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What Matters Most On Monday, July 9, 2018

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IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami. (YouTube screen capture)

Top Iranian general: Forces in Syria ‘awaiting orders’ to destroy Israel

Hossein Salami says Tehran also ‘creating might in Lebanon to fight our enemy from there with all our strength’ and eradicate ‘evil Zionist regime’

Syria accuses Israel of striking Iran-linked base, says air defenses deployed

By Judah Ari Gross

Tens of thousands return home after southern Syria ceasefire deal

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Israel media reviewSortie not sortie: 7 things to know for July 9

By Joshua Davidovich

A photographer takes a picture of Dana and Itai Nisanov among burnt trees near the Gaza border, July 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

Phoenix photos

Couple poses for wedding pix among burnt fields near Gaza border

Dana and Itai Nisanov say landscape destroyed by months of incendiary kite and balloon attacks is still the place where they grew up

Hamas forces said to return to Gaza border in bid to restore calm

400 IDF vets give back Gaza war pins over failure to return soldiers’ remains

By Judah Ari Gross

Qatari mediator: Hamas will only return IDF bodies in prisoner swap

Mahmoud Abbas, center, addressing a Fatah Central Committee meeting in Ramallah on July 8, 2018. (Wafa)

Defiant Abbas says he won’t halt stipends to terrorists

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian leader says PA will not allow anyone to ‘interfere’ with who it disburses money to; claims Arab states oppose Trump peace plan

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers block the entrance to the industrial zone of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on June 15, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Palestinian hurls explosive at West Bank intersection

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Ebru Özkan, a Turkish woman arrested in Israel on suspicion of aiding Hamas. (Courtesy)

Turkish woman charged by Israel with smuggling perfume, money for Hamas

By ToI Staff and AFP

‘Come on, really?’ her exasperated lawyer says, as Ebru Ozkan indicted for aiding Hamas on trips to Israel, including money laundering scheme involving expensive fragrances

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, July 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)

Erdogan set to assume expanded powers as Turkey enters new era

By Raziye AKKOC

The Hala sultan mosque in Haspolat (called Mia Milia by Greek Cypriots), in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), July 5, 2018. (Matthieu CLAVEL/AFP)

Massive Turkey-funded mosque stirs unease in secular north Cyprus

By Dylan Collins

Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF, Israel Police and Magen David Adom Emergency Medical Services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Defense Ministry calls emergency meeting as earthquakes continue

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Representatives of police, army, rescue services and local authorities to discuss response plans in case of major disaster

View of neighborhoods in the city of Tiberias on December 17, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Four quakes in a dayGalilee struck by new earthquakes, rattling northern Israel

4 more boys said extracted from Thai cave on 2nd phase of rescue mission

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Elite divers reenter Tham Luang cavern complex to rescue remaining members of soccer team and their coach, before heavy rains hit

A damaged house in a flood hit area in Kumano, Hiroshima prefecture on July 9, 2018. (Martin BUREAU/AFP)

Landslide warnings as Japan digs through flood ruin, death toll reaches 100

By AFP and ToI Staff

Dina Porat, chief historian of Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, at the museum on May 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yad Vashem historian: ‘We can live with’ much of Israel-Poland Shoah declaration

Dina Porat says she took part in talks on a ‘personal’ basis, disputing claim by Netanyahu aides that museum signed off on Holocaust statement

In this Jauary 25, 2017 photo, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the UK, Thae Yong-Ho, center, speaks with media at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul, South Korea. (Ed Jones, Pool Photo via AP)

North Korea offered Israel a halt to its missile sales to Iran for $1b — report

According to a new book by a Pyongyang defector, Israel refused the 1999 proposal, suggested sending aid instead

The Israeli Navy trains alongside the French fleet off the coast of Toulon, in southern France, in July 2018. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

After 55 years, Israeli Navy returns to French coast for joint exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Amid talk of early-2019 elections, Netanyahu, Kahlon squabble at cabinet table

In front of fellow ministers, Kulanu chief slams ‘philosopher’ premier: ‘Even with 20 more years as PM, you won’t pass serious reforms’

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside advocate Yossi Cohen (right) in the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Corruption trial for Sara Netanyahu postponed to October

