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What Matters Most On Monday, July 15, 2019

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Senior Hamas official Fathi Hammad speaking to Palestinians in the border region between Israel and the Gaza Strip on July 12, 2019. (Screenshot:Youtube)

Senior Hamas official calls on members of Palestinian diaspora to kill Jews

Fathi Hammad, known for his fiery rhetoric, also appears to urge Palestinians in the West Bank to stab Israelis; another Hamas official tries to distance terror group from remarks

Erekat slams senior Hamas official’s ‘repugnant’ call to kill Jews worldwide

IDF arrests Palestinian woman with knife in her purse near Hebron settlement

By Judah Ari Gross

Summer of sorrowHBO drops trailer for show on violence that led to 2014 Gaza war

Mount Zion archaeological excavations conducted by the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in cooperation with Ashkelon Academic College, at the Jerusalem Walls National Park, 2019. (Virginia Withers)

First evidence of Crusader siege from July 15, 1099, uncovered at Old City walls

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

A matter of pride: Why Peretz’s comments on conversion therapy could help him

Outrage and calls for the education minister’s ouster are rallying his conservative base to his cause and could boost support for URWP

Rafi Peretz, leader of the Jewish Home party, dances with activists of the Union of Right-Wing Parties in Jerusalem, April 8, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewNo therapy, just porn and pain: 7 things to know for July 15

By Joshua Davidovich

LGBTQ teachers threaten strike unless ‘dangerous’ education minister sacked

Smotrich: Education minister enduring ‘lynch’ for support of conversion therapy

Worka and Wbjig Tekah hold a picture of their son Solomon Tekah, 19, who was killed by an off duty police officer, at their home in the Israeli city of Haifa, on July 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Cop who shot dead Ethiopian-Israeli released from house arrest on bail

Solomon Tekah’s family angry over prospect charges against officer will be downgraded to reckless homicide, which carries sentence of up to 12 years

Ina Skivenko, a kindergarten teacher suspected of causing the death of 18-month-old Yasmin Vinta at a kindergarten in Petah Tikva, is brought for a court hearing at a Petah Tikva court on June 3, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flahs90)

Daycare teacher sentenced to 17 years for smothering toddler to death

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 7, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Some in Europe won’t wake up until Iranian nukes land on them

PM slams European foreign ministers’ assertion that Iranian breaches of 2015 nuclear deal aren’t ‘significant’ as ‘1930s appeasement’

6:32 pm

Netanyahu to sign trade agreement with South Korea sans settlements - report
6:24 pm

Ethiopian-Israeli protesters detained earlier today in Jerusalem are released
6:23 pm

Israel asks Russia to pressure Hezbollah to leave Syrian Golan -- report

US President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony on May 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Doubling down, Trump says liberal Democrats ‘hate Israel with unbridled passion’

Defending apparent call for Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib to ‘go back’ to countries they ‘came from,’ US president says Democrats ‘sticking up’ for Israel haters

People holds hands as they chant at a rally before the start of a march in opposition to the Trump administration's plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally, July 14, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

As migrants wait in fear, no sign of large-scale US raids

By Thomas URBAIN

Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol, March 8, 2019, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

House Democrats who tangled with leader not backing down

By JUANA SUMMERS

Rabbi Reuven Bauman: An ordinary superhero

My son loves Batman, Superman, Spiderman… Me, I’m inspired by a regular person who sprang into action with incredible bravery

Israel and Korea are having a moment

President Rivlin’s visit is an excellent chance to strengthen cooperation with a great and true friend of Israel

False Cape State Park, Virginia Beach, Va., September 2005. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikipedia)

Police find body believed to be US rabbi who jumped in ocean to save student

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

This undated photo released by the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety shows actor Charles Levin. (Grants Pass Department of Public Safety via AP)

