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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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Britain's Prince William, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meet in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

Prince William to Abbas: ‘I’m glad our two countries work so closely together’

No comment from Israel as royal guest appears to make a diplomatic slip and designate the Palestinian Authority as a ‘country’

AnalysisPrince William says Israel ties are soaring. But visit signifies more than that

By David Horovitz

Britain's Prince William (R) high-fives a beach volleyball player during a visit with the mayor of Tel Aviv in the coastal city on June 26, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Prince William kicks it on Tel Aviv beach, kicks ball around with kids

By Stuart Winer

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, walks with the winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest, Netta Barzilai, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv on June 27, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/pool/via Flash90)

Kensington Palace tweets singer's 'kapara eleichem' greeting

Prince William, Eurovision star Netta stroll in Tel Aviv; she gives him a looper

‘You haven’t heard me sing,’ he protests. After whirlwind tour of Israeli cities, British royal heads to travel to Ramallah to learn about Palestinian culture and concerns

Britain's Prince William poses for a group photo with Jewish and Arab children at the Neve Golan Stadium in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Jaffa on June 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Heidi Levine)

Hailing best ever ties, Prince William praises innovative Israel, urges peace

By Raphael Ahren

Some penalty kicks in Kulna Jerusalem event, held before Monday night's World Cup game (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)

Win-winArab and Jewish Jerusalemites celebrate common love of soccer

By Michael Harel

A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz death camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)

Poland amends controversial Holocaust law, nixing penalties

By ToI Staff and Agencies

World Jewish Congress says criminalization was an ‘egregious mistake,’ calls for further examination of ‘inherently flawed’ legislation

In this undated photo, members of the Jerusalem Armenian community protest outside the Knesset, demanding that the State of Israel recognize the Armenian genocide. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset vote on recognizing Armenian genocide withdrawn

By ToI Staff and AFP

British soccer fan gives Nazi salute in a bar in Volgograd, Russia (YouTube screenshot)

UK soccer fans banned from matches for singing anti-Semitic song in Russia

Live updates (closed)

Several Gazans shot while trying to cross fence — army

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinians report five shot in two incidents, but IDF only confirms four; Netanyahu reads out joint Polish-Israeli statement ending rift over Holocaust law

6:40 pm

Polish president approves Holocaust law changes
6:26 pm

Kennedy announces retirement from Supreme Court
6:13 pm

Army confirms Gazans shot near fence

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

At least 13 rockets launched from Gaza after army strikes Hamas cell’s car

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Iron Dome intercepts 3 projectiles; IDF says it targeted operatives involved in flying incendiary devices into Israel, Palestinians report none hurt

Tunnel-busting system wins top Israeli defense prize

By Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisIn Gaza, Hamas is dictating the rules of the game with Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel praises UN condemnation of terrorists’ use of human shields

By ToI Staff and AP

Belgian model Marisa Papen poses in front of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 2018 (courtesy: Mathias Lambrecht)

Belgian model raises ire with nude photo overlooking Western Wall

By Stuart Winer

Marisa Papen says photograph with Jewish holy site in the background designed to challenge ‘boundaries of religion and politics’

Sodom outlawed immigrants too

The US should look out — a country that closes its doors to those seeking refuge inevitably destroys itself

Israel is finally worth a royal visit

Surging bilateral trade and an improved regional position mean the country is finally too important to ignore

Palestinians take part in a protest calling for a lift of the sanctions on the Gaza Strip, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2018. (AFP/ ABBAS MOMANI)

Israel media review

Gaza up, Abbas down: 7 things to know for June 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Efforts to solve the humanitarian crisis may be stalled and fighting continuing, but the fact is that the Strip has taken a central role in the Palestinian conversation

Illustrative: An aerial view of the solar field at Kibbutz Ketura, which provides one-third of the daytime electricity for the city of Eilat. (Courtesy)

