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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 22, 2017

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

Otto Warmbier’s family kept his Jewishness under wraps while North Korea held him hostage

By Eric Cortellessa

EXCLUSIVE: Pyongyang peddled false narrative that a church told the 22-year-old to steal a propaganda poster, and negotiators didn’t want to embarrass the regime by refuting the claim

A photo taken on November 27, 2016, shows the Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang, where US student Otto Warmbier was alleged to have removed a political poster from staff quarters. (AFP PHOTO / Ed JONES)

North Korea calls Trump a ‘psychopath’

By AFP

US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis stands in front of a map of the Middle East during a press briefing at the Pentagon on May 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Pentagon chief blasts North Korea over death of US student

By AFP

Professor Isaac Ben-Israel during a 2011 press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing the establishment of a national bureau to focus on Israel's information protection capabilities and supervise development of the cyber sector (Kobi Gideon / Flash90.)

To stop Russia and other hackers, we need to overhaul the internet, says top Israeli cyber expert

By David Horovitz

Internet pioneers didn’t need to prioritize defending against cyber warfare, but we must, says Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, who developed Israel’s cybersecurity agencies and hosts next week’s prestigious Tel Aviv Cyber Week 2017

An installation of the Lebanese agricultural NGO 'Green Without Borders' that the IDF says serves as an observation outpost for Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border, publicized on June 22, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Israel turns to UN after NGO found disguising Hezbollah outposts

By Tamar Pileggi

Mourners gather to bury US Jewish student held in N. Korea; Russia says ‘highly likely’ it killed IS leader in Syria strike; Gaza power plant resumes operations with Egyptian fuel

A passenger observes the runway from a window at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, April 21, 2013. (Flash90)

In landmark ruling, El Al ordered to end policy of asking women to move seats

By Raoul Wootliff

Holocaust survivor Renee Rabinowitz wins suit against Israel’s national carrier over flight attendants’ request she change places after ultra-Orthodox man refused to sit beside her

US presidential adviser Jared Kushner meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on June 21, 2017 (PA press office)

In Ramallah, Kushner and Abbas agree ‘peace will take time’

Son-in-law and special adviser to US president meets with Palestinian leader in bid to restart negotiations

Hosting Kushner, Netanyahu extols common goals of prosperity, security and peace

By ToI Staff and AP

Herzog: Netanyahu is ‘incapable’ of peace with Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Bennett says his Jewish Home party not opposed to peace talks

Bar Refaeli and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the 'Cinema for Peace Gala 2010' during the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Catch her if you can

Bar Refaeli grilled on tax evasion during DiCaprio years

Supermodel testifies about allegations she hid earnings of tens of millions of shekels, partly by pretending to live in the US

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Flash90)

Liberman: Abbas trying to draw Hamas into war with Israel

By Stuart Winer

Defense minister says peace with Palestinians will come only as a byproduct of a broader regional agreement

Egyptian trucks carrying fuel enter Gaza's power plant in Nusseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza power plant back on, with help of alliance of old foes

By Fares Akram and Mohammed Daraghmeh

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures after delivering a speech on the second day of the 7th Fatah Congress in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 30, 2016. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas praises Buenos Aires post-Ramadan meal for Palestinians and Jews

By JTA

Massive Intel purchase of Mobileye held up as deadline extended

By Shoshanna Solomon

Deal delayed by month as companies await tax ruling and anti-trust clearance, spokesperson says; move likely not sign of danger to $15.3 billion agreement, according to expert

Christian Friedel as Georg Elser in '13 Minutes.' (Bernd Schuller/Sony Pictures Classics)

This man almost killed Hitler — an incredible true story

New movie ’13 Minutes’ shows how lone-wolf Georg Elsner plotted and nearly succeeded in assassinating the fuehrer in 1938

One third of workers surveyed said they would give themselves a pay raise, according to CyberArk research. (YouTube screenshot)

Workers would peek at colleagues’ salaries if they could – survey

By Micah Danney

They’d also give themselves a raise, according to a study by Israeli firm CyberArk that shows it’s not just outsiders who pose a threat to companies’ data

Marlee Matlin, an Oscar-winning actress who is deaf and Jewish, receiving the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Tel Aviv from Jay Ruderman, June 19, 2017. (Courtesy/Erez Uzir)

'I didn’t let my deafness define me'

Actress Marlee Matlin teaches tolerance — and how to sign ‘Tel Aviv’ — during Israel tour

By Yaakov Schwartz

The Oscar winner, the recipient of a prestigious award from the Ruderman Foundation, explains how Judaism stresses inclusion

What’s really being taught in PA schools

Rebuttals to four claims made by Palestinian Authority Educational Minister Sabri Saidam

