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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 12, 2019

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ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this July 11, 2018 file photo, a drone equipped with a thermal camera flies over the plants at the Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources' Jennings Environmental Education Center on July 11, 2018 in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Israel scrambles jets as drone from Lebanon enters Israeli airspace, turns back

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says aircraft was under Israeli military surveillance the entire time; aerial infiltration follows reports of Israeli strike on Hezbollah site in Syria

Illustrative: This frame grab from a video provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows missiles flying into the sky near Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, December 25, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Syria accuses Israel of firing missiles at a border town in its south

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

The head of IDF Northern Command, Amir Baram, speaks at a memorial ceremony for the 2006 Second Lebanon War, on June 11, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF general warns Lebanon will pay ‘heavy price’ for working with Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on March 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

US says Jordan, Egypt and Morocco to attend economic workshop in Bahrain

By Eric Cortellessa and Adam Rasgon

Three Arab countries join the already confirmed UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia; Jordanian king reportedly says his country ‘should attend’

On the sidelines of the 28th Arab League Summit on March 29, 2017, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan (C) and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. (Wafa/Thaer Ghnaim)

Israel media reviewSorry to Bahrain on your parade: 10 things to know for June 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil delivers a press conference in Paris, November 14, 2017. (AFP/Lionel BONAVENTURE)

Backing Palestinian boycott, Lebanon rejects Bahrain economic meet

By Eric Cortellessa and Adam Rasgon

Prof. Mohammed Dajani (left) and Yossi Klein Halevi at The Times of Israel's office in Jerusalem, May 2019 (ToI staff)

When an ex-Fatah Palestinian ‘neighbor’ took up a Zionist author’s challenge

By David Horovitz

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat at a press conference following an emergency meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, August 11, 2014 (AP/Amr Nabil)

Interview

Adam Rasgon and Jacob Magid

Erekat pleads with Arab states: Do not undermine Palestinian cause for your gain

Senior Ramallah official tells ToI economic workshop in Bahrain will be an ’embarrassment’ for Kushner, but admits White House has rendered him less relevant in eyes of his people

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on August 24, 2017. (courtesy, WAFA)

Palestinians ‘deeply regret’ Egypt, Jordan decision to attend Bahrain meet

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in Ramallah, February 12, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

FIFA probing Palestinian soccer chief for incitement, promotion of terror

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israeli family takes cover in a bomb shelter made of a converted concrete pipe during the 2014 Gaza war. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

IDF rolls out new siren system to warn more precisely of incoming attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Alarms based on individual towns — or neighborhoods, in some cases — as opposed to old system that operated based on larger regions

In this May 27, 2019 photo, Muna Awad, mother of 5-year-old Aisha al-Loulu, shows a photo of her daughter while in a Jerusalem hospital, at the family home in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza parents struggle to join kids for treatment in Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian youth prepare incendiary balloons, to send to Israel east of Bureij refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip, on May 31, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/ Flash90)

Israel reels in Gaza fishing zone as arson balloons scorch south

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Audrey Hepburn at around the time the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands began. (Dotti Collection)

Author interview

How Hollywood idol Audrey Hepburn helped save Dutch Jews during the Holocaust

By Rich Tenorio

Comprehensive volume includes Frank's original short stories

For Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, ‘dueling’ versions of her diary published

By Matt Lebovic

Although her last journal entry was penned 75 years ago, the young writer and her works are still being reinterpreted to craft her literary legacy

'Dear Kitty' and 'Anne Frank: The Collected Works,' both published in 2019

Ryan Cooper holds a 1972 portion of a diary that he wrote when he visited Otto Frank, the father of the famed Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank, at his home, on June 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

US Holocaust Museum digitizing letters from Anne Frank’s father

By Philip Marcelo

A cartoon in Iran's ultra-conservative Javan newspaper depicting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wearing blue Star of David glasses and performing a Nazi salute. The Iranian press slammed Maas for speaking in defense of Israel. June 11, 2019. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Iranian press slams German FM, depicts him as Jewish and Nazi

By AFP and ToI Staff

After Maas spoke in defense of Israel, ultra-conservative Javan newspaper runs front-page cartoon of him with blue Star of David glasses, swastika armband, performing Nazi salute

Poland's Krzysztof Piatek celebrates with teammates after scoring his side's opening goal during the Euro 2020 group G qualifying soccer match between Poland and Israel at the Narodowy stadium in Warsaw, Poland, June 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish soccer association celebrates victory over Israeli team as a ‘pogrom’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)

Online store pulls products for sale with ‘Zyklon B’ logo after outcry

By JTA and ToI Staff

Fighters of the Shiite Hezbollah terror group attend the funeral in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta of a comrade who died in combat in Syria, March 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Mahmoud Zayyat)

