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What Matters Most On Friday, July 12, 2019

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Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018, in New York City, and holds up a picture of what he said was a secret Iranian nuclear warehouse. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)

TV: IAEA finds traces of radioactive material at Iran site flagged by Netanyahu

10 months after PM identified ‘secret atomic warehouse’ in Tehran, UN inspectors reportedly conclude that it was indeed used as a nuclear storage facility

Trump, Netanyahu talk on the phone about Iran’s ‘malign’ acts

By AFP

US reportedly backs off threat to sanction top Iranian diplomat Zarif

Britain sending destroyer to Gulf amid Iranian threats

By Nasser Karimi and David Rising

Illustrative image: Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton combined Jewish and Methodist traditions during their wedding ceremony on July 31, 2010. (Genevieve de Manio, via JTA)

When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’

By Matt Lebovic

Palestinian protesters throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a protest near the West Bank city of Nablus, June 28, 2019 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

10-year-old Palestinian said seriously wounded in West Bank clash with IDF

Boy reportedly hit in head by rubber bullet during demonstration in Kafr Qaddum; IDF says riot control methods used against protesters who threw stones, burned tires

IDF readies for discord on Gaza border, day after Hamas man mistakenly shot dead

Security forces disperse Palestinian protest over East Jerusalem demolitions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police investigate reported vandalism on Palestinian agricultural land

Shiite fighters of paramilitary units burn an Israeli flag drawing during a rally to mark al-Quds Day em), a commemoration first initiated by Iran in 1979 to fall on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, in the capital Baghdad on June 8, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE

Analysis

Move over, Bahrain? Iraq signals interest in better ties with Israel

In remarkable recent comments, Baghdad’s US envoy listed good reasons for a detente with Jerusalem; though he wasn’t punished for his remarks, normalization still seems far off

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

Former prime minister Ehud Barak announces the formation of a new party at Tel Aviv's Beit Sokolov on June 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Jeffrey Epstein was Ehud Barak’s business partner as late as 2015

By ToI Staff and JTA

Former PM’s connection to financier accused of sex-trafficking minors becomes an issue ahead of national elections in September

Alan Dershowitz, right, represented sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a controversial 2008 plea deal and used to send him copies of his books to review before publication (JTA illustration by Laura E. Adkins)

Alan Dershowitz defends helping Jeffrey Epstein secure controversial plea deal

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

Defense lawyers seek detention at home for Jeffrey Epstein

By AP

Police detain protesters at a rally against police violence following the death of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah in Tel Aviv, July 3, 2019. (Neuberg/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Public Defender: Cops don’t properly probe complaints about own violent conduct

As Ethiopian-Israelis insist police internal investigations unit should play no part in examining fatal shooting of Solomon Tekah, a new report underlines the cause for concern

In this Sunday, July 7, 2019 photo, Ethiopian-Israeli musician Yael Mentesnot gives an interview to The Associated Press, in her house in Tel Aviv (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Ethiopian-Israeli musicians use stage to promote struggles

By Shahar Golan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid after addressing the Knesset ahead of the swearing-in of the new government, March 18, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Israel media review

Hooking up in the Knesset: 6 things to know for July 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Between Ehud Barak’s partnership with sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and hordes of political horse-trading, no alliance is too wacky for this silly season

Time Magazine's July 22, 2019, cover featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the headline, "The strong survive."

Time puts Netanyahu on the cover, says he ‘tests the limits of power’

With PM poised to pass David Ben-Gurion’s record as longest-serving Israeli premier, magazine asks him about corruption probes, Iran, and his tense relationship with US Jews

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden gives a speech on his foreign policy plan on July 11, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden stumps on ‘ironclad’ Israel ties, with or without Netanyahu

By JTA

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters touring Israel's security barrier in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida near Bethlehem, June 2, 2009. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP Images)

Despite outcry, DC suburb revives plan to screen anti-Israel Roger Waters film

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Intermarriage is not a second Holocaust

