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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 21, 2018

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Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu indicted for misusing $100,000 in state funds to buy gourmet food

Charges filed after prime minister’s wife reportedly refuses to confess and return significant portion of money she allegedly diverted

The mother of Layla Ghandour holds her at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on May 15, 2018. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)

Hamas paid family to claim Gaza baby was killed by Israeli tear gas, says cousin

Palestinian said to die of wounds sustained in Gaza border clash last month

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel media reviewWar or condom nation: 8 things to know for June 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Amid fears of new Gaza war, PM threatens to step up response to arson attacks

Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) attends a discussion at the Knesset, May 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Ignoring PM’s wishes, Jewish Agency committee nominates Herzog as chairman

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

In unprecedented move, commission disregards Netanyahu’s preference in its choice for leader; move seen as rebuke of government’s religious policies affecting Diaspora Jewry

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at an event in Detroit, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya/File)

Netanyahu to extend term of US envoy Dermer for sixth year

Scott Wallace, Democrat nominee for Pennsylvania's First District. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish Republicans target Democrat over donations to anti-Israel groups

By JTA

A masked Palestinian prepares a balloon that will be attached to flammable materials to be launched into Israel near the Israeli Gaza border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Condoms, kites, birthday balloons: ‘Silly’ Gaza weapons could lead to real war

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are relentlessly flying a variety of airborne arson and explosive devices into Israel, causing hundreds of fires, millions of shekels in damage

Erdan warns ‘very high chance’ of Gaza op in coming months

Sappers defuse incendiary device flown into Israel by inflated condoms

Booby-trapped Gaza balloons land on trampoline; mom tells kids: They’re not toys

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

In quashing Duma confessions given under duress, did court prohibit torture?

Despite judges’ desire to limit scope of decision, conclusion that interrogation methods used by Shin Bet ‘severely violated’ far-right Jewish suspects’ rights deemed unprecedented

Illustrative: A right-wing Jewish activist holds a sign reading, "Do not torture me" outside the Duma terror attack trial in Petah Tikva on December 28, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli troops on June 21, 2018 demolish the northern West Bank home of Palestinian Ala Qabha, who rammed his car into a group of soldiers, killing two soldiers. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF demolishes home of Palestinian car-rammer who killed two soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustative: Israel Police pull over a vehicle in the West Bank on June 20, 2018. (Israel Police)

Police probing Palestinian carjacking of settler’s car

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, arrives at a news conference about a water-sharing agreement between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Ronen Zvulun)

US envoy fumes at Palestinians for rejecting Gaza aid drive

Jason Greenblatt accuses PA and Hamas of ‘hypocrisy’ for claiming that effort to provide humanitarian help is meant to separate Strip from West Bank, hints donors are wary of Hamas

Saudis meet with Kushner, Greenblatt to discuss Gaza, peace push

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran insists US stop opposing Israeli nuke disarmament

By AP and ToI Staff

Bill to criminalize some filming of IDF soldiers clears first Knesset hurdle

By Alexander Fulbright

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, poses for a photo with White House adviser Jared Kushner, in Cairo, Egypt, August 23, 2017. (MENA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Kushner, Greenblatt discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace with Egypt’s Sissi

Egyptian president urges ‘two-state solution on the 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine,’ Cairo says

6:38 pm

Thousands flee as regime steps up shelling in south Syria
6:03 pm

2 seriously hurt in Yavneh shooting, police say likely not terror
5:52 pm

Monitor group says Hezbollah in Syria pulling back from Israeli border

Paul Rudd plays Moe Berg in 'The Catcher Was a Spy.' (Courtesy of IFC Films/via JTA)

Film review

In ‘Catcher Was a Spy,’ Paul Rudd is a Jewish baseball player turned Nazi hunter

By Curt Schleier

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to keep families together at the border, but says that the 'zero-tolerance' prosecution policy will continue, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House, on June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In reversal, Trump signs order stopping family separation at US borders

By Jill Colvin and Colleen Long

US president vows ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on illegal crossings will continue, but says ‘we’re going to keep the families together’

Top rights body: Trump no longer ‘moral leader of free world’

By AFP

Stephen Miller isn’t apologizing for families being separated at the border

Trump lawyer Cohen leaves GOP post over child separation policy

By JTA

Moroccan soccer fans trying to snatch an Israeli flag at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow after a FIFA World Cup match on June 20. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli World Cup fans say Moroccans didn’t try to grab flag: ‘They welcomed us’

