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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 17, 2015

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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)

'It’s a wake-up call to America and Israel and everyone'

Israel’s Druze rally to prevent ‘genocide’ of Syrian brethren

By Melanie Lidman

Members of the sect cite the Holocaust in campaign to arm their increasingly threatened coreligionists north of the border

IDF chief: Army would act to prevent slaughter of Syrian refugees

By Mitch Ginsburg and Jonathan Beck

AnalysisSyrian Druze have more to fear from Nusra than Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Rocket alert sounds on Golan in false alarm

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, April 10, 2015 (AFP/pool)

Live updates (closed)

US defense chief: Assad regime could still fall

By Marissa Newman

Kahlon sorry for former envoy’s Obama critique; scandal-ridden MK Oren Hazan booted from Knesset hall amid suspension calls

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting with the Revolutionary Council of his ruling Fatah party, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 16, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Analysis

In end to latest PA government, a response to Israel’s talks with Hamas?

By Avi Issacharoff

Ramallah’s maneuver may be a reaction to the unexpected rapprochement between Israel and Gaza’s rulers

Palestinian unity government resigns amid West Bank-Gaza rift

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hamas rejects unilateral dissolution of Palestinian unity

By AFP and AP

Hamas, Israel in indirect ‘exchange of ideas’ over truce

By AFP and ToI Staff

Haviva Ner-David

Shalom, havera: Bonna Devora Haberman

The Women of the Wall founder, who died on Tuesday, was an inspiration to those struggling for equality

Arnold D. Samlan

When the rabbi says ‘I don’t know’

Being a Holocaust educator for the March of the Living makes him a better teacher, one without all the answers

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

Landmark anti-boycott laws trapped by Congressional impasse

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Trade bill amendments that would prevent US dealings with BDS-supporting companies stuck as House Democrats face off against Obama

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power talks during a previous Security Council meeting, on December 22, 2014 at the United Nations in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP)

American UN envoy: US fighting ‘delegitimization’ of Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni in a Knesset committee meeting, June 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Livni dodges war crimes arrest in London

By Stuart Winer

Opposition MK said to schedule meetings with UK politicians as a loophole to gain immunity from prosecution

A Muslim pilgrim wears a surgical mask to prevent infection from the MERS virus, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)

Israel girds for possible MERS virus outbreak

By Tamar Pileggi

Despite a number of confirmed cases in neighboring Jordan and Egypt, the deadly disease has not reached Israel

President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Jordan's Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat, June 16, 2015 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Jordan envoy: Status quo between Israel, Palestinians ‘untenable’

By Raphael Ahren

Walid Obeidat says Arab Peace Initiative could be ‘win for all’; President Rivlin praises Hashemite Kingdom as ‘shining light of tolerance and harmony’

A Palestinian man rides the bus near the city of Bethlehem, December 18, 2014 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

For first time in years, IDF to let Palestinian buses into Israel on Ramadan

By Elhanan Miller

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) drives on Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes (40) and guard Andre Iguodala (9) during the first half of Game 6 of basketball's NBA Finals in Cleveland, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. (AP/Tony Dejak)

Warriors beat Cavaliers to win 2015 NBA championship

Cleveland and coach Blatt’s hopes for a title win dashed with 105-97 home loss to Golden State in Game 6

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and owner Robert Kraft are all smiles after beating the Indianapolis Colts, January 2015. (Elsa/Getty Images/via JTA)

Football hall of famers to butt heads with Israelis

By Gedalyah Reback

Patriots owner will huddle with 19 gridiron greats in the Holy Land to tackle football’s future in the Jewish state

Likud Member of Knesset Oren Hazan during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, June 15, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A-G reopens assault probe against scandal-dogged MK

By Tamar Pileggi and Stuart Winer

Complaint filed in 2014 claims Likud’s Oren Hazan attacked mayor of Ariel, months before he entered parliament

Abraham Foxman holds a replica of his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star as he is honored by the ADL's 2014 Annual Meeting at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on November 7, 2014. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/JTA)

As Foxman leaves, a look at what the ADL stands to lose

By Uriel Heilman

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Women of the Wall founder, Bonna Devora Haberman, left, at a Women of the Wall prayer service, March 3, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Women of the Wall Facebook page)

Women of the Wall founder Bonna Devora Haberman dies

By JTA

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, right, with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin as they arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting, Jerusalem, May 26, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/FLASH90)

Jailed Jewish millionaire linked to Israeli cabinet members

By Jonathan Beck and Stuart Winer

Ofir Leitner speaks at the Israel Mobile Summit (Courtesy)

Israel hosts major mobile event

By David Shamah

Donald Trump (CC BY-SA Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)

Donald Trump announces 2016 presidential bid

By AFP

Demonstrators gather along Syria's border with Israel before trying to cut through a line of barbed wire and head into the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, as seen from the Druze village of Majdal Shams, on June 5, 2011 (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWill Israel refuse the Druze?

By Joshua Davidovich

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