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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 4, 2019

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Nechama Rivlin, wife of President Reuven Rivlin, dies at 73

President’s spouse received lung transplant three months ago, but efforts to stabilize her during rehabilitation were unsuccessful

President Reuven Rivlin and his wife, Nechama Rivlin. (GPO)

Politicians across the spectrum mourn ‘modest and smart’ Nechama Rivlin

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and his wife (3R) Nechama Rivlin during a welcome ceremony at the President's residence in Jerusalem for Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and his wife Doris Schmidauer (2L) on February 4, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Foreign diplomats in Israel mourn ‘extraordinary and gentle’ Nechama Rivlin

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hosted by Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party (left), at a meal to celebrate the birth of Litzman's grandson, June 18, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/FLASH90)

In coalition talks, PM accepted Haredi demand for gender segregated public areas

After draft of its understandings with United Torah Judaism on issues of religion and state leaked to press, Likud claims deal was never finalized

Israel media reviwFrom hilltop to Justice Ministry and back again: 5 things to know for June 4

Lapid says Netanyahu turning Israel into Iran by agreeing to gender segregation

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Shaked predicts political comeback, hails changes to ‘DNA of justice system’

Union of Right-Wing Parties MK Bezalel Smotrich arrives for a Jerusalem Day celebration at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/ Flash90)

Likud says Smotrich can ‘forget’ about Justice Ministry

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Party sources say Netanyahu won’t allow MK who touts religious law for Israel to have portfolio, claim his remarks help Liberman

Netanyahu rejects MK’s call to run Israel according to Jewish religious law

Liberman raps Smotrich for touting return to Torah law, quarrels with Gabbay

AnalysisIsrael’s new election highlights tense ties to ultra-Orthodox

Analysis

Instead of seeking immunity, could Netanyahu just fire the attorney general?

Law allows for axing the AG in case of substantial, ongoing differences of opinion, but PM doesn’t have much time, or justification, to pick such a fight

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a July 2015 cabinet meeting, when Mandelblit was serving as cabinet secretary. (Emil Salman/Pool)

In about-face, PM expected to drop Justice Ministry post due to legal woes

Judicial officials say PM can’t serve as acting justice minister — report

AnalysisIsrael’s ‘do-over’ election brings new threats to Netanyahu

President Reuven Rivlin with his wife Nechama at the French ambassador's home in Jaffa, on June 18, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Mother of Nechama Rivlin’s lung donor: ‘Another part of you has gone’

Sari Halabli, mother of 19-year-old Yair who died in March drowning accident, eulogizes ‘modest’ Rivlin, says she will ‘rest in peace, together with my enchanting son’

6:30 pm

Meeting Kushner, EU leaders call for 'viable political solution'
6:26 pm

Flurry of rumors see 4 in race for justice minister, new envoys to Cairo, UN
6:22 pm

Ireland Eurovision contestant got threats, abuse for performing in Israel

Having children isn’t considered a crime yet, unfortunately

Let’s face it, procreation is one big Ponzi scheme that serves parents, and drags kids into this world without their consent

Trapped in a loveless movie

Thankfully, Jewish women now author their own roles, and have moved beyond the question of whether they’re worthy of love

When shaggy-haired charlatans peddle the poison of false promises

The post war consensus still defines much of the British mindset and, we can use it again to guide our moral compass

Yehudis Goldsobel

Who will protect the children?

