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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 4, 2018

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Hamas uses fake Facebook friends to dupe 100 soldiers into downloading spyware

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Military intelligence officers say no damage to security after soldiers fall for terror group cyberplot, sign up for fake World Cup and dating apps

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a memorial ceremony for Israeli soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza war at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on July 3, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Rivlin: No Gaza rehabilitation until soldiers’ bodies returned

By Alexander Fulbright

IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis briefs French lawmakers at the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee in Paris, on July 3, 2018. (screen capture of National Assembly footage)

IDF spokesman to French MPs: Hamas is spending your money on terror

Analysis

Does the Israeli-Polish Holocaust law agreement defend truth or betray history?

Jerusalem feted Warsaw’s cancellation of law banning claims of Polish complicity in Holocaust, but eminent Israeli scholar says mundane realpolitik trumped historical verity

People from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Terror suspect Beate Zschaepe stands in the court room in Munich, Germany, on July 3, 2018. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP, Pool)

Suspect in German neo-Nazi trial denies role in 10 killings

By Frank Jordans

The entrance to the Zeeburg Jewish cemetery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on April 5, 2018. (CC-BY-SA-4.0 Klaas `Z4us` van B. V/Wikipedia)

Suspect arrested for spraying swastikas at Amsterdam Jewish cemetery

By JTA

Israel's Netta Barzilai performing 'Toy' in the first Eurovision 2018 semifinal, May 8, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel’s Eurovision win in jeopardy as US label claims Netta’s ‘Toy’ was copied

By Michael Bachner

Universal Music Studios sends pre-suit notice letter to composers, citing similarity between winning entry and White Stripe’s Seven Nation Army

A picture taken on July 4, 2018, from the Israeli Golan Heights shows displaced Syrians from the province of Daraa staging a protest (top L) calling for international protection, in the Syrian the village of al-Rafid, near the border fence with Israel. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Live updates (closed)

Defense official to Israeli TV: Syrian troops in buffer zone will be targets

By Alexander Fulbright

Message to Assad comes as offensive in southern Syria brings regime forces closer to border, with Israel calling for UN ceasefire to be upheld

6:30 pm

Netanyahu to Europe: Stop funding Iranian 'terror regime'
6:21 pm

Report: Syria rebuffed UN request to place early warning systems in buffer zone
5:45 pm

Defense official to Israeli TV: Syrian troops in buffer zone will be targets

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

The brief but exciting life of the bill to outlaw filming IDF soldiers

What the tortuous path of one small piece of legislation – and the commotion it caused – reveals about Israel’s hollowed-out politics

IDF soldiers clash with Palestinians in Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 31, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Benny Gantz could make the left competitive again, or break it, poll finds

Led by the former IDF chief, the Zionist Union would soar to within 6 seats of Likud, but it would crash if he founded a new party

MK Yehuda Glick (C-L) walks barefoot, escorted by Israeli police and supporters, inside the flash-point Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem's Old City on August 29, 2017. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP).

Netanyahu lifts ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount

Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israel media reviewShaken and stirred: 8 things to know for July 4

By Joshua Davidovich

View of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, April 19, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Minor earthquakes rattle northern Israel

Temblor registering 4.1 on Richter scale centered in Sea of Galilee, followed by smaller tremors; no damage reported

Elor Azaria (L), who was convicted and jailed for killing a wounded Palestinian in the West Bank city of Hebron in March 2016, smiles as he visits Hebron as a free man in July 3, 2018. Standing next to him is far-right activist Baruch Marzel. (Screen capture/Haverim Laset Tzara organization)

Elor Azaria receives hero’s welcome on return to scene of Hebron shooting

Dozens chant ‘Hebron loves you’ as they line up to take photos with the former soldier, who served 9 months for killing incapacitated Palestinian attacker

11 arrested during clashes at West Bank Bedouin village slated for demolition

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Man handed community service for lynching migrant mistaken for terrorist

