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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 9, 2017

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Opposition fighters drive a tank in a rebel-held area of the southern Syrian city of Daraa, during renewed clashes with regime loyalists on May 10, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mohamad Abazeed)

South Syria truce goes into effect amid concerns over Iranian plans

By AP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says Israel will welcome ‘genuine ceasefire;’ will monitor Tehran’s movement in region given jitters over ‘Shiite crescent’

Iraqi prime minister arrives in Mosul to celebrate ‘big victory’

By AP

Mosul woman with baby photographed moments before detonating bomb

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump security aide: Syria ceasefire zone a US ‘priority’

By AFP

Rabbi Avi Weiss during a memorial service on June 17, 2014, outside the UN in New York, for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank. (AP/John Minchillo)

160 rabbis, including top US Orthodox leaders, on Israeli Rabbinate ‘blacklist’

List of those not recognized to authenticate Jewish identities of immigrants includes Avi Weiss of Riverdale, dozens of Reform and Conservative leaders

A hearing about the Hadassah Hospital crisis at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 4, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rejecting petition, High Court says no new kids’ cancer ward

By Tamar Pileggi

Trump hails Russia-brokered Syria truce, says ‘will save lives’; IDF solider dies during water park excursion; US Mideast peace envoy returning to Israel; Abbas said to cut salaries of 37 Hamas MPs

Pro-Palestinian supporters protest against Radiohead's planned concert in Tel Aviv at the TRNSMT music Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, July 7, 2017. (AFP/Digital/Andy Buchanan)

Radiohead frontman appears to curse pro-Palestinian protesters at show

Thom Yorke flips bird, repeatedly mutters ‘some f**cking people,’ in an apparent reference to sea of Palestinian flags in Glasgow crowd

The Petrikov, Belarus monument to Holocaust victims with a crucifix on it. (Julie Masis/Times of Israel)

With no Jews left to protest, Christian crosses grace Holocaust memorials in Belarus

In addition to problems with Jewish law, where some in the scant Jewish community see a positive gesture, others see cultural insensitivity

Members of the Hamas military wing attend the funeral of Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City on March 25, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Analysis

Hamas swap report just more distortion from a group in dire straits

By Avi Issacharoff

The strange claim of an impending ‘information for prisoners’ swap doesn’t fit the facts but shows, perhaps, the desperation Hamas is in

Family of fallen soldier held in Gaza has ‘no info’ on possible swap

Gaza again hit by power shortages as PA blocks payments

By AFP

Senior minister urges no release of ‘live terrorists’ for dead troops

(Clockwise, from top left: Twelve Books/Flatiron Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Arcade Publishing/Lee Boudreaux Books/via JTA)

Beach bag books

9 Jewish books to read this summer

By Victor Wishna

From memoir to biography, thriller to kooky caper, see what the Tribe has scribed for poolside perusal

Rabbi Carolyn Braun powerlifting at the March 11 competition at Dyna Maxx gym in Portland, Maine. (Dyna Maxx)

'It’s not like other sports'

Maine’s first Conservative female rabbi is a competitive weightlifter

By Rich Tenorio

Carolyn Braun is plenty brawny, but even as her new hobby is hefting dumbbells, her calling has had her lifting spirits at her synagogue for over 20 years

Still Waters runs shallow

The former Pink Floyd frontman embodies the ‘selective morality’ he faults Israel for, as he begins a massive US tour

Grapes from Zion

The West Bank makes world-class wine, no matter what you think of the wineries’ religious or political convictions

Steven Greenberg

A rabbi who knows humans need love

Rabbi Joseph Dweck dared to open his heart and mind on homosexuality, while staying faithful to Jewish law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting on July 9, 2017. (Ohad Zweigenberg/Flash90)

PM quotes Bible to lambast UNESCO decision on Hebron

Lashing out at agency, Netanyahu says Jewish connection to city’s Tomb of the Patriarchs possibly without parallel in human history

The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Arab envoy said to apologize to Israel for UNESCO decision

‘Sorry for today,’ unnamed ambassador from either Kuwait or Lebanon or Tunisia tells his Israeli counterpart after vote on Hebron

An anti-Soros poster reading '99 percent reject illegal migration' and 'Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh,' in Budapest, Hungary, on July 5, 2017. (AP/Pablo Gorondi)

Israel envoy urges Hungary to halt anti-Soros campaign

By AFP

Jewish leaders say government’s nationwide drive against immigration targeting the US billionaire is stoking anti-Semitic feelings

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Analysis

Dahlan’s grand plans for Gaza’s revival threaten to sideline Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

PA chief fumes at Cairo’s apparent support for his rival’s talks with Hamas, which have spoiled Abbas’s efforts to pressure terror group into submission

A picture taken from the Rafah border of the southern Gaza Strip with Egypt shows smoke billowing in Egypt's North Sinai on July 8, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Ex-Hamas members took part in deadly IS Sinai attack, Israeli general says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yoav Mordechai says Hamas is ‘enabling free passage of terrorists’ into Egypt, insists the groups are ‘two sides of same coin’

An aerial view of the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig 24 kilometers off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon.

Defense Ministry to shell out NIS 1.5 billion on gas field security ships

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel to buy a host of naval defense systems for country’s ‘economic waters,’ including anti-missile batteries

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner arrives to attend US President Donald Trump's press conference on February 16, 2017, at the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/ Nicholas Kamm)

Trump’s son, son-in-law met with Kremlin-linked lawyer in June 2016

By AP

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. confirm meeting during election campaign; then-campaign manager Paul Manafort also said to have attended

Jeffrey Kriezelman, left, a lawyer and avid outdoorsman, credits his doctor son Justin, right, with spotting the cancerous lesion on his vertebrae that led to his early diagnosis of multiple myeloma. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Kriezelman/via JTA)

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Myeloma, a cancer of the blood in bone marrow, used to have a five-year survival rate of 25%. With one new treatment, that number has risen to 75%

An Israeli worker walks by the offices of Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva Industries in Jerusalem, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Pharma giant Teva looks to steady ship with new CEO in coming weeks

By Shoshanna Solomon

Chief will not be Israeli but someone with ‘top class pharma experience,’ says Chaim Hurvitz, whose family is Teva’s largest private shareholder

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Lev Tahor girls walking in Chatham, Ontario, in December 2013. (Screen Capture/YouTube)

Leader of Lev Tahor cult drowns in Mexico — report

MK Oren Hazan at the Finance Committee meeting on November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Court ramps up speeding penalty on bad-boy Likud MK Hazan

By Raoul Wootliff

In this March 8, 2015 file photo, Lena Dunham arrives at the 32nd Annual Paleyfest: 'Girls' held at The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Back to bite herLena Dunham barks up wrong tree with puppy post

By Yaakov Schwartz

The Ku Klux Klan protests on July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chet Strange/Getty Images/AFP)

KKK holds march in Virginia; hundreds at counter-protest

By Sebastian Blanc

A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)

French police charge suspect linked to 2015 kosher supermarket attack

By AFP

Illustrative: Disabled activists attend a protest calling for better health care in Tel Aviv on June 13, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Disabled protesters block main highway in wildcat protest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in the Knesset, June 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Kahlon says no phone calls with Netanyahu in months

A picture taken on July 7, 2017 shows Palestinians walking by outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Picking a bone with UNESCO

By Tamar Pileggi

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