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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 8, 2019

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US Ambassador David Friedman pays a condolence visit to the family of Yotam Ovadia who was killed in a terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Adam, July 30, 2018. (Miri Tzahi/Yesha Council)

'Israel has right to retain some, but unlikely all, W. Bank'

US envoy says Israel has ‘right’ to retain parts of West Bank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

David Friedman tells NY Times: Trump peace plan unlikely to quickly enable a permanent solution, won’t be released at all if deemed likely to ‘make things worse’

A security barrier is set up around a crater caused by a rocket strike on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon near the Gaza border, May 5, 2019. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

10 families said to be leaving Gaza border communities amid repeated violence

An apartment building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 5, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Gaza flare-up sees terror attacks on Israelis tripled in May

By JTA and ToI Staff

Stella Penn Pechanac, the Black Cube agent who duped actress Rose McGowan, one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, in a bid to quash the sexual assault allegations. (Screencapture/Channel 12)

Israeli who helped Weinstein undermine victims: ‘He wasn’t a monster then’

In first interview, Stella Penn Pechanac tells Channel 12 that while working for intelligence firm Black Cube she was simply trying to find out the truth

Investigative journalist Ilana Dayan speaks at a conference at Jerusalem's International Convention Center (ICC) on September 3, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Secretive Black Cube sues Israeli investigative journalist for $19 million

Illustrative. Centrifuges enriching uranium. (Public Domain/US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran said accelerating uranium centrifuge production, anticipating deal collapse

By ToI Staff and Agencies

But Israeli intelligence sources tell Channel 13 news Tehran is also making overtures to Washington to renew talks in bid to deescalate

Netanyahu tells Japan’s Abe to pressure Iran as he prepares for Tehran visit

US hits Iran with new sanctions targeting petrochemicals

Iran minister: Tehran secretly defying US sanctions with ‘unofficial’ oil sales

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Members of the Belgian Jewish community seen walking on the streets in the Jewish quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, August 7, 2014. (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)

Belgian prosecutors drop case against cafe owner who welcomed dogs, but not Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Turkish business owner put up sign in 2014, weeks after a terrorist killed four at a Belgium Jewish museum

Pro-Israel LGBTQ activists with the Jewish group Zioness protest a ban of Star of David flags at the Dyke March in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

Protesters picket DC Dyke March over ban on Jewish Pride flag

By AFP and ToI Staff

Handful of demonstrators protest decision to ban rainbow banner with Star of David as a symbol of ‘nations that have specific oppressive tendencies’

A marcher waves a Jewish Pride flag at Jerusalem's 2012 Gay Pride Parade. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

The controversy over the DC Dyke March, Jewish Pride flags and Israel, explained

Roger Waters at a press conference for 'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains' in Rome, Italy, January 16, 2018. He is a leading celebrity in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. (Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images)

Maryland suburb of DC to screen anti-Israel film narrated by Roger Waters

Sidney Franklin was the first American to reach the status of a matador. (Edward Steichen/Condé Nast via Getty Images and JTA)

Bullfighter from Brooklyn

The amazingly brave chutzpa of a 1930s gay, Jewish bullfighter

By Josefin Dolsten

'We are trying very hard to change people’s thinking'

20 years on, Africa’s first Holocaust center has a universal message on genocide

By Moira Schneider

The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre reaches the general public by teaching tolerance through the lens of mass extermination in Rwanda

YouTube’s new policy blocks history teachers from uploading Hitler archive clips

Polish soccer team honors Holocaust victim who scored its 1st international goal

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. Netanyahu forced the dissolution of the Knesset that night, after it became clear that he was unable to win the support of Avigdor Liberman and thus could not form a majority coalition. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: PM’s defense team still intent on delaying hearing, despite AG’s refusal

With Netanyahu facing Monday deadline to confirm attendance on October 2, the premier may agree to the date only to later seek postponement once more

Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony, at the Justice Ministry offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Survey indicates national religious voters prefer Shaked to head a joint slate

