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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 7, 2018

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Sergio Kowensky (left), the head of Likud South Africa who was killed in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Courtesy)

Head of Likud South Africa gunned down in Johannesburg

By JTA

Sergio Kowensky, a prominent Jewish pro-Israel advocate, killed at his office in the crime-ridden city; circumstances surrounding his death are not clear

Illustrative: Members of the Jewish community walk in front of a memorial in the shape of a flower in Jasenovac on April 15. 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Australian glasses co. under fire for ad campaign filmed at Holocaust death camp

Saying it was unaware of site’s sensitivity, Valley Eyewear apologizes and takes down pictures and video shot at Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

French website removes ad for Auschwitz showerhead

By JTA

Children of an African migrant from Nigeria who have been jailed with their mother in Ramle's Givon Prison as Israel tries to deport her. (Channel 10 screen capture)

Holocaust survivor slams Israel’s jailing of migrant children

Israeli firefighters extinguish a fire at Shikma Reservoir caused from kites flown by Palestinians, near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 5, 2018. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Large fire caused by kite sent from Gaza rages outside Israeli kibbutz

Nine firefighting teams, 4 planes said participating in efforts to douse flames; second fire reported in area

Israelis take part in a rally near the Gaza border calling for the return of the bodies of IDF soldiers being held by Hamas on July 6, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Thousands of Israelis rally near Gaza for return of soldiers’ bodies

By Alexander Fulbright

A fire is seen burning in the northern West Bank village of Burin on July 6, 2018. (Yesh Din)

Palestinians, settlers trade accusations of arson in West Bank

Syrian return to their homes in towns and villages situated on the eastern outskirts of Daraa on June 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mohamad ABAZEED)

Thousands head home in south Syria after ceasefire deal, monitor says

Calm reported in Daraa region Saturday as sides finalize truce; regime troops celebrate recapture of border crossing with Jordan

Smoke rises above rebel-held areas of the city of Daraa, during reported airstrikes by Syrian regime forces on July 5, 2018 (AFP PHOTO/Mohamad ABAZEED)

Rebels expected to hand heavy weapons to Assad as south Syria deal said reached

By AFP

AnalysisAs war edges toward end, Iran faces hard fight to keep its influence in Syria

By Avi Issacharoff

A billboard with a poster of Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros with the words 'National consultation about the Soros plan - Don't let it pass without any words' is seen in Budapest on October 16, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)

Israeli spy firm targeted NGOs tied to Soros before Hungary election — report

Agents for secretive intel company obtained recordings later used by PM Viktor Orban to claim Jewish billionaire is trying to take control of the country, POLITICO reports

Thai soldiers drag water pipes used to pump water out a cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach are trapped in northern Thailand, July 7, 2018 (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Ambassador to Thailand visits flooded cave site to offer Israeli assistance

By ToI Staff and AFP

Envoy Meir Shlomo says Netanyahu has asked him ‘to see how Israel can help its friend Thailand’; leader of rescue effort says conditions ‘perfect’ for evacuation of trapped boys

Thai soldiers carry equipment during rescue operations for 12 boys and their coach trapped in Tham Luang cave in Thailand on July 4, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU)

Over 100 ‘chimneys’ drilled into mountain in bid to reach trapped Thai boys

By AFP

Relatives walk out from the cave complex after taking part in a prayer ceremony as rescue operations continue for the 12 boys and their football team coach trapped in Tham Luang cave in Thailand on July 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU)

‘Don’t worry about us, love to all,’ Thai boys write in letters to families

By AFP and AP

The cable car at Manara Cliff above the northern city of Kiryat Shmona on August 13, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Women barred from cable car at Israel tourist site because of ultra-Orthodox men

Amid rash of similar incidents on planes, group of tourists forced to wait for another car at Manara in Galilee after Haredi group refuses to share space

An illustrative photo of young ultra-Orthodox girls wearing clothing similar to girls in the Lev Tahor cult, walking in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

A year since leader’s death, ultra-Orthodox ‘cult’ hibernates in Central America

Tourists at the Casa Sefarad museum in Cordoba, Spain. (Julie Masis/ Times of Israel)

History erased

In Spain’s Jewish museums, almost nothing is actually from Spain

Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)

Abbas adviser compares Israeli security at Temple Mount to Nazism, Inquisition

Mahmoud Habbash laments restrictions on Muslim access to Al-Aqsa Mosque: ‘Are they trying to do to others what was done to them?’

