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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 4, 2019

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Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef, talks to Israeli TV after leaving the terror group and accusing it off corruption (Screencapture, July 3, 2019, Channel 12)

Second ‘son of Hamas’ leaves terror group, exposing corruption, Turkish spy ring

Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder and brother of ‘Green Prince’ who secretly worked for Shin Bet, opens up to Israeli TV after also fleeing group; urges his father to resign

Israel says Hamas bomb-maker used medical permit to leave Gaza

2 Gaza border mayors boycott meeting with PM, accuse him of ignoring region

By Judah Ari Gross

Second senior IDF commander quits following Gaza raid that went awry

By Michael Bachner

Sampling petrus bone in the Department of Archaeogenetics ancient DNA laboratory at the Max PIanck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH). (Antje Wissgott)

Know thine enemy: DNA study solves ancient riddle of origins of the Philistines

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan consoles the family of Solomon Tekah, 19, who was shot dead by an off-duty police officer, sparking riots, July 4, 2019 (courtesy)

Minister acknowledges racism toward Ethiopian-Israelis

‘Millions share your grief,’ Erdan tells family of slain Ethiopian-Israeli teen

Public security minister also criticizes police force’s internal affairs department, citing ‘lack of trust’ in body that released cop suspected of killing teen, sparking riots

Driver describes fear as rioters pummeled his car in Ethiopian Israeli protests

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Demonstrations wane as family of slain Ethiopian teen asks for pause in protests

Israel media reviewJammed up: 8 things to know for July 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

As Trump holds divisive July 4 military parade, here’s why Israel halted them

Troops, tanks and artillery guns were fixtures of Independence Day festivities until 1973, when costs and logistics put an end to them; Netanyahu and Regev have mused about revival

A Bradley Fighting Vehicle is seen in front of the Lincoln Memorial (back right) ahead of the 'Salute to America' Fourth of July event with US President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2019. (Alastair Pike/AFP)

Trump brings out the big guns for July 4 military parade

By Sebastian Smith

Mayim Bialik speaks at the AT&T's SHAPE: 'The Scully Effect is Real' panel on June 22, 2019, in Burbank, California. (Mark Von Holden/ Invision/AP)

Mayim Bialik: Don’t forget the vegans this July 4th

By KATIE CAMPIONE

In this Monday, June 3, 2019 file photo, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell attends a press conference in Rabat, Morocco. European Union leaders on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, after a lengthy session of talks, have nominated current Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell for the post of EU foreign policy chief. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Tough on Israel, fond of Iran: Jerusalem wary of incoming EU foreign policy czar

By Raphael Ahren

Mogherini successor Josep Borrell last year denounced Netanyahu’s ‘warlike arrogance’ and advocated for unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 22, 2019, before boarding Marine One for the trip to Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump warns Iran nuclear threats will ‘come back to bite you’

By AFP

A still from a video showing alleged abuse at a daycare center in Rosh Ha'ayin, released by police on July 4, 2019. (screen capture: Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

Parents protest as shocking videos of daycare abuse surface

By Joshua Davidovich

Footage shows woman who runs private center tying up children, smothering them; charges expected early next week

6:08 pm

Rights group warns second Egyptian politician may die in jail
5:52 pm

Powerful quake shakes southern California
5:35 pm

Parents protest after videos emerge of daycare worker abusing kids

Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony, at the Justice Ministry offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rabbi: Shaked can’t lead party, because politics is ‘no place for a woman’

Shlomo Aviner says ex-justice minister ‘really great,’ but must not be named URWP chief even if it costs right-wing votes

ExclusiveBennett offers Shaked the leadership of New Right — party officials

By Raoul Wootliff

Newly elected Labor leader aiming for 15 seats, including 4 from center-right

By Stuart Winer

TV surveys show Liberman holds balance of power, as Likud, Blue and White slip

Former SS officer Karl Münter has justified his units massacre of 86 French civilians during the Second World War and now delivers lectures to German Neo-Nazi groups. (YouTube screenshot)

German far-right hosting lectures by Nazi veterans, security agency warns

Report says some 60 events, featuring six former Waffen-SS and Hitler youth members, were held last year

