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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 22, 2016

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Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn (left), talks with EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini during an EU meeting of foreign ministers at the EU Council in Brussels, Belgium, December 14, 2015. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU: Israeli accusations of ‘colonialism’ false and offensive

By Raphael Ahren

Union snaps back after attack by Foreign Ministry official, says absence of peace agreement has global repercussions

EU to back Mideast peace push with ‘unprecedented’ support

By AP and ToI Staff

France looks to fan nuke deal momentum with Iran’s minister

By AP

EU officials ask Rivlin to meet Abbas in Brussels

By Stuart Winer

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a campaign rally at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum on April 27, 2016, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (John Sommers II/Getty Images/AFP)

On Trump’s VP shortlist, Israel support runs from muddled to measured

By Eric Cortellessa

All of the presumptive GOP nominee’s options for running mate vow backing for the Jewish state, some more controversially than others

James Zogby (BankingBum / Wikipedia)

GOP Jews unveil ads against ‘progressive anti-Israel Democrats’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner attend the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 2, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com, via JTA)

Son-in-law Kushner said behind ouster of Trump manager

By JTA

Illustrative: Rabbi Yona Yaakobi stands in front of the larger synagogue currently active in the Jewish Azerbaijani town of Krasnaya Sloboda. (Courtesy)

'That was a time when it was like the wild west'

A glimpse into Azerbaijan’s hidden all-Jewish town

Even as its future is uncertain, the unique north Caucasus community of Krasnaya Sloboda is experiencing a religious revival

A conference on the Yemenite Children Affair in the Knesset on June 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Wounds over missing Yemenite children open, MKs renew push for truth

By Marissa Newman

Families demand government declassify documents sealed until 2071 on dark affair involving alleged kidnappings; Netanyahu baffled on why they were sealed in first place

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is welcomed by supporters on June 16, 2016 at Gilley's in Dallas, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel will get a better military aid deal under Trump — adviser

By Raoul Wootliff

David Friedman says package ‘in all likelihood will go up in a materiel amount’; Lockheed Martin rolls first planes off production line for Israel delivery at ceremony in Forth Worth, Texas

Sandra Lawson, an African-American lesbian rabbinical student, wants to spread Judaism outside the synagogue. (Courtesy of Lawson/via JTA)

African-American lesbian vegan rabbinical student hopes to redefine Judaism

Whether she’s leading services in a park or dispensing blessings at her local pub, Sandra Lawson wants to take the faith outside the box — and synagogue

A shorter road to peace

Driving a Palestinian patient to an Israeli hospital offered a chance to talk and connect as human beings

Adam and Eve were vegan

If an animal-free diet was good enough for Eden, it’s that much better in today’s world of mechanized meat and dairy

The unfair bashing of Ehud Barak

The center-left needs to rethink its beefs against the former prime minister who gave all he could for peace

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Go on, mire yourself in doubt

Bold Jewish leadership emerges only after one willingly struggles with heresy and helps Judaism meet its challenges

A Magen David Adom ambulance at the site where two children died after being left in a car, in the Al Kaum Regional Council in the Negev, June 22, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

2 toddler brothers die after being forgotten in sweltering car

Boys aged 20 months and 3 found lifeless after hours locked in vehicle in Negev town, as temperatures climbed into mid-90s

Violinist Itzhak Perlman talks during an Interview at Jerusalem's King David Hotel on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, ahead of the Genesis Prize ceremony. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Interview

Itzhak Perlman’s Genesis Prize is an instrument for others’ success

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Agurnesh Mengistu, the mother of Avraham Mengistu, center, seen at a press conference at their home in Ashkelon, after a gag order was lifted over his disappearance in the Gaza Strip, on July 8, 2015. (Flash90)

Family of Hamas-held man calls for including him in Turkey deal

‘Did we forget him?’ asks Avraham Abera Mengistu’s brother, urging pressure on Gaza as precondition for detente with Ankara

File: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (screen capture: YouTube)

Turkey says normalization deal now ‘depends on Israel’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards chants slogans after attacking a naval vessel during a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran, February 25, 2015. (Hamed Jafarnejad/AFP/Fars News)

Iranian navy announces 20 military drills over coming months

Tehran boasts of defense capabilities ‘so high that no enemy would dare invade’ its territorial waters

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)

Liberman says Israel, US close to finalizing deal on defense aid

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

Defense minister indicates agreement possible by November, will later attend unveiling ceremony of first F-35 fighter jet for Israel delivery

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan attends a meeting of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, February 9, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister in charge of police said named in secret criminal dossier

Investigators reportedly gathered evidence on Gilad Erdan and others in document detailing suspicions against MKs

Dr. Eviatar Matania (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel, US to sign accord to share information on cyber threats

By Shoshanna Solomon

System for automatic intel sharing is expected to be in place in several months, official says

Akiva Neuman, an Orthodox Jew who is studying to be a rabbi, competing in the Philadelphia qualifying round of “American Ninja Warrior.” (Mitchell Leff/NBC via JTA)

Kung Fu Jew

An ‘American Ninja Warrior’ trains to be a rabbi

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

Illustrative photo of a watermelon stand by the side of the road, in the Southern Israeli town of Sderot, July 06, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli watermelons delivered to Gaza, ending 8-year Palestinian ban

Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture allows produce into coastal enclave after local supplies dwindle

Hundreds of people join in the master class for the Second Annual International Day of Yoga on June 21, 2016 in Tel Aviv. (Melanie Lidman)

Inner peace on International Yoga Day isn’t such a stretch

By Melanie Lidman

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Illustration. New immigrants arrive to Ben Gurion airport in Israel. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

Israel creates new national holiday celebrating immigrants

By Marissa Newman

Lt. Shachar, Israel’s first transgender officer, addressing a pride event at Israel’s embassy in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2016. (Courtesy: Ron Kampeas)

Israel’s first transgender army officer celebrates at DC embassy

Sun doodleAir force takes flak for elaborate Google flyby stunt

By Ilan Ben Zion

This undated photo released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows a part of sarcophagus cover in Israel. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries BCE. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)

I want my mummyPlundered sarcophagi arrive in Egypt via Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

Lipa Schmeltzer, Hasidic pop star and glasses fashionista, is the new frontman for Pepsi Max in Israel. (Facebook screen capture)

Pop rockerNY Hasidic singer is new frontman for Pepsi Max in Israel

By JTA

Olga Babaev told a Peruvian newspaper that she did not want to return to Israel and “I want to go to a warm place.” (Screenshot from Facebook)

Life is waiting‘Wandering Israeli’ leaves Peru airport after three weeks

By JTA

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, left, welcomes President Reuven Rivlin in Brussels, Belgium on June 20, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Ring leaderBelgian cathedral chimes Israeli anthem for Rivlin

By JTA

Arab-Israeli Knesset Member Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, February 12, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK derides Knesset speaker over wedding snub

Israeli finalists at the Global Innovation Awards 2016 (Dror Sithakol)

3 Israeli start-ups to vie for Chinese prize money, limelight

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this photo illustration, an error message appears on the Facebook home page on a laptop computer screen on September 28, 2015 in Newark, New Jersey. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Israeli commits suicide over Facebook post that called him a thief

A conference on the Yemenite children affair in the Knesset on June 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewThe truth and nothing but the truth

By Joshua Davidovich

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