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What Matters Most On Friday, June 1, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen at IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 2014. (Haim Zach/Flash90/File)

PM: What I really listen to is Arik Einstein, Abba, Beatles

Ex-Shin Bet head denies PM asked him to tap IDF, Mossad chiefs’ phones

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Netanyahu also rejects report, slams ‘no limit to lies’ after ‘Uvda’ TV program claims he tried but failed to eavesdrop on top security brass

Netanyahu asked Shin Bet to tap phones of IDF, Mossad heads — report

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewRestraining orders: 7 things to know for June 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Sara Netanyahu slams ‘media lies’ after claims she tried to attack PMO director

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, in Moscow, Russia on May 31, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Russia OKs Israeli strikes on Iranian targets deep inside Syria — report

By ToI Staff and Alexander Fulbright

Arabic daily says deal between Moscow and Jerusalem includes removal of Tehran-backed forces from border area, protection for Syrian army

Israel said in ‘advanced talks’ with Russia on Iranian pullout from Syria border

By Michael Bachner

In video, Netanyahu accuses Tehran regime of ‘plundering’ Iranians’ smarts

Top IDF officer: Iran may use Gaza terrorists again to distract from Syria

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference on Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 11, 2018. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas refused to meet House Democrats in protest at embassy move — report

Though many Democrats opposed the Jerusalem decision, PA says it refused to sit with March delegation because it has suspended ties with entire US government

Why Democrats and Republicans are fighting over the Jerusalem embassy bash

Israel unveils plan to pump billions into neglected Arab areas of East Jerusalem

By AP

Ze’ev Elkin announces he’ll run as Likud candidate for Jerusalem mayor

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l), and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (r), attend a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of Israel's reunification of Jerusalem, in front of the walls of the Old City, May 21, 2017. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

After embassy move, Trump weighs giving envoy control over consulate too

By Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee

Downgrading autonomy of de facto US mission to the Palestinians could be seen as a US move away from acknowledging Palestinian claims to E. Jerusalem or statehood aspirations

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in a Times of Israel interview at the US Embassy, Jerusalem, May 30, 2018 (Matty Stern, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)

J Street urges Senate to probe Friedman over comments on settlements, Democrats

By Eric Cortellessa

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Democrats slam David Friedman’s ‘explicitly partisan rhetoric’

A photo taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike against a military target in the Palestinian coastal enclave, in response to repeated mortar and rocket attacks on southern Israel. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Army calls to lift some economic restrictions on Gaza, boost chances of quiet

Senior officer says Israel and Gaza at ‘watershed’ and that Hamas’s return of the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers is precondition for long-term calm

Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, center, attends the UN Security Council emergency session on Israel-Gaza conflict at United Nations headquarters on May 30, 2018 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)

US says it will veto Kuwaiti Security Council measure on Gaza violence

A Palestinian protester holds a tear gas canister in his mouth during a demonstration along the border with Israel east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza strip on June 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Palestinian rioters on Gaza border set fire to Israeli fields, 11 Gazans wounded

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir (James Blair/NASA)

Interview

No risk, no reward, says fearless Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: A horse stable located on private Palestinian land seized by the state for security purposes in the West Bank settlement of Beit El. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Rein in illegal Israeli horse farms in West Bank? State signals nay

Supported by state healthcare providers, some settlers are using swaths of Palestinian land seized for security purposes to build dozens of stables

Japan store bars wine from Golan Heights after protests

By Mari Yamaguchi

Israel urges Ireland to cancel speech by Palestinian terrorist

By Michael Bachner

EU blasts new West Bank settlement homes, upcoming demolition of Bedouin village

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinans pull a metal cable as they try to take down a section of barbed wire on the border fence with Israel, east of Jabaliya in the central Gaza Strip, on June 1, 2018.(AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Live updates (closed)

IDF vehicle fired at during Gaza clashes, grenade planted on border

By Alexander Fulbright

Army says thousands of Gazans take part in clashes, burn tires and throw rocks at soldiers; volunteer Palestinian medic said killed

5:07 pm

Netanyahu speaks with Pompeo about Iranian presence in Syria
4:38 pm

Volunteer medic said killed in Gaza clases
3:56 pm

IDF vehicle fired at during Gaza clashes, grenade planted on border

Anna 'Ans' van Dijk on trial in Amsterdam for collaborating with the Nazis (left) and diarist Anne Frank (public domain)

Anne Frank's fink

Was Anne Frank betrayed by a Jewish collaborator?

