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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 5, 2019

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Iran's uranium conversion facility near Isfahan, which reprocesses uranium ore concentrate into uranium hexafluoride gas, which is then taken to Natanz and fed into the centrifuges for enrichment, March 30, 2005. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran could enrich enough uranium for nuke in 6-8 months, says former IAEA deputy

Olli Heinonen accuses UN atomic agency of allowing Tehran to weaponize uranium, while also criticizing Trump decision to bolt deal

Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman, head of IDF Military Intelligence, speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2019. (Yissachar Ruas)

Intel chief: Iran acting out in response to ‘unprecedented’ economic sanctions

By Judah Ari Gross

US President Donald Trump in an interview broadcast June 5, 2019, with Britain's ITV channel. (ITV screen capture)

Trump says ‘always a chance’ of war with Iran, but insists he doesn’t want it

MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with MK Amir Ohana at the Kneeset, August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Far-right MK who demanded justice ministry rips PM after being passed over

Bezalel Smotrich accuses Netanyahu of mistreating his national-religious political partners; ex-justice minister Shaked congratulates her successor Ohana

6:31 pm

Likud's Ohana says a 'great honor' to be picked as justice minister
6:20 pm

Lapid accuses PM of 'impertinence' for requesting further delay of pre-trial hearing
6:06 pm

Ex-justice minister Shaked congratulates Likud's Ohana on nomination for post

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with President Reuven Rivlin's wife Nechama as he arrives at Ben Gurion Airport on May 22, 2017, for his first official visit to Israel since becoming US president. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Trump mourns Nechama Rivlin, says she represented Israel ‘with grace, stature’

US president sends condolences to Israeli counterpart on what would have been first lady’s 74th birthday; funeral to be held later Wednesday

Israel media reviewThe first lady of modesty: 8 things to know for June 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Nechama Rivlin to be buried Wednesday evening at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl

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

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2019. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

PA premier calls Trump plan ‘blackmail,’ says Bahrain workshop to be ‘born dead’

By Michael Bachner

Mohammad Shtayyeh claims Palestinians weren’t invited to Manama but wouldn’t attend anyway; warns PA could collapse within 2 months if financial spat with Israel not resolved

Protesters at Times Square ‘al-Quds Day’ rally call for destruction of Israel

In video, Hamas boasts it ‘found a way to overcome Iron Dome’

PA stops Islamist group from performing holiday prayers in Hebron mosque

Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei leads prayers for Eid al-Fitr in Tehran, June 5, 2019. (Khamenei's official website)

Khamenei blasts ‘treasonous’ Bahrain peace deal confab, ‘usurping enemy’ Israel

In Eid al-Fitr comments, Iranian supreme leader lashes ‘anti-democratic’ regime in Manama, vows Trump peace deal ‘will never be realized’

After Kushner talks, EU says peace plan must consider both Israel, Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Inauguration of Golan town named after Trump to be delayed due to new elections

Israeli intel firm: Alleged IDF strike on Syrian base targeted Iranian drones

By ToI Staff and Agencies

23 couples ‘tie the knot’ at staged mass wedding to advocate for gay rights

By AP

Hundreds participate in Tel Aviv event campaigning for same-sex marriage in Israel; city’s annual pride parade set for June 14

A sign against same-sex marriage in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. The Hebrew words say "Father and Mother = Family . The courage to be normal." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Decrying ‘LGBT terrorism,’ far-right extremists target Jerusalem Pride Parade

Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)

Poll: Majority of Israeli Jews want easier, more welcoming conversion process

Illustrative image of a man at an airport/travel (Chalabala; iStock by Getty Images)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Losing our best minds: Startup Nation sees brain drain, fall in productivity

For every graduate who returns to Israel, 4.5 emigrate; ‘exceptionally small’ number of people responsible for propelling the economy, report says; also warns of growing inequality

Illustrative image of an elderly patient with Parkinson's disease. (Highwaystarz-Photography; iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv University team finds biomarkers that could diagnose Parkinson’s early

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Students at Tel Aviv University on October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Tel Aviv U, Technion among 100 universities with most US patents in 2018

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, May 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Analysis

Could he be PM, what’s his beef with Bibi, and 3 other Liberman election queries

Yisrael Beytenu leader is not quite the crusader against ‘religious coercion’ he claims to be, or the ‘leftist’ that Netanyahu says he is. So why did he push Israel to elections?

