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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 8, 2017

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US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: 'Advancing US Interests at the United Nations'. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley calls UNESCO Hebron motion ‘an affront to history,’ says US to review ties

By Eric Cortellessa

American envoy warns move will undermine trust for peace process and discredit the ‘already highly questionable UN agency’

PA hails UNESCO vote as legitimizing Palestinian sovereignty in Hebron

Netanyahu cuts $1 million more from UN budget after UNESCO Hebron vote

Hebron Jews urge Israel to let them build more homes in city following UNESCO vote

In this Friday, July 7, 2017, file photo, US President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit, in Hamburg. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is at left, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is at right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

South Syria truce seeks to allay Israel, Jordan fears about Iran

Jerusalem and Amman worry Tehran aims to carve out a Shiite-controlled land corridor through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean

Trump says he had a ‘tremendous meeting’ with Putin

By Ken Thomas and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Hard knock lifeTrump says he’s made Ivanka’s life harder

By AP

Trump raises US election hacking in 1st meeting with Putin, who denies involvement

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

A fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story, from the 5th-century synagogue at Huqoq, in northern Israel, unveiled in 2017. (Jim Haberman/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Artwork uncovered at Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq also shows building the Tower of Babel and a Greco-Roman calendar

Israel's Dudi Sela returns to Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov during their Men's Singles Match on day six of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in London, Saturday, July 8, 2017. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

Israel’s Sela retires from Wimbledon with leg injury

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tennis player was down 6-1, 6-1 to Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria when forced to quit in third round match

On a tour of the Temple Mount, Yehuda Glick shows religious Jews a diagram of the Jewish temple, which once stood where the golden Dome of the Rock stands today on Sepetember 17, 2013 in Jerusalem Israel. (Photo by Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images via JTA)

These American Jews are looking beyond the Western Wall – to the Temple Mount

By Andrew Tobin

A growing movement is pressing to restore the right of Jews to pray at the site of the biblical Jewish temples

Yoalish Krois (Courtesy Videonayes.com/Wikipedia)

After pardon, anti-Zionist activist mulls naming 17th child for Rivlin

By JTA

Yoalish Krois, a member of an extremist ultra-Orthodox faction, was released by the president in time for the birth of his son

A copy of the 'Concordantiae Bibliorum Hebraicae' by Johannes Buxtorf, published in 1632 in Basel, Switzerland, had a 1686 'footprint' in Worms, Germany. Pictured is, clockwise from left, a portrait of the author Johannes Buxtorf, a detail from another one of Buxtorf's works, a portrait of Buxtorf by a different artist, maps of the footprints, and a page from the 'Bibliorum Hebraicae.' (Public domain, detail of the 'Bibliorum Hebraicae' courtesy of Footprints.)

Crowdsourced online database traces the global footsteps of Jewish texts

In the first compilation of its kind, a Columbia University project journeys through distance and time with well-known Jewish tomes

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Are other faiths true?

Jews have an obligation to seek truth wherever it is found

A welcome Sephardic view on homosexuality

The controversial position puts love, rather than strict obedience, at the center of Jewish observance

Al-Shabaab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2011. (AP/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Islamic terrorists behead 9 civilians in Kenya

Al-Qaeda-aligned al-Shabab group has carried out a wave of attacks near the border with Somalia

Shahar Abecassis, an Israeli taxi driver, escaped an assassination plot hatched by his ex-wife, an Israeli expat living in Oklahoma, July 7, 2017. (Screenshot/Channel 10)

Israeli expat’s former husband who escaped hit plot says he fears for his life

Shahar Abecassis says ex-wife, an Oklahoma woman who allegedly took out Craigslist ad to hire assassin amid custody battle over child, ‘is crazy’

Masked Hamas terrorists attend the funeral of Mazen Fuqha in Gaza City, March, 25 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel, Hamas downplay report of progress toward prisoner swap

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Israeli official acknowledges contact with terror group, but stresses Israel will not release inmates in return for mere information

In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber, left, drops a bomb over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea Saturday, July 8, 2017. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)

US bombers drill near Korea DMZ in show of force

By AFP

Exercise aims to ‘sternly respond to series of North Korea’s ballistic missile launches,’ the South’s military says

A man walks by a TV screen showing a local news program reporting about North Korea's missile firing at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. (Lee Jin-man/AP)

More than 120 countries adopt treaty banning nuclear weapons

By Edith M. Lederer

None of the nine countries known or believed to possess nuclear weapons – including Israel – support legally binding pact

This file photo taken on July 17, 2015, shows Ku Klux Klan members staging a demonstration at the state house building in Columbia, South Carolina. (AFP/Getty Images North America/John Moore)

Virginia town girds for KKK march

By Sébastien BLANC

Supporters of white supremacist group to protest planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting on July 3, 2017. (Ohad Zweigenberg/POOL)

Protest planned for Paris Holocaust memorial event during Netanyahu visit

By JTA

Call follows op-ed by Jewish head of pro-Palestinian lobby claiming that pre-state Israel did nothing to help French Holocaust victims

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher sharpening his tools. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Muslims and Jews in Europe work to block bans on ritual slaughter, circumcision

By JTA

Two-day joint event in Amsterdam is one of largest ever held to discuss limitations on religious customs

World War II era bomb found in Koblenz, Germany, in 2011. (CC BY-SA, Holger Weinandt, Wikimedia Commons)

Big Bang

Poland to evacuate 10,000 after WWII bomb find

By AP

Military sappers will remove, detonate half-ton German explosive uncovered during road works in northeastern city of Bialystok

Bela Guttmann, to the right of the man in the suit, and the Hakoah Vienna football club with a trophy. (Courtesy)

The coach who rose from the Holocaust’s ashes to dominate European soccer

By JP O’ Malley

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The Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2012. (Roland Unger/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Egypt said to approve $2.2m restoration of historic Alexandria synagogue

By JTA

A Palestinian boy walks a donkey on a road in the West Bank area of Tubas, on July 19, 2016, near a sign on a concrete block which reads in Hebrew, Arabic and English "Firing area entrance forbidden."
(AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Israeli family accidentally enters Palestinian town, returned safely

The remains of solar panels in the Palestinian village of Jubbet al-Dhib after they were dismantled by Israeli authorities on June 28, 2017. (Ta'ayush, courtesy)

Dutch PM slams Israel for dismantling West Bank solar project

By JTA

The sculpture 'Kauernde' (lit. 'Cowering') by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is on display during a press talk on the preparations of an exhibition of exemplary works from the art collection of Cornelius Gurlitt discovered in 2012, in November in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday June, 27, 2017. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)

First works from Nazi-era art hoard arrive at Bern museum

By AFP

Rabbi Mendel Epstein, accused of torturing men into granting their wives a Jewish divorce for $50,000, begins trial on February 17, 2015. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

US court upholds convictions of rabbis in divorce torture case

By AP

Clay Higgins in a clip he filmed in Auschwitz, posted on YouTube. (Screen capture)

Auschwitz video latest flap for ‘Cajun John Wayne’

By Kevin McGill

The imposing Hollandsche Schouwburg, or Dutch Theater, served as a gathering point during the Nazi roundup of Amsterdam's Jews. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Amsterdam to rename hall honoring Nazi collaborator

By JTA

US President Donald Trump arrives to announce his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accords, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

140 Jewish leaders vow to help US reach Paris climate accord goals

By JTA

Rapper Jay Z. (CC SA/ Mikamote)

Bad RapJay-Z Jewish lyric spurs criticism from ADL

By JTA and Yaakov Schwartz

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