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What Matters Most On Monday, June 6, 2016

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This file photo taken on October 21, 1996 shows Boxing great Muhammad Ali throwing a punch towards photographers during a press conference in Jakarta. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL)

Sometimes he stung like a bee: Muhammad Ali’s uneven ties with the Jews

Iconic world champion raged against ‘Zionist control’ and slammed Jewish promoters, but also attended grandson’s bar mitzvah, appealed for Daniel Pearl

Boxing gloves and a message sit among flowers at a makeshift memorial to Muhammad Ali at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, June 4, 2016. (AP/David Goldman)

Muhammad Ali pleaded for Daniel Pearl’s life, father recalls

By JTA

Thousands of mostly young, Jewish teenagers wave Israeli flags as they march through the Damascus Gate and into the Muslim Quarter on their way to the Western Wall to celebrate Jerusalem Day on June 05, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Despite causes for concern, march through Muslim Quarter goes off without a hitch

By Judah Ari Gross

Convergence of Ramadan, Naksa Day, Jerusalem Day raises prospect of conflict in the Old City, but cooler heads prevail

Few incidents as Jerusalem Day marchers parade through Muslim Quarter

By Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem denies planning major Jewish neighborhood over Green Line

By Ilan Ben Zion

Marking ‘setback,’ Abbas demands full Israeli withdrawal to ’67 lines

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. (screen capture: Youtube/NDTV)

Live updates (closed)

French businessman says he gave Netanyahu €170,000 in 2001

By Marissa Newman

Mimran claim refutes PM’s admission to receiving €35,000 for public activity; Iranian official: Saudi Arabia shared intel with Israel in 2006

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

Netanyahu says he got $40,000 from Mimran, not €1 million

By Simona Weinglass

PM’s office denies money was campaign contribution; A-G to probe alleged bigger donation from accused fraudster

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)

Bar association summons Netanyahus’ lawyer for disciplinary hearing

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

Probe ordered into PM over donation by accused French fraudster

By Simona Weinglass

Education Minister and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett speaks during Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud slams ‘hypocritical’ Bennett over Palestinian statehood kerfuffle

Jewish Home leader has accused PM Netanyahu of opposing a Palestinian state in Hebrew while supporting it in English

Bennett charges PM with two-faced stance on Palestinian state

Netanyahu: We want peace, but won’t divide Jerusalem

Hamas tunnels crisscross entire length of the Gaza Strip, Israel says

By Judah Ari Gross

Some of the Malagasy Jews-by-choice in Madagascar see the practice of Judaism as a return to their roots and an overthrowing of the last vestiges of colonialism. (Deborah Josefson)

In remote Madagascar, a new community chooses to be Jewish

By Deborah Josefson

After years of self-study and correspondence with rabbis in Israel, 121 Malagasies converted to Judaism, pray in Sephardic-accented Hebrew and strictly observe Sabbath and holidays

Yossi Klein Halevi

A Jewish centrist manifesto

Needed: A ‘Zionism of longing,’ deeper Jewish-Muslim relations and a stronger Israeli-Diaspora partnership

Haviv Rettig Gur

Jerusalem of iron

On the jubilation of return and the cost of clinging to a place that is holy to so many

Letters from the Jerusalem Day March

He was there wearing a kippah, holding an Israeli flag and handing out flowers — Confused? That’s OK

Is it time to divide Jerusalem?

Surprising new talk of reconfiguring the capital city may finally show a way out of the current intolerable reality

Antiquities found in a Norwegian diplomatic vehicle at the Allenby border crossing, May 31, 2016. (Israel Tax Authority)

Norwegian embassy driver busted with 10 kilos of antiquities

By Ilan Ben Zion

Suspected smuggler allegedly hid artifacts in paneling of diplomatic vehicle trying to enter Jordan from West Bank

A view of the renovated Velodrome stadium, in Marseille, southern France on Friday, October 17, 2014 (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Frenchman held for plot to attack synagogues, other targets, at Euro 2016

Suspect arrested in Ukraine allegedly aimed to disrupt month-long soccer tournament

People participate in the Celebrate Israel Parade in the rain on June 5, 2016 in New York City (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Slideshow

30,000 parade through New York in support of Israel

By Stuart Winer

Mayor Bill de Blasio vows that as long as he is in office the city ‘will always stand by’ the Jewish state

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a rally at Yeshiva Shaare Torah in Brooklyn in support of the Parental Choice in Education Act, May 17, 2015. (NYS Governor's Office/Kevin P. Coughlin/ via JTA)

NY governor orders divestment from companies that back BDS

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) hold a joint press conference after their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, November 20, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu heads to Moscow for fourth Putin parley in a year

By Raphael Ahren

PM and Russian president to discuss security cooperation in Syria, mark 25 years since establishment of bilateral ties

Hassan Khomeini (R), grandson of the Islamic Republic of Iran's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, registers his candidacy for the Assembly of Experts elections at the interior ministry in Tehran on December 18, 2015. (AFP Photo/STR)

Khomeini’s grandson raps Iran’s clampdown on free speech

In TV interview, Hassan Khomeini says Islam bans trampling rights of others, Tehran a ‘laughingstock’ for repressing speech

Farideh Goldin in her Norfolk, Virginia studio. Goldin has written several titles on the Persian-Jewish experience, particularly the female experience, as well as many essays and scholarly articles (Princess Perry)

Exiled from Iran, daughter heals fractured family in telling its saga

By Leeron Hoory

President Reuven Rivlin attends a memorial ceremony in Jerusalem for Ethiopians who died en route to Israel in the years 1979 and 1990. (GPO)

Rivlin: Israel still has to right wrongs for Ethiopian community

President, PM call for better integration into society, eradication of racism, at memorial for Ethiopians who died on way to Jewish state

A ball-bearing found after an attack on an Israeli bus traveling near Nablus in the West Bank, June 5, 2016. (IDF Spokeman)

Bus was attacked with ball bearings, not bullets, army says

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Windshield of vehicle was smashed in Sunday night incident on road near Nablus in the West Bank; no injuries reported

As Arab Israelis embrace mental healthcare, unseen crisis emerges

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Supporters of presidential candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski celebrate in Lima, Peru, Sunday, June 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Son of Jewish refugees said to lead in Peru election exit polls

By Joshua Goodman and FRANKLIN BRICENO

Sign at the entrance to the Baqaa refugee camp in Jordan. (YouTube/StonyRunProductions)

Attack kills 5 Jordan intelligence agents at Palestinian camp

By AFP

The Microsoft corporate building in Mountain View, CA. (image via Shutterstock)

Microsoft opens R&D center in Nazareth to reach Arab engineers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Avraham Levi, convicted of murdering his two children in an act of revenge against his ex-wife. (YouTube/MEDIAIBA)

Father who murdered US-Israeli kids given 2 life sentences

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Pope Francis leads a Mass for the canonization of Blessed Maria Elisabeth Hesselblad and Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary in the Vatican, June 5, 2016. (AFP/ALBERTO PIZZOLI)

Swedish nurse who saved Jews gets sainthood

By AFP

Brayola is a social network for lingerie shopping. (Courtesy of Brayola)

A cup for all sizesThis Israeli startup matches breasts to bras

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

Hebrew media reviewBack in the hot seat

By Joshua Davidovich

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