Israel planning to ease Gaza power crisis by building new solar field — report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Palestinian boats wait to sail as they refuel at the fishermen sea port in Gaza City on Wednesday, July 31 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Hamas won’t discuss Cyprus seaport for Gaza before its prisoners freed — report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition chairman David Amsalem at a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, on June 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu orders bill barring recording of public servants shelved

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

‘The PM doesn’t need that, the truth will prevail,’ Likud says of legislation, which was proposed after recordings of son Yair Netanyahu leaked

Lawmakers reject PM’s demand to soften bill freezing PA funding for terrorists

By Raoul Wootliff

Gabbay, other Labor heavyweights fined for excess campaign spending

AG censures ‘harmful’ proposal to let ministers appoint own legal advisers

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video published by his office on June 27, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu hails Iranian people’s ‘courage’ in anti-regime protests

In video, PM also congratulates Iran national soccer team on World Cup draw with Portugal, expresses hope it will play Israel

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

The Yongbyon nuclear facility (W. Keith Luse, public domain)

North Korea still upgrading nuclear site at ‘rapid pace,’ satellite images show

By AFP

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 said to mull 2020 presidential run

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Media mogul and former New York mayor, 76, apparently regrets not running in 2016, as he believes he could have prevented Trump’s victory

Jewish groups decry Supreme Court upholding of Trump travel ban

By JTA and ToI Staff

US judge orders separated migrant families reunited within 30 days

By Elliot Spagat, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Will Weissert

Adelson donates to 5 Republican candidates who opposed Iran nuclear deal

By JTA

People carry Israeli flags as they march during the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, June 3, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Abrasive Israel, apathetic Diaspora behind Jewry’s widening gap, says report

Jerusalem-based think tank JPPI says now that the Jewish state is indisputably Judaism’s ‘center of gravity,’ it bears the onus of mending rift with splintered community abroad

Shoshanna Nambi, a rabbinical student from Uganda. (Courtesy of Nambi)

This woman is studying to be the first female rabbi from Uganda

By Josefin Dolsten

Samaria Regional Council chairman Gershon Mesika arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 26, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

After quitting post over link to corruption probe, settler leader wants back in

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Wine barrels piled up at the Barkan winery. August 2, 2012. (Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)

After furor, Barkan winery says Ethiopian workers to work as usual

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Col. Avi Bluth makes an address during a ceremony naming him the new head of the army's Commando Brigade on August 17, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Colonel faces disciplinary hearing after classified papers stolen

By Judah Ari Gross

Former prime minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, on December 22, 2017. (Flash90)

Netanyahu, Ehud Barak trade barbs on Twitter

By Stuart Winer

Shulem Lemmer, a Belz Hasid, just signed a record deal with a label at Universal Music. (Courtesy, Shulem Lemmer official website)

Pop niggunBelz Hasid singer Shulem Lemmer signs major record deal

By Jessica Steinberg

Perry Farrell performing at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, Dec. 8, 2017. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Rhonda’s Kiss via JTA)

A fan for the booksRock star Perry Farrell is obsessed with Chabad rabbi Schneerson

By Gabe Friedman

Rick Perry on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

US and Israel team up to stop hackers from hitting critical sites

By JTA

David Godovsky, former head of the Yisrael Beytenu headquarters, seen at the Tel Aviv District Court on March 19, 2018. (Flash90)

Former top Yisrael Beytenu official gets 7 years for corruption

Illustration: Cyanobacteria. (Itay Goldshmid)

Electricity from germs could be the next big thing, say Israeli researchers

An American Abrams tank equipped with the Israeli-developed TROPHY active defense system, which protects the armored vehicle from rocket and missile attacks, in an undated photograph. (Leonardo DRS and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.)

US Army inks $193 million deal to buy Israeli tank defense system

By Judah Ari Gross

This June 22, 2018 photo provided by Nabaa Media, a Syrian opposition media outlet, shows people who fled from Daraa setting up a tent in the village of Bregia, near the Syria-Israel border, southern Syria. (Nabaa Media, via AP)

Syrians fleeing to Israel border as Jordan shuts gates amid Daraa offensive

By AP and ToI Staff

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