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What Matters Most On Friday, July 28, 2017

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Jordanian protesters wave national flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for the shutting down the of the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Hundreds protest against Israel in Jordan, call to end peace treaty

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amman says Israeli embassy staff cannot return until shooting of two Jordanians, including an assailant, by Israeli guard properly investigated

Jordan king calls Abbas to urge calm after PA chief approves mass protests

By Tamar Pileggi

Security guard grilled in Israel over Amman embassy stabbing

Jordan said to charge Israeli embassy guard in absentia with murder

File: Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, January 5, 2016. (Gershon Elinson)

Palestinian tries to stab soldiers in West Bank, is shot dead

Assailant rushes troops at the Gush Etzion Junction; attack comes amid heightened tensions over Temple Mount, where Friday prayers end peacefully

After weeks of tension, Friday’s Muslim prayers in Old City end peacefully

Clashes break out in West Bank amid high tension in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Girding for clashes, police restrict Temple Mount prayers to women, and men over 50

By ToI Staff and AP

Muslim worshipers pray outside Jerusalem's Old City near the Lions' Gate on July 28, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Live updates (closed)

Friday prayers at Temple Mount end peacefully, officials say

By Tamar Pileggi

Iranians hold anti-Israel protest in Tehran; Palestinian shot dead trying to stab Israeli soldiers in West Bank; Low-level clashes break out in East Jerusalem, West Bank as Muslims return to Al-Aqsa for Friday prayers

Cartoon published in Saudi Arabia's Al Watan newspaper, July 28, 2017. (Screenshot)

Battle lines drawn

Arab cartoons mock Temple Mount capitulation

Media caricatures celebrate Palestinian victory and Israel’s perceived humiliation after new security measures removed from holy site

Members of the Salomon family attend the circumcision of their son, Ari, in the central Israel city of Elad, on July 27, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Hundreds attend circumcision of Salomon baby, born day before terror attack

Child receives middle name after his late grandfather, Yosef, killed in Halamish by Palestinian terrorist; aunt, uncle also murdered in stabbing

Netanyahu demands death penalty for Halamish terrorist

Mother of Halamish terrorist charged with incitement

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu defends Shin Bet after Likud MK calls agents ‘cowards’

By Alexander Fulbright

Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Ziv (R), the Israeli guard who was stabbed in the Amman embassy complex earlier this week, and Israel's ambassador to Jordan Einat Schlein (not pictured), at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 25, 2017. Haim Zach / GPO)

Ex-Mossad chief: Israel embarrassed a key ally for sake of public opinion

By Judah Ari Gross

Efraim Halevy says government emptied embassy in Jordan when it was needed most, rebukes politicians for escalating Temple Mount crisis by focusing on sovereignty rather than security

In bitter tirade, Jordan king slams Netanyahu’s ‘political showmanship’

By Raphael Ahren

US praises Netanyahu’s handling of Temple Mount standoff

By Raphael Ahren

Report: PM seeks US okay to annex settlements, cede Arab cities to Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

Disproving the biblical account?

The Canaanites weren’t annihilated, they just ‘moved’ to Lebanon

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A UK-based study of ancient genomes finds Canaanites form over 90% of modern Lebanese ancestry, a trait they share with ancient Israelites

Al Gore, center, with filmmaking couple Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 24, 2017. The duo produced a documentary follow up 'An Inconvenient Sequel,' to Gore's Oscar-winning first film on climate change. (Courtesy SJFF)

'Our hope is that this film will inspire us to take action'

Ahead of nationwide release, Al Gore presents an ‘Inconvenient’ sequel at SF Jewish Film Festival

Produced by award-winning filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ condemns Trump, calls for grassroots activism

My life is like the State of Israel

The struggle to have faith in her own romantic future teaches her how to await the return of God’s presence to Jerusalem

Lesson learned: violence pays

The Temple Mount fracas is an early warning example of how a standard of Muslim rage is driving conflict ‘resolution’