Gary Rosenblatt

Next-gen Americans set Israel aside

The Arab-Israeli conflict is boring and classic Zionism is no big deal, so focus them on Israelis and the human angle

No pride in anti-Semitism

It’s hypocritical to stand for LGBTQ rights while discriminating against people for supporting their country

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jewish spouses matter

A new study claims non-Jewish family deters engagement, even as more rabbis welcome the intermarried

Qatari men herd camels in a desert area on the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing between Saudi Arabia and Qatar on June 21, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / KARIM JAAFAR)

Hump day

Saudi Arabia expels 12,000 Qatari camels and sheep

By AFP

Riyadh sends away herds of animals after cutting ties with Doha and expelling Qatari citizens from kingdom

Saudi King Salman, right, and Defense Minister and then Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wave as they leave the hall after talks with the British prime minister, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 5, 2017 (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Stepping out of the shadows, Saudi Arabia’s next king is a young, ambitious risk-taker

Mohammed bin Salman has already instituted a dramatic shake-up of a once slow-moving country. He is now set to be its driving force in the coming decades

Minister Ayoub Kara attends a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli minister welcomes Saudi Arabia’s new royal heir

By ToI Staff and AP

Smoke billowing from Mosul's Old City on June 18, 2017, during the ongoing offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the last district still held by the Islamic State group. (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Islamic State blows up Mosul mosque where al-Baghdadi became ‘caliph’

By Jean-Marc Mojon and Ali Choukeir

‘Iraq’s Tower of Pisa’ had stood for over 840 years; PM al-Abadi says destruction of iconic site ‘an official declaration of defeat’ by retreating jihadist group

The West Bank town of Qalqilya is seen behind Israel's security barrier. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Analysis

With ire over Palestinian expansion, settlers aim to reshuffle Israeli priorities

Long frustrated by US-imposed construction curbs, right-wing leaders fear plan to build thousands of units in Qalqilya signifies nothing has changed

An illustrative photo of construction of new apartment buildings in Har Homa in East Jerusalem, October 28, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu said set to unfreeze thousands of E. Jerusalem units

By Stuart Winer

Construction of new buildings in the West Bank settlement of Na'ale on February 8, 2017. (Flash90)

Border police thwart infiltration into West Bank settlement

2 suspects arrested after breaking into Na’ale community; third man, apparently waiting in getaway car, manages to escape

Likud Minister Ayoub Kara meets with prime minister of the Sahrawi Republic of southern Morocco, Abdelkader Taleb Omar in Ecuador on May 24, 2017. (Courtesy)

Morocco complains to Israel about minister’s photo with rival leader

By Raoul Wootliff

Foreign Ministry says Ayoub Kara’s brief meeting with Sahrawi Republic PM did not receive official approval

Israeli Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs Haim Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Police to grill minister in Israel Aerospace Industries probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Haim Katz’s son Yair, a senior executive in the company, is suspected of coercing employees into joining Likud

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Absent or opposed, not all ministers backed bill to ban binary options

By Simona Weinglass and Raphael Ahren

A minority of cabinet members withheld support from the move to outlaw the Israel-based multi-billion dollar scam, leaks from Sunday’s vote reveal

Activist Michele Freed, center, with other young professionals in front of the White House, March 1, 2017, at an event organized by HIAS. (Katie Jett Walls/via JTA)

136-year-old Jewish refugee agency has a new mission in the Trump era: fighting back

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Prof. Michael Weintraub, former head of Hadassah Hospital's pediatric hemato-oncology department, attends a rally at the protest tent built in Jerusalem's Sacher Park by parents, June 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health minister accuses Jerusalem kids’ cancer doctors of ‘putsch’

Israeli businessman Eliezer Fishman, seen at court in Tel Aviv on January 1, 2017. (Flash90)

Mogul owes $425 million in largest-ever Israeli bankruptcy

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

Court slaps travel ban on Bezeq controlling owner amid fraud probe

One of the Muslim Girl x Orly halal-certified nail polishes in the cosmetic company's Breathable line (Courtesy Orly)

Nailed itIsraeli-born man makes halal nail polish for Muslims

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of activists in London protest in Waitrose supermarket calling for boycott of Israel. (Screen capture: YouTube)

From our partnerUK High Court says councils can boycott Israel

As far as the eye can see: the Tel Aviv view from the Azrieli observatory (photo: Courtesy)

Israel picks landing pads to draw foreign entrepreneurs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro seen at a farewell session in the Knesset, on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Times of Israel Presents, July 2Dan Shapiro to speak about Trump, Gulf and Palestinians at ToI event

By Matthew Kalman

A Bezeq satellite station in the Ella valley (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewShifts roll uphill

By Joshua Davidovich

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