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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 26, 2017

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Israeli security forces stand guard in front of Muslim worshipers praying outside Lions Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 19, 2017 AFP/ Ahmad GHARABLI)

‘Intensify’ struggle over Temple Mount, Fatah urges

PA president says ties will only be restored after all Israeli security measures put in place since shooting at the site ‘disappear’

Abbas warns security coordination with Israel will remain frozen

By Dov Lieber and AFP

Police deny rumors of ‘X-ray cameras’ on Temple Mount

By Raoul Wootliff

Top Israeli MK: Israel will turn Temple Mount into a ‘sterile area’

Illustrative: Members of Hamas's military branches take part in a military parade in Gaza City on July 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas declares Temple Mount ‘victory,’ calls new ‘day of rage’

Palestinian terror group joins Fatah in urging protests Friday against new security measures at Jerusalem holy site

Thousands of Muslim worshipers participate in evening prayers outside the Lions Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, refusing to enter the Temple Mount enclosure to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque inside, July 25, 2017. (Dov Lieber /Times of Israel)

Analysis

At the Temple Mount, it’s not about metal detectors, it’s about sovereignty

Abbas is calling for a return to the way things were before July 14’s deadly attack in which two Israeli cops were killed. The worshiper-protesters on the streets of the Old City have more ambitious goals

File: Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during a press conference with US President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Live updates (closed)

Jordan’s King Abdullah calls Abbas to urge calm

With Abbas okay, Fatah leaders to mobilize mass Friday protests throughout West Bank; Fatah youth movement vows to ‘isolate all settlements’ in Friday violence

A man passes out the free newspaper Israel Hayom to passersby on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, January 4, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In unprecedented attack, Israel Hayom pans ‘helpless,’ ‘feeble’ Netanyahu

The Adelson-owned daily, long known for boosting the PM, castigates him for ‘surrendering’ in Temple Mount metal detector standoff

US ‘applauds’ Israel for nixing Temple Mount metal detectors

By Eric Cortellessa

77% of Israelis: Government capitulated over Temple Mount security

By Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu visits families of Druze cops slain at Temple Mount

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 25, 2017,meets with Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Einat Schlein and security guard 'Ziv,' who shot dead two Jordanians as he was being stabbed by one of them. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Police to interrogate Jordanian embassy guard – report

Attorney general said to assure ministers the measure is routine for embassy staffers suspected of crimes in other countries

Jordan mourners chant ‘death to Israel’ after deadly embassy shooting

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel reportedly to compensate family of Jordanian killed by embassy guard

By ToI Staff and AFP

Kushner called Jordan’s king to help end embassy standoff — report

By Alexander Fulbright

Sheikh Ammar Shahin speaking at the Islamic Center of Davis, California on July 21, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

US Islamic preacher calls on Allah to annihilate the Jews

In video posted to YouTube by Californian mosque, Sheikh Ammar Shahin prays for ‘liberation’ of Al-Aqsa from ‘the filth of the Jews’

During a 2006 visit to the Jordanian capital of Amman, JTA’s Uriel Heilman underwent some invasive security checks when he visited the Israeli Embassy there. (Uriel Heilman)

The time Israeli security strip-searched me at their embassy in Jordan

By Uriel Heilman

Following Sunday’s attack at the Israeli mission in Amman, veteran reporter recalls the day he faced invasive scrutiny there

One of the four ritual baths found at the Galilee's Magdala dig site, which are the earliest ever discovered in the country to use ground water. (courtesy)

New finds suggest Second Temple priests who fled the Romans kept up holy rituals in the Galilee

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After seven years of excavations at Magdala, four rare ritual baths and a unique carved stone point to importance of ancient fishing town to priestly class

The structure in which shattered jugs were found during the summer 2017 Israel Antiquities Authority dig, attesting to the destruction. (Eliyahu Yanai, Courtesy of the City of David Archive)

Finds in Jerusalem shore up biblical account of Babylonian conquest

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

On the eve of the Hebrew commemoration of the destruction of the Temples, archaeologists discover remnants of a blaze indicating the city was grander than thought

Research samples at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Researchers call the findings a 'canary in a coal mine' regarding overall health in Western countries. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli study sounds alarm as sperm count halved in Western men

By Shoshanna Solomon

New international research led by Hebrew U shows says that change over the last 40 years has been ‘steep and significant’

Illustrative: The eye as a window to our brain. Sheba Medical team searches the eye for signs of Alzheimer's (Courtesy Ifat Sher)

Israeli researchers look into eyes for early signs of Alzheimer’s

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sheba Medical Center team believes eyes are windows to our brain and could help detect the devastating illness

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)

At Yad Vashem, Yazidi activists seek to learn how to record their genocide

By Marissa Newman

With 3,000 Yazidi women still in IS captivity and hundreds of thousands displaced, survivors tour Holocaust memorial with sights set on their own commemoration

