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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 8, 2016

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledges celebratory cheers from the crowd during her primary night event at the Duggal Greenhouse, Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 7, 2016 in New York (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Winning California, Clinton caps historic race to become first woman nominee

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and Lisa Lerner

Despite all but losing his chance to vie against Trump, Sanders pledges to ‘continue the fight’ all the way to the convention

Refusing to concede, Sanders vows to stay in Democratic race

By AFP

Ahead of visit, UK Jewry slams Trump’s ‘troubling’ rhetoric

By JTA

Analysis3 Jewish takeaways from Bernie Sanders’ run for president

IDF troops position sections of a wall near the Lebanon border at Kibbutz Misgav Am, April 20, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

IDF working 24/7 to shore up ‘insufficient’ defenses on Lebanese border

By Judah Ari Gross

Combat engineers put up walls, fences and create cliffs to protect Israeli communities from Hezbollah attacks

In north, Liberman warns Israel’s enemies ‘not to test us’

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Syria’s Assad hardens position in address to parliament

By AFP

Lebanese Army seen observing northern border during Liberman visit

By Raoul Wootliff

The scene of the Sarona complex terror attack in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2016 (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

2 terrorists kill 4 in Tel Aviv; Hamas vows more Ramadan attacks

18 hospitalized after shooting spree at Sarona Market; Netanyahu, Liberman meet security chiefs; world condemns horrific killings

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 2 as Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog sits in the studio, March 14, 2015 (Channel 2 News)

Meet the acting coach who trains Israel’s diplomats, politicians

By Marissa Newman

Michelle Stein Teer thinks Isaac Herzog was given bad advice on political performance, while US-trained Netanyahu was a ‘good student’ and Stav Shaffir is a ‘tigress’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife, Sara, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, on June 7, 2016 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel doesn’t intervene in Syria war, Netanyahu says in Russia

By Raphael Ahren

PM tells Jewish community leaders that he doubts Assad’s Syria will survive the conflict as a single state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in central Moscow on June 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/Maxim Shipenkov)

In Russian media blitz, PM warns Israel won’t let Iran open Golan front

By Raoul Wootliff

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of a meeting at the Kremlin on June 7, 2016 (screen capture: Facebook)

Putin backs ‘just’ solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with Russian President following their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV)

In Moscow, Netanyahu slams ‘systematic persecution’ against him

Standing beside Putin, PM says media turned his wife ‘into human dust’; blasts inaccurate claims over cash he took from alleged French fraudster

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

Alleged French fraudster changes donations account to match PM

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Flamingos in the Holy Land

On the wonderful and incongruous birds that have opted to quit their wandering and hang out near Eilat

A year before Entebbe

An unintentional detour through Jerusalem’s Arab quarter drove home how it’s impossible to predict acts of terror

Kenneth Waltzer

To build bridges, talk to faculty!

A recent event at the UN ignored the efforts of academics who are fighting BDS on campus — and winning

Israel could use 200 years of US multicultural society as a model for religious pluralism at the Kotel – but it won’t

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

What would you give up to become a Jew?

On the conversion of Yitro, who left his prestigious position in the world to learn Torah in the wilderness

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel attends a committee meeting in the Knesset on February 3, 2016 (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Jewish Home minister says PM’s peace overtures will go nowhere

By Raphael Ahren

Still, Uri Ariel does object to the constant talk of a two-state solution; urges Israel to annex Area C, improve West Bank conditions

Palestinian activists place a flag post in E1 east of Jerusalem, lying within area C of the West Bank (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

MKs knock IDF for not knowing how many Palestinians live where

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Interview

Ties with Israel have never been closer, says Russian chief rabbi

By Raphael Ahren

Moscow and Jerusalem are both ‘snubbed’ by the world and have finally found each other, but there are risks, warns Berel Lazar

MK Rachel Azaria (Kulanu) is ejected from the Interior Affairs Committee meeting on a law proposal for changing regulations ritual bath use, on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As ritual bath bill faces stormy waters, women debate Lysistrata-like boycott

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri speaks during a party faction meeting at the Knesset, May 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Digging in, Shas shuns Knesset sessions over ‘racist’ comments

By Raoul Wootliff

Party doubles down on demand Channel 10 news director be fired for reportedly using racial stereotypes about Mizrahi Jews

Jewish-American filmmaker Ami Horowitz. (Screenshot YouTube)

Guerrilla mockumentarian helps Americans fundraise for Hamas

Holocaust survivors walk with others through the main gate of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland, on January 27, 2016 (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

US House calls on Germany to ‘fulfill moral obligation’ to Holocaust survivors

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Resolution urges Berlin to reaffirm financial commitment to fully address unique needs of victims of Nazi regime

Ronald Lauder looks on as Mordechai Ronen, an inmate at Auschwitz at 11 who lost his parents and sisters there, breaks into tears as he walks through the camp, which is now a museum in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2015. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/via JTA)

Thousands of items belonging to Auschwitz victims newly uncovered

By JTA and AFP

Illustrative: Bangladeshi security personnel stand guard outside a jail in Dhaka on May 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Bangladeshi minister blames Israel for string of gruesome murders

By AFP

Jerusalem rejects ‘utter drivel’ after Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says killings part of an ‘international conspiracy’

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addresses the group’s conference in Washington, March 21, 2015. (Courtesy JTA/J Street)

J Street: Dem platform should reflect ‘new consensus’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

With fight looming over pro-Palestinian planks, Jeremy Ben-Ami says he seeks consensus on Israeli security, Palestinian aspirations

Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz (left) raises a glass alongside Italian Minister of Education, Universities, and Research Stefania Giannini and Ambassador Francesco Maria Talò during a Festa della Repubblica celebration at the ambassador's residence in Ramat Gan on June 2, 2016 (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

In Israel, Italian minister says the Jewish state is ‘part of ourselves’

By Rossella Tercatin

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of gambling in a casino (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Tourism minister fast-tracks Eilat casino proposal

By Stuart Winer

The remote-controlled Dogo robot created by General Robotics Ltd. can carry and fire a 9mm pistol in counterterrorism and law enforcement operations. (Screen capture: General Robotics Ltd.)

Don't look downIsraeli firm creates tiny, terrifying pistol-packing robot

By Judah Ari Gross

Beach Boys Brian Wilson (right) with Tel Aviv deputy mayor Asaf Zamir prior to Wilson's June 8, 2016 concert. (Courtesy Tel Aviv Municipality)

Good vibrationsGod only knows when Brian Wilson will next get to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

The Coloborhynchus spielbergi dinosaur is named after Steven Spielberg. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

BeetleJews13 insects and other organisms named after Jews

By Gabe Friedman

Peace Now activists protest an NGO funding bill proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked outside her residence in Tel Aviv, December 26, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Reform leader says NGO bill would ‘weaken Israel’s moral and civic fabric’

By Eric Cortellessa

In this March 28, 2016 file photo, Gilbert Chikli, 50, and his wife Shirly Chikli, 31, pose for a photo at their home in Ashdod, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israeli con men steal millions from global companies

By Daniel Estrin and Erika Kinetz

Hasidic singer Lipa Schmeltzer with Israeli composer Corinne Allal (YouTube screenshot)

Building bridgesYiddish version of anthem moves Israeli composer to tears

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of monkeys playing with electrical wires in Amer Fort, India. (CC BY 2.0 John Haslam/Flikr)

Monkey in the worksMonkey causes nationwide blackout in Kenya

By AP

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

Hebrew media reviewTaking it to the bank (statements)

By Ilan Ben Zion

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