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What Matters Most On Friday, July 7, 2017

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Israel's ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen (R) protests a vote to declare Hebron's Old City, including the Tomb of the Patriarchs, an endangered Palestinian heritage site, on July 7, 2017 (Screenshot/ UNESCO)

At stormy meet, UNESCO declares Hebron an endangered Palestinian site

By Raphael Ahren and Agencies

Israel says resolution calling the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs a Palestinian heritage site is ‘shameful’; second anti-Israel vote in three days

Israel reacts with disgust and disdain to UNESCO Hebron decision

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

EU lawmakers protest hosting of Palestinian terrorists’ relatives

By JTA

Mennonite Church USA votes to divest in protest of Israeli policies

Canadian hockey player Avi Steinberg and his girlfriend of four years, and recent convert to Judaism, Rachel Dixon, get married at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah 20th Games in Jerusalem, July 6, 2017. (Screenshot)

Match of the dayMatch of the day

Surprise wedding thrills attendees at Maccabiah opening

Thousands cheer on-stage proposal and immediate nuptials of Canadian hockey player and his girlfriend; officiating Orthodox rabbi hails openness to converts amid current intra-Jewish disputes

Maccabiah 2017 opens with a high-energy ceremony — and a surprise wedding

By Jessica Steinberg

Athletes come to the 2017 Maccabiah Games for glory, and love

By Hillel Kuttler

Food playMaccabiah chefs turn up heat for culinary contest

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in a helicopter ride over Haifa, Jull 6, 2017 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Analysis

Modi visit shows Israel can improve foreign ties even without a peace process

By Raphael Ahren

During 3 jam-packed days in Israel, the leader of the world’s second-largest Muslim population did not mention the two-state solution even once

AnalysisHere’s why Israel and India’s leaders couldn’t get enough of each other

Wrapping up Israel trip, Indian PM hails blossoming ties

By Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu to visit Paris for 75th anniversary of mass deportation of French Jews

By AFP

Mickey Birnbaum (L) and his father Eli selling their "Beer'nbaum beer at the Tekoa Beer Festival on July 6, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

'You can't find a more free-spirited place than Tekoa'

West Bank settlement keeps it light and bubbly with beer festival

Tekoa’s bevvy of budding brewers are just a sample of the artistic talent at community south of Jerusalem

Dudi Sela at Wimbledon on July 6, 2017. (screen capture: Sky News)

Israeli Dudi Sela advances with shock Wimbledon victory

By ToI Staff and Justin Cohen

Come-from-behind win against American John Isner, ranked 21st in the world, propels the Israeli singles tennis champ to third round

Professor Mary Aiken says anonymity online can be good, but also warns of a "tsunami of criminality" coming soon on the internet. (YouTube screenshot)

Internet’s invisibility cloak foments crime, pioneering cyber-shrink says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Irish cyber-psychologist Mary Aiken, who inspired TV’s ‘CSI: Cyber,’ says we must measure kids’ tech prowess and identify those at risk of becoming teen hackers

Illustrative image of a hacker at work (Pixabay)

Utilities including nuclear firms hacked: NYT

By AFP

The deep artificial composer, or DAC, co-developed by Swiss researchers, can compose original music. (Screenshot)

Test with Irish and Jewish folk music shows computers can now be composers

By Laurence COUSTAL

Deep artificial composer, developed by Swiss researchers, can produce complete, original and pleasant melodies

Illustrative: Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomon Jacobs' parents survived the Holocaust in hiding, and he often speaks about the genocide at Westerbork to schoolchildren. (Cnaan Lipshiz/JTA)

In Holland, the Nazis built a luxury camp to lull the Jews before murdering them

By Cnaan Liphshiz

While Jews in much of Europe were subjected to violence, torture, abuse and murder in camps, in Westerbork there was an eerie illusion of civility

Wonder Woman is an ass (and it’s good)

On why she stopped hating that very busy Proverbial woman of valor

A people that dwells alone

The Jews’ ‘outsider’ status is no accident: God needed humanity’s ‘other’ to challenge the idols of the age (Balak)

