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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 4, 2017

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Labor Party members cast their vote at a polling station in Jerusalem on July 4. 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Labor leader Herzog ousted as primary winners Gabai, Peretz head to next round

Israel calls UNESCO’s Jerusalem vote ‘bizarre, irrelevant’; Israeli researchers name new flower after visiting Indian premier

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on December 11, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/Findlay KEMBER)

Indian PM Modi makes ‘historic’ 3-day visit to Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Leader of world’s largest democracy will be accompanied by Netanyahu throughout his trip, an honor usually reserved for US presidents

Shaul Divekar, an Indian who emigrated to Israel as a child, holds a poster announcing the visit of the Indian prime minister to Israel at his Indian spice shop in the market of the small city of Ramla, south of Tel Aviv, on July 2, 2017. (AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)

Modi visit holds special meaning for Indian Jews in Israel

By Jonah Mandel

President Reuven Rivlin (L) hugs with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference in New Delhi on November 14, 2016. President Rivlin was in India for an official state visit. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Om shantiYoga for Mideast peace? That would be great, says Modi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Fourth of July celebrations at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, July 3, 2017. (Screenshot)

PM pleads for patience amid Western Wall, conversion bill row

In 4th of July celebration remarks at US ambassador’s residence, Netanyahu says he’s committed to making every Jew feel ‘at home’ in Jewish state

Deri suggests Reform Jews would convert illegal migrants en masse

By Marissa Newman

An ultra-Orthodox rabbi explains why his community opposes the Western Wall deal

By Andrew Tobin

Full text: The complete version of the Western Wall compromise from January 2016

Chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin invites defense minister Moshe Dayan to the Western Wall in Jerusalem after it was captured in the Six Day War. (Ilan Briner/Government Press Office)

Netanyahu’s plea for ‘patience’ over Western Wall crisis is disingenuous

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The prime minister travels the world trying to woo friends for Israel. Doesn’t he care about losing the Jews?

File: US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 16, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Pool/Flash90)

US envoy Friedman meets with J Street ‘kapos’

Despite past tensions, left-wing Jewish group says meeting shows need to ‘maintain a dialogue among the pro-Israel community’

Illustrative: A Palestinian boy cools off with water from a jerrycan held by a man during a heatwave at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Mahmud Hams)

'Most of the anger is directed at Hamas'

Starved of power, Gaza’s Palestinians buckle under an oppressive heatwave

Strip residents describe their new reality: sleepless nights, beaches closed due to toxic sewage, and rising food prices; even fresh water is in short supply

Prodding Hamas, Abbas fires 6,145 PA employees in Gaza

Top Hamas commander, booted from Qatar, said hiding with Hezbollah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Border police say Jerusalem terror attack foiled at West Bank checkpoint

Danielle Layman (right) (courtesy)

Expat allegedly used Craigslist to order hit on her Israeli ex

Oklahoma woman who answered ad for acting gig says suspect called herself a Mossad agent, had detailed plans to kill ‘IS operative’ in Tel Aviv

Workers holding large campaign posters during a rally supporting Labor party leader Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2017, (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor sets sights on new leader as first-round voting begins

By Marissa Newman

Seven candidates — including Herzog, ex-leader Peretz, former Kulanu minister Gabbay — fight it out Tuesday to helm opposition, pose future challenge to Netanyahu

Britney Spears performs in Tel Aviv on July 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Concert review

More theater than singalong as Britney Spears busts her butt in Tel Aviv

By Joshua Davidovich

The pop diva may or may not have actually sung her hits, but even if the crowd was at times distracted, she didn’t stop dancing across the stage

Iran’s role in Indo-Israel defense ties

Chabahar, a port in southeastern Iran, is of cardinal strategic importance for India’s defense against Pakistan/China

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

10 ideas on Jewish-Hindu relations

In a religious summit, theologians from both sides would discuss reciprocity, commonality and challenges

Florida swampland and the Kotel egalitarian plaza

Naftali Bennett is pitching the current setup at Robinson’s Arch as a perfectly fine solution — it’s not

Andrew Silow-Carroll

It’s not just about pluralism

The clash over non-Orthodox prayer at the Kotel touches on larger issues of politics, psychology and strategy

Hussein Abu Khdeir, the father of the slain Palestinian teen Muhammed Abu Khdeir, outside his home in East Jerusalem, October 21, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition to demolish homes of Abu Khdeir killers

