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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 17, 2018

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A still image taken from footage shot in the West Bank on September 25, 2015, shows an IDF soldier hurling a camera belonging to AFP reporters to the ground. (screen capture: YouTube)

Ministers advance bill criminalizing some filming of IDF, despite AG opposition

By Raoul Wootliff

Controversial legislation would ban publishing footage that puts military in negative light and ‘harms soldiers’ morale,’ recommend jail for obstructing troops carrying out duties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers move to ax law giving PM, defense chief power to declare war

By Raoul Wootliff

Op-ed

BDS is a dirty business. Those who battle it on Israel’s behalf must stay clean

By David Horovitz

After years of lousy PR, a new donor-backed firm is working with a well-funded ministry to thwart Israel’s detractors. They need to be careful where and how they spend their money

Michael Oren, Israel's deputy minister for public diplomacy, speaking at the Combating Terrorism Terrorism Technology Conference, part of the Cyber Week 2018 events in Tel Aviv; June 17 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel needs ‘Iron Dome for diplomacy,’ deputy minister says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Michael Hayden during his tenure as CIA head. (CC BY-CIA/Wikipedia)

Former CIA head compares US immigration policies to Nazi Germany

By JTA

Michael Hayden says ‘other governments’ have separated mothers and children, posts picture of Auschwitz concentration camp

US President Donald Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the G7 Summit, May 26, 2017, in Taormina, Italy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump threatened to send 25 million Mexicans to Japan: report

By AFP

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

PM’s son instigated tweet that caused diplomatic spat with Mexico — report

Far-right youths protest the court-ordered demolition of 17 buildings in the illegal outpost of Tapuah West. (Israel Police)

Police, settler youth clash during clearing of illegal West Bank outpost

A picture taken on February 8, 2017 from the Palestinian West Bank village of Yasuf shows the Israeli wildcat outpost of Kfar Tapuah West, located near the settlement of Kfar Tapuah. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Hundreds of police deployed to West Bank outpost ahead of evacuation

Police officers trying to evacuate an illegally built home in the West Bank outpost of Tapuah West, June 17, 2018. (Courtesy)

Zionist Union head decries PM, ministers over ‘silence’ on settler violence

Illustrative: Gazans load balloons with flammable material to be flown toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Live updates (closed)

Suspected explosive carried by Gazan balloon discovered on Israeli rooftop

Police sappers headed to the site in a village in the Sdot Negev Regional Council area; six brush fires set by Gaza incendiary kites today

6:32 pm

IDF says if it escalates response to Gaza kite arson, it could cause war
6:02 pm

Hundreds of turkeys choke to death from Gazan balloon-sparked fires
4:58 pm

College's rooftop is on fire in central Jerusalem

Palestinians load kites and balloons with flammable material in order to fly toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/ Mahmud Hams)

Air force targets Gazans launching fire balloons at southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Hamas-linked news site reports IDF drone fired at Palestinians east of Khan Younis who sent airborne incendiary devices into Israel; blazes reported in nearby Kissufim

A soldier at the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz near the border with the Gaza Strip on June 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israel media reviewShooting to miss: 7 things to know for June 17

By Joshua Davidovich

'Jewish New York' author, Deborah Dash Moore. (Jean Paul Jann)

From seedling colony to Big Apple: How Jews helped shape NYC’s 350-year history

By Rich Tenorio

Argentina's Lionel Messi covers his face during the group D match between Argentina and Iceland at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Spartak Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

World Cup 2018

Liberman: Messi missed penalty because Argentina canceled Israel game

By ToI Staff and AP

Defense Minister suggests the soccer star’s skills could have been sharper had team not pulled out of its final warm up game in Jerusalem in the wake of Palestinian pressure

Wide-angled footage broadcast in Israel of the Argentina-Iceland soccer match in the FIFA World Cup on June 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Israelis complain World Cup camera angles render tournament ‘unwatchable’

By Michael Bachner

A banner supporting Iranian women in the stands during the group B match between Morocco and Iran at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the St. Petersburg Stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

In World Cup first, Iran women at match protest ban from soccer stadiums at home

By ToI Staff and AFP

Eight-year old Yussuf wanted to eat independently but couldn't; so the Pele program at Alyn Hospital developed a device to help him do just that (YouTube screen shot)

The 8-year-old who can now eat by himself, and other rehab-tech success stories

By Shoshanna Solomon

A team at Pele, the innovation program at Jerusalem’s ALYN Hospital, came up with a solution that combines an aluminium frame, a spoon, a wheel, and a big smile from Yusuf

Charles E. Savenor

‘You have to get a new daddy, Daddy’

My sons relate to my mom’s partner as if he’s my father, while my heart aches because they never met that man

Arabs and Jews in dialogue for the future

Two objects cannot be in the same place at the same time, but we people can decide to make room for each other

Paul Alexander. (Screenshot)

On a bike, ex-child refugee retraces escape from Nazi Germany

Paul Alexander, 81, will pedal 600 miles with son, grandson and 39 others to pay tribute to Kindertransport program that saved thousands of Jewish children

German rappers Kollegah & Farid Bang perform during the 2018 Echo Music Awards ceremony on April 12, 2018, in Berlin (AFP PHOTO / AXEL SCHMIDT)

German rappers accused of anti-Semitic lyrics won’t be prosecuted

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Marcelo Crivella, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sings to raise funds for the construction of the city’s Holocaust memorial. (Marcus Gilban via JTA)

Rio mayor sings to raise funds for Holocaust memorial

By Marcus M. Gilban

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Illustrative: Police cars in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Screen capture ABC News)

20 injured in shooting at New Jersey arts festival

By AP

Illustrative photo of French police officers. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Woman shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ stabs two in France supermarket

A taxi is seen crashing into a group of pedestrians in Moscow on June 16, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Driver plows into Moscow crowd, wounding 8 in what police say is accident

Col. Avi Bluth, head of the IDF Commando Brigade. (Israel Defense Forces)

Investigation into papers stolen from car of officer in line for PM attache job

In this April 20, 2008, file photo, Syrian Jews celebrate Passover at the al-Firenj Synagogue in downtown Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)

Torah scrolls disappear from Damascus synagogue in fog of Syria war

By Bassam Mroue

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev at a press conference ahead of the 2018 Giro d'Italia cycling race on May 2, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Minister reportedly seeking say in how Eurovision portrays Israel

Sara Netanyahu attends a reception at the Foreign Ministry celebrating the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu expected to be charged next week for misuse of state funds

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends the 6th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy blocked check of IDF human rights record as part of military aid review

Villagers cut open a python and find the body of a local woman inside, June 15, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Swallowed wholeMissing Indonesian woman found intact in belly of python

By AFP

Pope Francis gives a speech to the National Congress of the Italian Masters of Labor Federation, in Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican, on June 15, 2018. (AFP Photo/Andreas Solaro)

Pope: Abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes

By AP

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