentin Tarantino and Daniela Pick arrive at the premiere of "The Beguiled" on Monday, June 12, 2017 in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Inglourious BetrothalQuentin Tarantino engaged to Israeli Daniella Pick

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