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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 2, 2018

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People participate in the annual Gay Pride parade in central Jerusalem, under heavy security on August 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

3 of 7 Jerusalem mayoral candidates plan on attending pride parade

Azaria, Berkovitch and Havilio to march with LGBTQ community and its supporters; Elkin and Lion to stay away; ultra-Orthodox Deitsch won’t comment; Salman says he’d cancel it

Under heavy police guard, Jerusalem readies for city’s largest-ever Pride Parade

46 arrested as ultra-Orthodox Jews block main Jerusalem road in draft protest

Orthodox rabbis reject colleagues’ letter calling LGBTQ community ‘perverts’

By JTA

Surveillance footage released by the IDF that it says shows a group of armed jihadist fighters in southern Syria approaching the Israeli border on August 2, 2018. (courtesy: IDF)

IDF: Airstrike kills 7 IS gunmen who crossed from Syria into Israeli territory

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Army says attackers were 650 feet past ceasefire line but had not crossed main Golan Heights border fence; military later retrieves explosive belts, Kalashnikov rifle at scene

Israeli soldiers walk past vehicles of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) near the town of Majdal Shams, on the Golan Heights, April 27, 2015. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

Russia says UN peacekeepers patrol Israel-Syria border for first time in years

By ToI Staff and AP

A picture taken on July 24, 2018 from the Tal Saki hill in the Golan Heights shows smoke rising above buildings across the border in Syria during air strikes backing a Syrian-government-led offensive in the southwestern province of Daraa. (AFP/ JALAA MAREY)

Jordan says it killed Islamic State jihadists who tried to breach Syrian border

By AFP

From left: Israel Navy Commander Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot attend a naval commanders' graduation ceremony, August 1, 2018 (IDF spokesperson)

Netanyahu warns that Israel will stop any Iranian attempt to close Red Sea

After Yemeni rebel attack on Saudi tankers, PM tells graduates of naval commanders’ course a ‘determined international coalition’ would act against Tehran

Illustrative: Iranian navy personnel celebrate after successfully launching a Ghader missile from the Jask port area on the shores of the Gulf of Oman during a drill near the Strait of Hormuz, Tuesday, January 1, 2013. (AP/Jamejam Online, Azin Haghighi)

Iranian forces said gearing up for massive drill in strategic waterway

From right, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, Military Secretary to the Prime Minister Brig. Gen. Eliezer Toledano and head of the Shin Bet Nadav Argaman speak during a visit to the IDF's Gaza Division on July 17, 2018, amid an increase in violence from the Gaza Strip. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM scraps upcoming Colombia trip, citing volatile situation in the south

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu had planned to attend inauguration of new pro-Israel president Iván Duque and meet other regional leaders

Liberman accuses Hamas of sending kids to launch incendiary balloons from homes

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Israel said to toughen its policy on entry permits to Gazans with Hamas ties

By ToI Staff and AFP

Defense minister orders stop to Gaza fuel shipments over fire balloons

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

Druze leader accuses Netanyahu of leading Israel to an ‘apartheid state’

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu cuts meeting with community leaders short in row over accusation; Druze activist calls author of nation-state legislation a ‘Nazi’

6:25 pm

US says Russia still carrying out 'pervasive' election meddling
6:17 pm

Trump administration releases millions in frozen aid to PA security forces
6:07 pm

US says Iran conducting naval exercise in Persian Gulf

Analysis

Taboo-breaking Palestinian candidate says East Jerusalem deserves better

Hoping to be deputy mayor, Ramadan Dabash campaigns for city elections, defying PLO and aiming to mobilize electorate that stays away: ‘We’re not telling anyone to become Israeli’

Ramadan Dabash, a Palestinian resident of Sur Baher running for Jerusalem's city council, at his second home in Beit Hanina, July 2018 (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

From left: Environment and Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin, Culture Minister Miri Regev, Ateret Cohanim Chairman Matti Dan, Likud MK Nurit Koren and Jeruslam mayoral candidate Moshe Leon sign the visitors' book at the former Yemenite synagogue acquired by the right-wing Ateret Cohanim organization in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, August 1, 2018. (Sue Surkes)

