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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 18, 2015

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President Barack Obama welcomes Ambassador Michael B. Oren of the State of Israel to the White House Monday, July 20, 2009, during the credentials ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to the United States (White House photo)

Interview

Michael Oren sees a US alliance in tatters, and Israel ‘on our own’

By David Horovitz

Asked whether people might look back on this period as the last days before Israel was wiped out, the MK-diplomat-historian responds: ‘It’s happened before in history, hasn’t it?’

AnalysisBlaming Obama, ex-envoy Oren says aspects of US-Israel ties ‘in tatters’

By David Horovitz

AnalysisFrom Clooney to Clinton: 20 revelations from Michael Oren’s new book

By David Horovitz

Oren criticism of Obama ‘absolutely false,’ Washington says

Orthodox Christian pilgrims take a dip in the Jordan River as part of a traditional baptism ceremony at the site of Qasr el Yahud, the place where Jesus is believed to have been baptized, near the West Bank town of Jericho on April 11, 2015. (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

Baptism by mire? In lower Jordan River, sewage mucks up Christian rite

By Melanie Lidman

River quality where Jesus was purportedly baptized raises concerns, though Health Ministry says water is clean

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset on June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Culture minister calls artists ‘tedious tight-asses’ in interview

By Jonathan Beck

Likud’s Miri Regev says she knew before entering ministry that she would be working for ‘thankless’ people

IDF soldiers seen near armored personnel carriers (APCs) by the southern Israeli border with Gaza, on the eighth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 15, 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

After canceling, German city reinstates Breaking the Silence exhibit

By Raphael Ahren

Cologne municipality plans to present show critical of Israeli soldiers ‘in an appropriate context’ next year

Counter-boycott push beats back divestment in Sweden

By Gedalyah Reback

Louvre denies claims of anti-Israel discrimination

By AFP and Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu aims to shut new ‘Palestine 48’ TV station

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

You have to pick one: US or Israel

It was a conundrum: Two passports, a divided heart and one stubborn Swiss airport bureaucrat

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The price we pay for loving Israel

Jews in the Diaspora navigate a blurry line between supporting the Jewish state and denying dual loyalty

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

An aliyah high five

A year after uprooting the family to Israel, the youngest of the brood proves just how far they have all come

Emuna Agnon Yaron (1921 – 2015)

The daughter of Israel’s first Nobel laureate brought more of her father’s writing to the public than he did in his lifetime

The aftermath of a suspected arson attack at the Church of the Multiplication on the Sea of Galilee on Thursday, June 18, 2015 (Fire and Rescue Services)

Sea of Galilee church where ‘Jesus fed 5,000,’ torched in suspected hate attack

Two injured by smoke inhalation, Hebrew graffiti scrawled at site where Christians believe Jesus fed 5,000 with five loaves and two fish

The teeth found at Qesem Cave outside of Tel Aviv (Courtesy: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University)

400,000-year-old teeth reveal prehistoric pollution

By Judah Ari Gross

Tel Aviv University team provides unprecedented glimpse into eating and cooking habits of paleolithic man

Participants celebrate Taglit-Birthright Israel's 15th anniversary, Tel Aviv, June 2015. (Courtesy)

As it turns 15, Birthright Israel takes a closer look at Tel Aviv

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Smoke and explosions from fighting between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels, in the Quneitra area, seen from the Golan Heights, June 17, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit/ File)

IDF officer says Syrian Druze should not flee to border, downplays danger

By ToI Staff and AFP

Official nixes Golan field hospital as fighting on border intensifies; Netanyahu says Israel will do what is necessary but does not elaborate

Sheikh Kamal Khatib of the Islamic movement, right, is brought to arraignment in a Jerusalem court after being arrested for provoking riots on the Temple Mount and East Jerusalem, October 4, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Homophobic op-ed by Islamic leader raises Arab Israeli ire

By Elhanan Miller

Israeli Islamic Movement deputy wishes AIDS on gay supporters after same-sex wedding of Luxembourg premier

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 14, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu rejects religion minister’s attack on Reform Jews

By JTA

PM ‘strongly disagrees’ with David Azoulay’s characterization of Reform movement as ‘a disaster for the Jewish people’

Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor. as Ambassador to the UN (courtesy)

Israeli envoy slams ‘misconduct’ in UN report on children in war

By Stuart Winer

Ron Prosor tells secretary-general that Algerian legal expert Leila Zerrougui unfairly focused on Israel, rejected Israeli input

Swiss open probe into computer virus that monitored Iran talks

By JTA

Authorities search three hotels where negotiations were held, after report of malware linked to Israel

Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. (David Goldman/AP)

9 killed in shooting at black church in South Carolina

By Alex Sanz and David Goldman

Police search for white gunman after suspected racial hate crime at historic site

Haifa University President Amos Shapira (left) presents honorary Ph.D degrees to Shira and Jay Ruderman (center, second right) (Gil Hadani)

For business success, include the disabled, urge US philanthropists

By David Shamah

From the workplace to the Jewish community center, inclusion has become an important value among young people, according to Jay and Shira Ruderman

Haviva Reick (courtesy Return to the Burning House)

How a Holocaust heroine is finally written into the annals of history

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 19, 2015 (Marc Israel Selleml/Flash90)

Capital gainsJerusalem mayor is richest pol; PM 4th

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of bearded religious soldiers. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Closer shaveArmy to cut down on beards

Michael Douglas poses for a photo before an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (Dan Balilty/AP Photo)

In Israel, Michael Douglas set to receive ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’

By Josef Federman

(Illustrative image of size measurement. via Shutterstock)

Size mattersPalestinian cleric pounds ‘penis ads’

By Stuart Winer

Detail of Matan Ben Cnaan's Guy and Annabelle, 2015, oil on board, 120 x 140 cm. The picture won the National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award. (Courtesy Matan Ben Cnaan)

Israeli artist takes home international painting prize

By Jonathan Beck

Mobli COO Ido Sadeh (Courtesy)

Mobli launches new visual search engine

Illustrative: An explosion on the Syrian Golan Heights on June 16, 2015, as the al-Nusra Front fights against Assad's troops near the Syrian Druze village of Hader. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGo tell it on the mountain

By Joshua Davidovich

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