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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 30, 2019

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Illustrative: An Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet takes part in a graduation ceremony for IAF pilots at the Hatzerim base in Israel's Negev desert, on December 26, 2018. (Jack Guez/ AFP/ File)

PM warned Iran at UN in 2018: We'll act against you in Iraq

Israel said to hit Iranian sites in Iraq, expanding strikes on missile shipments

By Michael Bachner

IAF F-35 jets said to be behind 2 strikes on Iran-linked targets near Baghdad in 10 days; no comment from IDF

Iranians say US sanctions blocking access to vital medicine

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump friend pushed Saudi nuke deals while seeking Mideast envoy job — panel

By AP

Senate fails in bid to block Trump from selling arms to Saudis

Barrels at an Israeli winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot, February 11, 2014. (AP/ Dan Balilty/File)

Settlement wines cannot be labeled ‘Made in Israel,’ Canadian court rules

By Raphael Ahren

Pro-Palestinian activists cheer as Federal Court says current marking of Shiloh and Psagot wines as Israeli products is ‘false, misleading and deceptive’

12 Palestinians said injured in riots as Jewish worshipers visit Joseph’s Tomb

East Jerusalem lawyer sentenced to 13.5 years in jail for shooting attacks

Switzerland suspends funding to UN agency for Palestinians after damning report

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaking at a meeting of Socialist International in Ramallah on July 30, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

PA premier: Without a two-state solution, Israel will suffer ‘demographic death’

Mohammad Shtayyeh says Palestinians are majority between Jordan River and Mediterranean for 1st time since 1948; slams US envoy’s comments on Palestinian rights; hosts Meretz group

This Sept. 23, 2011 file photo, shows an aerial view of the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

Tiny island nation St. Kitts and Nevis recognizes Palestinian state

Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at the UNRWA Rimal Girls Preparatory School in Gaza City, January 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

US envoy urges ‘transparent’ investigation of UNRWA over alleged misconduct

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

How IfNotNow is getting 2020 Democrats to talk occupation

The progressive US Jewish group is hitting the campaign trail, pressing presidential hopefuls to take a stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and getting answers

Illustrative: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders poses with IfNotNow activists in New Hampshire, including University of Michigan student Becca Lubow on the far left, and holds a sign that reads 'Jews Against Occupation.' (Courtesy/IfNotNow)

Max Berger, in an undated picture. (Courtesy of Judy Berger)

IfNotNow co-founder Max Berger brings progressive fight to Warren camp

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., left, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Defending BDS support, Rashida Tlaib says she would boycott Arab states, too

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s West Bank plan: 6,000 settlement homes, 700 Palestinian homes

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu pushing rare building permits in Area C under US pressure ahead of peace plan unveiling; right criticizes plan, but URWP’s Smotrich accepts it

PM said to float plan for Palestinian building permits in West Bank’s Area C

Egypt, Jordan leaders hold talks over Israeli-Palestinian peace

By AFP

Jordanian TV host: Zionists killed the prophets, Jews are our enemies

An Arab Israeli man prepares to vote in Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019, at a school-turned-polling station in the northern Israeli town of Taibe. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Likud doubles budget for program placing hidden cameras in Arab polling stations

Central Election Committee head to be asked to detail what poll workers can do with cameras, after outcry during April vote and claims of voter suppression

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on February 27, 2019. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu said pushing for pre-election Putin trip to Israel

Union of Right Wing Parties candidates (from L-R) Rafi Peretz, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich pose for a photo on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy)

Israel media reviewOne right makes a wrong for Netanyahu: 7 things to know for July 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

This is not the right-wing merger Netanyahu wanted

PM fears that United Right, led by Ayelet Shaked, a popular ex-minister, could siphon votes away from Likud, and is concerned that other votes for fringe hardliners could be lost

(L-R) Ayelet Shaked, Naftali Bennett, Bezalel Smotrich and Rafi Peretz announcing a merger between religious right-wing parties, to be called United Right, July 29, 2019. (Courtesy)

