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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 28, 2018

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Prince William visits Western Wall, prays for world peace

British royal places note between stones, tours Temple Mount, pays respects at great-grandmother’s grave on Mount of Olives

Britain's Prince William visits the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. The Duke of Cambridge is the first member of the royal family to make an official visit to the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. ( AFP PHOTO / Ahmad GHARABLI)

Prince William said to refuse to meet with Mayor Barkat in Jerusalem

Britain's Prince William (C) prepares to shoot a soccer ball during his meeting with young Palestinian soccer players in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Prince William tells Palestinians ‘you have not been forgotten’

Britain's Prince William stands on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City with the golden dome of the Dome of the Rock on June 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thomas Coex)

Analysis

Prince William’s visit a PR coup for Israel, with some royal pain amid the gain

The future UK monarch’s historic trip boosted Israel’s international legitimacy, but also underlined the world’s ongoing discomfort with Jewish sovereignty throughout Jerusalem

The suspect brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, under suspicion of Issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions around the world, on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Israeli-US teen convicted of thousands of bomb threats, including against JCCs

By Tamar Pileggi

Spanish Inquisition (late 15th century). Spanish Jew before Grand Inquisitor. Illustration by Paul Hardy for "The Saving of Karl Reichenberg", story by Arthur Page, London 1891. 'Saving' meant dying and saving the soul for god. Wood engraving. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images via JTA)

National Review columnist defends the Spanish Inquisition

In this August 12, 2017, file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Charlottesville car-rammer hit with federal hate crime charges

By Sarah Rankin

An IDF tank is seen near the border with Gaza on April 13, 2018 (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Gaza teen shot during attempted border breach said to die of wounds

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF says a tank fired at two suspects who attempted to infiltrate into Israeli territory; Hamas-run health ministry reports one succumbed to injuries

Palestinian indicted for attempted murder of teen girl in Afula

Palestinian village targeted in week’s second apparent hate attack

Liberman blames Abbas, PA terror payments for Gaza’s woes

By Alexander Fulbright

Culture Minister Miri Regev arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Citing her conscience, Regev seeks to block Western Wall egalitarian section

PM removes culture minister from committee on pluralistic pavilion after she says she cannot approve construction; until recently, she backed the plan

A female soldier operates a tank in the Negev desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF declares all-female tank crews trial a success

By Judah Ari Gross

Army to appoint its first female tank commanders as gender integration pilot program comes to an end, following months of training and combat deployment

Trump will demand of Putin a total Iranian exit from Syria — report

By Stuart Winer

Diplomat tells Arabic newspaper US policy doesn’t oppose Assad remaining in power, but okays Israeli strikes on Iran’s military assets in the country

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Donald Trump during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

UN: 10,000 children killed, maimed in conflicts worldwide in 2017

By Verena Dobnik

Israel said to fortify nuclear reactors against Iranian missile strikes

US backs Iranian protests, blames country’s woes on support for terror groups

By Eric Cortellessa

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Live updates (closed)

Army chief travels to US for talks on Mideast ‘military cooperation’

Gadi Eisenkot lands in Washington as guest of US counterpart to discuss impending Assad takeover of areas on Israel’s border

6:29 pm

Trump told G7 allies 'NATO is as bad as NAFTA'
6:04 pm

Three malls evacuated in World Cup-hosting Russian city over bomb scare
5:50 pm

Army chief travels to US for talks on Mideast 'military cooperation'

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The scandal of the Ethiopians and the wine

The Orthodox Judaism I fell in love with at the age of 16 has become distorted beyond recognition

Tamar Friedman Wilson

Are food prices really going down in Israel?

With imports and local subsidies, Minister of Finance Kahlon aims to leave more in your pockets than chump change

10 night freebies in Jerusalem

From the Chord Bridge to the Western Wall, this city yields new perspectives after dark

‘We want to set fire to Israel’

Only the Palestinians use displacement as an excuse for terror tactics, as if they are justifiable

British children's author and Holocaust survivor Judith Kerr. (Christoph Rieger/ Wikimedia Commons)

After fleeing Nazi Germany, Judith Kerr became Britain’s favorite storyteller

By Robert Philpot

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland visits the Ulma Family Museum, Jan. 2, 2018. Right-wing critics in his country accused Morawiecki of capitulating to Israel in softening a law on Holocaust rhetoric. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

How the US pressured Poland into softening its law on Holocaust speech

As Israel takes credit for amendment, many Polish analysts say it was Washington, not Jerusalem, that exacted concession

Netanyahu takes credit after Poland amends Holocaust law, says dispute now over

By Alexander Fulbright

Polish party leader: Israel ‘fully confirms’ our position on Holocaust

By Agencies and Alexander Fulbright

Hungary’s controversial Orban to make first trip to Israel next month

By ToI Staff and AFP

Sculpted figurine of two lovers, Natufian, from Ain Sakhri (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Coitus non-interruptus

First artistic depiction of sex, found near Bethlehem, to join UK LGBTQ exhibit

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

11,000-year-old Natufian stone sculpture, which shows an entwined androgynous couple caught in the act, was discovered in the Judean Desert in the 1930s

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on June 27, 2018, to discuss Poland's amended Holocaust Law. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewTaking the Pole position: 7 things to know for June 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Nissan Slomiansky, Head of the Constitution, Law, and Justice, Committee (r) and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit attend a committee meeting in the Knesset on June 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG: Netanyahu’s not being persecuted; there’s no talk of plea deal with his wife

By Raoul Wootliff

Then Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt reacts during the first half of Game 1 against the Chicago Bulls in a second-round NBA basketball playoff series May 4, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

No NBA comeback for Israeli coach Blatt as he signs with Greek team

US President Donald Trump (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit, in the central Vietnamese city of Danang, on November 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev)

Putin-Trump summit set for July 16 in Helsinki

By AFP

Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing in Washington, March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US Supreme Court Justice Kennedy retiring, giving Trump 2nd pick

By Mark Sherman

Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Texas church says Ivanka Trump gave $50,000 to help migrant kids

By JTA

Beginning in 1942, Jews in the Lodz ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland were deported to death camps including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Yad Vashem)

Yad Vashem says Polish Holocaust law amendment a step in the right direction

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Police officers drive a car on June 25, 2018 in Tonnay-Charente near the house of Guy S., the alleged leader of a group linked with the ultra right 'AFO' (Action of Operational Forces) who was arrested along with 9 other people in France for allegedly planning attacks against Muslims in France. (AFP PHOTO / XAVIER LEOTY)

France charges 10 far-right suspects over plot to attack Muslims

By AFP

Illustrative: An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency inspector cuts the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium enrichment at the Natanz facility, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, January 20, 2014. (AP/IRNA, Kazem Ghane)

Iran reopens uranium plant after 9 years to step up enrichment

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Haredi MK vows El Al boycott if it boots passengers who won’t sit next to women

White Night Tel Aviv 2018 kicked off Wednesday, June 27 with the White Picnic, an elegant, al fresco event where participants show up with a picnic dinner at a previously undisclosed location in the city (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Dusk till dawnTel Aviv celebrates itself with annual all-nighter

By Jessica Steinberg

Manufacturer's Union Chairman Shraga Brosh 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)

Manufacturers Association president suspected of tax fraud

By Stuart Winer

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