A recent UK report reflects what happens when school, synagogue, and home life are too entwined, and there’s no infrastructure for safeguarding concerns

The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

With death of last Sobibor survivor, experts feud over site’s transformation

By Matt Lebovic

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, right, Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, center right, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, center, and former prime minister Gordon Brown, rear left, attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. . (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

In Israel, Blair says Corbyn is an anti-Semite, but doesn’t know it

In an interview at Bar Ilan University, the former UK prime minister and Labour leader says that the anti-Semitism roiling the party is a ‘shameful thing’

Illustrative: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

AnalysisThe long history of Islamophobic and anti-Semitic hate crimes in America’s past

By Peter Gottschalk

Nicholas Wesley Rose pled guilty on May 31, 2019, to threatening three houses of worship in Orange County. (Orange County Police Department via JTA)

California man who made ‘kill lists’ of Jews pleads guilty to plotting attacks

By JTA

Interview

The woman who hopes to ‘mobilize the Jewish electorate’ to unseat Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

In this May 18, 2018 file photo, White House adviser Jared Kushner speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Kushner heads to Brussels to brief EU officials on peace plan

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president’s Mideast peace adviser to meet EU’s Juncker amid widespread doubts, including within Trump administration, about proposal’s feasibility

Pompeo clarifies comments that peace plan could be seen as biased toward Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: Sunni Arab states ‘moving faster’ than the Palestinians on peace

US Embassy will hold annual July 4th celebration in Jerusalem for first time

Hezbollah supporters take part in a rally to mark al-Quds day in Beirut, Lebanon, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

German parliament to debate banning Hezbollah in its entirety

By Raphael Ahren

Country ‘should not be offering a safe haven’ to Iran-backed terror group, says author of nonbinding resolution proposed by far-right AfD party

The Emirati-flagged oil tanker A. Michel, May 13, 2019, one of four ships damaged in what Gulf officials called a 'sabotage' attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. (UAE National Media Council via AP)

Mossad intelligence helped link Iran to UAE tanker sabotage — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Fishel Cohen with Jewish students at a candle lighting ceremony in Hanukka in Birmingham, the United Kingdom on December 24, 2014. (Courtesy of Rabbi Fighsel Cohen /The Birmingham Tab/via JTA)

Amid rising anti-Semitism, one British university has a thriving Jewish life

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

An undated photo of Majdi Halabi (AP/IDF)

High Court: Men who found body of missing IDF soldier must get $10m reward

Palestinian fishing boats are seen in the Mediterranean Sea at the port in Gaza City on May 10, 2019. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Despite ongoing balloon attacks, IDF extends Gaza fishing zone again

By Judah Ari Gross

Former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan speaks at the ISDEF Defense & HLS Expo in Herzliya on March 26, 2019. (Ronen Topelberg)

Second former top general could join race to lead embattled Labor party

Former prime minister Ehud Barak, at an event for outstanding soldiers at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ehud Barak said weighing a return to politics, again

Screen capture from video allegedly showing an off-duty Israeli army soldier setting fire to a Palestinian farmer's field, in the northern West Bank, on May 17, 2019. (B'Tselem)

Police arrest off-duty soldier filmed setting fire to Palestinian field

By Judah Ari Gross

Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to offer UN ambassador post to Gilad Erdan

By Paul Shindman

The planned cable car to Jerusalem's Old City. (Screenshot/Emek Shaveh)

Contentious Jerusalem cable car plan clears hurdle, requires government approval

By AP and ToI Staff

Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., flanked by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, launches the black-Jewish caucus at the annual American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington DC, on June 3, 2019. (AJC via JTA)

US lawmakers launch congressional black-Jewish caucus

By JTA

A tweet from POLITICO of their May 2019 cover story on Bernie Sanders. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Bernie Sanders says Politico article on his wealth was ‘anti-Semitic’

Washington Post comparison of altered video of US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi versus the original version. (YouTube screen capture)

Man accused of faking ‘drunk Pelosi’ video wants to sue reporter who outed him

A monkey, which escaped from a farm in southern Lebanon and crossed into Israel, explores a stack of empty fruit crates in the town of Dir al Assad. (Twitter screenshot, June 3, 2019)

Quit monkeying aroundLebanese monkey still on the run in northern Israel

The T-Heron is an unmanned aerial system developed by Israel's Aerospace Industries. (Courtesy)

Israel’s IAI to unveil new drone for tactical battlefield missions

By Shoshanna Solomon

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