Jewish Yemeni heritage center launched in heart of Arab East Jerusalem

AnalysisIn battle for East Jerusalem, property deeds are the weapon of choice

Activists and supporters of the Druze community in Israel set up a protest tent in Tel Aviv on August 1, 2018. ( Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Druze leaders say protest, talks over nation-state law to continue

After some praise compromise proposal, community representatives indicate they are not yet ready to accept PMO deal for changes to offset controversial legislation

US said to have sought clarifications from Israel on nation-state law

Netanyahu team presents plan to mollify Druze over nation-state law

Israel media reviewMinority retort: 7 things to know for August 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative image of bacteria colonizing a surface; the Israeli startup Nobio has developed particles to combat bacteria (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli firm creates particles to kill germs on contact, fight bacterial disease

By Shoshanna Solomon

With product initially aimed for dental industry, Petah-Tikva based Nobio raises $3.6 million from aMoon Fund and Dr. Ole Jensen, a US surgeon and dentist

Close up of Yael Vizel "wearing" an article of clothing from the Decoding Israeli Dress exhibition, on the Zeekit app; July 31, 2018 (Ariella Gentin)

Israel Museum uses app to bring old clothes alive at fashion exhibit

By Ariella Gentin

Pakistan's cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party speaks to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Islamabad during the general election on July 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Aamir Qureshi)

Analysis

Will Pakistan’s charismatic new premier change the relationship with Israel?

Ex-cricketer Imran Khan, 65, whose first wife had Jewish roots and who has faced anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, wants reform, but how far will he go in ties with Jewish state?

Julia and Lina Glushko at the Fed Cup in 2018. (Ofra Friedman/ITA)

One love

Israeli sisters double up to join elite group of tennis-playing sibs

Renee Garfinkel

The arsonist’s tale

What is strikingly absent from those who set fires is compassion for the land itself

I’m not a great housewife

If I could clean just once, I’d pat myself on the back, and put the cleaning stuff away. Forever.

Israel beyond camels

My 4 years in Ohio, representing the Jewish state: polite emails, advanced planning, and changing people’s minds

Who gets to define anti-Semitism?

The UK Labour Party must protect free speech, including the comments about Israel that most British Jews abhor

More Headlines

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)

Corbyn called for Holocaust Memorial Day to be renamed ‘Genocide Memorial Day’

By Michael Bachner

Austria's national soccer team manager Andreas Herzog prior to a friendly soccer match between Austria and Ivory Coast in Innsbruck, Austria, October 17, 2007. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Footballing forgivenessIsrael appoints Austrian coach whose goal kept it out of the 2002 World Cup

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: The IDF launches a missile from the Iron Dome air defense system to intercept an incoming rocket from Gaza from a position in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on May 29, 2018. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

US Senate passes huge defense bill including $550 million for Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Nazi flag flown in the United States. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Swastika found flying in Wyoming public park in place of US flag

By Michael Bachner

Police at the scene of a suspected murder in Beit Yael homeless shelter in Netanya on August 2, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

Suspect held for double murder in Netanya homeless shelter

The Holocaust memorial in Plock, Poland. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Polish Holocaust memorial, Jewish cemetery vandalized

By JTA

Illustrative: IDF soldiers near the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Beit El, October 24, 2014. (STR/Flash90)

IDF says it caught cell that fired at settlement last month

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The Netflix hit series “Orange is the New Black” is set in an all-women’s prison. (Netflix via JTA)

Acting tipsHow an Orthodox mohel snagged a role on ‘Orange Is the New Black’

By Josefin Dolsten

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, and Israeli Fire and Rescue Services Commissioner Dedi Simhi meeting at Sderot's fire station, August 1, 2018. (Avida Landau/US Embassy in Israel)

US envoy visits American, Israeli firefighters battling arson attacks from Gaza

A general view of TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries in Jerusalem, Israel, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From the webTeva Pharm profit beats estimates, raises full-year outlook

The scene of a car crash in the French Alps on August 1, 2018. (ZAKA)

Israeli mother of 4 killed in car crash in French Alps

By Michael Bachner

Elisha Chaibatov seen in a court before his release from jail on August 2, 2018. (Screen capture: Channel 10 news)

Man freed after 11 years as High Court quashes murder conviction

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