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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 19, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of the Visegrad Group -- Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland -- in Budapest, July 19, 2017 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

In hot mic comments, Netanyahu lashes EU’s ‘crazy’ policy on Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Unaware that audio from his closed-door meeting with Central European leaders is being piped to reporters, PM says Europe will ‘shrivel and disappear’ if it doesn’t change course

Hungarian PM tells EU to improve its ties with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Irish president meets leader of anti-Israel boycott movement

By Raphael Ahren

Ken Loach says income from Israel screenings will fund BDS

By Alexander Fulbright

A Muslim protester is arrested outside Jerusalem's Old City on July 19, 2017 (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

Temple Mount tensions spark fourth day of clashes

By Dov Lieber and Alexander Fulbright

Police arrest a demonstrator during scuffles at Lions Gate; holy site reopened to non-Muslims after closure over Jewish prayer

Bill to hinder East Jerusalem withdrawal clears first hurdle

By Marissa Newman

Police close Temple Mount to non-Muslims over Jewish prayer

By Alexander Fulbright

PM meets Mexican diplomat fired for challenging UNESCO Jerusalem vote

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 19, 2017, following a demonstration against new Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount. (AFP/Musa Al Shaer)

Live updates (closed)

Unrest, clashes over Temple Mount continue in Jerusalem

By Tamar Pileggi

IDF discloses extent of Israeli aid to Syrian war victims; 5 killed in West Bank crash between Israeli, Palestinian vehicles; Netanyahu says Temple Mount metal detectors to stay up for now

Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, South West England, on June 23, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF / AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF)

Before Radiohead conquered the world, it was already Israel’s darling

By Judah Ari Gross

While the band struggled through grungy near-obscurity in the UK in the mid ’90s, it was huge in Israel; on Wednesday, it returns to a place that’s been in sync with its futurist vibe from the very start

Noted Israeli violinist posts string ode to Radiohead

By Jessica Steinberg

Divorced men protesting for men's rights in divorce during a lecture series called "Judges on the Bar" at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, June 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In landmark ruling, court says women should pay child support

Expanded panel of seven Supreme Court justices rules that existing law discriminates against men

Israelis pass by rainbow flags in Jerusalem ahead of the Jerusalem Pride Parade, on July 31, 2013 (Yonatan Sindel / Flash90)

Court gives government 2 months to reassess gay adoption policy

By ToI Staff and JTA

Detail of a Yedioth Ahronoth magazine cover showing student Rotem Bides, 27, and some of the artifacts she stole from Auschwitz (Times of Israel)

Israeli student steals artifacts from Auschwitz for art project

By Alexander Fulbright

Memorial seeks to sue Rotem Bides, who admits to newspaper she took the objects… including a sign forbidding artifact theft

Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat, visits the the Bukharan neighborhood during elections for the community administration, December 10, 2011. Photo by (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor and ultra-Orthodox carve up capital

Barkat denies deal, which specifies the religious character of individual neighborhoods, is aimed at ensiring Haredi support when he runs for reelection; deputy mayor calls it ‘unethical, illegal’

William Attal, the brother of Sarah Halimi who was killed in April in an apparent anti-Semitic attack, outside the central synagogue in the Creteil suburb of Paris, June 17, 2017. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Seeking justice, brother of Sarah Halimi sees ‘warning’ for French Jews in grisly slaying

By Raoul Wootliff

In family’s first major interview, William Attal says he can ‘no longer stay silent’ over his sister’s brutal killing by a Muslim neighbor in April, fumes at police refusal to acknowledge it was an anti-Semitic crime

Jean-Marie Le Pen faces trial for ‘oven’ swipe at Jewish singer

By AFP

The 'smiley pot' was discovered by a team led by Nicolo Marchetti, an archeology professor at the University of Bologna, during excavations in Turkey's Gaziantep province alongside the Syria border. (courtesy)

World's first known smiley face

History’s ‘oldest smile’ found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Cheerful artifact from 1,700 BCE discovered near border with war-torn Syria, at the site of a famous biblical battle where Lawrence of Arabia once dug

Biblical account of Gezer’s destruction gains ground with torched skeleton finds

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Every death is a cascade of loss

How do you explain to your 13-year-old son why his friend is dead?

