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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 6, 2019

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Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 28, 2005. (Flash90/File)

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Milchan said to tell police he felt ‘disgusted’ by Netanyahus’ gift requests

Israeli TV quotes billionaire telling investigators ‘do you want me to fall on the ground laughing,’ when asked if Sara Netanyahu ever gave him a present

6:22 pm

Milchan said to tell police he felt 'disgusted' by Netanyahus' gift requests
6:09 pm

DC Dyke March bans Jewish Pride flags
5:43 pm

Putin claims Russia didn't meddle in US vote, despite evidence

Amir Ohana, appointed acting justice minister on June 5, 2019, seen at a Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu appoints Amir Ohana justice minister, first openly gay cabinet member

Likud legislator, first openly gay MK in a right-wing party, replaces Ayelet Shaked; Smotrich, passed over, accuses Netanyahu of slighting religions Zionists

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) seen with MK Amir Ohana at a Likud party meeting in the Knesset on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gay minister only appointed to woo LGBT voters, Netanyahu said to tell Haredim

By Michael Bachner

The empty Knesset plenum, April 29, 2019, a day before the 21st Knesset is sworn in. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Knesset formally clears way for elections on September 17

Pride rainbow flags hang on poles on Agron street in central Jerusalem on June 4, 2019, ahead of the Jerusalem Pride Parade scheduled for June 6 that year (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

March comes a day after first openly gay minister appointed

Ahead of Jerusalem Pride, police say they’re recruiting transgender officers

Law enforcement on high alert, with some 2,500 officers deployed to protect estimated 30,000 participants; far-right activist arrested ahead of march

Participants in Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade, August 2, 2018. (Gili Ya'ari/Flash90)

Police arrest 2 on suspicion they planned to disrupt Jerusalem Pride Parade

Avocados. (Yosef Silver, This American Bite)

Low-hanging fruit

Israeli ex-con holds up two banks armed with an avocado

Suspect caught after stealing tens of thousands of shekels from Beersheba banks by threatening to ‘blow up’ a painted avocado

President Reuven Rivlin (2nd-R), accompanied by his children, recites the Mourner's Kaddish for his wife Nechama during her funeral at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on June 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘The entire country loves you’: Nechama Rivlin laid to rest at Mount Herzl

Eulogizing his wife, President Rivlin thanks her for allowing him to be ‘the partner of the president of Israel’s wife’

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan poses for a photo during a visit to the island of Yassiada in the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul, May 24, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Erdogan sends condolences to Rivlin on death of his wife, Nechama

Nechama Rivlin was us

She had no airs, she was generous, thoughtful and idealistic: where can you find those qualities today in Israel? Everywhere

Suffocating under the Rabbinate’s chokehold

When rabbis wield the Torah as a political weapon, instead of the tool of justice it should be, the innocent suffer

Hazon, what is ‘normal’?

To ensure a happy, nurturing, loving family for a child, start with love, and leave the parents’ sexual preferences out of it

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

At my father’s bedside

You’re here, but not here, with us and not with us, your spirit trapped in a body that no longer responds. And you’ve asked us to let you go, but how can we?

Rabbi Hillel Handler, an Orthodox anti-vaccination leader, speaks via projection screen to an anti-vaccination rally in Brooklyn at a Jewish wedding hall, June 4, 2019. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Gospels and child sacrifice: Inside a NYC ultra-Orthodox anti-vaccination rally

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan on March 28, 2019. (Flash90)

AG rejects Netanyahu’s bid to further postpone pre-indictment hearing

After hearing was pushed from July to October, PM asked for a second reprieve due to the new elections called for September

The empty seats of the Israel delegation to the UN as President Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2014. (AP/Richard Drew)

Blue and White seeks ban on ambassador appointments before elections

Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni, pictured in 2009 (Photo credit: Gil Yohanan/Flash90)

Ehud Barak said to rule out forming new party, but may make election run

Munir Zughayer, an activist who leads a committee that frequently complains to the Jerusalem Municipality about the state of services in Kafr Aqab, points to a number of buildings that were built in contravention of regulations on February 20, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem’s no man’s land: Chaos and anarchy in the Kafr Aqab neighborhood

