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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 18, 2022

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Illustrative: Backdropped by the Suleymaniye Mosque people stroll along the banks of the Bosporous in Istanbul, Turkey Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Israel: ‘Concrete’ threats of Iranian attack on Israelis in Istanbul this weekend

Senior officials call on Israelis still in the city to ‘immediately’ leave, those who can’t should lock themselves in hotel rooms; Iran trying to carry out attacks ‘at all costs’

Turkish riot police officers walk in front of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on June 14, 2022. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)

Israelis hide out in Istanbul hotels amid Iran attack warnings: ‘Why take the risk?’

Screen grab from IDF footage of a strike on a terror group observation post in Gaza overlooking an Israeli border community. The strike was carried out on June 18, 2022 in response to rocket fire. (Israel Defense Forces)

Observation post overlooking border community hit by IDF

Rocket fired at Ashkelon, is intercepted; IDF responds with Gaza strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff

Sirens in coastal city, border towns; no injuries in 1st rocket attack from enclave since April; IDF assessing if Islamic Jihad fired projectile after 3 killed in Jenin clash

Hamas members are seen in an observation post in Gaza, overlooking an Israeli border community. The site was struck by the Israel Defense Forces hours earlier on June 18, 2022 in response to rocket fire. (Amnon Ziv/Courtesy)

After IDF strike, Hamas defiantly raises flag at post overlooking Gaza border town

By Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff

Carrying swastika flags, the German-American Bund parades down East 86th Street in New York City before a large rally at the Yorkville Casino. (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-11748/courtesy Michael Benson)

Interview

Bam! Kapow! When 1930s Jewish mobsters beat up Nazis in the streets of America

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Michael Benson’s ‘Gangsters vs. Nazis’ tells how New York judge secretly directed mafia bosses Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel to recruit army of Jewish thugs to intimidate antisemites

Police at the scene where a 60-year-old man was discovered shot dead on June 18, 2022 in Ramat Gan. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Ramat Gan is 7th murder victim since Thursday, 12th within a week

60-year-old shot at close range; police arrest suspect, said to be father of victim’s daughter’s husband; couple were divorcing; deadly violence against women also seemingly rising

Illustrative: Police in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

3 killed Friday night in separate shootings around northern Israel

Illustrative: A military helicopter holding a 669 Search & Rescue crewman and a stranded hiker over a flooded riverbed in southern Israel, November 9, 2018. (Courtesy: IDF)

Elderly man drowns in Jordan River; woman rescued after falling into Banias Stream

Family members visiting a family member at the coronavirus ward of Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on February 15, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel sees 70% spike in number of seriously ill COVID patients within a week

‘It’s an unpredictable and unstable situation,’ says immune system expert Prof. Cyrille Cohen, urging lawmakers to ‘actively encourage herd immunity among the vulnerable’

Illustrative: Syringes and colorful bandages are prepared as children from local schools prepare to get COVID-19 vaccines in Pittsfield, Mass., on December 13, 2021. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP, File)

FDA authorizes first COVID-19 vaccine for US infants and preschoolers

By Lindsey Tanner

A Jew and an Arab walk into Auschwitz

We brought an Arab delegation to Poland to teach them about the Holocaust, yes, but also to recognize each other’s suffering, in the hope of reconciliation

Damage for decades – Parshat Shelach

The spies’ bad report took the Israelites 40 years to walk out of their system, much the way leaded gas did so much harm that it took years to reduce its impact

Sa’ar: I won’t partner with Netanyahu; Likud trying to ‘bribe’ coalition members

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar on Friday harshly criticized Likud and the party's head, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing them of trying to "bribe" members of the coalition in an effort to bring about the collapse of the government. And he vowed, again, not to partner with Netanyahu... Continue Reading

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a ceremony in memory of Israeli soldiers who were killed during the First Lebanon War, at the National Hall of Remembrance at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on June 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz says won’t let next IDF chief’s nomination fall ‘captive’ to politics — report

Yaffa Ben-David, left, speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on February 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90); Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on June 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Schools to open late Sunday, with talks between teachers union, treasury deadlocked

By Tobias Siegal

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, on May 19, 2022. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF: Palestinian refusal a reflection of their 'priorities'

IDF expands Abu Akleh probe, issues fresh call for PA to hand over fatal bullet

Military condemns ‘biased’ independent probes that conclude Al Jazeera reporter was deliberately targeted by soldiers during clashes in Jenin last month

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority security forces in balaclavas stand by an armored vehicle at the entrance to Balata camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on December 15, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian gunmen abduct, beat reporter for Iranian news site in West Bank

By AP

Iranian aboard plane grounded in Argentina is captain in Quds Force, says Paraguay

By Agencies and TOI staff

One of the men aboard a plane grounded near Buenos Aires is a member of Iran's Quds Force, Paraguay's intelligence chief said Friday, despite claims by Argentina that no evidence links the case to the elite branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Intelligence chief Esteban Aquino told... Continue Reading

Police officers confiscate a box of documents during a judicial raid at the Plaza Central Hotel where the crew of a Venezuelan-owned Boeing 747 cargo plane are staying, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

In this September 23, 2015 file photo, Iranian soldiers take a picture with a Winnie the Pooh character next to a F-14 fighter jet in an exhibition of achievements and equipment of Iran's air force in Tehran, Iran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran says fighter jet crashes after engine failure, pilots survive

