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What Matters Most On Friday, July 6, 2018

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Mustafa hopes that the Jewish of Qamishli, Syria will be able to return once the radical Islamist factions are gone. (Ziv Genesove/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Of course, the Jews are our brothers'

Devoid of Jews for decades, one Syrian city would be ready to welcome them back

By Ziv Genesove

Residents of Qamishli, a liberal enclave that has grown amid the civil war, tell a ToI writer they’d greet Jewish returnees with open arms — however unrealistic that seems today

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

IDF attacks Syrian regime position after shell hits in buffer zone

By Judah Ari Gross

Jordanian residents of Jabir village watch aid deliveries to Syrians fleeing government offensive in the south as smoke from unknown fire rises, July 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Israel lays down red lines for postwar relations with Syria

By Josef Federman

Otto Frank holds the Golden Pan award, given for the sale of one million copies of the paperback, 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' in London, Great Britain, 1971 (AP/Dave Caulkin)

Anne Frank’s family tried in vain to escape Nazis to US, new research shows

By AP

Papers suggest Otto Frank attempted to get family to Americas as early as 1938, but was thwarted by bureaucracy and war, forcing them into hiding

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at a memorial ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp and to honor the victims of the Holocaust, in Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland, on International Holocaust Memorial Day. January 27, 2010. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel said to protest to Warsaw over PR campaign on Holocaust law deal

Diplomats reportedly tell Polish counterparts that ads reprinting controversial declaration ‘violate’ understanding reached to end spat over historical narrative

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on April 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Amir Cohen)

Netanyahu aides insist Yad Vashem approved controversial Holocaust declaration

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett: Israel-Poland Holocaust declaration ‘a disgrace, saturated with lies’

By Raoul Wootliff

In this file photograph taken on May 11, 1985, French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in his office in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / DERRICK CEYRAC)

Analysis

Long before Israel, Claude Lanzmann stirred Poland’s wrath

The eminent filmmaker, who died Thursday at 92, railed against the ‘Polish lobby’ undercutting his groundbreaking Holocaust work that tarnished the narrative of Polish victimhood

In this photo taken on February 11, 2016 French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in Paris on February 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)

Israel calls ‘Shoah’ director Lanzmann’s death an ‘enormous loss for humanity’

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on June 27, 2018, to discuss Poland's amended Holocaust Law. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel Media ReviewPolish off the Holocaust law deal: 6 things to know for July 6

By Adiv Sterman

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, left, and Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, take part in a Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ministerial meeting on the Iran nuclear deal on July 6, 2018 in Vienna, Austria. (AFP/APA/Hans Punz)

Cracks form in bid to save nuke deal as Iran spurns European economic package

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rouhani tells Merkel offer is ‘disappointing’; Berlin says it cannot compensate for all of new US sanctions as remaining signatories meet in attempt to keep Tehran in pact

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a joint press conference with Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz following a meeting on July 4, 2018, at the Chancellery in Vienna. (AFP Photo/Alex Halada)

Iran says Europe’s offer to save nuclear deal insufficient

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listens during a joint press conference with Austrian President following talks on July 4, 2018 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. (AFP PHOTO / APA / GEORG HOCHMUTH)

Surge of hardliner support for Rouhani after his anti-Israel words

By Marc Jourdier

This undated photo shows Israeli spy Eli Cohen, in Syria, wearing a wristwatch recovered by the Mossad in 2018. (Prime Minister's Office)

Mossad somehow brings home wristwatch of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen

Watch retrieved from ‘enemy hands,’ presented to family of one of Israel’s most famous spies, who was executed by Syria in 1965

Illustrative: Following a lethal shooting last year at a Jewish school in Toulouse, French mourners carry a banner that reads, "Jews, Christians, Muslims: Same God, Love." (Thibault Camus/AP)

French Muslim leaders all refuse to sign anti-Semitism condemnation — activist

By Marissa Newman

Fiyaz Mughal, who led a similar, successful campaign in UK, says he floated draft for interfaith declaration against Jewish and Muslim hatred, was rebuffed even after revising text

Jeremy Corbyn at a Labour event in Stretford, England, March 22, 2018. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

From our partnerJewish leaders angered by Labour’s adoption of lax anti-Semitism definition

