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What Matters Most On Monday, June 17, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony in memory of Israeli presidents and prime ministers who passed away, held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu urges world to reimpose sanctions if Iran ramps up nuclear enrichment

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime minister vows Israel will never let Tehran obtain nuclear weapons, after Iran says it will break limit on uranium stockpile set by nuke deal

Iran says it will break nuclear deal’s uranium stockpile limit in 10 days

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian official calls IAEA inspectors ‘roaches,’ says Tehran should quit NPT

Pompeo rallies foreign leaders against Iran over alleged oil attacks

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Palestinian school janitor charged with raping 7-year-old Israeli girl

Defendant allegedly bribed student with candy, brought her to construction site, and violently assaulted her, according to indictment

Jason Greenblatt, left, meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Jerusalem, on March 13, 2017. (Government Press Office)

Live updates (closed)

White House said to inform Israel it won’t be invited to Bahrain meet

US officials quoted as saying Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, other government representatives won’t attend conference next week to keep gathering focused on economic issues

6:08 pm

Qatar ruler expresses 'deep sorrow' over Morsi death
5:13 pm

TV report: White House decides Israel won't be invited to Bahrain confab
5:00 pm

Muslim Brotherhood official blames Egypt prison service for Morsi's death

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech before the newly-unveiled sign for the new settlement of 'Ramat Trump', or 'Trump Heights' in English, named after the incumbent US President during an official ceremony in the Golan Heights on June 16, 2019. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

US president thanks Israel in tweet for 'great honor'

Netanyahu inaugurates new Golan community honoring Trump

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM leads cabinet meeting at site of ‘Trump Heights,’ says US president who recognized Israel’s control over strategic plateau is a ‘very great friend’

Israel will only send business delegation to Bahrain summit – report

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Foreign minister says Israel will attend US-led peace summit in Bahrain

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

US envoy Greenblatt backs Friedman on Israel’s right to retain part of West Bank

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

The other deal of the century: 8 things to know for June 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Sara Netanyahu’s plea bargain is criticized for letting her off easy, and the family’s later attacks on the judiciary are seen as tacky as naming a town ‘Trump Heights’

Sara Netanyahu leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on June 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rejects prosecution request to amend Sara Netanyahu verdict

Sara Netanyahu leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on June 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu says wife went through ‘four years of hell’ fighting fraud charges

A Palestinian girl fills a jerrycan with water during a heatwave at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel lays fourth water pipeline to Gaza, the largest yet

New pipe could up the amount of water Israel sends into the enclave, if its poorly maintained infrastructure can handle it

Gantz slams Netanyahu over Gaza cash infusion: ‘Deterrence has collapsed’

Hamas gunmen reportedly open fire on Israeli troops in Gaza, no injuries

Balloon-borne device found near community in Gaza border region

Illustrative: A German edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' ('My Struggle') on display at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, December 11, 2015. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP, File)

Why ‘Mein Kampf’ was published in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, but not Hebrew – yet

By Raphael Ahren

Employees of Yukom Communications Ltd receive cars for achieving high sales quotas in 2015 (Facebook screenshot)

US indicts nine more Israeli binary options operatives

By Simona Weinglass

In a February indictment just unsealed, 3 alleged BinaryBook and BigOption bosses are charged with wire fraud and conspiracy

Illustrative image of the passcode screen of an iPhone. (ymgerman/iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech company says it can unlock all iPhones ever made, some Androids

Cellebrite, believed to be the company hired by the FBI to hack into San Bernardino killer’s phone in 2016, has faced criticism for hiding phones’ vulnerabilities from Apple

(Illustrative image of a hacker; supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

Israel enters World Bank partnership to boost cybersecurity in developing world

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a grave vandalized with a swastika during a visit at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, on February 19, 2019, on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. (Frederick Florin/Pool/AFP)

