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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 31, 2018

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Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the Greek Kathimerini newspaper, in Damascus, Syria, in this photo released May 10, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Assad denies presence of Iranian forces in Syria, but acknowledges advisers

Ex-Mossad chief: In 2011 Netanyahu ordered military to ready Iran strike

By Stuart Winer

Liberman heads to Moscow to lobby against Iranian presence in Syria

Adviser to Iran’s supreme leader pushes uranium enrichment

By AP

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the US embassy's new site in Jerusalem, May 30, 2018, posing ahead of a Times of Israel interview. (Matty Stern, US Embassy Jerusalem)

InterviewThe candid views and positions of Trump's man in Jerusalem

Ambassador David Friedman: Republicans support Israel more than Democrats

By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz

US envoy discusses Israel as a partisan cause, Trump’s peace plan, settlement legality, Palestinian refugees, and a pastor who invoked Jesus at the Jerusalem embassy opening

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a UN Security Council emergency session on Israel-Gaza conflict at United Nations headquarter on May 30, 2018 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)

US blasts Security Council as measure condemning Hamas blocked

By Eric Cortellessa and AFP

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley listens as Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja'afari speaks after a vote on a resolution during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria, on April 14, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Kuwait blocks US bid to condemn Gaza rocket fire at Security Council

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A satellite image showing a suspected Hamas naval force base in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted in an Israeli airstrike on May 29, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF releases satellite images of ‘significant’ Gaza targets hit in airstrikes

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid criticism it pulled punches, military says a serious blow was dealt to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad in reprisal raids

Intelligence minister calls to end fuel, water supply to Gaza

By Stuart Winer

IDF general: Gaza terror groups ‘deeply deterred,’ not interested in war

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu: Israel dealt Gaza terror groups ‘harshest blow in years’

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

The curious common interest behind the rapid Gaza-Israel flare-up and flare-down

Hamas and Israel remain bitter enemies, but neither wants an all-out war, and so both sought to prevent a day’s escalation from turning into something far more devastating

A home in the southern Eshkol region damaged by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip early on May 30, 2018 (courtesy: Eshkol Regional Council)

After night in bomb shelter, family wakes up to discover porch hit by rocket

IDF says it targeted ‘advanced’ Hamas naval capabilities in Gaza airstrikes

By Judah Ari Gross

Restrictions lifted on Israelis near Gaza as respite in rocket fire holds

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

US avoids condemning Israel after 2,000 settlement homes approved

By Jacob Magid and Raphael Ahren

National Security Council says it ‘welcomes’ Jerusalem’s willingness to take Washington’s concerns about West Bank construction into consideration

A view of construction in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel green-lights 2,000 settlement homes; half are outside blocs

Handgun discovered in Palestinian man's car near a West Bank settlement on May 30, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian arrested near West Bank settlement; handgun found in car

'The Elevation of the Cross,' by Peter Paul Rubens, 1610. (public domain via wikipedia)

How Jesus died: Extremely rare evidence of Roman crucifixion uncovered in Italy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli soldiers survey the border with Syria from a military post in the Golan Heights, following a series of aerial clashes with Syrian and Iranian forces in Syria, on February 10, 2018. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel: ‘Even if it takes time, Iranian threat from Syria will be lifted’

Moscow said to tell Jerusalem it seeks a coordinated and quick return of Assad regime forces to Syrian side of Golan Heights

6:18 pm

Israel: 'Even if it takes time, Iranian threat from Syria will be lifted'
5:46 pm

In video, Netanyahu raves about Iranians' talents, laments 'plundering' regime
5:33 pm

Germany slams planned expulsion of West Bank Bedouin village

Arkady Babchenko at the Western Wall in June 2017. (Facebook)

Journalist who faked death had come to Israel after fleeing Russia

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Arkady Babchenko, whose maternal grandmother is Jewish, came to Tel Aviv after being forced to leave Prague over visa issues; praised country for its openness before moving to Kiev

