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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 29, 2019

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Palestinian policemen participate in a training session at their headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 30, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

PA arrests Hebron businessman who attended Bahrain conference

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Palestinian official says Ramallah may be looking for more info on US-led summit with detention of Saleh Abu Mayala; 2nd Palestinian participant said to narrowly escape arrest

US President Donald Trump gestures, during a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Says he cut PA aid because 'they were saying nasty things'

Trump: If no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal during my tenure, it’ll never happen

US president says the Palestinians seek an agreement but ‘want to be a little bit cute – and that is okay’; expresses optimism over his plan’s chances

Security guards wait at the entrance to the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain on June 25, 2019. (Shaun TANDON / AFP)

Gulf states, Israel are closer after Bahrain meet, but full ties still unlikely

By Shatha YAISH

Protesters at the Bahrain embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday June 27, 2019. (screen capture: twitter)

Iraq denounces ‘attack’ on Baghdad’s Bahrain embassy by peace confab protesters

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a press conference announcing his return to politics ahead of national elections in September, Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Barak said pushing to form center-left bloc that would include Blue and White

Israeli TV reports Blue and White wary of joining forces with ex-PM’s new party, Labor, and Meretz over concerns it could hurt its prospects among right-wing voters

Labor MKs Itzik Shmuli (L) and Amir Peretz at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor leadership hopefuls accuse each other of endangering party

In this photo from September 16, 2017, an F-22 Raptor does a fly-by during the airshow at Joint Andrews Air Base in Maryland. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

US deploys stealth fighters to Qatar airbase amid Iran tensions

By AFP

Following downing of drone and tanker attacks, Air Force says F-22s have been sent to Persian Gulf ‘to defend American forces and interests’

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

US cyber attack on Iran exploited flaw in heavily-guarded network, experts say

By Michel Moutot

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)

Senate fails to limit Trump war powers amid Iran tensions

By LISA MASCARO and Deb Riechmann

The source of a signal interfering with GPS reception for planes flying over Israel, located on Russia's Khmeimim Air Base in western Syria, from a presentation by aerospace engineer Todd Humphreys to the US government in June 2019. (Courtesy)

GPS jamming affecting Israel comes from Russian base in Syria: US researcher

By Judah Ari Gross

Signal that has been interfering with airplanes in Israeli airspace is detectable from space, appears to come from new deployment of Moscow’s electronic warfare systems

Palestinians throw stones during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem's neighborhood of Issawiya on June 28, 2019, a day after a Palestinian was shot and killed by police during a protest in the same neighborhood. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

80 Palestinians injured in East Jerusalem clashes after police shooting

Dozens hurt day after officers kill 20-year-old who launched fireworks at them in Issawiya neighborhood; court rejects request to release his body for funeral

Illustrative: Israeli military vehicles are seen during clashes along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near Gaza City, on June 28, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Army nabs 4 Gazans carrying knives near border

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces on the Israel-Gaza border near Gaza City, June 28, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Gaza arson balloons spark 14 fires; IDF jeep set ablaze in border riots

In this Saturday, August 12, 2017 photo, James Alex Fields Jr., second from left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist rally took place. Fields was later charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he plowed a car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally. (Alan Goffinski via AP)

White supremacist given life sentence for Charlottesville car attack

James Alex Fields Jr. sentenced on hate crime charges after pleading guilty to 2017 attack that killed Heather Heyer and injured more than two dozen

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 22, 2019, before boarding Marine One for the trip to Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Reddit ‘quarantines’ largest pro-Trump community for promoting violence

By Billy Johnson

Social media platform says moderators of popular ‘The Donald’ subreddit failed to take down posts calling to shoot Oregon police and lawmakers embroiled in climate change showdown

Ross Farca, released on bail after being arrested for threatening to kill Jews and law enforcement agents in California. (Concord Police Department)

California Jews uneasy as man who threatened synagogue shooting allowed bail

By Gabe Stutman

Mama De La Smallah performs at a 2019 Tel Aviv Pride event at the Desire Club in South Tel Aviv. (Laura E. Adkins)

For this Tel Aviv drag queen, the glitz and glamour are far from the point

By LAURA E. ADKINS

Trying to tell us something, This American Life?

Was the influential podcast warning Jews to avoid accusing others of anti-Semitism, lest we be unfair or detrimental to our own cause?

Eradicating your opponent is no way to win a debate

The glory of Judaism is its culture of argument, for it is the collaborative pursuit of truth (Korach)

Illustration above and top by Avi Katz

Necessary stories

Mo’ed bet

By Haim Watzman

Yoskeh and Nurit Marmurstein enjoy winter blossoms in Alumim, Israel, in 2012. (Courtesy of Yoskeh Marmurstein/via JTA)

Medical ethics

Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Graffiti on the walls of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, June 28, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Hitler graffiti sprayed on walls of Supreme Court building in Jerusalem

Miriam Sharon (Courtesy of the the family)

Dutch court overturns conviction in 1990 murder of Israeli woman

Labour lawmaker Chris Williamson, seen in 2018 (Jack Taylor/Getty Images via JTA)

Two days after reinstatement, Labour MP again suspended amid anti-Semitism row

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli Shimon Hayut is the subject of 'Tinder Swindler', a true crime documentary on Netflix. (Screenshot)

Israeli arrested in Greece over alleged defrauding of Scandinavian women

Khalid Siddiqi gives a sermon at the Islamic Society of San Francisco on June 21, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

San Francisco imam claims Egypt’s Morsi killed by ‘Zionist agents’

US President Donald Trump, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during family photo session at G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump tells Saudi crown prince he’s doing ‘a spectacular job’

By AFP

In this December 15, 2018 photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York. (AP Photo/Rebecca Gibian)

Bader Ginsburg gives $9,000 to Israeli schools promoting Jewish-Arab coexistence

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Workers hang on a wall a painting believed by some experts to be Caravaggio's 'Judith Beheading Holofernes' for its public presentation at the Drouot auction house in Paris on June 14, 2019 before it goes under the hammer on June 27 in Toulouse, the city where it was discovered five years ago. (Francois Guillot/AFP)

‘Lost’ $170 million Caravaggio biblical masterpiece snapped up before auction

By Hervé GAVARD and Fiachra GIBBONS

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter, Gabriella, in 2016. (AFP)

British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran ends hunger strike

By AFP

Historian, professor and author Yuval Noah Harari. (Courtesy)

Yuval Noah Harari worries that LGBT acceptance will lead to backlash

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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