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What Matters Most On Monday, June 4, 2018

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Incendiary balloons being launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip in May 2018. (Screen capture: Quds news)

Beyond kites: ‘Fire balloons’ increasingly used to set southern Israel ablaze

By Judah Ari Gross

Total of at least 17,500 dunams – nearly 7 square miles – of land burned as Palestinians repeatedly send airborne incendiary devices across border

Netanyahu orders funds withheld from PA to compensate victims of kite attacks

AnalysisRocket fire from Gaza is a message, but it’s not clear who the audience is

By Avi Issacharoff

Israeli doctors urge 14 Gaza cancer patients be allowed out for treatment

By Stuart Winer

David Friedman speaking to the media in Jerusalem on June 4, 2018. (Lior Mizrahi)

Reporters 'creating impressions that have no basis in fact'

US envoy to reporters: ‘Keep your mouths shut’ on criticizing Israel over Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

David Friedman says the media should either figure out how anyone could have better dealt with the border protests or stop its negative coverage of the Jewish state

An axe that the army says had been in the possession of a Palestinian man who tried to cross into Israeli territory from the southern Gaza Strip before being shot dead by IDF troops on June 4, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Gazan armed with ax shot dead while trying to breach fence

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Gazan infiltrators breach border, set fire to construction equipment

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A file photograph of former IDF soldier Rebecca, who was falsely accused by pro-Palestinian online activists of killing a Gazan medic on June 1, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces/Facebook)

IDF vet gets death threats after she’s falsely accused of killing Gaza medic

By Judah Ari Gross

Pro-Palestinian online activists set off internet storm with claim American-born Rebecca shot dead Razan Najjar on Friday, but she hasn’t been in army for years and wasn’t a sniper

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin on June 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Israel examining how to stave off a ‘humanitarian collapse’ in Gaza

By Alexander Fulbright

PM blames deteriorating conditions in Strip on Abbas’ decision to freeze salaries of PA employees, Hamas’ funding of terror

6:22 pm

Khameni says Iran won't tolerate both nuclear curbs and sanctions
5:49 pm

Suspect in vandalism to Shabbat boundary heads to court
5:13 pm

Netanyahu: Israel examining how to stave off a 'humanitarian collapse' in Gaza

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during Labor Day at a workers' meeting, April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Iranian Supreme Leader's Website /HO)

Khamenei: Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’ that ‘must be eradicated’

By Tamar Pileggi

Iran’s supreme leader says destruction of Jewish state is ‘possible and will happen,’ slams ‘traitorous countries’ for not defending Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershon/ GPO)

Netanyahu heads to Europe to talk about ‘Iran and Iran’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this April 24, 2018, photo, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is interviewed by The Associated Press in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew,)

Iranian FM: World must stand up to American ‘bullying’ over nuclear deal

Jordan's Prime Minister Hani Mulki speaks to the media after the swearing-in ceremony for Jordan's new cabinet at the Royal Palace in Amman on June 1, 2016.(AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Embattled Jordan prime minister submits resignation over tax protests

Abdullah II appoints Education Minister Omar al-Razzaz to form new government amid growing unrest over a planned tax hike

'We love Israel and we’ll stand by it forever'

With flags and tight security, New York celebrates Israel’s 70th birthday

By Danielle Ziri

Tens of thousands march in the 54th annual Celebrate Israel parade up Fifth Avenue in a day of festivities that was culminating in a ‘giant block party’ in Times Square

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

Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon (l) and other ambassadors to the UN. (Israel delegation to UN)

Israel’s UN ambassador leads delegates in support of Israel at NY march

Illustrative: Israel’s consul Dori Goren, center, joins Evangelical Christians, who waved Israeli flags and prayed for the Jewish state during the March for Jesus on May 31, 2018, in Sao Paulo. (Courtesy/Israel’s consulate in Sao Paulo)

Millions of Brazilians hail Israel during March for Jesus

By Marcus M. Gilban

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech on her government's budget policy at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, May 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

Merkel slams far-right leader’s ‘shameful’ remark minimizing Nazism

By AFP

German chancellor condemns far-right AfD party leader, says the country bears ‘everlasting responsibility’ for ‘immense suffering’ it caused

Illustrative: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks to the press during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

German president blasts far-right leader’s Nazi past remarks

By AFP

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)

Moderates in far-right German party mutiny over Nazi bird poop comment

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People seen partying at a bar in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2018. (Liba Farkash/Flash90)

Does Litzman want to close top nightspot because 2 drunk women visited yeshiva?

