Water everywhere at anti-PM protest * ’In a German court, facing my would-be killer’ * Revealed: The gruesome saga of a 1974 NY abduction * Bari Weiss talks Jewish values

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, July 24, 2020 Presented by IDC Herzliya Reporters' Notebook [At Jerusalem protest, water cannons everywhere, but not a place to go]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Anat Peled]( [Protesters who try to obey orders and leave an anti-Netanyahu rally are still blasted by high-pressure water, or forced back by mounted police, no matter which way they turn]( [55 arrested as police clear large anti-Netanyahu rally in Jerusalem]( By [Aaron Boxerman, Anat Peled and TOI staff]( [Thousands mass outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence in latest protest]( By [TOI staff]( [Blasts reported on Syria border; shrapnel hits car on Israeli side, none injured]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Explosions come amid soaring tensions between Israel and Hezbollah after death of terror group fighter in an airstrike attributed to IDF]( [Iran claims passenger plane over Syria harassed by fighter jet]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Iraqi TV airs animated clip that shows US coffins, supports Iran-backed militia]( By [TOI staff]( First person [Rebecca Blady]( [In a German court, with the man who tried to kill me as I prayed on Yom Kippur]( [Facing the Halle synagogue shooter, I found an assailant who still harbors a deadly anti-Semitic ideology, and a new appreciation for the opportunities we have to fight hate]( [Iran names alleged perpetrator of blast at Natanz nuclear site — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Local news site says IRGC has concluded that Ershad Karimi, a contractor at the facility, is behind explosion; blast has been attributed to Israel]( [In 1st drill, IDF’s Ghost Unit tests out new tactics with jets, tanks and robots]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Israel media review [Say it, don’t spray it: What the press is talking about on July 24]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [More demonstrations lead to more reports of questionable police tactics, as a headless force contends with topless protesters and angry youth by getting wet and wild in Jerusalem]( [Ohana said to accuse police of being too soft on anti-Netanyahu protesters]( By [TOI staff]( [AG dismisses Netanyahu’s demand he not deal with PM’s conflicts of interest]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Weekend restrictions come into effect as 59 virus deaths recorded in a week]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Health Ministry data shows 13 fatalities in 24 hours, 1,811 new cases; malls, stores, markets, gyms and hair and beauty salons close from 5 p.m. until Sunday morning]( [Coronavirus czar will get ‘all authority’ to cut virus infection chain, PM says]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel said expected to ink deal with US firm developing COVID-19 vaccine]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( Interview [Jenni Frazer]( [Meet the new head of UK Jewry’s first-of-its-kind racial equality commission]( [As US-inspired racial justice protests sweep the world, the British Board of Deputies assigns Stephen Bush to listen to British Jews of color and implement policy change]( [BBC journalist, UK Labour whistleblowers to sue Corbyn for defamation]( By [TOI staff]( [UK lecturer fired for racial claims, including Jews are ‘cleverest in the world’]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Former NYT writer Bari Weiss: ‘Jewish values are bigger than any fancy title’]( By [Aviva Engel]( inside story [Victim of 1974 NY anti-Semitic abduction, record-high ransom finally tells all]( By [Elissa Einhorn]( [Jack Teich’s kidnapping at gunpoint, huge payoff, and trial made national headlines, but even his family didn’t know the gruesome details… until, aged 80, he wrote his memoir]( Top Ops [Avidan Freedman]( [If the two protests represent two Israels, I know where I stand]( [The many varied takes in the media were confusing me, so I went to see for myself; what I found defied those media accounts]( [Molly Livingstone]( [You can’t quarantine a 3-year-old in her room alone]( [Does our isolation really matter, when the government changes the rules every few minutes and the police write mask tickets with their own masks hanging off their ears?]( [Yosef Blau]( [Haredi politicians must accept that gay conversion therapy does harm]( [When a serious study shows statistically significant higher rates of suicide attempts and depression for those who underwent reparative therapy, what more do you need to know?]( [Arieh Kovler]( [We’ve stopped caring that people are dying]( [The new wave is not less harmful than the first: 59 (and counting) Israelis died of COVID-19 this past week alone]( [CRM]( [During COVID-19, unhoused in LA’s Skid Row find a home at Urban Voices Project]( By [Jessica Donath]( Mite try it [Love it or hate it: Marmite hummus hits UK shelves]( By [TOI staff]( [Supermarket chain Tesco offers eyebrow-raising pairing, months after company first hinted at release in Twitter post]( [Spread the love / Israeli diplomats buy tahini boycotted over LGBT support]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Netanyahu says claims he wants elections are ‘absurd’; polls show Likud slipping]( By [TOI staff]( [PM and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White trade blame over state budget impasse; surveys see Yamina’s Bennett rising, and widespread dissatisfaction over coalition’s handling of pandemic]( [To prevent elections, two MKs said set to propose delay in budget deadline]( By [TOI staff]( [For anti-Semites in France, police are seen as ‘dirty Jews’]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( #Sorry [Twitter mistakenly closes accounts that posted Star of David]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Social media giant acknowledges error; blocked users were told Jewish symbol violates policy on ‘hateful imagery’]( More Headlines [With intense heat wave next week, Israelis urged to stay cool and hydrated]( By [Stuart Winer]( [New immigrants arrive from Ethiopia amid pandemic]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Ilhan Omar under fire after naming Jewish donors to her challenger]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Prominent environmental activist, academic hopes to be elected KKL-JNF chair]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Hamas West Bank leader said freed from detention after 16 months]( By [AFP]( [Dutch watchdog: KLM discriminated against woman in seat change for Orthodox man]( By [AFP]( [Thousands attend prayers as Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia reopens as a mosque]( By [Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser]( [Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen to be freed again over ‘retaliation’ for planned memoir]( By [AFP]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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