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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 11, 2023

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

Khamenei: West wouldn’t be able to block Iran from nuclear weapon if we wanted one

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supreme leader says Tehran not pursuing weapons of mass destruction for religious reasons, urges cooperation with UN watchdog but ‘existing nuclear infrastructure’ must remain

This combination of file pictures shows French President Emmanuel Macron (right) and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. (AP)

Macron urges Iran to immediately stop backing Russia in Ukraine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on June 11, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/Pool/AFP)

102 dead so far this year -- triple the same period in 2022

As fatalities soar, PM calls for involving Shin Bet ‘immediately’ in Arab crime fight

After more deaths over weekend, Netanyahu doubles down on seeking to enlist security service in combating the violence, claims it’s the ‘only way’ to swiftly reverse the trend

Watheq Qashqush, killed in the central Arab city of Qalansawe, June 10, 2023. (Courtesy)

Two men shot dead, raising 2023 toll to 102, in devastating week for Arab community

Teenagers vaping in a park (iStock)

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With tobacco use on rise in Israel, kids and teens see their health go up in smoke

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Bright colors, fruity flavors, and nicotine are getting kids as young as 12 hooked on vaping, while adults’ outdoor secondhand smoke is embedding itself deep in children’s bodies

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US said set to rejoin UNESCO 6 years after Trump administration announced exit

According to report, White House plans to return to UN cultural agency after US quit citing anti-Israel bias; Jerusalem has indicated it doesn’t oppose return

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Haredi protesters against Jerusalem Light Rail block road in capital
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Israel facing South Korea in fight for third place in U-20 World Cup
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Report: US informs UNESCO it will rejoin agency six years after Trump withdrawal

PM said inclined to reject Levin’s plan to deny the opposition a judicial panel spot

Ahead of a key vote this week to choose the two Knesset representatives on the Judicial Selections Committee, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly expected to support having one coalition MK and one opposition MK on the panel, as has been customary. However, Justice Minister Yariv Levin was continuing to advocate appointing two... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Justice Minister Yariv Levin during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

L-R: Likud MKs David Bitan, Yuli Edelstein, and Shalom Danino in the Knesset in 2022 and 2023. (Flash90, File)

Likud MKs say plans to skew judicial selection panel in coalition’s favor ‘shelved’

Efi Nave and his partner Bar Katz arrive for a court hearing in Rishon Lezion, on November 8, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-bar association chief denies he’s Levin’s proxy, defends behavior in sex scandal

Ex-PM Ehud Barak urges 'non-violent civil disobedience'

‘Not the time for a time-out’: Mass anti-overhaul protests held for 23rd week

Weekly protests against the government’s intention to overhaul the justice system took place for the 23rd week in a row Saturday night, days ahead of a crucial Knesset vote on the makeup of the key Judicial Selection Committee. Israeli television estimated that between 74,000 and 80,000 attended the... Continue Reading

Israelis hold up national flags and placards as they protest the hard-right government's controversial judicial reform plans, in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir (L) speaks with his chief of staff Chanamel Dorfman during a Knesset special committee to discuss his proposed Police Ordinance changes, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir posts apparent fake news said spread by foreign nation trying to sow discord

After far-right minister accuses anti-overhaul protesters of inciting against ‘traitor’ cops, police say the social media initiative is likely a disinformation network

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a suspected homicide in Ashdod, February 21, 2023. (Flash90)

Dozens of police prosecutors, detectives ask to quit understaffed force — report

The sene where a man was found suffering from fatal stab wounds at the Elot Junction outside the southern resort city of Eilat, June 11, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man found fatally stabbed in car outside Eilat

Abraham H. Foxman and Ben Cohen

Pope Pius XII was no saint. The Vatican shouldn’t make him one.

The head of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust maintained good ties with Hitler rather than speak up as Jews were murdered

A psychologist’s perspective on ‘Pride’: What Orthodox people need to know

Pride is about self, not anatomy or sex, and that’s why the community must stop subjecting the queer people in its midst to fear and shame

Ali Mugrabi (Facebook screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

TV reporter attacked while covering LGBTQ memorial for woman killed in north

Ali Mugrabi of Channel 13 news says suspects broke his phone and beat him after event near Druze town of Yarka; cameraman accuses cops of turning blind eye

Sarit Ahmad, 18, who was killed in a shooting in northern Israel on June 9, 2023. (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police searching for brother in killing of 18-year-old woman in north

Israeli security forces demolish the house of Palestinian terrorist Eslam Froukh, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 8, 2023. (Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jun 11: In rare move, IDF enters Ramallah. Why is this significant?