Flowers are placed under a picture of 41-year-old anti-Kremlin reporter Arkady Babchenko on the memorial wall of Moscow's journalists house on May 30, 2018, until his death was revealed to have been faked. (AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV)

Ukraine under pressure after faking journalist’s death

By AFP and ToI Staff

Anti-Kremlin Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko speaks during a press conference at the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev on May 30, 2018. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

Anti-Putin journalist alive; Ukraine faked his death to catch would-be assassin

By Oleksandr SAVOCHENKO and Ania TSOUKANOVA

A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism

By Matt Lebovic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), along with the IDF's then-chief education officer Brig. Gen. Eli Schermeister (right), and several participants in the army's Nativ conversion course on December 15, 2010. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO, File/Courtesy)

Army conversion track to close Friday over budget shortfall

By Marissa Newman

Some 2,500 students converting to Judaism, many of them IDF soldiers, will be left in limbo as Nativ track set to end activities

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau (center) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (right) attend a meeting of the Rabbinate Council in Jerusalem in November 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Diaspora rabbinical judges could have to take exams to get Chief Rabbinate’s OK

By Marissa Newman

Jerusalemites at The First Station, which mixes kosher and non-kosher, Shabbat and non-Shabbat activities (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Jerusalem’s First Station to remain open on Shabbat

By Marissa Newman

Gaza: Jihad’s latest graveyard

Hamas’s latest defeat is a victory in an epic Islamic battle between violent fundamentalism and social progress

This is why Israel must fight

A mortar fired from Gaza landed on an Israeli kindergarten — I think of those children as my babies

Jonathan Muskat

The Torah forbids using guns for fun

What do Jewish texts and rabbinic authorities have to say about gun control? Quite a lot

Germany gives me hope

It’s inspiring to see how deeply and sincerely the country reckons with the horrific crimes of its past

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

Checking Supreme Court’s powers, Bennett looks to ‘rebalance’ Israeli democracy

By Raoul Wootliff

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court walks back position allowing seizing Palestinian land for settler use

Israeli soldiers guard on the border with the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Until next time: 8 things to know for May 31

By Joshua Davidovich

With the rockets silenced, attention turns to figuring out who the winner is, and it’s not necessarily Israel

Red Cross to send surgeons to Gaza to treat gunshot victims

By AP and ToI Staff

Flaming kite from Gaza said to spark brush fire in south

Death from tear gas or a bad heart? No ruling yet on Gaza baby

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

A still from a video shot by school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz and released by police on May 30, 2018. (screen capture: YouTube)

Chilling video shows Florida school shooter previewing murderous attack

By AP

Roseanne Barr participates in the "Roseanne" panel during the Disney/ABC Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

After Roseanne axed, some ask why ABC didn’t see racism coming

By David Bauder

US President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing ceremony at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Building in Washington, DC, May 30, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Breaking silence on Roseanne race row, Trump attacks ABC

By AFP

Harvey Weinstein appears at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, May 25, 2018. (Jefferson Siegel-Pool via Getty Images/AFP)

Harvey Weinstein indicted in New York on rape charges

By AP

In this October 8, 2016 photo, Drake performs onstage in Toronto. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Pusha comes to shove‘Diss track’ outs Drake love child, features him in blackface

By Yaakov Schwartz

Jeremy Corbyn at a Labour event in Stretford, England, March 22, 2018. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Corbyn’s ‘anti-Semitism’ could drive Jews from UK, Jewish leader says

Illustrative: Alistair Burt, British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, visits the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village in the West Bank, May 30, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

UK minister urges Israel not to demolish West Bank Bedouin village

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pnina Peri berates man for putting on tefillin at Ben Gurion airport on May 28, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook/Gad Kaufman)

Israeli woman disputes ‘distorted’ clip of airport rant over tefillin

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative: Muslim asylum seekers wait for their registration after arriving at a center for refugees in Giessen, Germany, on December 2, 2015 (AFP/DPA/Boris Roessler)

No link between Muslim immigration and anti-Semitism, German study says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)

Kafka intro to unwritten novel fetches nearly $175,000

By JTA

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