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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 24, 2018

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Smoke trails from two Israeli Patriot interceptor missiles that Israel says shot down a Syrian fighter jet are seen in northern Israel on July 24, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Confirming hit, Syria claims plane was inside its territory

IDF shoots down Syrian fighter jet that entered Israeli airspace

By Judah Ari Gross

Two Patriot missiles fired at Sukhoi aircraft that penetrated two kilometers into Israeli territory, military says; one of the pilots reported killed

Illustrative: In this handout file photo provided by the Israeli Army on February 22, 2001, a Patriot anti-missile missile is launched on the last day of joint five-day US-Israeli military exercise in the Negev desert. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

IDF after downing plane: We warned Syria against entering Israeli airspace

By Judah Ari Gross

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and PM Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 23,2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel rejects Russian offer to keep Iran 100 km from Syrian border

By Raphael Ahren

Live updates (closed)

Trump says he’s ready for new Iran nuclear deal

Tempering rhetoric, US president says ‘real deal’ with Tehran won’t be ‘disaster’ like 2015 accord

6:22 pm

Ivanka Trump announces closure of namesake fashion brand
6:02 pm

Trump says he's ready for new Iran nuclear deal
5:57 pm

Haley: Arab countries need to 'step up' on Palestinian aid

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Western Wall not about to crumble, experts say after stone comes crashing down

Hebrew University academics emphasize that while constant monitoring and a early warning system are necessary, the monumental Herodian-era site should stay open to the public

Daniella Goldberg stands later on Monday, July 23, 2018, at the site where a large chunk of stone dislodged from the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City that day, at the mixed-gender prayer section. The boulder fell close to where she was praying. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Dov Kalmanovich speaks during a demonstration on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the Hebrew date for the destruction of both Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, August 13, 2016. (Gershon Elinson/ Flash90/File)

Deputy Jerusalem mayor: Fallen Western Wall stone a message to Reform Jews

Daniella Goldberg (left), with Culture Minister Miri Regev, inspects the damage caused by a large stone that dislodged from the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City on July 23, 2013, at the mixed-gender prayer section. The boulder fell close to where Goldberg was praying. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister calls emergency meeting over fallen Western Wall block

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces the new Turkish cabinet after taking oath as the first president under a new government system in Ankara, on July 9, 2018. (ADEM ALTAN/AFP)

Erdogan: ‘Spirit of Hitler’ apparent in ‘fascist’ Israel’s nation-state law

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkish president calls Israel world’s ‘most fascist, racist’ state; Israeli PM retorts sarcastically that criticism from such a ‘democrat’ is a compliment

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, on January 2, 2018. (FLASH90)

IDF chief: Main concern in past year was blocking Iran in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Eisenkot lauds victories ‘hidden from view’ across the border, mourns the IDF’s first soldier killed in action in Gaza since 2014

A test of the David's Sling missile defense system. (Defense Ministry)

Government said set to launch NIS 30 billion missile defense plan

By Stuart Winer

The David's Sling missile defense battery, which represents the middle tier of Israel's multi-layered anti-missile capabilities. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israel media reviewTrial by failure: 8 things to know for July 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Burnt cars following a wildfire at the village of Mati, near Athens, on July 24, 2018. (AFP PHOTO/ANGELOS TZORTZINIS)

Death toll in Greece wildfires rises to 60

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Greek prime minister declares 3-day national mourning period over deadliest blazes in the country since 2007

A firefighter tries to extinguish hotspots during a wildfire in Kineta, near Athens, Greece, on July 23, 2018. (VALERIE GACHE/AFP)

Israel offers Greece help in battling deadly wild fires

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image of s local house damaged by floods in Laos in 2011. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Hundreds missing in Laos after hydropower dam collapses

By Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI and JOE FREEMAN

Birthright trip participants read IfNotNow materials distributed as part of a 'send-off' at New York's JFK airport on Monday, June 18, 2018. (Steven Davidson/ Times of Israel)

Sometimes Birthright trips do address the ‘occupation.’ But is sometimes enough?

