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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 12, 2017

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Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eli Marom, the former commander of the Israeli Navy. (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Ex-navy chief placed under house arrest after questioning in sub affair

Eliezer Marom, suspected of corruption in deals with German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, said to be most senior army figure ever arrested in state’s history

David Shimron seen at a Likud press conference in Tel Aviv on February 01, 2015. (Flash90)

Netanyahu’s lawyer David Shimron named as suspect in sub affair

Bezeq workers installing fiber optic cables. (Courtesy)

Communications Ministry chief interrogated in Bezeq probe

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in East Jerusalem on March 16, 2015, the day before general elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Under Trump, settlements are no longer the obsessive center of attention

By Raphael Ahren

Obama bet everything on Israel ceasing settlement expansion, but the current White House has made it just one of many issues, leaving Ramallah no choice but to acquiesce

Netanyahu meets with Trump envoy amid reported US peace push

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

State Department: US may have ‘upgraded’ ties with Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

Israel denies it agreed to settlement slowdown during talks

By Dov Lieber and Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, confers with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM: Comptroller report ‘another attempt to create scandal’

By Tamar Pileggi

UAE accuses Al-Jazeera of anti-Semitism; Steinitz says Turkey energy minister to visit Israel for pipeline deal; Hungary pulls anti-Soros ads ahead of Netanyahu visit; Remand of suspect in sub affair extended

A poster with US billionaire George Soros is pictured on July 6, 2017, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. (AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK)

Hungary to pull ‘anti-Semitic’ Soros campaign ahead of Netanyahu visit

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Chief Rabbi David Lau (r) meets co-founder of Nefesh B'Nefesh Rabbi Yehoshua Fass on July 11, 2017. (Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Chief rabbi apologizes to ‘blacklisted’ head of Nefesh B’Nefesh

David Lau says he regrets that Rabbi Yehoshua Fass’s reputation was called into question, says he was unaware of existence of list

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau (L) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a meeting of the Rabbinate Council in Jerusalem on November 4, 2013. (Flash90)

Chief Rabbinate says list of rabbis not a ‘blacklist’

Thom Yorke performs with Radiohead at Philips Arena, Atlanta, April 1, 2017. (Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)

Radiohead defends Israel gig after criticism from director Ken Loach

Lead singer Thom Yorke slams boycott call, says band doesn’t endorse Trump but still plays in US

The Palestinian city of Qalqilya (top) and the Israeli security barrier (bottom), file photo (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Divisive expansion plan highlights crowded West Bank city’s plight

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli cabinet is set to meet again Wednesday to discuss move to build 14,000 new homes in Qalqilya, with residents saying there is ‘desperate’ need for approval

Two Palestinians said killed in clashes with IDF troops in Jenin

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

2 indicted over Damascus Gate killing of border policewoman

Trump’s lack of State Department appointments can hurt Israel, experts say

The USA looks to score against Israel in the first wheelchair basketball competition of the 2017 Maccabiah Games, July 9, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Maccabiah shines rare light on wheelchair basketball, thriving despite lack of support

30 teams play across Israel, and the national side came 6th in Europe last year

Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on his Fox News Channel television program, in New York Tuesday, July 11, 2017 (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Long his father’s attack dog, Trump Jr. now in eye of storm

By Jonathan Lemire

President’s son releases his emails on sit-down with Kremlin-linked lawyer, says he did not discuss the meeting with Trump Sr.

Did Donald Trump Jr. break American law?