Kevin 'Kasper' Cole temporarily succeeded T'Challa, the original Black Panther. (Marvel Comics via JTA)

'It is the right time for these kinds of stories to emerge'

How Marvel’s short-lived but overtly Jewish Black Panther flew under the radar

By Eric Schulmiller

Decades after the character’s 1966 debut, writer Christopher Priest created a twist in the storyline that some may find surprising

Police at the scene where a motorcycle exploded in Ramat Gan, on June 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man seriously injured as motorbike explodes in apparent Ramat Gan underworld bombing

5 others, reportedly passersby, lightly hurt in blast; badly injured man, 28, said to be close acquaintance of local crime boss in feud with rival

Man charged with murder for shooting dead Arab teen in roadside clash

Student, 16, moderately injured in Lod schoolyard stabbing

5 Bedouin Israelis charged with throwing rocks at Jewish drivers in south

By Emanuel Fabian

Conductor Ido Marko (far left) during an early June 2023 rehearsal of the Integrative Orchestra, comprising students from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Shekel, a Jerusalem program for adults with special needs (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'Giving changes your perspective on your artistic work'

Budding musicians jam in Jerusalem integrative orchestra

By Jessica Steinberg

Conservatory president Michael Klinghoffer talks about making music meaningful, in community programs for people with special needs, the elderly and musical kids in the periphery

24Option was an official sponsor of the Juventus football club in 2014-2019 (Screenshot)

Israel drops charges against binary options operative Roey Hayun

After negotiations during a pretrial hearing, money laundering allegations are withdrawn and seized assets returned

Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the Georgia Republican convention, June 10, 2023, in Columbus, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Trump blasts federal indictment as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘baseless’ at Georgia convention

By Bill Barrow, Jeff Amy, Jill Colvin and MEG KINNARD

In front of a supportive Republican crowd, former US president accuses Biden administration of ‘horrific abuse of power,’ says it’s latest step to ‘try and stop our movement’

Former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a Team Trump Volunteer Leadership Training at the Grimes Community Center in Grimes, Iowa, on June 1, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

AnalysisTrump’s indictment adds unprecedented twist to 2024 White House race

By Frankie TAGGART

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California leaves his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s GOP loyalists rally to his defense as federal charges filed

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Farnoush Amiri

A picture taken on April 13, 2023, shows an employee of the agronomy tech company AgroScout flying a drone in the northern Israeli kibbutz of Yiron. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

‘The first startups’: Kibbutzim repurposed through embrace of new industries

By Alexandra Vardi

Communities founded as models of socialist society have since largely shed collectivist past, with residents touting their ‘innovative approach’ to contemporary challenges

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From left, United States Air National Guard Director Lieutenant General Michael A. Loh, US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann and German air force chief Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz pose for media as they arrive for a news conference on the Air Defender military exercise in Berlin, Germany, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

NATO to launch its biggest-ever drill, hosted by Germany, in show of force to Russia

By AP

A screenshot from video shows a ship called Hurricane after it caught fire in Egypt's Red Sea, June 11, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

3 British tourists missing as boat catches fire in Egypt’s Red Sea

By AFP

Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, Republican from North Carolina, speaks to the crowd at former US president Donald Trump's rally, Sept. 23, 2022, in Wilmington, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

Trump backs GOP candidate for North Carolina governor accused of antisemitic remarks

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska pays her respects as she passes the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II at the Palace of Westminster in London on September 18, 2022. (Jacob King/POOL/AFP)

Ukraine’s first lady expected in Israel next week at invitation of Michal Herzog

By Lazar Berman

Filmmaker Emilio Schenker displays an Israeli flag at a Roger Waters concert at the O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom, June 7, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters waving Israeli flags booted from Roger Waters concert in London

Identity paper of John Demjanjuk, the wartime Nazi camp guard. (Justice Ministry)

US presents Israel with original documents from trial of John Demjanjuk

An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU via JTA)

$65 million deal to sell American Jewish University’s LA campus collapses

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Bottles of almond syrup allegedly used to smuggle cocaine into the country, June 10, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police bust drug ring smuggling large cocaine haul disguised as almond syrup

Connecticut College. (Courtesy)

Connecticut College taps interim head mired in antisemitism scandal

By Andrew Lapin

A trombone player in the military band faints during the Colonel's Review, the final rehearsal of the Trooping the Colour, the King's annual birthday parade, at Horse Guards Parade in London, June 10, 2023. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Several British royal guards faint due to heat during ceremony with Prince William

By AP

In this May 27, 2018, file photo, Bruno Mars performs at the Bottle Rock Napa Valley Music Festival at Napa Valley Expo in Napa, California (Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

It's a beautiful nightBruno Mars adds 2nd Tel Aviv show after first sells out in 2 hours

By Jessica Steinberg

Shlomo Carlebach performs in Jerusalem on March 8, 1994. (Youtube Screenshot)

Soul-searchingFilm version of Carlebach-Nina Simone musical to hit US theaters

By Gabe Friedman

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