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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 2, 2016

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Conservative Jews pray at the temporary egalitarian Robinson's Arch prayer pavilion at the southern end of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)

Diaspora leaders warn PM of ‘major rift’ if Western Wall plan collapses

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

As ultra-Orthodox parties stymie implementation of pluralistic prayer pavilion, Diaspora Jewish heads hold crisis talks at PMO, look to Netanyahu to prove his leadership

The Western Wall (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

US non-Orthodox Jewish leaders meet PM on Western Wall prayer deal

Volunteers and archaeologists working in the Cave of the Skulls, overlooking Nahal Tze'elim in the Judean Desert on June 1, 2016. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

In Bar Kochba rebels’ caves, salvaging what the thieves left behind

By Ilan Ben Zion

Archaeologists conclude 3-week excavation of the Judean Desert’s Cave of the Skulls, the largest undertaking of its kind in 60 years

2,000-year-old Roman tablets found in London mud

By Jill Lawless

Benjamin Netanyahu sitting in Knesset on June 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu tries to turn Arab Peace Initiative on its head

By Raphael Ahren

The Arab world has long conditioned normalized ties with Israel on a solution to the Palestinian conflict. The PM appears to be trying to reverse the process

PM: Paris peace parley will ‘radicalize’ Palestinian demands

Kahlon appeals to Herzog: Regional peace efforts ‘more substantial’ than reported

UN Mideast envoy: Israeli ministers are ‘killing hope’ for peace

By AFP

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett talks to Channel 2 in an interview segment aired on June 2, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: ‘I’ll topple the government’ to prevent a Palestinian state

Interior minister Deri: Home front woefully unprepared for war; Israeli civilian helicopter overflies south Lebanon

A Palestinian woman walks by a sign calling for a boycott of Israel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on February 11, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Despite BDS, Israeli firms enjoy a foreign investment boom

By Raoul Wootliff

With pro-boycott arguments failing to make an impact, Bloomberg report finds, fertile conditions are driving record capital flow

From our partnerLivingstone blames ’embittered MPs’ for his suspension over Hitler remarks

Just add hopsIsrael’s SodaStream turns to home-brewed beer

By JTA

UK Labour leader pushed for bans, boycotts of Israel, letters show

By Stuart Winer

The Bible for millennials (Bible Emoji/Twitter)

Seeing the lite

The greatest story ever told… by emoji

Shrinking the character count with cyber-icons might help lure ‘the heathen tweens to God,’ says one blogger

Jessica Rosenblum

J Street helped make Israel safer

The funding source brouhaha is a distraction from the success of a peaceably negotiated nuclear deal with Iran

Where’s wall? Doh! Mystery solved

How did the high, thick wall at Jaffa Gate pose a formidable defense if invaders could simply walk around it?

My ‘Fascist’ rooting for David Blatt

7 million fans watching their favorite Israeli basketball coach does not a totalitarian regime make

Yakir Englander

Jerusalem Day, a shameful hatefest

Where is the Jewish outrage against triumphalist marches that force Palestinian residents to cower at home?

Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)

In Ottoman holdover, Israel doubles down on marriage restrictions

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Knesset upholds 2-year jail term for Jewish couples who don’t choose an approved rabbi to conduct their weddings

The Klezmatics had the audience on their feet at their May 16, 2016 tribute to Sholem Aleichem with A Besere Velt chorus at Boston's Temple Ohabei Shalom (Derek Kouyoumjian/ Boston Workmen's Circle)

Mass gatherings mark centennial of Shalom Aleichem’s death

By Penny Schwartz

File. Israeli soldiers patrol a street, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 3, 2015, as they search for the suspected Palestinian killers of Israeli couple Eitam and Naama Henkin. (AFP PHOTO/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Palestinian woman tries to stab soldiers, is shot dead — IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

No troops injured in incident at an army outpost near the West Bank city of Nablus

A man looks out of a window of building where Israeli flags fly from the roof, in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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

By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes

Government officials said to have intervened to prevent green light for homes in flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with MK Tzachi Hanegbi (R) at the weekly Likud party meeting at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defense panel fumes over ex-chairman’s report clearing PM in Gaza war

Likud MK Tzachi Hanegbi reportedly misrepresented document as Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee findings

Lawmakers vote to recognize the Armenian genocide after a debate during the 173rd sitting of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, Berlin, June 2, 2016. (AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)

Germany recognizes Armenian genocide, prompts Turkish ire

Ankara recalls its ambassador in protest after Berlin vote on death of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I

Bassam Safadi. (screen capture: Al-Alam)

Israel arrests Iran TV reporter for incitement, supporting terror

By Judah Ari Gross

Bassam al-Safadi, a Druze resident of the Golan Heights, to remain in police custody until Sunday

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Billings, Montana, May 26, 2016. (AP/Brennan Linsley, File)

Trump said planning Israel trip before July GOP convention

Four sources tell New York Magazine presumptive Republican nominee weighing visit; Jewish son-in-law and Adelson said making arrangements; campaign denies report

A surfer at Tel Aviv's Hilton Beach, considered a hangout for the LGBT community, during the 2015 Gay Pride Week. (Matthew Hechter/Flash 90)

Tel Aviv’s LGBTs map history through city landmarks ahead of parade

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustrative photo of Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus as displayed at his tomb in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, on April 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Meteor mummy‘Extraterrestrial’ dagger found in King Tut’s tomb

By Raoul Wootliff

This photo posted May 29, 2016 shows Erin Schrode hot on the campaign trail in Humboldt County, northern California (facebook/Erin Schrode)

This 25-year-old Jewish woman may become youngest member of Congress

By Gabe Friedman

Dana Ivgy is Zohar, the sour paper-pusher at the heart of Talya Lavie’s IDF comedy ‘Zero Motivation.’ (courtesy: Match Factory.)

TV recruitsPoehler, Lyonne find ‘Zero Motivation’ for small screen

By Jessica Steinberg

Arnaud Mimran (right) and his lawyer Jean-Marc Fedida (left), arrive at the Paris courthouse on May 25, 2016. (AFP/Bertrand Guay)

Paris prosecution seeks jail terms for 12 alleged scammers; 5 said to be living in Israel

By Simona Weinglass and charlotte guimbert

Stand-up comedian and actress Natasha Leggero (YouTube screenshot)

Leggero legroom‘Abortions cool’ in Judaism, says newly Jewish comedian

By JTA

A view of a portion of Israel’s largest solar field, the 4.95MW Ketura Sun project at Kibbutz Ketura in the Negev (Photo credit: Courtesy Suntech)

Israel solar guru promises more plants in US, Africa

By Shoshanna Solomon

Julia Ioffe gives an interview to CNN in September 2013 (YouTube screenshot)

ADL task force to study anti-Semitism directed at journalists

By Eric Cortellessa

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)

Hebrew media reviewNews à la Netanyahu

By Ilan Ben Zion

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