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What Matters Most On Monday, June 25, 2018

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Britain's Prince William disembarks from a Royal Air Force plane after landing at the Marka airport in Amman, Jordan, June 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Prince William set to land in Israel for visit rife with historical symbolism

By Raphael Ahren

Ending 70-year-old unofficial boycott, Duke of Cambridge to visit Yad Vashem and Mount of Olives, meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Abbas in Ramallah

Prince William tours Roman ruins in Jordan, meets child refugees

Right royal gamePrince William, Jordan prince watch England thrash Panama in replay

By AFP

Kicking off trip, Prince William hails Jordan’s commitment to refugees

By AP

A group of protesters chant slogans at the main gate of old Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, June 25, 2018. (Iranian Labor News Agency via AP)

Iran protesters confront police at parliament in Tehran; tear gas fired at them

Demonstration in capital underlines widespread unease as rial drops against dollar following Trump’s withdrawal from nuclear deal

A UN post in the demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights reportedly taken over by pro-Assad troops in June 2018. (Kan screen capture)

Pro-Assad troops take over Golan UN post in demilitarized area on Israeli border

IDF hints it may act to remove soldiers by force, noting the new position marks a violation of the post-1973 separation of forces agreement

Illustrative: Syrian refugee children look from their tent during a visit by UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien to the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near Mafraq, Jordan, September 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan says it won’t take in Syrians fleeing new offensive

FILE - In this March 3, 2016 photo, Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, hold a poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a rally in support of Hezbollah, in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Saudi-led coalition says 8 Hezbollah fighters killed in Yemen

By AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech in Istanbul on June 24, 2018, after initial results of Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic)

Turkey’s Erdogan fetes poll triumph, opposition concedes defeat

By AFP

Cementing his powers, president says Ankara ‘has given a lesson in democracy to the entire world’; Iran, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela, Hamas applaud his victory

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to deliver a speech on June 24, 2018 in Istanbul, after initial results of Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections.
(AFP PHOTO / Bulent Kilic)

Hamas leader congratulates Turkey’s Erdogan on electoral win

By ToI Staff and AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech on June 24, 2018 in Istanbul. (AFP PHOTO / Bulent Kilic)

Erdogan declared winner in Turkish vote, cementing grip on power

By AFP

Alleged Hamas members carrying incendiary balloons to the Gaza border where they presumably launched them toward Israeli territory, from footage released by Israel on June 24, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF accuses Hamas of being behind Gaza ‘fire kite’ attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Army shares names, photos of 4 Palestinian men suspected of leading airborne arson effort, as well as video allegedly showing incendiary balloons being prepared in Hamas post

Palestinians prepare a kite with flammable materials that they will fly into southern Israel from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

3 Gazans said injured as IDF conducts strikes against fire balloon launchers

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: IDF soldiers during an arrest raid in the central West Bank on February 23, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinians open fire on settlement south of Jerusalem – IDF

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Menny Naftali, the former caretaker at the Prime Minister's Residence, is seen at the the National Labor Court in Jerusalem on February 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Car belonging to ex-caretaker who testified against PM’s wife found torched

Police suspect arson targeting Menny Naftali, who successfully sued Sara Netanyahu for abuse and provided testimony in case she was recently charged in

Knesset committee approves cutting Netanyahu’s taxes to boost ‘pitiful’ salary

By Raoul Wootliff

PM’s wife accused of sending dirty clothes on state trips for dry cleaning

Israel media reviewAiring dirty laundry: 9 things to know for June 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian fishing boats are seen at the sea port in Gaza City on April 1, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said to agree to set up port for Gaza in Cyprus

By Alexander Fulbright

Report says plan requires Hamas return soldiers’ bodies, missing Israelis in exchange for port’s establishment

6:24 pm

Trump welcomes Jordan's King Abdullah II to White House
6:12 pm

Former Mossad No. 2 applauds Liberman over reported Gaza port in Cyprus
5:53 pm

Likud holds steady in new poll, would still win handily if Gantz launches party

Laura Janner-Klausner (Photo credit: CC BY-SA CotevDafWiki/Wikipedia)