Same-sex adoption will strengthen Israel

The Israeli ministers defending adoption inequality are creating a ‘crisis of family’

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Not the end of the End of the Land

An artists’ protest of David Grossman’s play rightly fizzled; better to promote the ideological debates it inspires

Ending Diaspora complacency

The historic opportunity in the recent upheaval between Israel’s government and world Jewry to redefine those relations

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at a Justice and Development Party (AKP) meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara on May 30, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adem Altan)

Israel, Turkey invoke Ottoman Empire in spat over Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Bilateral ties tested by persistent Temple Mount standoff, though experts doubt crisis will unravel 2016 reconciliation deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with his Georgian counterpart at the Prime Minister's Office office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jack Guez)

PM pans ‘hypocritical’ Turkish president over Temple Mount critique

Israeli squatters at the Machpela House in Hebron, July 25, 2017. (Courtesy Amutat Harchivi)

In protest move, 100 settlers occupy contested Hebron home

Squatters say the move is a response to ‘government zig-zagging’ regarding violence surrounding the Temple Mount

Construction workers begin work on the new settlement, Amichai, meant to resettle the evacuees of Amona, June 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Construction of new settlement frozen due to lack of funds

Regional council says it spent $3 million bankrolling the project for Amona evacuees but promised government money has never arrived

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (R), Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (L) and Likud Knesset Member Amir Ohana (C) attend a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition warns of ‘apartheid’ as Knesset starts ‘Jewish state bill’ debates

By Marissa Newman

In heated session, Herzog dubs proposal a ‘classic example of fascistization’; Shaked, Levin defend bill, urge opposition to get on board and ‘make history’

An aerial view of the Dome of the Rock, left, in the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, and the Western Wall, center, the holiest site where Jews are permitted to pray (File photo: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Knesset vote on bill to hinder Jerusalem withdrawal annulled

File: Yahya Sinwar, right, the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza city on March 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

EU top court rules Hamas to stay on its list of terror groups

By Raphael Ahren

Decision comes as surprise, as court’s top lawyer had argued in favor of 2014 decision to delist the Palestinian organization

US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (C) leaves a news conference following the weekly House GOP Conference meeting at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill July 18, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

US House votes to slap sanctions on Russia, Iran, North Korea

By Michael Mathes

In sign of growing distrust over Kremlin links, measure constrains President Trump’s ability to waive the penalty package

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd L), Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot (2nd R) tour the northern border in the Golan Heights, on July 25, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu warns Iran filling the void left by IS in Golan

Touring northern border, PM says Islamic Republic and its proxies seek to threaten Israel with precision weapons

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks to the UN Security Council on July, 25, 2017, as terror victim Oran Almog sits behind him. (UN Photo/Manuel Elias via Israel's mission to the UN)

After Halamish attack, Israel demands UN help stop PA terror payments

Danny Danon brings Oran Almog, who was badly wounded and blinded in a suicide bombing, to speak ahead of Security Council meeting

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

Religious-Zionist rabbis back decision to block gay adoption

By Stuart Winer

In letter to justice minister, religious leaders object to policies that ‘run contrary to human morality’

Maoz Yaakov, center, leads a session at the Shiva Festival. (Courtesy of the Shiva Festival via JTA)

Israeli festival puts the ‘men’ in ‘menstruation’

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

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)

Court bars Communication Ministry chief from office

By Shoshanna Solomon

Friends, fans and family pay their respects at the funeral service of singer and director Amir Fryszer Guttman at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Clad in white, family, fans and friends part from singer Amir Fryszer Guttman

Likud MK Oren Hazan during a plenum session in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ethics panel warns Likud MK of lengthy suspension over insults

By Marissa Newman

Margaret 'Gretel' Bergmann-Lambert, Jewish high jumper banned from 1936 Berlin Olympics, celebrates her 103rd birthday on April 12, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish athlete barred from 1936 Berlin Olympics dies at 103

By JTA

Boy scouts spin dreidels at the Summit Bechtel Family Scout Reserve in Glen Jean, West Virginia on July 23,
2017. (Stephen Shore)

Top thatBoy Scouts set world record in dreidel spinning

By JTA

Israeli startups meet with potential clients and partners during a healthcare conference in St. Louis, Missouri, June 28,2017. (Courtesy)

St. Louis seeks to draw Israel’s tech for competitive edge

By Micah Danney

Mobileye provides technology in the area of software algorithms that could enable autonomous cars. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israel VC with focus on auto tech raises $40 million

By Micah Danney

Border policeman stand guard outside the Lions Gate of the Old City in Jerusalem, July 25, 2017. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Hebrew media reviewDetecting no mettle, a former ally turns the page on Netanyahu

By Joshua Davidovich

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