People wear kippahs during a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Berlin, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Young Jews ‘feel generally unsafe in Europe,’ says EU watchdog group

Illustrative: Supporters of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement hold flags during a demonstration at the Kungsholmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden on August 25, 2018. (Fredrik Persson/Getty Images/AFP)

Swedish neo-Nazis disrupt exhibition of Holocaust survivors’ portraits

By JTA

Plan rendering for memorial park at the site of the former Great Synagogue of Oswiecim, Poland, set to open on November 28, 2019 (courtesy: Auschwitz Jewish Center)

Memorial for 400-year-old Jewish community to be built in town next to Auschwitz

By Matt Lebovic

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

The rebbe of the Jewish people

Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s cosmic task continues 25 years after his death: spreading boundless and irrational love for every Jew

Religion shouldn’t have a say in the abortion debate

Even if doctrine contends that terminating a pregnancy thwarts God’s will, women have the right to choose in a secular democratic society

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The defeatism of banning Orthodox rabbis at Limmud

The popular program is a golden chance for denominations to leave their own comfort zone and fearlessly tackle the deep ideas

US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Kushner hints Palestinian refugees won’t return, says Trump ‘very fond’ of Abbas

By Raphael Ahren and Agencies

Promising a ‘pragmatic’ solution, president’s son-in-law says Jewish refugees from 1948 were looked after, but Arab states have ‘not absorbed a lot’ of Palestinian refugees

Palestinian demonstrators carry banners and national flags during a protest against the US-sponsored Middle East economic conference that opened in Bahrain, in the West Bank city of Nablus on June 25, 2019. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Most Palestinians back boycott of Bahrain meet, say statehood trumps prosperity

US Rep. Justin Amash arrives at the Capitol before the House passed the Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, May 4, 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/JTA)

Palestinian-American lawmaker Justin Amash quits GOP

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Sailors attend a service to commemorate the 14 crew members who were killed on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles at Kronshtadt Navy Cathedral outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Putin admits submarine that caught fire, killing 14, was nuclear-powered

By AP

Vlodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's newly elected Jewish president, meets with rabbis in Kiev in early May 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Dnepro/ via JTA)

Putin calls on Ukraine’s Jewish president to halt ‘frenzy of neo-Nazism’

From 'Parasite,' the award-winning Korean film that will open the 36th Jerusalem Film Festival on July 25, 2019 (Courtesy PR)

Korean dark comedy ‘Parasite’ to open 10 days of Jerusalem Film Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Neil Diamond performs at the 84th Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting at the Rockefeller Center on November 30, 2016 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images/AFP)

Yesterday's songsNeil Diamond musical headed for Broadway

By JTA

Illustrative image of an optical fiber connection (alphaspirit; iStock by Getty Images)

Report warns that Israel cellular operators may lag on 5G network investment

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mad Magazine's iconic mascot Alfred E. Neuman parodies Fiddler on the Roof on the cover of a 1973 issue.

Goodbye, NeumanIconic comedy magazine Mad to cease publication

Members of the group Never Again Action are arrested protesting migrant detention policies in Boston on July 2, 2019. (Gili Getz via JTA)

Jewish activists bring downtown Boston to standstill over migrant detentions

By Penny Schwartz

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2018 file photo, Nicki Minaj performs on stage during the MTV EMA's 2018 at Bilbao Exhibition Centre in Bilbao, Spain.

Twerk permitRacy hip-hop star Nicki Minaj to perform in Saudi Arabia

George Galloway speaks during an interview at his office in Bradford, England, April 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

George Galloway decries ‘weaponization’ of anti-Semitism against Labor

Vijay Anand, senior vice president of Global Development Centers at Intuit Inc. speaking at Cyber Week, on June 25, 2019 (Intuit)

US fintech firm Intuit to grow R&D presence in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Part of the organic farm at Hadassah Meir-Shfeyah youth village. (Times of Israel)

OECD knocks Israel’s ‘protectionist’ agricultural policies

Illustrative image of a handshake (stnazkul; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli exits surge to $14.5 billion in first half of 2019, report shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

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