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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 11, 2017

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Avi Gabbay at a press conference on July 11, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Kicking off campaign, new Labor leader sets sights on ousting Netanyahu

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

With elections still years away, Avi Gabbay says drive to replace prime minister ‘begins today,’ looks to bring home 30 Knesset seats

Labor hails Gabbay victory as ‘a new hope’

By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff

Labor elects newcomer Avi Gabbay as party leader in major upset

By Raoul Wootliff

Gabbay is the new Labor chief, but can’t be opposition leader

By Marissa Newman

Former Israel Navy Commander Eli Marom in 2009. (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Former Israel Navy chief grilled in submarine fraud probe

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Police detain Eliezer Marom at Lahav 433 serious crimes unit, a day after six others were hauled in to face investigators

Miki Ganor is brought for a hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, July 10, 2017. (Moti Kimchi/POOL)

After interrogation, police remand 3 suspects in submarine probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Jewish Home chair Naftali Bennett (L) speaks with Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid in the Knesset plenum, March 11, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett defends PM on submarine probe as suspects grilled for hours

By Raoul Wootliff

Avi Gabbay at a press conference on July 11, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Polls show Zionist Union, under new leadership, surge to second place

PA said preparing to cut welfare stipends to 80,000 families in Gaza; Qatar says it will keep aiding Hamas-ruled Gaza

View of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, June 23, 2017 (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

US Orthodox leaders dance around the Western Wall crisis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The deal to construct a pluralistic prayer platform was always complicated for Diaspora Orthodoxy, but the move to freeze the plan is even more perplexing

Rabbi Adam Scheier, the senior rabbi at Canada's oldest traditional Ashkenazi synagogue, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, and a member of the Israeli rabbinate's 'blacklist.' (courtesy)

A blacklisted Diaspora rabbi is pleased to find himself in good company

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Adam Scheier, rabbi of Leonard Cohen’s Orthodox Montreal synagogue, says the issue is not getting himself off the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s list, but that there is a list at all

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 14, 2017. (Flash90)

US ambassador, Trump envoy meet Palestinian officials in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Unusual move made after Palestinians refuse to host Jason Greenblatt and US ambassador David Friedman in Ramallah

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 ambassador to join meeting with Palestinian negotiators

By Stuart Winer

In this May 8, 2017 file photo, Donald Trump Jr. speaks in Indianapolis. (AP/Darron Cummings)

Report: Trump Jr. knew Kremlin was source of potential dirt on Clinton

By ToI Staff and AP

President’s son was aware ahead of 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer that damaging info he was promised was part of Moscow effort to help father’s candidacy, NYT reports

Trump Jr. admits he wanted info on Clinton from Russian lawyer

By CHAD DAY and Nekesa Mumbi Moody

Kushner sought $500m loan from Qatari investor – report

Moscow denies knowledge of Trump Jr.’s meeting with Putin-linked lawyer

By ToI Staff and AP

Screen capture from video shows firefighters rescuing an ultra-Orthodox man after he hid inside a safe that toppled on top of him in a yeshiva in Flatbush, New York, July 10, 2017. (YouTube/VINnews)

Safe and sound

Hasid defies death by jumping into steel Torah vault

By Stuart Winer

Security box tips over on worker as he installs it at Borough Park rabbinical school — but he finds an escape hatch

Steinhardt, who takes regular 90-minute strolls around his 55-acre private zoo, enjoys interacting with his tortoises. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Reporter's notebookIt's not everyday that a writer mounts a century-old tortoise

The Wall Street bull who founded Birthright has a private zoo

The swan lies with the capybara at billionaire Michael Steinhardt’s utopian New York animal preserve

Yeah, I’ve been blacklisted!

He’s on the Rabbinate’s list of unacceptable rabbis. The reason? It’s probably about the cheese

David-Seth Kirshner

Who cares about a list?

