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What Matters Most On Friday, June 14, 2019

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A student stands inside a Jewish religious school in Sderot, Israel, after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 13, 2019. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Witnesses describe ‘miracle’ as Gaza missile barely misses Sderot students

Had rocket exploded, hit a few meters over or been fired just a few minutes earlier, devastation could have been widespread at religious school or adjacent synagogue

Sderot rocket strike prompts calls for major military operation in Gaza

Israeli planes hit several Gaza sites after Sderot rocket attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

UN Mideast envoy meets Hamas leaders in Gaza amid border violence

US President Donald Trump gestures into the audience as he speaks in the East Room of the White House, Thursday June 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says Gulf tanker attacks have ‘Iran written all over it’

US president calls Iran ‘a nation of terror,’ and warns Tehran not to close strategic Strait of Hormuz, saying it wouldn’t manage to do so for very long

Israel media reviewHow not to put out a fire: 6 things to know for June 14

By Joshua Davidovich

US says video shows Iranians removing unexploded mine from stricken tanker

By AP and ToI Staff

After tanker attacks, Iran claims US and Israel plotting to ‘sabotage diplomacy’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People participate in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

With glitz and glamor, Tel Aviv celebrates Mideast’s largest Pride parade

250,000 expected at annual event that concludes month of LGBTQ activities; major streets closed; top activist says while march is happy, discrimination is ongoing

Photo on the US Embassy Jerusalem's twitter page on June 13, 2019, captioned: "The U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv is ready for the PRIDE parade tomorrow!" (Twitter)

Amid Trump flag ban, US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv decorated for Pride parade

By JTA and ToI Staff

An Israeli man wears a rainbow kippa during the annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on July 21, 2016. (Thomas COex/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

New Jersey-based Jewish gay conversion group ordered to shut down

By JTA

From left to right: Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Sheikh Abu-Khalil Tamimi in the West Bank on June 13, 2019
(Courtesy Samaria Regional Council)

No to BDS: French Muslim leaders tour northern West Bank as guests of settlers

Cleric Hassen Chalghoumi, known for his close ties to French Jews, says anti-Israel boycott efforts run contrary to Quranic law

Gerard Hogan (Courtesy, Facebook)

Adviser to EU court says settlement goods should be labeled

By AFP

Aerial view of small village of Kela Alon in the Golan Heights, near the site of a new community to be named after US President Donald Trump. (Golan Regional Council)

Golan community named for US president to be called ‘Trump Heights’

Ministers to approve new town at next weekly meeting, to be held at planned site, along with a ceremony attended by US ambassador

US President Donald Trump's tweet in which he misspelled the title of Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and heir apparent to the British throne. (Screenshot, Twitter)

No flukeTrump gets harpooned for ‘Prince of Whales’ gaffe

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on March 11, 2019 White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump announces surprise exit of spokeswoman Sarah Sanders

By Sebastian Smith

Dean and founder of the Simon Wisenthal Center Rabbi Marvin Hier seen at Fox 2000 Pictures special screening of 'The Book Thief' held at the Simon Wisenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, on Saturday, November, 2, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

Interview

Wiesenthal’s Rabbi Marvin Hier praises Trump for being only US leader to deliver

By Jordan Hoffman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) hosts Moldavian Prime Minister Pavel Filip in his Jerusalem office, November 9, 2017 (Amos Ben Gershom,/GPO)

Analysis

Why Israel didn’t celebrate when Moldova vowed to move its embassy from Tel Aviv

Ramallah rushed to condemn the Eastern European ‘rogue state,’ but Jerusalem feels it’s being used by an increasingly isolated PM in Chisinau who won’t be able to keep his promise

US President Donald Trump (L) and PA President Mahmoud Abbas leave following a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

White House admits Palestinian economic growth depends on peace deal

By Eric Cortellessa

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)

Netanyahu, in rebuke of justice minister, says court rulings ‘bind everyone’

PM joins attorney general and chief justice in countering Amir Ohana’s suggestion that not all verdicts need to be honored

