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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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Palestinians step on a placard displaying pictures of Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Bahraini King Hamad al-Khalifa, Oman's Sultan Qaboos in Muscat, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, during a protest denouncing the US-led Peace to Prosperity conference in Bahrain, in Gaza City on June 24, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Bahrain confab set to kick off with loaded schedule but meager expectations

By Raphael Ahren

Tony Blair, Steve Mnuchin and Jared Kushner will speak in Manama, along with a slew of technocrats and businesspeople, but just as telling may be who is not on the agenda

Rabbi Marc Schneier in Manama, Bahrain, June 24, 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

InterviewBahrain remains committed to Palestinians, rabbi with ties to king says

By Raphael Ahren

A Palestinian man burns a photo of US President Donald Trump during protests against a US-led meeting this week in Bahrain on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank city of Hebron on June 24, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Israel media reviewAll we are saying is give $50 billion a chance: 9 things to know for June 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c), Government Secretary Tzahi Braverman (R) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (L) attend a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 24, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu allies back move to cancel elections; legal sources say it’s ‘spin’

By Michael Bachner

Officials within Likud party reportedly admit chances plan will succeed are slim, with some pundits believing PM is seeking to place blame for vote on rival Blue and White

6:22 pm

Legal officials say Netanyahu's push to call off elections is a 'spin' -- report
5:58 pm

Likud allies express support for Netanyahu's push to cancel new elections
5:39 pm

Netanyahu 'considering' plan to cancel elections; Blue and White blasts 'spin'

‘I’m innocent!’ freed Palestinian rape suspect declares, hugging his family

55 days after police arrested him for alleged sexual assault of 7-year-old Israeli girl, Mahmoud Qadusa walks out of prison due to lack of evidence against him

Mahmoud Qadusa (R) hugs his daughter after being released from prison on June 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mahmoud Qadusa (Twitter)

After charges dropped, rape suspect’s lawyer says police jailed ‘innocent man’

Mahmoud Qadusa after being released from prison on June 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prosecution drops charges against Palestinian accused of raping Israeli girl

President Donald Trump's senior adviser, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, departs the Capitol after a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US plan will not follow lines of Arab Peace Initiative, Kushner says

Ahead of Bahrain meeting, US adviser says proposal will fall somewhere between Saudi-initiated 2002 offer and Israeli stance

Palestinian businessman pulls out of US-led conference in Bahrain

US envoy slams Palestinian threat of violence over Bahrain

Palestinians burn pictures, clash with troops ahead of Bahrain meet

By AP

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace accord held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 25, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Marking 40 years of peace with Egypt, Rivlin urges pact with Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

President tells Cairo’s ambassador he wants to meet his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi

Palestinians ride a donkey near the Gaza power plant in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip October 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Israel shuts off fuel supplies to Gaza after spate of arson attacks

Firefighters battle a brushfire in southern Israel near the Gaza border that was started by an incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip on June 24, 2019. (Yankele Grossfeld/Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council)

13 fires sparked in southern Israel by Gazan balloons

$Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US national security adviser John Bolton (second left), Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council (right) and Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat (left) pose for a picture at a trilateral meeting at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton\Flash90)$

In trilateral Jerusalem summit, Russia sides with Iran, against Israel and US

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior Russian official stands by Tehran’s claim that US drone was shot down in Iranian airspace, defends rights of foreign troops to remain in Syria despite Israeli opposition

Bolton slams Iran’s ‘belligerence’ but says ‘door is open’ for negotiations

Rouhani says US ‘lying’ about talks offer, suffers from ‘mental retardation’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Zarif: Netanyahu, Bolton, Gulf leaders ‘thirst for war’ between Iran and US

By ToI Staff and AFP

Then-US president Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order to increase sanctions on Iran, in the Oval Office of the White House, June 24, 2019, in Washington. Trump is accompanied by then-treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, left, and then-vice president Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US slaps ‘hard hitting’ sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei

By Sebastian Smith and Amir Havasi

Trump describes move as ‘strong and proportionate’ response to Tehran downing an American drone, will add FM Zarif to list later this week

Then Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan (right) in Russia at the Moscow Conference for International Security on April 26, 2017. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Top Iran military adviser threatens to ‘erase’ Israel if war breaks out

