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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 7, 2018

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Razan al-Najjar (C-R), a 21-year-old Palestinian paramedic, tends to an injured colleague during clashes near the border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2018, (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

After saying it shot medic by accident, IDF claims she was ‘no angel’

By Tamar Pileggi

Army releases video purportedly showing Razan al-Najjar hurling smoke bomb, saying she wants to be a human shield

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with French Economy Minister and entrepreneurs at the French Economy Ministry in Paris on June 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONT)

Netanyahu: Hamas wants Gaza border protesters to die

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Boris Johnson at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, June 6, 2018. (Haim Zach (GPO)

UK foreign minister urges Netanyahu to open independent probe of Gaza deaths

Palestinians throw chairs and other objects from inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, June 7, 2018. (Screenshot from police footage)

Palestinians hurl chairs, stones from Al-Aqsa Mosque, injuring tourist, cop

Two arrested after violent outbreak on Temple Mount; police searching for additional suspects in clashes

Illustrative: Israeli forces operating in Nablus in a photo released by the IDF on March 18, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

Israeli soldier lightly hurt by rock during overnight West Bank riot

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Air force reservists use drones to identify and shoot down incoming balloons and kites from Gaza that are fitted with flammable materials to set Israeli fields on fire, June 7, 2018. (Hadashot News screenshot)

Israeli drones downed over 350 incendiary terror kites, balloons — report

Professional operators across Israel asking to join IDF reservists to help; troops able to shoot down flying objects 40 seconds from detection

Incoming IDF Southern Command chief Herzl Halevi (L) at a ceremony in Beersheba on June 6, 2018 which Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot. (IDF)

IDF taps military intel head as new chief of volatile Southern Command

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In this May 31, 2018, photo, Samia Hassan, walks with free porridge distributed by Walid al-Hattab, who cooks the free meals as Ramadan charity, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

As aid dries up, Gaza families pushed deeper into poverty

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, April, 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Iran opens new nuclear facility for centrifuge production

Regime’s nuclear chief inaugurates Natanz plant, which will increase enrichment, but operate within the limits of nuclear deal

UK’s May: Netanyahu and I have ‘differences of opinion’ on Iran deal

Israeli official: European leaders agree Iran troops must be removed from Syria

Senate probe: Obama-era license aimed to let Iran convert money into dollars

By Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Culture Minister Miri Regev in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Who moved the Argentina soccer game to Jerusalem? PM, Regev blame each other

By Raoul Wootliff

3 months ago, Netanyahu told Argentine leader he had personally instructed authorities to hold match in ‘our eternal capital’; now says he wasn’t involved

Netanyahu concerned scrapped soccer match could portend future cancellations

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel demands FIFA probe Palestinian threats that led to Argentina cancellation

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisWhy it’s a big deal that Argentina canceled its soccer game in Israel

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev speaks at a press at the ministry offices in Tel Aviv, on June 6, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Culture minister: Israel will host 2019 Eurovision in Jerusalem or not at all

By Tamar Pileggi

After Argentina soccer cancellation, Miri Regev says it’s ‘not right’ to spend NIS 50 million of public funds on song competition if not held in Israeli capital

Culture minister: Argentina soccer match canceled over terrorism, not a boycott

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Italy deputy PM tweets support for Regev after Argentina soccer cancellation

Israel media reviewThe minister doth protest too much: 9 things to know for June 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative image of demonstrators outside the offices of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo protesting his executive order calling for New York companies to divest from organizations that support the BDS movement, June 9, 2016. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images via JTA)

Secretive firm boasts of covert skills, legality, discretion

Israeli firm under FBI scrutiny in Trump probe allegedly targeted BDS activists

By Simona Weinglass, David Horovitz and Raphael Ahren

According to a lawsuit against the company, a Psy-Group operative registered outlawbds.com, a website that reportedly named and shamed supporters of the anti-Israel boycott effort

Financial payments fraud. (Illustrative: iStock)

8 Israelis among nearly 500 arrested over alleged online fraud in Philippines

By AP

US President Donald Trump speaks following a meeting on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC June 1, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Trump seizes upon Obama-era license aimed at helping Iran

US president writes on Twitter — incorrectly — that predecessor’s attempt to give Iran access to US financial system was ‘totally illegal’

6:31 pm

Tel Aviv prepares for 20th annual Gay Pride Parade Friday
6:27 pm

Canada poised to legalize recreational marijuana
6:01 pm

Most Israelis say Regev's move of Argentina match to Jerusalem a mistake - poll

Illustrative photo of human sperm (photo credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Bobjgalindo/Wikimedia)

Prolonged stress affects sperm quality, says study of Israelis during Gaza wars

Sperm moved more slowly in nearly four out of 10 samples taken from men during and just after military confrontations between Israel and Hamas in 2012, 2014

Likud Minister Zeev Elkin (L) and Moshe Leon in the Knesset on March 26, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Analysis

Could the Haredim snatch Jerusalem mayorship from sparring Likud hawks?

