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What Matters Most On Friday, June 16, 2017

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A medical clown at Hadassah's pediatric hematology-oncology department in March, shortly after six doctors resigned. 'Today the clown is sad,' reads his sign (Screenshot Facebook)

Nurse at Hadassah cancer ward says hospital director is wrong, ‘kids are in danger’

By Simona Weinglass

Ten days after the doctors at the Jerusalem hospital’s pediatric hemato-oncology department left their jobs, chaos reigns

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, right, speaks with journalist Matthew Kalman at an event organized by The Times of Israel and the Tel Aviv International Salon at the Tel Aviv port on June 15, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Liberman at ToI event: Israel is coordinating settlement building with the US

By Judah Ari Gross

In rare English-language appearance, defense minister pins Gazan humanitarian crisis on Hamas-PA row, denies Israeli responsibility

Bennett wants to make it much harder to divide Jerusalem

Marking 50 years of rule, Rivlin calls on world to recognize Golan as Israel

Ministers slam Israeli plan to double size of West Bank’s Qalqilya

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants (Brauner Teddy/GPO)

A decades-old scandal resurfaces

When Israeli doctors allegedly tested Yemenites for ‘Negro blood’

By Marissa Newman

Lawmakers reexamine 20-year-old testimonies alleging medical experiments on new immigrants in 1950s, but make no demand for further action

Supporters of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., hold signs before the Congressional baseball game, Thursday, June 15, 2017, in Washington. The annual GOP-Democrats baseball game raises money for charity. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Scalise has more surgery as authorities track shooter’s path

Investigators recover phone, camera from James Hodgkinson’s van; Dems, Republicans show unity during annual baseball match

Democrats and Republicans show unity on baseball field to honor wounded colleague

By Erica Werner and KEVIN FREKING

Talk of unity wanes as Republicans, Democrats blame each other for shooting

By Erica Werner

Shot congressman facing ‘much more difficult’ recovery than first thought

A general view of Hebron with the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Jewish group urges UNESCO to reject Palestinian calls to place Hebron on danger list

Conference of Presidents calls on director of UN cultural body to prevent ‘hijack’ of agenda at upcoming meeting

UN agency that issued ‘apartheid’ Israel report now alleges torture, killings

UNICEF child welfare report finds Israel among worst in developed world

By Stuart Winer

UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons may be adopted soon

By Edith M. Lederer

In this Thursday, June 15, 2017 photo, former NFL players, from left, Joe Montana, Andre Reed, Mike Singletary and Bruce Smith attend a football game in Ramat Hasharon, near Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

'I think we take home a lot more than we bring' -- Joe Montana

Montana, Brown and Staubach give Israeli football huge boost

18 of the greatest NFL Hall of Famers visit Tel Aviv to meet and support some of the 2,000 players active in local leagues

Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. (CC 2.0 Gage Skidmore)

Part Deux?

Will Gal Gadot return for ‘Wonder Woman’ sequel?

By Yaakov Schwartz

Neither the Amazing Amazon nor director Patty Jenkins are believed to be under contract for another film, though Gadot reportedly has an option

Members of the elite Egoz unit take part in an exercise in Cyprus in June 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

500 Israeli soldiers fight mock war in Cyprus mountains

By Judah Ari Gross

Commandos hold unprecedented unit-wide exercise overseas, with air support; 100 Cypriot soldiers participate; Turks, Cypriot opposition fume

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades shake hands during their meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, on June 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Netanyahu in Greece: Med pipeline would be ‘revolution’

By COSTAS KANTOURIS

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Check out

El Al rated Heathrow’s dirtiest, noisiest airline

London airport puts Israel’s national carrier in 50th place, with dismal rating in 5 of 7 categories

Deborah Lipstadt at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, June 11, 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

Interview

With Trump in the White House, Deborah Lipstadt stands up for facts

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In Israel to receive an honor from the University of Haifa, leading Holocaust scholar leverages her ‘Denial’ fame to amplify her voice against fake news

Terrorist flags to fly in London

Allowing Muslims to march under a Hezbollah banner is an insult to victims of attacks

Talk to the kids about sex (HBO is!)

Parents share their sexual values with their children by making ‘the talk’ an ongoing age-appropriate discussion

#Israelisawesome: My campaign

7 days of praise for Israel, in the hopes of removing the sting from the bad report of this week’s parsha’s spies

So, Jared and Ivanka play golf on Shabbat

The Kushners do their own thing as observant Jews. And that’s normal.