Liberal Jewry can call out the absurdity of the Rabbinate blacklist by showing up at Israel’s holy places

Jewish unity in just three steps

Concrete steps that can bridge the chasm include liberal Jews increasing their daily religious observance

Chana Chava Perton

An open letter to the front of the shul

Orthodox men should wield their power and influence to ensure that the women who accept ‘separate’ are truly equal

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon at Mosul's al-Nuri mosque in Iraq during his supposed first public appearance, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)

Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi killed, Syrian group confirms

By AFP and ToI Staff

US-led coalition spokesman says he can’t verify report, which comes a month after Russia announced self-styled ‘caliph’ had likely been killed in an airstrike

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney (left) meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 11, 2017. (GPO)

PM raps visiting Irish foreign minister over support for Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu and his deputy FM take Simon Coveney to task for failing to condemn glorification of terror, funding NGOs that delegitimize Israel

A screen shot from "Changing the Equation" calling for the government to pressure the Hamas terror group to release the remains of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Family of fallen soldier held by Hamas launches campaign for policy change

By Stuart Winer

Video clip urges pressuring Hamas by denying benefits to prisoners until terror group returns remains of fallen servicemen

Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz at a press conference held at the Ministry of Transportation on April 5, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud minister backs absorbing settlements into Jerusalem

Yisrael Katz wants Ma’aleh Adumim, Etzion bloc and other major communities to be part of capital, but doesn’t urge their full annexation

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame (center) shakes hands with President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Rwanda’s Kagame visiting as Israel looks to boost Africa ties

2-day trip to focus on investment, but also Israel’s bid to counter anti-Israel bias at UN and the shared experience overcoming genocide

Unbotify wins the Cyberstorm Competition. From left to right: Tim Mather (PatternEx), Ofer Schreiber (YL Ventures), Yaron Oliker (Unbotify), Sharon Seemann (YL Ventures) and Roy Adar (Cyber Ark). (Courtesy YL Ventures)

Israeli startup tracks behavior to outsmart hacker bots

By Micah Danney

Having won Tel Aviv U competition, cybersecurity firm Unbotify battles automated bandits to keep data safe and the news real

(Photo credit: Shutterstock)

Israel earmarks funds for special-needs technology

By Shoshanna Solomon

The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)

After vandalism, Boston Holocaust memorial to be rededicated Tuesday

By ToI Staff and JTA

Event at repaired New England Holocaust Memorial to be attended by Massachusetts governor, city’s mayor

File: Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion prepare for a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Commander of co-ed IDF unit suspended for suspected relationship with subordinate

By Stuart Winer

Lt. Col. Elad Cohen removed from his post for 30 days as military police investigate alleged illicit relations

Justice Ministry Director-General Emi Palmorl (2R) addresses a Knesset committee on July 10, 2017. (courtesy)

Female MKs to take anti-prostitution fight to Knesset next week

By Marissa Newman

Justice Ministry committee wraps up year-long evaluation on punishing the clients of prostitutes, to present findings to Ayelet Shaked next week; other lawmakers not waiting

More Headlines

Columns from a Byzantine-era church confiscated by the Civil Administration from suspected antiquities traffickers near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on July 10, 2017. (Civil Administration spokesperson)

Antiquities thieves nabbed with artifacts from Byzantine-era church

Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the DC Superior Court House in Washington, February 19, 2015. (AP file Photo/Cliff Owen)

Play about Peeping Tom rabbi dismays real-life victims

By Stuart Winer

Chen Reiss, the soprano opera singer who trained in Israel, performs worldwide, and is participating in the summer master class program of the Israeli Opera (Courtesy Chen Reiss)

The Reiss stuffWorld-class soprano warbles way back to Israeli roots

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: A firefighting plane dumps water on a forest in the Judean Hills during an exercise on March 29, 2012. (Omer Miron/Flash90)

Firefighters again battle blaze on IDF ammo base; arson suspected

By Judah Ari Gross

A participant at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, July 21, 2016. (Sarah Tuttle-Singer)

Journalist who broke Chicago Dyke March story removed from reporting duties

By JTA

Supporters of Labor party candidate Avi Gabbay in Tel Aviv on July 10, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe gift of Gabbay

By Joshua Davidovich

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