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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 1, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset during a special session to mark Jerusalem Day, on June 1, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Jerusalem was ours and will remain ours,’ PM says

By Marissa Newman

In Jerusalem Day Knesset session, Netanyahu rules out a return to pre-1967 divided city, slams ‘absurd’ UNESCO resolution

Plans deferred for new Jewish building in Silwan after ‘political pressure’

By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes

Jerusalem city hall orders halt to illegal Waqf construction on Temple Mount

Under heavy guard, minister visits West Bank shrine

By Tamar Pileggi

Newly appointed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman alongside IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot during a ceremony welcoming him to the Defense Ministry, May 31, 2016. (Ariel Harmoni/Ministry of Defense)

Analysis

Blink and you’ll miss it: Liberman’s defense strategy

By Judah Ari Gross

‘No more wars of attrition,’ incoming minister tells IDF top brass in a possible reference to the Gaza morass

Abbas: I’ll judge Liberman by his ‘stance on peace,’ not his politics

Jewish Home vows no Palestinian state while it’s in government

Taking defense post, Liberman says Israeli unity trumps holding land

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, seen with Avigdor Lieberman at the Knesset on June 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

LA police: UCLA twin shooting was murder-suicide

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu says Paris peace push ‘radicalizing’ PA’s demands, world should tell Abbas to enter direct talks with Israel instead

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside attorney Yossi Cohen at the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court on October 29, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Courts, bar association slam Netanyahus’ lawyer for maligning judge

By Raoul Wootliff

Judicial Authority ‘repulsed’ by Yossi Cohen’s comments on Dita Proginin, who ruled PM’s wife had abused employees

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich at the welcoming ceremony held in his honor, at the National Police Headquarters in Jerusalem, on December 03, 2015. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Top cop: Sara Netanyahu graft case should have stayed under wraps

Attendees of the first-ever anti-BDS summit at the UN General Assembly, May 31,2016. (Shahar Azran)

Israel hosts first-ever anti-BDS conference at UN

By Cathryn J. Prince

Israeli envoy says movement represents ‘modern-day anti-Semitism’; WJC’s Ron Lauder vows to ‘commit all resources’ to fight it

Illustrative: People watch a board showing price fluctuations at the Tel Aviv stock exchange. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israel-linked investment pros plead with gov’t to shut down binary options

By Simona Weinglass

Horrified by vast ongoing scam, leaders of legit financial community urge Israeli authorities to act ‘before it’s too late’

Israel start-up czar says lack of workers is threat to high-tech scene

By Shoshanna Solomon

David Makovsky and Dennis Ross

The rupture of the Israeli center

Increased polarization hobbles Netanyahu’s ability to preempt efforts to internationalize the Palestinian issue

The sacred safety pin

How can one wear the ’shiva shirt’ after the week is over? With longing and memory and an eye to the future

Dyonna Ginsburg

In Nepal, a taste of the World to Come

A casual chat in an earthquake-ravaged village illuminates the transformative impact of development work

Abraham Rabinovich

The Yom Kippur case for army intel

Bennett’s demands for military briefings recall a catastrophic day when Israeli cabinet ministers sat in the dark

IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria appears in Jaffa military court on June 1, 2016, for the first day of testimony in his manslaughter trial for shooting a disarmed Palestinian attacker in Hebron in March. (Flash90)

New footage suggests evidence tampering in Hebron shooting

By Judah Ari Gross

Prosecutor releases video of ambulance driver kicking knife closer to disarmed Palestinian assailant who was shot dead by soldier

Members of the 2016 rabbinical class of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion reading their class prayer at an ordination ceremony at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 2016. (HUC-JIR via Facebook)

Why a small word change is a big deal for Reform women rabbis

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

44 years after the movement ordained its 1st female rabbi, ordination certificates to now offer same designation for men and women

File: Women protesting sexual harasment. Flash 90

Nearly 90% of female MKs say they’ve been sexually harassed

By Daniel Douek

Lawmakers interviewed for Channel 2 open up on grim experiences and say problem exists even within Knesset

One of two Palestinian cleared of having raped a disabled Israeli woman in court in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2016 (screenshot: Walla)

Palestinian rape suspects to be freed after woman recants

By Tamar Pileggi

Police say disabled Jewish woman who told police her brother’s Arab neighbors assaulted her now claims sex was consensual

An Iranian woman looks at an anti-Israel cartoon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the second international exhibition of drawing and cartoons on the Holocaust in Tehran on May 14, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran announces new ‘Zionist caliphate’ cartoon contest

Day after Holocaust cartoon fest winds down, museum in Islamic Republic offers up to $5,000 for artwork on ‘Zionism, terrorism and racism’

France's supporters cheer during the friendly soccer match between France and Cameroon, at the Beaujoire Stadium in Nantes, western France, on May 30, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE)

US warns Euro 2016 soccer tourney possible terror target

By AFP

With games 10 days away, State Department tells US travelers to beware extremist attacks on transport and public gatherings in Europe

A photo of Maysam Abu Alqian taken after plainclothes police officers beat him during an arrest in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

5 cops questioned over Tel Aviv beating of Arab worker

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police say other officers to be interrogated over violent arrest of supermarket employee Maysam Abu Alqian, 19, last week

Alleged head of a Jewish extremist group Meir Ettinger appears in the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth Illit, August 4, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Jewish extremist freed after 10 months behind bars

Meir Ettinger slapped with nighttime house arrest, ban on entering Jerusalem, West Bank and Yad Binyamin for 6 months

United Torah Judaism MK Uri Maklev in the Knesset on February 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lawmakers break with coalition on MK suspension bill

Rachel Azaria and Uri Maklev slam ‘extreme’ legislation; Benny Begin urges larger majority to kick off process, but calls for impeachment

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson speaks during the United Nation Environment Assembly (UNEA) on May 26, 2016 in Nairobi. (AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA)

Egyptian diplomat said to call other Africans ‘dogs and slaves’

Kenyan diplomat who heard invective moves to ban Egypt from representing Africa; Cairo to probe incident

Roni Dotan and his cherries, carefully cultivated over the last 14 years at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Cherry-picking a piece of history at Ramat Rachel

By Jessica Steinberg

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File: An Aegean Airlines flight arrives at London's Heathrow Airport (Public domain/Wikipedia/Adrian Pingstone)

It's all Greek to meIsraeli doll sparks bomb scare on Cyprus flight

Former Miss Turkey Merve Buyuksarac (YouTube screenshot)

Beauty and the presidentEx-Miss Turkey sentenced ‘for insulting Erdogan’

By AFP

MEP Martina Anderson from Northern Ireland speaks at a meeting organized by the European Parliamentary Group "European United Left/Nordic Green Left" dealing with health issues in the Palestinian territories. (Screen capture: YouTube)

British European Parliament lawmaker calls Israelis ‘a rash’

By JTA

Symon Petliura, a 1920s Ukrainian statesman blamed for the murder of 50,000 Jewish compatriots (YouTube screenshot)

Ukraine honors nationalist whose troops killed 50,000 Jews

By JTA

An IDF vehicle in Absan, near the border between Israel and east of the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 30, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Security forces arrest Gazan who crossed into Israel with knife

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Religious participants in the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem, September 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Support for same-sex unions in Israel soars

Avigdor Lieberman shakes hands with the military general staff during a welcoming ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on May 31, 2016. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGetting down to brass tacks

By Joshua Davidovich

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