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What Matters Most On Friday, June 23, 2017

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A Shahab-3 long range missile, left, and Zolfaghar missiles, right, are displayed during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on June 23, 2017.
(AFP Photo/Stringer)

Unveiling clock showing 8,411 days left for Israel, Iranians rage against Jewish state

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Parliament speaker calls Israel ‘mother of terrorism’ as Islamic Republic parades missiles, rallies in support of Palestinians and against raft of enemies

To end crisis, Arab states demand Qatar sever Iran ties

By Josh Lederman

What Arab states are demanding of Qatar

By AP

Minister calls on Riyadh to invite Netanyahu for peace talks

Illustrative: Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets and a refueling plane fly in formation over Nevada during the United States Air Force's Red Flag exercise in August 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Iranian regime-linked media claims Israeli F16s are in Saudi Arabia

Unsourced report, ridiculed in Israel, claims IAF forces sent to help prevent a palace coup against new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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

Abbas said enraged by Kushner meet, refuses to halt pay even to worst terrorists

Ramallah reportedly accuses US delegation of being mouthpiece for Israel, rebuffs watered-down demand to stop paying 600 prisoners serving life terms

Abbas defends payments to convicted terrorists as ‘social responsibility’

AnalysisCould Trump push a partial Mideast deal?

Former Israeli generals warn against US bill slashing funds to PA

Iraqi forces take position as they advance towards Mosul's Old City on June 18, 2017, during the ongoing offensive to retake the last district still held by the Islamic State group. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)

In ‘incredible feat,’ Canadian sniper kills IS fighter from 2 miles away

Breaking world record for confirmed kill, elite soldier said to thwart jihadist bomb attack on Iraqi troops

The casket of Otto Warmbier is carried out from his funeral at Wyoming High School June 22, 2017 in Wyoming, Ohio. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images/AFP)

‘He’d drop everything to help his friends,’ say mourners as Otto Warmbier buried

By AP and Eric Cortellessa

At packed funeral, US Jewish student imprisoned in North Korea and released in a coma, remembered as ‘goofy’ guy who loved obscure rap music and thrift-store sweaters

North Korea denies torturing US student Warmbier

By Agencies and Eric Cortellessa

Thousands gather to mourn US Jewish student imprisoned in North Korea

By AP and Eric Cortellessa

US official: North Korea conducted rocket engine test

By AFP and ToI Staff

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest against the pro-Brexit outcome of the UK's referendum on the European Union, in central London on June 25, 2016. (AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS)

'Brexit has upended British politics'

One year on, Brexit vote casts specter of anti-Semitism over UK Jews

By Robert Philpot

For many well-intentioned voters who chose to leave the EU, the outcome has backfired in ways they could never have imagined

Illustrative: In this Friday, December 2, 2016, photo, two masked Ku Klux Klansmen stand on a muddy dirt road during an interview near Pelham, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Ku Klux Klan opening new groups, still a threat in America – ADL

By JTA and ToI Staff

New report says racist, anti-Semitic movement has 42 active groups, more than half formed or restarted over past 3 years

Ramadan Nights guide Shireen Mahajna bids tour participants to say goodbye to the sun prior to breaking the Ramadan fast on June 22, 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

A Ramadan night on the town in Umm al-Fahm

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Guided tour of a northern Arab Israeli city offers a taste of culinary delights, culture… and coexistence

Intermarriage: It’s not about rabbis

The clash over performing weddings misses the fact that few people actually care what the rabbi thinks

Joshua Gerstein

To learn or to serve? A Haredi question

He understands why the ultra-Orthodox protest the IDF from the inside — and explains clearly why they are mistaken

A lesson in conflict resolution

Force only deepens conflict, even when a miraculous pit swallows rebels, making it clear they were wrong (Korach)

Beit El residents protest outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 19, 2017. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu approves Beit El settlement expansion project

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Prime minister okays 300 units in the West Bank community north of Ramallah, fulfilling promise from 2012 to build new homes

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)

Posing as environmentalists, Hezbollah digging in at border, Israel tells UN

UN envoy Danon, IDF intelligence chief demand action against Lebanese terror group’s violations along border

View of Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border near Rosh Hanikra, in northwestern Israel, November 10, 2016 (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Lebanese man arrested upon return from Israel after 17 years

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces standing guard outside Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem's Old City on June 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After attacks, officials seek ‘unprecedented’ Damascus Gate security boost

