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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 13, 2017

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Former finance minister Yair Lapid (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when the last government was in power, in Jerusalem on July 3, 2013. (Flash90)

Lapid says submarine scandal worst graft case in Israeli history

Former finance minister casts doubt on Netanyahu’s claim not to have known of his lawyer’s controversial role in huge defense deal

PM says corruption insinuations are a left-wing plot against him

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Court keeps submarine graft suspects behind bars, citing ‘developments’

Ex-navy chief admits helping key suspect in sub affair — report

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt (C), during a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

White House welcomes Israeli-Palestinian water agreement

Quartet for Mideast peace meets for first time since Trump’s election; as Bezeq probe ensnares associates, Netanyahu insists mogul Elovitz ‘isn’t my friend’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on the phone at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 28, 2014. (Amos Ben Gershon/GPO)

State watchdog: PM didn’t disclose conflict of interest with Bezeq owner

Yosef Shapira finds that Communications Ministry, when led by PM, acted in interests of his personal friend, telecom owner Shaul Elovitch

Shlomo Filber, director general of the Communications Ministry, seen during a court hearing in the Supreme Court regarding the closing of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. May 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Communications Ministry chief sent to house arrest over Bezeq probe

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, center, sits next to Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, left, and Mazen Ghoneim, right, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, during a news conference about a water-sharing agreement between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2017. (AFP/POOL/RONEN ZVULUN)

Israel, Palestinians reach landmark water deal for West Bank, Gaza

By Raphael Ahren and Melanie Lidman

New desalination project is part of wider plan to run water through pipeline from Red Sea down to Dead Sea; US envoy Greenblatt hopes it’s a ‘harbinger of things to come’

Cabinet puts temporary freeze on Qalqilya expansion plan

Bennett holds ‘successful meeting’ with Trump envoys

By Raoul Wootliff

IDF raids Palestinian news station suspected of incitement

Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, June 19, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Approved by Fox

‘Jared Kosher’ is Fox’s accidental name for Kushner

By JTA

Ticker typo labels US president’s son-in-law and senior adviser as fit for Jewish consumption

Left, Dr. Jari Louhelainen conducts DNA testing on a shawl found next to one of Jack the Ripper's victims. Right, a newspaper sketch from October 13, 1888 depicting Jack the Ripper. (photo credit: Jari Louhelainen/AFP; Public domain)

Were the Jack the Ripper murders an elaborate anti-Semitic frameup?

By Robert Philpot

Author Stephen Senise says it’s no coincidence that Britain’s most infamous unsolved crime is alleged to have been committed by a Jew — it was planned that way all along

UK to look into anti-Semitic abuse of candidates in campaign

By AP

Illustrative photo of Israeli singer Yael Deckelbaum. (Courtesy Yael Deckelbaum)

Mum's not the word

Coexistence mothers’ prayer song goes viral

By Jessica Steinberg

Singer Yael Deckelbaum tours the world with tune composed by ensemble of Jewish, Christian and Muslim women

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (left) confers with ranking member Sen. Ben Cardin (right) during a committee markup meeting on the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran, in Washington, DC, April 14, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Fears of instability chip away at support for US bill cutting PA funding

By Eric Cortellessa

Lawmakers unanimously support idea behind Taylor Force Act forcing Palestinians to halt incitement, but some say even Israeli officials worry about impact of cutting off money

Palestinian youth hold placards during a solidarity rally for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, organized by Hamas, in the Shuafat refugee camp, Jerusalem on April 19, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Palestinians warn ending payouts to jailed terrorists could trigger crisis

By AFP

7-year-old male Asiatic Cheetah, named 'Koushki,' hunts a rabbit at the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge in Jajarm, northeastern Iran. (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Earth already in midst of next mass extinction, scientists warn

Human overpopulation and over-consumption leading planet and its inhabitants to catastrophe faster than previously thought, study claims

Alan Gross with some of his favorite things — a pastrami sandwich and a Cuban cigar — at Loeb’s Deli in Washington DC, July 12, 2017. (Ron Kampeas)

Interview

Alan Gross, after spending 5 years in a Cuban prison, is starting over in Israel

Languishing in a Havana jail, the Jewish US contractor developed a habit for the island’s famed cigars. Now his favorite pastime is walking from his Tel Aviv home to the Carmel Market and Jaffa

Yes, it was really a blacklist of rabbis

The legal adviser for ITIM, which obtained the Rabbinate’s list, fills in some blanks and says there’s still hope

Rename Haifa’s UNESCO Square

The name should be one that symbolizes interfaith unity — and he knows what that name should be

Haredi society comes full circle

The ultra-Orthodox sector appears to be dialing back its zealous rejection of employment and secular studies

George Soros as a Jewish symbol

Strong relations between Israel and Hungary should push the European country to confront its anti-Semitism

From left to right: Rabbi Joseph Dweck (courtesy), British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), and Chief Sephardi Rabbi od Israel Yitzhak Yosef (CC-SA-GFDL).