Justice minister’s claim that a High Court ruling enabled terror attack queried

AG joins Supreme Court president in harsh criticism of new justice minister

Ahead of elections, Rivlin ‘very afraid’ of polarizing political discourse

By Stuart Winer

Zenan Sumlut examines rice at the organic rice mill she now manages in Kachin, Myanmar. (Emily Fishbein/Times of Israel)

Inch by inch, row by row

Israeli agriculture courses help developing world students reap what they sow

By Emily Fishbein

Lev Klotz, who was sent to Chernobyl as an 18-year-old Soviet army conscript, recalls the events of 33 years ago in a Channel 12 interview, June 13, 2019 (Channel 12 screenshot)

‘They had no Plan A, no Plan B’ at Chernobyl, says ‘liquidator,’ now in Israel

Lev Klotz was an 18-year-old Soviet army conscript when his unit was dispatched six days after the reactor explosion. Four years later, he lost all his teeth and went bald

Op-ed1,500 Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ live in Israel. They are appallingly mistreated

By Ksenia Svetlova

Does the story of Moses’ wife encourage racism?

When Miriam and Aaron slandered their brother, what were they saying? And what really set Moses apart from his siblings? (Behaalotcha)

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

One more ‘niggun,’ please

Sing with your eyes shut tight and your heart wide open — that’s what my grandfather Velvel Pasternak did. Join me in honoring his memory

The Conservative movement isn’t living up to its potential

When you try to be all things to all people, you dilute the unique approach to tradition and modernity that makes you worthwhile

Yonah Bex Gerber

Learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer

And yet, it feels like an incredible breach of privacy to take a child’s private words on her identity and use them as inspiration for myself

An illustrative photo of shakshuka. (Adam DeTour/via JTA)

Moving on up

Falafel truck becomes booming Boston-suburb Israeli restaurant

By Penny Schwartz

With aromatic Sephardic dishes from Israel, Turkey, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 34-year-old Avi Shemtov hopes to share the story of the Jewish people’s global travels

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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)

New York abolishes religious exemptions for vaccinations

By David Klepper

An illustration of the Fortnite game developed by Epic Games, a US video game developer. (YouTube screenshot)

Shock tacticIsraeli power firm urges Fortnite to keep gamers off electric poles

By JTA

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on October 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-state prosecutor: Sara Netanyahu caught a break with catering case plea deal

IBM's Project Debater discussing pros and cons of legalizing cannabis based on arguments collected from the crowd, June 13, 2019 (Or Kaplan)

Breaking ground, IBM Haifa team holds live robot debate fed by crowd arguments

By Shoshanna Solomon

Union of Right-Wing Parties MK Bezalel Smotrich arrives for a Jerusalem Day celebration at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/ Flash90)

Smotrich says he’d give up senior position for sake of right-wing unity

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi react after submitting a joint list of candidates from their Hadash and Ta'al parties to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Hadash)

Arab-majority parties meet to discuss reestablishment of Joint List

Anne Frank, whose diary chronicles her two-year stay at a secret annex in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam with her family and several other Jews during Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. (Wikimedia Commons)

‘Her story belonged to all of us’: Hundreds mark 90th birthday of Anne Frank

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Larry Tanenbaum (L) holds the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy after the Toronto Raptors defeat the Golden State Warriors to win Game Six of the 2019 NBA Finals at ORACLE Arena on June 13, 2019 in Oakland, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/AFP)

Holy victoryToronto Raptors win NBA Finals — and possibly a trip to Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this picture taken on March 16, 2019, Brenton Tarrant (C), the man charged in relation to the Christchurch massacre, stands in the dock during his appearance at the Christchurch District Court. (Mark Mitchell/Pool/AFP)

Anger as smirking Christchurch attack suspect pleads not guilty

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in the Knesset,, June 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance Ministry proposes budget cuts to counter burgeoning deficit

The Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, July 14, 2008. (AP /Jeff Roberson, File)

World’s largest brewer opens Israeli cybersecurity unit

Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman, who was nominated to take over as the next IDF spokesperson on June 13, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF taps Hidai Zilberman as spokesman after previous nominee bows out

By Judah Ari Gross

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