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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 11, 2017

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Palestinians receive aid at a United Nations distribution center (UNRWA) in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Netanyahu urges UN refugee agency for Palestinians be shut down

By Raphael Ahren

After Gaza tunnel uncovered beneath school, PM reveals he told US envoy Nikki Haley the time may have come to close UNRWA

Liberman: Israel has no interest in conquering Gaza in ‘next war’

Qatari FM insists Hamas ‘a legitimate resistance movement’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran sends 5 planes of food to embargo-stricken Qatar

By AFP

An Israeli woman streaks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 11, 2017 (screen capture: YouTube)

Woman strips naked at Western Wall

23-year-old streaker detained by police, to be sent for psychiatric evaluation

Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners ended a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)

Israeli version of US 'Taylor Force Act'

Ministers okay bill slashing PA funding over payments to terrorists

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Coalition will support proposal to cut NIS 1 billion in tax transfers to Ramallah

Students walk through the Tel Aviv University campus in Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Academia shudders at plan to ban politics from university classrooms

By Stuart Winer

School heads, politicians say ‘Bolshevik’ ministry ethics code violates academic freedom by keeping lecturers from voicing opinions; Bennett defends it, saying students afraid to express views

President Reuven Rivlin opening Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on May 23, 2017. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin slams proposed ethics code for university lecturers

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Woman detained for streaking at Western Wall; plan approved to deduct stipends to terrorists from PA money; IDF conducting massive earthquake preparedness drill

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 11, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Liberman: Settlement building at highest level since 1992

Responding to critics, defense minister warns that calling for any more building could endanger entire settlement enterprise

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Villa Taverna in Rome, December 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Evan Vucci)

PM demanded settlers would remain ‘in place’ after deal — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Avishai Himelfarb, the founder and director of Leshomra, checks a watering system at a school garden in Modiin Ilit on March 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Ultra-Orthodox kids grow a green thumb in ‘mitzvah’ gardens

By Melanie Lidman

Leshomra group brings awareness of the environment to determinedly urban Haredi schools and community centers

Israeli journalist Yigal Sarna waits at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Heidi Levine)

Reporter ordered to pay NIS 100k for claim Netanyahu was kicked out of car

PM and wife win libel suit against Igal Sarna for posting on Facebook about alleged marital spat; judge calls claim ‘malicious and ugly’

Israeli police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews during an operation to arrest the attackers of soldiers at the Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on June 4, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-MK’s soldier son attacked by ultra-Orthodox mob in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

Dov Lipman calls for new legislation to combat uptick in violence against servicemen, says it’s the ‘last gasp of extremism’ as Haredi enlistment grows

Online matchmaking gets a boost during the coronavirus crisis . (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

Dating site connects Jews of Middle Eastern descent

By Josefin Dolsten

With apps for every niche under the sun, Iraqi-born Cynthia Shamash created an online ‘Eldelala’ for her community, too

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks at a Conservative party general elections campaign event in Durham, North East England, on June 6, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SCOTT HEPPELL)

UK’s Johnson denies plot to topple May amid scramble for coalition deal

Walking back announcement of agreement with far-right DUP party, PM says talks are still ongoing

Theresa May facing upped pressure to resign as coalition deal awaits

By AFP and ToI Staff

From our partnerTheresa May’s N. Irish allies are friends of Israel

Sanders ‘delighted’ by Corbyn’s strong result in UK election

David Breakstone

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She captures the Zionist dream, including the brawn to kick ass and the compassion to hope you won’t have to

Sivan Rahav Meir

Spectator or player?

The American Jewish experience through Israeli eyes: How can ties to Israel be ties that bind?

Love is fixing what’s broken

On the immigrants to Israel who ask what they can do for their country

Protesters in Kafr Qassem on June 10, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Thousands protest police killing, rampant crime in Arab town

Days after local man was killed during riot in Kafr Qassem, demonstrators rail against authorities’ conduct

An undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police, London, and made available on Sunday June 11, 2017 of a fake suicide belt worn by one of the London Bridge attackers in the attacks of Saturday June 3 which killed several people and wounded dozens more. (Metropolitan Police London via AP)

London attackers wore fake suicide vests for ‘maximum fear’

By AFP

Police commander praises first responders who tackled terrorists despite their apparent explosives

Michael Aronov and Anthony Azizi shake hands, Jefferson Mays in the background in 'OSLO.' (Courtesy/T. Charles Erickson)

Theater review

In drama ‘Oslo,’ behind-the-scenes diplomacy takes center stage

By George Alan Baumgarten

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard secure the area outside the Iranian parliament during an attack on the complex in the capital Tehran on June 7, 2017. (AFP/Fars News/Hossein Mersadi)

Iran says it killed mastermind of Tehran terror attacks

Intelligence minister says man slain by security forces, gives no details

Among those attending the recent Junction conference in Berlin were, from left, Ani G. from Austria/Bulgaria; Joey L. from the United Kingdom; Tea T. from Georgia; and Daniel M. from Italy. (Bokeh Graphik/JDC/via JTA)

Despite rising anti-Semitism, young European Jews aren’t ruled by fear

By Toby Axelrod

A Russian Su-27 (right) flies alongside a US B-52 bomber over the Baltic Sea on June 6, 2017 (US Air Force/ Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)

Dramatic photos show Russian jet intercept US bombers

By ToI Staff and AP

Russia says it escorted planes flying near its territory over Baltic Sea; US officials confirm ‘safe and professional’ behavior

From left, Yael Cobano, Ruth Timon, Rabbi Stephen Berkowitz and Zohar Ben-David participating in the Torah reading at the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid. (Margarita Gokun Silver/via JTA)

The female foursome that started Madrid’s first Reform congregation

By Margarita Gokun Silver

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An artist's rendering of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at Hebrew University (Foster + Partners/ Hebrew University; Visual by Meshroom)

Hebrew University to dedicate new brain research center

By Shoshanna Solomon

Gal Gadot starring as Diana Price, aka Wonder Woman, in the new Warner Bros. studio film of the same name (Courtesy DC Comics)

Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’ heads toward $400 million in first 10 days

By ToI Staff and AP

Coalition Chairman David Bitan seen with Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (R) during a Knesset committee meeting in the Knesset, on March 23, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ADL blasts Likud MKs for attending launch of anti-Arab book

Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, California.
(Wikipedia/Cbl62/CC BY-SA)

3 Los Angeles synagogues close on Shabbat over bomb threats

By JTA

A swastika found on the wall of a synagogue in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, June 3, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Jewish suspects arrested over swastika graffiti on synagogues

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Dan Kohl addressing the annual J Street Gala Dinner, February 7, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

J Street founder mounts congressional bid

By JTA

All eyes on him: Naftali Bennett at a foreign policy debate co-organized by The Israel Project and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, January 08, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWho lectures the lecturers?

By Joshua Davidovich

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