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What Matters Most On Monday, July 23, 2018

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A boulder from the Western Wall falls onto a prayer platform on July 23, 2018 (Courtesy/The Western Wall Heritage Foundation via the Masorti Movement of Israel); Inset: Daniella Goldberg, who was praying a few meters away (screenshot: Hadashot)

Day after Tisha B'Av fast, which mourns Temples' destruction

Ancient boulder dislodges from Western Wall, crashes down near woman at prayer

By Marissa Newman and Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dramatic footage shows large stone coming loose from holy site, shattering on egalitarian prayer platform below; lands near Daniella Goldberg, 79, but she is unharmed

A boulder from the Western Wall falls onto a prayer platform on July 23, 2018 (Courtesy/The Western Wall Heritage Foundation via the Masorti Movement of Israel)

Western Wall rabbi urges ‘soul-searching’ after massive stone crashes down

By Marissa Newman and Amanda Borschel-Dan

View of the site where a large chunk of stone dislodged from the Western Wall in Jerusalem at the mixed-gender prayer section on July 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Archaeologist says entire Western Wall is ‘danger zone,’ public should stay away

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A smoke trail of a David's Sling interceptor missile is seen in northern Israel after the interceptor was fired toward a Syrian SS-21 missile, on July 23, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

2 Syrian missiles with half-ton warheads trigger Israel’s anti-missile system

By Judah Ari Gross

Fate of one David’s Sling interceptor rocket unclear, second self-destructs over Golan, army finds, after false alarm sparked by fighting in Syria

A smoke trail of a David's Sling interceptor missile is seen in northern Israel after the interceptor was fired toward a Syrian SS-21 missile, on July 23, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

David’s Sling anti-missile system used for first time, in false alarm on Golan

By Judah Ari Gross

A screen capture from a video purporting to show the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a research facility in the Masyaf area of northwest Syria on July 22, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Israeli jets said to strike Iranian-run missile production facility in Syria

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative. Masked Palestinian men prepare inflated latex condoms loaded with flammable material to be flown toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Air force shoots at Gazan arson squad, as Liberman threatens war

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian media reports IDF also shelled 2 Hamas positions in central Gaza; defense minister warns Israel ready to fight to stop arson attacks

Illustrative: Algerians walk past a portrait of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the capital Algiers on May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)

Gazan scientist, doctor said found dead in Algeria

A ship prepares to set sail for Gaza as part of an attempt to bust the blockade on the territory, May 22, 2018 (Courtesy: International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza)

New flotilla set to leave Palermo in bid to break blockade on Gaza

Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a protest against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on July 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

100,000 protest in Tel Aviv over anti-LGBT discrimination

By Naomi Lanzkron

Nationwide rallies and strikes demanding equal surrogacy rights for gay men culminate in mass rally where anger focuses on Netanyahu

Israel media reviewFinding their voice: 6 things to know for July 23

By Tamar Pileggi

IDF bars soldiers from participating in ‘political’ LGBT protests

Opposition summons Netanyahu to Knesset over surrogacy law

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the Finnish President at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP)

Trump to Iran: ‘Never, ever threaten the United States again’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president says Islamic Republic could face consequences ‘the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered’

Netanyahu praises Trump, Pompeo after Iran saber-rattling

Hailing Trump threat, Israeli UNESCO envoy calls Iran’s leaders ‘animals’

By Raphael Ahren

Iran dismisses Trump threat, says he ‘won’t dare’ attack

By AP

In this photo taken on October 5, 2016, Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, work around destroyed buildings following reported airstrikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)

Live updates (closed)

Hundreds of rescuers still stuck in south Syria after evacuation

By Tamar Pileggi

‘White Helmets’ volunteer says 400 remain stranded, worried colleagues’ transport through Israel may draw reprisals from approaching regime troops

6:37 pm

IDF chief: Thwarting Iran entrenchment in Syria our 'central effort' last year
6:28 pm

Liberman to make decision on Gaza border crossing tomorrow
6:16 pm

Iraq protests leave 14 dead in two weeks, rights official says

Rabbi Dov Haiyun arrives for a prescheduled event at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 19, 2018. Israeli police briefly detained Haiyun in the city of Haifa early Thursday morning on charges of performing "illegal" Jewish weddings without authorization of the country's chief rabbinate. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Interview

After outcry, detained Conservative rabbi says Israel won’t quickly try again

By Marissa Newman

Rabbi Dov Haiyun says law enforcement authorities recognized ‘mistake’ of his detention over wedding performed outside auspices of Chief Rabbinate, but no one has apologized

Rabbi Georgette Kennebrae grew up in a military family that moved between Japan and Oklahoma. (Josefin Dolsten)