By AP

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks in a joint news briefing with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president slams US for imposing new sanctions, says they undermine talks

By AFP

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Road to Majority conference, June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

'Pence had chance to be great, was afraid' to overturn vote

Trump: Jan. 6 panel is ‘one-sided witch-hunt,’ weak Pence was ‘human conveyor belt’

By Agencies and TOI staff

Speaking to religious conservatives, ex-president repeats false election fraud claim, derides his VP, says Democrats ‘allow babies to be executed,’ teases presidential intentions

Supporters of then-US president Donald Trump protest outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

January 6 probe testimonies send Trump loyalists back down conspiracy rabbit hole

By David Klepper

Virginia 'Ginni' Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, right, arrive for a State Dinner with then-Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and then-US president Donald Trump at the White House, September 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

US probe asks Supreme Court judge’s wife to testify on ties to Jan. 6 insurrection

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Farnoush Amiri

A committee exhibit shows former US vice president Mike Pence talking on the phone from his secure location during the riot, as the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House panel builds case against Trump over US Capitol riot in first week of hearings

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Committee focuses on former president’s efforts to convince Mike Pence to overturn 2020 election, draws direct link between false claims that vote was stolen to January 6 violence

Riley June Williams. (FBI)

January 6 defendant denies boyfriend plotted to shoot up synagogue

In this file photo taken on August 9, 1974, the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, bids farewell to the White House staff. (Consolidated News Pictures/AFP)

Sole woman on Watergate prosecution team compares scandal to Trump’s Jan. 6 hearings

By AFP

Whatsapp founder Jan Koum has quietly donated tens of millions of dollars to Jewish organizations now involved in relief efforts in Eastern Europe. (Designed by Grace Yagel with images from Getty Images and Wikimedia Commons/ JTA)

The now-billionaire grew up poor and was orphaned in his 20s

WhatsApp’s reclusive founder has quietly become a megadonor to Jewish causes

Ukrainian-born Jan Koum has gone almost unnoticed in the world of philanthropy, but tax returns reveal that the multi-billionaire is one of his coreligionists’ largest supporters

Belgian Andrée Geulen-Herscovici poses during a visit to the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 18, 2007. (Orel Cohen/Flash 90)

Obituary

Andrée Geulen, Belgian woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children, dies at 100

The former teacher is celebrated for risking her life to ferry young ones to safety, keeping coded records whenever possible to reunite them with their parents after the war

Illustrative: An Orthodox rabbi checks the quality of poultry meat in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on January 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Belgian lawmakers ditch bill to ban kosher and halal slaughter in Brussels

By Cnaan Liphshiz

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference after a meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU chief recommends making Ukraine a member candidate to join Union

By Samuel Petrequin

‘Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective,’ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says, but stops short of initiating fast-track accession process

A Russian soldier guards a pier with the grain storage in the background at an area of the Mariupol Sea Port which has recently started its work after heavy fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, June 12, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo)

Russia putting world at the risk of famine, EU top diplomat warns

By AFP

Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, looks in a mirror and turns off her camera in Mariupol, Ukraine, on February 27, 2022. (Yuliia Paievska via AP)

Medic who filmed Mariupol horror is released by Russia, 3 months after taken captive

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and Lori Hinnant

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Drake poses for a photo with his many brides. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Born to do it

Drake’s new video features a Jewish wedding and 23 brides

By Jackie Hajdenberg and Andrew Lapin

Multi-platinum-selling artist invokes his Jewish background in an unorthodox wedding as part of the surprise drop for his new album ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

'We've always been here, just hidden or ignored'

On Juneteenth, US Jewish communities are reckoning with their own attitudes on race

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Around the country, institutions host Shabbat and other programming aimed at educating about racism generally and also grappling with its existence in their own spaces

More Headlines

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a New York governor primary debate at the studios of WNBC4-TV, June, 16, 2022, in New York. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool)

NY governor endorsed by Satmar Hasidic movement, securing tens of thousands of votes

Members of the Palestinian special police forces wait to compete during the 7th Annual International Warrior Competition hosted by the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), Sunday, April 19, 2015, Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Senators urge against lowering rank of Israeli-Palestinian security ties coordinator

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities supports a wide variety of researchers across many fields in Israel. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

Israeli academy sues American fundraising affiliate for withholding donations

By MADELINE FIXLER

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears as a hologram at the VivaTech trade show in Paris, June 16, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

The force awakensZelensky hologram channels ‘Star Wars’ in appeal for aid from tech firms

By AFP

From our partnerAmnesty International UK is ‘institutionally racist,’ independent inquiry finds

Rabbi Amy Weiss, founder and CEO of Undies for Everyone, was just named a CNN Hero this week. (Image courtesy of Undies for Everyone; design by Mollie Suss)

Texas rabbi who founded underwear nonprofit for the poor named CNN Hero

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

Lawmakers in Spain’s Catalonia region accuse Israel of ‘apartheid’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Two patrons enter the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream shop in Burlington, Vermont, on, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Michigan pension fund sues Ben & Jerry’s owner over ice cream maker’s Israel policy

By Andrew Lapin

Sue Bird is a five-time gold medalist. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish WNBA legend Sue Bird announces planned retirement

By jacob gurvis

Cassville Crossroads Historic District, Jackson Township, NJ, September 9, 2012. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

New Jersey town settles lawsuit over ordinance said aimed at keeping out yeshivas

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