Interfaith families like mine should be cherished by the entire Jewish community for their unique contributions to Jewish life

Devorah Schoenfeld

A prophet and a donkey — again

Moses and Balaam seem to have little in common, but they both overcome personal ambivalence to speak God’s truth (Balak)

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Velvel Pasternak: A farewell symphony

How and why my father’s soul’s graveside ascent to the heavens was accompanied by the strains of a niggun

Rabbi Shmuel Tal’s authority is intact. Everyone should be asking why

True repentance means overhauling your lifestyle and making amends to those you have harmed. I don’t see that here

A puppy dog looks into the camera in Germany, July 12, 2019. (Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Barking mad

All dogs are bad and their owners accursed, Israeli city’s rabbis rule

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Religious edict in haredi town of Elad says canines are forbidden because they bark at people and may scare them: ‘And because of its bark it is a bad dog even if does not bite’

Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, addresses the group’s annual confab on March 16, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Courtesy)

Interview

Eric Cortellessa

The man pitching Trump to American Jews

The vast majority of the US Jewish community disapproves of the president. The Republican Jewish Coalition’s executive director, however, is one of his biggest defenders

(From L-R) Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein blesses US Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence at the Chabad of Poway on July 10, 2019. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Pence to rabbi of Poway Chabad: Your faith inspired the nation

US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at the Presidential Social Media Summit at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Extolling far-right trolls, Trump vows to up war on social media gatekeepers

SketchPad Chicago is a co-working space that incorporates Jewish values and programming. (Josefin Dolsten)

A Chicago co-working space is a Jewish take on WeWork

By Josefin Dolsten

The 'Window Frames' installation, part of the Mekudeshet 2019 festival (Courtesy Eric Potterman)

Windows into Jerusalem’s history commemorate the artist who collected them

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative photo of jellyfish. (Richard Kim/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Taking the sting out

Want to avoid jellyfish? There’s a website for that

Meduzot B’Am is part of a new citizen science project to help researchers map, track and study the marine creatures and improve their public image

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Amit Barlev (L) and Hillel Lalum. (Courtesy)

Two killed in West Bank car accident days before celebrating 18th birthdays

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Mother and baby die in collision between car and truck

By Stuart Winer

A mother tries desperately to get the train doors to open after leaving her baby momentarily on the train to help another child, at the Binyamina train station on July 11, 2019. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Frantic Israeli mom watches from platform as train leaves station with her baby

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the home of Carmel Mauda in the central city of Rosh Ha'ayin on July 6, 2019. (Israel Police)

Suspect identified in torching of allegedly abusive daycare manager’s home

Philip Roth in Aix en Provence, France, in 1999. (Pascal Parrot/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images, JTA)

A look at the most interesting Philip Roth possessions up for auction

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Image of Russian S-400 long-range air defense missile systems deployed at Hemeimeem air base in Syria, December 16, 2015. (Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian S-400 defense systems arrive in Turkey amid spat with US

Abed al-Karim Assi in a Facebook post from December 30, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Arab Israeli convicted over fatal stabbing of rabbi in West Bank

Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg arrives to cast her vote in party primaries at a polling station in Tel Aviv on July 11, 2019. (Flash90)

Former Meretz leader Zandberg takes No. 2 slot in party vote

Illustrative photo of a vaccine for infants at an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israeli judge orders child’s vaccination despite parents’ refusal

UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech in central London, September 15, 2016.(AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

UK Labour in turmoil over new anti-Semitism claims in BBC exposé

By AP and ToI Staff

Doron Markel, left, with members of Cuba's Jewish community and KKL-JNF leaders, in Havana, Cuba, July 2019. (Courtesy KKL-JNF)

In first, Israeli scientist speaks at Cuba environment conference

By JTA and ToI Staff

Lucette Lagnado, then 6, and her family pose for a family portrait on the eve of their exodus from Egypt in the 1960s (Lucettelagnado.com)

Lucette Lagnado, who chronicled family’s flight from Egypt, dies at 63

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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