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What Matters Most On Monday, May 4, 2015

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Police detain an Ethiopian Israeli at an anti-police brutality demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Sunday, May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

Reporter's notebook

At Ethiopian-Israeli rally, blood and smoke and scant hope for the future

By Judah Ari Gross

Melees between protesters and cops leave 50 injured, as Tel Aviv protest against racism and police brutality devolves into chaos

Tel Aviv transformed into ‘war zone’ as anti-racism rally descends into melee

By ToI Staff and AFP

Rivlin: Israel ‘erred’ in treatment of Ethiopian community

Soldier whose beating sparked Ethiopian protests calls for calm

By Stuart Winer

Avigdor Liberman speaks during an Yisrael Beytenu party meeting at the Knesset on May 4, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman says he won’t join Netanyahu coalition

By Tamar Pileggi and Stuart Winer

Yisrael Beytenu leader to quit as foreign minister, calls PM’s future government ‘opportunist,’ says his party chose ‘principles over cabinet seats’

Ethiopian Israelis march in an anti-police brutality demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Sunday, May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

Live updates (closed)

Dozens rally against racism in Kiryat Gat day after violent protest

By Jonathan Beck

Party leader Aryeh Deri to become economy minister; party to also receive Religious Affairs Ministry, 2 deputy ministers

A lone flag-waver on the blocked Ayalon highway during a protest against violence and racism directed at Israelis of Ethiopian descent on May 03, 2015 (Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Grappling with melee aftermath, Ethiopian community looks ahead hopefully

By Raphael Ahren

Former MK blames violence on ‘anarchic interest groups that jumped on the bandwagon’; advocacy group issues list of demands

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

On the burial of Vladimir Slepak

Remembering the inspiring hero of Soviet Jewry as the warm, funny man who liked his dog and gave great hugs

When we pulled Krishna out of the rubble

The IsraAid-led search team rescued the young woman five days after a guest house collapsed on top of her

John Kerry interviewed by Israel's Channel 10, May 3, 2015 (Channel 10 screenshot)

Kerry: I don’t believe Israel would hit Iran without consulting us first

By AP and ToI Staff

In Israeli TV interview, US secretary insists emerging deal will ‘protect Israel’; PM: ‘It will endanger Israel and the world’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem, Thursday, December 5, 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu rebuffed Kerry request to visit in recent days

By Stuart Winer

Daniel Tragerman, 4, who was killed in his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on August 22, 2014. (Courtesy)

Daniel Tragerman was killed by mortar fired from UN facility – ex-IDF chief

By Mitch Ginsburg

UNRWA spokesman rejects Benny Gantz’s claim, noting that the army itself retracted same allegation soon after August 22 attack

People are sequestered by members of the Garland Police Department inside the Curtis Culwell Center, Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Garland, Texas. A contest for cartoons depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Dallas suburb is on lockdown Sunday after authorities reported a shooting outside the building. (photo credit: AP/Nomaan Merchant)

Two gunmen killed outside Muhammad cartoon contest

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Attackers open fire at security guard outside controversial contest in Garland, Texas, are shot by police

The Jerusalem light rail (Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Guards shoot alleged Palestinian attacker in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

Security personnal along the light rail route say they were set upon by the man and suspected he was carrying a knife

Shir Sharlo, 24, from Rishon Lezion, on her post-army trip to Nepal, stands outside the IDF hospital in Kathmandu, where she has been volunteering, Monday, May 4, 2015 (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Dispatch from Nepal

Loath to end their trip, Israeli tourists lend a hand in Nepal

By Melanie Lidman

While some backpackers headed home soon after the quake hit, others have stuck around to assist in recovery efforts

The newborn daughter of Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, outside St. Mary's Hospital's exclusive Lindo Wing, London, Saturday, May 2, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

A life-saving Jewish connection, if new UK princess named Alice

By ToI Staff, JTA and AP

Baby’s great-great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is buried in Jerusalem, and was recognized as a ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for hiding Jewish family from the Nazis

Professor Zeev Schmilovitch (L) and Eshet Eilon CEO Menashe Tamir with the company's NIR technology date sorting machine (Photo credit: Courtesy)

How much fat in that avocado? Israeli machine knows for sure

By David Shamah

Eshet Eilon’s new fruit sorters use ‘X-ray powers’ to analyze the inside of produce

A three-year-old girl who returned home from daycare a day before the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day wearing a yellow star (screen capture: Channel 2)

Pinning of yellow star on 3-year-old reignites Israeli education debate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Critics say expanded Holocaust education uses fear to promote right-wing agenda in schools, but proponents say it builds Jewish identity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with leader of the opposition Isaac Herzog during the opening session of the Knesset on March 31, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Analysis

A weak Liberman could be pushing Netanyahu toward a unity coalition

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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Family and friends attend a memorial ceremony by the grave of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi, at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem, February 13, 2013. (photo credit: Tali Mayer/FLASH90)

Memorial to slain French Jew Halimi vandalized

By AP and JTA

British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband stands in front of a monolith etched with his party's pledges ahead of the May 7, 2015 general elections. (screen capture: Daily Mail)

Massive monumentMiliband mocked for Mosaic monolith

By AP and ToI Staff

Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers, holds up a photo of herself at her home in Parkland, Fla. in 2011. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

ObituaryA former housewife, Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch dies at 91

By Matt Sedensky

File: At least 1,000 activists and Haifa area residents crowd the Kiryat Haim suburb to protest Health Ministry findings that linked heightened cancer rates in the city with high levels of air pollution, May 3, 2015 (Screen capture: Facebook)

Haifa residents step up protest against air pollution

German Chancellor Angela Merkel lays a wreath at the International Memorial of former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, southwestern Germany, during a ceremony to mark 70 years since it was liberated by US forces on May 3, 2015. American army trucks rolled into Dachau, northwest of Munich, on April 29, 1945 to discover the unspeakable horror that had led to more than 41,000 people being killed, having starved or died of disease. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE)

At Dachau ceremony, Merkel warns of resurgent anti-Semitism

By Yannick Pasquet

Business meeting (Photo credit: Pexels)

Israeli tech aims to neutralize office politics

By David Shamah

Police detain an Ethiopian Israeli at an anti-police brutality demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Sunday, May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

Hebrew media reviewAfter tear gas clears, tough questions remain

By Joshua Davidovich

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