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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 8, 2017

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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaking from the Knesset podium on June 5, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman: We are ‘closer than ever’ to a deal

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Former FBI director testifies at Senate Intelligence Committee; says he has no doubt Russia interfered in the election, feared Trump ‘might lie’ about the content of their meetings

This file photo taken on May 3, 2017 shows FBI Director James Comey testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing on the FBI in Washington, DC. (AFP /GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Zach Gibson)

In dramatic testimony, Comey to say Trump demanded loyalty

By Eric Tucker and Julie Pace

This combination of pictures shows US President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 28, 2017; and FBI Director James Comey on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2017. (SAUL LOEB, Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Trump feels ‘totally vindicated’ by Comey testimony

Israeli businessman Eliezer Fishman seen at the Tel Aviv stock exchange during better days, July 1, 2012. (Moshe Shai/FLASh90)

How was Israeli ‘tycoon’ allowed to rack up $1.13b debt to the banks? One word, say critics: Corruption

By Simona Weinglass

The rise, the fall, and the intended — hugely controversial — soft landing of Eliezer Fishman expose the seamy nexus of government, big money and media corroding Israeli society

Voters arrive at Notre Dame Primary School set up as a polling station as Britain votes in general elections, in Glasgow, June 8, 2017. (AFP/Andy Buchanan)

Braving drizzle and terror threat, Brits head to polls

By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

Wet weather not expected to dampen turnout for some 47 million people registered to vote in snap elections; terror alert level remains at ‘highly likely’

British general election: What the polls say

By AFP

Election campaign exposes faultlines in iron-clad May

By Richard Ingham

Jeremy Corbyn: Radical peril or amiable underdog?

By Richard Ingham

US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Abbas said ready to drop settlement freeze precondition for talks

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Top economic adviser says PA president also willing to back off of war crimes prosecutions and reduce pressure at UN to give US a chance to restart negotiations

Plans for first new settlement in 25 years approved

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Netanyahu okayed US draft setting ’67 lines as start for talks — report

Settler leaders exit ‘positive’ meeting with PM, but with little to show

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone-laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23, 2012. AP/Mohammed Salem.

Analysis

Will the Saudi-Qatar clash push Hamas into a dangerous corner?

By Avi Issacharoff

As Gaza’s economy sinks, its ruling terror group is at odds with much of the Sunni Arab world — and running out of options

AnalysisQatar crisis could spell new trouble for embattled Hamas

AnalysisEgypt’s Sissi sees vindication in Gulf moves against Qatar

By Hamza Hendawi

Qatar releases report on alleged hack that sparked Gulf boycott

By AP

Free Palestine shirt with map covering all of Israel, for sale via Amazon, June 8, 2017 (Amazon screenshot)

Amazon selling ‘Free Palestine’ clothes, after Sears and Walmart stop

By ToI Staff and JTA

US online giant continues to offer shirts, hats with pro-Palestinian messages, including ‘Free Palestine’ shirt showing map including all of Israel

United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during her visit to Israel, on June 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Nikki Haley says ‘it was a blessing’ to visit Western Wall

US envoy touches the ancient stones in women’s section of Jewish holy site as onlookers express gratitude for all she’s done for Israel

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on June 7, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israel and US to work to annul UN anti-settlement resolution

Herschel 'Krusty' Krustovsky speaks with his father, Rabbi Krustovsky, voiced by Jackie Mason, in 'A Clown in the Dumps.' (Youtube Screenshot)

‘The Simpsons’ celebrates 30 years of cartoon chutzpah

By Alex Suskind

Sure, most residents of Springfield are good churchgoing folk — but don’t get farklempt, TV’s longest running series is full of Jewish shtick

Three of the four Jaljulia residents charged on June 8, 2017, in connection with an alleged plan to assassinate an Israeli army officer. (WhatsApp photos, provided by the Shin Bet security services)

Arab Israeli brothers charged in Hamas plot to murder Israeli officer

Shin Bet says Adam and Firas Faki were at heart of planned killing, intended to avenge March’s death of Hamas terror chief Mazen Faqha

Settle downBefuddled Hamas mistakes film set for new settlement

Hamas commander said killed in Gaza explosion

IDF shuts down weapons workshop in West Bank

By Stuart Winer

US President Donald Trump, left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud take part in a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh on May 20, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Trump’s $110 billion Saudi arms deal is ‘fake news,’ officials tell US think tank

By AFP

Defense and political sources tell Brookings Institution no contracts have been signed, with leaders only making statements of intent

Illustrative: A basket of sesame bread, multi-grain bread, rye bread, and others. (Wikipedia/3268zauber/CC BY-SA)

Gut instinct

White bread may be healthier than whole — for some

Weizmann Institute study links health benefits of bread to unique bacterial cultures in each person’s intestines

A police helicopter flying around outside the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. (AFP/MIZA NEWS/Hasan SHIRVANI)

Hezbollah condemns Iran terror attack as death toll rises to 16

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tehran’s proxy blames ‘international’ plan backed by regional governments, a reference to Iran’s nemesis Saudi Arabia

Tehran police increase patrols after twin terror attacks

By Nasser Karimi

Trump to Iran: States backing terror risk ‘falling victim’ themselves

By AFP

Iran FM: Trump reaction to Tehran terror attacks ‘repugnant’

By AFP

Lessons from my father, Elie Wiesel

That most important message from parent to rebellious child, when teaching shifts to trust (From the NY Jewish Week)

When Avner Cohen talks about The Bomb

Revelations of Israel’s alleged past readiness to use nuclear weapons are both vexing and useful

Women’s right to be alone in the mikveh

The Supreme Court ruled that women may immerse as they choose, so why must they sign that they have done so?

