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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 1, 2019

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Sayyaf Sharif Daoud, an Arab Israeli who traveled to Syria to join IS, speaks with Al Arabiya. (video screenshot)

Israeli Islamic State fighter captured in Syria asks Netanyahu to bring him home

FILE - In this June 16, 2014. file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

UN experts warn Islamic State aiming for resurgence in Iraq, Syria

By Edith M. Lederer

In this image from video released by the CIA on November 1, 2017, Hamza bin Laden is shown at his wedding. (CIA via AP, File)

US has intel that Osama bin Laden’s son is dead — report

By AFP

Illustrative: A picture taken on July 26, 2018, near Kibbutz Ein Zivan in the Israeli Golan Heights, shows smoke rising across the border in Syria following air strikes during a Syrian-government-led offensive in the southern province of Quneitra. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Syrian state media: Israel launches missile at Quneitra, causing damage

By Michael Bachner

No injuries reported in purported IDF raid, said to come after movement of Hezbollah members in area; alleged strike day after report Israel expanded operations to Iraq

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (left), and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), at a rally in Tehran, February 11, 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Report: Israel believes Hamas, Iran agreed on Gaza front in case of northern war

Itamar Ben Gvir holds a press conference with family members of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri, who were found dead in their home in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, on January 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Far-right Otzma Yehudit files Knesset slate, won’t join United Right

By Michael Bachner

Itamar Ben Gvir rejects last-ditch efforts by Netanyahu, Motti Yogev to sign merger deal, registers with Central Elections Committee

6:10 pm

Third suspect arrested in stabbing of teen at gay youth center
6:04 pm

Fire near Jerusalem still not under control, additional forces called in
6:03 pm

Trump says US to slap 10% tariff on $300 bn more in Chinese goods

Yigal Amir, appearing in court in 2004. (Yoram Rubin/Flash90/File)

Party celebrating Rabin’s killer Yigal Amir seeks run in September election

Nura Deliba’s platform seeks freedom for right-wing extremist who gunned down Israeli PM at 1995 peace rally; Knesset committee says party allowed to run but will try to prevent it

Extremist Otzma Yehudit still seeking merger with United Right as deadline nears

By Raoul Wootliff

Peretz accuses Netanyahu, Liberman of colluding to force repeat elections

Labor approves union with Gesher, definitively rules out any further mergers

Troops secure communities in Gaza border area, August 1, 2019 (Israel Defense Forces)

Three troops injured by Gazan gunman in border clash; attacker killed

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hamas operative opens fire after crossing border into Israel, army says; soldiers taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries; tank hits terror group’s post

Israel media reviewTensions? What tensions? 7 things to know for August 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Five years on, mother of soldier slain in Gaza still fighting for son’s remains

IDF chief of staff crowdsources Gaza strategy in appeal to mid-level officers

Kais Nashif, right, and Yaniv Biton in 'Tel Aviv on Fire.' (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)

Interview

Chuckle and sigh at new film about checkpoints, occupation and unhappy neighbors

By Jordan Hoffman

A frog was found in a bag of kosher lettuce in an Israeli grocery on July 31, 2019. (Twitter screenshot)

Hopping mad

Customer finds live frog in bag of strictly kosher lettuce

Video of amphibian in package of greens which had seals of approval from five certification bodies elicits national amusement

Former Defense Ministry adviser on settlement affairs Kobi Eliraz. (Courtesy)

Interview

Israel ‘being led instead of leading’ in West Bank, ex-security official laments

Former Defense Ministry settlements adviser says cabinet approval of 700 homes for Palestinians a positive carrot, must be followed by stick of enforcement against illegal building

PA prime minister: We don’t need Israeli permission to build in West Bank

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Kushner meets Jordan’s king, Netanyahu in new tour to discuss peace plan

By AFP and ToI Staff

White House denies plans for summit with Arab leaders to roll out peace plan

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on stage during the 2019 Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York City, March 3, 2019. (Lars Niki/Getty Images for The Athena Film Festival via JTA)

Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Criticizing the occupation doesn’t make you anti-Israel’

Freshman lawmaker targeted by Trump opens up about anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Bernie Sanders in lengthy radio interview

