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What Matters Most On Monday, June 12, 2017

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US President Donald Trump (left) meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Trump’s Russian leak said to reveal Israeli cyber hack of IS bomb cell

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

NY Times claims US president blew the cover off an Israeli computer unit’s infiltration of terror group, which found it was planning to blow up airliners with exploding laptops

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with opposition leader Isaac Herzog during a special plenum session marking the 50th anniversary of the Knesset, January 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog says secret meetings with Arab leaders could have changed Mideast

By Stuart Winer

Opposition leader blames PM, Likud ministers for torpedoing initiative after report emerges on clandestine session between himself, Netanyahu and Sissi in Cairo last year

Netanyahu vows Knesset push to limit NGOs’ foreign funding

By Marissa Newman

Livni says Netanyahu was ready to negotiate based on US framework

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu seeks to limit left-wing groups’ access to High Court — report

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 9, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

US appeals court upholds block on Trump travel ban

MKs warn Israel’s elections agency not protected from cyberattacks; Hamas warns of ‘explosion’ in Gaza over PA-ordered electricity cuts

Palestinian boys study on lanterns light during a power outage in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2016. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israeli cabinet decides to heed PA request to cut Gaza electricity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem's reunification and the 1967 War, in the Israeli parliament on May 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Caught between a right-wing base and a new peace initiative, Netanyahu ducks and weaves

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The PM retains power by deflecting political pressure and cleaving to his rightist flank; that the opposition doesn’t quite know how to respond doesn’t hurt

Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas’s religious adviser: Every stone of Western Wall must be under Muslim control

Remarks by Mahmoud al-Habash come after Fatah official Jibril Rajoub said site should ‘remain under Jewish sovereignty’ (and then backtracked)

Palestinian siblings Ahmed, right, and Hadeel Hamdan, center, watch medical clown who goes by the name 'Juhl' at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, May 13, 2015 (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Top Palestinian official donates to Israeli hospital that saved his life

Unnamed PA figure gives tens of thousands of shekels for kids’ playroom in cancer ward ‘to build peace through medicine’

Producer Andre Bishop accepts the award for Best Play for 'Oslo' onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 11, 2017 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions/AFP)

Play inspired by Mideast peace process wins at Tony Awards

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At 71st annual event, Bette Midler wins first-ever statuette, and steamrolls the play-off during her acceptance speech

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

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

By George Alan Baumgarten

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

Mother of Western Wall streaker pleads for privacy

Woman says her daughter’s behavior at Jerusalem holy site driven by mental illness, not a political statement

Illustrative photo of firefighters, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Where there's smoke

Israeli firefighters protest flammable new uniforms

Israel Fire and Rescue Service says new duds not meant to be worn while fighting fires, accuse firefighters of power play

Reservist soldiers take part in an IDF drill on March 21, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sacks reserve officer who refused to wake tired troops for exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Reservist company commander said soldiers weren’t given required sleep time, putting them at risk for car accidents

Alisa Rubin Peled

A blow to freedom, a step towards fear

Naftali Bennett’s proposed academic ethics code jeopardizes Israel’s core values

Emily B. Landau

Trump-contempt is clouding the picture

Foreign policy analysis is suffering under false assumption the US president has no coherent policy

To protect Israel, fix Gaza

For a pragmatic, Egyptian-brokered political settlement with Hamas in order to defuse a ticking time bomb

A ray of hope in the Syrian tragedy

Israel at its best: when Jewish, Arab, and Druze staff of the Galilee’s Ziv Medical Center treat Syria’s injured

A screenshot from the documentary 'Chosen and Excluded -- Jew Hatred in Europe,' showing a Nakba Day demonstration in Berlin. (Courtesy)

European TV stations shun the anti-Semitism documentary they commissioned

By Marc Neugroschel

A man is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for suspicion of sexually assaulting dozens of women he employed, June 12, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem man accused of raping dozens of ultra-Orthodox women

By Tamar Pileggi

Police say suspected serial rapist, now working at girls’ seminary, lured his female employees with promises to help advance their careers

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin rejects curbs on political speech by university lecturers

President stresses importance of freedom of expression, says Israel must ‘develop a system that encourages controversy’

A Tunisian protester smokes a cigarette and holds a placard reading in French "Why is it bothering you? If you fast and I eat?" during a demonstration for the right to eat and smoke in public during the Muslim dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan, on June 11, 2017, in Tunis. (AFP/ Sofienne HAMDAOUI)

Tunisians protest for right not to fast during Ramadan

By AFP

Demonstrators demand right to eat and drink in holy month after 4 men sentenced for ‘public indecency’

UN envoy Nikki Haley gets a briefing from an IDF officer on the Lebanese border on June 8 2017. Israel Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is standing to her left. (David Azagury/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Top Israel and UN officers spar in front of Nikki Haley – report

IDF deputy chief of staff says United Nations force in south Lebanon not doing its job, afraid to confront Hezbollah

Michael Steinhardt attends a meeting of Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein with the torch lighters of the 69th Independence Day state ceremony, at the the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 26, 2017.
(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Michael Steinhardt thinks American Jews need to stop focusing on religion

A picture taken from the Golan Heights on September 10, 2016 shows smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab. Israeli aircraft struck Syrian army positions after fire from its war-torn neighbor hit the Golan. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

Rocket sirens sound in Golan Heights in false alarm

By Tamar Pileggi

IDF investigating; no indication of what tripped warning system in northern communities

Joint (Arab) List MK Youssef Jabareen during a committee meeting in the Knesset, December 13, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK slams bill to cut PA funding over ‘martyr’ payments

By Raoul Wootliff

Joint List lawmaker Youssef Jabareen says if Israel wants to stop families of convicted terrorists receiving money, it should free all Palestinian prisoners

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 tracks down and kills IS suspects after attacks

By AFP

Officials say the 4 alleged jihadists were connected to suicide bombing and shooting that killed 17 in Tehran last week

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Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City, May 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett booed, called a ‘Nazi’ at left-wing confab

By Marissa Newman

Children's book authors Shirley Graetz, left, and Jessica Steinberg will be presenting at Personal Pages: Meet the Authors at The Tower of David Museum on Monday, June 19. (Photos courtesy/Caroline Shapiro-Weiss)

Times of Israel PresentsChildren’s raconteurs will talk New York turkeys and Mesopotamian demigods

By Matthew Kalman

Icebow's prototypes. Logos used are for demonstration purposes only; no photoshop was used; ice cubes made of 100% water (Courtesy)

Clinking for attention, ice cubes eye cooler look

By Shoshanna Solomon

One of the antiquities robbers caught in a sting operation near Tzippori during the weekend of June 10, 2017. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Hiker helps stop antiquities-robbing gang in northern Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Albanian midfielder Odise Roshi, left, vies for the ball with Israel's Taleb Tawatha during the FIFA World Cup 2018 qualification football match between Israel and Albania in Haifa on June 11, 2017. (AFPThomas Coex)

Albania crushes Israel 3-0 in World Cup soccer qualifier

Maj. Omri Levy standing at the Navy Training Base in Haifa, Israel, June 11, 2017. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Water powerIDF soldiers rescue ‘sinking ship’ in simulation

By Andrew Tobin

This photo from the Nakba Day event at Tel Aviv University on May 15, 2016, shows a 15-foot tall Pinocchio erected by members of the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization. (Credit: Or Buchbut)

Hebrew media reviewA people that yells alone

By Joshua Davidovich

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