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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 20, 2017

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Iran launches a ballistic missile at Islamic State targets in eastern Syria on June 18, 2017. (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)

Israeli sources: Iran missile strike a ‘flop,’ with most missing target

Israeli analyst says security sources ‘amazed’ at poor performance: 3 missiles fell in Iraq, and only one hit its target

AnalysisIn Iranian strike on IS, the missile is the message

By Judah Ari Gross

After Iran fires missiles at IS in Syria, Netanyahu warns it not to threaten Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and Marissa Newman

Australia’s military suspends air operations over Syria

By AFP

Construction workers begin work on the new settlement, Amichai, meant to resettle the evacuees of Amona, June 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ground broken for first new West Bank settlement in 25 years

Prime minister announces start of works for Amichai, which will house residents of evacuated illegal Amona outpost

Israeli settlement building has risen, official data shows

By AFP and Jacob Magid

PM meets with settler mayor who called him a liar

PA slams new settlement as effort to thwart Trump’s peace drive

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu assails Abbas in tweetstorm on eve of new US peace bid

PM accuses Palestinian leader of lying to the world, ‘poisoning’ minds of Palestinians youth, as Jenin square named after terrorist

US envoy Greenblatt bemoans ‘intolerable’ violence that killed border guard

By Eric Cortellessa

He speaks! Top White House aide Kushner gives rare remarks

By AFP and AP

Slain border officer was not equipped with neck protector — report

By Stuart Winer

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

Jailed ex-PM Olmert hospitalized after complaining of chest pains

By Stuart Winer and AP

Former premier conscious and communicating, hospital says, but tests ongoing; TV report says he refused visit to prison doctor last week

Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a demonstration against the blockade on the Gaza Strip, near the border fence east of Jabalia refugee camp on June 5, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas calls for ‘day of rage’ Friday over ‘holy sites,’ Gaza siege

Netanyahu meets Trump peace envoy Greenblatt in Jerusalem; attempted stabbing north of Jerusalem, assailant killed; summer break begins for 700,000 high schoolers

Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)

Rabbinate and Haredi MKs ramp up bid to topple Western Wall mixed-gender plan

By Marissa Newman

Ahead of government response to High Court on foot-dragging in building new plaza, Rabbinate seeks own lawyers, ultra-Orthodox parties demand ‘total cancellation’ of deal

Illustrative photo. (Pecaphoto77 via iStock by Getty Images)

Girl, 16, arrested for forcing 13-year-old into prostitution

Victim was coerced into having sex with 31-year-old man, subjected to massive physical abuse, apparently over $85 gambling debt

File: In this April 5, 2017 photo, released by the Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi King Salman, right, and then-defense minister and deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman wave as they leave the hall after talks with the British prime minister, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Analysis

Seeking Saudi friends, Israel must still bridge gulf with Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

Reports of Riyadh’s willingness to establish economic ties with Jerusalem are likely premature, but current US peace push could yield first harbingers of normalization

Some 2,500 schoolchildren and volunteers of all ages from Modiin, Israel, have so far participated in the excavation of Tittora. (Vered Bosidan, Israel Antiquities Authority)

School pupils help find 900-year-old Crusader jewelry trove

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With some 2,500 school children and local volunteers, it takes a village to excavate Modiin’s Tel Tittora Crusader fortress

A power plant in Gaza City is pictured from behind a fence on April 16, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Egypt said to ease Gaza power crisis with emergency fuel supply

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian media says some 500 tons of diesel to be trucked in daily after Israel reduces electricity supply to the Strip

Members of the federal police show a bust relief portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Huge hidden trove of Nazi artifacts found in Argentina

Police discover 75 items in secret room of art collector, including macabre medical device used to measure head size possibly tied to Josef Mengele

American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2016. (AP/Jon Chol Jin)

Student held by North Korea dies week after being released in coma

By Agencies and JTA

Otto Warmbier, who was active in university Hillel before being jailed by Pyongyang, was returned last week with severe brain damage

Paul Shaffer on the set of the 'Late Show with David Letterman' in 2001. (John Paul Filo/CBS via Getty Images/via JTA)

'I was going to be musical, I had that kind of Jewish mother'

Paul Shaffer’s post-Letterman act: Touring with ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Band’

By Gabe Friedman

The ‘Late Show’ sidekick and musical director has taken to the road again, with the occasional pit stop in shul

Keep pro-Israel politics bipartisan

AIPAC will remain a formidable asset only if the organization is not turned into a hyper-politicized boxing ring

When my flip-flops trumped Hezbollah

When a terror group doesn’t even keep its political and paramilitary wings separate, it shouldn’t be marching in London

Malka Hillel-Schulewitz

The wounded came, Hadassah was ready

Eyewitness in 1967 to a city under siege, and a hospital’s heroic adaptation to treating the casualties of war

The tractor which crushed a two-year-old girl in the Bedouin village of Tarabin, southern Israel, June 20, 2017. (Police spokesperson’s office)

