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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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In this May 17, 2017 photo, Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks with the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gunman shoots top congressman at Virginia baseball practice

By Erica Werner

Steve Scalise of Louisiana shot in hip, in stable condition; others wounded including 2 officers; suspect in police custody

This photo taken on May 16, 2017 shows House Majority Whip. Steve Scalise (R-LA)as he speaks to the media in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / MARK WILSON)

Live updates (closed)

Wounded US congressman ‘critical’ after surgery – hospital

Bernie Sanders condemns ‘despicable’ Virginia shooter he says volunteered on his campaign; London apartment building fire death toll rises to 12

Palestinian Authority official Issa Qaraqe gives a press conference in Ramallah on the large number of Palestinians staging hunger strikes in Israeli jails on April 19, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Defying US, Palestinian official vows payments to terrorists will continue

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Head of prisoners committee says ‘we reject ending the subsidies to the prisoners and families of martyrs. We will not apologize for it’

Tillerson: Abbas has ‘changed policy,’ will stop paying terrorists’ families

By Eric Cortellessa

Israel rejects US claim Palestinians stopping payouts to terrorists

By Raphael Ahren

Knesset gives initial okay to bill slashing PA funding over terrorist payments

By Marissa Newman

33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 3-year-old patient Yaqin Shawaf, who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City, March 17, 2016. (AP/Adel Hana)

With Gaza ailing, PA accused of slashing medical aid by nearly 90%

Officials say Ramallah has reduced the money it gives for healthcare from $4 million to $500,000, leaving patients without medicine and equipment. As power is cut, it will only get worse

Palestinian children at home reading books by candlelight due to electricity shortages in Gaza City, June 13, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Palestinians say Netanyahu, not Abbas, to blame for Gaza crisis

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

After electricity cut at PA leader’s request in bid to pressure Hamas, Ramallah claims divisions caused by Israeli presence in West Bank and blockade on coastal enclave

Hamas, Hezbollah ‘not terrorists,’ Russian envoy to Israel says

Israel said in talks with Egypt, EU in bid to avert Gaza electricity crisis

Settler rabbi who praised attacks on Arabs indicted for incitement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Analysis

Browbeating friend and foe, Netanyahu tries out an undiplomatic foreign policy

By Raphael Ahren

PM’s refusal to turn the other cheek when wronged is leading to a flowering of ties, supporters say, but critics charge he’s only winning friends at home and influencing nobody

Israel and New Zealand restore ties after spat over UN resolution

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Haley slams UN human rights report for ‘singling out Israel’

By Eric Cortellessa

Case of EU official who shouted anti-Semitic hate speech lands in Brussels court

By JTA

Ben Platt arrives at the 71st annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 11, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Tony Award-winner Ben Platt’s journey from Camp Ramah to Broadway

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ star credits Conservative Judaism’s camping movement with helping him ‘decide for myself what kind of Jew I would be’

African asylum seekers’ predicament

They’ve found a home in south Tel Aviv, but the government will make it impossible for them to stay employed there

Jared, Ivanka and Orthodox Judaism

The Kushners are negative models of religious Judaism, and not because they flew on the Sabbath

Now UK Jews will be the spoilers

Britons who empowered Corbyn won’t be pleased at those who state the obvious: the man is an anti-Semite

Abraham is a magic word

Peace will come only when the religious Jews and Arabs get together and realize how much they have in common

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab (Courtesy)

Interview

Hacking threat soaring as countries fail to unite, cybersecurity leader warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

‘Israel is probably the best protected country in the world today,’ declares Kaspersky Lab’s CEO. ‘But given the threats it faces, it can’t be complacent’

Smoke and flames rise from a high-rise building on fire in London, June 14, 2017. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Several killed in devastating London high-rise blaze

By Alice Ritchie and Fayruz RAJPAR

At least 50 hospitalized as flames ravage 24-story building; many feared trapped inside, full casualty figures still unknown

An April 2017 'Fireside Chat' with PragerU's Dennis Prager (YouTube screenshot)

Super-conservative PragerU aims to arm pro-Israel students for their campus ‘wastelands’

Sarah Halimi, 66, killed on April 4, 2017, in Paris in what is suspected to be a racially motivated attack by her neighbor. (Courtesy)

Killing of Parisian Jew in April a test case for new French president

By Cnaan Liphshiz

French Jews see manslaughter charge against suspected killer as sign of failure to confront anti-Semitism, fear of alienating Muslims

Families of patients from the pediatric hemato-oncology unit at Jerusalem‘s Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem, demonstrate in support of the unit‘s director Prof. Michael Weintraub, near the capital‘s Ministry of Health on February 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

PM to intervene in child cancer crisis, 3 months after doctors’ resignation

Netanyahu, health minister to try to resolve escalating battle after nurses warn that patients are in ‘mortal danger’

A still image taken from cellphone footage of security forces surrounding a knife-wielding Israeli Arab woman after she allegedly tried to stab a security guard at Afula bus station on Friday, October 9, 2015. (screen capture)

Court cancels jail term for woman who brandished knife in Afula

By Raoul Wootliff

Accepting appeal, Nazareth judge reduces Asra’a Zidan Abed’s 6-month prison sentence to community service for 2015 incident at bus station

Brandon Russell (Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)

Neo-Nazi who allegedly planned to target synagogues not a threat, says judge

By AP and ToI Staff

Bond allowed for self-proclaimed white supremacist who plotted to use explosives to harm civilians, bomb power lines, nuclear reactors

Juan Thompson, 31, from St. Louis, suspected of making at least 8 hoax bomb threats against Jewish institutions in recent weeks. (Bric TV)

St. Louis man pleads guilty to dozens of JCC bomb threats

By Larry Neumeister

Juan Thompson admits he threatened US Jewish centers to disrupt his ex-girlfriend’s life, agrees not to appeal prison sentence of less than 4 years

Israeli Air Force Apache helicopters, file (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

IAF grounds Apache helicopters after rotor blade found cracked

By Judah Ari Gross

Air force chief forbids attack choppers from flying until probe determines cause of damage

More Headlines

The street signs on the southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West are seen following a ceremony to permanently co-name the street with the late humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize-winning name of Elie Wiesel, June 13, 2017 in New York. (AFP/ Kena Betancur)

New York names street corner after Elie Wiesel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Severe traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2015. (Simcha Simon, courtesy)

From the webGM Israel unveils autonomous car prototype

US President Donald Trump walks with grandchildren Arabella Kushner (L) and Joseph Kushner to board Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House on February 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Up close and personalShould Ivanka post facts about daughter Arabella online?

George Soros speaks onstage at Lincoln Center on April 18, 2017, in New York City. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Physicians for Human Rights/AFP)

Who’s afraid of George Soros?

By Nina Lamparski

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill June 13, 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Thin iceSessions mocked for citing ‘Jewish AIPAC event’

A worker of the Israel State Archives looks at classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWounds of the past, wounds of the present

By Adiv Sterman

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