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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 15, 2016

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Orlando gunman Omar Mateen (R) with his wife, Noor Zahi Salman and son. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Orlando gunman’s wife has Palestinian roots, was married before in West Bank

By GARANCE BURKE, HOLBROOK MOHR and Mitch Weiss

Noor Zahi Salman’s parents listed as being born in ‘Palestine’; police believe she knew about the plot ahead of time

Tel Aviv, no stranger to terror, mourns with Orlando

By Melanie Lidman

Orlando gunman laughed as he killed victims, attack survivor says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

FBI investigating whether Orlando killer was a gay club regular

By JASON DEAREN and TERRANCE HARRIS

US President Barack Obama (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2015. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

PM rejects ‘panic’ over reported cut in US missile defense aid

By Raphael Ahren and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Opposition slams Netanyahu after White House rejects Congress’s bid to up funding; Netanyahu insists that budget will increase

A test of the David's Sling missile defense system (Defense Ministry)

White House opposes extra funding for Israel missile defense

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters on Mar. 1, 2015 before boarding a plane to Washington where he will appear before Congress. Netanyahu's speech has received criticism in Israel and abroad. (Screen capture: Channel 10 news)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu slams media’s ‘obsessive persecution’ over spending

By Marissa Newman

PM’s office says ‘petty’ reports suggesting premier’s expenses during NY trip were unnecessary are ‘wrong and misleading’

US President Barack Obama speaks alongside Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew ,center, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch following a National Security Council meeting on the Islamic State at the Department of Treasury in Washington, DC, June 14, 2016. AFP/SAUL LOEB)

Fuming Obama assails Trump over anti-Muslim remarks

President says GOP candidate’s comments targeting Muslims in wake of Orlando shooting don’t represent ‘America we want’; Ryan says Muslim ban is a non-starter

Slamming his Muslim ban calls, Jewish Republicans still split on Trump

GOP lawmakers distance themselves from Trump after Orlando remarks

By Erica Werner

Hillary Clinton wins DC primary, meets with Sanders

Netanyahu’s $1,600 coif is hair-raising highlight of his NY expenses

PM’s bill reached over $540,000 for 5-day trip last year, mostly for the flight; included $20,000 for moving hotel furniture; $60 for a single copy of a Hebrew newspaper; wife’s costs not included

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on June 7, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Reporters lash PM for whining about media ‘not covering’ Russia trip

By Ilan Ben Zion

The entrance to the IFX Expo conference at the Palais des Sports in Limassol, Cpyrus, May 2016 (Hunter Stuart)

Reporter's notebook'The customers are to blame. I think they like to be abused'

As victims pile up, the binary options industry parties in Cyprus

By Hunter Stuart

Passing the buck, blaming the clients, and dancing gangster-style: Behind the scenes at the scandal-wracked industry’s annual festive get-together

Avrohom Gordimer

Gay but not Orthodox

A rebuttal to a call to embrace LGBT congregants: yes, kindness is called for, but acceptance defies Orthodoxy

New York’s anti-BDS law is bad for Israel

The new legislation tramples on free speech and undermines the very civil liberties that protect US Jews

Desmond Tutu is wrong on Barghouti

The South African cleric advocates a Nobel Peace prize for a Palestinian terrorist who wants to destroy Israel

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks at the Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on June 15, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek)

Intelligence chief warns of growing gaps between Israel, neighbors

By Judah Ari Gross

At Herzliya Conference, Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevy describes a strong, powerful Israel in an unstable Middle East; warns of potential conflict with Hezbollah, Hamas

Hamas fighters attend a funeral procession in Gaza City on January 29, 2016, for seven members of the terror group killed when an attack tunnel into Israel collapsed. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Missing Hamas officer rumored to have defected to Israel

Khan Younis resident has extensive knowledge of the terror group’s tunnel network, according to TV report

Lt. Col. Liron Segal, head of the IDF's Personal Protective Equipment Branch, displays a new uniform and pair of protective eyewear developed by the unit. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Vests, glasses, boots — IDF soldiers get a makeover

Upgraded personal equipment is partly a response to the army’s experiences in 2014’s war in Gaza

Former defense minister Ehud Barak visits a Rafael Advanced Defense Systems production plant on November 27, 2012. (Alon Bason/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Likud, Meretz MKs team up to stop arms sales to human rights violators

