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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 20, 2019

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Thaer Shafut, a Jordanian national accused by Israel of being an Iranian spy on June 20, 2019. (Shin Bet)

Israel says it nabbed Iranian spy in West Bank trying to build espionage network

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet accuses Jordanian national of working on behalf of Tehran to establish spy ring, funnel money to Palestinian terrorists

Illustrative: A Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. (Globe Newswire via AP)

US: Iran shot down drone in international airspace in ‘unprovoked attack’

By ToI Staff and AP

US Central Command confirms aircraft shot down by surface-to-air missile; Revolutionary Guard says drone switched off tracking equipment; Iran warns US against violating airspace

In this undated photo released by Sepahnews, the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard chief: Downing US drone sends ‘clear message’

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned aircraft (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via AP)

US official confirms Iran shot down drone, says it was in international airspace

By ToI Staff and AP

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

Minister: Police may have bungled investigation of 7-year-old’s rape

After law enforcement says it’s prepared to drop charges if necessary, Gilad Erdan lauds decision to reopen probe, saying indictment had too many holes to stand

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)

Charges in alleged rape of 7-year-old may be dropped if case not shored up

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Former head of the Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, attends a press conference organized by 'Commanders for Israel's Security' in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-Mossad head: Netanyahu voters are ‘ignorant,’ have no moral standards

Facing criticism, Shabtai Shavit refuses to take back comments; PM: There’s no end to the left’s condescension toward Likud voters

Ex-Mossad director Shabtai Shavit speaks at press conference in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2015. (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewJust what we needed: 6 things to know for June 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Leaders of the Blue and White party, left to right, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya'alon at a press conference at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 2019. (Flash90)

Ya’alon said to accuse party co-chief Lapid of pushing away potential voters

The Jewish Museum Berlin. (Hufton Crow)

Analysis

How the Berlin Jewish Museum became a political lightning rod

The resignation of its director, after a tweet that seemed to support the anti-Israel BDS movement, has many questioning role of institution in its community

Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

American Jewish tourist hurt in anti-Semitic Berlin attack

President Rivlin speaking at a anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem, June 20, 2019 /screen grab)

Rivlin says calls for Israel boycott are ‘modern blood libels’

By Raphael Ahren

In this February 13, 2018, photo released by the US Air Force, an RQ-4 Global Hawk is seen on the tarmac of Al-Dhafra Air Base near Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Airman 1st Class D. Blake Browning/US Air Force via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Defense officials said to think lack of US military response could embolden Iran

TV report says estimation in Israel is that recent Iranian attacks motivated by belief that Trump wants to avoid a military conflict

6:07 pm

After Iran downs US drone, UN chief urges all sides to show 'maximum restraint'
5:49 pm

Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt in UK leadership runoff
5:41 pm

TV: Defense officials believe lack of US military response could embolden Iran

Illustrative: Soldiers stand guard outside a synagogue in Neuilly sur Seine, outside Paris, France, January 13, 2015. (AP /Christophe Ena)

Jewish woman hit in head with metal ball outside of Paris synagogue

By JTA and ToI Staff

79-year-old in stable condition after being hospitalized with cranial damage; World Jewish Congress says incident ‘part of a disturbing trend’; not clear who threw object

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)

US anti-Semitism czar: Armed guards should protect every synagogue, JCC

Tributes are left near the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16, 2019, after a deadly shooting. (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images/via JTA)

US interfaith leaders gather at FBI HQ to beef up security for houses of worship

The I-Dome, a portable version of the Iron Dome missile defense system, made by Israeli aerospace company Rafael. (screen capture: Channel 13/Rafael)

Israel unveils portable Iron Dome at Paris air show

Aerospace company Rafael says new I-Dome is an ‘all-in-one’ truck-mounted aerial defense battery; US military reportedly interested

Israeli air force Lockheed C-130 Hercules. June 28 2011 (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Air force grounds transport, refueling planes over January accident

By Judah Ari Gross

Ron Eliyahu Oved, right, and his father. Oved was killed in an accident during a tryout for the IDF Paratroopers Brigade on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy of the family)

IDF chief calls for policy changes after recruit killed in tryout accident

By Judah Ari Gross

A Jewish childhood in Suriname

Our synagogue floor was covered with sand to remind us of the Israelites’ trek across the desert to reach the Promised Land.

