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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 5, 2018

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Iran tells UN it will hike uranium enrichment capacity, possibly from Wednesday

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tehran’s atomic agency chief says new center for producing centrifuges is about to open at Natanz, insists it doesn’t violate nuke deal

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also a member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, speaks with journalists upon his arrival to Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, July 15, 2015. (AP/ Ebrahim Noroozi)

Netanyahu says Iran’s new uranium enrichment drive is aimed at destroying Israel

By AFP

Liberman: Iran’s threat to up uranium enrichment a sign of ‘mass hysteria’

By Judah Ari Gross

Minister calls for international ‘military coalition’ if Iran boosts enrichment

By AFP and ToI Staff

A JNF firefighter tries to put out a blaze in southern Israel, near the Gaza border, caused by incendiary kites sent from Gaza. (Yehuda Peretz/KKL-JNF/courtesy)

JNF threatens to sue Hamas in international courts for kite arson damage

By Michael Bachner

Nonprofit, which owns much of the land near the Strip that has been ravaged by fires, accuses Palestinian group of ‘environmental terrorism’

Illustrative: Students at Sderot's Sapir College watch as a large fire breaks out near Kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel, which was apparently caused by a 'fire kite' from the Gaza Strip, on June 5, 2018. (Tair Alush)

Firefighters battle 3 fires caused by flaming kites on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Minister calls for targeted killings of Gaza kite bombers, Hamas leaders

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at the Elysee Palace in Paris on June 5, 2018. (AFP/Ludovic Marin/File)

Live updates (closed)

Macron warns of risk of ‘escalation’ over Iran enrichment plan

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says he didn’t ask French counterpart to withdraw from nuclear deal because renewed US sanctions will ‘collapse’ 2015 accord anyway

6:38 pm

Macron criticizes US embassy move, says 'people dying not a celebration'
6:28 pm

Macron warns of risk of 'escalation' over Iran nuclear deal
6:25 pm

Netanyahu predicts Iran deal will collapse under pressure of US sanctions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in Berlin, Germany, on June 4, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu: Israel wants to stave off ‘humanitarian collapse’ in Gaza

In Germany, PM says he told Merkel that Palestinian Authority and Hamas to blame for crisis in coastal enclave

Israel girds for fresh Gaza violence, but mass protest may only come Friday

Rivlin calls on Abbas to condemn Gaza kite attacks

Israel media reviewFighting fire with fire: 6 things to know for June 5

By Tamar Pileggi

A private rabbinical court dissolves the marriage of Tzviya Gorodetsky in June 2018 (Courtesy of the Center for Women's Justice/Rachel Stomel)

In rare move, private rabbinical court sets ‘chained’ woman free after 23 years

By Marissa Newman

‘Tzviya Gorodetsky has suffered enough,’ says ruling by panel headed by Rabbi Daniel Sperber, dissolving nuptials; decision unrecognized by rabbinate

Chief Rabbinate appeals to European rabbis to oppose conversion reform

Most Israelis favor same-sex marriage, but half of MKs mum on issue

Ugandan rabbi: ‘We need to be treated like any other Jewish community’

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (right) hold a press conference at the Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, February 23, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shin Bet says it thwarted plot to assassinate prime minister, Jerusalem mayor

By Judah Ari Gross

East Jerusalem man, 2 accomplices arrested for allegedly planning ‘significant terror attacks’ on behalf of Syria-based group

Muhammad Shinawi, accused of murder and attempted murder for three shooting attacks in the northern port city of Haifa on January 3, 2017. (Social media)

Arab Israeli convicted of deadly 2017 terror shootings in Haifa

By Michael Bachner

The Middle East blind mole-rat or Palestine mole-rat, Nannospalax ehrenbergi or Spalax ehrenbergi. (Bassem18, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

They work for peanuts

Blind, bucktoothed mole-rats just might be archaeologists’ new best friends

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Jewish women light candles at the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. (Larry Luxner/ Times of Israel)

An eroding history

From other end of world, group races to preserve Middle East’s Jewish heritage

By Larry Luxner

The Philadelphia Orchestra, with conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin, after performing at the Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv on June 4, 2018. (Maxim Reider/courtesy)

Concert review

In Tel Aviv, Philadelphia Orchestra triumphs over ‘Age of Anxiety’

One of the US’s ‘big five’ puts on a thrilling and inspiring performance of Bernstein and Tchaikovsky, defying BDS – and with Palestinian children in the audience

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)

Minister accused of conditioning cash for soccer game on photo op with Messi

About these kites…

They started out as gifts from Japan to the children of Gaza and were repurposed to carry incendiary devices

I can’t celebrate permission to violate Shabbat

The decision to keep Jerusalem’s First Station open on Saturdays may be right but it’s also sad

Women’s faces are OK online but not in print?

