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What Matters Most On Friday, June 29, 2018

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IDF officers on the Golan Heights managing an operation on June 28, 2018 to provide humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in tent encampments in southwestern Syria. (Israel Defense Forces)

Liberman: 'We're prepared to help, but won't take refugees'

IDF sends aid to Syrians fleeing Daraa in overnight ‘Good Neighbor’ operation

By Judah Ari Gross

300 tents, 28 tons of food, including baby food, and 30 tons of clothing and shoes delivered; tens of thousands seek to escape Assad offensive

Smoke rises above opposition held areas of the city of Daraa during airstrikes by Syrian regime forces on June 28, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mohamad ABAZEED)

Facing possible Syrian influx, Druze MK calls to set up refugee camp on border

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)

Amid fierce fighting, Israel fears flood of Syrian refugees converging on border

By Michael Bachner

Capital Gazette editorial writer Gerald Fischman, identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper that took place on June 28, 2018. (Courtesy)

Jewish journalist among 5 killed in Maryland shooting

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gerald Fischman had a ‘brilliant mind,’ friends say; murder charges filed against suspect, named by Capital Gazette as Jarrod Ramos, who had a long-running dispute with paper

People leave the building of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland after shooting on June 28, 2018. (Screen capture: CBSN)

Maryland paper’s staff reports through grief after deadly shooting

By Matthew Barakat

Maryland police officers block the intersection at the building entrance, after multiple people were shot at a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

5 killed in Maryland newspaper attack, suspected explosive device found at scene

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Jailhouse informants, sexual harassment: How Shin Bet got Duma suspects to talk

Court’s 188-page decision regarding admissibility of confessions given under duress shows how severe tactics led to a 17-year-old’s suicide attempt

Right-wing activists protest alleged Shin Bet torture of Jewish terror suspects, staging mock torture scenes in Tel Aviv, December 25, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bethany Zaiman announces her decision to leave a Birthright trip early along with four of her peers to attend a Breaking the Silence tour of Hebron on June 28, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Left-wing participants stage Birthright walkout to attend West Bank tour

Five women affiliated with IfNotNow leave trip early on final day to visit flashpoint city of Hebron, after lamenting program’s refusal to grapple with ‘realities of occupation’

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Congressman Ed Royce (left) and Congrerssman Eliot Engel during the committee's hearing on Iran, September 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House panel unanimously advances federal anti-BDS legislation

By Eric Cortellessa

Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at the Birthright Israel gala event in Jerusalem, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Birthright Israel/Oren Ben Hakun)

Birthright celebrates $70 million in donations from the Adelsons this year

'Rescue Board' author, Rebecca Erbelding. (Miriam Lomaskin)

Holocaust museum scholar pushes fund drive for group that compares Israel, Nazis

Dr. Rebecca Erbelding offers a free copy of her new book to anyone donating to the Quaker AFSC, which rescued Jews in WWII but now compares Jewish state’s policies to Hitler regime

The family of Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler: daughter Gudrun, left, wife Margaret, center, and Heinrich, right, date unknown. (German Federal Archive, Image 146-1969-056-55/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)

SS chief Himmler’s daughter worked for German spy agency

By AP

Illustrative: Russian women, who have been sentenced to life in prison on grounds of joining the Islamic State terror group, standing with their children in a hallway, in Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, on April 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ammar Karim)

Iraq executes 13 death row jihadists in response to Islamic State killings

Haider al-Abadi begins carrying out threat to execute 300 convicts, include many Western nationals, in response to execution of captive hostages by terror group

Israel media reviewRefugees at the gates: 6 things to know for June 29

By Joshua Davidovich

EU leaders seal hard-fought deal to stem refugee influx

By Danny Kemp and Lachlan CARMICHAEL

Rivlin says Iran ‘destabilizing’ region at Second Lebanon War anniversary event

Likud MK Avi Dichter leads a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK: We’ll stop kite terror, even if it means major conflict, killing Hamas heads

Former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter warns Israel may return to assassinating terror leaders, could target Gaza chief Sinwar

