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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa speaks with the Times of Israel on the sidelines of the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, on June 26, 2019. (Courtesy)

'Brothers in region do believe' in Israel's right to exist

Bahrain FM to Times of Israel: Israel is here to stay, and we want peace with it

By Raphael Ahren

Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa says Manama conference could be ‘gamechanger’ like Israel-Egypt Camp David Accords; urges Israeli leaders to ‘talk to us’ about Arab Peace Initiative

Illustrative: In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, fifth from left, and Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, sixth from left, listen to White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, standing, during the opening session of the "Peace to Prosperity" workshop in Manama, Bahrain (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

In Bahrain, Kushner urges absent Palestinians to seize ‘opportunity of century’

By Raphael Ahren and AFP

In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner talks to the audience during the opening session of the 'Peace to Prosperity' workshop in Manama, Bahrain. (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

Investors at Bahrain workshop say peace is the missing piece in US Mideast plan

Analysis

On fringes of peace confab, rare prayer service brings Bahrain synagogue to life

Afterward, worshipers break out in song, hear Torah sermon as Houda Nonoo, a Jewish woman who served as Bahrain’s US ambassador, marvels: ‘It’s a historic moment’

Worshipers, including Trump administration Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt (2nd left) attend morning prayers at synagogue in Manama, Bahrain, June 26, 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

At economic peace summit, being an Israeli in Bahrain feels almost normal

Despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties between Manama and Jerusalem, Israeli guests are not only being welcomed in the Gulf kingdom; we’re receiving VIP treatment

US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, right, at the opening dinner of the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Bahrain, June 24, 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

In Bahrain, FIFA chief promises more Palestinian soccer fields

By AFP

Countries pledge $110 million for UN Palestinian agency

By AFP and ToI Staff

In West Bank, Palestinians march against US-led peace conference in Bahrain

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak (2R), Prof. Yifat Bitton (2L), retired major general Yair Golan (R) and Dr. Kobi Richter pose for a picture during a press conference announcing the establishment of a new political party led by him in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Likud dismisses Barak’s party, says it’ll only splinter the left

Former prime minister and defense minister throws hat in ring ahead of September election; recruits former deputy IDF chief Yair Golan

6:22 pm

Syrian arrested after crossing border into Israel
5:42 pm

PM: Body of Israeli killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash to be returned to Israel
5:28 pm

Iran says US sanctions violate religious freedom

Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Gantz deny reports of unity government, rotation deal

PM says Likud never approached centrist Blue and White party in bid to prevent new elections, as Knesset legal adviser said to conclude move wouldn’t be legal

Netanyahu says he’s considering proposal to cancel September election

Opposition seethes as Netanyahu mulls bid to nix September elections

Israel media reviewScrap poll: 8 things to know for June 26

By Joshua Davidovich

Under government plans to meet population growth with denser residential building in urban areas, tall apartment buildings like these in north Tel Aviv, photographed in December 2, 2016, will change the skyline of many cities. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

ToI investigates

With its population set to double in 30 years, how will Israel cope?

The government plans to build 1.5 million new homes by 2040, mostly in the crowded center, but critics say housing without infrastructure won’t work, call to develop Negev, Galilee

US President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Grand Foyer of the White House on June 24, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump threatens Iran with ‘obliteration’ if it attacks ‘anything American’

By AFP

US president berates Rouhani’s ‘very ignorant and insulting’ response to fresh US sanctions; Rouhani had said White House ‘afflicted by mental retardation’

US, Iran tensions show cyberattacks becoming part of warfare — ex-NSA chief

By Shoshanna Solomon

Khamenei says Iran won’t budge despite fresh US sanctions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As tensions spike, Rouhani says Iran ‘never seeks war’ with US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks onstage at the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, October 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for FORTUNE/via JTA)