Ayelet Shaked’s New Right merges with URWP after marathon talks

A Jewish Home party activist shouts criticism of the merger with New Right during a gathering in Jerusalem, July 29, 2019 (screenshot)

Jewish Home gathering erupts into shouting match over merger with New Right

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman at a campaign event for his party in Tel Aviv on July 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman: We’ll only recommend whoever backs unity government as PM

Yisrael Beytenu chief says his party will demand interior, health ministries in coalition talks; Netanyahu: Voting for Liberman is voting for a left-wing coalition

6:27 pm

After critical report, Israeli envoy calls for countries to cease funding for UNRWA
6:15 pm

Netanyahu: Voting for Liberman is voting for a left-wing government
5:48 pm

Liberman: We'll only recommend whoever backs unity government as PM

Standard MRI brain scan of a pig, right, and a new MRI scan showing differences in molecular makeup in different parts of the brain (Shir Filo/Hebrew University)

Israeli researchers develop MRI technique to detect molecular changes in brain

By Shoshanna Solomon

Math model developed by Hebrew University team could pave the way for physicians to see beginnings of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s

Illustrative image of smart cars, autonomous vehicles and smart transportation (ae Young Ju; iStock by Getty Images)

Gearing up for smart car revolution, Israel sees need for strategic road map

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustration of the software of monday.com in action (YouTube screenshot)

Israel workplace management startup monday.com raises $150m

By Shoshanna Solomon

Liora Welles in a photo she uploaded to Facebook in December 2015. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Convicted binary options operative: ‘I’m taking responsibility for what I did’

By Simona Weinglass

Liora Welles, one of thousands of Israelis who worked in widely fraudulent industry, tells US court at boss’s trial that ‘it took me a long time’ to realize magnitude of the crime

If you want to lead the country, show us your calendars

The public — your employer — has the right to know how often you skip the Knesset plenum or travel abroad

Letters from my great-grandmother

Inspired by Bubbe Esther’s piety, I ventured to the Ukrainian shtetls where she lived and perished in 1941

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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)

Over NIS 1.7m raised for disabled wife, kids of man killed in parking dispute

A police officer escorts a 19-year-old British woman, center, to Famagusta court in town of Paralimni, Cyprus, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus court remands for 8 days UK teen who withdrew rape claim against Israelis

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2019 file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Baltimore Jews rally behind ‘true ally’ Cummings after Trump attacks

By Josefin Dolsten

A demonstration against the construction of a desalination plant on the coast in the Western Galilee, July 30, 2019 (Yuval Hadar)

Hundreds protest planned desalination plant on coast in Western Galilee

By Diana Bletter

Geraldine Esta and her children Khean and Kathryn arrive for a court hearing in Tel Aviv on July 28, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Court rejects appeal against deportation of Filipino woman, her Israel-born kids

An FBI agent walks toward the site of the Gilroy Garlic Festival after a mass shooting there on July 29, 2019 in Gilroy, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

California gunman posted about anti-Semitic screed before killing 3 at festival

By AP and ToI Staff

Temple Concord in Syracuse, New York, seen in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

180-year-old US synagogue to become dorms for Syracuse University students

US President Donald Trump meets with Qatari Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (not shown) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on July 9, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Trump pardons Israel-born man jailed for drug offenses

Former Florida Senator Richard Stone holds up lists of the names of Latin American officials during his nomination hearing to become Ambassador at Large for Central America before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 20, 1983 on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)

Florida’s first Jewish senator since Civil War dies at 90

By JTA

Hungarian architect and Olympic champion Alfred Hajos, 72, dives into the Margaret Island Pool, Budapest, which he designed and for which he won a golden diploma (AP Photo)

Jewish athletes competing in Hungary honor 1st Jewish Olympic champion

By JTA

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

Mexico says it’s identified organization behind killing of Israeli crime boss

Illustrative image of a birthday cake. (Omer Wazir/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Still got it!London’s oldest man celebrates 108th birthday at Jewish care home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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