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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 27, 2019

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An airplane drives along the runway at Ben Gurion International Airport, on May 8, 2018. (Flash90)

Moscow blamed for disruption of GPS systems at Ben Gurion Airport

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli officials say interference caused by Russian military in Syria; Russian embassy dismisses accusation as ‘fake news’

An airplane takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 15, 2018. (Flash90/File)

Flights at Ben Gurion Airport suffer weeks of interruption to GPS systems

By Judah Ari Gross

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)

Interview'We'll encourage the Palestinians...but we can't force them'

Bahrain’s FM tells ToI he hopes ‘to visit Israel, when it’s all open, peaceful’

By Raphael Ahren

Meet Shaikh Khalid Al-Khalifa, who wants Israelis to understand Bahrain and vice versa, and wonders ‘What’s so surprising?’ about his support for Israel’s right to defend itself

Finance Minister Kahlon meets with his Palestinian counterpart in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Gaza arson balloons spark 19 blazes in south

Gaza official: Halt of fuel imports exacerbating power shortages

Firefighters at the scene of an ammonia leak in Acre, June 27, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Mall evacuated as ammonia leak hits Acre; residents told to stay inside

Incident comes days after leak of compound near the city of Beit Shemesh

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, speaks to reporters as he closes the US-sponsored Middle East economic conference "Peace to Prosperity Workshop" in the Bahraini capital Manama on June 26, 2019. (SHAUN TANDON / AFP)

Kushner hails Bahrain conference as ‘tremendous success’

Trump adviser says his ‘detailed and reasonable’ plan to revive Palestinian economy was well received by workshop attendees, says $50 billion stimulus package not a bribe

Palestinians remain unsold on US peace ‘bribe’ after Bahrain meeting

By AFP and ToI Staff

Greenblatt says he’s never had reason to criticize Netanyahu, Israeli government

Wrapping up Bahrain summit, Kushner says door still open to Palestinians on plan

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/FLASH90/File)

19% of Americans say small businesses should be able to refuse service to Jews

By JTA

Survey investigates support for denying services to minority groups if doing so would violate owners’ religious beliefs; 30% support denying gays services

US campuses see 7% increase in white supremacist fliers this academic year

By Josefin Dolsten

At UN session on anti-Semitism, Israeli ambassador calls to name special envoy

By Stuart Winer

TeetotalitariansGermans protest neo-Nazi rock festival by buying up all the beer

By JTA

A pilot speaks to a crew member by an F/A-18 fighter jet on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea on June 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Live updates (closed)

Amid tensions, US envoy says war with Iran ‘not necessary’

Iran’s UN ambassador says country’s breach of uranium limit can be reversed if Tehran sees economic benefits

6:30 pm

Imam hurt in shooting outside mosque in northwest France
6:29 pm

East Jerusalem man critically hurt in clash with police
6:15 pm

Iranian diplomat: Uranium limit breach can be reversed with economic benefits

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announces the formation of a new party, at Tel Aviv's Beit Sokolov on June 26, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Declaring Netanyahu’s time is up, Ehud Barak announces formation of new party

Former PM pans Blue and White leadership for lack of passion needed to convince voters in the last campaign, says size of blocs, not of individual parties, will determine winner

After comeback announcement, poll gives Barak party 6 seats

Left-wing lawmakers cautiously hail Barak’s comeback, right blasts his record

After joining Barak’s new party, Golan says he’s on the left, but not a leftist

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Everybody complains about Israel’s electoral system. But it works

Especially after this year’s political shenanigans, the chaotic, tribal electoral system gets a bad rap; it is also the source of Israel’s strength, solidarity and democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference of his Likud party in Ramat Gan, March 4, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Meretz delegates to vote Zandberg or ex-MK Horowitz in party leadership ballot

Peretz said weighing making Arab, Haredi schools fly Israeli flag

Liberman on blocking coalition: Issue of religion and state could not be ignored

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on November 21, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

After leading vote to dissolve Knesset, PM’s looking at a redo. Is that allowed?

