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What Matters Most On Monday, June 10, 2019

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his German counterpart Heiko Maas shake hands for the media prior to their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Zarif diatribe follows German FM's stated support for Israel

Iran’s foreign minister: Netanyahu wants to destroy us, and we will respond

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Zarif hosts German counterpart Heiko Maas in Tehran, calls for end to US ‘economic war’ on his country; says Trump peace plan is ‘crime against Middle East’

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, June 4, 2018. (Ronald Zak/AP)

UN nuclear watchdog: Iran’s uranium ‘production rate is increasing’

By AFP

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, June 9, 2019, shows the Khordad 15, a new surface-to-air missile battery at an undisclosed location in Iran. The system uses locally made missiles that resemble the HAWK missiles that the US once sold to the shah and later delivered to the Islamic Republic in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran unveils new advanced missile defense system it says can destroy enemy jets

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

UK said to have foiled 2015 Hezbollah London bomb plot, then covered it up

Daily Telegraph says Iran-backed terror group stockpiled three tons of ammonium nitrate, but discovery was kept quiet, perhaps in effort not to derail just-signed Iran nuke deal

The IDF pilots who participated in the Operation Opera bombing of Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981. (Israel Defense Force archive)

38 years later, pilots recall how Iran inadvertently enabled Osiraq reactor raid

Surviving participants in Israeli airstrike that destroyed Saddam’s nuclear site gather to retrace mission that ‘remade the Middle East’

Analysis

Does his envoy’s backing for annexation mean Trump is on board too? Not so fast

David Friedman says Israel has the ‘right’ to keep parts of the disputed West Bank. But his boss, much less enthusiastic about the settlements, may end up opting for the status quo

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left and US Ambassador David Friedman, right, attend a ceremony in Jerusalem, May 21, 2017. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israelis visit the northern West Bank settlement of Peduel on April 22, 2019. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewNext stop, annexation station: 7 things to know for June 10

By Joshua Davidovich

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)

Erdan hails US envoy’s annexation remark as ‘the only way to bring about change’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM rejected demand of MK who longs for Torah rule to serve as diaspora minister

Channel 13 reports that Netanyahu quickly dismissed request from Bezalel Smotrich due to concerns that it might further rupture ties with Jews abroad

6:10 pm

Jerusalem's main entrance to be shuttered for three years starting next month -- report
5:57 pm

PM looking to appoint minister facing indictment to cabinet post -- report
5:43 pm

Report: Smotrich demanded Diaspora Affairs Ministry after being snubbed from justice. PM rejected

Screen capture from video of white nationalist protesters at the Motor City Pride event, Detroit, Michigan, June 8, 2019. (YouTube)

Neo-Nazi appears to urinate on Israeli flag as group crashes Detroit pride event

By Stuart Winer

Several dozen members of National Socialist Movement disrupt Motor City Pride; man photographed straddling Israel’s banner as it lies on the floor at his feet

May 3, 1938: 'Segregation in Kindergarten.' Wilhelm Hesse, father of Eva Hesse — who would go on to be one of the most famous female American artists of the 20th century — kept a diary for his daughters. 'The times have become very serious. We are depressed and despondent, and therefore there is little leisure and inclination to write and take photographs as elaborately as before,' he wrote. (Courtesy of Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin)

The future of history

Online 1938 Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews

By Renee Ghert-Zand

(L-R) Brian Hook, US special representative for Iran, Trump adviser Jared Kushner, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt and Israel's US envoy Ron Dermer, at a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2019. (Ziv Sokolov/US Embassy Jerusalem)

‘Jordan, Egypt yet to reply, Israel yet to get invite, for June 25 Bahrain meet’

TV report says Kushner told PM that US waiting for more replies from Arab countries before issuing official invite to Israel; Qatar says will only back plan Palestinians accept

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (L) meets with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi on June 09, 2019, in Amman. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Germany, Jordan say two states ‘only solution’ to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By ToI Staff and Agencies

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the foreign ministry's guest house Villa Borsig in Berlin, Germany, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Pompeo: US will ‘push back’ against Corbyn before he makes things hard for Jews

Labour denounces ‘entirely unacceptable interference in the UK’s democracy’ after leaked recording of US secretary of state

