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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 12, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a security cabinet tour of the IDF's installations on the Golan Heights, February 6, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/File)

Netanyahu says Assad regime is not Israel’s concern

Prime minister insists that Iranian forces will not be tolerated, ‘not near our border – and nowhere in Syria’

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)

Pledging not to oust Assad, Netanyahu urges Putin to ‘get Iranians out’ of Syria

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, July 11, 2018. (Israel Foreign Ministry)

Meeting Putin, Netanyahu says Israel will counter all border violations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, attending the World Cup semifinal match in Moscow on July 11, 2018, along with Mika Lipsker (18) and Alon Eizarayev (13), who are fighting cancer. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu came to Moscow on ‘private visit’ to watch soccer, Putin says

By Raphael Ahren

PM had repeatedly indicated his trip was geared primarily at a discussion of Iran’s efforts to entrench itself in Syria

Russia said working to prevent Iran entrenchment near Israeli border

Putin hosts aide to Iran’s supreme leader amid Syria talks

By AP

Top US senator warns Israel against deal with Russia over Syria

By Raphael Ahren

A Syrian military position that was attacked by the Israeli Air Force on July 12, 2018, in response to a Syrian military drone that infiltrated into Israeli territory the day before. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IAF strikes Syrian army posts near border in response to drone infiltration

By ToI Staff, AFP and Judah Ari Gross

Israeli military confirms attacks on three targets after Syrian UAV is downed over the Sea of Galilee

To rule out a Russian link, IDF waited 16 minutes before downing Syrian drone

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF delivers clothes, toys donated by Israeli Golan residents to Syrian kids

By Stuart Winer

Israel media reviewThe Russian connection: 7 things to know for July 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Exclusive

Renee Ghert-Zand

Nazi-confiscated pen helps ToI track down survivor’s son, rewrite family history

International Tracing Service and Times of Israel journalist jointly find descendants of Istvan Rokza, to restitute his stripped possessions and unearth buried heritage

In this file photo, then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman waits outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem for a meeting with his Irish counterpart, Eamon Gilmore, Jan 29, 2012 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Liberman wants Dublin embassy shut over Ireland’s anti-settlement legislation

By Raphael Ahren

‘We won’t turn the other cheek,’ defense minister says after Irish Senate advances bill to ban settlement goods, despite Irish FM opposing it

Ireland moves to criminalize trade with settlements, drawing Israeli ire

By Raphael Ahren

Liberman calls on ‘hypocritical’ Europeans to cut ties with Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Wiesenthal Center slams Barclaycard for Roger Waters’ hate-filled gig

England head coach Gareth Southgate, 2nd left, comforts England's Danny Rose, left, after losing the semifinal match between Croatia and England at the 2018 World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Op-ed

World Cup losers England score a resonant victory for unity, diversity, decency

Led by remarkable coach Gareth Southgate, a group of likable players, half of them immigrants’ kids, have made quite a contrast to bickering, cynical politicians at home and abroad

Palestinians collect aid parcels at a United Nations food distribution center in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 28, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

House Dems demand ‘transparency’ over Trump’s review of US aid to Palestinians

By Eric Cortellessa

Legislators tell president ‘humanitarian funds must be restored in order to save innocent lives and prevent Hamas from taking advantage of the situation’

Screen capture from video of Maria Estrada, candidate for the 63rd Assembly District California. (YouTube)

California Assembly Democrat accuses Israel of genocide, backs Farrakhan

By JTA

Illustrative: Close up of woman taking a pill (iStock)

Israel leading charge toward the next health frontier: Personalized medicine

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Palestinians sell used clothing shipped through the Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the town of Rafah, in southern Gaza Strip on October 13, 2010. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘Poverty begets violence’: Gaza businessmen rue border crossing restrictions

Disavowing attacks on Israel, Palestinian merchants slam fresh Israeli restrictions at Kerem Shalom over wave of incendiary devices launched from coastal enclave

A cluster of balloons launched from the Gaza Strip that landed inside the southern Israel Eshkol region on July 12, 2018. (Eshkol Security)

IDF again shoots near Palestinians flying ‘fire balloons’ from Gaza into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Hai Cohen (left) and Tali Wertheim in their Power of Balance duet. (Courtesy, Vertigo)

Integrated dance gives those with disabilities an equal opportunity

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill to boost PM’s annual income by up to 200k shekels green-lit for final votes

By Raoul Wootliff

Legislation would exempt Netanyahu from paying taxes on prime ministerial benefits; final version of bill omits previous proposal to award rebate retroactively

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on June 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said to tell police that professionals supported his actions in Bezeq case

The SS officer was a doctor first

Small wonder the baby he delivered grew up to be a birth coach and labor companion

Rabbi Riskin & Rabbi Brovender in conversation

Two revolutionary Torah leaders reminisce about how they changed the world — and predict the future (women rabbis, anyone?)

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Military Advocate General Sharon Afek receives the rank of major general from IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, during a ceremony in the IDF's Tel Aviv headquarters on July 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF promotes its first openly gay major general, Sharon Afek

By Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian police member inspects the damage inside a burned-out house belonging to a key witness to an arson attack last year by Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian family, in the West Bank village of Duma, after fire broke out in the home in the early hours of March 20, 2016. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Court releases alleged accomplice in Duma terror attack to house arrest

Education Minister Naftali Bennett leads a faction meeting of his Jewish Home party at the Knesset on June 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett pushing to soften proposal allowing Jewish-only communities

By Raoul Wootliff

Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)

French Jewish woman’s killer found unfit to stand trial in 2nd evaluation

By JTA

A man takes a photo in a buckwheat flower field in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Israel’s NRGene helps crack genetic makeup of buckwheat

By Shoshanna Solomon

This screen capture shows a masked man kidnapping 7-year-old Karim Jumhour from outside his home in the Arab city of Qalansawe in July 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Police arrest 4 suspects as hunt for kidnapped 7-year-old continues

Draymond Green seemed to have a good time in the Jewish state. (Or Shkedy/Twitter via JTA)

Friendly fireNBA star shoots guns with Israeli police during visit, gets flack

By Charles Dunst

The Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

Quebec court evicts Hasidic Jews from homes over bylaw violations

By JTA and ToI Staff

Luciana Berger, a British Jewish MP who is a leader of the Jewish Labour Movement. (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish affiliate of UK’s Labour threatens to sue over anti-Semitism definition

Neil Corney, CEO of Citibank Israel, gets the “Leading in Diversity” award from US Ambassador David Friedman on July 9, 2018 (Yosi Moyal)

Procter & Gamble, Citi, Nokia get prize for workplace diversity in Israel

By Ariella Gentin

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al says ultra-Orthodox men delayed flight by minutes, not an hour

By JTA

Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari lecturing at the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum in Hangzhou, China, July 9, 2017. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images, via JTA)

History in the makingIsraeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ to get screen adaptation

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