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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 11, 2019

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Illustrative: Israeli military vehicles are seen during clashes along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near Gaza City, on June 28, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

IDF: Troops mistakenly killed Hamas member who was preventing border breach

By Judah Ari Gross

Gaza terror groups meet to discuss response to death of Hamas officer in northern Strip, as Israel apparently seeks to maintain calm

PM says preparing for possible ‘surprising’ Gaza offensive, but prefers calm

Hamas: IDF killed member as he was trying to stop Gazans from crossing border

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel said to quietly increase Gaza work permits as part of unofficial truce

Illustrative -- A US Coast Guard Station Los Angeles-Long Beach 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew conducts a hoist demonstration with a Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco-Forward Operating Base Point Mugu MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew in the Port of Los Angeles, on March 21, 2019 (Seaman Ryan Estrada/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

US Coast Guard calls off search for rabbi who jumped in ocean to save student

By ToI Staff and JTA

Reuven Bauman ‘acted heroically’ when he plunged into choppy Virginia waters after youngster struggled to return to shore in area where swimming is prohibited

Illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers say they have engineered model of ‘receptive’ human uterus

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv University scientists hope embryos will implant and grow on their bioengineered uterine wall, say research sheds light on creation of early human life

A baby toddling. (Tverdohlib/iStock by Getty Images)

Israel media reviewWe’ve got a long way to go, baby: 7 things to know for July 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women push their baby strollers as they walk in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, on July 4, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Suspected baby trafficking ring accused of taking away woman’s newborn

Court lifts gag order on 18-month investigation into wife of Israeli rabbi suspected of arranging illegal adoptions

The entrance to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, January 30, 2011. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Eight-month pregnant oncologist assaulted by patient at Haifa hospital

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

Live updates (closed)

Jeffrey Epstein was in a business partnership with Ehud Barak — report

Israeli paper says convicted sex offender funded significant portion of ex-PM’s investment in high-tech firm in 2015

6:20 pm

Car bomb explodes near church in northeast Syria
5:59 pm

Gaza incendiary balloon sparks fire in southern Israel
5:36 pm

Epstein's lawyers request he be released to house arrest

FILE: Palestinians take part in a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

PA official denies Ramallah has raised its payments to security prisoners

Hassan Abd Rabbo says PA preemptively paid June salaries to inmates in May for ‘technical reasons’; Israeli group that tracks Palestinian press questions his claim

Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)

Two terrorists behind deadly 2016 stabbing sentenced to 32, 35 years

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference hosted by the Israel Hayom newspaper in Jerusalem's Old City on June 27, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows not to demolish any more communities – Jewish or Arab

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara boarding a plane at Ben Gurion Airport before departing to Moscow, Russia, on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Furious at cuts, Israeli diplomats to boycott preparations for PM’s trips abroad

Unprecedented step comes as sweeping budget slashes force cancellation of cultural events, student projects, passport and visa processing, and diplomats’ basic travel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the residence of the Egyptian ambassador in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2019 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

At Egyptian event, Netanyahu says he wants to see a wider peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yisrael Beytenu head, Avigdor Liberman, right. (Flash90)

In swipe at Liberman, PM says only he takes action to help Russian immigrants

Illustration by Avi Katz.

Analysis

Our anguish fell on deaf ears

A selection of Ethiopian-Israeli voices on the pain of feeling like second-class citizens in the country they love

Family members and supporters attend a ceremony in memory of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on in Kiryat Haim, July 10, 2019. (Flash90)

DNA of Ethiopian-Israeli killed by cop said found on rock at scene

Adisalem Kampala

Why isn’t this everyone’s protest?

We’ve tried peaceful demonstrations in the past, and yet police officers harm Ethiopians while the public stays silent

Same story, just a different name

When a police officer’s bullet killed Salomon Teka, I thought everyone in Israel would understand our pain. I was wrong

I am working to bring hearts closer together

Even as I try to stitch the rift, I worry that violence may be the only way to get our message across

We don’t trust the police to protect us

When a soldier killed a terrorist, he went to jail — how can a police officer just pull out a gun and shoot a civilian?

