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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 26, 2018

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Illustrative: Israelis at the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret). (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

2 Syrian rockets said to land in Sea of Galilee, near crowded tourist beach

Golan sirens blare in spillover from Syrian civil war; police searches of shores come up empty; authorities plan to resume hunt at sunrise

Moscow thanks IDF for hitting launcher in Syria, says IS tried to provoke Israel

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

IDF shells southern Syria in response to errant rocket fire at Golan

Islamic State kills hundreds in assault on southern Syria Druze city

By AFP

The scene of a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Adam, July 26, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

Live updates (closed)

3 wounded, 1 critically, in stabbing attack in settlement home; terrorist shot

Residents of Adam in central West Bank told to remain in their homes

6:22 pm

Settlement residents told to remain in homes
6:13 pm

3 Israelis wounded in stabbing attack in settlement home
5:57 pm

Iran versus US battle to hit UN's top court in August

Op-ed

Hamas, the murderous neighbor that demands Israel give it the gun

Lift the blockade, Hamas urges, so that we can wipe you out

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar attend a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group's founding in Gaza City, on December 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Netanyahu tells IDF’s newest recruits the fight with Hamas is a ‘test of will’

American former war crimes prosecutor to head UN Gaza probe

By Raphael Ahren

Family of Israeli held in Gaza sent video to Hamas begging for his release

Hamas fighters take part in a military maneuver in Gaza City on March 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas goes on alert, vows revenge, as IDF kills 3 fighters after soldier shot

‘Israel will pay in blood for its latest crimes,’ terror group says, after overnight exchange of fire sparked by a Gaza sniper attack that wounded an IDF soldier

Rocket shot down by Iron Dome as Gaza border violence persists

Soldier moderately injured by Gaza sniper, 3 Palestinians killed as IDF responds

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

Israel media reviewDueling fronts: 7 things to know for July 26

By Joshua Davidovich

UK Jewish newspapers unite against Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, July 2018 (via JTA)

UK Jewish newspapers unite to warn against Corbyn

By JTA

Three rival papers run identical front-page editorials decrying ‘contempt for Jews and Israel’ in Labour under current party leader

Illustrative: A truck with the words 'fuck off' and another with swastika graffiti on it were found outside a Jewish school in a Hasidic neighborhood in London, November 14, 2016. (Shomrim N.E. London/Twitter)

UK anti-Semitism slightly down from 2017 record — watchdog

By JTA

The Exeter Synagogue in Exeter, England. (Google Street View screenshot)

Man charged in arson attempt on 250-year-old synagogue in England

By JTA

Iranian general warns Trump that ‘nation of martyrdom’ is waiting for him

By AP and ToI Staff

US Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, leaves the Capitol on April 27, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/via JTA)

Leading Republican congressman backs Netanyahu’s bid to kick Iran out of Syria

In this file photo taken on February 8, 2017, a member of the pro-government forces raises his weapon in the port of the western Yemeni coastal town of Mokha as the Saudi-backed troops advance in a bid to try to drive the Shiite Houthi rebels away from the Red Sea coast. (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)

Saudis halt oil shipments through key strait after Yemen rebel attack

By AFP

Soldiers guard as an ultra-Orthodox man walks by in the West Bank city of Hebron on July 22, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Trump peace plan said to include major economic scheme for Palestinians

White House official says plan will include most detailed proposals yet, strategy for rolling it out still being developed

Israel looks at massive military aircraft purchase from US firm Boeing

Trump’s peace envoy supports Israeli retaliatory strikes in Gaza, Syria

Ahed Tamimi to be freed Sunday after serving time for hitting soldier

An illustration of a C. elegans worm performing a math calculation (Alon Zaslaver/Hebrew University)

Worms perform math calculations in search for food, Israeli study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Worms constantly compute new scent data to see if they are on right track to food; Hebrew University researchers say humans could learn from their backup monitoring system

The Bladder EpiCheck diagnostic kit developed by Nucleix Ltd. (Courtesy)

European study green-lights Israeli test for recurrence of bladder cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance minister says ‘hastily’ passed nation-state law is mistake, needs fixing