Britain’s Justice Secretary Michael Gove walking from Parliament to St. Margaret’s Church for a remembrance service for Jo Cox in London, England, June 20, 2016. (Stefan Wermuth – WPA Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Pro-Israel UK Tory leadership candidate in trouble after cocaine use admission

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A screenshot of Wealth Recovery International's home page, as it appeared on June 10, 2019

Fraud-tainted binary options victims ‘recovery’ firm Wealth Recovery shuts down

By Simona Weinglass

All employees of Israel office dismissed, 3 months after owner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud; firm claimed to have recovered $8.5m for clients

Rebecca Bardach

The racist writing is on the wall

As shocking expressions of anti-Arab hatred go mainstream, a compelling vision of co-existence is needed more urgently than ever

Douglas M. Bloomfield

Let Pollard make aliyah

I think he’s a traitor, but one who paid a high price for his crimes, so I support his move to to Israel — as long as he’s not Trump’s pawn in the Israeli elections

Aversion to conversion

Why subject would-be converts to a long, arduous vetting process? We should stop shlepping the process out and stop treating them with suspicion

Reelections for change

The upcoming elections are a make-or-break proposition: they’ll either leave us even more profoundly stuck in the rut we’re in, or herald welcome change

Rachel Chavkin poses in the press room with the award for best direction of a musical for "Hadestown" at the 73rd annual Tony Awards on June 9, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jewish stars and directors dominate key categories at 2019 Tony Awards

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘Hadestown’ wins best musical and ‘The Ferryman’ takes best play award, as do their Jewish directors, Rachel Chavkin — only the 4th woman to win in that category — and Sam Mendes

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2019. ( Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Netanyahu has until Monday to tell AG if he will attend hearing on graft cases

Israeli naval forces prepare to board a Turkish ship which was apparently set on fire by a Turkish stowaway as it lay off the coast of Israel, June 9, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Turkish stowaway, whose arson prompted IDF raid on ship, wanted to reach Europe

Brawl breaks out at Holon water park, June 9 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 12 news)

Children flee as chairs fly during brawl at Holon water park

Dudi Sela of Israel returns the ball to Spaniard Rafael Nadal during their men's singles match, on the second day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Coming back from injury, Israel’s Dudi Sela wins first tennis event in two years

File: View of Haifa's oil refineries and other industrial areas, on May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Cleanup plan has cut Haifa Bay pollution by half, claims Environmental Ministry

By Stuart Winer

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay (right) and party member Tal Russo during a press conference held in Kibbutz Nahal Oz during a visit to southern Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip, on March 7, 2019. (Flash90)

After 4-month stint, Labor’s No. 2 Tal Russo quits politics

By Marissa Newman

Screen capture from video of firefighters at the scene of a fire in the Kissufim Forest, June 10, 2019. (Twitter)

Incendiary balloons suspected as cause of brush fires near Gaza Strip

Blogger Lori Shem-Tov on May 21, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

State said seeking 12-year jail term for blogger for harassing judges

The cover of 'The Book of Jeremiah,' Julie Zuckerman's debut novel about the life of an American Jewish man (Courtesy Press 53)

On the bookshelfA novel about an older man, told in short stories by a woman

By Jessica Steinberg

Aharon Aharon, CEO of Israel innovation Authority, left to right, Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv; Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Alliance Executive Vice President, Engineering;
Gaspar Gascon Abellan, Deputy Alliance Executive Vice President, Engineering;
Antoine Basseville, Director of Alliance Tel Aviv Open Innovation Lab at the opening of the Alliance Innovation Lab Tel Aviv; June 10, 2019 (Niv Kantor)

Renault, Nissan open innovation lab in Tel Aviv

By Shoshanna Solomon

Taiwanese cyclist and world traveler Jacky Chen poses while lifting his bicycle on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock on June 10, 2019. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Holy adventureAround the world in 7 years: Taiwanese cyclist gets to Jerusalem

By AFP

Illustrative -- First responders arrive to try to resuscitate a 4-year-old who drowned in a pool in northern Israel, June 9, 2019. (MDA)

Two children in critical condition after separate drowning incidents

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