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What Matters Most On Monday, August 13, 2018

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Roni Cohen, left, was diagnosed with leukemia and is seeking a bone marrow donor, with fiancé Bar Armon, 29, from Hod Hasharon, seen in a Hadashot television news broadcast on August 12, 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)

Match needed from someone of Yemenite-North African heritage

Wedding plans on hold, Israeli couple scrambles to find a bone marrow donor

Roni Cohen, 27, was supposed to marry her fiancé Bar in a month, but a leukemia diagnosis changed everything. ‘Our only chance is to ask everyone to go and get checked’

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, center, speaks with IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, right, and other senior military officers during a visit to the Gaza Division on August 13, 2018. (Shahar Levi/Defense Ministry)

Defense minister: Next round of fighting with Hamas is a matter of when, not if

By Judah Ari Gross

Liberman meets IDF top brass in Gaza Division to discuss ongoing violence in the Strip, says Israel’s security policies are set responsibly, not to appease ‘online commenters’

Palestinians load kites and balloons with flammable material in order to fly toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/ Mahmud Hams)

Israel said to confiscate tens of thousands of balloons en route to Gaza

An employee of the Palestinian health ministry checks the Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after it stopped its services on January 29, 2018, after it ran out of fuel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Amid major shortage, PA orders cancer drugs be sent to Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on August 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

Netanyahu threatens elections if ultra-Orthodox won’t compromise on draft bill

PM indicates he’s fed up with impasse over recruitment of yeshiva students; gives Haredim 3 weeks to figure it out

Lapid implores Netanyahu: ‘Let’s pass enlistment law, you have our votes’

Israel media reviewThe Haredi ultimatum: 8 things to know for August 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Ultra-Orthodox sue to stop police use of ‘skunk spray’ anti-riot method

By JTA

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks in the main market road during his visit to the Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, June 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

UK home secretary urges Corbyn’s ouster over visit to Munich terrorists’ graves

Sajid Javid says any other party leader ‘would be gone by now,’ after photos appear to show Labour head honoring Palestinian masterminds of 1972 Olympics massacre

In this photo dated March 10, 2018, former White House strategist Steve Bannon addresses members of the far right National Front party at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille. (AP Photo)

Steve Bannon weighs in on UK burqa debate, Boris Johnson

By DANICA KIRKA

People exercise next to a banner for the 2018 Asian Games during a car-free day in Jakarta on August 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO)

No Israeli athletes allowed, but Moovit app chosen for Asian Games in Indonesia

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli startup’s mobile guide to public transportation will help millions of fans get to sports competitions at event where Palestine is welcomed but Israel banned since 1981

Illustrative image of a fax machine. (via Shutterstock)

Hackers are targeting your old fax machines, Israeli cybersecurity firm warns

By ROBERT STEVENS

During World War II, Italian Jews at forced labor in the Italian camp at Gorizia (public domain)

Book review

Italy’s Holocaust executioners revealed in ‘historiographical counterblast’

By Matt Lebovic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, right, in New York on September 19, 2017. (Avi Ohayun)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Netanyahu traveled to Egypt in May to discuss Gaza with Sissi

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli TV says Egyptian leader stressed need for PA to return to Strip, even if Hamas unwilling to give up its weapons first

6:18 pm

New Israel Fund head slams Netanyahu over Peter Beinart's airport detention
6:04 pm

Labor MK threatens to sue fellow lawmaker over harassment allegation
5:34 pm

Liberman to discuss easing restrictions on Gaza with defense chiefs

White nationalist Jason Kessler speaks at a rally near the White House on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Reporter's Notebook

Eric Cortellessa

The day it rained on the white nationalists’ parade

One year after neo-Nazis and Klansmen descended on Charlottesville for a ‘Unite the Right’ rally, they were barely able to stir up a quorum in the nation’s capital

Police escort far-right demonstrators during a rally at Lafayette Park opposite the White House, on August 12, 2018, in Washington, DC, one year after the deadly violence at a similar protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AFP / Nicholas Kamm)

Drowned out by protesters, Washington white supremacist march fizzles

By AFP

This screen grab taken from AFPTV video on August 12, 2018 shows ex-white supremacist Jason Downard being interviewed during a far-right rally at Lafayette Park opposite the White House August 12, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP / Antoine BOYER)