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Moshe Kahlon is second cabinet minister to address the anger of the Druze minority, who feel legislation betrayed them despite their service to the state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Sheikh Muwaffak Tarīf (2nd-Right), the spiritual leader of Israel's Druze community, in the village of Julis in northern Israel, on April 25, 2013 (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Amid Druze outcry, Netanyahu calls meeting to examine nation-state law

By Raoul Wootliff

Avi Katz (Facebook)

Cartoonist axed for ‘Animal Farm’ pigs drawing of Netanyahu and colleagues

Illustration of a soldier using BCarrier at an exhibition of graduates at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; July 18, 2018 (Ariella Gentin/Times of Israel)

From mosquitoes to blood for soldiers, Bezalel students take aim at world woes

By Ariella Gentin

That gap between the Jewish state and American Jews

The Israel-Diaspora divide has been a long time in the making, and won't disappear easily

Quiz for olim: Have you become Israeli?

You've got attitude, but is it enough? From the army to the weather and customer service, test your new norms

Sheldon Kirshner

Keep the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the US

The collection is slated to return to a land that is no longer home to these artifacts' rightful heirs

Me and the 8-year-olds from East Jerusalem

The kids don't speak Hebrew, and my Arabic is poor — shoddy grounds for conversation among neighbors

Enid Marx working on a textile design post, 1945. (Courtesy)

Breaking the pattern

For 40 years, Londoners sat on this unconventional artist’s ingenious tube seats

Orny Adams is headlining the 'Ethnic Show' at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs festival. (Courtesy of Just For Laughs/via JTA)

Comedian Orny Adams talks about his Jewish background (just not onstage)

A camper and a counselor sharing a happy moment at a summer camp for refugee children run by the St. Louis Jewish Community Relations Council and the International Institute of St. Louis, an immigrant integration service, July 2018. (Courtesy of St. Louis JCRC/via JTA)

Jewish-run summer camps a welcome respite for refugee children

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Director Quentin Tarantino and his then-fiance, Daniella Pik, with Cinematheque director Noa Regev to Tarantino's right, at the opening night of the 2016 Jerusalem Film Festival (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Jerusalem of gold welcomes the silver screen as film festival comes to town

By Jessica Steinberg

Holocaust survivor Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax. (Screen capture: YouTube)

90-year-old Holocaust survivor is unexpected superhero of Comic-Con

By JTA

Water-fueled hoverboards at a performance at a Jewish wedding. (Instagram screen capture)

High horaThe craziest Jewish wedding dance uses water-fueled hoverboards

By Gabe Friedman

Damage to a home in the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur that the IDF says was caused by a Molotov cocktail attack, July 25, 2018. (Asaf Wilf)

Homes torched in West Bank settlement in apparent arson attack

The LGBT Association members hold a press conference in Tel Aviv, on July 25, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

LGBT community lays out demands from government for ‘full equality’

Screen capture from video of Romanian Agriculture Minister Petre Daea. (YouTube)

Romania minister apologizes for comparing burning of diseased pigs to Auschwitz

By AFP

Former Givati Brigade commander and Bnei David pre-military academy alum Ofer Winter. (Alon Besen/Defense Ministry)

General said snubbed by IDF chief appointed as top Liberman aide

By Jacob Magid and Judah Ari Gross

South African model Shashi Naidoo (r) apologizes for supporting Israel on June 20, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel bars entry to South African model on BDS-organized ‘re-education trip’

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

Israel hosting Eurovision said in jeopardy with broadcaster short on funds

Illustrative: A brushfire near Kibbutz Re'im east of the Gaza border, July 25, 2018. (Fire and Rescue Services Southern District)

Israel hit by record-breaking heatwave; fires rage throughout country

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Sociologist and Jewish social policy researcher Steven M. Cohen. (JTA)

Top Jewish sociologist out at 2 organizations over misconduct allegations

By JTA

The Leopold family of Las Vegas meets Israel’s minister of aliyah and integration, Sofa Landver (c), after arriving on their aliyah charter flight with Nefesh B’Nefesh. (Shahar Azran)

Joe Lieberman’s daughter moves to Israel

By JTA

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