Labor MK Stav Shaffir speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Labor’s Stav Shaffir announces leadership bid in next month’s primary

Lisa Forbes of the Labour Party accepts her win for the local seat after all votes are in and counted at the Kingsgate Conference Centre in Peterborough, England on June 6, 2019. (Lindsey Parnaby / AFP)

Senior UK Labour lawmaker calls for suspension of new MP in anti-Semitism row

Dame Louise Ellman says Lisa Forbes should lose whip during probe; 2nd MP subject of complaints over alleged Jew hatred, including taunting staff member over Star of David

French President Emmanuel Macron greets British Prime Minister Theresa May during a ceremony to lay the first stone of the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, northwestern France, on June 6, 2019, as part of D-Day commemorations (PHILIPPE WOJAZER / POOL / AFP)

UK’s May officially quits as party leader, starting succession race

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II delivers the Queen's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in the Houses of Parliament in London on June 21, 2017. (AFP/Carl Court)

UK Holocaust survivors to be honored by Queen Elizabeth II

The Jewish cemetary of the Mount of Olives overlooks Jerusalem’s Old City. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Why some American Jews pay more than $20,000 to be buried in Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

The cost of fertility treatments that don’t work

Israel spends more than half a billion NIS a year on IVF funding — some of which would surely be better used paying for numerous life-saving drugs

Who’s afraid of biblical criticism?

Just because there may be a human dimension to the multi-layered text of the Torah doesn’t make it any less impressively divine — to the contrary!

A sign warns people of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg on April 10, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

What’s really behind the measles outbreak in NY Jewish communities?

Officials blame vaccination rates, but large families, dense neighborhoods, a high rate of social interaction and a tendency to travel all facilitate the disease’s spread

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Aya Maasarwe pictured in a Melbourne cafe, October 1, 2018. (Instagram)

Suspect in rape, murder of Arab Israeli student in Australia pleads guilty

By ToI Staff and Agencies

JCrush dating app for Jews leaves 200,000 users’ personal data exposed

By JTA

Man seen vandalizing a memorial to Shira Banki, the 16-year-old stabbed to death at the 2016 Jerusalem Pride Parade (Screen grab via Channel 13 news)

Man detained for vandalizing memorial to teen murdered at 2015 Jerusalem Pride

Illustrative. Ambulances and emergency services in Beitar Illit, in the West Bank, on October 9, 2018. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

17-year-old dies after cousin runs him over in southern village of Ashalim

President Reuven Rivlin (L) greets people paying their respects to his wife during the traditional Shiva mourning period. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin thanks public for ‘tides of love and warmth’ following wife’s passing

People protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv against the decision of the police and the Supreme Court to cancel the Doof Festival, June 7, 2019 (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

15 arrested as hundreds demonstrate in Tel Aviv over cancelled trance festival

Illustrative: Eran Zahavi celebrates after he scored goal during their Euro 2020 group G qualifying soccer match between Latvia and Israel in Riga, Latvia, June 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)

Israel trounces Latvia 3-0 with Zahavi hat trick in Euro 2020 qualifying game

US President Donald Trump senior staffer Katrina Pierson, left, and Yair Netanyahu, right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu meets with senior adviser for Trump reelection campaign in DC

By Eric Cortellessa

A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)

Suspects in Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher terror attacks to go on trial in France

By AFP and ToI Staff

The full roster for the United States Women’s National Team that is heading to France for the 2019 World Cup, shown just after a friendly match against Mexico at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, May 26, 2019. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images, JTA)

7 Jewish fun facts about the 2019 Women’s World Cup

By Emily Burack

Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli getting married at the Bova Marina Synagogue in Calabria, Italy on June 4, 2019. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel via JTA)

Former Italian synagogue sees first Jewish wedding in centuries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The monkey Tachtouch in Al Qouzah, southern Lebanon, June 7, 2019. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT/AFP)

Ape escapeTachtouch returns to Lebanon after monkeying around in Israel

By AFP

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