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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 16, 2017

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Muslim worshippers stage a prayer protest outside the Temple Mount compound against metal detectors that were set up at the entrance to the holy site after a terror attack two days prior, on July 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Worshipers protest metal detectors as Israel reopens Temple Mount

By Judah Ari Gross

Waqf officials hold prayer outside site to protest new security arrangements set up in wake of Friday’s lethal terror attack; some 600 Muslims enter compound

Police uncover weapons, but no guns, in Temple Mount searches

By Judah Ari Gross

Ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount ‘likely’ to be extended

By Raoul Wootliff

Arab leader says community worried about backlash after attack

By Stuart Winer

French President Emmanuel Macron embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in Paris on July 16, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Kamil Zihnioglu)

Macron denounces anti-Zionism as a new form of anti-Semitism

By Raphael Ahren

Unprecedented statement from a French leader comes as he hosts Netanyahu at Paris event marking 75 years since 13,152 French Jews were deported to Auschwitz

Some French groups angered by ‘unacceptable’ Netanyahu invite

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu departs for 5-day trip to France and Hungary

By Raphael Ahren

Hungarian PM vows to protect Jewish rituals

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a joint press conference with France's President at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on July 16, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEPHANE MAHE)

Live updates (closed)

PM rejects Syria ceasefire deal, citing Iran’s military ambitions

By Tamar Pileggi

Macron says anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism; Christian father charged with murdering daughter for dating Muslim; Rivlin slams Arab leaders for ‘feeble’ response to Temple Mount attack

A dead ibex found in Nahal Ashalim on July 15, 2017. (Nature and Parks Authority)

2 more rare ibexes found dead after massive acid spill

Nature Authority says 8 of the 26 creatures living in the Judean desert have died since spill two weeks ago into Nahal Ashalim

The honorees from the first generation of Conservative women rabbis pose for a photo at the 2015 Conservative Rabbinical Assembly celebration of 30 years of women in the rabbinate. (Yossi Hoffman)

Why there are no women on the Chief Rabbinate’s ‘blacklist’

‘A woman rabbi is like a unicorn, so why would you include a unicorn on the blacklist?’ says VP of Conservative Rabbinical Assembly. ‘We’re not even on their radar screen’

UK, French Jewish leaders split on Western Wall controversy

By JTA

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on July 15, 2017. (courtesy, Lior Keter)

Concert Review

In muggy Tel Aviv, Guns N’ Roses brings sizzling show to 62,000 fans

By Melanie Lidman

Energetic peformance, one of Israel’s largest concerts ever, runs for over 3 hours; woman seriously hurt attempting to scale stage, 65 treated for dehydration

Woman seriously injured after falling off stage at Guns N’ Roses show

Message of loveDid Israeli producer help get Chrissie Hynde to play Israel?

By Jessica Steinberg

Last one leavingGuns N Roses openers head home after rocking Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

File: Arab Israeli women stand on a porch in the northern town of Umm Al-Fahm. ( Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

In tense Umm al-Fahm, Jerusalem attack and its aftermath ‘are all mistakes’

Relatives of the three killers from this northern Israeli town have been instructed to keep quiet until the bodies come home

US backs Israel’s closure of Temple Mount, calls for patience

Arab leader says community worried about backlash after attack

By Stuart Winer

Ministers push bill that could stymie East Jerusalem withdrawal

Shayna Abramson

Why religious Jews must tremble

Bloodshed on the Temple Mount recalls the baseless hatred of the 2nd Temple’s destruction; surely, we can do better!

An open letter to open letter writers

Who really reads ’em anyway?

I’m a female rabbi; I simply don’t exist

That blacklist is the least of the Israeli Rabbinate’s desecration, destroying what Jews of all backgrounds have built

A philanthropic strategy that responds to the Western Wall controversy (and doesn’t withhold donations from hospitals)

Jane Katz has made a big splash in swimming and aquatic fitness over many decades. (Courtesy)

American swimmer makes a splash with 60 years of Maccabiah Games competitions

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Protesters chant slogans in the Jordanian capital Amman on July 15, 2017 during a demonstration against the closure of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which Israeli security forces closed a day earlier after Arab gunmen killed two Israeli policemen in the Holy City. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Hundreds in Jordan protest Temple Mount closure

Demonstration in Amman in wake of terror attack follows Friday’s protest in Turkey outside Israeli consulate

IDF troops confiscate a piece of machinery allegedly used to create illegal makeshift weapons in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 26, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF: Palestinian gunman killed during West Bank arrest

Army says suspect behind two shooting incidents on Saturday also attempted to open fire on Israeli troops during raid

IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria arrives for a court hearing at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Hebron shooter said to be released soon to house arrest

With his IDF service finishing this week, Elor Azaria reportedly to stay at his parents’ home until appeals court rules

Illustration: A photograph taken on a mobile phone shows British police cars blocking the entrance to London Bridge, in central London on June 3, 2017, following an attack on the bridge. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel SORABJI)

Anti-Semitic attacks in UK rose 44% since 2014 , watchdog finds

A 2016 audit from the Campaign Against Antisemitism NGO finds that just 1.4% of hate crimes against Jews were prosecuted in the last year

Hundreds of people protesting against the Iran nuclear deal on July 26, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. (Peter Duke)

Two years on, nuclear deal has fewer friends in US and Iran

By Nicolas Revise and Eric RANDOLPH

Washington accuses Tehran of destabilizing Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon, either directly or through its terrorist proxies

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

Members of powerful Knesset defense panel call for submarine deal freeze

Letter to committee head signed by 13 asks for purchase of German naval vessels to be put on hold until after police probe

The migration police during the deportation of Eastern European prostitutes near Haifa. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Ministers okay bills to criminalize johns who hire prostitutes

By Marissa Newman

But proposals will wait until Justice Ministry presents own version of legislation; top panel also okays bill to tag spouses accused of domestic violence

Sami Kara is brought to Lod District Court for an indictment on murdering his own daughter, July 16, 2017. (Flash90)

Father charged with murdering daughter over affair with Muslim

By Stuart Winer

Sami Kara, a Christian Arab, allegedly killed teenager after she said she’d convert to Islam to be with her romantic partner

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Chanie Apfelbaum with her son Peretz (Courtesy of Apfelbaum)

Keppy-penThis kippah could save the lives of kids with allergies

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of a swimming pool (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Police arrest 2 lifeguards after 9-year-old drowns at public pool

Film director Ken Loach speaks at a rally for workers' rights in London (CC BY 2.0 Bryce Edwards via Wikimedia Commons)

Ken Loach calls for an Israel boycott, but perhaps not for his films

Screen capture from video of an interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, broadcast on Channel 20, July 13, 2017.
(YouTube/uz72777)

Channel 20 faces probe for interviewing Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer

Mobileye gets Israel tax nod for massive Intel deal; extends sale deadline

By Shoshanna Solomon

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot outside the British Parliament May 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

AstraZeneca CEO reportedly not bolting to Teva yet

By Shoshanna Solomon

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)

Hebrew media reviewBeyond the bloody pale

By Joshua Davidovich

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