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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 3, 2019

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A member of the Ethiopian community of Israel is arrested by the police during clashes in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on July 2, 2019, during a protest against the killing of Solomon Tekah, a young man of Ethiopian origin, who was killed by an off-duty police officer. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop

47 police officers, 26 protesters, 9 passersby and one firefighter treated by MDA; Erdan: No repeat of Tuesday’s violence; roads across country to be blocked from 3:30 p.m.

Israeli police officers at a protest following the death of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah, an Ethiopian-Israeli who was shot and killed a few days before in Kiryat Haim by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 2, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

As protests rage, PM to convene ministerial committee on integrating Ethiopians

Israeli police officers at a protest following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed on June 30 in Haifa by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 2, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Erdan vows to stop ‘anarchy’ as police disperse Ethiopian Israeli protests

Ethiopian-Israelis and supporters take part in a protest against police violence and discrimination following the death of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah, who was shot and killed on June 30 by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 3, 2019. The sign reads, "An Ethiopian child also wants to get home to mother." (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Protests muted after family of slain teen calls for pause

Family of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah says organized, ‘just and legitimate protests, without violence’ to begin after shiva mourning period ends Sunday

6:24 pm

Egyptian officials to visit Gaza to discuss calm with Israel
5:50 pm

Competing poll by Channel 12 shows similar coalition troubles for Netanyahu
5:39 pm

Election poll shows Netanyahu is preferred PM, but doesn't have a coalition

Ethiopian Israelis and supporters protest following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed few days ago in Kiryat Haim by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 2, 2019. ( Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

‘Are our lives worth less?’ Shooting, racism fuel Ethiopian Israeli protests

By Simona Weinglass

Protesters taking part in the massive demonstrations say systemic racism behind repeated incidents of police killing young black men in Israel

An Israeli woman holds a poster of Solomon Tekah, a young man of Ethiopian origin who was killed by an off-duty police officer, as members of the Israeli Ethiopian community block the main entrance to Jerusalem on July 2, 2019 to protest his killing. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israel media reviewStill a nation divided: 7 things to know for July 3

By Tamar Pileggi

Ethiopian Israelis and supporters protest following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed June 30 in Haifa by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 2, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Rivlin call for restraint as Ethiopian protests descend into violence

Chernobyl "liquidator" Alexander Kalantyrsky, a construction engineer who helped build the concrete base of the Chernobyl sarcophagus in 1986, at his home in Bat Yam, June 26, 2019. His computer shows documentation from his period working at Chernobyl. (Times of Israel staff)

'Europe could've been wiped out. It was a race against time'

When hubris meets nuclear fission: A Chernobyl liquidator’s warning to humanity

By David Horovitz

In 1986, Alexander Kalantyrsky volunteered to help build the sarcophagus over the exploded reactor. 6 years later, he made aliya. His life story holds lessons for us all

President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 3, 2019 (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani: Starting Sunday, Iran will enrich uranium to ‘any amount we want’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As accord teeters, Iranian president says Tehran will move to refine radioactive element beyond 2015 deal’s 3.67% cap

Trump claims Iran was violating nuclear deal ‘long before’ he became president

Iran atomic archive stealers, Hezbollah tunnel-busters win security prize

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu says Iran trying to ‘blackmail’ world by violating nuclear deal

By AFP

Amir Peretz delivers a speech at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Ailing Labor elects past chairman Amir Peretz to lead it through next election

By Raoul Wootliff

Former defense minister, 67, wins race outright with 47% of vote, beating protest leaders Shaffir and Shmuli and avoiding a second round

Congratulating new Labor chair Peretz, center-left leaders eye potential unions

Touting ‘democratic values,’ Blue and White starts wooing ‘Anglo’ voters

By Hannah Harnest and Raoul Wootliff

Barak vows not to sit in Netanyahu government ‘under any circumstances’

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

When you’re a nurse in Israel and your patient doesn’t want you near her because of your religion or your dark skin

Richard Schifter

The Bahrain conference: What many have overlooked

The PA has no interest in the $50 billion of aid to Palestinians if it means giving up their claim of ’right of return’

What’s going on with that last Knesset seat?

