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What Matters Most On Monday, July 29, 2019

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Ofir Hasdai, his wife Dikla and two of their three daughters. Hasdai was shot dead in a dispute over a parking spot on July 28, 2019 (courtesy: Facebook)

One child has cerebral palsy, another has muscular dystrophy

Over NIS 600,000 raised for disabled wife, kids of man killed in parking dispute

Nearly 3,000 people donate to family of Ofir Hasdai, who was gunned down in parking lot of Ramle mall

Screen capture from video of Dikla Hasadai whose husband Ofir was shot dead apparently in a dispute over a parking spot in Ramle, July 28, 2019. (Ynet)

Ramle man was shot dead trying to park in disabled spot for his wife

Bashar Hakrush, a worker at a Kiryat Shmona factory, who was allegedly stabbed to death by a coworker on July 28, 2019. (Courtesy)

Factory employee in north stabbed to death; coworker suspected

A British teenager, hooded, who accused seven Israelis of gang rape arrives at the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus, to face charges of making a false allegation, July 29, 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

Cyprus court remands UK tourist who said she made up rape claim against Israelis

Some in Israel uneasy with heroes’ welcome for teens cleared of gang rape

Returning to Israel, teens vow to sue British tourist who accused them of rape

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel media reviewSex, lies and indecent rapture: 9 things to know for July 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Those teens in Cyprus are no ’real men’

The Israeli tourists are innocent of gang rape; still, humiliating a woman is fundamentally a crime against humanity

Cyprus and the after-party on TV

So God performs open miracles to clear you of group sex, filming it, and discarding the woman when you finished with her?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Ofir and Dikla wanted to go to the mall with their kids

The request to move your car out of a handicapped spot should never, ever be a reason to shoot

Push…and pull

Tel Aviv is infused with a vibrancy, a vitality that comes from a deep appreciation of life and its fragility

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a Moroccan Jewish Mimuna celebration in Or Akiva on April 21, 2014. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/POOL/FLASH90)

Elections 2019: Interview'Israel's Middle Eastern soul has come out of the basement'

Nobody hijacked Israel. It’s just not what its pioneers thought they’d created

By David Horovitz

It’s not European. And it doesn’t divide into right and left, religious and secular. Matti Friedman, author of a new book about Mizrahi spies, on why Israel baffles and infuriates

Screen capture of the Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue. (Google Maps)

Jewish man injured outside Florida synagogue in drive-by shooting

Victim, reportedly 69, hit four times in the leg while waiting for afternoon services at Young Israel of Greater Miami

Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Jewish man wearing kippa assaulted in Germany

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A young couple embrace at a parking lot after a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, Sunday, July 28, 2019 (AP Photo/Thomas Mendoza)

Shooting at California festival kills 3; 1 suspect dead

By Martha Mendoza and MICHAEL BALSAMO

An illustrative photo of a Filipina worker helping an elderly woman on November 2, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Filipino mother, 11-month-old expelled amid crackdown on visa-less workers

Immigration authorities say woman arrived 13 years ago but stayed beyond permit; officials detain another family ahead of removing them from country

Ofrecina (Precy) Koanka and her learning disabled son Michael James, known as MJ, aged 12. (Screenshot)

Court frees Filipino woman and learning-disabled son from pre-deportation cell

Martin Karopkin, front right, speaks at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, while American attorney Phil Weiner, left, listens. (Courtesy)

Interview

Jewish law experts help Cambodian genocide victims find justice at tribunal

Union of Right-Wing Parties leader Rafi Peretz (left) and New Right leader Ayelet Shaked. (Flash 90)

Peretz agrees to give Shaked No.1 spot on right-wing Knesset list

By Tamar Pileggi

Union of Right-Wing Parties leader says he will let New Right chief head the joint slate, clearing key obstacle to unity deal; fringe far-right parties merge

Leaked recordings reveal Sara Netanyahu’s efforts to sabotage URWP-Shaked merger

Bennett says right-wing union would be for election only

As rest of right unites, Kahane disciples declare merger with anti-LGBT party

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on April 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

