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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 21, 2018

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Soldiers battle a fire at Kibbutz Nahal Oz sparked by a kite loaded with an incendiary device from the Gaza Strip on July 21, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Friday's IDF fatality was first on Gaza front since 2014

Tense calm in south, but arson kite sparks fire at kibbutz; IDF hits Hamas posts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After killing of IDF officer by Gaza sniper Friday prompts major Israeli raids, ceasefire largely holding; Israeli official says Hamas vowed to halt kite attacks, Hamas denies it

A picture taken on July 20, 2018, from across the border with the Gaza strip near the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nahal Oz, shows a smoke plume rising from an explosion during Israeli bombardment in Gaza City. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israel fires tank shell at Hamas post after suspects infiltrate Gaza border

By ToI Staff and AP

Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Islamist Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis on April 6, 2018 (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

IDF warns Hamas leader that ‘nobody involved in terror has immunity’

Palestinians inspect a military observation post that was hit by an Israeli tank shell east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 20, 2018 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Fragile quiet in southern Israel and Gaza, after fatal surge of violence

Periphery returns to normal life as nighttime ceasefire holds; Friday saw dozens of Hamas targets hit, 3 projectiles fired at Israel, after soldier killed by Palestinian sniper

Illustrative image of explosions from Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Hamas announces ceasefire after killing of IDF soldier near Gaza sparks strikes

A fireball explodes in Gaza City as a result of Israeli airstrikes after an IDF soldier was shot dead on the border, on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / BASHAR TALEB)

IDF strikes deep in Gaza after troops come under fire, amid talk of 4th Gaza war

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

Rabbi’s arrest signals Israel ‘no longer for all Jews’ — US Conservative leader

By Eric Cortellessa

Steven Wernick says ‘infuriating’ detention of Dov Haiyun for performing weddings outside Rabbinate ‘gives the impression of a religious police’

AnalysisWhy Israel nabbed a rabbi for performing a wedding, and why people are incensed

King Salman attends a swearing-in ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 6, 2017. (Saudi Press Agency, via AP)

Arab nations slam Israel’s ‘racist, discriminatory’ Jewish nation-state law

By AFP and ToI Staff

Saudi Arabia says new legislation ‘perpetuates racial discrimination,’ while Syria claims it ‘enshrines Israel’s racism, goes beyond apartheid in South Africa’

Jordanian lawmaker Huda Etoom tells parliament of late mother's desire to be a suicide bomber among 'Zionist Jews,' July 17, 2018 (Screenshot via MEMRI)

Jordanian MP praises late mother’s wish to blow herself up among ‘Zionist Jews’

Huda Etoom says the Palestinian cause ‘is a priority on which we must not compromise’

A police ribbon cordons off a street where a public service bus stands in Kuecknitz near Luebeck northern Germany, after several people were injured in the bus in an assault by a man wielding a knife on July 20, 2018. (AFP/dpa)

Iranian man wounds several people in stabbing spree on bus in Germany

By AFP

Tal Flicker of Israel during the fight in the 66kg category at the Judo World Championship Budapest 2017, on August 28, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary. (Rok Rakun/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

UAE, Tunisia stripped of judo events for discriminating against Israeli athletes

By Alexander Fulbright

International Judo Federation doesn’t explicitly mention Israel in its decision but notes last year’s ban on Israelis competing under national anthem, insignia

Liel Levitan (Screenshot via Hadashot TV)

7-year-old chess champ can’t compete in Tunisia tourney because she’s Israeli

Film director Stanley Kubrick, in an undated picture during production of "The Shining." (AP Photo)

Interview

Scholar reveals morbid roots of lost Stanley Kubrick script

By JP O’ Malley

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher A. Celiz was killed in action July 12 in Paktiya province, Afghanistan. (US Department of Defense via JTA)

Hundreds in Georgia mourn Jewish soldier killed in Afghanistan

By JTA

‘He died as he lived… as a hero,’ Savannah Jewish groups say of Army Ranger Christopher Andrew Celiz, who is posthumously awarded the Purple Heart

A picture taken on July 19, 2018 from the Golan Heights shows smoke rising in an area where Russian-backed government forces in Syria have been carrying air strikes near the village of al-Rafid in the southern Syrian province of Quneitra. (AFP/ JALAA MAREY)

Assad air raids on last IS pocket in south Syria kill 26 civilians — monitor

By AFP

Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 11 children among those killed in day-long strikes by regime and allied Russian aircraft

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

As Syria troops near border, PM tells Putin he won’t tolerate Iranian presence

A picture taken on July 20, 2018, from the Israeli Golan Heights shows buses in a southwestern area of Syria that are transferring Syrian rebel fighters and civilians to opposition territory in Idlib further north. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Buses begin ferrying Syrian rebels from border area with Israel

Members of Israel’s national lacrosse team sway to the country’s national anthem before a game at the World Lacrosse Championship in Netanya, Israel, July 2018. (Hillel Kuttler via JTA)

How Israel became the host of a world lacrosse championship

By Hillel Kuttler

American Jews aren’t minding the store

Nationwide, leaders are moving on; it’s clear that different kinds of people should take their places

Mourning the loss of mourning

What if you couldn’t give any presents to the one you love — wouldn’t that destroy some aspect of your relationship?

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Illustrative: The Holy Family with St Anne by Rubens. One of the paintings in the Holy Family series was stolen in Italy by a man dressed as a rabbi (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

Italian police recover Renoir and Rubens from heist involving ‘diplomatic rabbi’

By AP and ToI Staff

Randi Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 27, 2012. (CC BY-SA World Economic Forum, Monika Flueckiger, Wikimedia commons)

Randi Zuckerberg says banning Holocaust deniers ‘will not make them go away’

By JTA

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

Germany blasts Mark Zuckerberg for saying he won’t remove Holocaust denial posts

By JTA

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with lawmakers in Tehran, Iran, on June 20, 2018 (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei: Tehran shouldn’t count on Europe to save nuclear deal

US Rep. Michael McCaul (YouTube screenshot)

Stalin killed more Ukrainians than Hitler killed Jews, says congressman

By JTA

An illustrative photo of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

3 Jewish men in Vienna assaulted in possible anti-Semitic attack

By JTA

In this July 12, 2018 photo, garbage is strew along an embankment in East Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel’s East Jerusalem development plan gets cool reception from Arab residents

By Tia Goldenberg

Israeli shoppers, illustrative (Courtesy Rami Levy via JTA)

New Israeli legislation will see pregnant women skip to the front of the line

By JTA

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