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What Matters Most On Friday, July 13, 2018

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A prayerbook allegedly burned by ultra-Orthodox protesters opposed to a liberal women's prayer gathering at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Elizabeth Kirshner)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters allegedly burn Women of the Wall prayerbook

Liberal women’s prayer group’s monthly gathering at Western Wall faces harassment; eggs and cups hurled at worshipers

Seven-year-old Arab Israeli Karim Jumhour of Qalansawe (R) is seen following his release after being held in the West Bank by kidnappers, on July 13, 2018. (Israel Police)

Kidnapped Israeli Arab boy held in West Bank released after 3 days in captivity

Hundreds greet 7-year-old Karim Jumhour on his return to Arab Israeli town; police vow to bring culprits to justice

A smoke trail of a Patriot missile that intercepted a Syrian drone that entered Israeli airspace from Syria, as seen over the northern Israeli city of Safed on July 13, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel shoots down Syrian drone flying over demilitarized zone

By Judah Ari Gross

In second incident in week, IDF fires Patriot missile at UAV it says was operating in violation of 1974 ceasefire agreement

Syrian soldiers flashing the victory sign as they sit on their military vehicle at Naseeb border crossing with Jordan, in the southern province of Daraa, Syria, July 7, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Syrian troops raise national flag over Daraa, cradle of 2011 revolt

By AFP

Chair Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., makes opening remarks at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 27, 2018. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Countering Netanyahu, top US senator again warns Israel about Syrian regime

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, with Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Novo-Ograyovo, Moscow, Russia, July 12, 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Top Iran official Velyati: We will only leave Syria if Assad, Baghdad ask us to

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In Russia, aide to supreme leader says military presence has ‘no relation to Israel’; threatens to ‘force’ US troops out of war-torn country with ‘powerful’ response

AnalysisEmerging deal on Syria will likely curb, but not end, Iran’s presence

Iranian police kill demonstrator during protest over water scarcity

Israel media reviewBufferin’ succotash: 7 things to know for July 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Joshua Davidovich

By allowing towns to segregate, Israel may cross a different kind of red line

The wounds of America’s redlining policy, which led to segregated housing, still fester 50 years after it was rescinded. Will the nation-state bill put Israel on the same path?

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, a group of boys walk past a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

EU envoy denies using ‘derogatory language’ to describe Jewish state bill

By Raphael Ahren

Israel summons EU envoy for dressing down in clash over Jewish state bill

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

MK slammed for likening ‘Jewish State bill’ to Nazi-era evil

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Demonstrators at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport protest US President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a freeze on admitting refugees from certain countries into the United States, January 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Book review

An author predicts Diaspora Jewry’s death, at the hands of Tikkun Olam liberals

By Matt Lebovic

US President Donald Trump (2R) and US First Lady Melania Trump (2L) are welcomed by Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (R) and her husband Philip May (L) as they arrive for a black-tie dinner with business leaders at Blenheim Palace, west of London, on July 12, 2018, on the first day of President Trump's visit to the UK. (AFP/ POOL / Geoff PUGH)

Trump blasts May over Brexit during UK visit, casting pall over ties

By AP and ToI Staff

Interview published as US president attends gala with May; Trump also praises Boris Johnson and says he would be a great PM, slams London mayor Khan

Pedestrians walk past as a giant balloon depicting US President Donald Trump as an orange baby floats next to the towers of Westminster Abbey during a demonstration against Trump's visit to the UK in Parliament Square in London on July 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)

Trump brings his chaotic road show to Britain, souring ties

By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2018. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Before Trump, the long history of fake news

By Olivier THIBAULT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)

Diaspora Jewry

Fans of Orban or not, Hungarian Jews are optimistic ahead of PM’s Israel visit

By Yaakov Schwartz

Illustrative: Palestinian entrepreneurs brainstorm ideas as they compete for acceptance in the third version of Mobaderoon project, hosted by the Islamic University's Business and Technology Incubator in Gaza City on November 24, 2015. (Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)

World Bank reports high rate of Palestinian women leading startups

Women found 23% of new companies in West Bank and Gaza Strip, nearly twice the figure for New York

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers watch a wheat field that caught fire next to kibbutz Nahal Oz along the Israel-Gaza border, May 14, 2018 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF said to threaten major action if Gaza incendiary balloon attacks persist

The sign for a Starbucks Coffee shop seen in Washington, DC, April 17, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Make your own damn coffee

Kashrut agency says it can no longer vouch for Starbucks

By JTA

Star-K ends its information program which had provided a list of beverages observant Jews could consume; online petition draws thousands of signatures pleading for it to continue

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 1, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s defense in the Bezeq probe is part of the case against him

PM says he merely signed off on recommendations from officials in the Communications Ministry, whose former director general has turned state’s witness against him

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a conference in Jerusalem, February 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG, citing obstruction fears, snubs Knesset debate on Netanyahu probes

Russian-US director Genndy Tartakovsky (C) poses during a photocall for the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3 : A Monster Vacation" on the eve of the opening of the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 7, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

Interview

Animation icon Genndy Tartakovksy draws blood for Dracula’s return

By Frankie TAGGART

Poland’s narrative amounts to Holocaust denial

It was the Poles who held the Jews on the scaffold, while the Nazis tightened the noose

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

The daughters of Zelophehad can school us about agunot

When humans can’t figure out how to apply God’s law, relying on equality and compassion can’t go wrong

You CAN be in more than one place at a time

‘Stand under that tree, and put yer left foot in Arkansas, yer right foot in Louisiana, and piss all over Texas!’

Miles to go before I sleep

If we didn’t pause, we’d burn out, but we can’t stop for long, for life is built from challenges and change (Matot-Masai)

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Finchley United Synagogue (David Hawgood / Wikipedia)

UK Jewish leader suspended for tweets calling Arabs ‘the vilest of animals’

By JTA

Winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest Netta Barzilai seen as she arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Eurovision winner Barzilai dismisses claim ‘Toy’ was copied

Curator Morag Wilhelm holds a signet ring that had been given by Sigmund Freud to close students, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on July 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Secret circleIsrael museum reunites rings Freud used to bind students

By Jonah Mandel

Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis, right, with Jim Bridenstine, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at a press conference at the King David hotel in Jerusalem, July 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NASA will consider sending another Israeli astronaut into space

By JTA

Rachel Brosnahan won for best actress in a television series - musical or comedy for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, January 8, 2018. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Jewish jokes‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Sarah Silverman’s show snag Emmy nods

By JTA

Illustrative: A participant wears a kippah during a 'wear a kippah' gathering to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the Jewish Community House on April 25, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli professor attacked by Palestinian in Germany

By Stuart Winer

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

US left-wing activists blast Draymond Green over Israel trip

By Charles Dunst

John Fitzgerald in a campaign video. (screen capture: YouTube)

Anti-Semitic candidate distances himself from anti-Semitic robocalls

By JTA

Screengrab from ACLU video (YouTube)

Jewish actors read story of mother whose son was taken at US border

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mount Gilboa as seen from the construction site of the Maale Gilboa pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant in northern Israel. (YouTube screen capture)

Worker killed, two others hurt in tunnel collapse in north

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was the founding director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. (Leslie Cagan via Facebook/JTA)

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Jewish activist for racial equality, dies at 73

By JTA

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags as they protest against the upcoming demolition of the West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar on July 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

High Court further postpones demolition of West Bank Bedouin village

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