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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 19, 2016

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Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

Secret document reveals key Iran nuclear constraints will ease in 10 years

In January 2027, Tehran can start installing thousands of advanced centrifuges, cutting time needed to make a bomb to 6 months or less

Iran defends secret document easing nuke program restrictions

By AP and Raphael Ahren

As secret accord is revealed, Israel complains: Iran deal ‘intensified’ nuke problem

By Raphael Ahren and AP

Iranian threat tops Hamas and IS, Liberman tells Knesset panel

By Tamar Pileggi

A delegate at the 2016 Republican National Convention demands a rules change to strip Donald Trump of the party's nomination (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

A GOP divided seeks unity on Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

As anti-Trump activists try to derail nomination, former NY congressman maintains party is together on Jewish state

RNC shuts down convention live chat over anti-Semitic rants

By ToI Staff and JTA

Melania Trump under fire after appearing to lift Michelle Obama speech

By AP and ToI Staff

At GOP convention, Jewish delegates cite Israel and style in backing Trump

President Reuven Rivlin attends a memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 19, 2016 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians say Israeli troops kill boy, 12, in West Bank

Police say violence in al-Ram erupted when forces hit by firebomb, but they did not use live fire; Israel investigating claims

From left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot attend an official memorial ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, July 19, 2016. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

On Lebanon war anniversary, PM vows ‘iron fist’ response to attacks

By ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu calls Hamas, Hezbollah ‘forward bases of Iran’; Rivlin praises ordinary soldiers who overcame failures in preparedness

Pro-Erdogan supporters hold an effigy of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen hanged by a noose during a rally at Taksim square in Istanbul on July 18, 2016, following the failed coup attempt of July 15. (AFP/ OZAN KOSE)

Despite detente, Erdogan may find Israel too good a scapegoat to resist

By Raphael Ahren

Turkish leader can be expected to cite main suspect Fethullah Gülen’s past links to Israeli dignitaries, Bar-Ilan scholar Efrat Aviv says

Erdogan says he was ‘minutes’ from death during coup

By AP and ToI Staff

Erdogan foe Gulen dismisses Turkey extradition bid

By Thomas URBAIN

85 Turkish generals, admirals charged in coup attempt

By AP

Palestinians harvest wheat and barley in a field near the West Bank city of Hebron, May 06, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

6 millennia old but ‘almost fresh,’ Masada seeds unravel barley’s origins

By Ilan Ben Zion

Grains found in Judean Desert, the oldest plant DNA ever sequenced, point to cereal’s domestication in Jordan Valley, scientists say

Jews from Arab lands is not a love story

A move to teach more about Mizrachim glosses over one of the 20th century’s worst examples of ethnic cleansing

Gerald M. Steinberg

Terror, security and human rights fervor

When preventing intrusions on civil liberties trumps the need to protect life, society needs to fix itself, and fast

The Obama Administration must defund supporters of this worldwide movement designed to destroy Israel

Brent Chaim Spodek

I (don’t) believe in God

That tall guy with the big beard on the throne who sounds like Darth Vader? That’s Zeus; seek out the Divine instead

Rescuers gather on a road near railtracks in Wuerzburg southern Germany on July 18, 2016 after a man attacked train passengers with an ax. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)

Four seriously injured in ‘probable’ Islamist ax attack on German train

By AFP, ToI Staff and AP

Local police kill 17-year-old Afghan as he attempts to flee after slashing at commuters in Bavaria, shouting ‘Allahu akbar’

Family and friends mourn at the funeral of 20-year-old IDF lone soldier Shlomo Rindenow, on July 18, 2016. (Ben Drori/FLASH90)

US-born soldier killed by grenade mourned as ‘always smiling’ go-getter

Large crowds heed family’s call to attend funeral of Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow, who died in accidental explosion that also claimed life of Staff Sgt. Hussam Tafesh

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein speaking at the 'Zion and Jerusalem' convention, July 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

IDF mulls cutting ties with rabbi who called gays ‘deviants’

Yigal Levinstein, head of a prestigious premilitary academy, claimed the gay rights movement has ‘infiltrated the army’

Steven Rich (right) and Asher Fishman (left) at Israel's Ben Gurion airport after a Nefesh B'Nefesh chartered flight from New York, July 19, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Former marine, future soldiers fight nerves for journey ‘home to Israel’

By Raoul Wootliff

A day after accidental death of US-born lone soldier, eager enlistees immigrate as part of 218-strong group on Nefesh B’ Nefesh flight

Ultra orthodox Jewish men gather to pray during a demonstration in support of Rabbi Eliezer Berland before his arrival to the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, on July 19, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After 3-year hunt, rabbi accused of molestation arrested in Israel

Popular Hasidic figure Eliezer Berland extradited from South Africa after avoiding capture since 2013; followers rally at airport

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset during Question Time, July 18, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In Knesset hot seat, Netanyahu calls allegations against him ‘hot air’

By Marissa Newman

Grilled by lawmakers at first Question Time, PM says Abbas ‘runs’ from peace talks; laments Israeli rabbis’ rejection of top NY rabbi’s conversion

The American Jewish Committee holding a panel on anti-Semitism that coincided with the beginning of the Republican convention, July 18, 2016. (Cleveland Jewish News)

Boast about ‘anti-sharia laws’ falls flat at panel on anti-Semitism

Georgia state senator seeks to win over AJC crowd, but his statements against Islamic law are not particularly welcome

Illustrative image of Syrians evacuating a body on a stretcher following airstrikes on the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Maysar in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on July 17, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

US-led coalition strikes said to kill 56 civilians in Syria

By AFP

Dawn raids on Aleppo village held by Islamic State appear to have been accidental, human rights monitor reports

This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)

Hamas sentences 3 Gazans to death for spying for Israel

3 others also accused of giving information to Jewish state are sent to prison, Palestinian media reports

A woman prepares to sell Turkish flags in Taksim square on July 18, 2016 in Istanbul. (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

Deputy mayor of Istanbul district shot dead in office

By ToI Staff and AP

Unidentified assailants enter Cemil Candas’s office in Sisli city hall and shoot opposition party politician in the head

Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir (center right) welcomes his Bahraini counterpart Khalid Bin Ahmad al-Khalifa (center left) and Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani of Bahrain (far right) upon their arrival for a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) extraordinary meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, January 9, 2016. (AFP/Ahmed Farwan)

Interview

‘Arab world won’t go for Israeli diplomatic blitz, and Netanyahu knows it’

By Raphael Ahren

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An Israeli jogs past Palestinians working at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Knesset speaker calls for annexation of Ma’ale Adumim

The Israel Broadcasting Authority building in Jerusalem on March 6, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu defers closure of Israel Broadcasting Authority

Israelis socialize during Tel Aviv's annual White Night celebration, June 30, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Brain molecule may determine antisocial behavior

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital performs Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto in C Major with the Venice Baroque Orchestra on June 2, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Eine kleine WebmusikIsraeli virtuoso launches 15-second Instagram concertos

By AFP

Rabbi Ari Wolf, left, shaking hands with Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the start of the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, July 18, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Cleveland police chaplain delivers invocation at Republican convention

By JTA

Tair Kaminer, a 19-year-old Israeli woman who spent more than five months in military prison for refusing to enlist, after her release on July 18, 2016. (screen capture: Ynet)

IDF releases longest jailed female military objector

Ethan Zohn (YouTube screenshot)

'Survive' this!Reality star Ethan Zohn has traditional Jewish wedding

By JTA

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Hebrew media reviewHot air and Cleveland

By Ilan Ben Zion

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