By Cathryn J. Prince

Palestinian trucks seen at the Kerem Shalom crossing on March 22, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel partially reopens Gaza crossing amid reduction in fire balloon attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Gas and fuel being allowed into the Strip through Kerem Shalom, along with food and medicine, but commercial goods still blocked

Abbas vows to continue stipends to terrorists even with PA’s ‘last penny’

IDF said to fire at group launching incendiary devices from Gaza

In English-language video, Netanyahu enlists parents in PR battle over Gaza

A mechiya!

Behind the scenes at New York’s nu Yiddish production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

The Broadway classic surprises as a mainstream hit beloved by alte kakers and critics; runs through September 2 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Steven Skybell as Tevye singing 'If I Were a Rich Man' in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (Victor Nechay/ ProperPix.com)

Steven Skybell, center, as Tevye and ensemble in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” (Victor Nechay/ProperPix via JTA)

How the cast of ‘Fiddler’ learned their Yiddish in only a month

By Josefin Dolsten

Rob Eshman

The unique chutzpah of
food critic Jonathan Gold

The Pulitzer prize winning writer, who died Saturday, had the audacity to take immigrant food seriously

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Why I stay Orthodox

I believe in God and Torah and I know the difference between Jewish law and cultural distortion

Nancy Strichman

How to build a nation-state based on equality

It is the job of Jewish parents to ensure their kids know there are Arab children who also love this country

A line of landmines are detonated in a field in the southern Golan Heights as part of a mine clearing effort on July 24, 2018. (Defense Ministry)

Israel detonates 350 landmines to clear Golan field

By Judah Ari Gross

Controlled explosions takes place at boobytrapped site near Daughters of Jacob Bridge in southern Golan Heights

This image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday, July 22, 2018 shows a member of the White Helmets waving to Israeli soldiers as he and his family board a bus to Jordan. (Israeli Defense Forces via AP)

Unsure where they’d end up, some Syrian White Helmets said no to Israel rescue

By SARAH EL DEEEB

Illustrative: A screen capture from a video of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifting off from the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea in December 2012. (AP/KRT via AP Video)

North Korea begins dismantling rocket test site — analysts

By AFP

More Headlines

Illustrative. A pile of $100 bills. (choness, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech firms raise $1.61 billion in 2Q/2018

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag into Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber/File)

A year after Charlottesville, the alt-right is not so united

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte walks past honor guards as he arrives at Manila international airport in Manila on May 24, 2017. (AFP/Noel Celis)

Philippines’ firebrand leader to visit Israel in September

By Raphael Ahren

Newly sworn-in Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, and new Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPOe’s chairman, talk during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government in Vienna on December 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Ritual Jewish slaughter should be ‘verboten,’ Austrian vice chancellor says

By Raphael Ahren

Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London, on March 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

UK Labour lawmakers back emergency motion on definition of anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and AP

PM Netanyahu addresses a summit of Christians United for Israel in Washington, DC, July 23, 2018. (Twitter)

Netanyahu vows ‘complete solidarity’ with Christians persecuted in Iran

By Raphael Ahren

Sacha Baron Cohen as 'Erran Morad,' and Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer (YouTube screen capture)

Butt of the jokeSacha Baron Cohen has Georgia lawmaker bare bottom, use racial slur

By AP and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin, right, visits the family of Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, killed Friday by a sniper on the Gaza border, on July 23 , 2018. (Avi Kanner/GPO)

‘There can be no consolation for your pain,’ Rivlin tells slain soldier’s family

The 'super blue blood moon' is seen over Los Angeles, California, January 31, 2018. (AFP Photo/Robyn Beck)

Red moon risingCentury’s longest ‘blood moon’ stokes doomsday fears

Alon Kastiel at the Tel Aviv District court on July 23, 2018. (Flash90)

Tel Aviv nightlife figure sentenced to 4 years, 9 months for sex offenses

Settlers visit the evacuated settlement of Sa-Nur on July 24, 2018. (Homesh T'cheela)

Hundreds sneak into evacuated settlement, call on government to let them stay

A international observer for TIPH suspected of slashing the tires of an Israeli settler in Hebron. (Hadashot news screenshot)

Head of Hebron observer group summoned by PM over slashing of settler’s tires

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