WaPo disappears some Palestinians

Selective reporting risks missing key stories, like how Hamas-Fatah politics affect the lives of ordinary folks

A man walks past an election poster of Jacob Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) party in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, May 9, 2014. (AP/Ben Curtis)

South African ruling party wants to downgrade embassy in Israel

By Raphael Ahren

ANC says it intends to demote mission to ‘interest office,’ a move Israel’s envoy in Pretoria says would hurt South Africa’s interests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, walks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, right, upon their arrival at Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 (Jason Reed/Pool Photo via AP)

Indigenous Australians form pro-Israel group

By JTA

Lakewood couple Shimi and Yocheved Nussbaum, arrested for benefits fraud on June 26, 2017. (Screen capture: Asbury Park Press)

6 more Jewish NJ couples charged in benefits fraud probe

By AP

Prosecutors say those indicted Thursday received nearly $400,000 illicitly; scandal has led to anti-Semitic backlash in Lakewood

Riot police use water cannons during the 'Welcome to Hell' rally against the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)

Trump-Putin in first showdown at fractious G20 summit

By Andrew BEATTY and Hui Min NEO

Highly anticipated meeting between the two world leaders comes with a raft of crucial issues on the table, from North Korea to Syria

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by aides, on a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, July 06, 2017. (GPO)

Netanyahu, Putin said to discuss southern Syrian buffer zone

UK paper reports Israel urging Russia, US to ensure Hezbollah-free area up to 30 miles from Israeli border

Muslim-American activist Linda Sarsour speaks at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in Chicago, July 2017. (Screenshot)

Palestinian-American activist says standing up to Trump like a ‘jihad’

By ToI Staff and AP

Linda Sarsour rails against ‘fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House’

Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)

10 killed in complex car bomb, shooting attack in Egypt’s Sinai

By ASHRAF SWEILLAM

Suicide bomber rams vehicle into checkpoint in southern Rafah, followed by heavy gunfire from dozens of masked fighters; army claims 40 terrorists killed

Border Police officers outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on June 18, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Officer lightly hurt in Damascus Gate attack, police say

Palestinian assailant carried no weapon, to be questioned on motive, according to investigators

Labor MK Amir Peretz arrives at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog, Margalit endorse Peretz for Labor Party leader

Another ex-party chief, Shelly Yachimovich, is backing newcomer Avi Gabbay ahead of run-off vote on Monday

One of Fatma Shanan's iconic paintings, featuring the ever-present rug, rolled up and serving as the pillow for her niece (Courtesy Fatma Shanan)

Lying like a rug: An artist finds perspective in the carpets of her Druze village

By Jessica Steinberg

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Jacky Rosen, Democratic candidate for Nevadas 3rd Congressional district, speaks to campaign volunteers in the Nevada Democrats' field office in southwest Las Vegas on Oct. 18, 2016. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via JTA)

Jacky Rosen announces run for Nevada’s Senate slot

By JTA

Members of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) march on May Day, 2016, in Borlänge, Sweden (YouTube screenshot)

Swedish neo-Nazis jailed over bomb attacks on refugee shelters

By AFP

Customers walk to a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City, June 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy amid smuggling case

By AP

Shabbat their own way: Food, song and worship at Ronit Delgado’s Brooklyn apartment. (AMY SARA CLARK/JW)

From our partnerIn NY, living room picnics to engage Jewish Millennials

By AMY SARA CLARK

Illustrative: Glass shards on the road after a car accident (Berezko, IStock Getty Images)

13-year old boy killed, 3 injured in Jerusalem car accident

This file photo taken on March 24, 2017 shows Russian former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov posing in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON)

The return of the kingChess legend Kasparov back from retirement

By AFP

Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo, right, after scoring a goal in a 2002 World Cup game between Brazil and Turkey played in Japan, June 26, 2002. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images via JTA)

Unlike fatherSoccer legend Ronaldo’s son to play in Maccabiah

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi visit the water desalination plant at Olga beach on July 6, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLabor, and loves lost

By Joshua Davidovich

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