Millennials and intimacy

What today’s Orthodox young couples need to know before marriage — it ain’t your grandparents’ whispered conversation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd from left), Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (4th from left) and US Ambassador to Israel David Freidman (5th from left) stand for the national anthem at a joint Knesset-Congress event marking 50 years since the reunification of Jerusalem on June 7, 2017 (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset press office)

Knesset, US Congress celebrate Jerusalem jubilee in joint live broadcast

By Marissa Newman

Israel’s parliament speaker urges DC to recognize Israel’s ‘official and unquestioned’ capital; PM says ‘eternal, undivided capital’ won’t be split again

In this Jan. 5, 2017 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson, File)

Senate Democrats look to tie new Iran sanctions to anti-Russia penalties

By Eric Cortellessa

Israeli actress Gal Gadot signs autographs and greets fans during the Latin American premiere of the film 'Wonder Woman' in Mexico City, May 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Israel’s in love with homegrown Wonder Woman Gal Gadot

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, during the COP21 UN Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris on November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

India PM to skip Palestinian Authority in upcoming Israel trip

By Raphael Ahren

Ahead of Narendra Modi’s 3-day July visit, an Israeli official celebrates purported snub of Ramallah as ‘great achievement’

Police shoot terrorists in London terror attack in newly released video footage, June 8, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Dramatic footage shows moments of London terror attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Video shows officers as they engage terrorists at point-blank range; British police make three more arrests in probe of attack

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a service commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, June 7, 2017. (Screen capture: IDF video)

IDF head says Hezbollah remains Israel’s main priority

Chief of staff says Second Lebanon War brought a decade of quiet for Israel’s north

Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheich, right, with the Mayor of Kafr Qassem Adel Badir, 2nd right, President Reuven Rivlin, 2nd left, and a local security official Khaled Issa at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. (President's spokesperson)

Rivlin meets with Kafr Qassem mayor after deadly riots

By Stuart Winer

President talks with Adel Badir about improving law enforcement in Arab town following violent clash with police

Undated artist rendering shows two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils (Philipp Gunz/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology via AP)

Homo sapiens 100,000 years older than thought

By Laurence COUSTAL and Mariëtte Le Roux

Groundbreaking fossil discovery in Morocco sheds light on origin of our species, may re-organize the human evolutionary tree

Prof. Molly Shoichet oversees research by PhD candidates and post-doctorate researchers, but encourages their creativity. (Dana Wachter/Times of Israel)

In this lab, researchers work to reverse degenerative disease — and gender discrimination

By Dana Wachter

The source of Aish: Rabbi Noach Weinberg, second from right, who founded the Aish HaTorah and oversaw its global growth. The current dispute is between some of his closest devotees. (courtesy)

From our partner

Is Aish International intentionally misleading high-profile donors?

By Gary Rosenblatt

New York Jewish Week: Aish International is widely believed to be the US arm of Aish HaTorah in Israel. But it isn’t

Sami from David's Brisket House in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, holding a delicious deli sandwich. (Courtesy BreakingBreadNYC)

This Muslim-owned Jewish deli is one of Brooklyn’s best-kept (open) secrets

By Yaakov Schwartz

More Headlines

BiPS' device enables the constant monitoring of various vital parameters, including blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, respiration rate and heart rate (Courtesy)

Israeli startup looks to develop blood pressure finger monitor

By Shoshanna Solomon

Channel 2 Arab Affairs correspondent Ehud Yaari in Israel interviews Saudi Arabian Abed al-Hamid Hakim speaking from Jeddah, June 5, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Live from JeddahSaudi, Iranian speak on Israeli TV in hint of new Mideast

Moderator Evan Fallenberg (left) skillfully guided an hour-long conversation with writer and illustrator Maira Kalman and writer Etgar Keret on Tuesday night, June 6 at Jerusalem's Mishkenot Sha'ananim (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Etgar Keret and Maira Kalman search for the absurd in Israel’s corners

By Jessica Steinberg

A 2005 file photo from the Ashkelon desalination plant. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Israel Chemicals signs deal to sell stake in IDE for $178 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld refuses a hug from singer Kesha on June 5, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

No hug for youSeinfeld spurns embrace-seeking Kesha

By AP

In this May 24, 2017 photo, Tabarek Kadhim, center, congratulates an opponent after a tennis match in Windham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Head startSporty hijabs encourage Muslim girls to hit the field

Brad Goldberg pitching for the Chicago White Sox during a game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, June 3, 2017. (Leon Halip/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish pitcher Brad Goldberg makes his White Sox debut

By JTA

In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Greg Gianforte celebrates his win over Rob Quist for Montana's open congressional seat in Bozeman, Mont. (Rachel Leathe/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP, File)

Newly elected congressman sorry for assaulting Jewish reporter

In this image made from video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, militants destroy winged-bull Assyrian protective deity in the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. (Photo credit: (AP via militant social media account, File)

Jewish-American artist to exhibit ancient statue in London

Yisrael Beytenu leader and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting in the Knesset, May 8, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Times of Israel PresentsAvigdor Liberman to give public interview in Tel Aviv, in English

By Matthew Kalman

Iranian policemen evacuate a child from the parliament building in Tehran during a terror attack, June 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FARS NEWS / OMID VAHABZADEH)

Hebrew media reviewThe sump of all fears

By Joshua Davidovich

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