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Trump rises to son’s defense as Democrats ring alarms over email

By AP

Trump Jr. releases emails showing Russian government aid for campaign

By CHAD DAY and Eric Tucker

A yellow scorpion in the Negev Desert (Ester Inbar, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

4 children stung by poisonous scorpions in 2 days

Bedouin youngsters being treated at Beersheba hospital, 2 in serious condition

Molly Yeh has taken the food blogging world by storm with her bubbly personality and creative recipes. (Chantell Quernemoen/via JTA)

How a Chinese-Jewish chef finds inspiration on a North Dakota farm

By Gabe Friedman

While it didn’t occur to Molly Yeh that ‘a place could exist without tons of Jews,’ the Instagram star is snapping up as many influences as she brings to the Midwest

Jerusalem, you have failed me

With poor options for her son’s medical care, she asks how the capital of the Jewish people could be so heartless

Haskel Lookstein

The utterances and silences of all parties to the recent government decisions have the power to destroy the Jewish people

Rabbinate blacklist undermines Judaism

The Israeli government must be bold, and rethink whether it is truly serves the interests of the Zionist enterprise

The murder that France will not name

It’s time for the land of fraternité to admit the Islamic motives behind the brutal slaying of Dr. Sarah Halimi

Avi Gabbay outside a primary polling station in Jerusalem on July 4, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Avi Gabbay, ‘Israel’s Macron,’ wants to lead from the center

By Andrew Tobin

The new Labor chief hopes to take advantage of his moderate, outsider image to bring the party back into power

Newly elected head of the Israeli Labor party Avi Gabbay (R) with former leader Isaac Herzog on July 12, 2017. (FLASH90)

Herzog to remain opposition leader in Gabbay’s stead

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

IDF soldier charged with raping, assaulting female comrade

By Judah Ari Gross

Crime allegedly occurred while members of the combat unit were on a social night out in Tel Aviv; trial to be held in military court

A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, on July 11, 2017. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism

By Matt Lebovic

After one of the Shoah memorial’s glass towers was shattered last month, community leaders gather to unveil repairs and praise Boston’s response to the incident

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan speaks at a ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2016. (Gefen Reznik/IDF Spokesperson)

Outgoing general defends his controversial Holocaust Remembrance Day speech

By Judah Ari Gross

In exit interview, IDF No. 2 Yair Golan says he was shocked by backlash last year when he compared Israeli societal trends to those of pre-WWII Germany

Daniel Beer. (Via JTA)

Boy, 11, dies after falling ill at Jewish camp in Pennsylvania

By Johanna Ginsberg

Nah-Jee-Wah administrators say Daniel Beer had ‘gastrointestinal symptoms’ prior to death; state police investigating

Boston Children's Hospital. (YouTube screenshot)

Iranian cancer expert stopped at US airport, sent back home

By Philip Marcelo

Mohsen Dehnavi was to start work at Boston children’s hospital; border control says ‘detention not linked to Trump travel ban’

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks during a Labor, Welfare and Health Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s new tech funds raise both hackles and hope

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel is setting up four high tech investment funds backed by state guarantees and traded on the stock exchange

Patti LuPone, in her role as the cosmetics mogul Helena Rubinstein in the Broadway musical 'War Paint,' performing at the Tony Awards in New York City, June 11, 2017. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions/via JTA)

Actress Patti LuPone might have some ‘chosen’ DNA after all

By Linda Buchwald

More Headlines

Turkish Minister of Energy Berat Albayrak addresses the media in Ankara, on July 27, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)

Turkish energy minister ‘to visit Israel for pipeline deal’

By AFP

A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank Leumi to drop 500-600 employees by year’s end

By Shoshanna Solomon

Commandos from the Israeli Navy's elite Shayetet 13 unit are seen during a drill off the coast of Israel on July 10-11, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Drill sees Israeli commandos free hostage ship

Francis Matthew, editor-at-large of Gulf News, in July 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

British editor in Dubai charged with killing wife with hammer

Yoel Hasson seen in the Knesset on August 16, 2012. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Jewish Home bugged by MK calling its leader a ‘cockroach’

By Alexander Fulbright

Guests brawl on Lebanese television (Courtesy MEMRI)

TV tempestPro- and anti-Assad guests brawl on Lebanese TV

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

Hebrew media reviewUp ship creek

By Joshua Davidovich

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