By Raoul Wootliff

Melco Crown Entertainment co-chairman James Packer speaks during a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, October 27, 2015. (Kin Cheung/AP)

Australia tycoon tied to PM graft probe quits family firm, citing mental health

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian schoolgirls pose for a group picture outside their classrooms at a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City on January 22, 2018, during a visit by the UNRWA Commissioner General (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Live updates (closed)

UN agency for Palestinians warns of cuts ahead

UNRWA will decide in August whether it will open its schools after summer vacation, agency head says

6:18 pm

Netanyahu to be grilled in Bezeq case tomorrow
6:05 pm

Syrians said to flee, fearing regime attack on IS in south
5:40 pm

After quitting, Boris Johnson says Brexit 'dream is dying'

Mindy Pollak at a university where then-Montreal mayoral candidate Valerie Plante was speaking, autumn of 2017. (Courtesy)

Canada’s first female Hasidic politician may be bound for parliament

By Robert Sarner

Sergio Kowensky (left), the head of Likud South Africa who was killed in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Courtesy)

Slain Likud South Africa head remembered as ‘true Zionist’

By Raoul Wootliff

Circumstances remain unclear in shooting of Sergio Kowensky, a prominent pro-Israel advocate killed at his office in Johannesburg

South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane signs the guestbook at the residence of then-president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, February 28, 2013. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

South Africa says it won’t reinstate Israel envoy for now

By Raphael Ahren

Miriam Herschlag

The Blogs on TOI: More vivid, more personal, more engaging

We’ve got a sparkling new look and magical ways for bloggers to engage with readers: We’re not in Kansas anymore

Nancy Strichman

No vote, no voice

Denying political representation to over half a million Haredi women in Israel is unacceptable in 2018

A daughter’s agonizing decision

As my mother lay dying, I packed my family up for our very first trip to Israel

The World is coming!

The biggest World Lacrosse Championship in history will bring 2,000 athletes and 8,000 tourists to Israel

Bracha Goldstein

Bring back those boys!

I am waiting for the safe return of children trapped in a cave the way I would want everyone to wait for mine

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Israeli actress Gal Gadot, star of 'Wonder Woman' (Clay Enos/DC Comics, via JTA)

Acting the partGal Gadot visits children’s hospital in full Wonder Woman costume

Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis addresses the Knesset plenum, April 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Science minister blocks academic from panel over her views on army service

By Stuart Winer

Neo-Nazi leader Arthur Jones speaks in Kentucky, April 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Vote for anyone but neo-Nazi Republican, says GOP governor of Illinois

By JTA and ToI Staff

Maedeh Hojabri of Iran dances in a video uploaded to social media. She was detained by Iranian authorities over the videos. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Last danceIran detains teen over Instagram dance videos

By AP

Palestinians look at the damage after a house was set on fire and a baby killed, allegedly by Jewish terrorists, in the West Bank village of Duma, on July 31, 2015. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Court to mull releasing Duma firebomb suspect to house arrest

The South Carolina State House. (Wikipedia/Florencebballer/public domain)

South Carolina becomes first state to adopt uniform definition of anti-Semitism

By JTA

Illustrative: A worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near Safed, August 31, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Two Israeli firms seek to cash in with Dead Sea cannabis cosmetics

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this Thursday, July 5, 2018 photo, Syrian refugee Maya Meri, 8, sits on her father Mohammed's lap after being fitted with prosthetic legs at a rehabilitation clinic in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Syrian girl born without legs gets new prosthetics in Turkey

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and Mehmet Guzel

The mix of singers at Koolulam at the Tower of David Museum, singing Bob Marley's 'One Love' (courtesy, Ricky Rachman)

We are all one‘One Love’ video released from Koolulam singdown at Tower of David

By Jessica Steinberg

Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar delivers a speech at the 162nd General Assembly of BIE, in Paris, on November 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Woman running for Congress in Minnesota rejects anti-Semitism accusations

A wheelchair equipped with the SoftWheel suspension systems (Courtesy)

US veterans get smoother wheelchair ride with tech twist from Israeli startup

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of a shrimp cocktail. (Jon Sullivan/CC/Wikipedia)

Israeli startup silences diseased genes of shrimp to boost their production

By Ariella Gentin

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