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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 2, 2017

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Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves Ramle's Ma’asiyahu prison on July 2, 2017, following his release. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Goes shopping, hours later, at a Tel Aviv mall

Ex-PM Olmert released from prison after 16 months

By ToI Staff and AFP

Former premier leaves jail, heads to Tel Aviv, after parole board reduces corruption sentence by one-third for good behavior

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves Ramle's Ma’asiyahu prison on July 2, 2017, following his release. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Hours after release, Olmert asks president to remove parole restrictions

By Raoul Wootliff

Former Joint List Knesset member Basel Ghattas arrives for a court hearing at the Beersheba Magistrate's Court, April 9, 2017. (Yehuda Peretz/POOL/Flash90)

Ex-MK to begin 2-year jail sentence for smuggling phones to prisoners

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2015 Policy Conference, March 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Key US donor suspends activities over Western Wall, conversion spat

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Real estate tycoon, leading AIPAC and Miami Federation activist, Isaac ‘Ike’ Fisher says Israeli government showing ‘contempt’ for non-Orthodox streams of Judaism

Israeli protesters gather outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2017, to demonstrate against a government decision to abandon a deal for a permanent pluralistic prayer facility at the Western Wall jointly overseen by all streams of Judaism. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Hundreds protest Western Wall backtrack in Jerusalem

The scene of a truck-ramming attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of East Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

State to sue terrorists’ families for compensation

In first such case, prosecutors file suit against family of Fadi al-Qunbar, who killed 4 soldiers in Jerusalem ramming attack in January

Palestinian nabbed for helping 3 terrorists in June’s Damascus Gate attack

Palestinian charged in 2009 West Bank murder of 2 policemen

Prominent Palestinian lawmaker arrested on terrorism charges

By Raoul Wootliff

On a tour of the Temple Mount, Yehuda Glick shows religious Jews a diagram of the Jewish temple, believed to have once stood where the golden Dome of the Rock stands today. September 17, 2013.(Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)

Netanyahu to lift ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount

Seven-day trial period to start in 3 weeks; decision comes after Likud MK petitioned High Court against restriction

Right-wing Israelis attend a demonstration outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on December 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Home says PM nixed bill that would’ve made dividing Jerusalem ‘impossible’

By Raoul Wootliff

View of empty houses at the Arab village of Lifta, on January 10, 2016. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

'There is no other village that has been preserved like this'

Remarkably kept, ancient village faces future as another kind of ghost town

Lifta offers a unique insight into Jerusalem life as far back as the First Temple period. The city intends to transform it into a new luxury neighborhood. An improbable coalition of Jews and Arabs, with all manner of contradictory goals, is seeking to prevent this

Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky chairs a meeting of the Knesset Law, Justice and Constitution Committee on November 22, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police to recommend closing sex harassment probe against MK

By Tamar Pileggi

Israel reportedly to sue families of terrorists for compensation; Netanyahu vetoes bill aiming to make dividing Jerusalem ‘impossible’; PM lifts ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount

A Border Police officer opens the door of a van alleged to be transporting Palestinians illegally in Israel on July 2, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Ruse of the road

Palestinian illegals nabbed in ‘Shas’ van on Shabbat

Cops get suspicious of vehicle with ultra-Orthodox party’s stickers driving on the Jewish day of rest down a major highway

Antonio Guterres, newly confirmed as incoming UN secretary-general, with Israel's envoy to the UN Danny Danon, soon after the appointment of Guterres was endorsed, October 13, 2016 (Courtesy)

UN chief to visit Israel, Palestinian Authority next month

By Raphael Ahren

On first trip to region since becoming secretary-general, Antonio Guterres to meet with Netanyahu and Abbas, visit Yad Vashem

Livni urges UNESCO not to pass Hebron decision

Netanyahu to meet with Macron, attend Paris Holocaust ceremony

Jordan’s king discusses peace process with senior Trump officials

By Alexander Fulbright

Sex ed in the marketplace

A grisly campaign against human trafficking and prostitution shocks the lunch crowd

Yudith Oppenheimer

Reform Judaism’s true Kotel mission

The crisis sparked by the Government’s Wall decision offers a chance to adopt a new theological and political stance

The not-funny, true data on college kids

Standing by the results of a study that shows a sharp drop in Israel support among Jews on campus

Education Minister Naftali Bennett leads a faction meeting of his Jewish Home party at the Knesset on June 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett: We won’t allow Iran to establish land corridor to Syria

By Alexander Fulbright

Israel said to be increasingly preoccupied by threat of Iranian-backed Hezbollah weapons factories in Lebanon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on July 1, 2017 before a ceremony in tribute to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. (AFP/Sebastien Bozon)

Netanyahu risks religious ire to take part in Shabbat memorial to German leader

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM attends service for Helmut Kohl in rare public display by an Israeli leader on Jewish day of rest; PMO stresses he did not violate Shabbat

Staff preparing the Ets Haim Jewish library in Amsterdam for a tour, May 17, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

This 400-year-old Jewish library survived Hitler and the Inquisition

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Palestinian protesters and medics carry a wounded man during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border fence east of Jabalia refugee camp on June 23, 2017. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

Analysis

Return of Gaza power crisis puts Hamas, and Israel, back in the hot seat

By Avi Issacharoff

The terror group is having trouble making the Strip livable, and the Jewish state may suffer the consequences

A drug addict stands behind bars at a Hamas-run prison in Gaza City on May 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Stigma hides simmering drug addiction issues in Gaza Strip

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)

IDF destroys Syrian artillery after shells explode in Golan Heights

By ToI Staff and AFP

No casualties in latest incident of spillover from clashes between Assad regime forces and rebels

A member of the Kuchinate Collective prepares Ethiopian coffee during Tel Aviv's White Night celebrations, June 29, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

At Tel Aviv’s White Night party, asylum seekers look to connect

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

Ministry considers criminal probe over Negev acid waste spill

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban July 1, 2017. (AFP/Odd ANDERSEN)

Israel accepts Hungary’s clarification over PM’s praise for Nazi-allied WWII leader

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

A view of Taibe. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Taibe woman shot dead on porch, apparently by stray bullet

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)

In tweet blitz, Trump defends his use of social media

By Catherine Lucey

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his dog Kaia at the PM's residence in Jerusalem in December, 2015. (Facebook)

Hebrew media reviewHow much is that action in the window?

By Joshua Davidovich

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