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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 18, 2019

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White House adviser and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in Washington on August 29, 2018. (AP /Jacquelyn Martin)

White House confirms Israeli officials not invited to Bahrain workshop

By Eric Cortellessa

After weeks of uncertainty, American official says US wants ‘focus to be on the economic aspect, not the political’

Sandra Torres, presidential candidate of the National Unity of Hope party, UNE, poses for photographers while casting her vote during general elections in Guatemala City, June 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

After 1st election round, fate of Guatemala’s Jerusalem embassy hangs in balance

By Raphael Ahren

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)

Pete Buttigieg says he won’t move US embassy back to Tel Aviv if elected

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Girls arrive at their school. (Flash90)

Lawyer of Palestinian charged with raping Israeli girl raps ‘Dreyfus’-like case

By Tamar Pileggi and Jacob Magid

Attorney says police have been unable to determine when the alleged crime took place and have changed their account regarding where it happened

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (C) with police officers at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Erdan: Palestinian accused of rape of Israeli girl, 7, should be terror suspect

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman holds a press conference following the dissolving of the Knesset, and ahead of the new elections, in Tel Aviv, on May 30, 2019. (Flash90)

Right-wing MKs call for execution of Palestinian charged with raping 7-year-old

FILE: Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the capital Tehran, on April 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)

After enrichment threat, US accuses Iran of ‘nuclear extortion’

State Department says Tehran must abide by limits set in nuclear deal, despite Trump administration pulling out of accord and deriding it as flawed

From left, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and then British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, during a meeting of the foreign ministers at the Europa building in Brussels, on May 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

Germany, UK warn Iran over enrichment threat; EU takes wait-and-see approach

By AFP and ToI Staff

MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties speaks during a Jerusalem Day event at Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Israel media reviewPaving a road back to the Middle Ages: 5 things to know for June 18

US President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 14, 2019. (AP /Jose Luis Magana)

Trump: Oil tanker attack ‘very minor,’ but would go to war over Iran nukes

US president tells Time magazine he would not take military action to protect oil supplies

US deploying 1,000 more troops to Middle East as Iran tensions soar

Russia accuses US of trying to provoke war with Iran by deploying extra troops

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US releases new photos to bolster claim Iran attacked tankers

By Lolita C. Baldor

Actor John Cusack responds, during a press conference for the film 'Chi-Raq", at the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

John Cusack retweets anti-Semitic meme with neo-Nazi quote

After online backlash, actor deletes post and blames bot, then issues apology for sharing ‘pro-Palestinian justice’ image

Screen capture from video of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during a Cambridge Union event in which he made remarks deemed anti-Semitic. (YouTube)

Malaysian PM draws laughter with anti-Semitic jibe at UK’s Cambridge University

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Crime scene investigators in Jerusalem on November 24, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Police taking new look at rape case after ‘new information’ comes to light

By Joshua Davidovich

Questions arise over holes in incident that has shocked country; attorney general to get involved

6:39 pm

Texans QB Watson visits Israel, settlement archaeological site
6:10 pm

Acting Pentagon chief Shanahan exits after confirmation woes
5:57 pm

Greenblatt says Israel should not annex, at least before peace plan comes out

Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt, May 8, 2014. (Tarek el-Gabbas/AP)

Egypt’s Morsi quietly buried, a day after courtroom death

Former president, who had been in prison since his ousting in July 2013, interred amid tight security after reported heart attack; family attends funeral, says lawyer

Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse, May 8, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (Tarek el-Gabbas/AP/File)

Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dies suddenly in court

By AP

The SSCV Thialf crane vessel laying a foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field, January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Egypt agrees to pay Israel $500 million to end gas dispute

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Altice group's Chairman Patrick Drahi poses for photographers at the Scopus Awards of the French Friends of the Hebrew University, in Paris, France on March 18, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus, File)

French-Israeli media mogul Drahi buys Sotheby’s for $3.7 billion

By AFP and ToI Staff

New York auction house purchased by owner of Israeli Hot cable TV operator, to go private after 30 years on New York Stock exchange

Altice founder Patrick Drahi, right, waits with company executives for the Altice IPO to begin trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Sotheby’s new owner Drahi — a French-Israeli tycoon with expensive taste in art

By Lucie GODEAU and Julie JAMMOT

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi reacts to applause after presenting his Spring 2011 collection, Thursday, September 16, 2010, during Fashion Week in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Fashion statement

With his signature honesty, Isaac Mizrahi describes growing up a gay Syrian Jew

By Jordan Hoffman

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)

‘I work for God,’ not Netanyahu, Smotrich says after being appointed minister

Opposition snarkily lambastes hardliner for past statements on imposing biblical law in Israel

Smotrich, Peretz get nods for transportation, education ministries

Liberman sues activist for tweets claiming plot with Lapid for coalition failure

By Stuart Winer

AnalysisWho’s running the show in Israel between elections?

