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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 25, 2015

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Milan's Holocaust Memorial, a vast space underneath the Central Train Station where 70 years ago the trains to death camps were loaded, at night now turns into a shelter to accommodate refugees from Africa. June 23, 2015 (Rossella Tercatin/The Times of Israel)

‘We could not remain indifferent’: Milan’s Holocaust Museum now a shelter for African refugees

By Rossella Tercatin

70 years ago, the notorious Platform 21 was used to load Jews on boxcars headed for death. Today, the same space houses those who have fled their countries seeking life

Arab-Israeli Knesset Member Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, February 12, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Blockade-busting flotilla sets sail for Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Before boarding boat, Israeli-Arab lawmaker says it is his ‘moral obligation’ to highlight plight of Palestinian enclave

UN chief says Gaza blockade-busting flotilla not helpful

By Joshua Davidovich

AnalysisA year into fake unity with Hamas, Abbas says ‘enough’

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinians set to kick off war crimes case against Israel

By Stuart Winer

ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTO: Iranians take part in a protest in front of the judiciary building on October 22, 2014 in Isfahan, in solidarity with women injured in a series of acid attacks (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ISNA/Arya Jafari)

Live updates (closed)

State Department report slams Iran’s human rights violations

By Jonathan Beck

Islamic Republic accused of having world’s second-highest rate of executions, as well as arbitrary detention and torture

US President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the G-7 summit in the Schloss Elmau Hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, June 8, 2015. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Former Obama advisers warn against emerging Iran deal

Bipartisan group calls on US administration to hold out for a ‘good agreement,’ address Israel’s concerns over accord

Iran’s foreign minister to join nuke talks Friday

By AFP and AP

Iran hardens stance on nuke deal as deadline nears

By AP

France to study building nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia

By AFP

Pinchos Fridberg

Dancing on Jewish graves in Vilna

A Holocaust survivor decries plans to build a convention center on the site of a historic Jewish cemetery in the Lithuanian capital

Compadres: Latino-Jewish ties run deep

Israel can and should beef up outreach among Hispanic Americans, who could decide the next US president

Aryeh Deri and Pete Rose

The defeat of a proposed law barring ex-cons from public office puts Israel in the minor leagues of democracy

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Let’s learn for Charleston

A fitting way to honor the nine victims shot dead at their Bible study session: Study scripture

Archaeologists at Khirbat al-Minya, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (photo courtesy of Minya Excavations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

On Galilee’s shore, Israel weighs restoring splendor of early Islam

By Ilan Ben Zion

An exterior view of the Google office in Mountain View, California. (Google office image via Shutterstock)

Google is listening to you, Israeli tech-blogger reveals

Internet giant takes heat, backs down, after secretly installing software capable of picking up conversations

Illustrative photo of an agricultural field in Israel, May 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Farmer beaten to death, Palestinian illegals suspected

By Jonathan Beck

Police investigating whether attack on David Bar-Kapara was criminal or terror-related

Thousands of social protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Gaza? Iran? Israel’s got internal problems, too

Taub Center report indicates Israelis are facing skyrocketing living expenses but also slowly narrowing gaps

US Secretary of State John Kerry at the US State Department in Washington DC, June 24, 2015. (AFP Photo/ Chris Kleponis)

Kerry had up to $1m stake in voided gas partnership

By Stuart Winer

US secretary of state held shares in Noble Energy, co-owner of Leviathan and Tamar fields, whistleblower site reveals

An illustrative photo of Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon visiting the governmental department of telecom and cyber systems in June 2013 (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

The double-edged sword of cyber warfare

By Mitch Ginsburg

While Israel acknowledges ‘day-to-day’ use of offensive digital weapons, experts warn of its growing vulnerability

An IDF ambulance that was attacked by Druze Israeli residents in the Golan Heights as it ferried Syrian war casualties into Israel for medical treatment, June 22, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel arrests more Druze over Syrian lynching

By AFP

Total of 12 people detained for suspected involvement in ambulance attack that left one Syrian dead and another hurt

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting leaders of the Druze community in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. (Kobi Gidon/GPO)

Netanyahu, Druze leaders discuss deadly ambulance attack

By Adiv Sterman and Jonathan Beck

Remand extended for 9 suspects in lynching of wounded Syrians; PM says community must ensure attacks don’t happen again

A 2014 protest promoting greater pluralism for conversions. (Courtesy: Ne'emanei Torah Va'Avoda)

Jewish Agency proposes independent conversion courts for immigrants

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New body would perform conversions abroad for all denominations, and help interfaith families become integrated into the Jewish people

Saul Bellow laughs during a 1997 interview in his office at Boston University, where he taught literature. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Interview

How Saul Bellow broke the WASPs’ hold on literature

By JP O’ Malley

As the sun set, the Jerusalem Opera Festival began in Sultan's Pool, for the first time in four years (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Chai notes

Mellow drama at the Jerusalem opera

By Jessica Steinberg

Golden light and local touches make the premiere performance of ‘L’elisir d’amore’ sing

Lockheed-Martin Executive Vice-President Patrick Dewar (L) and Minister of Science and Technology Danny Danon sign an agreement to jointly produce educational curricula for all age groups in science and technology, with an emphasis on teaching the principles of cyber-security, June 24 2015 (Mark Neiman)

Desperately seeking STEM: Ministry works to promote cyber-education

By David Shamah

Israel signs second agreement with tech firm Lockheed-Martin to encourage more kids to study science and tech

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A 2012 billboard on the Ayalon Highway featuring model Bar Refaeli. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Fatal distraction‘Eye-catching ads endanger drivers’

Kuwaiti MP Hamdan Azemi in a television interview. (Screen capture: MEMRI)

House boundKuwaiti MP: Women should stay home

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-BDS law passes final Senate legislative hurdle

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Eastern Gaza City, six months after 2014's Operation Protective Edge (Aaed Tayeh/ Flash90)

Rebuilding of thousands of destroyed Gaza homes set to begin

By AFP

Julian Edelman will fly on El Al’s new service from Tel Aviv to Boston’s Logan International Airport. (JTA/Shahar Azran)

Patriotic PassengerPatriots’ star to fly El Al’s new route

By Gabe Friedman

An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

Hebrew media reviewOffshore gas and in-house debate

By Marissa Newman

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