By Raoul Wootliff

Judges say measure only works as deterrent if carried out immediately after attack, insist policy ‘applies equally to Arab and Jewish terrorists’

IDF Sgt. Elhai Teharlev (L), who was killed in a car-ramming attack on April 6, 2017, and Hadas Malka, who was killed in a terror attack on June 16, 2017. (Courtesy: IDF spokesperson)

IDF issues demolition orders for homes of 2 Palestinian attackers

A view of the newly opened Mikveh Trail below Jerusalem's Old City walls. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

UNESCO set to pass yet another critical resolution on Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

Cultural agency’s World Heritage Committee advances date of planned debate over Old City walls; softened text likely to pass

United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during her visit to Israel, on June 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Nikki Haley urges UNESCO against ‘wasted’ focus on Hebron vote

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

A picture taken on January 15, 2017 shows the security barrier seperating the Jewish East Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev (foreground) from Palestinian neighborhood of Anata (background). (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

1,800 East Jerusalem homes set for approval for Jewish residents

Among plans to be reviewed in two weeks is construction of four buildings in place of existing Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood

A missile is test-launched by North Korea early Tuesday, July 4, 2017 (screen capture: Korean Central News Agency)

North Korea claims first successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile

By Sebastien BERGER

Analysts say latest weapon could be powerful enough to reach Alaska — a defining moment for Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara speak with American soldiers during a visit on the US aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush, as it docked outside the Haifa port, on July 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/AFP Photo and Pool/Ronen Zvulun)

Aboard US aircraft carrier, Netanyahu hails symbol of ‘freedom and victory’

PM helicopters out to USS George H.W. Bush, anchored off Haifa coast, thanks sailors for assisting in ‘clash between good and evil’ against IS

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, speaks on stage during a Fourth of July Independence Day celebration at the residence of the US Ambassador to Israel in Herzilya Pituah on July 3, 2017. (AFP / Heidi Levine)

US envoy honors memory of Hadar Goldin, fallen US and IDF soldiers at July 4 event

David Friedman hosts Independence Day reception at Herzliya residence, hails Israeli-US relations, greatness

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, center, gestures as Israel's UN envoy Danny Danon, second right, looks on during a visit by UN ambassadors from nine countries who toured the City of David in Jerusalem, July 4, 2017. (Arnon Bossani and Frayda Leibtag)

9 UN ambassadors view Jewish roots to Jerusalem on City of David tour

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel’s envoy Danny Danon and capital’s Mayor Nir Barkat lead diplomats on visit to archaeological site believed to be home of biblical king

Palestinian children are seen in the West Bank city of Hebron, January 18, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

United Church of Christ condemns Israel for treatment of Palestinian children

By JTA

Sherwan Haji (left) and Sakari Kuosmanen in a scene from Finnish comic drama 'The Other Side of Hope' (Courtesy 'The Other Side of Hope')

Deadpan Finns, French cynicism and Brazilian fantasy at Jerusalem Film Fest

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Ben Gurion airspace said closed intermittently over ‘security operation’

Israelis and tourists enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv, on a hot summer day, July 3, 2017. A new survey finds that they are optimistic and largely satisfied with their lives. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Sweltering heat drives electricity demands to annual high

By Stuart Winer

Herman Wouk during an interview with CBS, July 2, 2017 (screen capture/YouTube)

At 102, legendary author Herman Wouk has a new book out

By Benjamin Kerstein

Former Supreme Court justice Elyakim Rubinstein in 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Mediator in Hadassah cancer ward crisis admits defeat

Ultra-Orthodox men protest outside the house of Yaakov Rashi, Head of the IDF Yeshiva Students Department, June 18, 2017 (Yaakov Lederman/FLASH90)

Fake bomb sent to officer in charge of ultra-Orthodox draft

ZipRecruiter's Avi Golan, left, and Yaniv Shalev (Micah Dannay/The Times of Israel)

Israel tech team grows as it drives US jobs site expansion

By Micah Danney

IAI's new Collision Warning System helps alert combat pilots to collisions with civilian planes (Courtesy)

Israel Aerospace turns voracious for cybersecurity acquisitions

By Shoshanna Solomon

Labor party activists shout slogans outside a primary polling station in Jerusalem on July 4, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe race for second place

By Joshua Davidovich

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