Interview

The 2020 Democratic primary according to Debbie Wasserman Schultz

By Eric Cortellessa

F-35 fighter jets from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom take part in an aerial exercise over the Mediterranean Sea, on June 25, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli F-35s train alongside US, UK in first international exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Fifth-generation stealth fighter jets fly in drill over Mediterranean Sea to test and improve aircraft’s abilities, IDF says

The last shot Beresheet sent of landing before crashing onto the moon's surface, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

‘Not challenging enough’: SpaceIL won’t send another spacecraft to the moon

After crash landing of Beresheet on lunar surface in April, organization behind Israeli project says it is eyeing more ambitious goals

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera visits at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, June 25, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel raps Chilean president for Temple Mount visit with Palestinian officials

Foreign Ministry says tour of Jerusalem holy site violated diplomatic procedures, undermines Israeli sovereignty in East Jerusalem

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi shaking hands in Ramallah on October 31, 2018. (Credit: Wafa)

Oman, which hosted Netanyahu last year, says it will open embassy in West Bank

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Majdi al-Khaldi, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's senior diplomatic adviser. (Wafa)

Abbas adviser welcomes Oman’s decision to open mission to the Palestinians

Bahrain: A first step forward

If this confab convinces the next generation of Palestinians to choose partnership over extremism, then we dare hope for a better future

Israeli Palestinian Confederation — It’s about time

They have joint markets, roads, and power grids; joint government would be far better than this endless war

Eilleen Eisenberg

Spoken like a true Israeli

A recent trip to the doctor turned out to be more than just a pain in my ear

Of intruding eyes and hidden things

Ah the irony! The elevated galleries of Orthodox synagogues give women the immodest opportunity to snoop on men in their prayerful intimacy with God

More Headlines

Ultra-Orthodox men at the closed gate of the Tomb of the Kings, owned and administered by the French Consulate of Jerusalem, in East Jerusalem on January 24, 2019. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)

Jerusalem’s Tomb of the Kings to reopen to public

By AFP

Amiram Ben-Uliel, who was indicted January 3, 2016, for murder in the killing of the Dawabsha family in Duma (courtesy)

Jewish terror attack suspect in Duma case refuses to testify due to ‘injustice’

Illustrative image of people floating on the water in the Dead Sea, Israel, on May 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minor earthquake shakes Dead Sea

Mahmoud Qadusa seen after his release from Israeli Jail, at the Beitunia crossing, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said following new leads in rape case after Palestinian suspect freed

Yaron London (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Female MKs slam veteran journalist who’s refusing to apologize for groping woman

In this June 13, 2019 file photo a picture of Walter Luebcke stands behind his coffin during the funeral service in Kassel, Germany. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)

Neo-Nazi suspect admits to murder of pro-migrant German politician

By Geir Moulson

Tunisian Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi speaks during an interview with AFP on May 8, 2019 in Tunis. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisia’s Jewish tourism minister condemns Israeli tourists’ praise for IDF

By Cnaan Liphshiz

New Jersey Devils forward Jack Hughes, center right, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NHL draft, poses for photographers with former NHL player Kevin Weekes, far left, Josh Harris, second from left, managing partner of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, and Ray Shero, Devils executive vice president and general manager, during a news conference introducing the prospect to local media, Tuesday, June 25, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Making NHL historyJack Hughes becomes first Jewish No. 1 pick in NHL draft

By JTA

From 'Our Boys,' the HBO and Keshet Productions drama directed by Joseph Cedar and created by Hagai Levi about the June 2014 kidnapping and killing of three Jewish teens (Courtesy HBO)

‘Our Boys,’ HBO series on Israel’s violent summer of 2014, set for premiere

By Jessica Steinberg

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu stars at pro-Trump student group’s Jewish leadership conference

Micha Maor (Screencapture/YouTube)

ObituaryMicha Maor, survivor and spy who helped convict Eichmann, dies at 86

Ezra Saidoff, former deputy director of the Prime Minister’s Office, arrives to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu residence caretaker agrees to plea deal over misuse of state funds

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