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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 7, 2017

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An injured police officer receives medical care outside the Iranian parliament after a shooting attack on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 (screen capture: Mehr news agency)

12 said killed in Tehran as parliament siege declared over

By ToI Staff and Agencies

39 injured in twin attacks claimed by Islamic State on Iran’s parliament building and highly symbolic Khomeini mausoleum

The body of a suspected terrorist, at background left, lies on the ground while police control the scene at the shrine of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Islamic State claims attack on Iranian parliament, ayatollah shrine

File: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley meets then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In Jerusalem, Nikki Haley says she has ‘no patience’ for ‘bullies’ like the UN

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu praises American envoy for having ‘changed the discourse’; she replies, ‘All I’ve done is tell the truth’

Israel may deduct ‘martyr’ payments from PA funds

By Raoul Wootliff

US to quit UN Human Rights Council if it won’t reform, Haley indicates

By Raphael Ahren

Nikki Haley arrives in Israel for three-day visit

Fireworks from the Mount Herzl ceremony seen over the Knesset in Jerusalem, marking the beginning of celebrations of Israeli 69th Independence Day, on May 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset, Congress mark 50 years since ‘reunification of Jerusalem’

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli and US lawmakers celebrate Six Day Way jubilee in first simultaneous video conference between two parliaments; Hezbollah threatens to attack Americans in Syria

Trainer Yariv Melamed at Israel's Guide Dog Center for the Blind, May 25, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

World Blind Day

For blind Israelis, every guide dog has its day

Use of the animals is growing in Israel, although the lone accredited school training them in Hebrew struggles with lack of funding and awareness

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu to right-wing leaders: No settler will be uprooted in peace deal

By Marissa Newman

In plea for backing amid peace efforts, PM vows to protect settlements; indicates, unhappily, that Trump sticking to traditional peacemaking formulas

US says ‘both sides will be forced to compromise’ for Mideast peace deal

By Eric Cortellessa

Israel advances plans for 1,500 West Bank homes

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Palestinian official: Israel ‘not ready’ for peace

By AFP

Books hang on a column on the 'Parthenon of Books' by Argentinian artist Marta Minujin, at the Documenta 14 art exhibition, in Kassel, Germany, June 2, 2017. (AFP/John MACDOUGALL)

‘Parthenon of Books’ raised at site where Nazis torched Jewish works

By Yannick Pasquet

Thousands of copies of banned publications form art installation, but pornography and ‘Mein Kampf’ excluded

The lower limbs of a Neanderthal exposed at the open-air site of Ein Qashish, on the banks of the Kishon River in northern Israel. (Erella Hovers, courtesy, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Who are you calling a caveman? Israeli study finds Neanderthals had versatile habitats

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Analysis of remains from 60,000 years ago found at Ein Qashish questions a bedrock narrative of humanity’s ancestors

Pro-Palestinian T-shirts for sale on the Sears website, June 6, 2017 (Sears website screenshot)

Sears site still displays ‘Free Palestine’ garments but most can’t be purchased

By ToI Staff and JTA

Some clothing, marketed by external companies, disappears from US retailer’s website while majority of items no longer available for sale

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions meets with police chiefs from major cities of the Chiefs of Police Association, at the Justice Department, on March 16, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

US attorney general offered to resign over Russia — report

Trump said to have pressured national intelligence director to declare there was no evidence of collusion with Moscow

Watergate pales next to Trump scandals, ex-US intel chief says

By AFP

Trump to nominate ex-Justice official to lead FBI

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Comey asked Sessions not to leave him alone with Trump — report

By Julie Pace and Julie Bykowicz

A pro-Labour poster in Bristol portraying Theresa May with Star of David earrings, June 6, 2017. (Screenshot/Bristol Post)

UK Labour lawmaker pans ‘anti-Semitic’ banner of Theresa May

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Thangam Debbonaire distances herself from unofficial poster in Bristol showing British PM with Star of David earrings

Theresa May: Change human rights laws that would impede anti-terror legislation

By ToI Staff and AP

Body found in search for man missing since London attack

By AFP

130 UK Muslim leaders, imams deny funeral services to London terrorists

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Clockwise from left: Rob Halfon, Michael Ellis, Grant Shapps and Julian Huppert. (All photos courtesy)

Britain votes on June 8

Jewish Conservatives set to sweep their constituencies in UK elections

By Jenni Frazer

Tory Jews are nursing huge majorities in safe seats, and will likely be returned to Parliament this week

Britain's main opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (L) speaking during a general election campaign speech in central London on May 26, 2017 and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (R) speaking at the launch of the Scottish manifesto in Edinburgh on May 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS AND Dan Kitwood)

Britain votes on June 8Terror attacks turn UK election into a vote on security

By Jill Lawless

Kimmy Schmidt’s Jew problem

Tina Fey is a master at self-deprecating jokes that are neither offensive nor PC, so why the overtly anti-Jewish tropes?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I’m a light-skinned Jew. I’m not ‘White’

Negating the history of discrimination Jews have experienced in America — there’s a word for that

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Circumcision: Should it be banned?

