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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 18, 2017

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A Facebook ad for an Israel-based binary options firm posted April 19, 2016 (Screenshot)

Israeli ministers approve bill to outlaw entire binary options industry

By Simona Weinglass

Draft law — prompted by Times of Israel reporting on decade-old, multi-billion dollar fraud — welcomed by Israel’s securities regulator and attorney-general

Israeli security forces check Palestinian women in front of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City before allowing them to board a bus that will take them back to the West Bank on June 17, 2017. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

After deadly attack, Israel mulls new security strategy for Damascus Gate

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet says it has yet to verify various claims of responsibility for terror assault that killed Border Police officer Hadas Malka

Border Police officer Hadas Malka, who was killed on June 16, 2017, in a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

Friends mourn Hadas Malka, stabbed to death near Old City, as ‘a true Wonder Woman’

Border Police officer, 23, killed Friday in Jerusalem terror attack, to be laid to rest in Ashdod at midnight; friends remember her courage and dedication

Netanyahu blasts Palestinian ‘lies’ about Jerusalem attack

By Itamar Sharon and Raphael Ahren

Thousands mourn slain border cop ‘who loved everybody’

IDF soldiers fire warning shots at Palestinians near Gaza fence

A human heart, illustrative (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli scientists successfully regenerate damaged hearts

By Itamar Sharon

Weizmann Institute study finds molecule prevalent in embryonic cardiac tissue promotes rapid healing in adult mice, as well as in human cells

Israeli security forces and an ambulance are seen at the scene of an attack outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on June 16, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Analysis

True or not, Islamic State’s claim of Friday attack is a statement of intent

By Avi Issacharoff

After all the defeats it has suffered on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, it is no surprise to see jihadi terror group focusing on Jerusalem

BBC regrets headline that victimized Jerusalem attackers

Donald Trump Jr. calls out BBC over Jerusalem attack headline

By ToI Staff and Agencies

MKs criticize Netanyahu in wake of Jerusalem terror attack

Members of the Izz ad Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamass military wing, take part in a ceremony, on December 18, 2016, in Gaza City in the memory of one of their leaders, Mohamed Zaouari, who was murdered in Tunisia. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas says it neither wants nor expects another war with Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Parole board to rule on ex-PM Olmert’s early release next week; ministers join PM in denying knowledge of Qalqilya expansion plan; tennis champ Sela snags Nottingham title ahead of Wimbledon

Then-Labor party chairman Isaac Herzog seen with Then-MK Amir Peretz and MK Omer Barlev, March 14, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

Little love lost in Labor, in race for dubious privilege of leading the party

By Marissa Newman

Lineup features gritty ex-generals, a former Kulanu minister caught lying about voting Likud, some old faces, and an ultra-Orthodox woman who hired the adviser behind Netanyahu’s infamous ‘Arabs are voting in droves’ campaign

The intermarriage wars

Conservative Judaism is losing its last deference to Torah, and the same impulse is burning at the edges of Orthodoxy

Why I can’t stay silent about Sarsour

No ethical human being should collaborate on any matter with one who condones terrorism and wants Israel eliminated

An homage to the fathers and husbands who feed us

Hanan al-Bahiri (Courtesy Israel Police)

Bedouin woman’s uncles accused of murdering her, burning body

State says Hanan al-Bahiri, 19, was killed by relatives who thought her decision to work after divorce would bring family ‘dishonor’

People take part in a protest against violence against women, in Tel Aviv, June 17, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Amid spike in killings of women, cabinet mulls electronic tags for abusive spouses

By Raoul Wootliff

Public security minister says proposal ‘challenges accepted paradigm’ by shifting restrictions from victims to their abusers

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Olmert up for early release amid new classified leak probe

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Jailed former PM set to come before parole board, as state seeks to investigate his handling of sensitive info

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Cops, seizing classified Olmert papers, also scooped up Ya’alon’s manuscript

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

In raid on Yedioth Books, police took material from journalist Ben Caspit’s upcoming book on Netanyahu

Avraham Avera Mengistu, undated. (Courtesy of the Mengistu family via AP)

Family of man held in Gaza gets video of him crossing the border

IDF hands over to relatives of Avraham Mengistu footage from September 2014, when he disappeared into the Palestinian enclave

An army ambulance damaged by settlers in Yitzhar, June 17, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Army ambulance called to Yitzhar stoned by settlers

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IDF says this incident, and attempt to slash tires previous day, ‘cross a red line’; settlement also condemns attack

A view of Qalqilya from the Israeli side of the security barrier (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Cabinet reopens debate on expanding Palestinian city

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu announces decision amid backlash from right-wing ministers over scheme to add 14,000 housing units to Qalqilya

Clockwise, from left: Rhea Clyman's photo in the 1933 Toronto Telegram; a 'Red Train' of carts taking first harvest of produce to Soviet government warehouses; starving children affected by the famine. (All photos public domain)

How a female Jewish journalist alerted the world to Ukraine’s silent starvation

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets members of the community affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster during a visit to the Westway Sports Centre which is providing temporary shelter for those who have been made homeless, in west London on June 16, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Dominic Lipinski)

Police say 58 presumed dead in London tower fire

By Robin MILLARD

Britain left ‘somber’ by apartment inferno, says Queen; Prime Minister May meets survivors amid growing public anger

German-Turkish lawyer, author and activist Seyran Ates (R) readies the prayer area prior to an inaugural Friday payer at the Ibn Rushd-Goethe-mosque in Berlin on June 16, 2017. (AFP/John MacDougall)

Jews and Christians are guests as taboo-breaking liberal mosque opens in Berlin

By Yannick Pasquet

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Police investigators stand by a burnt car on the road between Castanheira de Pera and Figueiro dos Vinhos, central Portugal, June 18 2017. (AP/Armando Franca)

62 dead in central Portugal wildfire disaster

By AP

Cricketer Naomi Eytan in action (courtesy)

Teen cricket girl, banned from Maccabiah, goes to court

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Egyptian security forces stand guard around the Coptic Catholic College of Theology and Humanities in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi on April 29, 2017, during Pope Francis's visit to the country. (AFP/Aly Fahim)

Egyptian policeman killed in blast near Cairo

Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff speaks with Perry Taylor, Jr as he visits his Sandy Springs Field Office to thank volunteers as he runs for Georgia's 6th Congressional District on June 17, 2017 in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish candidate, opponent get heavyweight help as House race nears end

Honeywell is to acquire Petah Tiva's Nextnine, a cybersecurity firm (Courtesy)

Honeywell-Nextnine deal illustrates owners’ dilemma: Sell or hold

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sen. Dianne Feinstein ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, center, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Turning 84, oldest senator Dianne Feinstein steers clear of retirement talk

By Michael R. Blood

In this May 1986 file photo, actor Stephen Furst poses for a photo in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Stephen Furst, Flounder in ‘Animal House,’ dies at 63

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative. An ambulance leaving the scene of a terror attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on June 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewJoie de vivre and deja vu

By Joshua Davidovich

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