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What Matters Most On Monday, July 2, 2018

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Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at United Nations headquarters, March 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Australia ends direct aid to PA over payments to terrorists

By Michael Bachner and AP

Foreign minister says Canberra concerned money will be distributed to Palestinian prisoners in an ‘affront to Australian values,’ redirects funding to UN

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 27, 2018. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

Abbas said seeking unity government with Hamas to counter US peace maneuvers

By Stuart Winer

A knife found on a 19-year-old Palestinian man outside the Binyamin police station in the West Bank on July 2, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian caught trying to enter West Bank police station with knife

Ariel Gold (Eric Cortellessa/The Times of Israel)

Prominent Jewish BDS activist denied entry to Israel

Code Pink official Ariel Gold had come to take part in a Jewish studies program at Hebrew University, but ministers say she was actually here to push for a boycott of the country

Displaced Syrian children from the Daraa province fleeing shelling by pro-government forces wait in a makeshift camp to cross the Jordanian border, near the town of Nasib, southern Syria, on July 1, 2018.( AFP / Mohamad ABAZEED)

Israeli communities collect toys, candy, clothes for Syrian refugees

By Michael Bachner

‘These are our neighbors,’ Golan Regional Council says, calling on residents to give displaced kids ‘a moment of sweet, innocent joy’

Trucks laden with aid for displaced Syrians wait to cross from Jordan to the Syrian side of the border, in Jabir As Sirhan, Jordan, Sunday, July 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Omar Akour)

More than 270,000 displaced by southern Syria fighting, UN says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A displaced Syrian girl from the Daraa province fleeing shelling by pro-government forces carries a toddler in a makeshift camp in the province of Quneitra, southwestern Syria, near the border with the Golan Heights, on June 22, 2018. (AFP/Mohamad Abazeed)

IDF doesn’t expect mass border breaches by Syrians fleeing Assad offensive

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF soldiers walk past a bunker with a mobile artillery piece deployed near the border with Syria on the Israeli Golan Heights on July 1, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

IDF reinforcements seen as a message to Assad: Don’t enter demilitarized zone

Defense Minister Liberman said to ask Russian counterpart to warn Syrian president not to violate 1974 separation agreement by entering Golan border area

Then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon looks through binoculars during a visit at an army exercise of the Armored Corps, in the Golan Heights on October 22, 2015. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

In joint ToI op-ed, Lapid and Ya’alon urge US to back Israel’s Golan sovereignty

A picture taken on June 30, 2018, from the Israeli Golan Heights shows a tractor-led trailer carrying civilians arriving at a camp for displaced Syrians near the Syrian village of Burayqah in the southern province of Quneitra, just across the border from Israel. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Israel media reviewGetting tents in the Golan: 8 things to know for July 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Britain's Prince William stands on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City with the golden dome of the Dome of the Rock on June 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thomas Coex)

Prince of peace

UK tabloid claims William is now devoting himself to Mideast peace

‘This is the start of something new,’ 36-year-old Duke of Cambridge said to tell aides after being ‘deeply moved’ by Israel-PA visit

US President Donald Trump listens while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press prior to their meeting at the Palace Hotel in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2017.(AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Poll shows most Israelis have little hope for Trump peace plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A swearing in ceremony for Haredi soldiers in Jerusalem in May 2012. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Knesset to vote on ultra-Orthodox draft bill, splitting coalition and opposition

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Yesh Atid faction intends to support legislation in first reading, angering other opposition parties, while Haredi lawmakers from the government will oppose it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 1, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

PM says he wants to push controversial ‘Jewish state’ bill through Knesset

Claudia Sheinbaum of the "Juntos haremos historia" coalition party, gives her thumb up after casting her vote during the general elections in Mexico City, on July 1, 2018. (AFP/ Bernardo Montoya)

Mexico City elects first-ever Jewish mayor, exit poll shows

By AFP and ToI Staff

Scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, allied with left-wing presidential candidate, projected to take helm of largest city in North America, also becoming first woman elected to post

Newly elected Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, running for "Juntos haremos historia" party, waves to his supporters after winning general elections, in Mexico City, on July 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA)

Leftist candidate sweeps to victory in Mexico, marking major shift

By AFP

Illustrative. Palestinians clash with Israeli forces along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on June 22, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Gazans breach border, set fire to army post; IDF opens fire, killing one

