Israel hails friendly Bahrain FM * How ToI arranged Manama prayers * Iran says Trump threatening genocide * Israel's Neanderthal camps * Met keeps Jewish family's Picasso

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Friday, June 28, 2019 [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 Bassem Mroue]( [Senior Hamas official lashes out at Bahraini FM over comments to ToI]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Israel media review / Loving Israel? 8 things to know for June 28]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( Reporter's notebook [Raphael Ahren]( [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]( [Miriam Adelson hopes there will be a biblical ‘Book of Trump’]( By [Josefin Dolsten]( [Greenblatt says he prefers to call settlements ‘neighborhoods and cities’]( By [Jacob Magid]( [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]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Palestinians remain unsold on US peace ‘bribe’ after Bahrain meeting]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Tillerson says Kushner conducted foreign policy behind his back]( By [Ben Fox]( [Clashes in East Jerusalem after police kill man who launched fireworks at them]( By [TOI staff]( [At least 20 Palestinians injured in protests against Israeli security forces following deadly shooting in Issawiya neighborhood]( [Gantz: Deal to end Gaza arson attacks shows Netanyahu ‘filling Hamas’s balloons’]( By [TOI staff]( [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]( By [TOI staff]( [Gaza incendiary balloons spark dozens of fires in southern Israel]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( TV review [Why HBO’s miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ should be required watching]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [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]( [Analysis / Europe powerless to keep Iran nuclear deal from unraveling]( By [Fabien Zamora]( [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]( [US envoy says war with Iran ‘unnecessary,’ but military buildup going ahead]( By [Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton]( [Trump’s tough talk on Iran prompts Senate vote on war powers]( By [LISA MASCARO and Deb Riechmann]( [Plan to pump desalinated water to Sea of Galilee may open diplomatic floodgates]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Neanderthals in Israel lived in open camps, not only caves, 50,000 years ago]( By [TOI staff]( [Hebrew University team says prehistoric humans near present-day Haifa used camp site as ‘home base’ for 10,000 years]( Top Ops [Laurie Novick]( [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?]( Interview [The perspective that helped Israeli director Avi Nesher create ‘The Other Story’]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [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. 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]( [2nd Democratic debate has dramatic moment on race; foreign policy barely raised]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Rivals target Biden as Democrats’ rifts emerge on race, age]( By [JUANA SUMMERS and Steve Peoples]( More Headlines [France records all-time highest temperature as Europe bakes in extreme heatwave]( By [Agencies]( [8 far-right German extremists charged over plan to start violent uprising]( By [Agencies]( [Nitzan Horowitz wins vote to lead left-wing Meretz party]( By [TOI staff]( [Ultra-Orthodox radio station won’t face crippling fines for exclusion of women]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Trump jokes to Putin: ‘Don’t meddle in the election, please’]( By [Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller]( [Palestinian accused of killing man in Germany said he targeted a ‘rich Jew’]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Environment Ministry upbraids ice cream factory after Acre ammonia leak]( By [TOI staff]( [Labour lawmakers rap return of MP who said party too apologetic on anti-Semitism]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [France reseals Jerusalem historic site after opening marred by dispute]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [German report points to sharp rise in anti-Semitic violence]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Toddler dies two days after near-drowning in Etzion Bloc pool]( By [TOI staff]( [The richest person in at least 7 US states is Jewish]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved