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What Matters Most On Friday, June 16, 2023

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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meet in Brussels on June 15, 2023. (Elad Malcha/Defense Ministry)

Gallant, Austin talk upping cooperation on Iran as US said close to interim nuke deal

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Defense chiefs vow joint work to counter Tehran’s ‘wide range of threats’; after TV report says Israel didn’t receive some US details on deal, Israeli official quoted saying it did

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu on November 2, 2022 (left); Outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov; Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid, Netanyahu’s Likud spar over emerging US nuclear understanding with Iran

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a ceremony commemorating the death anniversary of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum just outside Tehran, Iran, June 4, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei hosts Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders in Tehran

A parking lot in central Jerusalem that will become a new Russian diplomatic complex. (Google Street View)

Russia to open embassy branch in Jerusalem as part of land deal with Israel

New complex will mostly provide consular services, in agreement that provides solution to longstanding dispute over plot

Interview

In Israel, top Orban aide says Russian aggression violates international law

Hungary’s Gergely Gulyas, minister in PM’s office, meets Netanyahu and Dermer, as rumors swirl of embassy move

Gergely Gulyas, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, interviewed in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)

Netanyahu said trying to arrange meeting with Turkey’s Erdogan

Election posters hung by the Blue and White party show its candidate Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a Hebrew slogan reading 'Netanyahu cares only for himself,' ahead of the 2020 elections. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

Poll shows Likud-led coalition down 10 seats, losing majority, if fresh vote held

(L) US Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference in Brussels on October 20, 2022. (R) Likud MK Amichai Chikli speaks at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (US State Department/Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Chikli appears to dismiss US antisemitism envoy as ‘a nice lady’ and a leftist

By Canaan Lidor

Comments come amid criticism of Israeli minister from unnamed Biden administration official; he later clarifies that he believes the censure came from an aide to Deborah Lipstadt

Michael Rapaport performing at the Roast of Antisemitism in Los Angeles, June 14, 2023. (Courtesy of Dani Zoldan via JTA)

Jewish celebrities roast antisemitism in packed LA comedy event

By jacob gurvis

MK Tally Gotliv seen outside the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s Gotliv sanctioned, booted from committees after causing Knesset chaos

Coalition imposes punitive measures against MK, who earlier asserted she would not be punished for refusing to remove her candidacy for Judicial Selection Committee; she’ll appeal

AnalysisFor Netanyahu, yesterday’s embarrassment could become tomorrow’s win

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: The pro-Israel rally on July 31, 2014 took place outside Paris's Israeli embassy. (Glenn Cloarec/The Times of Israel)

Foreign Ministry investigating Paris deputy ambassador for anti-government activity

Illustrative: A RyanAir Boeing 737 plane. (Courtesy)

‘Landing in Palestine’: Uproar erupts on Ryanair flight to Tel Aviv

Despite complaints from passengers, stewardess repeatedly says final destination of flight is ‘occupied Palestine’; airline calls incident an ‘innocent mistake’

Archaeology'We are totally shocked by the amount people are returning'

New campaign to anonymously return illegally held antiquities nets thousands of items

By Melanie Lidman

15% of public estimated to be holding antiquities in their homes that by law belong to the state; Israel Antiquities Authority’s collection drive extended another week

IAA archaeologist Marwan Masarwah holds a 1,700-year-old anchor in front of a sign advertising the campaign to encourage citizens to return illegally-held antiquities on June 15, 2023. (courtesy IAA)

Prof. Mona Khoury, Vice President for Strategy and Diversity, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Sharon Gabay)

ToI podcastWitnessing violence is highest predictor to perpetrating it

What Matters Now to Prof. Mona Khoury: The cycle of violence in Arab communities

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With over 100 Arab Israelis dead through violence in the first half of 2023, this academic says it’s time to stop the blame game and start coming up with a comprehensive plan

Joanne Greenaway

Should we ever quash debate?

Korach’s rebellion is the paradigm of an argument that is not ’for the sake of heaven,’ but only God can determine that

Judith Colp Rubin

Dear Elizabeth Gilbert: You let me down

You convinced me to conquer my fears; how could you cave to Ukrainians protesting the Russian setting of your new novel?!

A protester holds a sign saying 'We will never surrender' at a rally against the planned judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, on June 3, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

IMF hails ‘remarkable’ Israeli economy, warns overhaul uncertainty may harm growth

By AFP and ToI Staff

Organization recognizes strong performance but expects slowdown while citing high inflation and controversial judicial plans, urges political solution

Israeli inflation lower than forecast in May, boosting odds of rate hike pause

By Sharon Wrobel

Tel Aviv moves up to 5th place in annual ranking of best global tech ecosystems

By Sharon Wrobel

Housing prices dip slightly but remain about 10% higher than in 2022

By Danielle Nagler

Members of the 2023 Special Olympics delegation from Israel meet with Israeli Olympic Committee president and past medalist Yael Arad (center), June 8, 2023. (Ben Melnik)

They are 'athletes, and not only people with disabilities'

Israel’s 35 Special Olympics athletes are going for gold at games in Berlin

For the first time, delegation is departing with government backing after group recognized earlier this year as a sports federation; CEO: ‘We are beyond excited, beyond motivated’

In breakthrough, Israeli scientists say they synthesized human embryos from stem cells

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Weizmann Institute team uses stem cell model allowing researchers to see into ‘black box’ of critical early stage of pregnancy

Digital imagery of stem cell-derived embryos created by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in June 2023. (Screen capture/Weizmann Institute of Science)

China's President Xi Jinping and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2023. (Jade GAO / POOL / AFP)

Interview'Palestinians have patience. We can wait another 25 years'

Having given up on the US, Palestinians look to China to mediate peace with Israel

PA minister Ahmad Majdalani tells ToI that Beijing can use billions in trade as leverage to coax Jerusalem to come to the table as Washington’s influence on the global stage wanes

Ending China trip, PA’s Abbas backs Beijing crackdown on Muslim minorities

By AP

CNN probe: IDF soldiers did nothing to stop violent settler rampage in Huwara

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, right, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem April 20, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Amid strained ties, Ben Gvir won’t extend term of police chief Shabtai

Far-right minister slammed for leaking decision while commissioner is overseas attending a family medical emergency; Lapid: He’s simply not a human being

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Jerusalem district police chief Doron Turgeman at a meeting in Jerusalem, June 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State attorney: Ben Gvir’s administrative detention bill a threat to democracy

In this courtroom sketch, prosecuting attorney Eric G. Olshan questions witness Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Congregation, in the federal trial for 2018 synagogue massacre suspect Robert Bowers, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Pittsburgh. (David Klug via AP)

Jury weighs dozens of charges against Pittsburgh synagogue gunman who killed 11

Jurors to resume deliberations Friday against 50-year-old truck driver whose own lawyers say he carried out US deadliest antisemitic attack in 2018

A still from 'Concerned Citizen.' (Courtesy of the Israel Film Center Festival)

Film festival wrap-up

Grab your rugelach and check out this year’s must-watch Israeli films

By Jordan Hoffman

From June 1-8, NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival presented a selection of films that rivals Cannes or Sundance – but here you ran the chance of bumping into your Hebrew teacher

More Headlines

Israeli soldiers take part in an army drill with Merkava Mark 3 tanks, January 22, 2013. (Ofer Zidon/FLASH90, file)

In first, Israel plans to sell vaunted Merkava tank to 2 countries, one in Europe

By Emanuel Fabian

Mourners hold up pictures of people who died in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people on the 25th anniversary of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2019. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina seeks arrest of 4 Lebanese suspects in 1994 bombing of AMIA Jewish center

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at the scene of a suspected murder in Ramle, August 27, 2022. (MDA)

Man killed in car crash in south, in 3rd traffic collision fatality of the day

By Michael Horovitz

Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)

Missouri school district to debate ban of ‘Maus’ over potential ‘sexual material’

By Andrew Lapin

Thousands participate in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 8, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Homophobic conference’s claim to be recognized by Education Ministry sparks outrage

Nazi youth celebrate Adolf Hitler's takeover of Austria, in Vienna, March 12, 1938. (AP Photo)

Austrian writers demand provinces drop anthems penned by Nazi composers

By AFP

Gustav Klimt's 'Dame mit Fächer' is shown in this hand-out image released by Sotheby's. (Sotheby's via AP)

Auction house says sale of Klimt’s final portrait could set European record

By AFP

Illustrative: The beach in the coastal town of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, on April 14, 2018. (Dario Sanchez/Flash90)

Lifeguard shoots and wounds man on Bat Yam beach after being threatened with knife

From right, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Union of Comoros Azali Assoumani, Senegal's President Macky Sall, and Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema, bottom, attend a commemoration ceremony at a site of a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Missiles target Kyiv as African leaders visit to push Ukraine and Russia for peace

By Jamey Keaten

Robert Gottlieb, an eclectic literary editor whose career was launched with Joseph Heller’s 'Catch-22' and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker.' (Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP)

ObituaryRobert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Heller, Caro and Potok, dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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