Legal experts say there’s no going back on vote initiating snap elections; Likud official says measure is an effort by Netanyahu to avoid blame for having orchestrated move

Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBarakback mountain: 6 things to know for June 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz on Likud bid to avert elections: PM pressed the button — no way back

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (C), Iran's head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division, looks at debris from a downed US drone reportedly recovered within Iran's territorial waters and put on display by the Revolutionary Guard in the capital Tehran on June 21, 2019. (Meghdad Madadi/Tasnim News/AFP)

Iran: Future US border violations will elicit ‘stronger response’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Parliament speaker says Tehran downing US surveillance drone over the Gulf will deter Washington from additional acts of ‘aggression’

A technician at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, February 3, 2007. (AP/Vahid Salemi/File)

Iran said to be short of uranium limit but expected to reach it by weekend

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Joshua Z. Rokach

When a war memorial contravenes religious freedom

Why the Supreme Court’s decision to let a taxpayer-funded cross stand is dangerous for American Jews

A pitfall of wealth

If you have the funds to influence your communal leaders, do you serve the greater good or do you settle your own petty scores? (Korach)

Foreskin at the forefront

Anti-circumcision activists use selective, out of context and untrue claims to make a case that is gaining traction in Israel

Anti-LGBTQ discrimination is sacrilege

Discrimination toward individuals because of who they love or how they identify is fundamentally immoral

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks at a Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Art, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

In first debate, Booker the lone Democrat to not call for reentering Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

‘If I have an opportunity to leverage a better deal, then I’m going to do it,’ says New Jersey senator, who voted in favor of the pact in 2015

From left, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney pose for a photo on stage before the start of a Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Democrats rail against economy-for-the-rich in first debate

By JUANA SUMMERS and Steve Peoples

Daddy Yankee, the Latin American dancehall singer, brought the Rishon Lezion crowd exactly what they wanted on June 26, 2019 (Courtesy Live Nation)

Concert review

Fueled by 15 years of hits, Reggaeton king Daddy Yankee brings Latin heat

By Joshua Davidovich

Singer who helped pioneer genre fusing Spanish rap and dancehall speeds through songs from ‘Gasolina’ to ‘Despecito’ as Rishon Lezion crowd tries to keep up

More Headlines

Attorney Lea Tsemel in a trailer for the documentary "Advocate." (Screen capture/YouTube)

National lottery pulls funding for festival prize after divisive film wins

Workers use discarded plastic to pick up debris from the scene where an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff last month, killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia in April 2019. (Courtesy)

Remains of Israeli victim of March’s Ethiopian Airlines crash identified

An Israeli military position, right, is seen on the top of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, where the borders between Israel, Syria and Lebanon meet. April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian national arrested after strolling across border into Israel

Former US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on June 26, 2019. (Oren Ben Hakon/Israel Hayom)

Former US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley prays at Western Wall

President Reuven Rivlin (R) and his Chilean counterpart Sebastian Pinera shake hands prior to their meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 26, 2019. (Gali TIbbon/AFP)

Chile president apologizes for visiting Temple Mount with PA officials

Illustrative: An aerial view of the solar field at Kibbutz Ketura, which provides one-third of the daytime electricity for the city of Eilat. (Courtesy)

Huawei enters Israel’s solar power market, hours after quitting US

By Sue Surkes and Shoshanna Solomon

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks after meeting Chilean High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on June 21, 2019. (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP)

Venezuela government says it thwarted ‘coup’ plot aided by Israeli, US ‘agents’

By AFP and ToI Staff

"Let's wake up and expel the enemy" spray-painted on a wall in the northern West Bank village of Sarta on June 27, 2019. (B'Tselem)

Palestinian West Bank village targeted in month’s sixth apparent hate crime

Illustrative image of a fruit bat (Courtesy)

Fruit bats can transform echoes into vision, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli border police officers watch a combat demonstration at the Great Wall International Forum in Beijing on June 18, 2019. (Feng Yongbin/China Daily via Chinese People's Liberation Army)

Israeli defense delegation attends Chinese counterterror forum

By AP and ToI Staff

Fairytale, lit-up characters who greet visitors at Jaffa Gate, during Jerusalem's Festival of Light, which opened June 26, 2019 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Time to reflectFestival sees city of gold become a mesmerizing city of light

By Jessica Steinberg

This August 2010 file photo shows a sign for Moody's Corp. in New York (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Moody’s, Israel’s Team8 set up venture to assess cybersecurity risk at firms

By Shoshanna Solomon

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