Report: Hezbollah planned huge, game-changing attacks on Israel targets globally

Israeli intel official says vast ammonium nitrate cache found in 2015 in London, as reported this week, was part of terror group’s planned ‘revenge’ against Israel in case of war

Illustrative: A swastika is seen on a side wall of a former synagogue in Mommenheim, eastern France, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

France busts neo-Nazi cell over plot against Jewish, Muslim places of worship

By AFP

Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

Mossad involved in Israel’s anti-BDS efforts – report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, center, sits in a courtroom in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2018. (Amit Shabi, Yedioth Ahronoth, Pool via AP)

Sara Netanyahu signs plea deal in catering case, will pay $15,000 fine

After fraud charge dropped, PM’s wife admits to lesser offense of taking unfair advantage of a mistake; aide also to pay fine

Gantz calls on attorney general to expedite Netanyahu investigations

Bennett assails Jewish Home, which he once led, after MK accuses him of betrayal

Police recommend bribery charge against former state witness in submarine case

By Michael Bachner

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor party, seen during a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Avi Gabbay to quit Labor Party, won’t run for Knesset again

Party’s chief says it is ‘in crisis,’ blames ‘incessant naval-gazing and a lack of mutual loyalty’ for failure to secure public’s trust

6:29 pm

Japan PM urges Iran to play 'constructive role' in Mideast
6:10 pm

Netanyahu appoints adviser on USSR expats as he battles Liberman for votes
5:52 pm

Netanyahu said planning to support bill partially legalizing cannabis

Be ready to become the mother you have never been

I was Super Mom before we left Brazil, now I’m barely getting by. Have my kids suffered? Yes…and that’s OK

If you think we’re too quiet, then be our megaphone

Netanyahu has worked to muffle Blue and White in traditional news channels, but today, every citizen is a digital media mogul

Sean F. O'Brien

Trump plans to label Muslim Brotherhood as terror group. Bad idea

US move could drive moderate Islamists out of the existing political system and into the arms of violent jihadist orgs

It is time for Israel to end the occupation

West Bank annexation means losing the country’s Jewish majority or imposing apartheid; inaction is simply too costly

Vladimir Plahotniuc, right, watches Moldova's then prime minister Pavel Filip speak during a press statement in Chisinau, Moldova, February 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Amid unrest, Moldova says it will move its embassy to Jerusalem

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Announcement comes as political turmoil rocks the nation, which would become the only European country with embassy in capital

Petra Hotel in Jerusalem. (DiggerDina, Wikipedia)

Supreme Court rules for Jewish group in battle over Old City church leases

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with former communications minister Ayoub Kara at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former ambassadors to Egypt urge PM not to tap Likud minister as envoy

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Edouard Cukierman speaking at the GoForIsrael Conference in Jinan, China, on May 28, 2019. (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

Matchmaking confab seeks to wed Israeli innovation to China’s great wallet

By Joshua Davidovich

More Headlines

Toine Beukering (Screenshot from YouTube)

Jews went like ‘meek lambs to gas chambers,’ new Dutch senator says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Antidepressants in old age may increase risk of dementia, Israeli study finds

Historian, professor and author Yuval Noah Harari. (Courtesy)

Social media both a blessing and curse for LGBT community, ‘Sapiens’ author says

By Melanie Lidman

Israel's economy & trade minister Eli Cohen, center-right, with the winners of the tender to run the Sparks foodtech incubator in Kiryat Shmona, OurCrowd, Finistere Ventures, Tempo and Tnuva (Courtesy)

Foodmakers, VC consortium selected to run foodtech incubator in north

By Shoshanna Solomon

Alain Finkielkraut mulls the answer to a question at an appearance in Brussels, Belgium, April 3, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bill Ford speaking at the opening of the Ford Research Center in Tel Aviv; June 12, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Car maker opens research center in Tel Aviv as ‘lifeblood of future Ford’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

FakebookNo special treatment: Fake video of Zuckerberg stays on Instagram

By AFP

A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times' international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged "included anti-Semitic tropes." (Courtesy)

French cartoonist rails at ‘stupid’ NYT ban, condemns removal of Netanyahu image

By AFP and ToI Staff

Democratic US presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Dinner, on June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Democrat Buttigieg warns he would cut Israel aid over West Bank annexation

Baseball player Ryan Braun. (Joe Robbins/Getty Images/via JTA)

Ryan Braun breaks Hank Greenberg’s record for most home runs by Jewish player

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)

Jewish divorces in Israel up 5% in 2018, with 86% increase in one town

The Berlin Jewish Museum was under fire in 2019 for retweeting a link to a pro-BDS article. (Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group/ Getty Imagesvia JTA)

Berlin Jewish Museum takes heat for tweeting link to pro-BDS story

By Toby Axelrod

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