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What Matters Most On Friday, July 5, 2019

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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony, at the Ministry of Justice offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

'A woman can do it all -- be a mom, serve as head of state'

Shaked rejects rabbi’s comments: Women can do everything, including lead a party

Former justice minister responds after prominent Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says politics has ‘no place for the female role’ in explaining opposition to her leading the religious right

Israel media reviewLittle rascals, big problems: 8 things to know for July 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Prisons Service to get its first-ever female district chief

Rejecting rabbi’s comments, Jewish Home says it backs women in politics

Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen seen in the documentary 'Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love' (Courtesy Roadside Attractions)

Interview

Leonard Cohen documentary makes viewers laugh and cry about it all again

By Jordan Hoffman

In this photo from July 2, 2019, people pray at the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Analysis

25 years after his death, crowds flock to Chabad rebbe’s grave

Admirers of Menachem Mendel Schneerson come from as far as Alaska, South Africa to visit his burial site in Queens, hail its lack of pomp: ‘It’s authentic, not contrived’

AnalysisA clash between Jews in Krakow highlights growing acceptance of Chabad in Europe

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Grace 1 supertanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Tehran official threatens to seize British oil tanker if Iranian ship not freed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Secretary of powerful state body says Iran ‘never hesitated in responding to bullies,’ in response to interception of ship suspected of violating EU sanctions

A picture shows supertanker Grace 1, suspected of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, after it was detained off the coast of Gibraltar on July 4, 2019. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP)

Iran demands ‘immediate release’ of tanker held in Gibraltar, summons UK envoy

By AFP

The Grace 1 super tanker, suspected of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, in the British territory of Gibraltar after it was detained, July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

US: Detention of tanker loaded with Iranian crude is ‘excellent news’

By AFP

Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan speaks at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on July 2, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Former Miss Iraq: Arab-Israeli conflict ‘deeply rooted’ in anti-Semitism

At UN Human Rights Council, Sarah Idan calls out Iraqi government for not backing her after she got death threats for joint photo with Miss Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Likud MK Miki Zohar. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally: There won’t be 3rd elections if PM again fails to form coalition

Miki Zohar says Blue and White’s Gantz would get a crack at assembling a government if Likud unable to do so after September polls, didn’t believe Knesset would really dissolve

At campaign launch, extremist Jewish party calls ‘to resettle our enemies’

September electionsPoll shows separate unions of small right, left-wing parties each surging

By Raoul Wootliff

Newly elected Labor leader open to letting Barak take helm of a joint slate

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

As Bahrain showed, even Trump’s Arab allies see two-state solution as essential

They didn’t heed PA’s call to boycott Kushner’s Manama economic workshop, but Mideast participants made plain the US political vision must enable some kind of Palestinian statehood

In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner talks to the audience during the opening session of the 'Peace to Prosperity' workshop in Manama, Bahrain. (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

Fireworks spell out 'USA' as they explode over the Lincoln Memorial during the Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP)

US Independence DayTanks, fireworks, rain mark July 4th as Trump urges to ‘stay true to our cause’

By Calvin Woodward, Lynn Berry and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz (left, red tie) and Economy Minister Eli Cohen (right) at the ceremony naming a Petah Tikva city square after US President Donald Trump, on July 3, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Ahead of US Independence Day, ‘Trump Square’ dedicated in Petah Tikva

Palistinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressing Palestinian and Arab journalists in the PA presidential headquarters on July 3, 2019. (Wafa)

Abbas: Bahrain summit a ‘big lie’ invented by Kushner to ‘make a fool’ of us

PA president outlines conditions to resume talks with Washington, claims a single Palestinian ‘spy’ attended Manama conference

Children at a Palestinian summer camp tear pictures of the American flag and US President Donald Trump as a counselor sets them on fire, in a video posted on Facebook by the Palestinian Authority Higher Council for Youth and Sports, July 3, 2019.