Britain to lead review of incitement in Palestinian textbooks

By JTA and ToI Staff

PA TV praises attackers from 2000 Ramallah lynching — watchdog

Russia 2018Palestinian resentment of UK bubbles over into England-Sweden World Cup support

By AFP

Ronaldo and Bernadette Lopez, who arrived in Israel in 2003, now run a Filipino restaurant and converted to Judaism in April. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Filipino guest workers come to Israel — and decide to embrace Judaism

How do you inherit your heritage? Ritual!

Jokes and borscht from my parents’ Russia pale in comparison to the customs and practices of Judaism

Harvey M. Lederman

The Jewish angle for this triathlete

If my motivation flags, I think of Maimonides and his scorn for those who don’t exercise

Rabbi Dan Ain is taking a synagogue pulpit in San Francisco after a decade of creating Jewish programming outside of a synagogue space in New York City. (Courtesy of Ain/via JTA)

They tried to bring Judaism out of synagogues. Now they’re coming back to them

Desus Nice, left, and The Kid Mero in North Hollywood, California, April 20, 2018. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for VICELAND/via JTA)

Brotherly love

Desus and Mero are late-night comedy’s most ‘Jewish’ hosts

By Charles Dunst

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European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini (L); Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif (C) and political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Abbas Araghchi 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)

World powers back Iran oil exports despite US sanctions threat

By Frank Zeller

Illustrative: Security personnel at the scene where a security guard was attacked and seriously injured in a terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 18, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Number of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem drops to 3-year low

By JTA

Yoni Erlich, at the net on the far side of the court, during the Wimbledon men’s doubles semi-final on July 9, 2015 (Channel 5 screenshot)

From our partnerIsrael’s Jonathan Erlich advances to doubles 3rd round at Wimbledon

Illustrative People gather for a protest against anti-Semitism, in Creteil, east of Paris, Sunday, December 7, 2014, after an attack on a French Jewish couple revived worries about long-simmering anti-Semitic sentiment in France. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

French court jails three for notorious anti-Semitic rape and robbery

By AFP

A cow stands in a field overlooking the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, on February 18, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

New minor earthquake felt around the Sea of Galilee

Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, speaks during the 'Berlin wears kippa' event, with more than 2,000 Jews and non-Jews wearing the traditional skullcap to show solidarity with Jews on April 25, 2018 in Berlin after Germany was rocked by a series of anti-Semitic incidents.(AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

Germany boosts funding to Jewish community to fight anti-Semitism

By Toby Axelrod

Paris Mosque rector Dalil Boubakeur delivers his speech during a conference at the 32nd Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) annual meeting at Le Bourget exhibition hall, north of Paris, France, on April 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French watchdog accuses Muslim leader of inciting hatred of Jews

By JTA

Illustrative image of Sushi (Liron Almog/Flash90)

A not so raw dealMoscow gets it first ever Kosher sushi restaurant

By JTA

Then-Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug at a press conference in Jerusalem on March 28, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bank of Israel head to step down after first term

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iran executes 8 over 2017 Islamic State attack on Tehran

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, California, June 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma/File)

Amazon launches free shipping to Israel — with numerous caveats

Pope Francis arrives to host a daylong prayer for peace in the Middle East with an unprecedented gathering of Orthodox patriarchs and Catholic leaders in Bari, southern Italy, Saturday, July 7, 2018 (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope denounces ‘complicit silence’ on Mideast attacks against Christians

By Trisha Thomas and Nicole Winfield

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