Forget BDS. Worry about this instead.

‘Anti-normalization’ puts Zionism in a basket with unconscionable ideas that must be protested

Jewish unity: Call me naive

Is Israel truly the state of all Jews? There are too many indications to the contrary

Gaza is burning

No A/C, no refrigeration, raw sewage in the streets — with the ability to help Gazans, how can Israel not do so?

Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (2nd L), and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge (L), visit the former Stutthof Nazi concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland, on July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Simon Krawczyk)

Prince William, Kate visit former Nazi concentration camp in Poland

By Stuart Winer

Royal couple meets with two British survivors of Stutthof in Gdansk, where 28,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

US President Donald Trump during a lunch with members of the US military in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Trump was talked out of declaring Iran in breach of nuke deal

By Josh Lederman

As midnight deadline approached, aides rushed to dissuade US president from reinstating nuclear sanctions lifted as part of 2015 accord

Pastor John Hagee (L) founder of Christians United for Israel, shaking hands with Vice President Mike Pence at CUFI’s annual conference, July 17, 2017. (Kasim Hafeez/CUFI)

Christian Zionists still uncertain about Trump — but sure glad Obama is out

Mike Pence steals the show at Evangelical pro-Israel conference, as some cast shade on US president’s mixed messages toward Jewish state

Illustrative: Richard Spencer speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas on December 6, 2016. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

ADL releases ‘Who’s Who’ guide of alt-right and alt-lite extremists

By Eric Cortellessa

A view of the ammonia tank in Haifa on June 30, 2017. (Flash90)

Watchdog says ministry head illegally helped Haifa ammonia plant

State Comptroller accuses Israel Danziger of breaking conflict of interest rules during search for new location for Haifa Chemicals storage tank

President Reuven Rivlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, May 12, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Netanyahu kept defense minister in dark about German-Egyptian submarine deal — report

When President Rivlin conveyed concern about the agreement to Merkel, she told him Israel had already approved it

A Hezbollah observation post on the Israeli-Lebanese border, according to the IDF. Photo released on June 22, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF says videos prove Hezbollah hiding behind NGO at border

By Judah Ari Gross

Army releases new footage showing operatives from the Iran-backed terrorist group watching Israeli activities

Fighters from the Izz-a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, attend a memorial service for a commander killed in an apparently accidental explosion in the southern Gaza Strip on June 10, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Israel, Hamas make prisoner swap counteroffers – report

By Alexander Fulbright

Jerusalem said seeking video of Israelis held in Gaza, while terror group reportedly demands release of Shalit deal recidivists

Sarah Tuttle Singer and Yossi Klein Halevy are among those featured at the 'Becoming Israeli' book launch.

Becoming Israeli: 40 immigrants reflect on the ups and downs of aliyah

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Members of a Russian delegation including former Russian prime minister Sergey Vadimovich Stepahin (2R) cut a ribbon during the re-opening of the Sergei Compound in Jerusalemafter six years of renovation work, July 18, 2017, (AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON)

Renovated Tsarist hostel reopens in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg and AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Mark Schiefelbein)

China says it will host Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace symposium’

By AFP

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves Ramle's Ma’asiyahu prison on July 2, 2017, following his release. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Mile-high flubOlmert briefly held at airport over old no-fly order

Illustrative: A police cruiser in the Israeli coastal town of Bat Yam on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Bat Yam resident arrested for suspected pedophilia

Wrigley Field on June 24, 2014. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Home plateKosher hot dogs available at Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field

By JTA

Then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon aboard the INS Tanin submarine as it docks for the first time at the Haifa Port, September 23, 2014. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/ FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewThe tip of the bribeberg?

By Joshua Davidovich

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