Security and political crises in Israel converge to create a perfect storm


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TEL AVIV — On a balmy evening in Israel’s largest city, tens of thousands of rowdy protesters suddenly grew quiet after sundown for a moment of silence honoring an Italian tourist and two British Israeli sisters killed a day earlier in a pair of terrorist attacks. Throughout the crowd, demonstrators waved British and Italian flags in solidarity. But the demonstration here on Saturday was not about terrorism, nor about the eruptions of Israeli Palestinian violence over the last week on Israel’s eastern, western and northern flanks. Instead, the throngs of Israelis congregating just two miles from where the Italian tourist...