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What Matters Most On Monday, July 8, 2019

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Carbon 14 dating supports the archaeologists' identification

Archaeologists say they found town where future King David took refuge from Saul

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

For decades scholars sought the elusive site of Ziklag, where the Bible says David was given shelter by Philistine King Achish

A Boswellia tree growing on Socotra island, Yemen, znm, IStock photos from Getty Images

Frankincense production ‘could halve in 20 years’ because trees over-exploited

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian security officer nabbed by PA for planning terror attack

Officer said to confess last month to planning shooting of Israeli motorists on Route 90 south of Jerusalem

6:33 pm

Iran official says Iranian athletes won’t compete against Israelis
6:25 pm

Man who torched historic English synagogue ordered hospitalized indefinitely
6:13 pm

5 Jews left in Cairo with death of matriarch Marcelle Haroun

20% is a short technical step from weapons-grade levels

Iran breaks deal’s 3.67% enrichment cap, warns it could go to 20% or higher

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘This morning Iran passed the 4.5% level in uranium enrichment’: Tehran confirms surpassing limit set by nuclear agreement, gives Europe 60 days to salvage 2015 pact

In this February 3, 2007, file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran open to diplomacy to save nuclear deal, but has ‘no hope’

By Jon Gambrell

Iran not looking for war, says commander of country’s armed forces

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump warns Iran to ‘be careful’ after Tehran says it will breach uranium cap

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, waves with the released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 14 , 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli court says terror victims can sue PA for hundreds of millions of dollars

Rivkah Jamil, 89, died on July 7, 2019 from injuries suffered while running to a bomb shelter in southern Israel in May during an onslaught of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. (Courtesy)

Woman dies of injuries from fall while fleeing May rocket barrage

Prof. Marcelle Machluf at her lab in the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Courtesy)

Technion prof seeks funds for army of cell ‘ghosts’ to battle deadliest cancers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ora Tasmah and representatives for Solomon Tekah's family arrive at Police Internal Investigation Department in Jerusalem, on July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Investigators: Cop who shot Ethiopian-Israeli fired at the ground

Internal affairs officials tell representatives of Solomon Tekah’s family that forensic assessment shows deceased was apparently hit by ricocheting bullet

Ethiopian Israeli protestors demonstrate in Tel Aviv against the shooting of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah and what they say is systemic police brutality, July 2, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

InterviewEthiopian-Israeli community has hit boiling point, leading activist says

By Tani Goldstein

Palestinians stand next to the remains of a car allegedly used by Israeli special forces during an operation in Gaza, which was was later destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF: Officer killed in failed Gaza raid was felled by friendly fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Army chief expresses sorrow over death of Lt. Col. Mem, as military presents its probe into special forces operation that went awry and sparked massive exchange of fire with Hamas

A drone captured by Israel en route to the Gaza Strip (Defense Ministry)

Gaza drone enters Israeli airspace, is shot down by IDF

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Parents protest against the abuse of children in private daycare centers in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2019. The sign reads 'What happens when the door is closed?' (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media review

Not kidding around: 8 things to know for July 8

By Joshua Davidovich

A child abuse case sparks fresh protests, but Ethiopian-Israelis are still fuming at police; a raid that went wrong is reexamined; and talk of political pairings heats up

Parents protest against child abuse in kindergartens and daycares in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands across country protest daycare abuse as anger boils over

Firefighters battle a blaze at a building in Tel Aviv on Sunday July 7, 2019 (Fire Services)

Abandoned building goes up in flames near central Tel Aviv protests

A Palestinian vendor displays food, including pickled vegetables and olives, in preparation for Ramadan at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron,, June 28, 2014. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA tax dispute with Israel leaves its employees struggling with slashed salaries

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The lottery ticket

Like so many Israelis, I’ve come to expect miracles, so I might as well play my lucky number

Nancy Strichman

A lighthouse in the fog of extremism

Props to Tag Meir, an umbrella organization working to counter hate and racism on either side of the Green Line

Facing adversity, Krakow’s Jews celebrate Shabbat

When one synagogue closed its doors to us, we improvised another — temporary — place to worship, and it was beautiful

It begins with the Ethiopians

Israeli society is unstable because so many suffer from harassment over their nationality, ethnic origin, sex, or political persuasion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Ehud Barak attend a press conference at the PM's office in Jerusalem, November 21, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Epstein case oozes into Israeli political mud as Netanyahu, Barak trade barbs

By Michael Bachner and AP

PM highlights alleged friendly ties between political rival and tycoon embroiled in new sex scandal; Barak responds with a jab about premier’s own criminal cases

Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 30, 2008 (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

Jeffrey Epstein due in court after sex trafficking arrest

By Michael R. Sisak and Jim Mustian

Israeli ambassador Yossi Shelley (R) and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro eat lunch in Brasilia on July 7, 2019. (Israeli embassy in Brazil)

See food

Israeli envoy to Brazil tries to ‘censor’ lobster lunch, is ridiculed

Black patches covering plates of Yossi Shelley and President Bolsonaro do little to hide nonkosher crustacean, much to Twitter’s amusement

Steve Nasatir speaks at an event commemorating his 40 years as president of the Jewish United Fund in Chicago, May 29, 2019. (Robert Kusel/via JTA)

Interview

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

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Illustrative: People standing in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Alleged ringleader indicted in case of Georgians smuggled into Israel

Israeli chef Eyal Shani prepares a pita in the newly-opened New York branch of his Miznon restaurant chain. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)

Israeli chef gets anti-Semitic threat after critic pans his NY restaurant prices

Naomi Capmbell poses for photographers upon arrival at the Fashion For Relief 2018 event during the 71st international film festival in Cannes, France, May 13, 2018. (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Naomi Campbell praises Lubavitcher Rebbe on 25th anniversary of his death

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)

Netanyahu and Putin discuss ‘further coordination’ on Iran, Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supporters of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party at a rally in Athens, February 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Far-right Greek party with neo-Nazi roots crashes out of Parliament

By DEMETRIS NELLAS

Illustrative: An anti-Semitic cartoon drawn by artist Ben Garrison depicting US government officials as puppets of George Soros and the Rothschilds. (Ben Garrison)

Artist who drew anti-Semitic cartoon invited to White House

US activist Linda Sarsour speaks during a 'Women For Syria' gathering at Union Square, in New York City, April 13, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Linda Sarsour tweets that Jesus was Palestinian, Twitter goes crazy

Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem)

Florida principal to parent: ‘Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened’

Nano Dimension manufactures electronic products using 3D printing. The image compares a 3D-printed transceiver, right, with-a-traditional-transceiver (Courtesy)

3D printer maker Nano Dimension to fire 20% of workforce as seeks direction

By Shoshanna Solomon

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his house in north London, on June 12, 2019. (Isabel Infantes/AFP)

Rift opens in UK Labour over whistle-blowers ahead of anti-Semitism exposé

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu wins libel suit against government critic over Facebook post

An Electra Air Boeing 737 plane after a safe landing at Ben Gurion Airport amid an emergency situation because of a blown tire. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Plane that made emergency landing at Ben Gurion reportedly grounded by new issue

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