Settler family finally meets Palestinian who saved them from smashed car

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an American Independence Day celebration in Airport City on July 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM derides Europe for holding Iran nuke talks after alleged Paris attack plot

By ToI Staff and AFP

In mocking speech at US Embassy party, Netanyahu urges Europeans to ‘stop appeasing’ Tehran as foiled plan to bomb opposition rally casts shadow over Vienna talks by Rouhani, Zarif

Ex-PMs Barak, Olmert to get bodyguards back amid reported fear of Iran attacks

Rouhani’s Vienna visit to bolster nuclear deal clouded by diplomat’s arrest

By Sophie MAKRIS

US, Israel set up task force to stoke internal pressure in Iran – report

In this July 3, 2018, image taken from video provided by the Thai Navy Seal, Thai boys are with Navy SEALs inside the cave, Mae Sai, northern Thailand. (Thai Navy Seal via AP)

Israeli rescuer predicts Thai cave rescue will take week as new video emerges

By ToI Staff and AFP

Clip shows group laughing and in good health; authorities say waiting for cave to drain could take months, but youths trapped for nine days can’t swim

Walking through the valley of the shadow of death

My health crisis is not over, but I am living it with joy, intentionality, and an eagerness for more

One Jewish people; two Jewish worlds

It’s not that Diaspora Jewry isn’t Zionist, but that they would run the Jewish state in a very different way

Tom Fogel (left) and Ofer Callaf rehearsing together on their show (Courtesy Tom Fogel)

Two grandsons offer a musical glimpse of their ancestral Yemenite history

By Jessica Steinberg

In 1898, Nashville’s Congregation Ohabai Sholom decorated its pulpit with American flags in honor of confirmation ceremonies. (Courtesy of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives/via JTA)

Why synagogues started putting American flags in the sanctuary

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Illustrative: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018. (Courtesy: Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)

Nurses hold nationwide strike to protest violence against medical staff

Staff Sgt. Shahar Strug. (Israel Defense Forces)

Elite soldier sentenced to 18 months for accidentally killing comrade

By Judah Ari Gross

Dr Diddy Mymin Kahn, co-founder and director of the Kuchinate collective, looks on as Selam crochets a basket at the Kuchinate workshop in Tel Aviv, on January 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

School’s out, but there’s plenty to learn in summertime workshops

By Jessica Steinberg

The Autotalks team; July 2018 (Daniel Danilov)

Hyundai invests in Israeli startup Autotalks to boost car connectivity prowess

By Shoshanna Solomon

Irish Senator Frances Black speaks ahead of of a Senate vote on the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, January 30, 2018 (screenshot www.oireachtas.ie)

Israel slams ‘immoral’ Irish bill banning trade with settlements

By Raphael Ahren

A worker of the Israel State Archives looks at classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Adoption files to be opened in lost Yemenite children affair

IBM's Project Debater, center, arguing for genetic engineering against professional debater Hayah Goldlist-Eichler (right) with Yaar Bach (left) moderating; July 3, 2018 (Or Kaplan)

IBM showcases debating robot in Israel sired by Haifa team

By Shoshanna Solomon

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Courtesy Soroka Medical Center)

Senior plastic surgeon kills himself in Soroka operating room

(Mlle Sana Photography/Instagram - via JTA)

Huppah GilmoreAdam Sandler crashes Jewish couple’s wedding day

Demonstrators at a Kaddish for Gaza event in London, May 16, 2018. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

UK Jewish leader who publicly mourned Gazans fired from leading Israel teen tour

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Three Stolpersteine, or 'stumbling stones,' dedicated to the memory of Josef Geer and to the Hauslauers -- a married couple who were Jehovah's Witnesses -- in Salzburg, Austria. (Noah Lederman/Times of Israel)

Non-Jewish retiree cleans Salzburg’s 388 memorial plaques for Nazi victims

By Gabe Friedman

Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, February 3, 2016. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu, via JTA)

Cape-less heroDershowitz ‘shunned’ on Martha’s Vineyard for defending Trump

By Charles Dunst

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