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What Matters Most On Friday, July 20, 2018

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Rabbi Dov Haiyun in Jerusalem on July 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel’s detention of Conservative rabbi castigated by mainstream US Jewry

By Joshua Davidovich

Umbrella group of Conservative rabbis calls pre-dawn move to question Dov Haiyun over weddings ‘outrageous,’ federations protest Israel’s lack of commitment to non-Orthodox streams

Rabbi Dov Haiyun (Facebook)

AG orders release of Conservative rabbi nabbed for holding unsanctioned weddings

Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, speaks at the inauguration ceremony of the US Embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US indicates readiness to work with Hamas if it ends terror; Hamas says no

Gaza terror group rejects demands from American envoys to recognize Israel, calls Kushner, Greenblatt and Friedman ‘spokesmen of the Israeli occupation’

Abbas urges world to halt Israel’s new ‘racist’ nation-state law

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Two incendiary balloons found in yard of Jerusalem home

Hamas leader backs new Egypt-brokered Palestinian unity push

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers take part in an exercise simulating warfare in the Gaza Strip in July 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Liberman: Hamas leaders dragging Israel toward ‘large and painful’ Gaza war

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewDragged into Gaza: 7 things to know for July 20

By Joshua Davidovich

With war looming, Israel girds for more violence in Gaza

Hamas threatens revenge for airstrike said to kill fighter

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Hungary’s Orban visits Western Wall to wrap up Israel trip

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ending brief, controversial visit, Hungarian prime minister places note in cracks of Jerusalem holy site, learns history of Temple Mount

A group of migrants cross the Serbian-Hungarian border near Roszke, southern Hungary, September 10, 2015. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

EU starts legal action against Hungary for ‘Stop Soros’ migrant law

Israeli protesters hold signs by as people block the road for the convoy of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on July 19, 2018 at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Livid protesters block Hungarian PM Orban as he leaves Yad Vashem

Illustrative image of 'offline' computer screens. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Reporter's notebook

How Israel nearly destroyed freedom of speech online, without even knowing it

By Raoul Wootliff

An effort to end Palestinian incitement on social media morphed into a bill that would have granted the state the most extensive internet censorship powers in the Western world

Right-wing Jewish activists protest outside a joint ceremony for families of Israeli and Palestinian victims on Israeli Memorial Day, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2015. The flag reads 'The land of Israel only for the people of Israel'. (Tomer NeubergFlash90)

ADL raises alarm over Israeli democracy after nation-state bill

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

Refusal to police Holocaust denial shows Facebook wary of status update

By Barbara Ortutay

A column in Teen Vogue unflatteringly compares policing of minority communities in the United States and Israel. (Lily Hong/Flickr via JTA)

For Teen Vogue, bashing Israel has become the fashion

By Charles Dunst

Magazine unfavorably compares policies toward Palestinians with US police violence against unarmed minorities

Israel prevents entry of Dutch activist, citing BDS support

Lydia de Leeuw turned away ‘because she advances boycotts and consistently takes part in activities against the state,’ minister says

Mikie Goldstein

The day the Jewish state became Orthodox

It only took a few hours: first, the nation-state bill was signed; then, a Conservative rabbi was detained by police

If hills could speak

Jewish history has taught us that survival is less fragile than we have been led to believe (poetry)

A war in Gaza, a pair of underpants and Tisha B’Av

How do you get through your fear and rush in under fire to save your friends?

The effective critic

Before you give rebuke, make sure the object of your improvement knows you are 100% on their side (Devarim)

Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, Tel Aviv on July 19, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Widespread backing for LGBT strike Sunday over exclusion from new surrogacy law

Airports warns flights could be delayed as dozens of leading companies and institutions announce support for the action; hundreds march through Tel Aviv Thursday evening

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, listen to Head of the Russian Federation of Jewish Communities and the museum's director Rabbi Alexander Boroda, right, during their visit at the Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance in Moscow, Russia, Monday, January 29, 2018. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo/AP)

Analysis

A nationalist streak runs through Putin’s love for Jews and Israel

Experts say pragmatism and an understanding of Russia’s multi-ethnic indigenous culture drive the Kremlin’s close ties with both rabbis and Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump addresses the Pledge to America's Workers event at the White House in Washington, DC, beneath a portrait of the first US president George Washington. (AFP/ Brendan Smialowski)

Trump invites Putin to White House for second summit

By AP

Illustrative: Kosherfest, the world's largest kosher trade show. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)

New flavors, fresh ideas raise hopes for a kosher culinary revival in Chicago

By Yvette Alt Miller

More Headlines

People hold pictures of relatives killed by the Iranian regime during the 'Free Iran 2018 - the Alternative' event on June 30, 2018, in Villepinte, north of Paris. Six people were arrested in Belgium, Germany and France for an alleged plot to attack the rally, including an Iranian diplomat and his wife. (AFP Photo/Zakaria Abdelkafi)

Mossad said to have thwarted Iranian plot to bomb opposition rally in France

By ToI Staff and AFP

The stage for The Chainsmokers concert in Rishon Lezion on July 20, 2018 (Courtesy Sivan Farag)

Didn't let them downThe Chainsmokers appear in Rishon, to delight of local fans

By Michael Harel

Security camera footage from Shmuel Harofe Medical Center allegedly shows Oshar Bakhit drawing a knife, with which he stabbed a nurse, Rachel Kovo. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Man indicted for stabbing nurse at Shmuel Harofe hospital

Police gather at the crime scene in Kafr Qassem where Reuven Schmerling was found murdered, on October 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Life sentences for Palestinians who murdered their Israeli boss in terror attack

Jess Perkins from Napier, New Zealand, places bones, crafted by students, artists and activists, on the lawn of the National Mall Washington as part of a visible petition for bold action towards an end to genocide and mass atrocities, Saturday, June 8, 2013. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US lawmakers back ‘Elie Wiesel’ bill to combat genocide

By JTA

The Iraqi Jewish Archive was found in the flooded basement of the Iraqi intelligence services in Baghdad in 2003. This photo shows items before they were restored by the US (National Archives)

State Department says working to keep Iraqi Jewish Archive in US

By Josefin Dolsten

Sociologist Steven M. Cohen (Courtesy)

From our partnerHarassment allegations mount against leading Jewish sociologist

By Hannah Dreyfus

An ultra-Orthodox woman is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on July 3, 2018, under charges of abusing her children by injecting them with insulin to making false claims of diabetes for National Insurance money. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Mother of 10 held for injecting 5 kids with insulin to get welfare benefits

Former Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad (c) speaks at a rally in Gaza on July 12, 2018. (Screen capture: MEMRI)

Senior Hamas member calls for ridding ‘Palestine of filth of the Jews’

UK neo-Nazi Jack Coulson. (Instagram)

UK neo-Nazi teen boasted he wanted to kill Jewish MP

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