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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 21, 2019

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Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting, March 3, 2019 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Israeli minister: We’re the ‘only country killing Iranians’

Tzachi Hanegbi says Tehran understands Jerusalem ‘means business,’ claims no need for concern about ‘cautious’ American response to Gulf crisis

As sanctions choke Iran, Hezbollah reportedly deploying for war on Israel border

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British Airways suspends Cairo flights over unspecified security risk

By AFP

UK said set to slap sanctions on Iran as tensions rise after tanker seized

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis: Bibi passes B-G

Netanyahu’s Israel: Divided over the legacy of its longest serving PM

As he’s consolidated power in 13-plus years at helm, growing discontent among many citizens keeps the premier from attaining the legendary status of the man he’s now overtaken

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a helicopter ride over Israel's central region, June 23, 2010. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Ayelet Shaked speaks at a press conference in Ramat Gan on July 21, 2019, after she is announced as the new head of the New Right party. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Polls give right-wing alliance headed by Shaked 12-13 seats

Likud still mostly likely to form a coalition but it would require the inclusion of MK Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu

6:26 pm

In letter to UN, Britain calls Iran's seizure of ship as 'illegal interference'
6:04 pm

Polls give right-wing alliance headed by Shaked 12-13 seats
5:27 pm

Shaked takes reins of New Right from Bennett

Former justice minister Ayelet Shaked, June 12, 2019. (Flash90)

Shaked set to announce she’ll lead New Right in September elections – reports

Former justice minister expected to take top slot on party’s slate, relegating her former boss, Bennett, to second place

Amir Peretz delivers a speech at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Labor chief Peretz rules out alliance with left-wing Meretz, Barak

Meretz party chairman Nitzan Horowitz, center, attends a protest of the LGBTQ community in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Meretz chief decries Labor-Gesher merger, says his party only option on the left

The British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero at an unknown location on May 5, 2019 (Basil M. Karatzas, Karatzas Images via AP)

Israel media review

Tanked up and ready to fight: 9 things to know for July 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is playing close attention to a tit-for-tanker battle in the Persian Gulf, and possibly gearing up for its own tussle with Tehran

Iran says fate of seized British ship depends on crew ‘cooperation’

UK navy heard in audio trying to thwart Iran’s seizing of ship

UK tells UN that Iran seized ship in ‘illegal interference’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Interim Foreign Minister and then-transportation minister Israel Katz speaks in Jerusalem on February 27, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Foreign Minister Katz said snubbed by Pompeo at Washington confab

Citing scheduling difficulties, US secretary of state reportedly turns down meeting request — and sits down with ministers of Bahrain, Greece, Tunisia, Colombia

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Israel’s ambassador to US to complete tenure after September elections

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: Students meditate as part of the morning prayer at Romemu Yeshiva in New York, July 16, 2019. The yeshiva combines intensive study of Jewish text with mindfulness and mysticism. (Ben Sales)

Tai chi with tefillin: Inside New York’s quirkiest yeshiva

I survived abusive religious ‘conversion’ therapy

Rabbis must shift gears and tell LGBTQ+ Jews that their lives matter, before it’s too late

Helen Maryles Shankman

The moon and me

Hundreds of campers gazed in wonderstruck silence, mesmerized by the impossible sight of astronauts bouncing over the cratered, powdery surface

Trump, Pelosi, and the fire they play with

The leadership on both sides has been intentionally divisive on questions of race, giving no heed to the risk of fanning those flames of prejudice

Excuse me, could you move forward?

What happens when the Israeli invasion into others’ personal space is left to fester unchecked?

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)

Report: Nearly half of young European Jews victims of anti-Semitism in past year

By Robert Philpot

Newly released data from unprecedented EU survey suggests people aged 16-34 are considerably more likely to face bigotry than older Jews, much of it related to Israel

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks on, on the third day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, north west England on September 25, 2018. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)

Corbyn ally didn’t suspend member for saying MPs get orders from Israel – report

Conservative MP and leadership contender Boris Johnson gestures during a leadership campaign visit to a nursery in Braintree, southeast England, on July 13, 2019. (Neil Hall/Pool/AFP)

With Boris Johnson tipped to win PM race, UK braces for turbulence

By Jill Lawless

Shrubland in Nahal Dishon

Can’t see the forest for the trees? Environmental debate restarts on KKL forests

The Brass Band of Huntsville is seen during the Apollo 11 Homecoming Celebration Dinner and Program at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration on July 16, 2019, at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP)

Apollo’s legacy: A quiet corner of Alabama haunted by Nazi Germany

By Ivan Couronne

Scientists who developed rockets for Third Reich later designed spacecraft for US; their descendants, and history, remain in small city of Huntsville

Young attendees stand by a space suit during the Apollo 11, 50th anniversary celebration at Space Center Houston on July 20, 2019, in Houston, Texas. (Loren ELLIOTT / AFP)

Mankind’s giant leap celebrated as millions mark moon landing anniversary

By AP

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Illustrative: The Bedouin town of Rahat in the northern Negev. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Shin Bet nabs man who allegedly planned to bomb Ashdod hotel

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a meeting with foreign reporters in Gaza City on June 20, 2019 (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Delegation of senior Hamas officials arrives in Tehran

Some of the 12 Israelis suspected of gang raping a British tourist cover their faces with their shirts as they leave the Famagusta courthouse to be taken to a detention center, in Paralamni, Cyprus, on July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cypriot police question Israeli suspects in alleged gang rape

Illustrative image of a sleeping man (tommaso79, iStock by Getty Image)

Israel-led research team develops AI-based model to detect sleep apnea

By Shoshanna Solomon

German troops march in Bucharest, Romania on December 27, 1940. (AP Photo)

Germany to compensate 8,000 Romanian Holocaust survivors living in Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Director Taika Waititi hands the Thor hammer to Natalie Portman during the "Thor Love And Thunder" portion of the Marvel Studios panel on day three of Comic-Con International on July 20, 2019, in San Diego. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Hebrew hammerNatalie Portman is Marvel’s next ‘Thor’

By Lindsey Bahr

Natalie Portman in Inglewood, California, April 25, 2019. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Natalie Portman recalls Anne Frank in post about immigration enforcement

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller is interviewed by German Deutsche Welle TV company during an anti-goverment demonstration in front of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. (AP/MTI,Zoltan Mathe)

Hungarian dissident philosopher Agnes Heller dies at age 90

By AFP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel presents a wreath of flowers during the memorial ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in Berlin, on July 20, 2019. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Germany marks 75 years since Hitler assassination attempt

By AP

Krystyna Danko receiving flowers from Jonny Daniels on in her apartment in Warsaw, Poland on her 102nd birthday on July 9, 2019. (From the Depths via JTA)

Holocaust survivor helps buy hospital bed for Polish rescuer, 102

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A Hungarian archaeologist, Ferenc Redo, examines a metal coin from a Holocaust victim's collection in the Balatoni Museum in the town of Keszthely, 200 kilometers west of Budapest, Hungary on May 22, 2019. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)

Buried treasure poses Holocaust puzzle for Hungarian museum

By Peter Murphy

Ohio man Izmir Koch is convicted of a hate crime and lying to the FBI for attacking a man he thought was Jewish. (Facebook)

Ohio man gets 30 months in prison for attacking man he thought was Jewish

By Josefin Dolsten

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