Then-health minister Yaakov Litzman, who is also chairman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, speaks to journalists after handing in his resignation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) in Jerusalem, November 26, 2017. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Ultra-Orthodox party head threatens to bolt, again, over IDF draft bill

By Raoul Wootliff

British comedian Tracey Ullman portrays Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a sketch (YouTube screenshot)

Corbyn supporters cry foul over TV sketch on anti-Semitism controversy

Comedian Tracey Ullman portrays Labour leader telling youths: ‘I’ve told anti-Semites in no uncertain terms — tone it down a bit’; backers falsely claim skit written by a Jew

Israeli says he was assaulted in Berlin for listening to Hebrew song

By Stuart Winer

French shop manager pulls Israeli dates from Ramadan stall over Muslim’s protest

Italian mayor says hands tied in fighting ‘joke gift’ Hitler wine products

The Israeli government needs more Arabs

Excluding 20% of the population from the political equation severely handicaps Israel’s prospects for political change

Saying goodbye with dignity — in Scarsdale, NY

Laying Rabbi Aaron Panken to rest was sad and comforting; it also drove home what’s missing at Israeli funerals

Participants in a camp counselor training by IfNotNow in Boston, May 27, 2018. (IfNotNow/via JTA)

Coming this summer to Jewish camps: Lessons on Israel’s occupation of West Bank

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Firefighters leave the evacuation area near Volcan de Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, in El Rodeo, Guatemala, June 3, 2018. (AP/Santiago Billy)

Israel rushes relief to volcano-struck Guatemala

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Abbas Araghchi (R), political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, and the Secretary General of the European Union External Action Service (EEAS) Helga Schmid attend E3/EU+3 and Iran talks at Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria on March 16, 2018. (AFP/Joe Klamar)

Israel media reviewEurope, Iran, and the Strip: 7 things to know for June 4

By Adiv Sterman

Illustrative. US currency. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Devil in the detailsUS court throws out bid to ban ‘In God We Trust’ from bills

By AP

Illustrative: A Ugandan Abayudaya Jew leans forward to touch a Torah scroll carried by Enosh Keki Mainah (left) during Shabbat services at the synagogue in Nabugoya, Uganda, on March 3, 2002. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim/File)

Conservative movement to petition court after refusal to recognize Ugandan Jews

Singer Shiri Maimon at the last performance of 'Evita' at Habima, in March 2017 (YouTube screengrab)

Sabra on stageIt’s official: Singer Shiri Maimon heading to Broadway in September

By Jessica Steinberg

Hadera Mayor Tzvika Gendelman (L) meeting with Rabbi Shalom Cohen, President of the Shas Torah Sages Council, February 12, 2017. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Yesh Atid suspends Hadera mayor named as corruption suspect

By Raoul Wootliff

Lionel Messi of Argentina leaves the field during the Brazil Global Tour match between Brazil and Argentina at Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 9, 2017, in Melbourne, Australia. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images via JTA)

Palestinian soccer chief urges fans to burn Messi posters if he plays in Israel

By AP

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

Yolanda Visser and Ninja of Die Antwoord. (Courtesy Die Antwoord)

Zef's upRave rappers Die Antwoord cancel Israel gig

By Jessica Steinberg

American soldiers prepare for a training exercise during the Saber Strike event in Poland, June 1, 2018. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Capt. Jeku Arce, 221st Public Affairs Detachment)

Israel takes part in NATO’s Saber Strike drill for first time

By AP and ToI Staff

Amar Agbar, accused of an April 2017 stabbing attack which injured four people, seen in court in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2017. (Flash90)

Palestinian teen convicted of attempted murder in peace visit stabbing attack

On the Ayalon Highway, workers lay out smart studs developed by Israeli startup Valerann (Courtesy)

Tel Aviv highway tries out smart road studs to alert for hazards, traffic

By Shoshanna Solomon

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