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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 26, 2018

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shows the way to his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on April 13, 2015. (AFP/Sergei Ilnitsky, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas to meet Putin in Moscow next month, PA ambassador says

Palestinian leader will be in Russia for World Cup final; Netanyahu also invited

6:18 pm

Tunnel-detection project awarded top Israeli defense prize
6:05 pm

Settler says Palestinians attacked him, stole his phone
5:47 pm

Ambassador to UNESCO says Israel may reconsider exit

Prince William takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on June 26, 2018. (Ben Kelmer)

We must ensure 'the horrors of the past...can never reoccur'

Prince William visits Yad Vashem, honors great-grandmother who rescued Jews

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

On first day of official visit, British royal meets Holocaust survivors saved as children by the UK; hosted by PM Netanyahu and President Rivlin

Rivlin asks Prince William to take ‘message of peace’ to Abbas

By Raphael Ahren

Prince William lands in Israel on first-ever official visit by a UK royal

By Raphael Ahren

Israel media reviewDuke and hazards: 9 things to know for June 26

By Joshua Davidovich

Employees of the Barkan Winery who were transferred from their jobs over questions of their Jewishness. (screen capture: Kan)

Outcry as Barkan winery shuns Ethiopian workers, casts doubt on their Jewishness

By Tamar Pileggi

Leading winemaker bans employees of African descent from coming into contact with wine to comply with strict new kashrut license; Sephardi chief rabbi slams move as ‘pure racism’

Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)

Non-Israeli ‘chained’ women can now pursue divorce in Israel

By Marissa Newman

El Al flight seen at the airstrip at the Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israeli tech giant boycotts El Al over ‘discrimination against women’

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

‘Where’d your money go?’ Liberman asks angry Iranians in Persian

As protests against ayatollahs enter second day, Israel’s defense minister joins demonstrators blaming Iran’s economic woes on regime’s support for regional terror groups

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

Iranians chant ‘Death to Palestine’ at economic protests in Tehran

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, center, reacts after failing to score a penalty as Iran's Morteza Pouraliganji reacts, left, during the group B match between Iran and Portugal at the 2018 soccer World Cup at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk, Russia, June 25, 2018. (Francisco Seco/AP)

Iran out of World Cup despite saving Ronaldo penalty to draw with Portugal

By Brett Martel

Illustrative: Smoke plumes rising from regime bombardment on the town of Al-Mulayhah al-Sharqiyah in the eastern Daraa province countryside in southern Syria, June 21, 2018. (Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)

Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport, Syrian state media claims

By ToI Staff and AFP

Observer group says reported attack targeted Hezbollah arms depots; Assad forces ‘failed to intercept the missiles’

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid asks US lawmakers to recognize Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian children fill jerrycans with drinking water from public taps in the southern Gaza Strip, June 11, 2017. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)

Israel reportedly agrees to set up seaport for Gaza in Cyprus

By Stuart Winer

Hadashot news says defense minister proposed plan to Cypriot president; conditioned it on release of Israeli captives, soldiers’ bodies held by Hamas

Hamas claims Russia opposes Trump peace plan

IDF targets 2 cars, observation post used by Gazans launching fire balloons

By Judah Ari Gross

Putin invites Netanyahu, Abbas to World Cup final, prompting summit speculation

By Tamar Pileggi

Analysis

With Herzog at Jewish Agency helm, Netanyahu faces rerun of his father’s fights

Appointing a perennial critic of the PM to head the quasi-governmental body risks reopening an ideological chasm that goes back to the formation of the Israel-Diaspora relationship

Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his father Benzion Netanyahu, in Benzion's house in Jerusalem, February 5, 2009. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni speaks at the faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Livni warns she could bolt Zionist Union if not named opposition leader

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara pose for a photograph at the Taj Mahal in the Indian city of Agra on January 16, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / STR_

Netanyahu accuses media of spreading ‘Bolshevik propaganda’ against his family

By Raoul Wootliff

In this April 12, 2018 picture shows Palestinian alternate ambassador to UNESCO Mounir Anastas, right, UNESCO Director General France's Audrey Azoulay, left, and Israeli UNESCO ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen speak after a meeting in Paris, France. Diplomats at UNESCO are hailing a possible breakthrough on longstanding Israeli-Arab tensions at the UN cultural agency. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Citing ‘new spirit’ at UNESCO, Israeli envoy wants to rethink withdrawal

By Raphael Ahren

After cultural agency again postpones Israel-related resolutions, Carmel Shama Hacohen says Washington and Jerusalem should at least consider a ‘certain delay’ before quitting

Illustrative: This May 22, 2018, file photo shows Palestinians waiting to cross the Gaza-Egypt border to the Egyptian side at the Rafah crossing. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

UN seeks new funding pledges for Palestinian refugee agency

By Verena Dobnik

Dr. Joshua Furman is creating an archive of Houston's Jewish past in light of Hurricane Harvey. (Tracy Frydberg/Times of Israel)

Dry facts

After Hurricane Harvey, Rice University preserves Houston’s Jewish past

By Tracy Frydberg

This November, vote M for Mensch

The bipartisan decline of civility in American discourse should drive voting choices in the midterm elections

The day a ‘hand vagina’ made this bride blush

Or how an Orthodox rebbetzin made this secular Israeli bride blush

Teklit Michael is an Eritrean activist who has become a spokesman for the community. (Ben Sales/JTA)

In Tel Aviv’s African neighborhood, a clash of candor and suspicion

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Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Hypothetical new party led by ex-IDF chief Gantz would win 13 seats, poll finds

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

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

Palestinian steals Arab Israeli’s vehicle with 5-year-old in back seat

Illustration of image-guided surgery using the probes that light up in the presence of cancerous cells, technology that was developed by researchers at the Tel Aviv University. (IIlustrated by Maayan Harel)

Researchers at Tel Aviv U. develop turn-on probes to pinpoint cancer cells

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hila Betzaleli poses at the Mount Herzl parade grounds, two hours before the tragedy in which she lost her life. (Channel 2 News screen capture)

No prison time for 2 men responsible for Mount Herzl death of IDF officer

Jason Kander, shown in July 2017, is one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Rising star Jewish Democrat to run for mayor of Kansas City

By JTA

A letter written by Albert and Elsa Einstein to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein on March 28, 1933. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

Einstein letter written the day he renounced German citizenship up for auction

By Stuart Winer

Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)

Study shows placenta treatment effective against radiation sickness

Exterior of Boston’s historic Vilna Shul, which is now a city landmark and tourist destination. (Vilna Shul Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture)

Boston gives city’s century-old synagogue $500,000 for historic preservation

By JTA

Moses would get cut out of the AP World History curriculum if the College Board follows through on a proposed change. (Providence Lithograph Company/Flickr)

Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon might get cut from US college history course

By Charles Dunst

A scene from Comedy Central's 'Drunk History' depicting the Eichmann trial. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Under the influence‘Drunk History’ covers Eichmann with help of Rachel Bloom, Weird Al Yankovic

By JTA

Participants in the 2018 Chicago Dyke March waving Palestinian flags. (Screen capture: Windy City Times)

Palestinian flags flown at Chicago Dyke March a year after Star of David banned

By JTA

Anthony Bourdain in New York City, June 2, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Anthony Bourdain did not take drugs before he died — coroner

By JTA

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