One Belarusian town launches a new kind of Holocaust remembrance

Slonim is converting its hulking, decaying synagogue into a center of memory and community-building

Illustrative: Israeli and foreign media at the scene of a Jerusalem terror attack on January 8, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

After long wait, some Israeli news outlets okayed to cover Bahrain summit

By Raphael Ahren

No Israeli government officials to attend next week’s economic workshop, but handful of journalists to join businessmen and civil society members in Gulf state

Palestinians receive financial aid from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, June 20, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza banks start handing out small Qatari grants to impoverished families

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand speaking at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, March 14, 2017. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

21 Dems were asked where they’d go first as president, 1 said Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

While most presidential hopefuls tell NYT their maiden international trip would be where relations have soured under Trump, only Kirsten Gillibrand wants to head to Mideast

The New York Times solicited views on Israel from almost all of the Democratic presidential candidates. (Screenshot from New York Times via JTA)

Queried on Israel and human rights, Democratic hopefuls offer guarded criticism

Kelly Craft, President Trump's nominee to be Representative to the United Nations, testifies at her nomination hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump’s pick for UN envoy says she’ll fight anti-Israel bias

By AP and ToI Staff

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 says he won’t sit in a religious or narrow left-wing government

Yisrael Beytenu leader won’t rule out recommending either Netanyahu or Gantz for PM after elections

Yisrael Beytenu says PM illegally pushing Tiberias mayor as secularist rival

By Marissa Newman

Far-right Otzma Yehudit accuses Jewish Home of not honoring election pact

Peretz offers Shaked no. 2 spot on URWP slate, at expense of Smotrich

Ornate and colorful frescoes are mostly intact despite the decades of neglect in the Romanian Monastery, the last church building in the Land of the Monasteries to be cleared of landmines, in a photo released by the Ministry of Defense on June 20, 2019. (courtesy Ministry of Defense)

Stunning Romanian church is final monastery cleared of mines at Qasr al-Yahud

By Melanie Lidman

Michael Aloni portraying Akiva on 'Shtisel,' an Israeli show on Netflix that has broken stereotypes about ultra-Orthodox life. (Courtesy Shtisel Facebook page)

As ‘Shtisel’ mania sweeps US, promoter aims to widen the world’s lens on Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

In this photo released by the Israel Antiquities Authority on June 19, 2019, soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade take part in an archaeological dig at their base in southern Israel. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

All along the watchtowerTroops uncover First Temple-era observation post on training base

Robert Kaye (Facebook)

Liverpool deli owner found dead after being caught up in kosher meat scandal

By ToI Staff and JTA

An illustrative photo of the construction of new houses in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, on September 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

More than 100 Israeli startups in property tech sector, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dalal Daoud, right, seen after her release from prison in Ramle, June 20, 2019. (Flash90)

Woman who killed abusive husband released from jail after 18 years

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

New Zealand minister sorry for map excluding Israel

By JTA

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

Ra’anana city councilman resigns in protest over pride parade

Miriam Adelson speaks at the Israeli-American Council conference in Hollywood, Florida, November 30, 2018. (Perry Bindelglass/Israeli-American Council/via JTA)

Miriam Adelson shoots to top of Israel’s rich list

Robert Kraft at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, May 19, 2019. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images/via JTA)

Patriots players accompany Robert Kraft on trip to Israel

By Gabe Friedman

The Bat Yam promenade in Central Israel on March 4, 2017. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Child killed in fall from cliff at Bat Yam beach

In this courtroom drawing, defendant Keith Raniere, center, sits at the defense table with his attorneys Paul DerOhannesian, left and Marc Agnifilo, as the jury foreperson reads the guilty verdict in his sex trafficking trial in New York, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. The former leader of a cult-like self-help group was convicted Wednesday of manipulating his female followers through shame and humiliation and turning them into what prosecutors call his sex slaves. The man at rear is a Deputy US Marshal. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Self-help guru convicted in lurid sex-trafficking case

By AP and ToI Staff

The runway safety solution developed by Xsight Systems is deployed on a runway in the Seattle Tacoma International Airport (Courtesy)

Israeli AI tech to secure runways at Beijing airports

By Shoshanna Solomon

Attorney Avi Himi at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Defense lawyer Avi Himi takes helm of scandal-battered Bar Association

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