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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 9, 2019

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Atlanta-based historian Deborah Lipstadt in Jerusalem, July 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

InterviewBranding every BDS supporter an anti-Semite is 'stupid'

‘Feh!’ Top Holocaust scholar pans Netanyahu for warm ties with Poland, Hungary

By Raphael Ahren

‘Don’t have the chutzpah to say Israel is the leader in the fight against anti-Semitism,’ Deborah Lipstadt says in scathing criticism of PM’s realpolitik approach

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the media after visiting the detention facility in Clint, Texas on July 1 (Christ Chavez/Getty Images via JTA)

How Jews who panned AOC’s ‘concentration camps’ comments view detention centers

In this July 7, 2019, photo, Russian Jewish songwriter Psoy Korolenko, left, and Canadian historian Anna Shternshis perform a song from "Yiddish Glory," a Grammy-nominated project that brings to life the lost songs of World War II, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Long-lost Holocaust-era Soviet songs in Yiddish brought to life in Israel

A police officer is seen pulling an ultra-Orthodox man's sidelocks, during a protest in Beit Shemesh, on July 6, 2019. (Facebook screenshot)

Cop suspended after video shows him pulling ultra-Orthodox man by sidelocks

Police say Beit Shemesh resident Mordechai Kreuzer attacked officers, resisted arrest; Public Security Minister Erdan calls incident ‘appalling’

Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold monthly prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel pushes back on US report spotlighting religious freedom woes

By Marissa Newman

A picture taken in January 2018 of a destroyed Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel, leading from Gaza into Israel, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim. (Jack Guez/AFP/POOL)

IDF uncovers cross-border attack tunnel from southern Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says passage was discovered during construction of underground barrier around the enclave, five years after 2014 operation aimed at countering threat of tunnels

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (unseen) meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace envoy, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Greenblatt: Trump may decide to release peace plan before Israeli elections

By Adam Rasgon and JTA

Illustrative. A Palestinian throws a firebomb. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian throws firebomb at cops, is shot, arrested – police

By Judah Ari Gross

Supporters of Hamas attend a rally marking the terror group's founding in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas holds major snap military drill in Gaza

Spokesman for Strip’s interior ministry says exercise meant to simulate how to deal with a ‘sudden security threat,’ check preparedness of terror group’s forces

6:23 pm

Twitter bans 'dehumanizing' posts toward religious groups
5:57 pm

Poll: Likud, Blue and White would each get 30 seats, Liberman still kingmaker
5:39 pm

Hamas holds major snap military drill in Gaza

It 'checks all boxes.' No, 'it's unacceptable, unbelievable'

As archaeologists say they’ve found King David’s city of refuge, a debate begins

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Mere hours after team claims to have uncovered 3,000-year-old biblical town of Ziklag south of Jerusalem, two of their peers insist they most certainly have not

A lithograph depicting Abraham making an oath to the Philistine King Abimelech. (University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection)

PM: Palestinian ties to land ‘nothing compared to 4,000-year Jewish connection’

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. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Police chief: Ethiopian-Israeli protesters took advantage of cops’ restraint

Commissioner says police wanted to allow protesters to legitimately demonstrate over teen’s killing by officer; Erdan: Violent officers shouldn’t remain on the force

Ethiopian-Israelis and supporters protest police violence and discrimination in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ethiopian-Israeli protests resume over killing of teenager by cop

Former justice minister Ayelet Shaked, June 12, 2019. (Flash90)

Analysis

Back from the wilderness, Ayelet Shaked faces tough choice on political future

With several options, but none perfect, popular former justice minister said set to make decision on whether to stick with Naftali Bennett by end of week

White West Highland Terrier looking down at toy lobster on the rocks near the ocean. (Creative_Identity_Designs/iStock by Getty Images)

Israel media review

Smells fishy: 9 things to know for July 9

By Joshua Davidovich

A childcare reform is questioned, police findings about a cop who shot a teen aren’t trusted, a helicopter trip is forgotten and a lobster is at the center of a coverup

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

Un-shellfish attitudeIsrael’s Brazil envoy says he ate salmon with Bolsonaro, not lobster

Spencer Sunshine

Young, passionately Jewish — and anti-Zionist

Mainstream Jews need not agree with these radicals’ stance on Israel, but, as assimilation spreads, they must not exclude them

The greening of Israeli politics

As environmental issues seem to be gaining traction, here’s how to push the green agenda forward along bipartisan lines

