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What Matters Most On Friday, June 22, 2018

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A German flag with Nazi swastika graffitied on a wall in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 20, 2018. (South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies)

Model gets death threats for backing Israel, apologizes

‘We’re called scum, rats, pigs’: S. Africa’s Jews protest soaring anti-Semitism

Community head: Anti-Israel sentiment spilling over into ‘hateful slurs’ against Jews: We’re being warned our time is coming, and told Holocaust will be a picnic by comparison

Illustrative: A policeman looks down a line of demonstrators near the Israeli embassy protesting against the action taken against Gaza, in London, Friday, July 11, 2014. (AP/Alastair Grant)

Far-left British paper pulls op-ed blaming Israel for anti-Semitism

By JTA

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Economic collapse or war: Hamas’s cynical, desperate bid to pressure Israel, PA

The terror group is holding its subjects in Gaza hostage in a dangerous gambit to improve their lot while retaining its military strength

Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during a visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel deploys electronic eye to track fire kites and balloons from Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Hamas prepared to make ‘comprehensive deal’ with Israel – report

IDF officer lightly wounded in clash with protesters near Bethlehem

Archaeologist Zachi Dvira on the Temple Mount, June 18, 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Zachi Dvira: 'This is clearly a show of who is in control'

Muslim cleanup project ‘illegally disturbed, removed’ ancient soil on Temple Mt

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ramadan ‘beautification’ effort was deliberately provocative, part of bid to erase traces of pre-Muslim era heritage, claims activist-archaeologist; Israeli authorities checking

Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

UK’s Labour embroiled in new row over lawyer picked to probe anti-Semitism cases

By Robert Philpot

Top Jewish attorney Gordon Nardell said to have links to party’s hard-left leadership and members accused of bigotry, including founder of Facebook group with Holocaust deniers

British Ambassador David Quarrey speaking at the UK Jewish News's Aliyah 100 event, May 10, 2018 (Yossi Zeligar/Nikoart, via UK Jewish News)

UK defends calling Jerusalem Old City part of ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’

By Raphael Ahren

A memorial ceremony at the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem (Shmuel Bar-Am)

From the webBritish milestones in Holy Land set traditional foundation for royal visit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara arrive at the torch lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl on April 18, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Sara Netanyahu’s lawyers: Charges ‘absurd,’ rules she allegedly broke ‘illegal’

After PM’s wife indicted for misusing $100,000 in state funds to buy gourmet food, attorneys insist she did nothing wrong; defense team said to be split on strategy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the opening ceremony of the inauguration of the new emergency ward at the Barzilay hospital, in Ashkelon, Israel on February 20, 2018. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewGuess who’s paying for dinner: 8 things to know for June 22

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Sara Netanyahu not the first leader’s wife accused of corruption

By TAMER FAKAHANY

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on June 22, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Kushner, Greenblatt meet with Netanyahu on peace push, Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US envoys wrap up Middle East tour after whirlwind visits to Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attends the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit at Bayan palace in Kuwait City on December 5, 2017. (GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)

Kushner and Greenblatt discuss Gaza, Trump’s peace plan with Qataris

By Eric Cortellessa

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office at the White House as First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Rania look on. April 5, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Jordan king heads to US to discuss peace plan with Trump

By AFP

Escape artist Harry Houdini is shown before being lowered in a packing crate into the ice-covered Detroit River in 1907. (AP Photo)

How Harry Houdini stayed chained to his roots as a rabbi’s son

By Rich Tenorio

Syrian president Bashar Assad, left, meets with Ali Akbar Velayati, a top foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in Damascus, Syria, April 12, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Top Iranian official warns: Syria will be America’s ‘second Vietnam’

Under pressure to withdraw its forces, Tehran tries to turn spotlight on US

Illustrative image of a tank flying the Hezbollah terror group's flag seen in the Qara area in Syria's Qalamoun region on August 28, 2017 (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)

Monitor group: Hezbollah is pulling back from Israel-Syria border, Iran isn’t

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Jordanian King Abdullah II (left) welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Jordanian Royal Palace in Amman on June 21, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Khalil MAZRAAWI)

Visiting Jordan, Merkel calls for countering ‘Iranian aggression’

I think the Torah saved my life

Suicide might have been the most rational thing I could have done, and what saved me isn’t rational at all

The desecration at the US border

Separating parents and children severs the cord tethering people to their own humanity and to God

Emanuele Giaufret

There’s no Planet B

All countries must support long-term structural change in energy systems worldwide

The consolations of mortality

Our lives may feel depressingly inconsequential, but they have immense purpose (Hukat)

An Israeli soldier holds a national flag as he smokes a cigarette near the Israel-Gaza border after his infantry unit left the Gaza Strip on January 18, 2009. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Tough laws can’t stub out Israel’s smoking habit

By Charles Dunst

US President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Stephen Miller arrives for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, 2018 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House adviser calls Stephen Miller ‘Waffen-SS’ – report

By ToI Staff and JTA

Senior Trump aide said to ‘actually enjoy seeing those pictures at the border’ of children separated from their parents

Turning her back?Melania Trump’s ‘I really don’t care’ jacket stuns on migrant visit

By AFP

US Justice Department denies reported freeze in prosecutions of migrant parents

By AP

10 US rabbis visit separated families on the Mexico border

Ilana Edner, marching behind the Israeli flag, with participants of the Jewish contingent of the gay pride parade in Malmo, Sweden, June 10, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Sweden, Jews and Muslims united around Israeli flags at a gay pride parade

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israel's hit television show, 'Shababnikim.' (Ohad Romano)

Times of Israel Presents

By popular demand: More of award-winning ‘Shababnikim’ with English subtitles

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Charles Krauthammer (YouTube screenshot)

Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, dies at 68

By Hillel Italie

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Rabbinate said to double its rejections of wedding applicants’ Jewishness

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative image of a police officer wearing a body cam. (Israel Police)

Police to begin using high-tech, tamper-proof body cams

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an officer in the Traffic Police (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

In first, judge throws out driving indictments over traffic camera questions

An illustrative photo of a Magen David Adom ambulance. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two injured in suspected mob shooting in Yavneh

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative image of a hacker (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)

Proposed law to protect civilian cybersphere seen as extreme

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Virgin Atlantic airplane (Courtesy)

Israeli named as new CEO of Virgin Atlantic

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich looks on as Chelsea win the Premier League title after the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge on May 3, 2015 in London, England. (Clive Mason/Getty Images via JTA)

Billionaire Roman Abramovich helps bring ill Israeli kids to the World Cup

By Charles Dunst

Ninet Tayeb in a recent performance (Courtesy Lior Keter)

Anything can happenIsraeli Ninet Tayeb to open for Alanis Morissette on July 30

By Jessica Steinberg

Participants in the local Jerusalem celebration of International Yoga Day received a specially designed yoga mat that together forms an artwork that envisions Jerusalem in thirty years from now (Courtesy The Big Dream - Jerusalem)

NamasteIn Jerusalem, sun salutations for International Yoga Day

By Jessica Steinberg

In this image released by ABC, Roseanne Barr, left, and John Goodman appear in a scene from "Roseanne." (Adam Rose/ABC via AP)

Show will go onABC orders ‘Roseanne’ spinoff — minus Roseanne Barr

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, flanked by his Cypriot colleague Savvas Angelides, center, and Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, reviews an honor guard in Cyprus on June 22, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Defense Ministry)

Liberman urges cooperation with Greek, Cypriot counterparts against terror

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