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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 19, 2016

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The aftermath of a deadly car accident on Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2016. (Screen shot/MDA)

3 killed as car crashes into Tel Aviv restaurant

Driver among the dead on Ben Yehuda Street, 5 injured; police say it was an accident, not a terror attack

Texas PR guru, a booster of Israeli tech, among Tel Aviv crash victims

By Stuart Winer

AppreciationFor Israeli entrepreneurs – and Times of Israel – Alan was an unflagging champion

By David Shamah

BlogAlan helped every single person he met

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the press in East Jerusalem on March 16, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers give green light to pump NIS 82 million into settlements

Opposition incensed as cabinet approves aid package to beef up security, economy over the Green Line; Palestinian negotiator slams plan as ‘slap in the face’ to peace efforts

Isaac Herzog spokesman calls settlers ‘murderers,’ apologizes

By Stuart Winer and Marissa Newman

Livni: Settlers run Israeli government’s national agenda

To Israel’s dismay, EU ministers expected to back French peace push

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with then-Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog in Ramallah on August 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser/File)

Live updates (closed)

Herzog, Abbas held secret talks, agreed to return to ’67 lines — report

By Marissa Newman

During 2015 elections, opposition leader hammered out framework under which Palestinian refugees would be compensated, West Bank and East Jerusalem would come under Palestinian control

Naama Barash and Hershko, the two teens who fall in love in Michal Vinik's 'Barash,' which opened countrywide on June 13, 2016 (Courtesy 'Barash')

A coming-of-age film for a newer age

By Jessica Steinberg

Bringing sex, drugs and small-town angst to the big screen, Michal Vinik’s ‘Barash’ is not your typical lesbian love story

The day a Jew spat in my face

A feeling of overwhelming sadness at how a fight to control prayer at the Kotel devolved into darkness and humiliation

Naava Pasternak Swirsky

Stay out of our mikveh!

The power plays of coalition negotiations have absolutely no place in the holy waters of family purity

On Father’s Day: Moms… and dads

Tracing the generational shifts that enable her own grown kids to share childrearing equally with their spouses

A forest fire rages near the Cypriot village of Argaka in the Paphos region on June 18, 2016. (screen capture: Twitter via James Archer)

Israel sends firefighting planes to help battle Cyprus blaze

By Tamar Pileggi

Emergency assistance comes at Nicosia’s request after local crews unable to control blaze due to strong winds

File: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (center) stands next to the Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein (right) outside Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque on October 27, 2014. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Palestinian PM Hamdallah prays at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Visit coordinated by Avigdor Liberman’s Defense Ministry, despite minister’s statements blaming PA for terror wave

Thousands of Muslims pray in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount during the second Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Old City, June 17, 2016. (Suliman Khader/Flash90)

Analysis

As Palestinian violence recedes, some question if lull can hold

By Avi Issacharoff

A social media echo chamber creates a sense of an intifada run wild, but it’s not clear that those cheering terror attacks are also willing to carry them out

Illustrative: An Iran Air Boeing 747 passenger plane sitting on the tarmac of the domestic Mehrabad airport in the Iranian capital Tehran, January 15, 2013. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

Iran reaches deal to purchase 100 Boeing planes

By AFP

US government still needs to approve $17 billion contract to update Iranian passenger jet fleet

Morchechai Eldar said newly found fellow survivors of an Auschwitz selection in 1944 are 'like my family.' (Hillel Kuttler/via JTA)

Three Auschwitz inmates miraculously saved from death reunite

By Hillel Kuttler

File: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves to supporters as her husband former president Bill Clinton, second from right, Chelsea Clinton, second from left, and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, join on stage Saturday, June 13, 2015, on Roosevelt Island in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Hillary, Bill ‘over the moon’ about newest grandchild

By AFP

Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky born Saturday to daughter Chelsea and Jewish husband Marc Mezvinsky in New York

A picture taken on June 15, 2016 at the Ministry of Interior in Paris during a memorial ceremony shows a photograph of French policeman Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner Jessica Schneider, who were killed on June 13 by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Two men linked to jihadist’s murder of French police charged

By AFP

Charaf-Din Aberouz and Saad Rajraji were previously convicted in 2013 for their roles in a jihadi network, allegiance to IS

A picture taken on May 26, 2016 shows some of the 55,000 mirrors directing sunlight toward the Ashalim solar tower, which is under construction near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Ashalim in the Negev desert. (Jack Guez/AFP)

In Israeli desert, world’s highest solar tower looks to future

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Ashalim Tower will stand twice as tall as overseas competitors and will receive reflected light from a field of 55,000 mirrors straddling a million square meters

Illustrative view of the Great Wall of China. (Liron Almog/Flash90)

Israeli start-ups to compete with US, Europe for China award

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sam Apple has written books for adults and children, short stories, and long-form nonfiction articles, specializing in science features. (Courtesy)

Journalist gets to the bottom of the wandering loo

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Convicted Sex offender Yoel Oberlander from Mosney, NY. (screen capture: NBC New York)

Sex offender on El Al flight accused of groping sleeping woman

By AP and ToI Staff

Customers at Istanbul record store attending a Radiohead album release party on June 17, 2016 attacked by Islamist mob for attending event during Muslim holiday of Ramadan. (screen capture: YouTube)

Ramadan PoliceIslamists attack Radiohead fans in Turkey

By AFP

In this July 13, 1985 file photo, singer Robert Plant, left, and guitarist Jimmy Page of the British rock band Led Zeppelin perform at the Live Aid concert at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)

Zeppelin’s Page likens ‘Stairway’ riff to ‘Mary Poppins’ song

By AP and AFP

Jerry Lewis in 'The Day the Clown Cried' (photo credit: Screenshot/YouTube)

30-minute clip of lost Jerry Lewis Holocaust film surfaces

An undated photo of murder suspect Alfonso Azaria released by police on June 18, 2016. (Israel Police via Facebook)

Missing Holon murder suspect found dead at construction site

Ricky Martin performs at the 16th annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, 2015. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Tel Avivin' la vida locaLatin pop star Ricky Martin to play in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the International Cyber Conference at Tel Aviv University, June 23, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel kicks off Cybersecurity Conference to tackle global threats

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of a cybersecurity expert (AP/John Minchillo)

Preempt’s firewall tracks behavior, responds to threats in real time

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former prime minister Ehud Barak on Channel 2, June 17, 2016. (Screenshot/Channel 2)

Hebrew media reviewDefending and denouncing the ‘hipster’ critic

By Ilan Ben Zion

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