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What Matters Most On Friday, June 28, 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)

Israel lauds Bahrain FM for friendly comments, invites journalists to visit

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Hoping for closer ties, Foreign Ministry says ‘direct contact is the key to peace,’ after Shaikh Khalid Al Khalifa’s first interviews with Israeli media

Iraqis storm Bahrain embassy in Baghdad to protest peace conference

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassam Mroue

Senior Hamas official lashes out at Bahraini FM over comments to ToI

Israel media reviewLoving Israel? 8 things to know for June 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Reporter's notebook

Behind the scenes of the first morning minyan in Manama in over 70 years

I came to Bahrain to cover an economic peace conference, and ended up discovering a small but unique local Jewish community

Rabbi Abraham Cooper attends the morning prayers at the Bahrain synagogue, June 25, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Then US President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, November 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Miriam Adelson hopes there will be a biblical ‘Book of Trump’

By Josefin Dolsten

US Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at the Israel Hayom forum in Jerusalem on June 27, 2019. (Gideon Markovitz)

Greenblatt says he prefers to call settlements ‘neighborhoods and cities’

Trump envoy pans PA at Jerusalem event honoring former UN ambassador Haley; US Ambassador Friedman calls Obama abstention on UN anti-settlement vote a ‘parting betrayal’

Panning Bahrain workshop, Abbas says national rights are not a real estate deal

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

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tillerson says Kushner conducted foreign policy behind his back

Screen capture from video allegedly showing a Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli Police after launching fireworks at them in the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem, June 27, 2019. (Twitter)

Clashes in East Jerusalem after police kill man who launched fireworks at them

At least 20 Palestinians injured in protests against Israeli security forces following deadly shooting in Issawiya neighborhood

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (R) speaks to reporters at a burnt field in southern Israel on June 28, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Gantz: Deal to end Gaza arson attacks shows Netanyahu ‘filling Hamas’s balloons’

Former top defense officials under the PM assail him over the agreement; IDF nabs Gazan carrying knife who crossed the border

Israeli official confirms concessions to Hamas in deal to end arson attacks

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Islamic Jihad hints it may strike Israel in case of US-Iran war

Gaza incendiary balloons spark dozens of fires in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

A still from the new HBO miniseries, 'Chernobyl.' (Liam Daniel/HBO)

TV review

Why HBO’s miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ should be required watching

By Jordan Hoffman

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives to meet his Japanese counterpart in Tehran on June 12, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Zarif accuses Trump of threatening ‘genocide’ of Iranians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign minister rejects US president’s notion of a short war as ‘illusion,’ says Washington ‘not in a position to obliterate Iran,’ as war of words escalates

Iran, nuclear deal partners to meet as accord under threat

By AP

Uranium limit breach wouldn’t end nuclear deal, Iran says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

AnalysisEurope powerless to keep Iran nuclear deal from unraveling

By Fabien Zamora

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the 178th graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, southern Israel, June 27, 2019. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

After US-Russia summit, Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop hitting Iran in Syria

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

At air force graduation, PM also warns that war will break out if Israel does not maintain control of West Bank’s Jordan Valley

Brian Hook , the US special envoy for Iran, gestures during an interview in Paris, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

US envoy says war with Iran ‘unnecessary,’ but military buildup going ahead

By Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton

US President Donald Trump talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing to Japan for the G-20 summit, June 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s tough talk on Iran prompts Senate vote on war powers

By LISA MASCARO and Deb Riechmann

Photo shows the decline in the level of water in the Sea of Galilee, October 8, 2018. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

Plan to pump desalinated water to Sea of Galilee may open diplomatic floodgates

By Melanie Lidman

Dr. Reuven Yeshurun of Haifa University excavating animal bones at the Ein Qashish archaeological site in northern Israel. (Prof. Erella Hovers, Hebrew University)

Neanderthals in Israel lived in open camps, not only caves, 50,000 years ago

Hebrew University team says prehistoric humans near present-day Haifa used camp site as ‘home base’ for 10,000 years

Are we there yet?

Korach’s deliberately provocative questions mask his fundamental lack of understanding of Jewish leadership

Shammai Engelmayer

When Harvard withdraws its offer of admission

Kyle Kashuv claims he’s changed his racist views, but with so much at stake for him, who can be sure?

Director Avi Nesher, left, with Nathan Goshen on the set of 'The Other Story.' (Michal Fattal)

Interview

The perspective that helped Israeli director Avi Nesher create ‘The Other Story’

By Jordan Hoffman

Detail from 'The Actor,' by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)

Court lets Met keep Picasso masterpiece sold for $12,000 by family fleeing Nazis

By JTA

Appeals court rules that descendants of Jewish businessman who owned ‘The Actor’ waited too long to demand it be returned by NY museum

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a solidarity and trade mission meets with Israel President Reuven Rivlin, June 27, 2019. (Courtesy)

Gov. Cuomo says Israeli self-driving tech could pilot NYC’s subways

By Yaakov Schwartz

In Israel for a brief trip focused on solidarity and trade ties, New York State governor also laments rising anti-Semitism, saying NYC has seen an 83% increase, vows zero tolerance

Sen. Kamala Harris (R) (D-CA) and former Vice President Joe Biden (L) speak as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) looks on during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida on June 27, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

2nd Democratic debate has dramatic moment on race; foreign policy barely raised

Democratic presidential candidates former US vice president Joe Biden, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, California Senator Kamala Harris, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, former Colorado senator Michael Bennet, and California Representative Eric Swalwell, attend during the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, June 27, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Rivals target Biden as Democrats’ rifts emerge on race, age

By JUANA SUMMERS and Steve Peoples

More Headlines

A picture taken on June 28, 2019 shows a pharmacy screen sign indicating the temperature of 44 degrees Celsius in Carpentras, south-eastern France. (Patrick Valasseris/AFP)

France records all-time highest temperature as Europe bakes in extreme heatwave

Illustrative: Police officers patrol at a train station in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on October 8, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jens-Ulrich Koch)

8 far-right German extremists charged over plan to start violent uprising

Nitzan Horowitz, the newly voted head of left-wing Meretz party, reacts as he makes a victory speech, after winning the party leadership at a vote in Tel Aviv, June 27, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Nitzan Horowitz wins vote to lead left-wing Meretz party

The broadcasting studio of the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Barama, July 1, 2009. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox radio station won’t face crippling fines for exclusion of women

By Marissa Newman

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump jokes to Putin: ‘Don’t meddle in the election, please’

By Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller

The town of Horb am Neckar, Germany, May 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

Palestinian accused of killing man in Germany said he targeted a ‘rich Jew’

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

Environment Ministry upbraids ice cream factory after Acre ammonia leak

British Labour MP Chris Williamson. (YouTube screenshot)

Labour lawmakers rap return of MP who said party too apologetic on anti-Semitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An Israeli policeman prevents ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from entering the Tomb of the Kings site owned and administered by the French Consulate of Jerusalem because they did not pre-register their visit through the internet which they do not use for religious reasons, in East Jerusalem on June 27 2019. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

France reseals Jerusalem historic site after opening marred by dispute

By AFP and ToI Staff

Picture taken June 18, 2019, shows people attending a protest rally in Berlin, Germany, against far right violence. Slogan reads 'Stop Far Right Violence' (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)

German report points to sharp rise in anti-Semitic violence

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrtive photo of a swimming pool (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Toddler dies two days after near-drowning in Etzion Bloc pool

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, the Facebook's developer conference, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar )

The richest person in at least 7 US states is Jewish

By JTA and ToI Staff

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