The book of the covenant

It took the next gen, who weren’t slaves in Egypt, to treat Deuteronomy as the contract for Jewish history that it is

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to IDF headquarters in the West Bank, March 10, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Analysis

After Temple Mount surrender, PM seeks to divert attention by sliding right

By Raphael Ahren

Hours after he caved to Palestinian demands, Netanyahu says he backs death penalty for terrorists, and it’s leaked that he’s been talking of partial West Bank annexation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Likud and Jewish Home, coalition allies, in war of words over security

Bennett’s party lashes out at Netanyahu, saying he is all talk, no action; PM’s loyalists hit back, saying populist point-scoring endangers Israel

Leah (L) and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, attend a ceremony marking three years since Operation Protective Edge at the National Memorial Hall at the entrance to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, July 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bereaved dad accuses Liberman of ‘abandoning’ son’s remains in Gaza

Simha Goldin says defense minister sentencing his family to ’50 years of suffering’ in failing to bring back Hadar’s body

US State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington, DC on June 8, 2017 (screen capture)

US slams ‘provocative’ Iran satellite-launch rocket test

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State Department says drill, if confirmed, could be a violation of UN Security Council resolutions

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate Floor on Capitol Hill, July 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Senate overwhelmingly okays bill slapping sanctions on Iran, Russia

By AP

Trump expected to sign measure into law, despite it handicapping his ability to ease penalties on Kremlin

White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci speaks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017. (AFP/ TASOS KATOPODIS)

The mouth on Mooch

Expletive-laden rant exposes White House soap opera

By Julie Bykowicz and Jonathan Lemire

Communications chief Anthony Scaramucci calls Reince Priebus a ‘F—- paranoid schizophrenic,’ accuses Steve Bannon of autofellatio

A hotel can be seen behind the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli, Libya, September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jews from Libya are worried about the fate of the country’s Jewish artifacts

By Josefin Dolsten

Knesset Member Rachel Azaria, pictured at the Knesset Finance Committee on November 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset committee to meet next week on bill to ban binary options

By Simona Weinglass

Among those expected at hearings are government officials as well as binary options lobbyists. The public is encouraged to attend

Janusz Makuch is the founder and director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival. (Michal Ramus/Krakow Jewish Culture Festival/via JTA)

At Krakow festival, ‘Lucky Jew’ character plays on stereotypes to celebrate lost culture

By Penny Schwartz

More Headlines

In this photograph taken on June 15, 2017, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif speaks to media after appearing before an anti-corruption commission at the Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad. (AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI)

Pakistan court disqualifies prime minister from office

By AFP

The University Palace in Strasbourg, May 1, 2004. (CC BY-SA Kpalion, Wikimedia commons)

French university may have remains of Holocaust victims, scholars say

By JTA

This photo made available by the Aushwitz Museum on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 shows a wooden box made by Polish Auschwitz inmate Brinoslaw Czech. (Pawel Sawicki/Aushwitz Museum via AP)

Items from Auschwitz death camp to tour Europe, America

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Brig. Gen. Ariella Lazrovitch receives her rank from IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and her daughter, along with a new position as chief economic adviser for the military on July 27, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Ariella Lazrovitch becomes 4th woman to serve on IDF General Staff

By Judah Ari Gross

In this June 7, 2017 photo, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas. (AP/John Hanna)

Trump taps Kansas Governor Brownback as religious freedom envoy

By JTA

New Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Koby Altman talks during a press conference at the Cavaliers training facility in Independence, Ohio, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (AP/Phil Long)

Cavs net Jewish GM amid off-season from hell

By JTA

In this May 31, 2013 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference to announce the increase in penalties for texting while driving in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Face timeNY eyes textalyzer to bust phone-using drivers

By David Klepper

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, during a ceremony marking at the 74th anniversary of the death of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, on July 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewClashes in the offing, Netanyahu in the crosshairs

By Joshua Davidovich

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