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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 16, 2016

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Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat addressing the Herzliya Conference, June 17, 2016 (screen shot)

Egypt ready to pressure Palestinians on peace process, envoy says

By Raphael Ahren

In first public remarks, Ambassador Hazem Khairat also warns ‘continuation of occupation’ causes terror; calls for closing Israel’s nuclear facilities

Intelligence minister warns ‘megalomanic’ Hezbollah chief

By Stuart Winer

Top diplomat: Palestinian conflict ‘close to bottom’ of Sunni Arab world’s agenda

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinians move into new city, part of statehood dream

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Ehud Barak speaks at the Herzliya Conference, June 16, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek)

Live updates (closed)

Former PM Barak: World ‘doesn’t believe one word Netanyahu says’

British lawmaker Jo Cox dies after shooting attack; Ya’alon slams Netanyahu, says he will run against him

A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting is set up close to the nearby Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, June 15, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

In the wake of Orlando, rabbis call for action, not prayer, against gun violence

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A group of 850 US clerics take on the 5-million strong NRA in a coordinated push for broader legislation on gun control

After Orlando, Trump to meet NRA on terror watch list, no-fly ban

By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

US officials: Threats against Muslims must stop after Orlando attack

By daniel woolls

Netanyahu reaches out to Orlando victims in video

By Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, October 11, 2015. (Flash90)

Knesset passes sweeping anti-terror reforms into law

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

New legislation mandates 3-5 year prison terms for supporters of terrorism, up to 15 years to anyone who aids attackers

Randy Wolfe, aka Randy California, performing in Utrecht, the Netherlands, May 1, 1989. (Frans Schellekens/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

The song remains the same

‘Stairway to Heaven’ lawsuit stars dead Jewish rocker

By Gabe Friedman

Court papers say the late Randy California taught Jimmy Page the intro to ‘Taurus,’ the song his estate claims was ripped off by Led Zeppelin

During a June 14, 2016 gathering in Newton, Massachusetts, the city's mayor, Setti Warren, addresses the audience about a recent series of anti-Semitic incidents in Newton schools (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Boston suburb grapples with anti-Semitism, allegations of a whitewash

By Matt Lebovic

A series of incidents at schools has locals accusing education officials of sweeping anti-Jewish hatred under the rug

Civil disobedience at the Kotel

A planned egalitarian prayer service will protest “desecration” at Robinson’s Arch by Jerusalem’s chief rabbi

Eugene Kontorovich

Anti-BDS laws block discrimination

This legislation is not about speech or viewpoints, it’s about unfair and discriminatory business decisions

Asher J. Zlotnik

Lone soldiers and the Tribe

Soldiers from abroad often leave Israel after their service: Here’s what the government can do to ensure they stay

People pray on either side of the dividing wall that separates the male and female prayer sections at the Western Wall, June 14, 2016. (Wajsgras/Flash90)

Agenda stalled, progressive Jews plan Western Wall protest prayer

By Raoul Wootliff

With pluralist pavilion delayed, Reform and Masorti leaders call on public to join egalitarian worship next to segregated plaza

Israeli tank from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the First Lebanon War seen on display at a Moscow museum. (Courtesy GPO)

IDF tank held by Russia since 1982 returns to Israel

Vehicle seized by Syria during battle of Sultan Yacoub lands at Ben-Gurion Airport, in gesture by Putin to Netanyahu

US President Barack Obama (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November 9, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

PM determined to lock in US military aid, ‘but not at any price’

By Raphael Ahren

Negotiations reaching their conclusion, senior Israeli defense official says, and package will not entail a cut to funding

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro (Photo credit: Flash 90)

US envoy: We will fight ‘pernicious’ BDS movement

Israeli security forces at the scene of a deadly shooting attack at the Sarona Market shopping center in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2016. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Podcast

After Orlando, after Sarona

By Raoul Wootliff

Omar Mateen, the gunman in a mass shooting attack that killed 49 at an Orlando gay nightclub, according to police, June 12, 2016. (MySpace)

Orlando gunman posted to Facebook during shooting rampage

By ToI Staff and AP

Using phone from inside Pulse nightclub, Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to Islamic State, raged against ‘filthy ways of the west’

An unmanned IDF ground vehicle near the southern part of the Gaza-Israel border fence (Zev Marmorstein/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Ministry mum on reported plan for underground wall along Gaza border

By Stuart Winer

Censor approves publication of claim that Israel is to construct $570m barrier, dozens of meters down, to block Hamas attack tunnels

The 15 teachers who participated in the 2016 Teachers' Room coexistence project, which includes photographs now on exhibit at the Jerusalem YMCA (Courtesy Dana Talel)

Teachers are the students in Jerusalem coexistence experiment

By Jessica Steinberg

From Mahane Yehuda market to Sarona, educators try to break down barriers in hopes their pupils will too

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech to parliament before presenting the proposed annual budget in the capital Tehran, January 17, 2016. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)

Iran appeals to UN’s top court against US terror reparations ruling

By AFP

Tehran fumes as American judges award $2 billion in frozen assets to US victims of attacks blamed on the country

Illustrative: Palestinian police in the West Bank (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian teen said shot by PA forces in East Jerusalem

Abbas’s policemen conduct arrests in Kafr Aqab, apparently violating Israeli sovereignty; 15-year-old seriously wounded in gunfight

Birthright starts new joint US, Israel innovation program (Courtesy)

Birthright gets into the start-up business

By Shoshanna Solomon

10-week-long ‘Excel Ventures’ US-Israeli program in Tel Aviv will serve as an accelerator for entrepreneurs

Arab Israeli Christian students hold placards during a protest in Jerusalem to demand more funds for Christian schools, on September 6, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Israel’s cash-strapped Christian schools to get helping hand

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Stephen colbert mocks Donald Trump with Nazi symbolism on CBS's The Late Show (CBS/YouTube screenshot)

Skewed logicColbert draws swastika on TV to mock Trump

Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Family of Eritrean man killed by inflamed mob sues for millions

By Stuart Winer

Rabbi Hanon Hecht (Chabad)

On the chopping blockChabad rabbi competes on US cooking show

By JTA

Protesters during a rally in the War Room at the state Capitol on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Boycott activists protest New York governor’s anti-BDS edict

By AP

Illustrative photo of an operating room. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Nano Textile says it can make any fabric antibacterial

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men praying on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Ukraine (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine trigger brawl by shooting local with BB gun

By JTA

Alain Soral (Torpegiggio, Wikimedia commons)

French writer fined for saying Hitler should have finished the job

By JTA

Steven Spielberg speaking at the Harvard University commencement ceremony, May 26, 2016. (screenshot: YouTube)

Steven Spielberg reportedly working on Walter Cronkite feature

By JTA

Clement Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, in 1982 (YouTube screenshot)

Two British women allege sexual abuse by Sigmund Freud’s grandson

By JTA

A cup of coffee, illustrative (YouTube screen capture)

Don't feel the burnVery hot drinks may cause cancer, but coffee likely doesn’t

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and incoming defense minister Avigdor Liberman (left) hold a press conference in the Knesset, May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGaza walls and missile defense squalls

By Ilan Ben Zion

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