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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 4, 2015

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Partner headquarters in Rosh Ha'ayin (Wikimedia Commons/Shuky CC BY-SA 3.0)

Israeli cellular operator’s employees protest against Orange

By ToI Staff and AFP

Workers cover company logo in Rosh Haayin branch with large blue-and-white flag; Israel demands French government intervene against boycott threat

Mobile giant Orange seeking to join Israel boycott, CEO says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel boycott rejected by British university umbrella group

By Stuart Winer

Israel slams Swiss funding for exhibit by Israeli NGO

By AFP

Illustrative: The 2015 Netanyahu government as photographed on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, with womens faces pixelated by the ultra-Orthodox Behadrey Haredim website. (Flash 90)

They would have blurred Golda Meir’s face, too

By Marissa Newman

The ultra-Orthodox papers’ censorship of women’s faces has been entrenched for decades, experts point out, and hardly represents a shift to radicalization

A masked Hamas member carries a model of a rocket during a rally in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 12, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Renegade Gaza groups get in the way of Hamas-Israel rapport

By Avi Issacharoff

Both the Strip’s rulers and the Jewish state have an interest in keeping the peace, but the Salafis have other plans

An explosion is seen following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip in 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israeli planes strike Gaza after rockets hit south

By Ilan Ben Zion

Illustrative: The Israel-Gaza border, from the Israeli side, with rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 20, 2014. (Albert Sadikov/Flash90)

Three rockets shot from Gaza at southern Israel; no injuries

Live updates (Closed)

Rivlin pans France’s ‘troubling’ silence on Orange pullout

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu urges Paris, allies, to condemn company for severing ties; cellular giant denies bid is political

Steven B. Nasatir

To fight BDS, check out Illinois

A new state law clamps down on doing biz with Israel boycotters

Not Zionist enough for the ZOA

Efforts to paint anyone who criticizes Israel as the enemy reflect paranoid logic and tear the community apart

A scene from the Egyptian drama Haret al-Yahood, or Jewish Quarter, broadcast over Ramadan 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

In new Egyptian Ramadan drama, Jews are the good guys

By Elhanan Miller

In change of tone that reflects current anti-Brotherhood zeitgeist, soap opera ‘Jewish Quarter’ longs for the days when Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together harmoniously in Cairo

UN observers atop Mount Bental on the Israeli side of the border with Syria, close to the city of Quneitra, on May 30, 2015. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Syrian army defunct, rebels 100 yards from Israel border, senior officer says

By Mitch Ginsburg

Hezbollah has lost 100 men in past two weeks, says officer; terms non-conventional threat from Iran as ‘in decline’ in short term

Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Loefven (R) and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas hold a joint press conference in Stockholm on February 10, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP photo/Jonathan Nackstrand)

Swedish parliament watchdog says government botched Palestine recognition

By Raphael Ahren

Legislative panel accuses PM of announcing decision prematurely, but doesn’t question the move itself

President Barack Obama walks off after speaking at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, May 22, 2015. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House steps carefully around Obama’s reported ‘closest thing to a Jew’ comment

Spokesman confirms president’s sense of kinship with Jewish people, doesn’t affirm Axelrod’s claim that Obama said he sees himself as nearest thing to a Jew in the Oval Office

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, May 27, 2014. (Flash90)

Former minister Ben-Eliezer to face graft charges, prosecutor says

Labor stalwart, 79, an ex-presidential candidate, to stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, pending hearing

Illustrative photo of Israeli police near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate. (Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Christian Arab arrested in Shavuot stabbing in Jerusalem

John Kakish, 19, a resident of Israel, allegedly carried out attack near the Old City on May 24 to ‘take revenge’

Illustrative photo of a marijuana bud (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Lawmakers have high hopes for cannabis decriminalization

Joint left-right support for rehashed bill makes green light likelier than ever for recreational use

Meir Yakter, alongside Beit Alfa Technologies' riot-control vehicle on June 2, 2015 (Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

At security expo, lethal and life-saving gadgets, and things no one wants to talk about

By Mitch Ginsburg

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg with her husband David Goldberg, who died May 1, 2015. (Facebook)

In moving post, Sheryl Sandberg reflects on loss of husband

By JTA

Protesters clashing with police in Tel Aviv on June 3, 2015. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Ten arrested as police clash with Ethiopian protesters in Tel Aviv

By Daniel Bernstein

Abraham Foxman (photo credit: David Karp/JTA)

Woman arrested in Spain for posting ‘kill the Jews’ videos

Atena Farghadani, sentenced to 12 years, 9 months in prison in Iran for drawing cartoons. (Youtube screen capture / USA NEWS TODAY)

Iranian satirical cartoonist sentenced to 12 years

A cellphone using Orange showing a Facebook post calling former Israeli president Shimon Peres a traitor on October 30, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOrange is the new black

By Joshua Davidovich

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