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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 3, 2018

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People participate in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on June 3, 2018, in New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP)

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New York’s ‘Celebrate Israel’ parade marches down Fifth Avenue

Thousands take part in biggest pro-Israel event in North America; NYPD deploys hundreds of officers to secure the route

6:39 pm

Jordan senate meets as protests snowball over IMF-backed austerity
5:42 pm

New Yorkers strut their stuff at Celebrate Israel parade
5:19 pm

Israel looks to pay for Gaza kite fire damages with PA funds

Illustrative: Firefighters extinguish a fire in a wheat field caused by kites flown by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into Israel, May 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Large blazes scorch kibbutz fields in apparent fresh Gaza kite attacks

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Local residents and firefighters work to extinguish fire on land near Nir Am, Or Haner and Be’eri

Israeli firefighters extinguish a fire in a wheat field caused from kites flown by Palestinians, near the border with the Gaza Strip, May 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In worst blaze to date, Gaza fire kites destroy vast parts of nature reserve

An explosion is seen in Gaza City after an airstrike by Israeli forces in response to a rocket attack earlier in the evening on June 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO/Mahmud Hams)

IDF conducts second round of Gaza airstrikes after overnight fire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

An explosion is seen in Gaza City after an airstrike by Israeli forces in response to a rocket attack earlier in the evening on June 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO/Mahmud Hams)

Iron Dome intercepts 3 incoming projectiles as IDF strikes Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with outgoing Mossad chief Tamir Pardo during a farewell ceremony for Pardo in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘Mossad isn’t a crime syndicate,’ Netanyahu says in dig at ex-spy chief

Former agency head Tamir Pardo had accused PM of trying to wiretap his phone, pushing for a strike on Iran

German intelligence: Iran still working to acquire WMD technology

Israel denies inking deal with Russia on Iranian withdrawal from Syria — report

NATO chief says alliance won’t aid Israel if Iran attacks

By AP and ToI Staff

Alexander Gauland, co-faction leader of the Alternative for Germany, AfD at the federal parliament Bundestag, attends a congress of the party's youth organization 'Young Alternative,' at Seebach, Germany on June 2, 2018. (Alexander Prautzsch/dpa via AP)

Far-right leader: Nazi era a ‘speck of bird poop’ in glorious German history

However, Alexander Gauland tells AfD party’s youth movement that Germans still must take responsibility for 12 years of Hitler’s rule

Israel's chief rabbis convene an emergency meeting with religious Zionist rabbis against a proposal to overhaul the conversion to Judaism system in the country on June 3, 2018 (Courtesy of the Chief Rabbinate)

Chief rabbis urge Netanyahu to ‘bury’ bill reforming conversion system

By Marissa Newman and Stuart Winer

Interior minister vows to block proposed amendments giving official recognition to Reform, Conservative conversions abroad

Michael Oren autographs books following a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, May 28, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Ex-ambassador Oren proposes paying non-Orthodox US Jews to immigrate to Israel

By Michael Bachner

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Why Palestinians care what Donald Trump thinks about Jerusalem

Israelis appreciated but mostly shrugged at last month’s US Embassy move, but Palestinians exploded in fury. The gap reveals much about their predicament

Palestinians prepare to set fire to an Israeli flag and portraits of US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a protest at the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, April 13, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Poll: 41% of Israelis want to ease restrictions on Gaza

UN official condemns ‘reprehensible’ killing of Gaza medic

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Michael Oren, French envoy in Twitter spat over UN Gaza vote

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian protesters fly a kite with a burning rag dangling from its tail to during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Israel media review

Back where we were: 9 things to know for June 3

By Joshua Davidovich

Gaza is a potential war zone again, a denial of a report on wiretapping brass doesn’t change many minds, Melania goes quiet and some may wish Sara would do the same

Illustrative. Israel Defense Forces holds an exercise in southern Israel on November 27, 2014. (Amit Shechter/Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

Amid peak tensions, army to launch multi-day exercise in south

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Radio broadcasters at Army Radio headquarters in Jaffa, on March 27, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Army Radio to relocate to Jerusalem within 3 months

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: The High Court of Justice convenes for a hearing on the Regulation Law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State: There’s no alternative to outpost legalization law, warts and all

But representative of the attorney general, who opposes the law, says other legal measures should be found to retroactively approve thousands of illegal homes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a conference with science ministers from around the world in Jerusalem on May 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu blocks Armenian genocide debate to avoid ‘aiding Erdogan’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Foreign Ministry says it advised PM that recognizing massacre could boost support for Turkish strongman in upcoming elections

O'Neal Mahmoud, an Israeli Druze boy from the town of Majdal Shams who speaks fluent English. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Druze toddler amazes experts by speaking English without having learned it

By Michael Bachner

Family says they don’t know how their 3.5-year-old boy learned language, complete with British accent, and don’t always understand him

Debbie Weissman

What would Jews say Jesus would say?

Christians have committed to learning about Judaism, but Jewish-Christian dialogue is sadly one-sided

The Jewish Vatican

Blame the growing disconnect between global Jewry and the Israeli Chief Rabbinate on the rabbis’ power grab

Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)

A Living Testament

You’ve probably never heard of the world’s oldest Holocaust museum

By Robert Philpot

More Headlines

Illustrative: Dignitaries lead the 53rd annual Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue in New York City, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

New York police tighten security for Celebrate Israel Parade

By AP and ToI Staff

Members of the Jordanian gendarmerie and security forces stand on alert as protesters shout slogans and raise a national flag during a demonstration outside the Prime Minister's office in the capital Amman late on June 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Khalil MAZRAAWI)

Furious Jordanians protest proposed austerity measures

Hanson Robotics' robot Sophia, a lifelike robot powered by artificial intelligence, is displayed in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Oh the humanity: Hebrew U conference ponders our brains and robots who can learn

By Shoshanna Solomon

An apartment burning in Netanya that was torched on June 2, 2018 following a dispute between residents over a parking spot. (Israel Police)

Dispute over parking spot ends in torching of apartment building in Nahariya

In this December 23, 2014 file photo, then-Rep. Michael Grimm, center, enters Brooklyn federal court before pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge in New York. Grimm doesn't want to talk about his time in prison. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

In NYC, a Republican ex-con fights to return to Congress

By Steve Peoples

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Government firms to become innovation guinea pigs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel's Noam Gershony (right) and Shraga Weinberg at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup on June 2, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israel takes silver medal in wheelchair tennis world team cup

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 plans to visit North Korea, meet Kim — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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