Hate wrapped in cotton candy at the PalExpo

At a family-oriented event in the heart of London, attendees freely hurled abuse and spat at any Jews they encountered

Andrew Silow-Carroll

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a Jewish intellectual

The humor rag had a subversive message for its young readers in the ’60s and ’70s: Don’t trust corporate America

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a tour of the Jerusalem Police headquarters at the Russian compound in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015. (GPO)

Asked why he arranged state chopper for tycoon, PM repeated: ‘I don’t remember’

By Raoul Wootliff

Leaked transcript details questioning of Netanyahu for ordering taxpayer-funded Jordan trip for Milchan to help him and Indian mogul with a private deal; PM: Part of economic peace

Former prime minister Ehud Barak (L) shakes hands with Yair Golan after announcing the formation of a new party at Tel Aviv's Beit Sokolov on June 26, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Barak says ex-general ‘told the truth’ when he likened Israel to pre-war Germany

By Raoul Wootliff

US political strategist Joel Benenson in 2013. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Netanyahu’s main rivals hire Obama’s strategist for upcoming elections

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

Netanyahu again goes after Barak for ties to accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM highlights payment to political rival from Wexner Foundation, linked to US tycoon who allegedly sex trafficked minors

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2018, file photo, US President Donald Trump, left, and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta (R) listen during a meeting of the President's National Council of the American Worker in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

What did Epstein’s famous friends know and see?

US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffery Epstein on July 8, 2019, in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Jeffrey Epstein pleads not guilty, ordered to remain in jail

By Michael R. Sisak and Jim Mustian

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Christians United for Israel's annual summit, July 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pence warns Tehran against escalating tensions, takes talks offer out of speech

By Eric Cortellessa

US vice president tells pro-Israel conference that Iran should not interpret decision to not go ahead with military strike as a lack of resolve

French president’s top adviser in Tehran in bid to save nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran warns British detention of oil tanker won’t go ‘unanswered’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Nuclear watchdog confirms Iran breached uranium enrichment cap

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Raysyn Roach-Vaden. assistant legal attache for cybersecurity at the FBI in Tel Aviv, working within the US Embassy, at Cyber Week, June 2019 (David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)

A day in the (tech) life

Tailing hackers, with Israel’s help: Meet the FBI’s man in Tel Aviv

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Illustrative: Marcelle Haroun, the widow of former prominent Egyptian Jewish lawyer Shehata Haroun and the mother of the president of the Egyptian Jewish Community Magda Haroun, speaks during an interview at their home in Cairo, February 11, 2017. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Death of matriarch reduces Cairo’s Jewish population to 5

By JTA

Chris Martin of Coldplay performs at Metlife Stadium on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, in East Rutherford, N.J. (Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Warming upColdplay’s Chris Martin visits coexistence kindergartens in Israel

Spanish River Community High School (Google street view)

Florida school principal removed for stating he couldn’t say Holocaust happened

By JTA

A view of Taibe. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Man shot dead as he left mosque in Arab city of Tayibe

Parents protest in Tel Aviv against the abuse of children and infants in kindergartens in Israel, July 7, 2019. The sign reads "What happens when the door closes?" (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Education Ministry said caught off guard by preschool oversight announcement

British Ambassador Kim Darroch hosts an event at the British Embassy in Washington, October 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

UK prime minister stands by envoy to US who called Trump administration ‘inept’

By DANICA KIRKA

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joined by commission the chair, Harvard Professor Mary Ann Glendon (L), while announcing the formation of a commission to redefine human rights, based on natural law and natural rights, during a news conference at the State Departmen, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Pompeo taps an abortion foe and a rabbi for a fresh look on human rights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Newly elected Latvian president, former European Court of Justice judge Egils Levits gives a press conference in Riga, Latvia, on May 29, 2019. ( Ilmars ZNOTINS / AFP)

Latvia’s new president Levits sworn into office; parents are of Jewish origin

By AFP

Uzbekistan's Bekmurod Oltiboev, in white, competes against Iran's Javad Mahjoub during their men's +100 kg judo bronze medal match at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 31, 2018. (AP/Dita Alangkara)

Iran’s sports czar denies its athletes will stop boycotting Israelis

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)

European association said to nix Jerusalem conference, fearing BDS pressure

Suspect arrested in murder of Israeli DJ during show in Mexico

Aliza’s Place Café in Melbourne, Australia (Street view, screen grab captured on July 9, 2019)

Jewish-owned Melbourne cafe daubed with Holocaust denial graffiti twice in week

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