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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission Federica Mogherini (L) talks with Luxemburger Foreign minister Jean Asselborn (R) in front of British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (L) and Dutch Foreign minister Bert Koenders (R) during a monthly Foreign Affairs meeting in Luxembourg on June 20, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

Israel blasts Europe’s ‘colonialist’ peace initiative

By Raphael Ahren

EU has ‘no credibility whatsoever’ to deal with the conflict as long as it cannot solve its own problems, official fumes

Backing French peace push, EU ministers add carrots to sweeten deal

By Raphael Ahren

UN chief to visit Israel, PA, Gaza to push peace efforts

From our partnerCameron: We must stay in EU to influence Europe’s approach to Israel

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier during an operation near Bethlehem in the West Bank on December 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinian teen killed by IDF was uninvolved in firebombing

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

Mahmoud Badran, 15, initially reported to have thrown Molotov cocktails at cars; Palestinians lambast Netanyahu for killing

Palestinians firebomb Israeli cars; teen shot dead by IDF

By ToI Staff and AFP

IDF levels home of terrorist who killed American tourist

Palestinians: Man with Down syndrome killed in clash with IDF

By AFP and ToI Staff

In a lengthy interview on cable channel J-TV, historian Dr. Alan Mendoza grills former London mayor Ken Livingstone on his claim that Hitler supported Zionism. The interview was released on Jun 21, 2016. (YouTube screenshot)

Exclusive'I will be 71 this week and my memory is not my strong point'

Top historians take down Ken Livingstone’s claim that ‘Hitler supported Zionism’

By Jenni Frazer

In a lengthy J-TV interview, former London mayor again refuses to apologize for his ‘historical facts,’ which are refuted by leading Holocaust scholars

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference during a defense ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on February 5, 2015. (AFP Photo/John Thys)

Live updates (closed)

NATO chief says ‘essential’ to step up Israel cooperation

By Raoul Wootliff

Jens Stoltenberg touts ‘shared values’ ahead the first official Israeli mission at headquarters; President Rivlin says he’d meet with Abbas as both visit Brussels

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz arrives to cast his vote in the Likud primaries in Tel Aviv, December 29, 2015. (Flash90)

Israeli minister says US already profiles Muslims, defends practice

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

Yisrael Katz responds to Donald Trump’s call for targeting Arabs in security screenings at airports

Trump parts ways with brash campaign manager

By AP

British man charged for attempting to kill Trump

By Jocelyne ZABLIT

A divided Senate answers Orlando with gridlock on gun curbs

By Alan Fram and MARY CLARE JALONICK

The United Nations has lost it

US taxpayers should no longer help fund an organization that puts their money toward the destruction of Israel

Jonathan Schwartz

In a siren’s time

Chronic memories of wartimes: broken radio silence, the smell of bananas, and tense waiting for a son to phone home

Dynamic duo of duplicity hits Jerusalem

How a hate site video of the often troubling Jerusalem Day march falsified participants’ statements and song

Reflections on a failed war

10 years after Lebanon, take-aways from the conflict reveal that the deaths he witnessed weren’t actually in vain

Illustrative photo of Palestinian fishermen paddling their small boat a few hundred meters off the beach of Gaza City while casting their nets in search of small fish on August 10, 2014. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

Israeli minister proposes offshore port for Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

Yisrael Katz says government doesn’t object to artificial island with seaport, so long as Israel’s security needs met, but unclear who would foot bill

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman shakes hands with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2016. (Department of Defense/US Army Sgt. First Class Clydell Kinchen)

Senior official says Israel, US close to deal on defense aid

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Defense minister said hammering out final details of 10-year memorandum of understanding in DC

Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon speaks during a party faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Treasury chief urges Netanyahu to sign US defense deal, ‘end saga’

By Itamar Sharon

Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks to the press, along with foreign diplomats, after visiting the Max Brenner restaurant, the site of a June 8, 2016, terror attack, at Sarona Market, Tel Aviv, on June 10, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog blasted by opposition party chief for offer to split Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Yair Lapid decries negotiation between opposition leader and Mahmoud Abbas as poorly managed, says it ‘weakened’ Israel’s left

Moshe Ya'alon announces his intent to run for the leadership of Israel during the Herzliya conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on June 16, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek)

Left crumbles, Ya’alon excels in election poll

Likud projected to lose ground to other right-wing parties, Channel 1 survey shows; Yesh Atid jumps to second largest party

Illustrative: Students learning in an Israeli Hand in Hand school, where the curriculum is both in Hebrew and Arabic. (Courtesy: Debbie Hill)

