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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 20, 2018

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A police sapper digs up a rocket fired from Gaza that landed outside a kindergarten in one of the communities of the Eshkol region on June 20, 2018. (Eshkol region)

45 rockets launched from Gaza amid night of intense IDF, Hamas fire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

At least 6 projectiles fall in border towns, including one near a kindergarten; Israeli jets strike 25 military targets throughout the coastal enclave

A police sapper digs up a rocket fired from Gaza that landed outside a kindergarten in one of the communities of the Eshkol region on June 20, 2018. (Eshkol region)

After sleepless night of rockets, southern Israeli schools reopen as usual

By Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian prepares a balloon that will be attached to flammable materials and then flown toward Israel near the Israeli-Gazan border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip June 17, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF fires warning shots at Gaza incendiary balloon cell

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu praises move: Council has 'betrayed its mission'

US quits the UN’s Human Rights Council, citing its ‘chronic bias against Israel’

By Raphael Ahren and Agencies

Haley calls global body ‘a cesspool of political bias’; announces US departure after protracted criticism of its obsessive focus on Israel; US official says move is ‘immediate’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as US Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley speaks at the US Department of State in Washington DC on June 19, 2018.(AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

US Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley speaks at the US Department of State in Washington DC on June 19, 2018. (AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Haley: Human Rights Council nations back Israel — but only behind closed doors

By Eric Cortellessa

US Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley speaks at the US Department of State in Washington DC on June 19, 2018. (AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Israel welcomes ‘courageous’ US pullout from UN Human Rights Council

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Hall of Columns as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, 2018, to rally Republicans around a GOP immigration bill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Critics say Trump’s talk of immigrants ‘infesting’ US recalls Nazi propaganda

By ToI Staff and AP

US president tweets that illegal foreigners ‘infest’ the country – a term employed by Goebbels ahead of the Final Solution

Jewish activists are helping families separated at the US border

No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children separated at US border

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and Colleen Long

Nazi comparisons as Dem. lawmakers barred from child migrant facility in Florida

By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and Ben Fox

Hussein Dawabsha, center, grandfather of a Palestinian toddler who was burned to death with his parents at their family home, stands with Knesset members Ayman Odeh, left, and Ahmad Tibi, during the trial of the two Jewish men suspected of carrying out the attack, on June 19, 2018 at a court in the town of Lod. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Court quashes minor’s confession extracted under duress in Duma terror case

Prosecution suffers major blow in case against teen accused of helping plan firebombing, but confession of adult suspect after torture by interrogators largely ruled admissible

Illustrative: Israeli supporters of the two Jewish suspected in the arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, demonstrate outside of a Lod court, on June 19, 2018. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Jewish extremists taunt ‘Ali’s on the grill’ at slain toddler’s relatives

Right wing supporters watch a protest outside a court hearing in Lod on the Duma attack, June 19, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Israel media reviewUnder duress in Duma: 5 things to know for June 20

By Tamar Pileggi

Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Guy Feldman speaking at an Israel Independence Day party in Abuja, Nigeria on May 10, 2018. (Chen Hayek/Foreign Ministry)

Ex-minister charged as Iran spy ‘attended embassy event days before his arrest’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Gonen Segev reportedly took part in Israeli Independence Day gathering in Nigeria, was said to be chummy with ambassador; said to claim he intended to be double agent

Former energy minister Gonen Segev, seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for the appeal on his prison sentence on August 18, 2006. (Flash90)

Iran says it knows nothing of Israeli ex-minister charged as spy

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stages a cyber attack at a cybersecurity conference in Tel Aviv, June 20, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon / Times of Israel)

Netanyahu simulates cyberattack to demonstrate security challenges

By Shoshanna Solomon

‘Our airlines can be brought down, our fighter planes can be brought down,’ the prime minister warns at conference in Tel Aviv

Yigal Unna, the director of Israel's National Cyber Directorate, speaking at Cyber Week, June 20, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