No safety in numbers

French Jews face trinity of hate from left, right, and Islamists, says author

New book by Paris journalist Marc Weitzman probes the growing toxic tide of time-honored anti-Semitism in France – and its implications for everyone

An illustrative photo of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

Quebec bans new public servants from wearing kippot, other religious symbols

By AFP and ToI Staff

Bracha Goldstein

My sister and the grief she left for me

It is June two years ago and I am walking on broken glass. My mother calls. ’She’s ready.’ Okay, I say calmly. I’ll be right there

Calev Michael Myers

Trump’s new Heights of popularity in Israel

Even the Israeli left knows naming a new town for the US president is a smart move — may it bring blessings of prosperity

William Echikson

Do you have info about Holocaust hero Martin Bercovici?

The Romanian electrical engineer saved hundreds of fellow Jews. His daughter is hoping you can help her tell his story

Abdullah Abed al-Rahman

My name is Abdol, and I care about my country, the State of Israel

Israel’s Arab citizens have suffered doubly in each war, and we win doubly with every step we take toward peace

US Rep. David Cicilline leaves the House Democratic Caucus leadership elections at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Interview

To fix a broken system, a Jewish Democrat wants to bust corporate monopolies

By Eric Cortellessa

Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)

Intel reportedly delaying massive new chip plant in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Company officials meet with contractors to inform them of 6- to 12-month postponement in setting up $5 billion production facility in Kiryat Gat

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey. (Facebook)

Arizona to set up Israel trade office later this year

By Shoshanna Solomon

CEO of Intel Corp., Bob Swan, center, visits the US tech giant's Haifa facility on June 16, 2019. (Ezra Levy)

Intel to ‘Ignite’ key startup tech with accelerator program in Tel Aviv

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

An image said to be the tattooed arm of Menachem Karelefsky, the suspect in the arson of the home of Brooklyn rabbi Jonathan Max (Facebook)

Suspect in Brooklyn arson had tattoo reminding him to ‘KILL’ rabbi

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative: Travelers in the arrival hall of Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Police bust ring suspected of smuggling hundreds of Georgians into Israel

By Stuart Winer

An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv on August 23, 2017.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Pilots fret over fire safety of Dreamliner planes, also used by El AL — report

By Stuart Winer

President Reuven Rivlin meets French Imam Hassen Chalgoumi in Jerusalem, June 16, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin meets delegation of European Muslim leaders in Jerusalem

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)

PM said set to appoint Peretz, Smotrich as education, transportation ministers

Yair Lapid, right, and Avigdor Liberman, lead a joint conference in Knesset on February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Lapid backs Liberman’s call for Likud-Blue and White unity government

Joshua John Leff, 40, arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, and charged with intimidation, sending written threats to kill minorities including Jews. (YouTube screen capture)

Florida man arrested for threats to kill Jews, minorities

By JTA

Looking for a book to buy at the 2019 Hebrew Book Week in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square.(Courtesy Flash 90)

The written pagePeople of the book are still reading – and writing

By Jessica Steinberg

'There will be a war over Judea and Samaria' is spray-painted in a price-tag attack targeting the central West Bank Palestinian village of Kafr Malik on June 17, 2019. (Kafr Malik Municipality)

Palestinian village targeted in week’s second apparent hate crime

(From L-R) Gaby Lasky, Issawi Frej, Tamar Zandberg and Mossi Raz at a Meretz party press conference on June 17, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Arab-Jewish Meretz leadership candidates exit race, endorse Zandberg

Argentinian soccer player Pedro Galvan speaks to the press on Sunday June 16, 2019, after he was told he was being deported from Israel (Screncapture/YouTube)

Interior Ministry to deport Israel’s all-time top-scoring foreign soccer player

Alternative for Germany (AfD) far-right party top candidate in Goerlitz Sebastian Wippel reacts after the first results in the local election round two in Goerliz, eastern Germany, on June 16, 2019. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa/AFP)

Far-right candidate loses German election after filmmakers weigh in

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