Yes, the government has been dissolved, but here’s why that last, wobbly 120th spot is still important

The reality of my viral Bahrain selfie

Yes, that’s me but I’m no journalist, I wasn’t at the Kushner workshop, and I have a message of peace for the Arab world

Attendees at Palestine Expo 2017 in London write on a wall to protest Israeli 'apartheid.' (Screenshot YouTube)

Critics call it a festival of anti-Israel hatred, propaganda

At massive UK PalExpo, they’ll play BDS bowling, learn to ‘decolonize Palestine’

By Robert Philpot

Ahead of pro-Palestine event, a group of UK lawyers urges German venue owners to cancel, based on Bundestag anti-BDS resolution

Ellie Reeves MP addresses the House of Parliament in London on 14 July 2017 (screen grab)

Labour MP faces no-confidence vote for criticizing party on anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this file photo taken on April 9, 2019 Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell attends a press conference after meeting with his Slovenian counterpart in Ljubljana. - Josep Borrell was appointed head of the European diplomacy on July 2, 2019. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP)

Nominee for EU foreign policy chief has 2 kids from partner he met on kibbutz

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, US ambassador to Israel David Friedman and his wife Tammy at an American Independence Day celebration in Jerusalem, July 2, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

At July 4 party, Netanyahu says he’ll keep ‘open mind’ on Trump peace plan

By Raphael Ahren

Embassy’s annual Independence Day event held for first time in Jerusalem; US envoy David Friedman hails ‘historic gathering’

Hebron-area businessmen Ashraf Jabari (R) and Ashraf Ghanem (L) speaking at a press conference in central Jerusalem on July 2, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Palestinian businessman who attended Bahrain confab says PA seized his ID

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, second left, stands next to his wife Tammy, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second from right, and his wife Sara during a Fourth of July Independence Day celebration at the Ambassador's residence in Herzilya Pituah on July 3, 2017. (AFP / Heidi Levine)

In first, US embassy celebrates Independence Day in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

A salt flat on the shores of the Dead Sea on January 11, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Geologists float an answer to the mystery of salt flurries beneath Dead Sea

By Melanie Lidman

New computer simulation and research helps scientists understand how salt makes its way down rather than up, providing a glimpse into formation of massive deposits around the world

Marianne Ihlen seen in the documentary 'Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love' (YouTube screenshot)

Film review

In ‘Marianne & Leonard,’ a love immortalized in song

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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein presides over a Knesset plenum session, on June 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Edelstein admits failure of his attempt to call off elections

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/POOL/AFP)

Russia: Israel behind Syria strikes, threatens regional stability

By Judah Ari Gross

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks to people at Edley's Bar-B-Que in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 17, 2019. (Shelley Mays/The Tennessean via AP)

Democrat Klobuchar vows to keep US embassy in Jerusalem if elected

By Eric Cortellessa

Adidas accidently posted a message calling for Jews to be gassed after an automated promotion was hijacked by trolls. (Screenshot)

Adidas apologizes for tweet calling for gassing of Jews

By ToI Staff and JTA

An ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem against the military draft on July 2, 2019 (Israel Police)

Ultra-Orthodox block Jerusalem roads in protest of draft evader’s arrest

NSLComm, a space-tech startup that has developed a nano-satellite that expands in space to boost connectivity capacity (YouTube screenshot)

Israel-made expandable nanosatellite to launch on Russian rocket Friday

By Shoshanna Solomon

Guards from a private security firm wearing balaclavas blocked the entrance to the Izaak Synagogue in Krakow, Poland, amid a dispute between the local Jewish community and the Chabad-run synagogue, July 1, 2019. (Michael Berenbaum/JTA)

Polish chief rabbi calls for synagogue to reopen after armed standoff

By JTA and ToI Staff

Tom Derek Bowden at Arnhem, Netherlands. (via UK Jewish News)

British soldier who founded IDF parachute school dies at 97

Actress Niv Sultan who will portray the character Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent, in the new Israeli action TV series "Tehran." (Facebook)

Cineflix buys rights to new Israeli TV thriller ‘Tehran’

Far-right politician Artem Semenikhin was attacked last week while walking home in the Ukrainian city of Konotop. (Screenshot)

Anti-Semitic politician beaten in Ukraine

In this April 28, 2017, file photo, people walk out of the headquarters of Sony Corp. in Tokyo (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

Sony, Daiwa set up VC fund to invest in startups in US, Japan, Israel, Europe

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli tour guide Uri Bar in an undated photo (Courtesy of the family)

Israeli tour guide dies in Georgia, near Russian border

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