Toddler crushed to death by tractor, driver flees

2-year-old Bedouin girl run over near her home in southern Israel

New England Patriots owner and philanthropist Robert Kraft (center, blue blazer) with most of the 18 NFL 'Gold Jackets' in Israel and at the ribbon-cutting ceremony in June, 2017 for Israel's first full-size American football field, part of the Kraft Family Sports campus in Jerusalem. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Inaugurating new fields, Patriots’ Kraft puts Jerusalem football in end zone

By Jessica Steinberg

As NFL Hall of Famers open new sports complex in capital, New England owner speaks of his feelings for ‘our holiest place’

David Kroyanker and his archive on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, 2013 (Yossi Aloni)

Interview

Architect David Kroyanker writes definitive guide to the living museum that is Jerusalem

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Nabra Hassanen (Courtesy Hassanen Family via AP)

Muslims skeptical about ‘road rage’ in Virginia girl’s death

By AP and JTA

ADL urges hate crime probe as police say murder suspect Darwin Martinez Torres did not attack Nabra Hassanen for her religion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attend the opening of a radiotherapy department, the first of its kind in the north, at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel, on June 19, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM rejects WSJ report Israel gives financial aid to Syrian rebels

‘We do not interfere in this terrible conflict,’ says Netanyahu; only humanitarian assistance provided

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem, June 11, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Liberman reportedly backs bill to subject security cabinet to polygraph

By Stuart Winer

Proposal by MK Robert Ilatov aims to plug leaks from high-level meetings by giving ministers lie detector test every year

In this June 6, 2017 photo, candidates in Georgia's 6th Congressional District race Republican Karen Handel, left, and Democrat Jon Ossoff prepare to debate in Atlanta. (Branden Camp/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Ossoff, Handel make final pitches in keenly watched Georgia election

By Bill Barrow and KATHLEEN FOODY

Run-off in 6th Congressional District seen as possible preview to 2018 midterm elections

A campaign ad crafted by the Likud party depicting Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog as a cross-dresser. (Screen capture/Channel 2)

Likud ‘secretly funded campaign ads’ depicting Herzog as a cross-dresser

PM’s party paid for derogatory memes against Zionist Union heads, while never declaring it was behind them, Channel 2 reports

Illustrative: An Islamic State terrorist waves the jihadist organization's flag (CC BY-SA Alatele fr, Flickr)

US experts warn Israel to take Islamic State seriously

By Andrew Tobin

Analysts say the group, which claimed the Jerusalem stabbing attack, rarely makes false declarations of responsibility

A police officer talks to local people at Finsbury Park in north London, where a vehicle struck pedestrians in north London Monday, June 19, 2017 (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Muslims face rising violence in wake of IS-claimed attacks

By Paisley Dodds and DANICA KIRKA

In Europe and around the world, Muslims say they are being targeted by a wave of animosity

Gen. Joseph Dunford testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, October 27, 2015. (AP/Kevin Wolf)

US working to relaunch military hotline with Russia

By AFP

Diplomatic efforts underway to reestablish deconfliction arrangement, after US jet downed Syrian plane

An F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah, September 2, 2015. (AP/Rick Bowmer, File)

F-35 fighter show meant to reassure NATO — US general

By John Leicester

Acrobatic display at Paris Air Show intended to show allies that US ‘100% committed’ amid mixed signals from Trump, air force officer says

More Headlines

Shaul Elovitch, Bezeq's controlling shareholder (Calcalist screenshot)

Investigators raid Bezeq offices in probe into securities law violations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Help the 90% who aren’t part of startup economy, central bank chief urges

By Shoshanna Solomon

A view of the Dartmouth campus (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish scholars defend Dartmouth professor who signed pro-BDS statement

By JTA

Screen capture from video of the Al-Quds march in London, June 18, 2017. (YouTube/Richard Millett)

London marchers in Al-Quds Day parade blame tower block fire on ‘Zionists’

By JTA

Policy makers & business leaders meet at Eli Hurvitz Conference in Jerusalem, June 19 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Heads of industry choose education over tax breaks

By Shoshanna Solomon

Likud MK Oren Hazan speaks in the Knesset, December 7, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud MK Hazan sanctioned (again) for harassing MK

By Marissa Newman

Carrie Fisher at the 2011 NewNowNext Awards in Los Angeles, April 7, 2011. (AP/Chris Pizzello, File)

Carrie Fisher autopsy turns up cocaine, heroin, ecstasy

By Anthony McCartney

Rabbi David Rosen speaks during the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative in Oslo, Norway, June 19, 2017. (Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Preaching to the choirRabbis, priests, imams say protecting rainforests no joke

By AFP

Yossi Dagan (L), head of the Samaria Regional Council that oversees settlements in the northern West Bank, led a protest on the outskirts of Qalqilya calling on the government to cancel a plan allowing the Palestinian Authority to expand the city of Qalqilya. (Samaria Regional Council)

Hebrew media reviewChanging the Qalqilyus

By Joshua Davidovich

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