Arab nations said to tell US envoys revealing peace plan will destabilize region

PA ordered to pay $3.5 million compensation to tortured ‘collaborator’ prisoners

Liberman rejects criticism from ‘impatient’ Israelis urging harsher Gaza policy

By Michael Bachner

Naomi Levov, Niv Majar and Ben Yosipovich
are the three main characters in 'On the Spectrum' (Courtesy YES)

TV’s ‘On the Spectrum’ is a clever, heartstring-tugging comedy

By Jessica Steinberg

Belz Hasid singer Shulem Lemmer was signed to major record label, Universal Music Group, June 2018. (Edward Daniel)

Signed to major label, Belz Hasid singer Shulem Lemmer lives ‘The Perfect Dream’

By Cathryn J. Prince

In 'Spiral,' filmmaker Laura Fairrie focuses on the 4% of new immigrants that join the settlement movement. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)

Film review

In an attempt to portray European anti-Semitism, ‘Spiral’ spins out of control

By Jordan Hoffman

Tim Kalkhof and Sarah Adler in a scene from 'The Cakemaker.' (Strand Releasing/via JTA)

Film review

In ‘The Cakemaker,’ a gay lover and straight woman long for the same man

Can we stop the Nazi comparisons, please?

Hysteria is trumping good judgement, and making it that much easier for demogogues to turn us against each other

Roseanne Barr taught me to love all people

The actress is a moral giant of human rights who’s being thrown under the bus; I, for one, stand by her

Soldiers and semen

If Balaam is so damned despicable, why do we Jews keep quoting him?!

A people that dwells alone

Ever notice how when Jews assimilate, anti-Semitism increases — and vice versa? (Balak)

More Headlines

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, tours on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Temple Mount, on June 28, 2018, for an official visit to Israel. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Prince William says goodbye after ‘getting a real feel’ for Israel

Egypt's Mohamed Salah trains with his team at the Volgograd Arena in Volgograd on June 24, 2018, on the eve of their Group A match against Saudi Arabia during the Russia 2018 World Cup football tournament. (AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI)

All Arab, African nations eliminated from World Cup after dramatic group stage

By ToI Staff and AFP

Children play in a water fountain near the Old City's Tower of David, Jerusalem, on April 17, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

School’s out for summer: 1.5 million elementary, pre-school kids start vacation

Wall Township, New Jersey (Screenshot via Google Street View)

New Jersey town to pay $1.25 million to Jewish employee in anti-Semitism suit

By JTA

This file photo taken on June 10, 1979 shows Simone Veil casting her ballot in Paris during the European elections. (Pierre Guillaud/AFP)

France to honor rights icon, Holocaust survivor Simone Veil with Pantheon burial

By Joseph Schmid

Former Israeli minister Gonen Segev interviewed in 2016 in Nigeria (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

Knesset moves to strip ex-minister Segev’s pension if he’s convicted as Iran spy

Danielle Layman (right) (courtesy)

Israeli expat accused of ex-husband murder plot sentenced for making ricin

By ToI Staff and AP

Muslim worshipers hold Palestinian and Turkish flags following Friday noon prayer in Jerusalem's Old City's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, December 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

As Turkish influence grows in East Jerusalem, Arabs said to urge Israel to act

Russell Walker, a Republican candidate in North Carolina, wrote on his website that God is a “racist white supremacist” and that Jewish people are Satanic. (Screen capture: Raleigh-based News & Observer)

Racist anti-Semite wins North Carolina primary, GOP withdraws support

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a wedding. (Shutterstock via JTA)

Foreign Ministry video spotlights couples who wed outside rabbinate

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

This March 13, 2012 photo provided by Steve Barber shows author Harlan Ellison in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy Steve Barber via AP)

Harlan Ellison, science fiction master, dies at age 84

By Robert Jablon

In this photo taken on March 5, 2009 US popstar Michael Jackson addresses a press conference at the O2 arena in London. (AFP PHOTO / Carl DE SOUZA)

InvincibleMichael Jackson returns posthumously on Drake album

By AFP

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