Illustrative: Israeli police stand near an excavator as it demolishes a Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher on April 7, 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Court okays demolition of 100 East Jerusalem homes under Palestinian control

Sur Baher residents fear unprecedented order to raze 16 apartment buildings in Area A could drive Israeli demolitions deeper in West Bank

Palestinian village targeted in third apparent hate crime in a week

Qatari cash arrives in Gaza, but payouts to Palestinians delayed

Israel re-expands Gaza Strip fishing zone to 10 nautical miles

Illustrative: A snake confiscated by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority during a crackdown on the illegal trade in reptiles, June 17, 2019. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Snakes on a plane

Israel nabs smuggled reptiles, including rare boa constrictors, turtles

Israel Nature and Parks Authority joins Interpol, Europol and more than 20 nations in major clampdown on illegal smuggling and keeping of reptiles

Political philosopher Michael Walzer speaks at Bar Ilan University, June 13, 2019 (Moshe Atar)

Does Israel have a moral obligation to welcome African refugees?

By Simona Weinglass

Sexual predators thrive in our midst

This country protects child sex abusers and silences their victims — and the vast majority of perpetrators are not Arabs, but Jews

Amir Fuchs and Ofer Kenig

Knesset in limbo

Everything you wanted to know about Israel’s transitional government, but didn’t know whom to ask

Egypt’s Morsi never had a chance

Why the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring failed their followers, and other lessons from the blunder of a democracy in a society not set up for it

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Every question-and-answer session at every Jewish event ever

I’d like to now give a fairly lengthy explanation about that, while ignoring the large number of hands being raised in the room

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A screenshot from the Immigration New Zealand website uses Palestine instead of Israel on a map. (Immigration New Zealand via JTA)

Official New Zealand government website wipes Israel off the map

By henry Benjamin

Prof Uri Banin, chair, former founding director of Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (HUCNN), left to right, Yi Cui, Prize Laureate, Dan Maydan, and Uriel Levy, director of the HUCNN; June 17, 2019 (Courtesy)

Hebrew University awards first nanotech prize to Stanford’s Prof. Cui

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: An Israeli couple photographed for their wedding at a blossoming almond tree field in Latrun on February 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Majority of Israelis marry by 25, most have first child by 27

Philip Neville Arps, left, appears for sentencing in the Christchurch District Court, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. (John Kirk-Anderson/Pool via AP)

New Zealander who shared mosque shooting video gets 21 months

Heavily armed San Diego police officers approach a house thought to be the home of 19-year-old John T. Earnest, the alleged shooter in the fatal attack at a synagogue in Poway on April 27, 2019, in San Diego, California. (John Gibbins/ The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Poway synagogue shooter inspired by Hitler, unsealed affidavit shows

By AP

Danielle Bregoli, also known as Bhad Bhabie, arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, on May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Cash me somewhere elseJordan nixes rapper Bhad Bhabie gig over Israel support

T cells attacking a cancer cell (frentusha; iStock by Getty Images)

Study identifies protein that causes ‘exhaustion’ of immune system cells

By Shoshanna Solomon

Google's falafel Doodle, June 18, 2019 (screenshot)

Ballsy cartoonGoogle Doodle celebrates falafel

Pupils of a Jewish school in the school vegetable garden in Poltava, Ukraine, before 1917. (Yad Vashem/YVA Photo Collection 4147/55)

Ukraine city plans real estate project on top of Holocaust victims’ burial site

By Michael Bachner

Lenny Pozner with his son Noah. (Courtesy)

Sandy Hook victim’s father wins case against authors who claim shooting was hoax

By Pat Eaton-Robb

Elan Carr, the US envoy against anti-Semitism, and his EU counterpart Katharinas von Schnurbein at a summit meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on June 17, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Romania hosts inaugural summit for global anti-Semitism envoys

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Jews digging a trench in which they were later buried after being shot, in Ponary, Poland. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)

Anti-Semitic attack on workshop of stonemason who made Polish Holocaust monument

By JTA

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