Trump heckled by Palestinian American who said former Israeli PM ‘should burn’

By AP and ToI Staff

NGO petitions to prevent US Rep. Ilhan Omar from entering Israel

Bahraini king said to decline Netanyahu request to meet in Manama in August

Avi Issacharoff

The road to annexation runs through Area C

Israel’s approval of Palestinian construction in the West Bank effectively cemented its control there, and undermined PA President Abbas

The conservative reaction to women’s inroads in Orthodoxy

The Orthodox world today safeguard’s this truth: the Torah’s meaning is eternal, unchanging, and decided by men

A Jew for Jesus is debating R. Shmuley Boteach (you should watch)

Don’t worry — these days, Jewish and Christian leaders can dialogue without the slightest hint of violence towards the Jewish participants

Alan M. Dershowitz

Why I defend clients like Jeffrey Epstein

Most people accused of a crime in America are, in fact, guilty; we keep it that way by vigorously defending everyone accused of a crime

Mordechai Ben Abir unveils a street renamed after his ancestors who were expelled from Spain in the town of Falset, Spain, at a ceremony on May 16, 2016. (Youtube screenshot)

500 years after Inquisition, 10,000 Sephardi Jews close circle with citizenships

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative: A truck with the words 'fuck off' and another with swastika graffiti on it were found outside a Jewish school in a Hasidic neighborhood in London, November 14, 2016. (Shomrim N.E. London/Twitter)

UK anti-Semitic incidents hit a ‘record high,’ says watchdog group

Community Security Trust calls for reversing ‘tide of hate’ after 892 occurrences against Jews recorded in first six months of 2019

Liberal Democrats MP Layla Moran (YouTube screenshot)

From our partnerBritish MP battles anti-Semitism while fighting for her Palestinian family

Maria Mostowska, 96, shares her memories with The Associated Press Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Warsaw, Poland, of having faced death during the 1944 Warsaw Rising struggle against the occupying Nazi Germans ahead of state ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the failed revolt. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ex-nurse recalls bravery and carnage in failed 1944 Polish revolt against Nazis

By Monica Scislowska

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Dikla Hasdai mourns near the body of her husband, Ofir Hasdai ,who was shot dead at a parking lot in Ramle, during his funeral at the Ramle cemetery on July 29, 2019. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Family of shooter in parking lot killing apologizes to victim’s family

President Reuven Rivlin meets with a with delegation of mothers of lone soldiers from North America on August 1, 2019. (Haim Zach, GPO)

President Rivlin meets with delegation of lone soldiers’ mothers

By ToI Staff and JTA

A view of the town of Lakiya on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Parents killed in front of child in drive-by shooting in southern Israel

A new F-35 fighter jet at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, on July 14, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel reportedly lobbied Washington to drop Turkey from F-35 program

Signs of support and flowers adorn a post in front of the Chabad of Poway synagogue, April 29, 2019, in Poway, California. (AP/Gregory Bull)

Poway synagogue killer was inspired by New Zealand attack, court papers show

By AP

Harold Prince holds his Tony award for best director in a musical for 'Show Boat,' at Broadway's Minskoff Theater in New York, June 4, 1995. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ObituaryTowering Jewish Broadway director and producer Hal Prince dead at 91

By Mark Kennedy

U.S. Army troops march in formation during a change of command ceremony, Monday, April 3, 2017, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

US Army says chaplain helped rabbi harass wife of soldier — report

By JTA

Kelly Craft, President Trump's nominee to be Representative to the United Nations, testifies at her nomination hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images/AFP)

Senate confirms Kelly Craft as US envoy to UN

By AP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens during a meeting between the Iranian president and the North Korean foreign minister in the capital Tehran on August 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

US imposes financial sanctions on Iran’s foreign minister

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 30, 2008 (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

Report: Epstein wanted to spread his DNA by impregnating 20 women at his ranch

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mayim Bialik attends the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, January 29, 2017. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images via JTA)

Mayim Bialik hails NYC subway riders for erasing ‘Nazi’ graffiti

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)

PodcastLISTEN: How garbage trucks will soon shame you for not recycling

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