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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 20, 2017

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Security footage released by police on July 20, 2017, shows the three terrorists behind the Temple Mount shooting at the site the morning of the attack. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Police video shows how Friday’s terrorists got their guns onto Temple Mount

By Alexander Fulbright

Newly released security footage reveals fourth man who brought weapons onto site, shows attackers moments before they shot dead two police officers

Amman, Riyadh said pushing to remove Temple Mt. metal detectors by Friday

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

White House ‘very concerned’ over Temple Mount tension

Rioters clash with police around Jerusalem over Temple Mount metal detectors

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces stand guard in front of Palestinian Muslim worshipers praying outside Lions Gate, a main entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 19, 2017, as the latter protest against new Israeli security measures implemented at the holy site (AFP PHOTO / Ahmad GHARABLI

Analysis

On Temple Mount, will reason trump politics?

By Avi Issacharoff

As Palestinian religious and political leaders careen toward confrontation, Israel may need to be the adult in the room

Compromise weighed to remove Temple Mount metal detectors

By Avi Issacharoff

Abbas cutting China visit short due to Temple Mount tensions

Netanyahu says Israel won’t remove Temple Mt. metal detectors for now

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

In this undated photo provided on July 19, 2017, an IDF soldier feeds a Syrian baby in Israel as part of the army's humanitarian aid program to assist Syrians impacted by the civil war in their country. (Israel Defense Forces)

Operation Good Neighbor: Israel reveals its massive humanitarian aid to Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Detailing its outreach for the first time, officers say the IDF is building clinics inside its war-torn neighbor and treating sick children in Israel; hundreds of tons of food, medicine and fuel sent to ravaged border towns

US said to cut CIA support for Syrian rebels

By AFP

US urges world pressure to halt Hezbollah arms buildup

By AFP and ToI Staff

US: Iran still top state terror sponsor; global attacks down

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the garden of Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Decrying ‘betrayal,’ Hungary Jews say Netanyahu ignoring them

By Raphael Ahren

Highlighting rare chilly reception, community leaders ask why Israeli PM focused speech at Budapest JCC on bilateral ties instead of addressing their concerns about anti-Semitism, status for non-Orthodox

A knife that a Palestinian used to try to stab soldiers near the Palestinian village of Teqoa in the central West Bank on July 20, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Palestinian tries to stab soldiers, is shot dead — IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

No Israelis injured in attempted attack near Arab village of Teqoa, in central West Bank

Thom Yorke, lead singer of British rock band Radiohead, brought by Naranjah to performin Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on July 19, 2017, responded vehemently last summer to attempts by the BDS movement encouraging Radiohead to cancel (Courtesy)

Concert review

With longest concert in 11 years, Radiohead shows it does belong here

By Judah Ari Gross

Legendary indie band plays 27 tunes from its 25-year history, reminisces about its first Tel Aviv gig in 1993, briefly addresses boycott controversy

Radiohead renews Israel love affair with marathon concert

Defying calls from BDS activists, Radiohead rocks Tel Aviv

Influential progressive PAC criticizes US bill targeting Israel boycotts

By JTA

Winston Churchill speaking in January 1939. (photo credit: AP Photo/ Staff/ Putnam)

Archives reveal how Churchill covered up Nazi plot to install new king

By AP and ToI Staff

Germans intended to re-crown abdicated Edward VIII following a successful invasion of Britain

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

Live updates (closed)

Security cabinet to meet over Temple Mount tensions

Some 8,000 rally in Tel Aviv over anti-gay discrimination in adoption; Erdogan urges removal of Temple Mount metal detectors

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

Baruch HaBa to Westeros

A hidden Israel reference in Game of Thrones?

With a little wink and nod to Jews, the Dragon Mom returns home in the season 7 premiere

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm Thyssenkrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu: German sub deal likely to go ahead after probe

By Raphael Ahren

PM confirms deal is now frozen, says he knows nothing about ongoing corruption investigation, had no idea Shimron, his lawyer, was involved in affair

Miki Ganor, arrested in the submarine affair also known as 'Case 3000,' is brought for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, July 10, 2017. (Moti Kimchi/Pool)

Key suspect in submarine fraud said to implicate Netanyahu’s lawyer

By Stuart Winer

Dozens of students participated in the summer 2017 Rosh Ha'ayin dig. (Daniel Weinberger, IAA)

Israeli high schoolers excavate 2,700-year-old water system

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Etchings of human figures, crosses, and depictions of vegetation found on walls of ancient Rosh Ha’ayin reservoir

A screenshot from a video of an Israeli family being removed from a JetBlue flight to New York from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 21, 2017. (Screen Capture: YouTube)

Ex-Israeli family says it was booted from plane over toddler kicking seat

JetBlue rejects Mandy Ifrah and Tamir Raanan’s version of events, says they were ejected for ‘physical threats and profanities’

Yosef and Chana, my improbable friends

Can young, secular American Jews befriend elderly Borough Park Haredim? Impossible!