Entrance way to Jerusalem’s Old City to get elevated observation sites, advanced technology, ministers say, decrying site as ‘symbol of Palestinian terror’

Screen capture from video in which Breaking the Silence spokesman Dean Issacharoff described how he beat a passive Palestinian protester in Hebron, filmed at a rally in April, 2017. (YouTube/hakolhayehudi)

Police probe Breaking the Silence official who claimed to beat Palestinian

Justice minister had asked for investigation of left-wing NGO’s spokesman Dean Issacharoff, taped describing how he hit an unarmed protester

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (L) meets with Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony at the Congress Hall in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90)

Is Israel Hayom losing that loving feeling for Netanyahu?

By Raphael Ahren

For years, the free daily backed the PM, no matter what. It hasn’t abandoned him, but it’s giving him less coverage – and reporting prominently on a key rival

The Ariel University Center (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Adelson to donate $20 million to expand West Bank university

By JTA

US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on June 21, 2017, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

Trump publicly doubting that Russia meddled in election

By Vivian Salama

US president at odds with his intel chiefs; questions why Obama administration didn’t put halt to hacking; slams ‘big Dem scam’

United Torah Judaism MK Uri Maklev in the Knesset on February 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New legislation would increase Knesset to 140 seats

Bill by ultra-Orthodox MKs says workload necessitates 20 more parliamentarians

People wait for the bus near Hashalom train station by the Azrieli towers in Tel Aviv, September 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox pressure puts brakes on weekend train work

Netanyahu, Yisrael Katz and ultra-Orthodox ministers agree to ‘status quo’ on avoiding train repairs, construction over Shabbat

Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales (3rd R) and Imam Mohammed Mahmoud (3rd L) visit floral tributes left close to the scene of the Finsbury Mosque attack in the Finsbury Park area of north London on June 21, 2017, following a car-ramming terror attack on pedestrians. (AFP Photo/Pool/John Nguyen)

London mosque rammer charged with ‘terrorism-related murder’

By AFP

Darren Osborne accused of mowing down worshipers outside Finsbury Park Mosque, killing Makram Ali and injuring 11 others

The charred remains of cladding are pictured on the outer walls of the burnt out shell of the Grenfell Tower block in north Kensington, west London on June 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N)

Police mull manslaughter charges over cladding in London blaze

By AFP

Outside material at Grenfell Tower failed safety tests, contributed to rapid spread of fire, started by faulty fridge, that killed 79

An empathy-building piece on why the Irish immigrated to England at London's Museum of Immigration and Diversity. (Ed Marshall/19 Princelet Street)

A year after Brexit vote, London museum pays tribute to living history with refugee installation

By Robert Philpot

More Headlines

Israelis take part in the first annual Gay Pride parade in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on June 22, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

3,500 at first Beersheba gay pride parade; man arrested with knife

Norbert Lammert, president of the German lower house, gives a speech on June 22, 2017 at the Bundestag in Berlin. (AFP/ John MacDougall)

Germany votes to void thousands of post-Nazi convictions of gay men

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a swastika painted at Temple Ohawe Sholam in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Marty Cooper/Jewish Alliance for Greater Rhode Island via JTA)

State Department clearing out anti-Semitism monitor, drawing unease

Illustrative photo of Alameda, California city hall (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Sitcom vandals‘Hitler vandalism’ on school is a quote from ‘The Office’

By JTA

Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell smiles as he leaves the chamber after announcing the release of the Republicans' healthcare bill which represents the party's long-awaited attempt to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican Senate health bill decried by Reform movement

By AP and JTA

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (R) and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray gesture during the opening ceremony of the OAS 47th General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, on June 19, 2017. (AFP/Pedro Pardo)

Mexican president denies spying on journalists with Israeli tech

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

The Waze application is displayed on a smartphone in San Francisco, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Save the wildlifeThousands of Israeli Wazers report roadkill incidents

By JTA

Handmaids at the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22, 2017. (Courtesy of HOT)

Blessed be the Fruit‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ invades streets of Tel Aviv

By Andrew Tobin

T.J. Leaf reacts after being drafted 18th overall by the Indiana Pacers during the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center on June 22, 2017 in New York City. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel-born T.J. Leaf drafted by NBA’s Pacers in first round

Police and medical personnel at the scene of a driveby shooting in the coastal town of Bat Yam, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewCops in the crosshairs

By Adiv Sterman

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