PM said pushing rare plan for Palestinian construction in West Bank’s Area C

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu seeking ministers’ unanimous okay for permits in areas under Israeli control, alongside settlement construction; development comes days before Kushner’s visit to country

6:29 pm

Woman shot, seriously wounded in Lod
5:54 pm

Netanyahu trying to convince Otzma Yehudit and Zehut to merge -- report
5:43 pm

PM said pushing rare plan for Palestinian construction in West Bank's Area C

Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (C) leads the party's weekly faction at the Knesset, October 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli-Arab merger

Nationalist Balad party announces it will run on Joint Arab List in elections

Decision marks official reconstitution of coalition of the four Arab-majority parties that split into two alliances before last national vote in April

Nitzan Horowitz, leader of Meretz party and of the Democratic Camp, speaks at an election campaign event in Tel Aviv on July 28, 2019. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Meretz central committee approves merger with Barak’s Israel Democratic Party

Labor MK Itzik Shmuli speaks during a special plenary session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 15, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fentonl/Flash90)

After Shaffir defects, Shmuli says he won’t abandon Labor

Pierre Krahenbuhl, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, is interviewed in Jerusalem on January 19, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Top UNRWA officials accused of sexual misconduct, other ‘serious ethical abuses’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Internal report also cites ‘nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority’ in UN’s Palestinian refugee agency

Palestinians stand in front of a biometric gate as they enter Israel at the Qalandiya crossing in Jerusalem, July 11, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Israel invests in high-tech upgrades at West Bank crossings

By Ilan Ben Zion

Lexi Rabadi stars in the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene's one-woman show, 'Hannah Senesh (a play with music and song).' (Victor Nechay/Properpix.com)

Interview

Spy/poet Hannah Senesh brought back to life in one-woman show in New York

By Jordan Hoffman

More Headlines

In this photo taken on April 12, 2015, an Iraqi man cries over body bags containing the remains of people believed to have been slain by Islamic State jihadists at the Speicher camp in the Iraqi city of Tikrit. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Head of UN investigators: Put Islamic State members on trial like Nazis

By Sarah Benhaida

Katie Hopkins attending a protest over the jailing of the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson in London, England on on July 11, 2019. (Luke Dray/Getty Images/via JTA)

Some UK Jews embrace hard-right pundit Katie Hopkins amid her attacks on Muslims

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An illustrative image of a chest with pulmonary tuberculosis (stockdevil; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel researchers develop algorithm that may help predict onset of tuberculosis

By Shoshanna Solomon

Labour MP Afzal Khan (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Senior UK Labour MP apologizes for posting ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy’ video

By ToI Staff and JTA

In this April 25, 2018, file photo the YouTube app and YouTube Kids app are displayed on an iPhone in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

YouTube needs ‘new set of rules and laws’ to block racism, hate, says executive

By Jules Bonnard

People walk outside CNN Center, in Atlanta, October 24, 2018. (Ron Harris/AP)

CNN staff member sorry for 2011 ‘I love you, Hitler’ tweet

By JTA

Illustrative image of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in a religious neighborhood in Ashdod performing 'kapparot' ritual before Yom Kippur. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Los Angeles Jewish center sued to prevent ‘kapparot’ ritual

By JTA

Self-described activist Barak Cohen (R) filming himself harassing Avner Netanyahu, July 27, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

PM’s son sues activist who accosted him, called father ‘corrupt thief’

Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (2nd-L) speaks with soldiers taking part in a snap drill at the Tzeelim base in southern Israel simulating a future military conflict in the Gaza Strip, February 26, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF launches drill to bolster preparedness for war in Gaza

Gal Gadot arrives for the Oscars ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, March 4, 2018, (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Catapulted to fameGal Gadot’s daughter is the voice of an Angry Birds 2 hatchling

By JTA

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny at the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow, Russia, December 27, 2017. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Doctor: Russian opposition leader may have been poisoned

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA

Tsachi Halevi (left) and Meital Dohan in 'Mossad,' the comic-drama feature film recently filmed in Israel (Courtesy Meital Dohan Instagram)

An offer he can't refuseActress Meital Dohan reveals relationship with Al Pacino

By Jessica Steinberg

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