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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 19, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi attend a drill in northern Israel in June 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu, at major drill, warns: IDF has huge destructive power, don’t test us

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Iran could target Israel to escalate tensions with US – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In first, Israel’s F-35s join massive drill simulating war with Hezbollah, Gaza

Rivlin warns Lebanon, Hezbollah against launching attack on Iran’s behalf

Palestinians receive their financial aid as part of $480 million in aid allocated by Qatar, at a post office in Gaza City on May 19, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas: Israel implementing Gaza ceasefire agreement

By Judah Ari Gross

Terror group’s assurances that the truce is still in place comes amid reports of delays in Qatar transferring funds to needy families in the Strip

A picture taken on June 1, 2018, shows a girl running past hovels near a sewage water pool at a poor neighborhood in Gaza City. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Israel to process Gaza sewage with new pipeline – report

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Analysis

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘concentration camp’ debate, explained

Critics say Democrat’s use of term to describe US detention centers belittles Jewish suffering in Holocaust; congresswoman and defenders say it’s ‘not hyperbole’

US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York speaks during a gathering of the National Action Network in New York, on April 5, 2019. (Don Emmert/AFP)

Ocasio-Cortez says US running ‘concentration camps’ on border

By AFP

Marty Markowitz showing off his apiary in the backyard of his Southampton home. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen via JTA)

Podcast tells incredible story of a NY shrink who took over his patient’s life

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Attorney Nashaf Darwish (L) speaks with the brother and son of Mahmoud Qadusa, a Palestinian man charged with kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old Israeli girl, at the Judea Military Court in the West Bank on June 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Military court extends remand of rape suspect for additional five days

Law enforcement still confident crime occurred, but acknowledges it had been too quick to indict Mahmoud Qadusa after media exposes holes in account

7:38 pm

Military court extends remand of rape suspect for additional five days
6:18 pm

Otzma Yehudit accuses Rafi Peretz of breaking their agreement
6:16 pm

Jewish Home central committee votes to keep same slate for next election

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks with European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, left, to the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington, June 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EU ‘ready to work’ with US on peace plan, as long as it aims at two states

By Raphael Ahren

In Washington, Mogherini tells Pompeo the union views survival of Iran nuclear deal as ‘key to preserving stability and security in the region’

Greenblatt: Israel should hold off on annexation until peace plan unveiled

AnalysisA who’s who of next week’s peace summit in Bahrain

Palestinians boast of foiling Bahrain peace conference

US Navy Cmdr. Sean Kido talks to journalists at a 5th Fleet Base in the United Arab Emirates, June 19, 2019. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

US Navy expert: Mine in tanker attack resembles Iranian make

By Jon Gambrell

Officer says parts from unexploded mine used to attack ships last week similar to bomb made by firm linked to Revolutionary Guards

Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami speaks at the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Iran ‘categorically rejects’ US tanker attack allegations

By AFP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to speak during a media availability, at the State Department, June 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pompeo: US forces in Persian Gulf just a deterrent

Kyle Kashuv attends Politicon 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, October 20, 2018. (Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images via JTA)

Why Harvard dropped a Jewish, pro-gun Parkland student over past racist comments

By Josefin Dolsten

An Israeli Air Force F-35 is seen during an air force exercise, June 2019 (IDF Spokesperson)

Israel media review

Effed up: 8 things to know for June 19

By Joshua Davidovich

F-35 fighters take to the skies in a message to Hezbollah and Iran, talk of failure is bandied about ahead of the Bahrain summit, and a shocking rape case goes FUBAR for the 5-oh

A view of the settlement of Modiin Illit, February 2019. (Flash90)

After indicting Palestinian in rape of 7-year-old, police reopen case

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

The Trump peace plan sounds a lot like the Israeli peace plan

If there’s no evacuation of Jewish settlements, what sort of border could be drawn between Israel and the Palestinians?

Dear AOC, not everything is the Holocaust

Comparing atrocities is never useful, and this comparison undermines the horrifying nature of the Holocaust

Times of Israel Presents

God stars in new English-language performances at Jerusalem’s Khan Theater

By Matthew Kalman

Times of Israel readers can enjoy special discounts on tickets for productions by Anat Gov and S.Y. Agnon in July

Eric Fingerhut speaks to students at the Hillel Institute, a conference in St. Louis, in 2013. (Jonathan Heisler/via JTA)

US college campuses

Eric Fingerhut served in Congress, but says leading Hillel was a harder job

$Mourning candles in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, following the June 12, 2014 murder of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)$

Voting commences in $10,000 Israel-Diaspora unity contest honoring slain teens

By Yaakov Schwartz

Through June 20, public can vote on projects uniting Jews in Israel and abroad in memory of Gil-ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach, murdered in 2014 by Hamas terrorists

Then-economics minister Naftali Bennett visits a center in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak where religious men and women are trained in math, English and other core subjects not taught in ultra-Orthodox schools and seminaries, on April 2015, 2013. (Assaf Shilo/Economy Minister/Flash90)

Bennett floats alternative to ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill

By Alexander Fulbright

President Reuven Rivlin at a ceremony in memory of Israeli soldiers killed in the First Lebanon War in Jerusalem on June 18, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Netanyahu, Rivlin urge ‘unity’ at memorial service for Altalena victims

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Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich is held aloft by his team after winning the gold at the European Fencing Championships in Dusseldorf, June 18, 2019. (Facebook photo/ European Fencing Confederation)

In first, Israeli wins European fencing championship

School children standing in front of a crosswalk after leaving school in Beit El, May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Israel’s crosswalks prove dangerous to pedestrians, especially elderly and kids

Dalal Daoud (courtesy)

Woman who killed abusive husband gets early release

A US Air Force Boeing KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling plane connects to a F-35 fighter jet over California, January 22, 2019. (US Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner)

US to sell Israel aerial refueling planes – report

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)

Liberman pulls libel suit after activist apologizes for claiming plot with Lapid

By Stuart Winer

French-Israeli hacker Gregory Chelli speaks to the then Channel 2 in 2017. (screen capture: Channel 2)

France seeks extradition of French-Israeli hacker for death following phone hoax

By AFP

Ron Cobi, mayor of Tiberias, seen outside the city's municipality building, April 1, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Tiberias mayor, city council likely to get axed after failing to pass budget

This undated photo provided by the Israel National Library, shows a document from Halberstadt, Germany, written in the 18th century. (Israel National Library via AP)

National Library offers glimpse of old Jewish life in Europe

By Shahar Golan

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

Chocolate produced with Israeli startup DouxMatok's ’precision’ sugar (Naomi Baniel)

Sweet deal: Sugar-reduction startup raises $22 million to get product to market

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of students at the Rehovot Campus of Hebrew University, on January 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew U, Technion slip in global rankings; Tel Aviv University climbs 11 places

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of books on sale in Jerusalem, June 15, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

What's the word?Hebrew language academy approves 1,400 new words

By Stuart Winer

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