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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 22, 2018

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Protesters for LGBT rights march on Tel Aviv's Ayalon freeway, July 22, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protesters march nationwide as unprecedented LGBT strike begins over surrogacy

Thousands of Israelis rally in major cities for equality in rights to have children, with mass event set to take place in Rabin Square in the evening

Conservative Rabbi Dov Haiyun seen arriving at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 19, 2018. Haiyun had been detained by police early that morning (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Op-ed

Thursday the rabbis defied the spirit of Judaism

For decades, Israel wisely managed to reconcile democratic principles with respect for the faith that sustained Jews in exile. A rabbi’s detention shows that wisdom is ebbing away

BlogIran is not here!

By Elli Fischer

In this picture provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, Syrian Civil Defense workers search through the rubble in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, October 12, 2016. (Syrian Civil Defense- White Helmets via AP)

Israel evacuates 800 of Syria’s White Helmets and their families to Jordan

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

IDF says it launched ‘irregular humanitarian effort’ to save civil defense volunteers who faced ‘immediate risk’ to their lives; refugees to be resettled in UK, Canada, Germany

Israel wins widespread praise for role in rescue of Syria’s White Helmets

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The remarkable story of Syria’s White Helmet rescuers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Additional Syrian rebels begin evacuating area bordering Israel

By AP

Friends and family attend the funeral of IDF Sgt Aviv Levi of the Givati Brigade in Petach Tikva on July 22, 2018. (Avi Dishi/FLASH90)

Hundreds attend funeral for IDF soldier killed Friday on Gaza border

Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi’s father eulogizes his son, who ‘paid the highest price because he excelled’

A Steyr IWS 2000 armor-piercing rifle, illustrative (Public Domain/US Army)

IDF believes Gaza snipers used Iranian armor-piercing rifle to kill soldier

A photo released on July 21, 2018, shows Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi of the Givati Brigade, who was killed by sniper fire from Gaza on July 20. (Israel Defense Forces)

Aviv Levi, 21, named as IDF soldier killed by Gaza sniper fire Friday

A picture taken on July 20, 2018 shows a fireball exploding in Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike. (AFP Photo/Bashar Taleb)

Egypt warned Hamas: Israel will go to war ‘in two hours’ if you respond to raids

TV report says Cairo, when fixing ceasefire late Friday, emphasized to terror group that Israeli strikes were the direct result of IDF soldier’s killing by Gaza sniper

Defense Minsiter Avigdor Liberman visits the Kerem Shalom Crossing on July 22, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman: Gaza crossing to reopen Tuesday if calm holds

By Judah Ari Gross

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, on June 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)

UN chief urges Hamas to stop arson attacks after Gaza violence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A fire breaks out in near Kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel, near the Gaza border, on July 22, 2018. (Screen capture: Ofer Liberman)

Blaze in field near Gaza not sparked by incendiary device — fire department

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Fire in south comes hours after Liberman says Israel willing to ease economic restrictions on Strip if flaming kite and balloon launches end

A fireball explodes in Gaza City as a result of Israeli airstrikes after an IDF soldier was shot dead on the border, on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / BASHAR TALEB)

Israel media reviewBombing the war drums into submission: 9 things to know for July 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli firefighters and security teams fight a fire at and around a cowshed, caused by a kite loaded with an incendiary device from Gaza, at Kibbutz Nahal-Oz on July 21, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

AnalysisLike a broken record: Weekend’s Gaza-Israel flareup another round of almost-war

By Avi Issacharoff

The egalitarian prayer platform at the Western Wall's Robinson's Arch archaeological area. (Eilat Mazar)

One man's rubble

Is evidence of Temple’s destruction being destroyed by a bid for Jewish unity?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative: Jewish men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Tisha B'Av fast marking the destruction of the Temples, on August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

For over half of Israelis, Tisha B’Av is just another day

By JTA

Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Palestine, Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at United Nations headquarters, with negotiators Jared Kushner, left, and Jason Greenblatt, right, behind her. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