My big gay Jewish family

She’s doing just fine as a child of LGBTQ parents, thank you

Shirin H. Herzog

Mobileye-Intel: What’s the big deal?

A lawyer’s take on the glorious, unprecedented acquisition that will likely have tax implications for Israeli markets

Shmuley Boteach

Linda Sarsour’s insufficient Jihad

The activist’s dismissal of homophobia and the slaughter of Muslims in Syria is troubling

Elor Azaria arrives to an appeals hearing at a courtroom IDF's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 17, 2017. (Flash90)

Hebron shooter discharged from IDF, released to house arrest

By Judah Ari Gross

Elor Azaria welcomed home with balloons and supportive signs, will remain confined there until ruling on his appeal

Illustrative: A prisoner holding the bars of a jail cell. (Channel 2 news screenshot)

Jerusalem court: PA tortured dozens of suspected collaborators with Israel

In landmark ruling, judge says Ramallah must pay damages for the harm caused to 51 plaintiffs between 1990 and 2003

White House gingerly backs ‘goals’ of bill slashing PA funding

By Eric Cortellessa

Breaking silence on stance over Taylor Force Act, Trump official stops short of endorsing legislation, but says administration supports objective

Undated picture of London Senior Sephardi Rabbi Joseph Dweck (CC BY-SA Wikiweck, Wikimedia commons)

Top UK Sephardi rabbi who hailed acceptance of gays to step down as clerical judge

Joseph Dweck, criticized for praising acceptance of homosexuality, apologizes for rulings; stays on as head of London’s S&P synagogue

Media mogul Michael Hirsh. (Courtesy)

Jewish media mogul exercises ‘world domination through animation’

By Robert Sarner

Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, upon his arrival in Baku after being extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan, February 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Tofik Babayev)

Azerbaijan sends Israeli blogger to 3 years in prison

By AP and ToI Staff

Alexander Lapshin sentenced over visit to separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region; lawyer says he will appeal

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on July 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bills to jail ‘johns’ leap first Knesset hurdle in unanimous vote

By Marissa Newman

Anti-prostitution proposals will wait until Justice Ministry presents own version of legislation, which is likely to rely on other penalties

The scene of car crash on Route 6235, near the settlement of Shaked in the northern West Bank on July 19, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

5 Palestinians killed in West Bank car accident

A van carrying 9 Palestinian workers collides with an Israeli truck outside the Shaked settlement

Lilly Rivlin, left, and Heather Booth at the first screening of 'Heather Booth: Changing the World.' (Photo Credit: Joan Roth)

Interview

In ‘Heather Booth,’ one great female Jewish activist films another

By Elissa Einhorn

More Headlines

From left, Felicity Jones (CC-SA/Materialscientist), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Public domain), and Mimi Leder (CC-SA/Janafrench93).

Justice leagueTrailblazing director for Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic

By Yaakov Schwartz

View of Channel 2 newsroom in Neve Ilan studio outside Jerusalem, April 7, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Court blocks right-wing station from producing Knesset Channel

Israeli security officers sit at the entrance of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, August, 22 2006. (Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Pack it upKnesset fumes as online shopping floods mailroom

By Marissa Newman

A screenshot of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, in the DC Comics film being released in Israel June 1 (Courtesy 'Wonder Woman')

Tunisia bans Wonder Woman film over Israeli star

By AFP

Jean-Luc Melenchon of the French far-left Parti de Gauche and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, attends a political rally on April 12, 2017 in Lille, France. (Photo by Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images via JTA)

French left-wing head slams Macron for admitting French guilt in Holocaust

By JTA

Jake Tapper speaking to a crowd at the Harvard Institute of Politics Forum, on December 1, 2016. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images via JTA)

Alt-wrongLinda Sarsour calls Jake Tapper ‘alt-right’

Thom Yorke, lead singer of British rock band Radiohead, brought by Naranjah to performin Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on July 19, 2017, responded vehemently last summer to attempts by the BDS movement encouraging Radiohead to cancel (Courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewCreeps, bleeps, and sweeps

By Adiv Sterman

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