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What Matters Most On Monday, June 18, 2018

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Then-MK Gonen Segev seen outside the Knesset on March 15, 1993. (Flash90)

Lawyer: Sealed section of indictment shows different picture

Former Israeli minister Gonen Segev charged with spying for Iran

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Ex-politician, previously jailed for drug smuggling, arrested in Guinea and extradited to Israel last month, accused of giving Tehran sensitive information about security, energy

Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, at a reception for the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust at Buckingham Palace, London, on June 14, 2018. (Yui Mok/AFP)

Minister blasts Prince William for listing Old City as Palestinian in itinerary

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Ze’ev Elkin says Jerusalem has been Israel’s capital for 3,000 years, calls on those arranging royal visit to change the official document

Newly elected Colombian president Ivan Duque celebrates with supporters in Bogota, after winning the presidential runoff election on June 17, 2018. (AFP/ Raul Arboleda)

New Colombian president open to moving embassy to Jerusalem

By Joshua Davidovich, Raphael Ahren and Agencies

US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman speaks at the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy scolds Israeli MKs for demanding US recognition of Golan — report

By Stuart Winer

An explosion is seen in Gaza City after an airstrike by Israel on June 18, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Palestinians fire 3 rockets at south as IDF strikes Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli aircraft conduct raids in northern Strip, hitting nine Hamas targets; no reports of injuries as projectiles launched toward Ashkelon; one rocket falls short

Palestinian killed during alleged attempt to sabotage Gaza border barrier

By Judah Ari Gross

Liberman warns Israel will crack down on Gaza incendiary attacks

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF said opposed to directly targeting Gazans launching incendiary devices

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson addresses the 38th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on June 18, 2018 in Geneva. (AFP PHOTO / ALAIN GROSCLAUDE)

Britain condemns ‘anti-Israel bias’ at UN Human Rights Council

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Boris Johnson calls permanent item on Palestinian territories ‘disproportionate and damaging,’ vows to vote against such resolutions starting next year

Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses for photographers as he arrives to cast his vote for local council elections at a polling station in Holloway, London, May 3, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

UK Jewish students blame Labour party for campus anti-Semitism – report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid walks along Downing Street in central London on June 12, 2018. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Far-right terror threat on the rise in Britain

By Pauline Froissart

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

In lieu of dialogue, Hamas is playing with fire

Both Israel and Gaza seem to want to keep the conflagration under control, but it’s a dangerous game that could lead to all-out war

An explosion is seen in Gaza City after an airstrike by Israel on June 18, 2018. (AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)

A woman stands holding a Palestinian flag with a cloth sack placed above her head before a barbed-wire fence and next to burning tires, during clashes following a demonstration near the border with Israel east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 8, 2018. (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)

UN chief said to slam Israel, Liberman over Gaza in new report

CNN's Ian Lee tours a Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (YouTube)

Islamic Jihad gives CNN a tour of Gaza tunnel, shows off rocket launcher

By Stuart Winer

A woman sits with her children in their shack home near the beach in Gaza City on June 4, 2018. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)

US said seeking to raise $500 million for Gaza from Gulf states

By Stuart Winer

Funding would reportedly go toward industrial area in Egypt’s Sinai from where electricity, desalinated water would be pumped to Strip

Hundreds of turkeys choke to death on smoke as fires rage near Gaza border

PM: Busted Hamas cell shows Israel must control security west of Jordan

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewKite or flight: 7 things to know for June 18

By Adiv Sterman

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)

Culture minister caught in false claim in bid for influence over Eurovision

By Michael Bachner

Miri Regev says public broadcaster can’t be trusted with 2019 event, because this year its presenter’s opening remarks were in Arabic; they weren’t

Israel's Netta Barzilai celebrates after winning the Eurovision song contest in Lisbon, Portugal, Saturday, May 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Eurovision organizers warn Israel could lose hosting rights

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative. An Israeli F-15 fighter jet. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Israel behind Syria airstrike that killed dozens of regime fighters

By Alexander Fulbright

American official tells CNN Israeli forces carried out raid near Iraqi border that Syrian state media has blamed on US

6:29 pm

Report: Israel behind Syria airstrike that killed dozens of regime fighters
6:02 pm

In Amman, Netanyahu discusses US peace plan with Jordan's king
5:54 pm

Report: Ex-minister Segev was doctor for Israeli officials in Nigeria

Afula stabbing victim Shuva Malka gives thanks from her hospital bed on June 17, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

From her hospital bed, teen wounded in terror attack gives thanks for prayers

Shuva Malka, who was in critical condition after stabbing in Afula, is on the mend

Medics respond to a stabbing in the northern city of Afula on June 11, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

Palestinian suspect remanded in teen stabbing attack

An IDF soldier arrests a member of a suspected Hamas cell in Nablus, in the northern Gaza Strip in April 2018. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet: Israel busts large Hamas cell planning Jerusalem, Tel Aviv bombings

By Judah Ari Gross

Migrants descend the Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo upon arrival at the eastern port of Valencia, Spain, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (AP/Alberto Saiz)

After turned away by Italy, migrants finally find dry land in Spain

By AP

Week after becoming center of political fight, 629 asylum-seekers from 31 countries rescued at sea near Libya dock in Valencia

US President Donald Trump, right, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, left, speaks to employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Melania Trump says she ‘hates to see’ migrant children separated

Rep. Luis Gutierrez holds up a picture of his daughter and grandson during a news conference to urge the Trump administration into ending its policy of separating families at the US- Mexico border on Capitol Hill June 14, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Orthodox Union joins growing chorus against separating migrant children

By JTA

Chef Einat Admony of Kish-Kash. (Arron Brown)

Chreime recipe inside

Couscous lovers rejoice: Israeli chef unveils homey taste of North Africa in NYC

By Michelle Divon

Marvin Goldman, in his New York City apartment, has created a mini museum of El Al artifacts. (Courtesy of Goldman/via JTA)

Air history

The ‘#1 fan’ of Israel’s national airline has over 40,000 pieces of memorabilia

By Manny Strumpf

Ari Z. Zivotofsky

Why coerced confessions fail

Even when a crime is as vile as the Dawabshehs’ burning deaths, laws against torturing criminals must prevail

A Bedouin village can model the peace process

Israeli and Palestinian leaders should take note of the conflict in Khan al-Ahmar, and write its lessons large

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Illustrative: Smoke billows from the eastern city of Deir Ezzor during an operation by Syrian government forces against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on November 2, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)

At least 52 pro-regime fighters said killed in east Syria strike

By Maya Gebeily

Illustrative of children playing at a kindergarten in Petah Tikvah. (Screen capture/ YouTube)

Amid string of child abuse cases, ministers delay meeting on daycare supervision

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar is greeted by supporters near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, on June 3, 2016. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Family says Palestinian lawmaker’s detention extended by Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Ziv Tirosh, left, and Uri Levine, the co-founders of Refundit, which seeks to digitalize the VAT refund process in Europe (Courtesy)

Waze founder now offers app to navigate VAT refund process

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ari Nagel visits the Tel Aviv port, June 27, 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

Sticky situationSperm donor who sired 33 kids says Israel banned his seed

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of soldiers from Nahal Haredi, an ultra-Orthodox battalion in the Israel Defense Forces (Abir Sultan/Flash90, File)

Netanyahu said seeking to pass ultra-Orthodox enlistment law in two weeks

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy gives a statement to the media regarding sexual harassment allegations against him at the end of a theater show in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2016. (Flash90)

Sex crimes trial opens for prominent Israeli actor

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