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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 3, 2018

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Mahmoud Abbas celebrates the return of released Palestinian security prisoners in August 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA: Israeli law withholding funds over terrorist stipends ‘a declaration of war’

Palestinian officials slam legislation as ‘theft’ and ‘crossing a red line’; Abbas spokesman says planned response will ‘change the nature’ of relations with Israel

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second left, flanked by newly released Palestinian security prisoners, greets the crowd in Ramallah, on October 30, 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel passes law cutting funding to PA over its payments to terrorists

By Raoul Wootliff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a Yisrael Beytenu party faction meeting at the Knesset on June 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lawmakers cheer approval of law slashing PA funds over terror payments

Interview

Taylor Force’s father hopes ‘pay-for-slay’ law will help Palestinians in need

Stuart Force is in the Knesset for final votes on measure to deduct welfare payments paid to Palestinian prisoners and their relatives from tax revenues collected by Israel

Stuart Force, the father of Taylor Force. (Courtesy)

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

PA lambastes Australia for nixing aid, says decision ‘not grounded in facts’

By Tamar Pileggi and Michael Bachner

Palestinian refugees collect aid parcels at a United Nations food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

American ex-UN envoys urge restoration of Palestinian refugee funds

By AP and ToI Staff

Interview

How Sheldon Adelson just might be turning the tide against BDS on US campuses

David Brog, head of the Maccabee Task Force, says a savvy action plan, lots of money and a focus on empowering (almost) all pro-Israel students are gradually ‘taking back the quad’

Above and main picture: Students on a Rutgers trip to Israel financed by the Maccabee Task Force pose against the background of sunrise over Masada (Courtesy)

Racheli Fraenkel, mother of Jewish teenager Naftali Fraenkel who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in June 2014, on December 18, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

US judge says murdered Israeli teen’s family ‘took risk by living in West Bank’

Appeals court orders judge to reconsider her ruling on petition by Naftali Fraenkel’s parents to sue Iran, Syria for compensation for 2014 Hamas-linked murder of son

Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali of Iran's Civil Defense Organization (Screen capture: YouTube)

Into thin air

Iranian general blames water woes on Israeli ‘cloud theft’

By AFP and ToI Staff

But country’s chief meteorologist disputes claim, says clouds and snow can’t be stolen

Former prime minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, on December 22, 2017. (Flash90)

Shin Bet head said to warn Ehud Barak of fears Iran may attack him abroad

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Security service chief holds unusual meeting with ex-PM, TV report says; security said bolstered at overseas Israeli, Jewish facilities

Blast reported at Syrian warehouse used by Iranian-backed militias

By Stuart Winer

Rouhani warns of ‘consequences’ to US push against buying Iranian oil

By AP and Eric Cortellessa

Trump administration seeks to drop Iran’s oil revenue to nothing

By Eric Cortellessa

Then-IDF Chief Benny Gantz speaks to members of an ultra-Orthodox unit, March 2014 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Controversial military enlistment bill passes first reading in Knesset

Chief opposition whip tweets the bill’s passing is a ‘dubious historical event,’ after opposition faction Yesh Atid votes alongside coalition

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a protest against the enlistment bill at the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem, July 2, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewThe draft on tap: 6 things to know for July 3

By Joshua Davidovich

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attends a Knesset Health Committee meeting on July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox leader says he’ll topple government if enlistment bill passes

By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff

On Lebanon border, salvage op rappels 2,000-year-old vessels down sheer cliff

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Why ancient settlers inhabited a cave above a 30-meter drop is unclear. But these weren’t people on vacation, says researcher

Students protest during a talk by the Breaking The Silence NGO at the Hebrew University, December 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bill to bar left-wing groups from schools cleared for final readings

Knesset education committee votes to advance law; Education minister: ‘Whoever goes around the world attacking IDF soldiers, loses right to enter schools’

From left: Lawmakers Zouheir Bahloul and Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint Arab List), Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) and Dov Kheinin (Joint Arab List) listen to presentations during a special conference on children growing up under occupation held at the Knesset on July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Knesset guards eject four MKs as debate over Gaza children hits raw nerves

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a ceremony in honor of Israel's fallen in the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, July 3, 2018 (Haim Tzah/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu threatens Hamas with ‘unbearable price’ if it goes to war

Commemorating the dead in the previous conflict in Gaza in 2014, PM says ‘leading’ Arab states ‘identify’ with Israel’s position

6:22 pm

Adoption files to be opened in lost Yemenite children affair
5:55 pm

Trump to rescind Obama-era guidance on affirmative action
5:41 pm

Egypt says it destroyed Gaza tunnels, killed 3 terrorists

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

Bill to raise PM’s salary via tax cut passes 1st reading; could give him NIS 2m

By Raoul Wootliff

Proposal advanced by Knesset could boost Netanyahu’s take-home pay by up to NIS 200,000 a year and retroactively award him more than 10 times as much

Netanyahu claims media has been hounding wife Sara for 20 years

By Raoul Wootliff

Police to grill Netanyahu next week over new evidence of graft – report

AnalysisDoes Netanyahu make Israel safer by welcoming authoritarians?

By Charles Dunst

This October 10, 2012, file photo shows the New York Times building in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

The 7 best Jewish obituaries by New York Times writer Margalit Fox

By Josefin Dolsten

Soccer’s lesson in how to make peace

Palestinian leaders rebuffed the Argentinean team’s visit but accepted Prince William’s: Here’s why

We’re at war with ourselves in the battle for Zionism

The diaspora discourse on Israel has never been more polarized, vicious or impoverished

Tonara in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli startup merges music and algorithms to make practice a pleasure

By Ariella Gentin

Tonara’s latest version of its musical app increases student’s practice time and helps teachers manage their business

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, theFacebook's developer conference, May 1, 2018, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Federal agencies probe Facebook’s sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica

By AP

Anatoliy Matios (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish groups blast Ukraine prosecutor for saying Jews want bloodshed

By AFP

Illustrative: Members of Women of the Wall blow shofars during a prayer service marking the first day of the Jewish month of Elul, on August 23, 2017, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Knesset okays Netanyahu heading Western Wall pluralistic plaza committee

Harvey Weinstein arrives in court in New York, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Harvey Weinstein charged over alleged forced sex act with 3rd woman

By AP

In this file photo from April 11, 2018, attorney Michael Cohen walks down the sidewalk in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trump’s former personal lawyer says he’ll put ‘family first’

By AP

David Myers, president and CEO of the Center for Jewish History. (Credit: Scarlett Freund)

Center for Jewish History head steps down, denies right-wing critics to blame

By JTA

Joshua Topolsky, co-founder of Vox media technology site The Verge, speaks on MSNBC on December 14, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish tech executive calls conservative writer Ben Shapiro a Nazi collaborator

By JTA

Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia leaves the podium as Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom, is seen at rear at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Aug. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

85-year-old rabbi arrested at Trump border policy protest

By JTA

Former Republican candidate Ron Paul. (CC-BY/Richard DeYoung, richard.deyoung@gmail.com)

Ron Paul slammed as racist, anti-Semitic over cartoon posted to social media

Human rights law expert Yuval Shany (YouTube screenshot)

For the first time, Israeli expert chosen to chair UN Human Rights Committee

By Stuart Winer

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