Minister Elkin’s looming battle with Moshe Lion, an associate of Liberman and Deri, could leave field wide open in capital’s October race

Philadelphia Orchestra music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted the final concert of the orchestra's Israel tour with body and soul (Courtesy Jan Regan)

A triumphant coda to Philadelphia Orchestra’s much-debated visit to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid leads his weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, June 4, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

With cries of ‘fake news,’ Lapid takes panicky page from Netanyahu’s playbook

Something – perhaps his party’s sliding poll numbers – is bothering the Yesh Atid chairman, and he’s decided to go on the offensive

Rudy Giuliani speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv on June 6, 2018. (Courtesy: Globes)

Giuliani, in Israel: Mueller team trying to frame Trump; Netanyahu cases a joke

By Michael Bachner

At Tel Aviv conference, Trump’s lawyer says as NY mayor, he offered jobs to people who supported him

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giulliani during an interview to the Associated Press in Jerusalem, June 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Giuliani: Use Trump’s North Korea-style pressure tactics with the Palestinians

By Josef Federman

Steven A. Fox and Hara Person

Israel has to stop naming things after Trump

The US president’s agenda is dangerous to both Americans and Israelis, and shouldn’t be honored in the public sphere

Robert Reichmann

The days of non-working ultra-Orthodox are over

Haredi employment is rising thanks to programs that bridge the gap between being trained and getting hired

That summer I won the ‘best nose’ contest

Today’s vacation plans are grand, but nothing beats the (almost) Catskills adventures of a long a youth

Jerold S. Auerbach

Yossi Klein Halevi’s moral dilemma

‘Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor’ proposes a model of compassion that leads to the end of the Jewish state

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Jordanian protesters shout slogans and raise a national flag during a demonstration outside the Prime Minister's office in the capital Amman early June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan drops draft income tax law after days of angry street protests

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)

Bare trapGerman far-right leader’s clothes stolen during evening swim

By AP

Rapper Jay-Z performs onstage during TIDAL X: 1020 Amplified by HTC at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on October 20, 2015 in New York City. ( Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for TIDAL via JTA)

Class actJay-Z’s first inspiration was his Jewish 6th grade teacher

By Charles Diringer Dunst

Andrei Case (R) and Peter Guskov (L) former employees of a nursing home in Haifa who were sentenced for abusing the elderly at a nursing home, seen at the Haifa District Court on June 7, 2018. (Flash90)

Four sentenced in Haifa nursing home elder abuse case

Artist's rendering of 'Between the cities,' a planned Tel Aviv 100-story skyscraper (courtesy Miloslavsky Architects)

Tel Aviv green-lights plans for tallest skyscraper in country

By JTA

A flier from the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson, Texas. (Screenshot via Twitter)

Dallas-area church says Judaism is ‘dangerous’

By JTA

This June 6, 2018, photo shows the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore (seen in the center of the picture) where US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are set to meet on June 12, 2018, for nuclear talks. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Israel refused South Korea’s request to publicly back Trump-Kim summit — report

Photo taken from the body of a dead German officer killed in Russia, showing a Nazi firing squad shooting Jews in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave, in Babi Yar, Kiev, 1942. (AP Photo, file)

Nazi death squads are focus of latest war crime cases in Germany

By David Rising

Syrian President Bashar Assad addresses the newly elected parliament in Damascus, Syria, on June 7, 2016. (SANA, the Syrian official news agency, via AP)

Netanyahu held ‘serious’ talks with Assad on relinquishing Golan — ex-adviser

By Michael Bachner

Senator Robert F. Kennedy speaks to the delegates of the United Auto Workers at a convention hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 9, 1968. (AP Photo, File)

50 years on, Robert F. Kennedy Jr wants new probe of father’s assassination

By Chris Lefkow

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talks on his phone as he departs after a vote on Gina Haspel to be CIA director, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, May 17, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sick BernAlex Jones tries, fails to ambush Bernie Sanders at LA airport

Senator Dianne Feinstein talks with reporters after the Senate Policy luncheons in the Capitol on June 5, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

The year’s biggest day of US primaries left Jewish incumbents (mostly) safe

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