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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 16, 2018

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Children and residents of Kibbutz Nir Am release balloons carrying candy towards the Gaza Strip on June 15, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot TV News)

Army uses new radar system to try to intercept fire kites

Israeli children counter flaming kites with peace balloons

Hamas threats to send 5,000 flaming devices from Gaza toward Israel fail to materialize, with residents focused on Eid al-Fitr and World Cup games

File: Israeli firefighters battle a blaze in a field in southern Israel caused by kites flown by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on June 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incendiary kites, balloons hit Gaza periphery, sparking fires

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) as he arrives for a meeting at the Turkish parliament on April 18, 2017 in Ankara. (ADEM ALTAN / AFP)

Turkish PM claims Israel’s Eurovision win is part of an imperialist plot

Binali Yildirim says Israeli song was ‘bad’ and contest was rigged in order to bring the competition to Jerusalem and sow strife: ‘Israel knows only how to kill, not how to sing’

Germany's coach Joachim Loew (C) speaks with his players as he leads a training session in Vatutinki, near Moscow, on June 15, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Patrik STOLLARZ)

Germans put up united front at World Cup after players’ Erdogan photo fracas

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH

File: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2017. (Flash90)

Palestinians throw cold water on ‘meaningless’ US peace push

Abbas spokesman says next week’s Kushner and Greenblatt Middle East trip ‘won’t achieve anything’ since the Trump administration is trying to circumvent PA leadership

Trump’s peace envoys add stops in Jordan, Qatar to next week’s Mideast trip

By Eric Cortellessa

Natalie Portman slams former friend Jared Kushner as a ‘supervillain’

By Josefin Dolsten

British FM said to seek meeting with Kushner to voice ‘red lines’ on peace plan

Analysis

National security expert leads the charge to keep US Jews voting Democratic

Halie Soifer, newly elected head of Jewish Democratic Council of America, must deal with Republican challenges and a divided party in the lead-up to the November midterms

Signs for the company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the London, UK, building in which it is based, March 21, 2018. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images via JTA)

Ex-top staff from Cambridge Analytica working on Trump 2020 campaign

By Jeff Horwitz

Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court in Washington, DC, on June 15, 2018. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump protests as his former campaign chief is jailed for witness tampering

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Australian FM says embassy won’t move to Jerusalem, rebuffing party pressure

Julie Bishop also rejects calls to halt aid to Palestinian Authority over its payments to ‘martyrs,’ says all funds are audited to ensure they don’t go to terror

Players from Australia's national soccer team attend a training session at the Kazan Arena on June 15, 2018, in Kazan, Russia, on the eve of the team's opening match against France. (AFP Photo/Saeed Khan)

Diplomat calls on Israelis to root for Aussies at World Cup for support at UN

By Alexander Fulbright

A Tuesday, November 8, 2008 file photo showing the Human Rights Room (Room XX) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

US poised to quit UN’s human rights council over anti-Israel actions

By Jamey Keaten and Edith M. Lederer

Illustrative: Danish Jews arriving in Malmo, Sweden in September 2012 to show their solidarity with the city's Jewish community. (Photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Cutting to the quick

As Denmark considers a ban on circumcision, some Jews consider leaving

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Students dress in shtetl clothing as part of the Education Outreach program at the South African Jewish Museum. (Courtesy South African Jewish Museum)

A mile in their shoes

Cape Town students swap their duds for shtetl garb in educational time machine

By Martin Rosenberg

After Iran bans public gatherings for games, World Cup fever erupts in cinemas

By Eric RANDOLPH

Football is particularly popular among Iranian women, in part because they are banned from attending live matches, lending it an illicit air

Stoppage time own goal gives Iran World Cup victory over Morocco

By AP

Rabbis in Russia offer kosher meals, free internet to Jewish World Cup fans

By JTA

Last-minute World Cup loss for Egypt, who choose not to risk icon Mo Salah

Eric Abramovitz, the clarinetist who sued his ex-girlfriend who secretly sabotaged a once-in-a-lifetime music opportunity, gives an interview to BuzzFeeds AM to DM on June 14, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter)

Musician sues ex-girlfriend who deleted scholarship letter, derailing his career

Judge awards clarinetist Eric Abramovitz over $300,000 in damages from former girlfriend who faked a rejection letter to prevent him from dumping her

An unidentified supporter of the 'Hofstad' terror group arrives at a trial for the group's members in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Friday, March 10, 2006. The group includes Mohammed Bouyeri, the convicted murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. (AP Photo/ Fred Ernst)

In Holland, a former jihadist reaches out to Jews for forgiveness

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Journalists who won’t publish their own names

Our new study finds that Jewish media professionals outside of Israel and North America face mounting threats

Elliot Eisenberg

My father carried a gun most of his adult life

FATHERS DAY: I am older now than Dad lived to be, and I think of him every single day.

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Workers take a lift as they pass a giant reproduction of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck’s 'The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb', during the renovation of the Saint-Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, western Belgium, Thursday, March 13, 2014 (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

A piece of workAuthors claim to crack case of stolen painting coveted by Hitler

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Protesters attend a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New York on April 29, 2015. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons, The All-Nite Images)

Commentary Magazine sees a new split in the black-Jewish alliance

By Charles Dunst

The official portrait of American diplomat James Rives Childs, who helped save 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

US diplomat who helped Jews flee Holocaust gets highway marker

By AP

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

New report claims former IDF chief Gantz offered No. 2 spot in Zionist Union

Illustrative: The Holy Family with St Anne by Rubens. One of the paintings in the Holy Family series was stolen in Italy by a man dressed as a rabbi (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

Croatian man dressed up like a rabbi for $30 million art heist in Italy

By JTA

Giorgio Almirante (YouTube screenshot)

Rome mayor blocks street dedication for neofascist leader

By Terence DALEY

Dan Gertler (Screen capture: YouTube)

US blacklists 14 firms tied to Israeli mining magnate

By AFP

In this June 29, 2017, file photo, taxi drivers chat as they refuel their vehicles at a gas station in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Risking protests, Egypt raises price of fuel as part of austerity measures

Muslim men shop in Trappes, southwest of Paris, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Elaine Ganley)

Paris suburb defies efforts to loosen Salafist grip

By Antoine Guy and Jacques KLOPP

Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks in Istanbul, Turkey, May 18, 2018 (Turkey Presidential Press Service/Pool via AP)

Jordan recalls its ambassador from Iran over regional interference — report

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