Gay, African-American rabbi wants to burst stereotypes of what a Jew looks like

By Josefin Dolsten

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara speaks at a press conference about the Communications Ministry's move to shut down the Jerusalem office of Al Jazeera on August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Druze minister gets death threats over Jewish state law, amid community protest

By Raoul Wootliff

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and others listen during a press conference by Russia's President and US President at Finland's Presidential Palace July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Russian foreign minister makes surprise Israel visit for talks on Syria

Netanyahu to meet high-level delegation from Moscow, including military chief, in Jerusalem to discuss border deal

US President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, New Jersey, on July 20, 2018, en route to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump returns to doubting Russian election interference after week of walkbacks

In Burlington Massachusetts, a gathering on Tisha B'Av is held outside the government's ICE offices, July 22, 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

US Jews rally for immigrants to mark Tisha B’Av day of mourning

By Matt Lebovic

US President Barack Obama (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November 9, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Interview

Obama’s peace envoy: Israel is carrying out ‘reversed Oslo’ in West Bank

Instead of gradually transferring power to PA, Jewish state is handing it to settlers, says former US State Department representative for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

Jewish visitors scuffling with police on the Temple Mount, July 22, 2018. (screen capture: Facebook)

Jordan, PA protest as record number of Jews visit Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av

File: Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp, in a photo released on July 23, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

Palestinians say West Bank teen killed in clashes with IDF troops

By Joshua Davidovich and Judah Ari Gross

Not a flag, not an anthem, not a capital

Here is what’s really Jewish about a Jewish state

Does your child have an eating disorder?

Is he or she eating? Pay attention. These ailments do not resolve themselves, and they can be deadly

Hmm, which is the country of the Jewish people?

Israel is now the only democratic nation-state in the world that doesn’t guarantee equality for all its citizens

Chaim I. Waxman

The fertility of American Jewry

Jews worrying about demographics was around before Steven M. Cohen and his research, and it will be around after him too

IDF soldiers oversee the transfer of 422 'White Helmet' rescue workers and their families through Israel and into Jordan, as they flee the Assad regime, on July 22, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF officer: Syrian refugees’ eyes ‘twinkled’ as they crossed through Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Civil defense workers known as the White Helmets carry children after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people, in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria, on June 14, 2017. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syria slams ‘criminal’ evacuation of White Helmet rescuers by Israel

By AFP

Syrian Civil Defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, rescue a survivor following reported air-strikes on the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in Eastern Ghouta outside Syria's capital Damascus, March 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Msallam Abdalbaset/File)

Netanyahu says Trump asked him to help rescue White Helmets from Syria

Michael Frank, author of award-winning memoir, 'The Mighty Franks.' (Robin Siegel)

Interview

This award-winning memoir is a Greek tragedy with a Jewish twist

By JP O’ Malley

More Headlines

Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni during a faction meeting in the Knesset on July 16, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Tzipi Livni to replace Herzog as Knesset opposition leader

Israel's national under-20 basketball team reacts to winning the FIBA European Championships for the first time on July 22, 2018. (Israel Basketball Association, courtesy)

In first, Israel’s youth basketball team crowned European champions

A Boeing 787 flight number AI139 of Indian national carrier Air India, from New Delhi, performs maneuvers on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018 after using Saudi airspace for the first time. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

High Court said to advise El Al to drop suit over Saudi route to India

Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria attends a Kulanu faction meeting in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox vandals deface Jerusalem ads of female mayoral candidate

Eritrean asylum seekers march down Tel Aviv's boardwalk toward the US Embassy in 2014 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

State allocates NIS 28 million for social programming for migrants

Yonatan Heilo arrives a the Supreme Court to hear the decision on his appeal on May 31, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man who killed his rapist to be freed after 8 years

Tunisian men photographed barbecuing in the Jewish cemetery in the coastal city of Sousse, July 2018. (Courtesy)

Tunisian police arrest 6 men photographed barbecuing in Jewish cemetery

By ToI Staff and JTA

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Sunday, July 22, 2018, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Pompeo slams Iran’s ‘hypocritical holy men,’ says US ‘not afraid’ to tackle them

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this October 17, 2016 photo, Stanley Fischer, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve board of governors, speaks to the Economic Club of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Former Bank of Israel head reportedly met with accused Russian agent

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel's SafeRide Technologies Ltd. aims to protect drivers from hackers by monitoring for threats and thwarting them before they come to fruition (YouTube screenshot).

Israeli startup seeks to head off hacking threats from connected cars

By Ariella Gentin

The Eleva school is the latest project of Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil’s richest man. (Courtesy of Eleva/via JTA)

Jewish educationAn elite private academy in Rio puts pressure on the city’s Jewish day schools

By Marcus M. Gilban

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking after he retained his parliamentary seat in Islington north London, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

UK Labour MPs to challenge party’s anti-Semitism code at meeting

By Gregory Katz

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