Analysis

Asylum-seeker art at desert detention center is a surprising splash of color

Exhibit opening Thursday in Tel Aviv features four artists who painted on walls of now-closed Holot facility during their incarceration

Tsegay Berhe's "Tea Break in School," painted in the Holot Detention Center in 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sudanese nationals demonstrate in support of Sudan,outside the European Union Embassy in Tel Aviv, June 25, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Amid turmoil in Sudan, Israel stops reviewing asylum applications

Illustrative: Asylum seekers from Eritrea protest against the Eritrean ambassador to Israel, outside the Foreign ministry in Jerusalem on June 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lawsuit: City barring kids of Eritrean asylum-seekers from enrolling in school

By JTA

The HMS Montrose seen during an exercise off the coast of Oman in 2005. It is currently patrolling the Straights of Hormuz, where its captain says it has had numerous run-ins with Iranian naval forces. (Mick Storey/MOD)

Britain confirms Iran unsuccessfully tried to seize UK tanker in Gulf

By ToI Staff and Agencies

London says it is ‘concerned’ after its warship was forced to issue verbal warnings and position itself to prevent action; incident comes after Iranian ship detained in Gibraltar

Iran’s Guards: US and UK will ‘regret’ seizing tanker off Gibraltar

By AFP

Trump warns Iran sanctions will ‘soon be increased substantially’

In Jerusalem, Austria’s ex-leader Kurz slams Iran for breaching nuclear deal

By Raphael Ahren

Gal Gadot attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 6, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Gal Gadot to star in Netflix’s biggest film yet

By JTA

Israeli actress joins Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson in $130 million action thriller ‘Red Notice’

This photo from June 11, 2019, shows actor, comedian and podcaster Marc Maron posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)

From his podcast to movies, it’s all personal for Marc Maron

By Lindsey Bahr

Members of New York's Ballet Hispanico, dressed for performing 'Carmen,' which they are bringing to Israel at the end of July 2019 (Courtesy Ballet Hispanico)

‘Carmen’ meets Picasso: NYC’s Latino troupe Ballet Hispanico heads to Israel

By Hannah Harnest

More Headlines

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks on, on the third day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, north west England on September 25, 2018. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)

Ex-Labour officials say Corbyn and top aides meddled in anti-Semitism probes

This image provided by the University of Tuebingen in Germany shows the Apidima 1 partial cranium fossil, right, with a piece of rock still attached, and its digital reconstruction from a posterior view, middle, and a side view, left. The rounded shape of the Apidima 1 cranium is a unique feature of modern humans and contrasts sharply with Neanderthals and their ancestors. (Katerina Harvati/University of Tuebingen via AP)

Predating Israeli find, earliest sign of man out of Africa said found in Greece

By Malcolm Ritter

Composite picture showing Labor leader Amir Peretz (R) speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 3, 2019, and Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni (L) speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Livni said poised for political comeback amid push for center-left bloc

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at the Knesset, June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Liberman pushes a unity government, Gantz says he won’t serve with Netanyahu

Illustrative: Ben Garrison drew this cartoon in 2017. It shows George Soros being manipulated by a hand of the Rothschilds, and Soros in turn manipulating Trump’s former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and retired Gen. David Petraeus. (Ben Garrison/Twitter via JTA)

Cartoonist disinvited from White House defends drawing panned as anti-Semitic

By Josefin Dolsten

Israeli soldiers stand below a monument at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yad Vashem changes Holocaust memorial prayers to include North African victims

Spanish River High with former principal William Latson (Screencapture/Twitter)

After being reassigned, Florida principal who doubted Holocaust may now lose job

By AP

Workers check their phones while collecting trash at Mahane Yehuda market, in Jerusalem,
January 02, 2018 (Abbi Berkovitz/FLASH90)

Jerusalem mayor boasts of free WiFi in city center ’10x faster’ than Tel Aviv’s

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Christians United for Israel's annual summit, July 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pompeo assures Christian Zionists that Israel allows conversions to Christianity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets Oleh Lyashko of the Ukrainian Radical Party on July 10, 2019 in Jerusalem (Screencapture/Twitter)

Netanyahu meets with head of Ukrainian party that includes neo-Nazis

Beitar Jerusalem fans yell chants against the team's midfielder Ali Mohamed during the squad's first practice of the preseason on July 10, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Beitar owner weighs future with team after chants against player named Mohamed

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

New accuser says Jeffrey Epstein raped her when she was 15

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