By Judah Ari Gross

Politicians from almost every party join Tamar Zandberg, Yehuda Glick on proposal to limit defense exports

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely attend a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

22 MKs sign petition rejecting Arab Peace Initiative

By Stuart Winer

Thousands-of-years old jugs found on sale in Jerusalem's upscale Mamilla Mall on June 15, 2016. (Courtesy: Israel Antiquities Authority)

Shop in upscale Jerusalem mall busted for illegal antiquities sales

By Ilan Ben Zion

Antiquities authority agents raid Mamilla store, confiscate bronze arrowheads, 2,000-year-old Hasmonean coins

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at a rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)

Khaled Mashaal to step down as Hamas leader — report

Political chief said to forgo reelection bid in upcoming leadership vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely attend a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

22 MKs sign petition rejecting Arab Peace Initiative

By Stuart Winer

Lawmakers say Saudi plan, first proposed in 2002 and recently partially backed by Netanyahu, contradicts their ‘moral and political position’

Neria Yeshurun (Israel National News screenshot)

Reprimand but no trial for IDF officer who ordered ‘salute’ fire at Gaza building

By Stuart Winer

During 2014 war, Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun told tanks under his command to shell structure in memory of comrade killed by sniper there the day before

Rescue and medical personnel carrying a wounded man at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Old City’s Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem on December 23, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court okays razing homes of Jaffa Gate stabbers

Justices reject appeal by families of 2 Palestinian terrorists who perpetrated fatal attack, dismiss claims practice is discriminatory

Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar speaks at the mixed gender Western Wall plaza, on June 14, 2016. (screen capture: Ynet)

Tearful chief rabbi holds Orthodox prayers at egalitarian Western Wall plaza

By Tamar Pileggi

Conservative Movement calls Shlomo Amar’s visit a ‘deliberate sabotage of Israel’s relations with world Jewry’

View of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 29, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset panel upholds Temple Mount ban for MKs

Ethics committee says it will revise decision when police indicate it’s safe for lawmakers to visit the Jerusalem holy site

Edelgard Kellerman, employee of a butcher's shop in the village of Kallstadt, southern Germany, speaks to a journalist on June 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL ROLAND)

No plaques, plenty of pig stomachs, in Donald Trump’s ancestral German village

By Deborah Cole

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter, Gabriella, in 2016. (AFP)

Iran accuses British mom of bid to ‘overthrow regime’

By AFP

French soldiers patrol at Charles de Gaulle airport, outside of Paris, Friday, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Extremists ‘en route from Syria to France and Belgium’

By Angela Charlton and LORNE COOK

Myriam Schottenstein, the founder of ShayTell, a sheitel review website, and her daughter. (Courtesy of Schottenstein)

Toupee tipsterIt’s Yelp for wigs

(L to R) Shlomo Touboul, Eric Schmidt, and Ofer Israeli cut the cake celebrating the official launch of Illusive in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2015 (Illusive Networks)

Israeli tech scene second only to Silicon Valley, Google exec says

By AFP

Employees working in Zabar’s meat department (Wikimedia Commons)

Bloody self-serviceMan shoots himself in the leg at Zabar’s in New York

By JTA

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) arrives at Ma'asiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle on February 15, 2016 as he begins serving a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Olmert files request for prison furlough in July

A GetTaxi vehicle in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Gett chief expects ‘more than $1 billion’ in revenue by next year

By Shoshanna Solomon

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, left, and singer Robert Plant appear at a press conference ahead of the worldwide theatrical release of "Celebration Day," a concert film of their 2007 London O2 arena reunion show, in New York, October 9, 2012. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jury to decide whether ‘Stairway to Heaven’ riff stolen from Jewish guitarist

By AP and ToI Staff

Comedian Larry David speaks on stage at the VIP Closing Dinner during Advertising Week 2015 AWXII at Sotheby's, New York City, October 1, 2015. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for AWXII)

Pretty, pretty good‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ to return

By JTA

A screen capture from footage of Larossi Abballa, confessing to the murders of a French policeman and his partner on June 14, 2016 (Twitter)

Hebrew media reviewGoing for the gore

By Ilan Ben Zion

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