‘Paradigm shift’: Top Trump officials say UN may be ‘turning around’ on Israel

In op-ed piece for CNN, Haley, Friedmann, Kushner and Greenblatt laud recent vote to condemn Hamas actions in Gaza, say peace requires world to acknowledge realities of conflict

US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

PA says it has thwarted Trump’s peace ‘deal of the century’

By Alexander Fulbright

In this file photo taken on April 16, 2018, US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen exits the US Federal Court in New York. (AFP Photo/Eduardo Muoz Alvarez)

Trump lashes ex-lawyer, says phone-taping ‘perhaps illegal’

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iranian president Hassan Rouhani (C) during a meeting in Tehran on July 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / IRANIAN PRESIDENCY)

Rouhani warns US that war with Iran will be ‘mother of all wars’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran’s president says Trump shouldn’t ‘play with the lion’s tail’ by interfering with Iran’s national and security interests, cautions against attempts to foment unrest in country

In this Tuesday, July 10, 2018 photo, the Zayandeh Roud river no longer runs under the 400-year-old Si-o-seh Pol bridge, named for its 33 arches, in Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Photo essayWith rivers dry and fields dust, Iranian farmers turn to protest

By Nasser Karimi and MOHAMMED NASIRI

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and President Hassan Rouhani greet at the official endorsement ceremony of President Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, August. 3, 2017. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

From the webUS launches campaign to erode support for Iran’s leaders

Live updates (closed)

Two Gazan scientists found dead in Algeria — report

By Joshua Davidovich

Both men from Khan Younis killed by either electrocution or gas inhalation; Israel fires on Gazans launching balloon, breaking days of calm

6:35 pm

Gazan scientists found dead in Algeria -- report
6:27 pm

Lebanese report claims three of four missiles fired at Syrian site intercepted
6:14 pm

LGBT activist, novice protester say rally will force change

American IDF veteran Jonathan Leibovits (center) in Syria fighting alongside YPG forges against IS jihadists in 2016. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Ex-IDF soldier from California sneaked into Syria to fight Islamic State

Jonathan Leibovits says training from his days in the Givati Brigade helped prepare him for battle to capture key city of Manbij from jihadists

A modern-day lament, this Tisha B’Av

Dear God, how can the Jewish state be undermining its own democratic and progressive values?

Emunah Fialkoff

Tisha B’Av made simple, for kids and their parents

My Duplo-loving son knows what it means to build, and he understood the destruction of God’s house immediately

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An illustrative photo of an electricity company control room. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel Electric Corp. sets up cybersecurity center in New York

By Shoshanna Solomon

Kulanu parliament member Akram Hasson during his swearing-in as a member of the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 1, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Druze MKs petition High Court against Jewish state law

Writer-director Rob Reiner poses for a portrait in New York, May 2, 2016. (Brian Ach/Invision/AP)

What he's havingRob Reiner says family’s comic dynasty has some royal fans

By Yaakov Schwartz

View of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, April 19, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Minor earthquake again shakes Sea of Galilee

BrightWay Vision's night vision technology allows drivers to detect objects and people within a range of at least 250 meters (Courtesy)

Israeli startup uses army night-vision tech to help prevent car accidents

By Shoshanna Solomon

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi addresses the chamber after he was sworn in for a second four-year term in Cairo, June 2, 2018. (Egypt’s presidency media office via AP)

Egypt rejects Israeli nation-state law as ‘racial segregation’

Idan Peretz, a former member of the Israeli army special forces and co-founder of the tactical solutions start-up Highnovate, holds up his "Roof Access Fast Anchor" (RAFA) tool during a demonstration at the Wingate Institute near Netanya in central Israel on June 11, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israeli ex-commandos innovating tech for campers, hikers and rescuers

By Jonah Mandel

Illustrative: Medical personnel at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, on March 2, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem earmarks $130 million to boost biotech startups in holy city

By Shoshanna Solomon

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