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What Matters Most On Friday, June 8, 2018

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Susanna Feldman, 14, a German Jewish schoolgirl, whose body was found buried on the outskirts of the western German city of Wiesbaden on June 6, 2018. (via Facebook)

Suspect in rape, murder of German-Jewish teen Susanna Feldman arrested in Iraq

By ToI Staff and AP

Ali Bashar, 20, nabbed by Kurdish security forces at request of German police; killing has horrified community

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain in New York. (photo credit: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Images)

Celebrity chef, food critic Anthony Bourdain found dead at 61

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Popular star of CNN’s ‘Parts Unknown’ travel and food show takes his own life, network reports; revealed his Jewish heritage during 2013 show in Israel

In this Sept. 11, 2016 file photo, Anthony Bourdain arrives at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in France, Friday, June 8, 2018, while working on his CNN series on culinary traditions around the world. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

ObituaryFood adventurer Anthony Bourdain mixed coarseness, whimsy, refusal to pander

By Angela Charlton

Anthony Bourdain in Israel (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

TV chef Bourdain reveals Jewish heritage during show in Israel

By Jordana Horn

Palestinians run from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes along the Gaza Strip border fence on June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

4 said killed in clashes, including minor, as 10,000 protest on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Over 600 Palestinians reported injured, mostly from tear gas; dozens of explosive kites, balloons spark fires in nearby Israeli communities; turnout lower than expected

At Gaza border, tensions sky-high ahead of latest mass protests

Israel media reviewAnother black Friday: 7 things to know for June 8

By Joshua Davidovich

IDF drops flyers warning Gazans not to join Friday border protests

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, gestures to demonstrators at a a protest camp during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City on May 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Gaza is going to get worse before it gets better

Neither Israel nor Hamas believes it can afford to blink in the standoff over the territory’s future, and both have more pressing priorities than the wellbeing of Gazans

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivering a speech in Gaza City, on January 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas leader threatens to ‘bring down walls of Gaza’ in mass Friday protest

By Michael Bachner

View from the Gaza Strip filmed by an Israeli aircraft during an exercise simulating warfare in the coastal enclave in June 2018. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

As Hamas tensions heat up, IDF jets practice bombing ‘hundreds’ of Gaza targets

By Judah Ari Gross

A kite flown from Gaza into southern Israel, June 6, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Following Gaza border blazes, ‘terror kites’ see first use in West Bank

Homemade flying devices sent over Jewish settlements; one stikes power line, causing outage in area for several hours

An IDF operator holds up his drone and remote control on June 7, 2018, in a field burned by 'fire kites' from the Gaza Strip. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Despite concerns, senior IDF technology officer says anti-kite drones a success

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video allegedly showing IDF soldiers attending to injured Palestinian man Azzedine Tamimi who shot by troops in the West Bank village of Nebi Saleh, June 6, 2018. (YouTube)

Military police open probe into fatal shooting of West Bank Palestinian

Iran-allied Shiite paramilitary fighters step on an Israeli flag drawn on the pavement during a rally to mark "Quds Day" (Jerusalem Day) first initiated by Iran in 1979 to fall on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on June 8, 2018. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Marking anti-Israel ‘Quds Day,’ Iranians take to the streets

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Rouhani urges ‘all people throughout our dear Iran’ to protest US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israeli leaders’ ‘aim of promoting Iranophobia’

Syrians and Palestinians wave their flags during a festival held inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 to commemorate Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day. (AP Photo)

Scores of Syrians, Palestinians march through Damascus to mark Quds Day

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)

Assad no longer immune if he harbors Iranian forces, Netanyahu warns

By AFP

Screen capture from video of an interview given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the BBC in London, and broadcast June 7, 2018. (BBC)

Iran nuke deal already dead thanks to sanctions, Netanyahu says

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime minister says there is no need to persuade Europe to abandon 2015 agreement as it is finished anyway

In this frame grab from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran, June 6, 2018. (IRIB via AP)

Iran shows off centrifuges as nuclear deal founders

By Jon Gambrell

Israelis and tourists wave flags as they participate in the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2018. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Revelers take to the streets of Tel Aviv for region’s largest Pride Parade

At least 200,000 people expected; roads blocked for 20th annual march through the coastal city