By Michael Bachner

After footage appears to show soccer supporters trying to snatch Israel flag at Moscow stadium, Israelis say scuffle was in fact over player’s shirt

England fans filmed making Nazi salutes at World Cup

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran keeps World Cup dream alive despite losing heartbreaker to Spain

By AFP

Arab sting: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco bow out early from World Cup

By ToI Staff and AFP

The US name sign is photographed one day after the United States announced its withdrawal at the 38th session of the UN Human Rights Council at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday. June 20, 2018. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Analysis

Israel may follow US in freezing out UN rights body, to some diplomats’ dismay

Politicians have welcomed the US decision to quit the UN Human Rights Council, but even some critics of the body argue it would have been better to stay engaged and defend Israel

Palestinians slam US after pullout from UN rights council

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Haley blasts human rights groups for ‘thwarting’ reform of UN council

By Agencies and Raphael Ahren

UN Human Rights Council back to work with US seat empty

By AP and ToI Staff

Zachary Schrieber

The OU’s lack of financial transparency

As the Orthodox Union expands its role, it must make crystal clear that all its dealings are kosher

Richard S. Moline

Should summer camp teach the ‘occupation’?

When even hummus is political, inflaming passions is easy, but what we really need is education

The day the Little Mermaid died

A South African model dared suggest Hamas shared blame for Gaza violence — guess what happened next

Esther Palanker-Lyss

Who needs a chandelier in a mikveh?

The cost of living a religious Jewish life is high enough without having to keep up with the Cohnses

Immigrant center planned in the grounds of Boston’s oldest Jewish cemetery

By Matt Lebovic

Inside a converted burial chapel, the city’s newest and most vulnerable residents will access citizenship resources alongside content on East Boston’s Jewish past

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 19, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Amid battle over migrants, debate on terminology dredges up Holocaust history

Jack and Rachelle Goldstein, who as children were separated from their families during the Holocaust, criticize the separation of children from their families caught illegally crossing the US border in a video released by the Anti-Defamation League on June 19, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jews separated from families during Holocaust condemn US border policy

By Josefin Dolsten

Chef David Lv displays his finished Yu Xiang eggplant dish at a workshop for Israeli chefs (Michael Harel/Times of Israel)

Kung Pao Tel Aviv

Hold the hummus, bring on the fried rice, say Chinese tourists to Israel

By Michael Harel

More Headlines

Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 3, 2017. (Marc Israel
Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Swiping rightBennett teased for proposing ‘world Jewish singles’ event in Israel

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Nazi-themed election graffiti was found in the upstate New York town of Wellsville on the day that Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election, Nov. 9, 2016. (Twitter via JTA)

NY survey finds widespread harassment of Jews and other minorities

By JTA

Illustrative: A newborn baby in an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Coalition said drafting new bill to allow same-sex couples to adopt

By Michael Bachner

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein. (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA)

Qatar used pro-Israel businessman to pay Zionist group $100,000 — report

Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz during a visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Yad Vashem apologizes for guide confronting Austrian leader over FPOe

By Raphael Ahren

A billboard with a poster of Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros with the words 'National consultation about the Soros plan - Don't let it pass without any words' is seen in Budapest on October 16, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)

Hungary adopts ‘Stop Soros’ laws penalizing migrant aid groups

By Géza Molnar

'Israel's Technology Economy, Origins and Impact' by David Rosenberg takes a hard look at Israel's startup industry and its impact -- good and bad, on the nation's economy; Illustrative image of a system security specialist at work (gorodenkoff; iStock by Getty Images)

Book reviewVaunted high-tech sector not solution to Israel’s economic problems, book says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Officially naming Israel as Eurovision host, organizers start work on 2019 event

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in his Jerusalem office on June 20, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

In meeting with Volkswagen CEO, Netanyahu says protecting vehicles a main goal

Michael Bloomberg arrives for the annual US Conference of Mayors meeting, Monday, June 26, 2017, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Michael Bloomberg pledges $80 million to put Democrats back in power

By AFP

Star of David necklace (image via Shutterstock)

Father sues Manhattan daycare for not allowing son to wear Star of David

By JTA

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Washington, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Saudi Arabia: A year of change with a new crown prince

By AFP

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