Freedom needs patience

Liberty takes grit, hope and stamina; the Exodus generation wasn’t ready for it, but their children were (Shelach)

Girls have photos of a missing child on their t-shirts near scene of the massive fire in Grenfell Tower, in rear, in London, Thursday, June 15, 2017. A massive fire raced through the 24-story high-rise apartment building in west London early Wednesday. (AP/Alastair Grant)

London fire death toll hits 30, will rise much higher

At least 70 still unaccounted for; last flames put out 2 days after massive blaze tore through 120-unit Grenfell Tower

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart following their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 28, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Sergei Karpukhin)

Senate votes 98-2 to strengthen Iran sanctions

By Eric Cortellessa

Legislation aims to punish Tehran for testing ballistic missiles and other non-nuclear provocations

'Caliph' Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi speaks to Muslims in a mosque in Mosul, Iraq. (YouTube screen capture)

Russia verifying whether it killed IS leader in airstrike

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Bassam Mroue

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi attended a meeting of IS leaders that was struck in late May near group’s stronghold of Raqqa, military says

People pass by the stand of Facebook during the Web Summit at Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon on November 9, 2016. ( AFP PHOTO / PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA)

Facebook seeks to become ‘hostile place’ for terrorists

Social media giant announces push to remove extremist content from platform using artificial intelligence alongside bolstered manpower

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

Ex-police boss seeks review of French cops’ inaction during Jewish woman’s killing

By JTA

Retired commissioner says 3 armed officers should have broken into house, not waited for backup during murder of Sarah Halimi by Muslim neighbor

US translator Jessica Cohen (L) and Israeli author David Grossman (R) pose for a photograph with his book A Horse Walks Into a Bar at the shortlist photocall for the Man Booker International Prize at St James' Church in London on June 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Grossman says his prize-winning novel is a window into ‘the intensity’ that is Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Novelist speaks to Times of Israel about his latest accomplishment, hailed by Man-Booker judges as ‘supreme example of writer’s craft’

Author David Grossman (left), shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his novel 'A Horse Walked Into a Bar,' interviewed by Benjamin Balint in an event hosted by the Times of Israel in Jerusalem, April 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

PM (briefly) congratulates David Grossman on winning Man Booker prize

By ToI Staff and AFP

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert arrives in court in Jerusalem on May 25, 2015. (David Vaaknin/POOL)

State calls for police probe into Olmert’s memoir leaks

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Parole board rejects request to delay Sunday’s scheduled hearing for ex-PM as cops investigate possible criminal offenses

One of the suspects in the murder of Jerusalem resident Shlomo Sami Marciano is seen being led into court. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Couple indicted for murdering neighbor, burying body in public garden

Pair accused of cutting up corpse, wrapping the pieces in plastic bags and rolling them through the streets in a cart

Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, looks on during a meeting between Trump and Republican congressional leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Jared Kushner’s business dealings come under scrutiny in Russia probe

Trump’s son-in-law and adviser met with Russian ambassador, senior banker in the lead-up to the elections, for reasons unclear

Arab Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman in the Knesset, June 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK to speak at UN ‘50 Years of Occupation’ conference

By JTA

Aida Touma-Sliman cites obligation to ‘make my voice heard on every stage possible’; Israel’s UN envoy Danon calls move ‘shameful’

Opposition members of Ahmad Jarba's Syrian Elite Forces, fighting alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ride a truck in a neighborhood on the eastern front of the Islamic State (IS) group's Syrian bastion of Raqa during an offensive to retake the city from the jihadists on June 14, 2017.
(Delil Souleiman/AFP)

UN slams ‘staggering loss of civilian life’ in US-backed Syria airstrikes

By Agnès PEDRERO

At least 300 killed in Raqqa as forces battle to oust Islamic State, though number likely to be much higher

More Headlines

In this June 2017 photo, Talleen Abu Hana visited Washington, DC, to speak about her experience being a transgender woman in Israel. (Ron Kampeas)

Israeli Arab transgender beauty queen opens up about her story

By Giovanna Paz

Rabbi Joseph Dweck. (Screen capture: YouTube)

UK’s top Sephardi rabbi gives up some duties after homosexuality row

By JTA

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (C), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), the Mayor of Thessaloniki Yannis Boutaris (R) and the president of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki David Saltiel attend the presentation of a memorial plaque at the Museum of the Holocaust in Thessaloniki on June 15, 2017. (AFP / SAKIS MITROLIDIS)

Netanyahu honors Greek Jews at Thessaloniki dedication of Holocaust museum site

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative, Tefillin. (image via Shutterstock)

Thieves nab yeshiva boys’ luggage, tefillin during Chicago visit

By JTA

The refugee card belonging to Zeev Jabotinsky that sold for $20,000 at a June 13, 2017 auction in New York. (Courtesy)

Jabotinsky’s ID card auctioned in NY for $20,000

Grey Mullet swimming in Latimeira's Water Ring (Courtsy)

Latimeria uses artificial seawater to upend fish breeding

By Shoshanna Solomon

Canadians sing their national anthem, 'O Canada,' in Yiddish, June 2017. (YouTube)

Lomir zingnCanadians mark 150 by singing anthem — in Yiddish

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewFrom ‘Bibi-ton’ to ‘Bennett-on’?

By Joshua Davidovich

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