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during a televised national message at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, April 30, 2019. (Miraflores Press Office via AP)

Hezbollah operating in Venezuela, Maduro’s ex-security chief says

Moonshot in search of boldness

An open platform for designing solutions to assist those with disabilities could scale up to deliver help on a global scale

My embryos were not human beings

New US laws curbing reproductive choice are robbing mothers of personhood and religious freedom

Still waiting for the religious right on a few denunciations

We must not let the fraction of Jews wearing MAGA hats politicize the fight against anti-Semitism in 2020

‘Fighting’ hate by indulging it

The hosting of Louis Farrakhan at a Catholic Church was not, as billed, an effort to ’bring people together.’ Far from it

Illustrative: A hacker at work. (supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

US-Israeli cyber firm uncovers huge global telecom hack, apparently by China

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Cybereason says hackers focused on people working in government, law enforcement and politics, gathering private data over a number of years

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

Israel cybersecurity sector hamstrung by shortage of labor, report says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Union of Right Wing Parties candidates (from L-R) Rafi Peretz, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich pose for a photo on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy)

Otzma Yehudit breaks away from Jewish Home in spat over Knesset seat

Far-right partner to Union of Right Wing Parties declares it is looking to cooperate with other contenders in coming elections

Netanyahu offered Gantz rotating premiership in bid to avert elections – report

By Michael Bachner

Likud minister quits, accusing ruling party of prejudice against Druze

By Michael Bachner

Liberman: PM seeking minority coalition with Haredim propped up by Arab parties

Children protest the decision to deport approximately 50 children of foreign workers and their mothers this summer in Tel Aviv on June 24, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Thousands protest planned deportations of foreign worker children in Tel Aviv

By Melanie Lidman

Interior Ministry this summer set to expel 50 Israeli-born children and their mothers, who have overstayed their work visas

In “Holy Lands,” James Caan plays a secular American Jew who moves to Israel to escape the drama of his family — and to raise pigs. (Cinedigm/via JTA)

James Caan’s latest character: A Jew who moves to Israel to become a pig farmer

By Stephen Silver

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Illustrative - Muslims attend the Friday noon prayer at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, December 28, 2012. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Arabs becoming less religious, BBC survey finds

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c), Government Secretary Tzahi Braverman (R) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (L) attend a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 24, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / POOL / AFP)

Anonymous claim of anti-Netanyahu conspiracy delays prosecutor’s promotion

Pollution in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, April 15, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Ombudsman says Israel failing to curb Haifa pollution, despite government claims

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira in the Knesset, December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Postal service, National Insurance Institute are tops in number of complaints

Ami Appelbaum, Chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority and Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy and Industry, left to right, Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Energy; Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Energy, Israel in Tel Aviv, June 24, 2019 (David Azagury, US Embassy, Israel)

Israel, US to set up joint R&D center for oil and gas tech, minister says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the arrest of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women who failed to comply with a recruitment order, in Jerusalem, June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox block Jerusalem roads in protest of draft evasion arrests

Joe Sestak talks to supporters at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, March 26, 2015. (Jason Cohn For The Washington Post/Getty Images via JTA)

Joe Sestak, who presaged Democratic criticism of Israel, to run for president

By JTA

Police rapid response team members respond to the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP

Boston rabbi suggests congregants bring guns to synagogue for protection

By JTA

The Star of David decorates a tomb eroded by moss at the Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa in eastern Havana, Cuba, June 7, 2019. (Ramon Espinosa/AP)

A celebrating Havana renovates Cuba’s oldest Jewish cemetery

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ

A cow on a live transport ship lying in filth because extra sawdust could not cope with the hot and humid conditions on board. (From a presentation by Agriculture Ministry veterinarian inspector Dr Lauren Stein at a closed conference held in Europe in mid-June, published by Animals formerly Anonymous for Animal Rights) on June 24, 2019.

In first, Agriculture Ministry admits to cruel conditions on animal transports

Soldiers from the Maglan reconnaissance unit take part in a training exercise in Cyprus in October 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldiers accidentally open fire on nearby troops during exercise

Israeli-made Spike missiles are displayed during a street parade marking the 65th anniversary of the Armed Forces Day in Seoul, South Korea, October 1, 2013. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

India again reportedly spikes $500 million missile deal with Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

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