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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 25, 2019

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Israel Democratic Party chair Ehud Barak (L), former Labor MK Stav Shaffir (C), Meretz chair Nitzan Horowitz, July 25, 2019. (Courtesy)

Meretz, former PM Barak, Labor defector Shaffir announce joint Knesset run

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz will head left-wing electoral list, followed by Shaffir; Barak to take number 10 spot but would be first ministerial pick

Meretz-Barak merger praised on left as Labor pressured to join in

By Stuart Winer

Israel media reviewEverything you own in a box to the left: 6 things to know for July 25

AnalysisThoughts of premiership dashed, Barak clings to hopes of center-left bloc

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Israel Democratic Party chair Ehud Barak (L), former Labor MK Stav Shaffir (C), Meretz chair Nitzan Horowitz, July 25, 2019. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Polls give fledgling Democratic Camp between 8 and 12 Knesset seats

By Michael Bachner

Labor tumbles to just 5 seats in two out of three TV surveys, Blue and White also suffers; ahead of potential right-wing merger, Ayelet Shaked’s New Right tops URWP in all polls

6:36 pm

Ben Gvir denies as 'spin' report that PM offered to make him deputy minister
6:13 pm

MGM to remove six-pointed star from security uniforms
6:10 pm

Abbas says Palestinian will no longer abide by agreements signed with Israel

Bitter arguments in Gulf media over harassment of Saudi blogger in Jerusalem

Editor-in-chief of Qatari daily accuses Mohammed Saud of sullying the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but others fault protesters for using foul language and cursing Saudi royals

Likud MK Avi Dichter meeting Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud on July 22, 2019. (Credit: Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

The raising of the new swastika flag aboard the S.S. Bremen as it was docked in the Hudson River. Captain Adolf Ahern, behind the stand with the draped Nazi flag, conducted the ceremonies. (Photo by Jimmy Condon/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

What one US sailor did when a German ocean liner flew the Nazi flag in 1935 NYC

By Rich Tenorio

Screen capture from video of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan, addressing the US House of Representatives during a debate over a resolution rejected boycotts of Israel, July 23, 2019. (YouTube)

Rep. Tlaib recalls boycotts against Nazi Germany to defend right to snub Israel

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

During debate over resolution outlawing embargoes on Jewish state, Democratic congresswoman says America has long history of blacklisting foreign regimes to advocate human rights

Illustrative image of hamburgers (Kesu01; iStock by Getty Images)

Boycott threats delay Michigan opening of Israel-founded burger chain

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister cheers US vote against Israel boycott movement

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

A Palestinian building is blown up by Israeli forces in the village of Sur Baher, southern Jerusalem on July 22, 2019, (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90(

US blocks UN draft condemning demolition of Palestinian homes

Security Council statement pushed by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa said move ‘undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for just and lasting peace’

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert attends a celebration at Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan in northern Israel on March 31, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Olmert said to cancel Switzerland trip over threat of arrest for ‘war crimes’

By Stuart Winer

Israel is no violent theocracy

Ultra-Orthodox harassment of the secular is rude, to be sure, but it’s not sanctioned by the government — a key point that should be in the Pew report

‘Mechina’ — as worthy an Israeli export as drip irrigation

These pre-army academies are training a new generation of enterprising, resilient, purpose-driven youth, who figure out how to serve society

What would Mom do?

More than a list of Do’s and Don’ts, parenting is the moral values instilled in children through the actions of those who raise them

Belfast’s power vacuum leads to Titanic BDS troubles

The Belfast city council, which should be focused on local municipal issues, may embarrass Northern Ireland with its foray into Mideast conflicts

Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Minister) Dominic Raab gives a speech in the main hall on the second day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 at the International Convention Center in Birmingham, on October 1, 2018. (Paul ELLIS/AFP)

Profile

Dominic Raab, karate kid with a Jewish father, named UK foreign secretary

By AFP and ToI Staff

Britain’s new top diplomat reportedly spent summer of 1998 at a university near Ramallah and worked with former Palestinian negotiator of Oslo peace process

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II welcomes newly elected leader of the Conservative party Boris Johnson during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, Wednesday July 24, 2019, where she invited him to become Prime Minister and form a new government. (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP)

Boris Johnson takes reins as UK prime minister with Brexit pledge

Conservative lawmaker Priti Patel arrives at 10 Downing Street, London, July 24, 2019 (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Priti Patel, previously ousted over Israel meetings, named UK home secretary

Chris Evans in a screenshot from 'The Red Sea Diving Resort.' (Netflix)

Interview

Captain America ‘passionate’ about role as Israeli agent, says Netflix director

By Jordan Hoffman

Michael Eisenberg of Aleph VC, left, and Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, during the recording of the Firewall Special Israel Edition podcast (Courtesy)

Podcast

LISTEN: How an Israeli startup plans to use drones to visit the world

1st in a series of 7 Israeli startup podcasts: Through unmanned aerial vehicles, XTEND wants people to access new physical realities and give them the ability to ‘fly’

Illustrative: Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, featuring hundreds of start ups, VC’s, angel investors and leading multinationals, held at the Old Train Station complex in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel among world’s top 10 most innovative countries — global index

By ToI Staff and AFP

Conservation manager Yana Vitkalov cleans a mosaic at the 'Burnt Church' at the Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project at the Susita National Park, summer 2019. (courtesy)

Archaeology

6th-century inscriptions near Galilee may show Christians’ fading Greek literacy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Accused financier Epstein found in cell after possible suicide attempt — report

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Israel’s rabbis making it harder for immigrants to prove Jewishness — advocate

Illustrative image of a sad child. (Takasuu/iStock by Getty Images)

Mom in northern Israel suspected of pimping out daughter, 12

Ayelet Shaked, former justice minister and head of the New Right party, speaks during a press conference outside her home in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Pleading for right-wing unity, Shaked backs off key demand in merger talks

Union of Right-Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz (R) and National Union faction chair Bezalel Smotrich at the party's 2019 election campaign launch, March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With deadline nearing, PM said to sweeten deal for merger with extremist party

By Tamar Pileggi

People hiding under tables during a shooting at a cafe in Mexico City, July 24, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

2 Israelis gunned down in broad daylight in Mexico City cafe

Nurses protest against their work conditions outside the Health Ministry in Jerusalem July 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court orders striking nurses back to work after two-day standoff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/POOL/AFP)

PM told police his cousin gave him thousands of dollars in cash a year — report

AnalysisJews helped inspire America’s refugee program. Stephen Miller might end it

Filipino workers and their kids protest against the arrest and deportations of children of foreign workers in Israel outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 24, 2019. (Sue Surkes)

Dozens of children rally outside PM’s residence against immigration crackdown

The Israeli drug company TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries, in Jerusalem, on August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Teva officials said to return $50m over fines paid by drugmaker

By Shoshanna Solomon

Anne Neuberger, an Orthodox Jew, was recently tapped to head the US National Security Agency’s new Cybersecurity Directorate. (National Security Agency via JTA)

Orthodox Jewish woman named cybersecurity chief for US spy agency

By JTA and ToI Staff

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