Remains found in Oregon believed to be ‘Seinfeld’ actor Charles Levin

By AP

England's captain Eoin Morgan lifts the trophy after winning the Cricket World Cup final match between England and New Zealand at Lord's cricket ground in London, England, July 14, 2019. England won the Cricket World Cup for the first time in extraordinary circumstances, beating New Zealand by a tiebreaker of boundaries scored after the match was tied after regulation play and then the first Super Over in the tournament's history. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Op-ed

How an England team of many colors conquered the world at cricket’s grand final

Featuring a Muslim, a Barbadian, and a key player born in the country they were playing against, England’s cricketers, led by an Irishman, show the value of diversity, togetherness

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz addressing party activists in Shefayim, July 14, 2019. (Jane Peimer)

Gantz says ‘in talks’ with Likud reps over unity government sans Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Blue and White chief claims dissenting members of ruling party ‘getting ready for the day after’ PM

(L) Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends the Yakir of Jewish Law ceremony in Tel Aviv on June 12, 2019. (Flash90). Otzma Yehudit party member Itamar Ben Gvir during an election campaign event in Bat Yam on April 6, 2019. (Flash90)

Shaked said to be in talks with far-right Otzma Yehudit

Then-director general of Peace Now Avi Buskila speaks during a rally in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, May 27, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Former Peace Now chief joins Ehud Barak’s party

By Raoul Wootliff

Esther Wojcicki (Jo Sittenfeld)

Author interview

Jewish ‘Godmother of Silicon Valley’ offers advice for raising successful people

By Renee Ghert-Zand

President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with the Health Ministry officials, in Tehran, Iran, June 25, 2019. (Official website of the Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani says Iran prepared to talk to US if it rejoins nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and AFP

European signatories to the 2015 accord call for end to the escalating tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program, say pact’s survival contingent on ‘full compliance’

EU seeks to deescalate Persian Gulf tensions

Ahead of EU talks, UK calls for reduced tensions with Iran

By AFP

In Iran, some take off their hijabs as hard-liners push back

By Karin Laub and Mohammad Nasiri

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Joe Biden, the leading Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, holds a speech about his foreign policy vision for America at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York in New York City, July 11, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

Calling for two-state solution, Biden says ‘the occupation is a real problem’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Maestro Zubin Mehta performing his final concert with the Israel Philharmonic on Saturday night, July 13, 2019 (Courtesy Hanoch Grizitzky)

Israel Philharmonic bids emotional farewell to Maestro Zubin Mehta

By Hannah Harnest

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Court remands Palestinian accused of molesting 13-year-old Israeli girl

SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum dances with employees during a Ramadan iftar breakfast at the Rahat factory on May 27, 2019. (courtesy SodaStream)

SodaStream CEO Birnbaum to step down and become sparkling water firm’s chairman

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Israeli naval ship takes part in a large-scale exercise simulating warfare against the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, in June 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Navy ship crosses into Lebanese waters – report

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

PM’s son screamed that Bezeq owner wasn’t honoring alleged graft deal – report

A new F-35 fighter jet at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, on July 14, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two more F-35 fighter jets land in Israel, bringing IAF’s declared total to 16

By Judah Ari Gross

Jordanian MP Yahya al-Saud (Screen capture: Facebook)

Jewish Labour member hosts Jordanian MP who endorsed terror attacks on Israelis

President Reuven Rivlin (left) meets with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Seoul, July 15, 2019 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Rivlin, South Korea’s Moon sign cooperation agreements on energy, education

Communications Minister David Amsalem, left, and Netanel Cohen, director general of the ministry, at the launch of the 5G wireless network tender in Jerusalem, July 14 (Courtesy)

Tender launched for 5G next-gen mobile networks, to provide higher speeds

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Bank Discount building. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90.)

Israel Discount Bank appoints Uri Levin as new CEO

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this Saturday, August 12, 2017 photo, James Alex Fields Jr., second from left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist rally took place. Fields was later charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he plowed a car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally. (Alan Goffinski via AP)

White supremacist faces second sentence for Charlottesville car attack

By AP and ToI Staff

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