By Matt Lebovic

Leslie Cockburn, left, and John Fitzgerald have spurred controversy with their congressional bids. (Campaign websites)

Analysis

Who is an anti-Semite? Republicans and Democrats grapple with the question

California Republican John Fitzgerald, who claims Jews in US government are secret Israelis, is the third GOP candidate a Jewish Republican group has condemned as neo-Nazi

People walk by Google offices in New York, December 4, 2017. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Google blames Wikipedia vandalism for results linking GOP to Nazism

By AP

Ivanka Trump arrives outside the White House on the South Lawn before US President Donald Trump delivers remarks and participates in the White House Sports and Fitness Day on May 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump’s power daughter Ivanka strikes a nerve

By Michael Mathes

Many Americans angry that president’s daughter unable to rein in her father on immigration, climate control, gender pay gap

Samantha Bee arrives for "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" at DAR Constitution Hall, April, 29, 2017, in Washington. (Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)

Affront over blunt stuntTV host apologizes for calling Ivanka ‘feckless c***’

By JTA

To the girl whose life I saved last year

You are the reason I went public with my daughter’s eating disorder — I’m so glad your mom called me

Philip Roth was — and will be — a character

The late author’s persona will likely keep cropping up in new works long after his death

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Theocracy, democracy, and Jewish law

When the democratic election of a secular government is sanctified by halacha (Beha’alotcha)

Joshua Hammerman

If only Adelson and Soros sat down together

If there’s a way out of the echo chambers, the joint leadership of the Jewish world’s polar opposites should find it

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Anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko speaks as he stands in front of a portrait of him that his colleagues displayed in his memory in the offices of his workplace, the ATR TV channel, on May 31, 2018 in Kiev. (AFP/Genya SAVILOV)

Covered in pig’s blood, Russian journalist played dead all the way to morgue

By AFP

In this image released by ABC, Roseanne Barr, left, and John Goodman appear in a scene from "Roseanne." (Adam Rose/ABC via AP)

Roseanne Barr return possible, but lesser platform likely

By ANDREW DALTON

The Abayudaya Jewish community's members sit as they listen to their spiritual leader, in a village near Mbale, eastern Uganda, July 2, 2016. (AFP/Michael O'Hagan)

Israel says it won’t recognize Ugandan Jewish community — report

By JTA

Police investigators in Modi'in Forest on Friday, June 1, 2018, at the site where the body of diamond merchant Boris Botashvilli was found in what officials said was a suspected murder. (Courtesy Israel Police)

Police find diamond merchant’s body in Modiin Forest in suspected murder

A soldier in the Nativ conversion program visiting a kindergarten in the settlement of Efrat to learn about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on November 7, 2013. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Last-ditch deal saves army conversion program from closing

Reporter and activist Sihame Assbague on November 4, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

French-Muslim activist denies tweet of famous Jews is ‘hit list’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Participants in Kfar Saba's inaugural Gay Pride Parade on June 1, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

Thousands join Kfar Saba’s first-ever Gay Pride Parade

Illustrative: A lion mother with her cubs at the zoo in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on May 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Boris Roessler)

Oh my!Lions, tigers and a bear escape a German zoo

By AFP

This file photo taken on September 7, 2017, shows Britain's Prince George arriving for his first day of school at Thomas's school in southwest London. (AFP/Pool/Richard Pohle)

British IS supporter pleads guilty in plot to kill 4-year-old Prince George

Wajahat Ali is involved with a Jerusalem-based institute’s program promoting Muslim-Jewish dialogue. (Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau)

Muslim writer blackballed by Islamic confab for speaking to Zionists

By JTA

The University of Haifa campus. (Courtesy)

US philanthropist aims to revitalize Haifa

By JTA

Spain's socialist opposition leader Pedro Sanchez sits at the start of the second day of a motion of no-confidence session at the Spanish parliament in Madrid on June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Spain’s conservative government falls, Socialist opposition leader takes power

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