Is UK’s Sephardi rabbi fracas about more than condoning homosexuality?

By Jenni Frazer

Medics and firefighters pull two men out of a truck that overturned along a highway, north of the city of Eilat, on July 13, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

Two soldiers killed when truck overturns in south

By Judah Ari Gross

Tractor-trailer flips along highway outside army base just north of Eilat trapping the occupants; army launches probe into the crash

A Palestinian family eats dinner by candlelight at their makeshift home in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, during a power outage June 11, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Gazans said facing daylong power cuts as plant shuts down

By AP and ToI Staff

Hamas-run enclave’s electricity company says supplies at unprecedented low

Avi Gabbay arrives to a polling station in Tel Aviv on July 10, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Abbas calls Gabbay to congratulate him on Labor victory

New Labor chairman encourages PA president to meet with Netanyahu, to build the mutual trust necessary for solving the conflict

The US Embassy building in Tel Aviv, December 28, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel, Egypt spared as Republicans unveil foreign aid cuts

By Andrew Taylor

Trump wants to slash almost $17 billion from overseas subsidies to help pay for controversial US-Mexico border wall

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III leads the Orthodox Easter ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 15, 2017. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Palestinians demand Patriarch’s ouster over Jerusalem land sales

Critics in Jordan and West Bank also criticize Abbas for inaction over deals in west of city, want Palestinians to replace Greek nationals in church hierarchy

In this photo from February 11, 2014, Israeli workers inspect barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Canada bans ‘Product of Israel’ labels for West Bank wines

By Sue Surkes and Jacob Magid

Ruling singles out 2 settlement wineries, also blacklists Golan and East Jerusalem vintages; Jewish group calls decision ‘disturbing’

US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron shaking hands at the US ambassador's residence in Brussels, May 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Trump lands in Paris to talk Syria, counterrorism

By Vivian Salama

Close on national security, opposed on trade and climate change, Trump and Macron expected to seek common ground

Illustrative image of the Imam of Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi (C), Lebanese Imam Mohammad Ali Al-Husseini (2L) Egyptian Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb (3R) posing with others as they prepare to take part in The Muslim March Against Terrorism in Paris on July 8, 2017. (AFP/Francois Guillot)

Imams protest terror at site of 2012 Toulouse Jewish school attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Clerics take part in ‘March of Muslims against Terrorism,’ visiting French terror sites including Otzar Hatorah where 4 were murdered

Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority (Courtesy)

Israel sets up plan to keep large tech firms ahead of the curve

By Shoshanna Solomon

Innovation Authority targets firms with over $100m in sales; offers grants of up to 50% of projects’ R&D costs

One of the restored buildings of Sergei's Courtyard, the late 1800s hostel for Russian pilgrims, now renovated to its former glory. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Mother Russia returns to grand duke’s Jerusalem compound

By Jessica Steinberg

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View from Kibbutz Eilon in the western Galilee. (Screen capture/YouTube)

All together nowGalilee kibbutz accepts first Bedouin family as members

Mayim Bialik stars as an anthropologist in a new commercial for SodaStream. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Big Bubble TheoryMayim Bialik a tree-hugging time traveler in SodaStream ad

By JTA

Woody Allen performs with his New Orleans Jazz Band at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, July 2, 2017. (Photo by Mark Allan/Invision/AP)

Topless protesters disrupt Woody Allen concert over ’92 sexual assault claims

By JTA

Axl Rose (L), lead singer of the rock band Guns N' Roses, performs with Slash at Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 27, 2017. (AFP/Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen)

Religious fans knocking on promoter’s door after Guns N’ Roses extends show

By Melanie Lidman

Actress Milana Vayntrub attending the Yahoo Screen Launch Party For Paul Feig’s 'Other Space' at The London in West Hollywood, California, April 14, 2015. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Yahoo)

Wonder rodentJewish ‘AT&T Girl’ cast as Marvel’s Squirrel Girl

By Josefin Dolsten

UAE slams Al-Jazeera for anti-Semitism over imam’s sermons

By AFP

Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. In Mecca, the holy site all the world’s Muslims pray toward, the annual hajj pilgrimage began Tuesday with over 2 million faithful gathering to call out in Arabic: "Here I am, God, answering your call. Here I am." (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Israeli minister said trying to broker direct flights to Mecca

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewA scandal too far?

By Adiv Sterman

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