The ancient ritual is God’s seal imprinted on human flesh, and it is the secret to Jewish survival

Gary Rosenblatt

That’s not what ‘fake news’ means

Now’s the time to reflect on what real journalism is and isn’t, and why it matters so much in a free society (From the NY Jewish Week)

Doree Shafrir is the author of 'Startup,' a novel set in New York City's new media universe. (Willy Soma/Courtesy)

Interview

Satire of NY’s ‘Silicon Alley’ takes on the changing sexual politics of the hi-tech frontier

By Judy Batalion

Family members embrace at Ben Gurion Airport as 72 new immigrants from Ethiopia arrive on June 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After 8-month hiatus, Ethiopian immigrants land in Israel

By Melanie Lidman

72 new immigrants arrive on first of three expected flights for this month; some 9,000 Jews in Ethiopia are still waiting to come

Mohammed Taha, 27, killed by a police guard during a riot in Kafr Qassem on June 6, 2017 (Courtesy)

Thousands attend funeral of Arab Israeli man shot during riot

MK Ahmad Tibi says only Arabs risk being shot dead when they demonstrate; police believe guard who opened fire was facing life-threatening situation

Jewish winemakers inspecting grapes at a winery in the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, September 8, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Amnesty International calls for ban of settlement goods

Condemning settlement expansion is ‘not enough,’ says human rights body. ‘It’s time for international action’

Palestinians carry a wounded man during clashes with IDF following a demonstration near the border fence east of Jabalia refugee camp on June 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/FP/Mahmud Hams)

Palestinians say Gaza man shot dead by IDF in southern Strip

By AFP

Army ‘aware of the reports’ that man killed in clashes with troops, says protesters sought to damage border fence

Shimon Peres and a Qatari official review an honor guard during a reception ceremony at the Doha airport, April 2, 1996 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Analysis

Arab countries are turning on Qatar; what does it mean for Israel?

While decision by Gulf states to cut ties with Doha suits Jerusalem’s anti-Iran, Hamas agenda, move may reignite Gaza inferno

FBI Criminal Cyber, Response and Services Branch Executive Assistant Director Paul Abbate waits to speak during a press conference to announce criminal charges against four Russians for the 2014 hacking of Yahoo at the US Department of Justice on March 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Moscow: ‘Zero’ proof Russian hackers involved in Qatar crisis

By AFP

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a House committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister seeks war crime probe of leftist NGO activist

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Ayelet Shaked asks A-G to investigate Breaking the Silence’s Dean Issacharoff, who was videoed saying he beat a Palestinian protester

A filmed scene from 'In Our Hands,' the Christian Broadcasting Network docudrama about the Six Day War (Courtesy CBN)

Christian docudrama sees Six Day War as prophecy fulfilled

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Abdoe Khoulani (YouTube screenshot)

Dutch-Muslim politician calls Israel supporter ‘a retarded dumb broad’

By JTA

Alan Dershowitz speaks at an event at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv on December 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dershowitz: Harvard wrong to rescind student admissions over offensive online posts

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an empty school classroom. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Teacher suspected of molesting, sexually harassing 2nd graders

The scene of a car crash in Haifa that killed a seven-year-old boy on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 (Magen David Adom)

7-year-old boy killed in Haifa car crash

A lesbian couple hold hands during the annual Gay Pride rally, on June 8, 2007 Tel Aviv. (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA)

Top UK rabbi says gay acceptance is ‘fantastic,’ sparking controversy

By JTA

A visitor at a previous Jerusalem International Book Fair, which is held every two years (Courtesy Dudi Saad)

Hit the booksTop authors to descend on capital for book fair

By Jessica Steinberg

The jersey from Sandy Koufax’s first season in 1955. (Lelands, via JTA)

Here's the pitchSandy Koufax jersey could sell for $500,000

By JTA

Police forces in Qafr Kassem on June 6, 2017 (Courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewKafr Keystone

By Joshua Davidovich

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