As demand swells, Jewish-Arab school network seeks donors

Bilingual Hand in Hand education system reaches out to public to help fund extra places and shorten waiting list

A Border Crossing Authority inspector discovers a wet suit, believed to be en route to Hamas, hidden in a shipment of sporting goods to the Gaza Strip on June 20, 2016. (Defense Ministry)

Israel seizes wet suits believed to be heading to Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Scuba gear thought planned for sea-borne attack hidden in shipment of sporting goods sent by Palestinian Authority to Gaza Strip

Turkey's new Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses onlookers during celebrations marking the 563rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, now Istanbul, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey, Israel said to agree on normalization deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Announcement of agreement expected Sunday, will see limited easing of Gaza blockade with Turkish aid passing through Israel

A Syrian refugee woman pushes a stroller at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian border with Syria, on March 8, 2014. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

6 Jordanian troops killed, 14 wounded in car bomb attack

By AP

Blast hits near tent encampment where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are stranded

Maj. Tom Na'aman, commanding officer of Elor Azaria, arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court, June 16, 2016. (Flash90)

Netanyahu: ‘No place’ for incitement against Hebron soldier’s commander

After threats in case of soldier who killed disarmed Palestinian assailant, prosecution asks to keep other witness names secret

Illustrative: Rachel Freund is the herdswoman at Freund's Dairy Farm in East Canaan, Connecticut. (Courtesy Cabot Creamery)

In a yiddische green acres, Old McDovid has a farm, E-I-E-I-Oy

By Cathryn J. Prince

Isaac Ben-Israel (courtesy of Isaac Ben-Israel)

More global cooperation needed to win cyber war, Israeli guru says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Head of team that set out Israel’s national cybersecurity policy says country sees up to 2 million attacks a day

Omar Mateen in an undated photo (MySpace via AP, File)

‘Chilling’ Orlando gunman told 911 he was an Islamic soldier

By Eric Tucker and Mike Schneider

At height of massacre at nightclub, Omar Mateen made murderous statements to police in a ‘calm and deliberate manner,’ transcripts show

A meeting of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on July 22, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

ID tag requirement cut from controversial NGO bill

Knesset Law Committee chair agrees to cancel requirement for identifying tags in bill that targets left-wing groups

Gil and Jenna Lewinsky feed the sheep at their farm in Abbotsford, Vancouver, Canada, in this undated photo from 2016. (courtesy Mustard Seed Imaging)

If you wool it

On wings of El Al, biblical sheep to end 3,000-year exile

By Melanie Lidman

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NYPD chief chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass. (East Midwood Jewish Center)

NYPD top chaplain, an 80-year-old rabbi, attacked in NY

By JTA

Nazi-related items from the collection of Massachusetts-based collector Darrell English, whose New England Holocaust Institute & Museum is seeking a permanent home (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Big bidder 888‘Argentine’ man splurges at Nazi relics auction

By AFP

Former soccer player David Beckham on April 28, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/JTA)

TeammateBeckham says he feels Jewish thanks to granddad

By JTA

Israeli Police Commander Menny Yitzhaki attends a State control committee meeting in the Knesset on February 18, 2014 (Flash 90)

Police compiled criminal file on all 120 Knesset members — report

People carry the body of American philanthropist Irving Moskowitz during his funeral in Jerusalem on June 20, 2016. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

American patron of Israeli settlers buried in East Jerusalem

Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Minimum wage rising to NIS 4,825 on July 1

Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaking during a press conference announcing corruption charges against members the New York City Police Department, at the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York in New York City, June 20, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

NY Jewish businessman, 3 cops held in corruption probe

By JTA

The highly invasive lionfish, also known as the Devil Firefish, in an aquarium in Long Beach, CA (DMSamson/Flickr/CC BY-2.0)

Sea perilPoisonous lionfish may invade Mediterranean Sea

By AFP

Bahraini Shiite clerics attend a protest against the revocation of the citizenship of top Bahraini Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim (portrait), near his house in the village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama, June 20, 2016. (AFP/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH)

Iran warns Bahrain ‘will pay price’ for crackdown on Shiites

By AFP

In this June 11, 2015, file photo, Anton Yelchin arrives at a special screening of "Burying the Ex" held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Car that crushed actor Yelchin under recall over gear issue

By Frankie TAGGART

A group of migrants cross the Serbian-Hungarian border near Roszke, southern Hungary, September 10, 2015. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Britons prefer Jewish migrants over Muslim, study finds

By JTA

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman shakes hands with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2016. (Department of Defense/US Army Sgt. First Class Clydell Kinchen)

Hebrew media reviewLook who’s (not) talking

By Joshua Davidovich

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