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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 16, 2015

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The Louvre Museum with its Glass Pyramid in Paris, France (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Hteink.min)

Louvre investigated for turning away Israeli students

By Tamar Pileggi

After Tel Aviv U. prof. is told there is no room for his group, he pretends to represent European and Gulf schools — and is approved

Orange CEO says life threatened after ‘boycott’ donnybrook

By AFP

Israeli group threatens to sue Coca-Cola over Palestinian partner

By Marissa Newman

Spat with Israel lurks in new UN president’s past

By AP and ToI Staff

An inscription with the name Ishba'al son of Beda on a 10th century BCE jar. (Tal Rogovsky)

Inscription bearing name from Davidic era found at ancient site

By Ilan Ben Zion

Ishba’al son of Beda, inscribed on 10th century BCE jar, likely not the same as a rival to King David with the same name, but discovery confirms popularity of moniker 3,000 years ago

Syrian and Druze flags at a pro-Assad protest in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on Monday. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

IDF reopens closed military zone in Golan Heights

By Jonathan Beck

Access temporarily restricted to area near village of Majdal Shams for fear that members of Druze community will come to protest there

Maj. Gen. Gershon Hacohen (res.) speaks at the Yesha Council annual conference on Monday, June 15 2015. (Miri Tzahi)

The land cannot be divided, newly retired general says

Gaza pullout commander says settlers will return to the Strip

By Mitch Ginsburg

Gershon Hacohen bashes idea of Palestinian state as ‘so 20th century,’ calls for a single state and no more withdrawals

Report: Hamas mulling long-term ceasefire with Israel

Israel said to allow 70 Hebron shops to reopen after 15 years

By AFP

The media is the messageIsraeli clip mocks reporters in Gaza

By Jonathan Beck

No opposition as France founds Palestine

Paris is steamrolling the Palestinian nationhood bid and meeting little pushback from the US or even Israel

You’re the reason BDS is winning!

Never mind the boycott — the big threat to Israel’s security is the settlements

Max Steinberg: Our hero on Mt. Herzl

On a visit to the grave of a soldier who, like half a million others, once made the exact same journey

Barack Obama speaks to Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House in 2011. (Pete Souza/White House)

Oren: Obama abandoned Israel

Former envoy to US and current Kulanu party MK faults president for breakdown in ties

People gather at the riverside meadow west of London as the Red Arrows RAF display team fly over the Magna Carta memorial in Runnymede, England, during a commemoration ceremony Monday June 15, 2015, to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the groundbreaking accord called Magna Carta. (Steve Parsons / Pool photo via AP)

The Magna Carta’s very Jewish underpinnings

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Likud MK Miri Regev at a political conference at Tel Aviv University on January 18, 2015 (Tomer Neuberg / FLASH 90)

Culture minister defunds Arab theater hosting controversial play

By Judah Ari Gross

Citing financial irregularities, Miri Regev withholds state money from Al-Midan in Haifa over production based on terrorist who abducted and killed Israeli soldier

Illustrative: Hitler Youth members perform the Nazi salute at a rally at the Lustgarten in Berlin, 1933 (CC BY-SA Bundesarchiv, Bild/Wikimedia Commons)

Nazis ingrained German kids with lifelong hatred of Jews

By Frank Jordans

‘The striking thing is that it doesn’t go away,’ says author of study that finds persistent anti-Semitism decades after the Holocaust

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes at a polling station in Jerusalem on the method of elections within the Likud party for the upcoming government elections. June 14, 2015.(Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

Netanyahu rallies to show powerful hold over Likud

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A challenge to the PM turned into a dramatic show of force, as disparate factions showed how profoundly the party has been shaped, and held together, by its leader

In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)

Egypt court upholds Morsi death sentence over jailbreak

By AFP

Mufti confirms fate for ousted Egyptian leader, who is also sentenced to life in prison over spying for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran

A hippopotamus walks along a flooded street in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on June 14, 2015. (Beso Gulashvili/AFP)

Israeli vets lend hand as half of Georgia zoo’s animals die in flood

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

Delegation lands in Tbilisi bearing medicine to help locals care for injured creatures after Vere river overflowed, killing 15 people

A police officer stands guard outside of the house where two tons of chemicals were found in the city of Larnaca, Cyprus, May 30, 2015. (Petros Karadjias/AP)

Cyprus minister confirms foiled attack targeted Israelis, Jews

By Judah Ari Gross

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides says Lebanese-Canadian caught with ammonium nitrate is linked to terror group Hezbollah

Oren Hazan celebrating the exit polls at the Likud headquarters after the elections, Tel Aviv, March 18, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Sexual assault allegations surface against scandal-ridden MK

By Tamar Pileggi

Oren Hazan’s former employees say he made unwanted advances towards them, would get drunk and expose himself to bar patrons

Dina Browner and the rapper formerly known as Snoop Dogg, who first introduced the Southern California native to marijuana. (Kevin Barkey/ via JTA)

LA’s cannabis queen is pot ‘doctor’ to the stars

By Rebecca Spence

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A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Burial society refuses funeral, returns baby’s body in cardboard box

By Tamar Pileggi

Israeli Druze in the village of Yarka attend a demonstration in support of Syrian Druze communities threatened by that country's civil war, June 14, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Thousands of Israeli Druze rally for Syrian brothers

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative image of a hacker.(Shutterstock)

Anatomy of an Iranian hack attack: How an Israeli professor got stung

By David Shamah

Madrid City Councilman Guillermo Zapata (YouTube/proyecto15Mcc)

Madrid official quits over Holocaust joke

By JTA

Members of the cast of 'Orange Is the New Black.' (Netflix/ via JTA)

Jew down with ONB?‘Orange is the New Black’ gets Jewy-er

By Linda Buchwald

Israeli actor and director Oded Kotler. (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWhere’s the beef?

By Judah Ari Gross

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