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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 27, 2019

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The sun rises near power lines in Frankfurt, Germany, as a heat wave scorches Europe, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

The last four years are the hottest on record

From Europe to the Arctic, temperature records tumble in 2019

By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS and Patrick Galey

Planet is getting hotter at a rate unparalleled in two millennia, and atmospheric CO2 levels are at their highest in 3 million years

The Basilica of the Transfiguration, a Franciscan church located on Mount Tabor, December 31, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Forest fire threatens Galilee shrine at believed site of Jesus transfiguration

By AFP

MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi react after submitting a joint list of candidates from their Hadash and Ta'al parties to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Hadash)

Three Arab parties agree on joint Knesset run; Balad expected to decide Sunday

Hadash, Ta’al and Ra’am reach deal to revive Joint List, after separate runs in the April elections; Ayman Odeh cites ‘second chance for us to unite in the face of hatred, racism’

Labor chief Amir Peretz at the opening of the party's new election headquarters in Tel Aviv, on July 24, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite stated opposition, Labor head said mulling merger with Democratic Camp

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing the formation of Democratic Camp electoral alliance on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Barak accuses Netanyahu of ‘leaning on’ extremist party to avoid prosecution

The Reichstag building is shown as it goes up in flames, February 27, 1933, in Berlin. (AP Photo)

Newly uncovered testimony casts doubt on Nazi Reichstag fire claims

By AFP

In affidavit published by German newspaper, Nazi official clears Dutch communist of starting the 1933 blaze that Hitler used to consolidate power

Labour MP John Mann with German Premier Angela Merkel at the International Coalition for Combating Antisemitism. (Courtesy)

Interview

New UK anti-Semitism adviser: Jews are the canary in the coal mine for humanity

By Jenni Frazer

A screenshot of C-Span at the end of a tally of a US House of Representatives vote to condemn the boycott Israel movement on July 23, 2019.

Analysis

US House’s big anti-BDS vote won’t be last word on Israel boycott legislation

4 takeaways from the House of Representatives’ overwhelmingly supported resolution this week against boycotting the Jewish state

US Rep. John Lewis speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rep. John Lewis backs the right to boycott Israel — even though he opposes BDS

Abraham Sutzkever, right, before World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Courtesy/via JTA)

Jewish literary history

How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at an event in Detroit, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya/File)

Israel’s US envoy flies to Alaska to ‘upgrade’ cooperation against Iran – report

Israel TV says more details about secret trip by Ron Dermer barred from publication by military censor

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Nasrallah denies Israel’s accusation Hezbollah using Beirut port to smuggle arms

Illustration above and top by Avi Katz

Necessary stories

Saul at Ein Dor

By Haim Watzman

Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story observes an IDF officer in crisis

Israeli crime boss Ben Suthi being extradited from Mexico to Israel in 2004. (Channel 13 screenshot)

Israeli crime boss shot dead in Mexico was underworld ‘legend’

Ben Suthi had been in a decades long feud with one of Israel’s top criminal organizations at the time of his killing, which Mexican authorities believe was a ‘settling of scores’

Police arrive at an upscale shopping mall at the south of Mexico City, July 24, 2019, where a woman wearing a blond wig disguise killed two Israeli men (AP Photo)

Mexico says assassination of Israelis linked to money laundering, drug cartels

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Security camera footage shows a woman who appears to be Esperanza Gutierrez Rojano holding a pistol before shooting Israelis Ben Suthi and Alon Azoulay in Mexico City on July 24, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Security footage shows female assassin killing Israeli crime bosses in Mexico

Benjamin Dreyer at Hatchards, London’s oldest bookshop, promoting the UK version of his book, 'Dreyer’s English.' (Isabelle Ralphs/ Cornerstone Publishing/ Penguin Random House UK)

Interview

From US to UK, veteran editor Benjamin Dreyer has the last word on English style

By Jenni Frazer

Michal Klimberg (left) and Shir Halperin partnered together to create Make Eat, a shared cooking space for small-scale food manufacturers (Afik Gabay)

Former candy factory gets set to let small chefs bust out of their home kitchens

By Jessica Steinberg

Comedian Elon Gold talks at John Jay College in New York, February 26, 2017. He has incorporated Jew-hatred into his comedy sets for years. (Shahar Azran/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jewish comedians aim to deflate modern anti-Semitism with laughs

Julie Schonfeld

Even Moses had a disability

Judaism fundamentally obligates Jews in the Americans with Disabilities Act — despite the loophole of a faith exemption

Chananya Weissman

The tefillin bag

When a simple plastic case takes on untold significance, as the embodiment of an aging young man’s hopes and dreams and fears

Priorities (Matot 5779)

It’s a given that Jews place primary importance on children and education; it’s less understood that those values guarantee the Jewish future

When the government fails survivors

The gap between what these seniors have, what they receive from the state, and they actually need to be able to maintain a dignified existence

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Aia Polansky speaks with local news in an interview published July 24, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli woman in US chases down, restrains male jogger who flashed her

Israeli suspects cover their faces with their shirts as they arrive at the Famagusta courthouse in Paralamni, Cyprus, July 26, 2019 (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

After DNA tests, Cyprus police think 3 further gang rape suspects fled to Israel

Palestinians rioters clash with Israeli forces on the border near Gaza City, July 26, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

IDF reportedly kills Palestinian rioter on Gaza border

A view of the Manama skyline, Bahrain. (CC-BY Jayson De Leon/Wikimedia Commons)

Bahrain executes 2 in terrorism case decried by activists

The scene of a stabbing near the Beit Dror LGBT youth hostel in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2019. (Screen capture/Channel 13)

Arab lawmakers condemn stabbing outside LGBT youth hostel

Police are seen outside an apartment building in Bnei Brak where a woman was stabbed to death on July 27, 2019. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Man in Bnei Brak arrested on suspicion of killing his mother

In this photo from April 5, 2019 US President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, California. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

In victory for Trump, Supreme Court OKs use of Pentagon funds for border wall

By Jessica Gresko

People cast their votes for US president, November 8, 2016, at Centreville High School, in Centreville, Virginia. (AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards)

Russia targeted election systems in all 50 US states, Senate report finds

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Illustrative: A general view of the delegates during the opening session of the Economic and Social Council High Level Segment (UN ECOSOC), in Geneva, Switzerland, July 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Sandro Campardo)

UN body passes resolution accusing only Israel of women’s rights violations

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Screen capture from video showing alleged crime lord Assi Ben-Mosh, right, on a flight after being expelled from Colombia. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Portugal releases Israeli wanted for murder of compatriot in Colombia

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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