Mishpacha Magazine should be congratulated for taking steps in the right direction, but it’s still not enough

There was no Palestinian state in ’67: History matters

Setting the record straight with 10 key facts everyone should know about the Six Day War

Outside the School of Visual Arts theater for the inaugural Israeli Film Center Festival. (photo credit: Jordan Hoffman)

Promised films

Six movies not to be missed at the Israel Film Center Festival in New York

By Jordan Hoffman

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Tehran on June 4, 2018. (Screen capture: Press TV)

Iran’s top leader vows tenfold response to any attack

Khamenei says he ordered increase in country’s nuclear enrichment capacity, but won’t exceed limits set by 2015 deal

'Why are you so obsessed with me?' GIF. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Supreme burnIsrael trolls Iran’s Khamenei with ‘Mean Girls’ GIF on Twitter

By ToI Staff and Tamar Pileggi

In this Feb. 16, 2016 file photo Deputy National Security Adviser For Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Netanyahu agreed with delay of US strike on Syria in 2013, ex-Obama aide says

By Raphael Ahren

More Headlines

This January 15, 2017 file photo shows then-newly appointed Jordanian education minister Omar Razzaz, following a meeting at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan. (Khalil Mazraawi, Pool via AP, File)

Jordan’s king names new PM as protests continue

By AP

Federal spokesman of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alexander Gauland attends the party congress of the party's youth party "Junge Alternative" in Seebach, eastern Germany, on June 2, 2018.
(AFP / dpa / Alexander PRAUTZSCH)

German far-right leader says Nazi ‘bird poop’ comment misunderstood

By AP

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump unveil the inauguration plaque during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Despite embassy relocation, Trump signs presidential waiver

By Raphael Ahren

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is seen in Tel Aviv on November 26, 2017. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu puts Facebook skills to use in new social media job

By Raoul Wootliff

Former IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted for manslaughter for shooting dead a disarmed and injured Palestinian attacker during his army service in the West Bank city of Hebron, seen after his release from prison and return to his home town Ramla on May 8, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebron shooter should be allowed to carry a gun — Likud MK

In this photo from, May 8, 2018, US Ambassador to Germany Richard Allen Grenell stands in front of a military honor guard during an accreditation ceremony for new ambassadors in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)

Netanyahu says controversial US envoy to Germany a ‘big fan of Israel’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Amiram Ben-Uliel, who was indicted January 3, 2016, for murder in the killing of the Dawabsha family in Duma (courtesy)

Rabbis call for Duma trial halt after torture accusations against interrogators

A sign for a new Hillel Jewish center at the University of California in San Diego, US, defaced with graffiti reading "F**k You All" on June 4, 2018. (Courtesy: Hillel San Diego)

Sign at future San Diego Jewish center vandalized with threatening graffiti

By JTA

Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)

Why New Jersey’s Orthodox stalled a bill banning child marriages

Director-actor Woody Allen onstage during American Film Institute's 45th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton at Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California,June 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/KEVIN WINTER)

Woody Allen: I should be the poster boy for #MeToo movement

Screenshot from Channel 10 News shows police officers removing a handcuffed Ethiopian monk from an Ethiopian Church-owned property in Jerusalem, on May 31, 2018,

Ethiopian ambassador threatens diplomatic crisis after police accost monks

Sarah Tuttle-Singer, and the cover of her new book, 'Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered.' (Courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsLet me tell you how I met the love of my life

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Lydia Macy, 17, left, and Mira Gottlieb, 16, both of Berkeley, Calif., rally outside of the Supreme Court which is hearing the 'Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission' today, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jewish groups decry Supreme Court ruling in gay wedding cake case

By Eric Cortellessa

Reform Movement and NCJW say court could have bolstered rights, but ADL takes solace in fact that decision won’t affect other cases

In this March 10, 2014, photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store in Lakewood, Colorado. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Justices side with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake

By Mark Sherman

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