An Israeli teen wrapped in an LGBT Pride flag near the settlement of Efrat, June 3, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Gently breaking taboos, a settlement bloc moves gingerly toward LGBT acceptance

Live updates (closed)

Liberman: Hamas, Iran making ‘great efforts’ to fuel Gaza clashes

By Alexander Fulbright

Defense minister credits IDF troops for containing violent protests; army says shots fired at soldiers, none injured

12:10 pm

Unarmed Palestinian caught crossing into Israel from Gaza
5:17 pm

Nasrallah says Hezbollah in Syria to stay
4:54 pm

Another Gazan said killed in border clashes

Prof. Sturt Manning coring an example multi-century old Juniperus phoenicea tree near Petra in southern Jordan of the type employed in the Taybet Zaman buildings. (Sturt Manning, Cornell University)

Upstart carbon dating study could force rewrite of Holy Land’s biblical timeline

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A firefighter puts out a fire in the Beeri forest, June 6, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

As kite-set fires engulf the south, foresters fight to ‘save every tree’

By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress

This ain’t no hurricane

Southern Israel is battening down the hatches for a storm that is truly preventable

Robert L. Wolkoff

How do you solve a problem like Gaza?

Why not try my ideas about changing the financials of Gazan workers, and open a world of possibilities?

Stephen M. Flatow

Those rocks do kill

US Jewry can work to diminish the projectiles’ harm, starting with an investigation of Palestinian rock-throwers

Seeing what isn’t there

7 dangerous distorted ways of thinking that cognitive behavioral therapy can help prevent (Shelach)

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev speaks at a press conference regarding the cancellation of a soccer match between Argentina and Israel, in Tel Aviv, on June 6, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Most think minister wrong to move Argentina soccer match to Jerusalem — poll

Over 30% say transferring exhibition game to Jerusalem was main reason for Argentines pulling out; 28% think threats kept Messi and squad away

Argentina's Lionel Messi looks back during a friendly soccer match between Argentina and Haiti in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Supposed anti-Israel Messi quote debunked as fake

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Police at the scene of a stabbing in Jaffa, July 27, 2017. (Israel Police spokesperson)

Two suspects arrested after widow of Christian leader found dead in Jaffa home

US Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a MoveOn.org rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, December 3, 2017. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images for MoveOn.org)

Bernie Sanders, focusing on foreign policy, blasts Israel on Gaza

Austria's newly elected leader Sebastian Kurz, head of the Austrian Peoples Party, OVP, during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2017. (AFP Phoro/APA/Georg Hochmuth)

Austria to close seven mosques, expel imams in radicalism crackdown

By AP

Facebook says privacy-setting bug affected as many as 14 million

By Barbara Ortutay

Actress/executive producer Roseanne Barr attends The Roseanne Series Premiere at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, March 23, 2018 . (AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON)

Barr your accountRoseanne retweets accusation Obama aide wants to kill Jews

By JTA

A man buying Jewish newspapers from a stall in Buenos Aires, circa 1956. (Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Groundbreaking project aims to shed light on ‘forgotten’ Latin American Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

Composite image made from a series of photos taken on January 23, 2018, shows a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Vera Rubin Ridge. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)

Mars rover uncovers potential for life in ancient lakebed

Supporters of Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, during the launch of the party's election manifesto in Harare, June, 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe opposition pledges upgraded ties with Israel if it takes power

By AP and ToI Staff

Kenneth Marcus, at the time nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate approves controversial Jewish rights activist for top civil rights post

By JTA

In this photo from US President Donald Trump's Twitter account, George Papadopoulos, third from left, sits at a table with then-candidate Trump and others at what is labeled as a national security meeting in Washington that was posted on March 31, 2016. (Donald Trump's Twitter account via AP)

Ex-Trump adviser was reportedly accused of being unregistered Israeli agent

People seen outside the Bnei Zion pre-military academy in Tel Aviv, from which 10 youths were killed in a flash flood in the Judean Desert, on April 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Academy that organized fatal hike closing for year to ‘start over’

File: The UN Security Council meets on April 14, 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP/Hector Retamal)

After Israel bows out, Germany, Belgium shoo-ins for UN Security Council seats

By Edith M. Lederer

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