Former neo-Nazi preaches love outside white supremacist rally

By AFP

Outgoing deputy chief of staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, left, shakes hands with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot at a ceremony in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 11, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Defense minister, army slam campaign against IDF chief hopeful Golan

By Judah Ari Gross

Families of fallen soldiers denounce candidate over remarks comparing trends in Israel to Nazi Germany and calling for troops to take risks to protect Palestinian civilians

Israeli troops take part in an exercise on the Golan Heights in August 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Preparing for fight against Hezbollah, army tries out combat reshuffle

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, August 12, 2018. (Jim Hollander/AFP)

Security cabinet huddles over Gaza Strip violence, ceasefire with Hamas

Runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter is consoled after she miscounted the laps and stopped running too early in the women's 5000m final race during the European Athletics Championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, on August 12, 2018. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Israeli athlete stops running too soon, misses a second medal at European games

By Stuart Winer

Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, who won gold in the 10,000-meter run, makes disastrous miscalculation in 5,000-meters contest, comes in fourth but still breaks Israeli record

Dominick Cunningham of Great Britain, center, celebrates after winning gold in the floor exercise during the men's artistic gymnastics finals at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, August 12, 2018. At left is Artem Dolgopyat of Israel who won silver and right is Artur Dalaloyan of Russia who won bronze. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat takes silver at European Gymnastics Championships

Trump could have saved Erdogan from himself. He kicked him instead.

Turkey’s worsening crisis is due to Erdogan’s megalomania, not Trump’s bullying, but Turks won't see it that way

Seeing demons, I remembered IDF training and law

About that year-long schizophrenic psychosis of mine, when I saw, heard and spoke with thousands of supernatural beings

Is equality for women in the IDF so important?

It's not just a feminist issue — the implications are critical for Israel's security, equality and social dynamics

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

We've got Rosh Hashanah all wrong

The Jewish New Year is a time of praying for all of humanity, not asking for divine pardon for one's sins

Kate Bornstein attends the Broadway Opening Night after party for 'Straight White Men' Broadway Opening Night at DaDong on July 23, 2018 in New York Cit (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)

Gender nonbinary activist Kate Bornstein seeks to break stereotypes on Broadway

By Curt Schleier

More Headlines

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with lawmakers in Tehran, Iran, on June 20, 2018 (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei: No war with US, but no talks either

By AFP

Screen capture from video of a new Iranian short-range ballistic missile, unveiled August 13, 2018. (YouTube)

Iran unveils next generation missile, vows to further boost capabilities

A gas chamber in the former German Nazi death camp Majdanek, in Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Israeli student sent home after exposing buttocks at Nazi death camp

By ToI Staff and Agencies

American-born Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison, owner of Arison Holdings, in Jerusalem, March 4, 2013. (Flash90)

Israel’s richest woman questioned for hours in suspected Africa bribery case

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in an interview with The Associated Press in Putrajaya, Malaysia, August 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

Virulently anti-Semitic Malaysian PM says he should be allowed to criticize Jews

By AP and JTA

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his speech to officials at Malacanang palace in Manila, August 6, 2018. (AFP photo/Ted Aljibe)

Philippines confirms president to visit Israel next month

Labor Party MK Eitan Broshi, of the Zionist Union faction, is seen during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor lawmaker faces fresh accusations of sexual harassment

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a kashrut supervisor in a warehouse. March 20, 2016. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Senior rabbinate official arrested on kashrut bribery suspicions

In this July 24, 2018 photo, Netta Barzilai poses for a portrait in New York. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)

Broadcaster gives Netanyahu ultimatum over Eurovision funding

Hikers swim at the Zavitan spring on the Glan Heights in northern Israel, April 18, 2014. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Golan Heights river trails closed after bacterial disease infects bathers

By Stuart Winer

Isaac Herzog, shown speaking August 8, 2018 at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, called for unity and pluralism in his first US visit as chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel. (Courtesy JAFI via JTA)

Isaac Herzog: ‘Diaspora Jews are drifting away from Israel’

By JTA

Thousands attend a ceremony to mark nine years since the 2009 shooting at the Bar Noar LGBT center, in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (Flash90)

Thousands march on 9th anniversary of Tel Aviv gay youth center shooting

By JTA

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