Right-wing parties said to make progress toward joining forces in elections

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

PM said to mull appointment of communications minister as ambassador to Egypt

West Bank leaders livid over PM’s axing of settlement adviser close to Liberman

Simcha Rothman of the Israeli Movement for Governability and Democracy (Meshilut) speaks in front of a slide bearing the image of Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at the Israeli Conservatism Conference, May 16, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

Meet the conservative activists who want to override the Supreme Court

By Simona Weinglass

Queen, Trump, world leaders honor veterans on D-Day anniversary

By AP

With nonagenarian ex-soldiers taking center stage, UK, France launch ‘unprecedented commemorations’ of history’s largest amphibious attack, the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany

German soldiers stand during a moment of remembrance in the German cemetery of La Cambe, in Normandy, France, June 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Foe, now friend: Germans find place at D-Day sites in France

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2L), businessman Viktor Vekselberg (R) and Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (2R) attend a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)

Putin attends unveiling of Moscow’s first major Holocaust monument

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Nechama Eisenman

A girl and her duck

She was happy, sweet, gentle, compassionate — who was this child and what had she done with my ’challenging’ daughter?

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Is the Torah divine? Thoughts for Shavuot on combustibility

As with music and art, the Torah cannot be approached via an academic lens. It is the soul’s language that is at stake

Avidan Freedman

Israel is arming murderous regimes. I’m on hunger strike

It is my moral responsibility as a citizen in a democratic country that sells weapons to mass murderers like Burma

James R. Russell

52 years ago, the Egyptians blockaded the Straits of Tiran, Israel went to war, and US Jewry held its collective breath

From left to right, Democratic presidential contenders Elizabeth Warren, Tim Ryan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. All five, along with several others, delivered video messages at the American Jewish Committee’s 2019 Global Forum. (Getty Images/JTA Montage/via JTA)

US Democratic candidates’ diverse videos at Jewish confab hint at what’s to come

13 spots submitted to AJC conference in Washington show field united on combating right-wing extremism, but divided in interpretations of US-Israel alliance

In this photo from November 29, 2017, Senator Al Franken (Democrat-Minnesota), arrives at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Al Franken talks to Jewish group in first public speech since Senate resignation

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of people smoking cigarettes. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

One in five Israelis smoke, but increasing numbers are trying to quit

Efraim Shamir of the Israeli rock band Kaveret performs during the group's comeback tour in the summer of 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Likud up in arms after musician rues that Rivlin’s wife died and not Netanyahu’s

Aya Abu Diaa, who died June 4, 2019, when a car she was playing in caught fire. (Courtesy)

Girl, 4, dies in burning car in Bedouin village north of Jerusalem

A car targeted in a price tag attack in the northern West Bank Palestinian village of Yasuf on June 5, 2019. (Israel Police)

Police open probe after Israeli extremists filmed vandalizing West Bank village

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis gives his State of the State address on the first day of the legislative session, March 5, 2019, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

Florida removes Airbnb from blacklist after settlements ban overturned

German historian Marie Sophie Hingst. (Screenshot from YouTube/via JTA)

German historian stripped of award for faking a family Holocaust story

By Toby Axelrod

Woody Allen onstage during the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award Gala for Diane Keaton at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, June 8, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/via JTA)

Back behind the cameraEmbattled Woody Allen to start shooting a new movie in July

By Josefin Dolsten

Sefaria is letting the public vote on which of these two emoji possibilities they prefer. The organization will submit the winning image for consideration as an official emoji. (Sefaria)

Digital inclusionIt’s time for a Torah emoji, and this organization is working to make it happen

Sarah McTernan from Ireland (C) performs during the 64th annual Eurovision Song Contest held at Expo Tel Aviv on May 16, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Guy Prives/Getty Images via JTA)

Irish Eurovision contestant says she got threats, abuse for performing in Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 29, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed / POOL / AFP)

Palestinians angry as PA cabinet revealed to have given itself secret pay raise

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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