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What Matters Most On Monday, July 16, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes stolen files on Iran's nuclear program in a press conference in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

New material details contamination at Parchin test site

Seized archive shows Iran nuke project was larger than thought, had foreign help

Israel showcases to US reporters parts of trove Mossad spirited out of Tehran; ‘These guys were working on nuclear bombs,’ confirms ex-IAEA inspector on seeing the material

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, leading the Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital Tehran on June 15, 2018. (Iranian Supreme Leader's Website/AFP)

Khamenei lashes ‘satanic’ US peace plan, vows to destroy ‘fabricated’ Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark 'National Nuclear Day,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2018. (Official website of the Iranian Presidency Office, via AP)

From the webNew details from Iran nuclear files show they were close to key bomb technology

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)

Live updates (closed)

PM lauds Israel’s relations with US and Russia after Trump-Putin presser

Netanyahu thanks both leaders after they highlight having discussed Israel’s security concerns with regards to Iranian entrenchment in Syria during their summit in Helsinki

6:17 pm

Journalist killed in south Syria fighting -- state media
6:14 pm

Top US Republican to Trump: 'Russia is not our ally'
6:11 pm

Iran arrests 46 in fresh crackdowns on Instagram models

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 3rd from right, meets with heads of local authorities from the Gaza Strip border communities during a visit to Sderot on July 16, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu visits arson-ravaged Gaza border, warns of a ‘protracted stuggle’

By Stuart Winer

Prime minister vows no ceasefire if the Palestinians keep sending incendiary kites and balloons into Israel

Army head said to rebuff minister demanding lethal force against kite launchers

Gaza ‘fire kite’ flyers threaten to step up attacks after IDF injures 3

IDF deploys more Iron Dome batteries to south and Tel Aviv area

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli F-16 during an exercise on November 25, 2013. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Up to 22 killed, including 9 Iranians, in Syria strike blamed on Israel – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 9, said raid targeted an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center

A US soldier provides security during a coordinated, independent patrol along the demarcation line near a village outside Manbij, Syria, June 26, 2018. (US Army photo/Staff Sgt. Timothy R. Koster)

Top Trump aide says US to stay in Syria as long as Iran ‘menacing’ region

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

Trump to Putin: We’ll have ‘an extraordinary relationship’

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

At summit in Helsinki, US president says two countries ‘have not been getting on’ but that’ll change, claims talks off to a ‘very, very good start’

Trump and Putin set to test rapport, talk Syria in first summit

By AFP

Israel media reviewTo Helsinki in a handbasket: 9 things to know for July 16

By Joshua Davidovich

In TV interview, Trump says queen called Brexit ‘complex’

By Gregory Katz

Kulanu MK and Jerusalem mayoral candidate Rachel Azaria (Courtesy)

Interview

Aiming to be Jerusalem’s first female mayor, MK sees thaw in religious tensions

By Marissa Newman

A group of left-wing activists stage a walkout from their Birthright trip in Jerusalem on July 15, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)

8 left-wing activists stage 2nd Birthright walkout in less than a month

Participants affiliated with IfNotNow leave trip four days early to meet with Palestinian family whose home is slated for demolition in East Jerusalem

Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda sits in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, September 27, 2016. (AFP/ANP/Bas Czerwinski)

In rare step, International Criminal Court reaches out to ‘Palestinian victims’

By Raphael Ahren

Israel declines to comment, but former top Foreign Ministry official says The Hague-based court is either being politically manipulated ‘or manipulating itself’

Palestinian man gets 14 years in prison for stabbing Israeli settler

Israel releases Turkish woman held for aiding Hamas

18 Palestinians arrested in predawn West Bank raids; border cops thwart breach

By Judah Ari Gross

Sacha Baron Cohen in Who Is America?, July 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Sacha Baron Cohen is back befuddling folks who should really know better

By Mark Kennedy

First episode of ‘Who Is America’ snares Bernie Sanders and Trent Lott, and sees Cohen as an Israeli character trying to get gun-rights advocates to endorse arming preschoolers

Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (r) disguises himself for new series, 'Who Is America?' in July 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Kindergarten copRepublicans back guns for kids in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show

Steven Skybell as Tevye and the ensemble sing 'Tradition' during the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (Victor Nechay/ ProperPix.com)

Theater review

Breaking with tradition it’s ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ — in Yiddish

By Jordan Hoffman

Is it time to do away with Tisha B’Av?

Israel has evolved into an economic and military superpower; what must we mourn?

Israel doesn’t need a nation-state bill

20% of Israel’s population is not Jewish, and the democracy of the Declaration of Independence includes them

When summer travel is more than vacation

Why my children carried their Israeli flags around the world, and what they learned

Jason Fredric Gilbert

The Watermelon War

The battle between married couples everywhere: who will pick the perfect watermelon and who will choose a dud?

France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris holds the trophy aloft after the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 15, 2018. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

France World Cup victory an immigration success story

Diversity of Les Bleus celebrated, with about two-thirds of championship roster made up of players with immigrant backgrounds

Guided by geopolitics, Syrian loyalists bemoan French World Cup win

By Bassam Mroue

Helping hand‘In my heart, I’m Palestinian,’ soccer’s Maradona tells Abbas

France wins World Cup with 4-2 victory over Croatia

By Graham Dunbar

Producer Howard Rosenman arrives at the The Hollywood Reporter's 2018 Academy Awards Nominees Night at the Cut Beverly Hills on Monday, February 5, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Interview

Howard Rosenman went to Israel to die. Now he’s making Oscar-winning cinema

By Eric Cortellessa

More Headlines

Actress Natalie Portman quotes Jewish author Isaac Bashevis Singer in a video for PETA released on July 16, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Natalie Portman video for PETA compares animal treatment to Holocaust

Ultra-Orthodox men holding a sit-in in front of an army recruitment center in Jerusalem, on November 28, 2017. (Flash90)

State asks court to delay deadline for bill on ultra-Orthodox draft

Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

UK’s Labour told its anti-Semitism definition may breach anti-discrimination law

U.S. Senate, Monday, July 31, 2017, at the Democratic headquarters in Phoenix. Abboud is challenging Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz, for his seat in 2018. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Running in record numbers, US Muslim candidates face backlash

By Philip Marcelo and Jeff Karoub

This June 28, 2018 photo shows 184 Kent Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York owned by the Kushner Cos. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Jared Kushner’s family firm accused of pushing out tenants

By Bernard Condon and GARANCE BURKE

10-year-old Oshri Bitau at his new piano in the family's Nazareth Illit home, July 15, 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)

Musically giftedChild prodigy gets a new piano — from a former PM

Ziad Itani, a Lebanese stage actor, who was indicted on charges of collaborating with Israel and drug possession, is carried by his neighbors and relatives after he was released by Lebanese authorities, at his house, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Watchdog group says Lebanese actor, framed with spying for Israel, was tortured

Illustrative image of an Australian Football League match. (Screen capture; YouTube)

ESPN bans user with ‘Burnthejews’ handle

By JTA

Netanel Cohen, left, at Ben Gurion Airport, July 15, 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)

Ben Gurion security stops passenger flying with life-saving medical equipment

Melbourne office of Australian MP Michael Danby plastered with anti-Israel stickers on July 15, 2018. (Courtesy Anti-Defamation Commission)

Jewish Australian MP targeted by anti-Israel vandals

Illustrative image of an IV bag (dimarik; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli stem cell startup raises $4 million for chemo effectiveness technology

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cannabis plant. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli firm Together orders cannabis seeds for Uganda farm, sees sales in 2019

By Shoshanna Solomon

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