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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 15, 2017

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Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan speaks at the funeral of Israeli Druze police officer Kamil Shnaan in the northern village of Hurfeish, July 14, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90). Inset: Master Sgt. Shnaan, left, and Master Sgt. Haeil Sitawe, right, the police officers killed in the terror attack next to the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem on July 14, 2017. (Israel Police)

Families, friends mourn ‘beloved’ officers killed in Temple Mount attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Haiel Sitawe, 30, was not supposed to be on patrol Friday, filled in for friend, police chief reveals at funeral; thousands attend funeral for Kamil Shnaan, 22, son of former Labor MK

A view of Maghar village (CC-BY Sharif Askalla/Wikipedia)

Stun grenade hurled at mosque in slain policeman’s hometown

A Palestinian man speaks with an Israeli border police standing guard outside Damascus Gate, a main entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, on July 15, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Waqf protests Israel has completely taken control of Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and AFP

Holy site remains closed and the Old City under very tight security following deadly Friday attack that killed two Israeli police officers

After attack, Netanyahu said to order reopening of Temple Mt. from Sunday

Israel rejects Jordan demand to immediately reopen Temple Mount after attack

Waqf official may have aided Israeli-Arab terrorists in Temple Mount attack — report

Israeli border policemen stand guard outside Damascus Gate, a main entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, on July 15, 2017, after security forces locked down the Temple Mount to Muslim worshippers and restricted access to parts of the Old City following a terror attack on July 14. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Israel should quickly reopen Temple Mount for Muslim worshippers

By Avi Issacharoff

Op-Ed: Closing the compound made security sense in the immediate aftermath of Friday’s terror attack. But with each passing hour, the danger of keeping it shut is growing

Failing to mention attack, Arab League scolds Israel for Temple Mt. closure

Israel frees Jerusalem grand mufti after brief detainment in wake of attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

UN, EU condemn deadly Temple Mount terror attack

Israeli police check the scene and surround a dead body (foreground) where Arab-Israeli attackers shot and killed two policemen on the Temple Mount on July 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Analysis

Terror in the Old City is all too familiar, but Friday’s attack was something else

By Judah Ari Gross

Two years into a terror wave, attacks in Jerusalem’s Old City are not uncommon, but Friday’s strays from the norm in its proximity to holy site, identities of the shooters

Screenshot from CCTV footage released by police on Friday, July 14, 2017, showing the initial moments of the shooting attack at the Temple Mount which killed two Israeli police officers. (Israel Police)

Police release footage showing first moments of Temple Mount attack

Joint (Arab) List head Ayman Odeh addresses a question to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on July 18, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Head of Israel’s Arab party rejects armed struggle after Old City terror attack

William Goldman. (Courtesy University of San Francisco website)

Jewish history professor killed in light plane crash in San Francisco

William Sachs Goldman, 38, was the grandson of San Francisco philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman, and Levi-Strauss heir

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in the seventh season of 'Game of Thrones' (Macall B. Polay/HBO)

Seventh season premieres Sunday

‘Game of Thrones’: 7 Jewish facts about the hit series

By Lisa Keys and Gabe Friedman

From the show’s creators to an affinity with Anne Frank shared by two lead actresses, myriad connections to the faith

The little turtle

Existential lessons in the freedom to struggle to survive, from a 4-legged guest who would not overstay his welcome

Wake up and smell the danger

Writing from her air-conditioned home near near the edge of Gaza, where a catastrophe is underway

Losing Palestine

There will be no Palestinian state as long as so-called supporters fail to present a vision for such a state

Egyptian Ahmed Abdullah, Governor the Red Sea, visits injured tourist women in hospital on July 14, 2017 in Hurghada, Egypt. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

2 German tourists stabbed to death at Egyptian beach resort

Four others wounded by knife-wielding assailant at Red Sea hotel

This file photo taken on July 16, 2016 shows People reacting after taking over a military position on the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul. ( AFP PHOTO / GURCAN OZTURK)

Turkey marks year since ‘epic’ defeat of anti-Erdogan coup

By Stuart Williams

President bids to showcase ostensible national unity and emphasize his grip on power since the failed attempt to oust him

An ambulance is seen on a road in the West Bank where a man was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist on Sunday, October 25, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

West Bank resident injured in drive-by shooting

Brazilian resident of Palestinian village hurt by glass shards in attack north of Ramallah; Israeli troops search the area for assailants

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (L) meets with Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony at the Congress Hall in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90)

Adelson ‘told police he and Netanyahu discussed Mozes’

Report by Channel 10 news could undermine PM’s claim he did not intend to make a deal with the Yedioth Ahronoth publisher

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

As scandals mount, PM launches Trumpian attacks against ‘fake news’ and ‘leftists’

By Andrew Tobin

In this photo provided by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Rinat Akhmetshin is photographed at the Newseum in Washington, June 13, 2016 after a documentary screening. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via AP)

Russian-American lobbyist also attended Trump Jr. meeting

By Desmond Butler and CHAD DAY

Ex-Soviet military officer Rinat Akhmetshin confirms presence when president’s son met Kremlin-linked lawyer

Iron Dome system in action as it intercepts rockets fired from Gaza in October 2012 (photo credit: Flash90/File)

House passes bill that includes $705m. for US-Israel missile defense cooperation

By Eric Cortellessa

The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act exceeds Trump’s budget request, allocating $105m. more to Israel than last year’s budget

Original negatives, the first photos of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960, and the Leica 35mm camera that was used, are displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, Friday, July 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

New York museum recreates scene of Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial

By Verena Dobnik

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Daniel Beer. (Via JTA)

Boy who died at Pennsylvania Jewish camp had meningitis

By JTA

This is an image made available by Sarah Cobbold of the scene of an acid attack in London early Thursday July 13, 2017. (Sarah Cobbold via AP)

UK police appeal for information after spate of acid attacks

By AP

The Yongbyon nuclear facility (W. Keith Luse, public domain)

Monitor: N. Korea likely has more plutonium than previously thought

By AFP

A view of Paris (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

French Jews fume as prosecutors reject hate crime in Jewish woman’s murder

By JTA

Ashton Kutcher and a picture he posted of Shabbat candles (CC-BY David Shankbone,
Wikimedia Commons/Instagram via JTA)

Dude, where's my challah?Ashton Kutcher wishes Instagram Shabbat Shalom

By Gabe Friedman

Jon Stewart on Jimmy Kimmel Live, July 13, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Now you are a (guilt-ridden) manJon Stewart crashes Kimmel’s bar mitzvah interview

By JTA

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