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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 5, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath of flowers during the official state ceremony for the national Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem, on April 27, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash 90)

It 'contradicts existing and accepted historical knowledge'

Yad Vashem slams ‘highly problematic’ Israeli-Polish Holocaust statement

By Raphael Ahren

Joint declaration includes ‘grave errors and deceptions,’ institution’s historians argue; senior minister demands Netanyahu rescind it

Poles launch global drive to promote Holocaust law deal, roiling Israeli critics

By Raphael Ahren

Israel media reviewWhy can’t we be friends: 6 things to know for July 5

By Tamar Pileggi

Ghost writer revisits her own amazing Holocaust survival story in Amsterdam

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Claude Lanzmann poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and the closing ceremony of the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 19, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

1925-2018

Claude Lanzmann, acclaimed director of documentary ‘Shoah,’ dies at 92

By Lori Hinnant

‘Shoah,’ telling the story of the decimation of European Jewry during World War II, considered most important documentary on Holocaust ever made

Israeli technology providing vital communications link to cave-trapped Thai boys

By Stuart Winer

Maxtech Networks system has linked a ‘daisy-chain’ of radio devices through twisting, water-submerged cavern, giving youths voice, data, and video connection to the outside world

Image taken from video shows Thai children trapped inside a cave in Mae Sai, northern Thailand. (Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page via AP)

Rescuers prepare dive gear at the entrance to a cave complex in which 12 boys and their soccer coach are trapped in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, July 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Rescuers race to drain water inside Thai cave before new rains

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA

Gonen Segev, a former Israeli government minister indicted on suspicion of spying for Iran, is seen in the District Court in Jerusalem, July 5, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Trial of ex-minister accused of spying for Iran starts behind closed doors

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

Gonen Segev alleged to have committed ‘aggravated espionage,’ carried out unspecified ‘missions’ for Tehran, according to expanded indictment released Wednesday

Court orders ex-minister charged as Iran spy held for remainder of trial

Ex-minister accused of supplying Iran with names of Israeli defense officials

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Suspect accused of endangering national security in spyware theft plot

By Stuart Winer

Jordanian diplomat Nizar al-Qaissi, left, joined Waqf officials and the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem in greeting Prince William on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 28, 2018. (British Consulate General Jerusalem)

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Israel irked over Jordanian diplomat greeting Prince William on Temple Mount

By Raphael Ahren

Ramallah-based Nizar al-Qaissi joined Waqf officials in welcoming UK royal on ‘private visit’ to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock

An operator walks by an Iron Dome missile defense battery near the city of Sderot in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Iron Dome successfully passes new tests as its capabilities grow

Missile defense system faced ‘various types of [aerial] threats’ that ‘simulate the developing threats in the region,’ Defense Ministry says

6:28 pm

Iron Dome successfully passes new tests as its capabilities grow
5:49 pm

Israel calls ‘Shoah’ director Lanzmann’s death ‘enormous loss for humanity’
5:49 pm

PM set to approve construction of Western Wall egalitarian prayer space – report

Illustrative image of a tank flying the Hezbollah terror group's flag seen in the Qara area in Syria's Qalamoun region on August 28, 2017 (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)

Hezbollah has ‘significantly cut’ troops on Syrian soil, sources say

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Arabic media reports, confirmed by Israeli sources, say around half of original 8,000 fighters still left in Syria, with IS largely driven out and Syrian army control reestablished

IDF chief visits Golan Heights as masses of Syrians flee to the area

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Heaviest airstrikes yet batter rebel-held areas of southern Syria

By AFP

Visitors top up their glasses with treated seawater at a desalination plant near Hadera, Israel. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Major study suggests desalinated water raising risk of heart disease

By Stuart Winer

Presented with research gleaned from 178,000 Israelis, Health Ministry and Water Authority blame each other for failure to add vital magnesium to water

Expert paleographer Ada Yardeni lecturing at Jerusalem's Yad Ben Zvi Institute, August 2016. (Matthew Morgenstern)

Appreciation

Dead Sea Scrolls decoder remembered as grande dame of Semitic paleography

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

I can see their faces

For American Jews to grasp what’s at stake for Israelis, they have to be able to picture those at risk of harm

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

America, I still feel you on my tongue

An Independence Day greeting to the land that I will always love — from afar

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

Netanyahu: Rouhani’s attempts to stave off US sanctions will fail

PM says Iran displaying ‘brazen gall’ in seeking European economic guarantees, even as it plans attacks on the continent

US vows to keep oil lanes open after Iran threatens to block key waterway

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rouhani threatens to cut level of cooperation with nuclear watchdog

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Austria’s Kurz to Rouhani: ‘Unacceptable’ to question Israel’s right to exist

By ToI Staff and AFP

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

Fresh earthquakes send minor tremors through Israel’s north

Separate 3.2-magnitude temblors with epicenters near Tiberias recorded by seismological institute; no injuries or damage reported

Shas party MK Yinon Azoulay (left) speaks at the Knesset, as Speaker Yuli Edelstein looks on. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox MK suggests earthquake was due to Western Wall mixed prayer area

Leeor Brooks, left, during a match in Greece, November 22, 2017. (Courtesy of ZMAK/via JTA)

Grappling with sterotypes

An Israeli wrestler calls himself ‘The Chutzpah,’ and Europe loves to hate him

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Ronen Lubarsky, an IDF soldier from the Duvdevan unit who died on May 26, 2018, after being critically injured by a slab thrown down on his head two days earlier (Courtesy)

Military court indicts Palestinian suspected of killing soldier with stone slab

By Jacob Magid and Judah Ari Gross

A woman walks by Trump supporters at the opening of the campaign supporting the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Modiin on August 15, 2016. (Joe Davids/Flash90)

Israelis overwhelmingly prefer Trump to Obama — poll

Palestinian demonstrators burn tires near the Gaza-Israel border, east of Gaza City, on May 14, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Palestinian teen shot in Gaza border protests dies of wounds

By AFP and ToI Staff

Founder and operator of The Daily Stormer website, Andrew Anglin. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

No-show neo-Nazi loses libel case to Muslim-American radio host

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli entrepreneurs and the UK Innovations Minister Sam Gyimah opens the London Stock Exchange on July 3, 2018, to celebrate growing links between Israeli tech and UK firms, organized by the UK Israel Business (UKIB).

Israeli startups showcase their tech to UK corporates

By Shoshanna Solomon

A letter written by Albert and Elsa Einstein to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein on March 28, 1933. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

Einstein letter written the day he renounced German citizenship sold at auction

By ToI Staff and JTA

A Palestinian security man closes the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, after it was closed by Israel following the discovery of smuggling tunnels underneath the crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Germany negotiating prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel — report

Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen), right, interviews Donald Trump (YouTube)

The best sense of humorSacha Baron Cohen trolls old foe Trump with cryptic new video

From left to right: Former Supreme Court Judges Miriam Naor and Esther Hayut; co-founder and chairman of Genesis Prize Foundation Stan Polovets; Supreme Court Justice and Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and former presidents of Israeli Supreme Court Aaron Barak and Dorit Beinich, at the Genesis Award ceremony in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2018. (Eran Lamm/Lens Productions)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg receives Genesis Prize lifetime award in Israel

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Test missile blasts off from coastal air force base

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Al-Shabaab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2011. (AP/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Eco-terroristsAl Qaeda-backed terror group bans single-use plastic bags

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli police secure a bulldozer demolishing structures at the Bedouin village of Abu Nuwar, east of Jerusalem in the West Bank on July 4, 2018. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

European Union says demolition of West Bank villages hampers two-state solution

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

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