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says two other Palestinians taken into custody, one in serious condition who was flown to hospital in IDF helicopter; fourth suspect flees back into the Strip

Balloons carrying a flashlight wrapped in a balloon, suspected of containing an explosive device, which were flown into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and were found in a cotton field on July 2, 2018. (Eshkol regional council)

Gaza balloon with ‘suspicious flashlight’ lands in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

A suspicious balloon that landed in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, on July 1, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinians infiltrate Israel from Gaza, burn abandoned army post

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Ultra orthodox Jewish men protest against the army draft, at the entrance to Jerusalem on March 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem against IDF enlistment bill

By Tamar Pileggi

Hundreds gather at grave of late chief rabbi in bid to pressure Haredi parties into vetoing legislation formalizing conscription for yeshiva students

6:30 pm

Iran dismisses alleged France attack as 'ploy'
6:11 pm

Weinstein hearing next week on new sex charges
6:02 pm

Ahead of vote on slashing PA funds, Arab MK brands lawmakers 'murderers'

Exterior of B&H dairy restaurant in New York City. (Wikimedia commons/ Alex Lozupone)

Slice of the Big Apple

B&H, a Lower East Side eatery ‘where everybody knows your name,’ turns 80

By Jordan Hoffman

Efi Asaf, left, and Rachel Brown cooking matzah balls at a Mevashlim B’Ivrit class in Boise, Idaho. (Courtesy of Asaf/via JTA)

What's cooking

Home cooking classes where Israel and Jewish culture are always on the menu

A look up close at Anna Ticho, the 19th century artist who lived in Jerusalem, as sculpted by Armenian paper artist Karen Sargysan for 'Rock Paper Scissors' a newe exhibit opening July 8 at the Tower of David Museum (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)

Armenian artist sculpts historic Jerusalemites in layers of paper and aluminum

By Jessica Steinberg

The deadly proximity of the Leviathan gas platform

The offshore processing plant, as currently planned, has potentially dire health and ecological consequences

Birthright pays me to teach about the conflict

IfNotNow’s charges that the Israel trip hides tough political realities are just not true — I ought to know

The attack on legal oversight threatens us all

A bill changing how ministers’ legal advisors are selected lets the supervised appoint their own supervisors

Happy Fourth of July? Not this year

I always have felt so proud to be an American and then came family separation and children in cages

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Yuval Steinitz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Steinitz said to take up Western Wall pluralistic plaza panel after others balk

Illustrative: An aggressive driver. (SanneBerg, iStock by Getty Images)

Half of Israeli drivers witnessed road rage in past year – survey

A postal worker stands in the selection hall at a post office in Tel Aviv February, 22, 2010. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Israel vs snail mail: Panel green-lights sale of stake in postal company

By Shoshanna Solomon

Notorious French criminal Redoine Faid poses prior to an interview with French all-news TV channel, LCI, as he was promoting his book, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, France, November 22, 2010. (IBO/Sipa via AP)

Commando-style helicopter escape for French inmate who previously fled to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In fresh leaks, PM’s wife said to tell cops of ‘shitty cook’

The legs of bride Lin Dror (L) and groom Alon Marcus (R) are seen as they break two glasses concluding their Reform Jewish wedding ceremony held in front of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2013, in protest of the Orthodox Rabbinate's monopoly on marriage licensing and the lack of civil marriages in Israel. (Flash90)

Foreign Ministry says alternative marriage video was mistake

A school in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Hasidic pilgrims say rabbi’s grave buried under Polish school

By JTA

Sara Netanyahu, left, and Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev attend the opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Culture Ministry said to condition museum funding on gala with Sara Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer

A captivating projection on the Hurva Synagogue, in the 2018 Jerusalem Light Festival (Courtesy David Saad)

Rays of lightA glowing spectacle at 10th Jerusalem Light Festival

By Michael Harel

Aleph’s Job Fair Cocktail for Olim, June 3, 2018, part of VC fund's Aliya Initiative (Guy Keren)

Aleph VC firm trains new immigrants for jobs in high-tech

By Ariella Gentin

Kay Wilson, survivor of a 2010 stabbing terror attack in a forest southwest of Jerusalem. (Anne Dubitsky)

Times of Israel Presents‘Black Forest,’ a chilling post-terror attack manhunt, gets English premiere

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

Court denies bail for Malka Leifer, alleged child molester wanted in Australia

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