‘Winter is still coming,’ cyber chief warns on hacking threats

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis at a kibbutz near Gaza inspect the scene where a rocket fired from the Strip fell near houses, smashing windows, on June 20, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Hamas’s goal: To convince Israel that tolerating fire kites is preferable to war

Gaza’s Islamist rulers know Israel’s government is deeply wary of entering another major conflict, but each new round of hostility brings such conflict closer

A rocket fired from Gaza that landed in one of the communities of the Eshkol region on June 20, 2018. (Eshkol Security)

Hamas, Jihad assert ‘right’ to fire rockets, as IAF hits Gaza after kite attacks

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant (left) and Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the cabinet meeting at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on June 7, 2015. (Amit Shabi/Flash90)

Minister accuses colleague of advocating shooting Gaza kids

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the CyberWeek conference at Tel Aviv University, on June 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu to Hamas: IDF response to arson attacks will intensify ‘as necessary’

After overnight flare-up in tensions, PM warns Gaza terror group the ‘steel fist of the IDF will powerfully strike anyone who attempts to harm us’

6:33 pm

US envoys Kushner, Greenblatt hold talks with Saudi crown prince
6:25 pm

Netanyahu said extending term of US ambassador, citing 'unique circumstances'
6:18 pm

2 airlines ask US not to put migrant children on flights

SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)

Analysis

New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short

Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree

In this undated photo, provided by family member Susan Lawrence on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, twin brothers Julius Pieper, left, and Ludwig Pieper in their U.S. Navy uniforms. (Susan Lawrence via AP)

American twin brothers reunited in burial 74 years after WWII death at Normandy

By MARK D. CARLSON and VIRGINIA MAYO

The day the rockets woke me up

30 in 4 hours, and the IDF said we should continue as normal, no new instructions. But this is not normal

Lonely man of musical faith

For me, music is like Torah, and they’re both like drinking sea water: the more I drink, the thirstier I get

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The royal family, with Prince William in the center alongside his wife, Catherine, and their two children, in London during the Trooping the Colour, this year marking the queen’s 90th birthday, June 11, 2016. (Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

The royal treatment5 must-know facts about Prince William’s historic visit to Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

Producer Arnon Milchan accepts the Film Tribute Award at the 26th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, on November 28, 2016, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Police suspect Hollywood mogul was go-between for PM, newspaper chief — report

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

US envoys Kushner, Greenblatt hold talks with Jordanian king

By AP and ToI Staff

Niv Nehemia, who was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at a supermarket in Yavne on August 2, 2017, arrives to hear the sentencing of the terrorist who stabbed him, given at Lod District Court, on June 19, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Palestinian sentenced to 22.5 years for supermarket attack

Illustrative: Border police near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron June 20, 2018. (Israel Police)

Bomb thrown at border police at Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, no injuries

Mayor Nir Barkat's endorsement video for Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Screen capture: Facebook)

Barkat endorses Elkin for Jerusalem mayor in Wild West-style video

Syrian children stand in a basement used as a shelter against airstrikes on March 25, 2018, in Douma, eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / HAMZA AL-AJWEH)

UN: State, rebels committed war crimes in Syria’s Ghouta

In this file photo taken on June 16, 2009 Russian Rabbi Boroukh Kleinberg reads from the Torah inside his Mitzvah Bus in Moscow. (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)

Russia seeks to force out foreign rabbis as ‘national security threat’

By victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA

File: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing street for the weekly Prime Minister Question (PMQ) session in the House of Commons in London on March 14, 2018.
(AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Jihadist plotted suicide attack on British PM, police say

By AFP

A young Israeli secular couple walks next to an ultra-Orthodox couple as the light rail goes by on Jaffa road in central Jerusalem on January 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Knesset passes law giving secular workers a Shabbat break

By Michael Bachner

Soldiers from the IDF's Sky Riders Unit launch a Skylark drone during an exercise in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reconnaissance drone crashes in southern Syria

Lewis Aron, left, founding IARPP president, and Steven Kuchuck, the current president, at the group’s 2018 conference in New York City. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen)

US psychology association faces pressure to boycott Israel, cancel Tel Aviv meet

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

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