Members of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Group attack pro-Israel activists in Gotland, Sweden in July 2018. (screen capture: Expressen)

Neo-Nazis assault 2 pro-Israel activists in Sweden

By JTA

Israeli policemen scuffle with Palestinian demonstrators in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, on July 4, 2018. (FLASH90)

High Court freezes demolition of West Bank Bedouin village

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

State told to respond by next week to petition filed by Khan al-Ahmar, alleging Civil Administration refused to review plans submitted by residents to legalize their homes

European General Consuls of France (L), Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Findand, Denmark and European Union are blocked by Israeli police as they try to visit the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank east of Jerusalem on July 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Israel blocks EU envoys’ visit to school in threatened Bedouin village

By Delphine Matthieussent

This Monday, June 25, 2018 file photo shows a view of the plenum hall of what was to be a Palestinian parliament in Abu Dis in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Photo essayForlorn Palestinian parliament a glum emblem of lost optimism

By AP

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily as Ant Man and the Wasp. (Courtesy Marvel)

Warning: Spoilers!

Paul Rudd brings wee fun and oversized laughs to ‘Ant Man and The Wasp’

By Jordan Hoffman

Raphael Aroush speaking to the media outside the the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand on July 6, 2018. (Natasha Squarey)

Israeli diver warns effort to extract Thai boys from cave could end in disaster

By ToI Staff and AP

As authorities say window for rescuing team narrowing, Raphael Aroush, who drove to site to aid operation, says death of navy seal underscores dangers of swimming through cavern

Thai divers carry supplies as rescue operations continue for 12 boys and their coach trapped at Tham Luang cave in the Chiang Rai province on July 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU)

Thai rescuer dies from lack of oxygen in flooded cave

By AFP

I was a draft-dodger

Where the South African army was an instrument of racism, the ultra-Orthodox have nothing to complain about

It’s Jew vs. Jew in NY local politics

With Trump in the White House, decency is not inevitable, unless each one of us is willing to fight for it

‘I don’t have time to talk to you’

Have Turkey’s warm welcomes been warped by years of Erdogan’s calculated mix of hate and financial success?

The lost masterpiece

If women like Zelophehad’s daughters had gone out to spy the land, they’d never have spoken negatively of it (Pinchas)

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Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during mixed men and women's prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

A police sapper in an informational video by the Israel Police urging kids to steer clear of potentially dangerous kites and balloons over the summer that may have been sent over the border from Gaza, in a screen shot taken on July 6, 2018. (Israel Police/Twitter screenshot)

Amid attacks from Gaza, Israel police warn kids to keep clear of kites, balloons

Alexander Muss High School students shown in 2017. The school was one program under the Lapid Israel umbrella. (Alexander Muss High School in Israel/via JTA)

Program bringing high schoolers to Israel blames demise on apathy, Birthright

By Lev Gringauz

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after the screening of 'RBG,' a documentary about her, in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Creighton)

In Israel, Justice Ginsburg bemoans partisan divide in US Congress

Thala works in the garden with the devices created by Alyn hospital in Jerusalem to help her hold on to the tools (YouTube screen shot)

Thala becomes a gardener, and other out-of-the-box treatment at ALYN kids rehab

By Ariella Gentin

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, July 4, 2018. (GPO)

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green visits Israel

Sprinter Diana Vaisman after she broke the Israeli women's 100 meter record on July 4, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

After 46 years, sprinter breaks Israeli women’s 100 meter record

US President Donald Trump (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

White House: Improved ties with Israel show US more ‘beloved’ around the world

By JTA

Illustrative: Young boys from Eritrea seen at the Givon Prison, near Ramle, in 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel said to be jailing young children of illegal African migrants

Max Fuchs (L) helped lead a historic service for Jewish-American soldiers in Aachen, Germany, in 1944. (Screenshot: YouTube via JTA)

Max Fuchs, US soldier who led Jewish prayers in Nazi Germany, dies at 96

By JTA

Illustrative: A hacker in action. (BeeBright; iStock by Getty Images)

Lebanon said hit by largest hack in its history

A zipline in Honduras. (Illustrative image: Wes/Pexels)

Israeli man killed in zip-line accident on Honduran island

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