Palestinian kids at PA-run special needs camp burn Trump, US flag photos

Screen capture from video of rights activist and international lawyer Simone O’Broin, during an altercation on an Air India flight. (YouTube)

Pro-Palestinian activist who was jailed for racist rant on plane found dead

By JTA and ToI Staff

Regis Talar, Enrico Macias and Philippe Clair share a laugh. (Courtesy Yves Azeroual)

Rags to riches tale of five of France’s top talents makes for magnificent film

By Rich Tenorio

Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor sits in a courtroom in Lueneburg, northern Germany, April 21, 2015. (Julian Stratenschulte/Pool Photo via AP)

Mengele survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who preached forgiveness of Nazis, dies at 85

By AP and ToI Staff

Romania native underwent brutal experimentation in Auschwitz along with her twin sister; made headlines in 2015 for embrace shared with Nazi during war crimes trial

German far-right hosting lectures by Nazi veterans, security agency warns

Anti-Semitism, most of it online, on rise in Czech Republic — report

By AP and ToI Staff

German far-right party claims film of Israel brawl is migrant fight in Stuttgart

Yardaena Osband

Explaining the paradoxical Red Heifer

When Moses hit the rock to bring forth water, he provided an explanation for the transformative power of the incomprehensible (Hukat)

Josie Glausiusz

Stav Shaffir will have her day

The MK gave me the time of day — added to her fearlessness, willingness to speak hard truths, and pledge to rebuild the Labor party, and we’ve got a leader

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

The Rebbe – the last ‘religious genius’

A guide to understanding the Rebbe’s greatness that goes beyond heart-tugging stories

Jonathan Muskat

On vacation with my family and no minyan

What began as a frustration turned into an opportunity for mindfullness that I hope to replicate as regularly as possible

Tamara Statman thinks the team has a good chance of making the Olympics. (Courtesy of the Israeli Softball Association/via JTA)

Israeli softball is building a women’s ‘dream team’ for the 2020 Olympics

Beltway opinion makers, Josh Block and The Israel Project team. (Ben Zehavi/The Times of Israel)

Debts and doubts

Israel Project head denies group’s demise, but insider says whole staff laid off

While board considers next move, postmortem already underway to determine how organization once raising close to $20 million a year in donations has fallen so far

People ride electric scooters in the streets of the Israeli coastal town of Tel Aviv on May 30, 2019 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Easy. Fun. Dangerous?

Tel Aviv becomes electric scooter paradise for some, hell for others

By Alexandra Vardi

More Headlines

Family and friends mourn at the funeral of Solomon Tekah, in Kiryat Haim, on July 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Officer who shot Ethiopian youth was in ‘life-threatening danger,’ lawyer says

Picture of Malka Beer bottles with the face of legendary Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi posted on Facebook by Everest Jaladi, an Indian chemistry teacher and former lecturer at Mahatma Gandhi P G College.

BrewhahaIsraeli brewery sorry for placing Gandhi photo on beer bottle

Dr. Mike Varshavski at a charity fashion show in New York City on July 2, 2019. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

In-flight serviceDoctor Mike treats Birthright participant on Israel-bound flight

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Hamas on advocacy blitz to counter exposé of corruption by 2nd ‘Son of Hamas’

Illustrative - A Boeing 707 refueling plane and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft demonstrate aerial refueling at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who completed the Israeli Air Force's flight course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev Desert, June 28, 2016. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

IAF returns transport, refueling planes to service after maintenance issues

Israelis demonstrate against the lack of supervision in daycares outside the Tel Aviv Government complex on June 21 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police release shocking video showing daycare worker abusing kids

IDF Cpt. Dr. Kobi Weissmehl trains United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal during the Khaan Quest exercise in Mongolia in June 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF officers train UN peacekeepers in medical care in Mongolia exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Yossi Cohen, right, head of the Mossad secret service, raises a toast together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of the upcoming Jewish New Year at the PM's office in Jerusalem on September 7, 2015. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Graft probe witness: Mossad chief bought cigars for Netanyahu, wasn’t paid back

Illustrative photo of a military funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Facing lawsuit, IDF allows non-Orthodox Jewish burials

By Judah Ari Gross

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks at the 16th annual Jerusalem Conference of the Besheva group, on February 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State budget deficit soars to NIS 14 billion in June

President Reuven Rivlin at the grave of his late wife Nechama at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl for the unveiling of her tombstone 30 days after her passing, on July 4, 2019. (Courtesy Tomer Reichman)

Rivlin visits late wife Nechama’s grave to unveil gravestone

Antisemitic graffiti written on the Beth Jacob Congregation of Irvine on October 31, 2018, in Irvine, California. (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images/AFP)

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in California up 21% in 2018

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