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, at the president's guest house, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO/ File)

Israel said trying to block bipartisan Senate two-state resolution

Diplomats reportedly working to have references to Palestinian statehood removed from text being crafted by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chris Van Hollen

US envoy tells Palestinian leaders dire situation is of their own making

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF nabs Palestinian accused of throwing hammer at Israeli car, injuring driver

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

After anti-tank fire, Gaza border roads get new protective walls

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Likud MK Amir Ohana, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

No Justice Ministry, no peace: 7 things to know for June 6

Knives are out in URWP after PM appoints Likud loyalist to post that national religious faction hoped to get, leaving its 2 leaders to vie for their one remaining desired post

Union of Right-Wing Parties leader Rafi Peretz (R) and MK Bezalel Smotrich are greeted by supporters at the party headquarters, April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Peretz, Smotrich pledge unity, backing away from spat over cabinet post

By Michael Bachner

Union of Right-Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz (R) and National Union faction chair Bezalel Smotrich at the party's 2019 election campaign launch, March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Peretz and Smotrich bicker over cabinet post after Netanyahu snubs party

Jeremy Corbyn leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party gives the thumbs up after voting in the European Elections in London, Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Tory candidate: Corbyn would be ‘first anti-Semitic Western leader since WWII’

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who is running to replace Theresa May, warns of consequences if Conservative party doesn’t choose a good leader, opening door for Labour chief

YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California, April 3, 2018. (Josh Edelson/AFP)

YouTube to remove videos denying Holocaust, glorifying Nazism

In this January 10, 2019, file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at his State of the City address in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Presidential hopeful de Blasio says anti-Semitism threat comes from the right

By JTA

Rep. Josh Gottheimer addresses the American Zionist Movement’s Washington Forum, December 12, 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/via JTA)

Interview

Rep. Josh Gottheimer pushes bipartisanship in a polarized US landscape

More Headlines

A car that took part in a head-on collision on Route 90 in the Arava region on June 6, 2019. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Two girls aged 4 and 7 killed in head-on collision in south

Spanish journalist Julio de la Guardia is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court under suspicion of involvement in a fatal hit-and-run collision in Jerusalem, on September 24, 2018. (Flash90)

Spanish journalist strikes plea deal in fatal Jerusalem hit-and-run

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Public official indicted for leaking classified documents

In this November 30, 2018 file photograph, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman adjusts his robe as leaders gather for the group at the G20 Leader's Summit at the Costa Salguero Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Saudi missile program expanded with help from China, US intel said to show

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Left to right: EU Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret, Nili Shalev, ISERD Director General and Aharon Aharon, CEO, Israel Innovation Authority at the Horizon 2020 awards ceremony in Jaffa on June 4, 2019 (Yossi Zamir; GPO)

EU flagship innovation program gave grants to 423 Israel projects in 2018

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rishik Gandshari spelled 'Yiddishkeit' and 'keriah' on the way to the co-championship of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, June 2019. (Scripps National Spelling Bee Facebook)

Something to kvell overYiddish word kicks off Scripps National Spelling Bee finals

By Lior Zaltzman

Swarms of grasshoppers in Moshav Alonei Habashan in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, June 4, 2019. (Kan screenshot)

Border hoppersGrasshoppers swarm into Israel from Syria

Illustrative of anti-Semitic threats on social media like Facebook. (Stadtratte, Getty Images)

Man who posted he would kill Jews gets 1 year in prison

By JTA and ToI Staff

Portraits of Jerusalemites from a photo exhibit titled "Jerusalem is not just a city" by Israeli artist Dmitry Brickman. (Brickman's website)

Uzbekistan nixes Israeli photo exhibit over the word ‘Jerusalem’

In this May 30, 2019 photo, an actor waits for his scene on the set of the third season of 'Fauda,' set in Gaza and filmed in Tel Aviv (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

In ‘dialogue with reality,’ 3rd season of Israeli hit ‘Fauda’ ventures into Gaza

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