Leader of UK Reform Jewry: Trump’s immigration policies could lead to genocide

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner says situation on US-Mexico border a ‘moment of reckoning’

A boy from Honduras is shown being taken into custody by US Border Patrol agents near the US-Mexico Border near Mission, Texas, on June 12, 2018. (John Moore/Getty Images via JTA)

In anti-migrant rhetoric, some hear echo of anti-Semitic blood libel

Migrant families rest from their travels to Matamoros, Mexico, along Gateway International Bridge which connects to Brownsville, Texas, as they seek asylum in the United States. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Trump admin says it knows location of all children separated from parents

By Colleen Long

Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria at the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, held by the Israel Institute of Democracy, in Jerusalem, on June 19, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Analysis

Could Rachel Azaria’s candidacy pave way for ultra-Orthodox mayor in Jerusalem?

With surprise entry of Orthodox, pluralistic MK, the race to succeed Nir Barkat is more open than ever. What’s missing is an ultra-Orthodox candidate. That might now change

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University on June 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows to push ahead with ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill

Rabbi Aryeh Stern (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Jerusalem chief rabbi calls for canceling Eurovision to ‘prevent disgrace’

Carl Zimmer got his genome examined when he found out he was going to be a father. (Courtesy)

Interview

Hands-on science journalist unlocks the secrets of genetic hand-me-downs

By Cathryn J. Prince

Sikyong Lobsang Sangay (courtesy Department of International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala)

Interview

In 1st Israel visit, a Tibetan leader quietly seeks support, hails Jews’ return

By Raphael Ahren

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Sex segregation is bad and getting worse

What happens when the public hides women, whether on an El Al plane or in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square

Deconstructing IfNotNow

The partisan group undermines AmericanJews’ loyalty to Israel with skewed and damaging rhetoric

A liberal stands up for segregation

Tel Aviv’s mayor has no moral case against the Chabad event that would separate men and women

Krauthammer’s keen sense of limitation

If you never watched Fox News, you missed a national treasure

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, center, and other progressive Jews clashing with security guards in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/via JTA)

These academics want to mend Israel-Diaspora relations, but can they be saved?

More Headlines

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, right, interviews US President Donald Trump at the White House on June 18, 2018. (YouTube screen capture)

Evangelicals appreciate US Embassy move more than Jews, Trump says

By JTA

Illustrative image of people attending the 220th General Assembly (2012) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh listen to a session on Thursday, July 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Presbyterian Church USA blasts ‘apartheid’ Israel at its General Assembly

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a Spanish police car (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Moroccan migrant arrested in Spain over alleged hate speech against Jews

By JTA

Noa Tishby arrives at the Hilarity For Charity 3rd Annual Los Angeles Variety Show on Oct. 17, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Israeli actress tells of unwanted advances from Harvey Weinstein

By ToI Staff and AP

Maccabi Tel Aviv in Australia, 1939. (CC BY-SA Avi Ginzburg, Wikimedia Commons)

Own goalAnti-Israel activist shares 1939 clip of ‘Palestinian’ Jewish soccer players

Illustrative: An easyJet airliner on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 3, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Flying highBritish man blames drugs for offensive rant against Jews on plane

Jacky Rosen is backed by Sen. Reid in her bid for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District (Facebook)

Trump nicknames Jewish Democratic Senate candidate ‘Wacky Jacky’

By JTA

Two of three new F-35 fighter jets land on an airstrip in the Israeli Air Force's Nevatim base in southern Israel on June 24, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Three new F-35 stealth fighter jets land in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Holocaust survivor and Palestinian rights advocate Felicia Langer interviewed in 2012. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Pro-Palestinian Holocaust survivor Felicia Langer dies at 87

By Frank Zeller

Isaac Herzog (right) seen with MK Tzipi Livni at a Zionist Union faction meeting in the Knesset on February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog recommends Tzipi Livni replace him as opposition leader

Parliament member Robert Tiviaev of the Kadima party at a Knesset House committee on December 3, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Herzog’s replacement as a Labor Knesset member has left the party

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