After protest, PM pledges action against ‘deep problem’ of racism

Netanyahu meets with Ethiopian Israeli community leaders and assaulted soldier, says police brutality and discrimination must be uprooted

BY TAMAR PILEGGI

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Damas Pakedeh, the Israeli Ethiopian soldier who was assaulted by police officers last week, at his office in Jerusalem on May 4, 2015. (Photo credit: Haim Zach / GPO)

A lone flag-waver on the blocked Ayalon highway during a protest against violence and racism directed at Israelis of Ethiopian descent on May 03, 2015 (Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Grappling with melee aftermath, Ethiopian community looks ahead hopefully

BY RAPHAEL AHREN

President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rivlin: Israel ‘erred’ in treatment of Ethiopian community

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Damas Pakada, an Ethiopian-born IDF soldier who was assaulted by police in Holon on Sunday, April 27, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Soldier whose beating sparked Ethiopian protests calls for calm

BY STUART WINER

LIVE UPDATESLatest: ‘Netanyahu will keep foreign affairs for now’

Kerry ‘confident’ gov’t will probe violence against Ethiopian Israelis

US secretary of state says he is sure matter will be put ‘thoroughly under investigation’ in way that honors Israeli ‘traditions and values’

BY JONATHAN BECK

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Pulling Krishna out of the rubble

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On the burial of Vladimir Slepak

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At the trial of an Auschwitz guard

ESTHER ALTMANN was in the courtroom when her father bore witness against Oskar Goering, who was, he says, just a small cog

I hate Lag B’Omer

ERIC DANIS says the holiday’s bonfire tradition is way out of control and it’s time to stop the pollution, theft and burns

Dreams ripped to shreds

MIKIE GOLDSTEIN says a decision to cancel a bnai mitzvah ceremony for children with disabilities in Rehovot is unacceptable

From Newark 1967 to Baltimore 2015

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLLsays the key difference between the two riots nearly half a century apart is that the black-white chasm has grown

THE PARSHA

Silence is not OK when Torah is painful

STEVEN GREENBERG says some congregants will weep inside as the biblical verses condemning homosexual acts are chanted on Shabbat (Achrei Mot-Kedoshim)

Israel ‘remembers the stranger’

DANIEL MERON on a field hospital, 50 tons of medical equipment, 200 patients per day and a commitment to repairing the world

THE PARSHA

Sanctifying the Name

JONATHAN SACKS says rather than serving God through suffering, the call for Jewry today is to pursue justice and show compassion (Emor)

Prabad Bushel in Gongabu, Nepal, April 2015 (Photo: IsraAID/Mickey Noam-Alon)

Hero of the day

In the ruined village of Gongabu, the IsraAid relief team met Prabad, a boy looking for his younger sister

BY YOTAM POLIZER

Likud lashes out at Liberman for choosing opposition

Official calls Israel Beytenu head ‘cynical'; Kahlon and Deri urge broader coalition

BY MARISSA NEWMAN

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset, May 4, 2015 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman says he won’t join Netanyahu coalition

Yisrael Beytenu leader to quit as foreign minister, calls PM’s future government ‘opportunist,’ says his party chose ‘principles over cabinet seats’

BY TAMAR PILEGGI AND STUART WINER

Avigdor Liberman speaks during Israel Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset on May 4, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Body of Israeli hiker Asraf retrieved in Nepal

Remains of only Israeli casualty from earthquake flown to Kathmandu; will be brought to Israel for burial on Tuesday

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Patrick Asraf (L) and his son Or (R) who went missing in Nepal following the April 25 earthquake that has killed thousands in the Asian nation (Photo credit: Channel 2 news)

Carson, Fiorina add more ‘pro-Israel’ faces to crowded GOP field

Surgeon Ben Carson, who called for Egypt to create Palestinian state, admits he has much to learn in foreign policy; announces presidential bid, as does former HP executive Carly Fiorina

BY REBECCA SHIMONI STOIL AND AP

Ben Carson visits in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, December 18, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Daniel Tragerman was killed by mortar fired from UN facility – ex-IDF chief

Hamas’s tactics of targeting and hiding behind civilians demand a change to rules of war, says Benny Gantz

BY MITCH GINSBURG

Daniel Tragerman, 4, who was killed in his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on August 22, 2014 (photo credit: Courtesy)

NGO urges probe of Syria civilian deaths in US-led raid

Airstrikes targeting Islamic State positions kill 64 in Aleppo province, monitor says; US military denies report

BY AFP

Syrians walk through the rubble following reported rocket attacks by rebel fighters on the Christian neighborhood of Suleimaniyah in northern Aleppo. (photo credit: AFP/George Ourfalian)

Some members of Garin Tidhar gathering in Israel, March 21, 2015. (Courtesy of Isaac Eyon/JTA)

Group of immigrants celebrates 33 years of being ‘family’

From near the Gaza Strip to the Golan, former members of a Nahal garin have supported each other through thick and thin

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Robbie Williams lands in Israel
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Jerusalem guards shoot alleged Palestinian attacker

Security personnal along the light rail route say they were set upon by the man and suspected he was carrying a knife

BY STUART WINER

Two gunmen killed outside Muhammad cartoon contest

Attackers open fire at security guard outside controversial contest in Garland, Texas, are shot by police

BY AP, AFP AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

FIFA to vote on Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel

Move would need a three-quarter majority to pass, and is unlikely to succeed

BY AP

Kerry: I don’t believe Israel would hit Iran without consulting us first

In Israeli TV interview, US secretary insists emerging deal will ‘protect Israel'; PM: ‘It will endanger Israel and the world’

BY AP AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

US oil delegation to visit Iran this week: official

FROM THE WEBDiscussions come as companies, investors anticipate relief of economic sanctions against Tehran after final nuclear agreement is reached, Reuters reports

Kerry to head to Saudi Arabia for security talks

In Kenya, US secretary of state urges unified front against terror; is slated to visit France as well

BY AFP

Two UN men wounded by Syrian fire on Golan Heights

IDF says mortars that landed in UNDOF base were errant fire from across the border

BY AFP AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Israel warns of terror attack against Jews in Tunisia

After statement cites ‘concrete threats,’ Tunisia rebuffs claim that country not safe for pilgrimage to island of Djerba

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF AND AFP

Reporter's notebook

In Hebron, they support Hamas but dream of Tel Aviv

While Islamic terror group has strong support among the youth, there is also talk of peace with Israel and a desire to live quietly

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ISRAEL INSIDE

Tel Aviv anti-racism rally descends into melee

At least 41 injured, including dozens of police, and many more arrested at rally in support of Israel’s Ethiopian Jews punctuated by intense clashes

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF AND AFP

4 reservists hurt in training accident on Golan Heights

One soldier wounded seriously, three lightly when vehicle overturns on Petroleum Road

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Israeli woman killed in Mexico car accident

Three other Israelis injured in incident

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Haifa residents step up protest against air pollution

Worried by cancer statistics, 1,000 demonstrators urge government to freeze expansion of local industrial zone

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

40,000 Israelis let pop star Robbie Williams entertain them

UK sensation pleases the crowd in Tel Aviv with a raunchy set featuring covers of classics by Queen and U2, says his time in the country was ‘f***ing amazing’

BY JUDAH ARI GROSS

A weak Liberman could be pushing Netanyahu toward a unity coalition

ANALYSISThe possibility that Yisrael Beytenu may prefer the opposition is forcing Likud to keep its options open, even if it means turning to the left-wing Zionist Union for help

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