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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 1, 2018

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An IDF tank deployed to the Golan Heights, near the Syria border, on July 1, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sends reinforcements to Golan as Assad offensive picks up

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewNo room at the Golan inn: 6 things to know for July 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu vows to ‘defend border’ amid Assad onslaught in southern Syria

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel takes in 6 Syrians hurt in latest fighting, 4 of them newly orphaned kids

By Judah Ari Gross

Moshe Ya'alon and Yair Lapid

Will the West cede the Golan Heights to a psychopath?

We call on the US to lead an international process to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory

Op-ed

Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz

Don’t let Israel become a promised land of impunity for crooks and fraudsters

Israel’s law enforcement bodies are not cooperating with their foreign counterparts in tackling financial fraud. Are they ‘only’ spectacularly incompetent, or something even worse?

Crime (Illustrative image: iStock)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 1, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Ministers pass Western Wall prayer hot potato to Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Ayelet Shaked pulls out of committee on pluralistic pavilion days after Miri Regev slammed plan as a ‘disgrace’ to holy site

Zionist Union MK Yoel Hasson attends a Knesset committee meeting on November 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Zionist Union seeks to turn up heat on Yesh Atid over military enlistment bill

Illustrative. Soldiers belonging to the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda unit. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Government approves ultra-Orthodox draft bill ahead of crucial Knesset vote

By Raoul Wootliff

A still from video shared on social media showing protests in the Iranian city of Khorramshahr, on June 30, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter/BBC)

Several reported killed as Iranian forces open fire on protesters

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gunshots heard on videos shared on social media of demonstrators in Khorramshahr, where residents have complained of a lack of water

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz attends the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 29, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Energy minister said appointed to committee on pluralistic area at Western Wall

By Alexander Fulbright

Reported appointment of Yuval Steinitz comes after 2 ministers quit commission tasked with expanding prayer space in past week

6:11 pm

Police say shooting on road near Petah Tikva was criminal
5:51 pm

Energy minister said appointed to committee on pluralistic area at Western Wall
5:16 pm

Jordan's PM visits border shut to displaced Syrians

A rare bronze Year Four coin, minted in 69-70 CE during the Great Jewish Revolt, and depicting the Four Species, discovered in wet sifting of material from the City of David, June 2018. (Ilan Shilmaiv/City of David)

Recently uncovered Jewish Revolt coin shows rebels aware of impending disaster

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Minted on the eve of the destruction of the Second Temple, coin discovered in City of David excavations reads, ‘For the Redemption of Zion’

Moshe Lion, candidate for the Jerusalem mayoral race, seen at a press conference in Jerusalem, July 22, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

A would-be Jerusalem ‘unifier,’ Moshe Lion promises soccer fields for Arab kids

By Marissa Newman

Mayoral candidate who lost to Nir Barkat last time also pledges to stem the outflow of young residents, and turn the capital into an ‘economic powerhouse’

Andy Blumenthal

Naked before G-d

At the Western Wall, where we bare our souls before our Maker, Marisa Papen instead displayed haughty flesh

7 ways to keep Jews from fighting each other

We must work to listen to each other, to forgive each other, and to stick together, as the extended family we are

Shelley Golan, left, and Liz Vaknin, owners of Harvest2Order microgreen salad bar in New York City. (Courtesy)

Forget farm to table — this salad bar harvests your lunch before your eyes

By Danielle Ziri

Supporters of Mexico's presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at a rally at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City, on June 27, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / RONALDO SCHEMIDT)

Jewish scientist Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo set to become mayor of Mexico City

By ToI Staff and AP

Critics are concerned by her close ties to leftist presidential election frontrunner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Ahead of Mexico vote, fears and warnings of possible fraud

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ

Politics and soccer mingle as World Cup-crazy Mexico heads to polls

By Maria Lorente

Meet the 4 candidates vying to become Mexico’s president

By AP

Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein wants people of all backgrounds to feel welcome in his Brooklyn community. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

Multiracial Orthodox rabbi uses his background to create unique community in NYC

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Demonstrators cross the Brooklyn Bridge during a march against the separation of families caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, on June 30, 2018 in New York. (AFP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

‘What’s next? Concentration Camps?’ US protesters denounce separation policy

By Ellen Knickmeyer

In this undated file photo distributed on September 16, 2017 by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, celebrates what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

US believes North Korea planning to trick West, hide nukes — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

Former Australian principal Malka Leifer, who wanted in her home country for child sex abuse crimes is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman wanted for abuse in Australia accused of molesting Israeli girl

French Republican Guards arrive to carry the coffins of former French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and her husband Antoine Veil to the Pantheon in Paris on July 1, 2018 during the burial ceremony. (AFP Photo/Pool/Ludovic Marin)

Pantheon burial honors French rights icon, Holocaust survivor Simone Veil

By Jérôme RIVET

A group of Yazidis from Iraq (with their backs to the camera) together with Israeli trainers who gave them a course on medical clowning, June 2018. (Israel's Foreign Ministry)

Iraqi Yazidis take medical clowning course in Israel

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative. Smoke rises following an Israeli strikes on Gaza City, on May 30, 2018, after Palestinian terrorist groups bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

2 Palestinians killed, 5 injured in mystery Gaza Strip explosion

Thai police guard the entrance to a cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, July 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Israelis join week-long operation to rescue 12 boys trapped in Thailand cave

By Michael Bachner and AP

Comedian Jon Stewart takes on Donald Trump during a guest appearance on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' on June 28, 2018.

Jon Stewart blasts Trump’s ‘gleeful cruelty’ in policy making

Author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza the keynote speaker at the Republican Sunshine Summit addresses the audience, June 29, 2018, in Kissimmee, Florida (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Off the handleTrump associate under fire for retweeting #burnthejews hashtag

Tova Orlero shows the wounds she sustained in an assault by a man she honked at in the northern city of Afula on June 29, 2018. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Man arrested for assaulting woman who honked at him

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers watch a wheat field that caught fire next to kibbutz Nahal Oz along the Israel-Gaza border, May 14, 2018 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF offers couples therapy to veterans grappling with PTSD

Illustrative photo of a preschool (Nati Shohat /Flash90)

3 daycare assistants charged with beating, abusing infants

By Stuart Winer

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