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What Matters Most On Friday, August 2, 2019

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Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White party, speaks outside the Central Elections Committee in Jerusalem, August 1, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

32 parties register electoral slates for September vote, down from 47 last time

By Raoul Wootliff

Polls suggest only nine parties may enter Knesset; a party headed by cult leader’s four wives submits slate; one aiming to advocate release of Rabin’s assassin Yigal Amir does not

AnalysisElection lists close with rifts on left and right, leaving Liberman as kingmaker

By Raoul Wootliff

Women from the Ambash cult speak with reporters at the Knesset as they arrive to present their electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Four wives of jailed cult leader found pro-polygamy party to run in elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Otzma Yehudit's Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to reporters at the Knesset before his far-right party submits its electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Resisting pressure from Netanyahu, far-right Otzma Yehudit runs alone

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Itamar Ben Gvir accuses Bennett of ‘blowing up’ merger, claims United Right seeking to join coalition led by Blue and White

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks to reporters at the Knesset as his party submits its electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewLet the wild rumpus begin: 8 things to know for August 2

By Joshua Davidovich

The Otzma Yehudit party's Michael Ben Ari (L) and Itamar Ben Gvir attend the Central Elections Committee for the 21st Knesset elections during a session to discuss a petition to disqualify them from running in the elections, at the Knesset, March 6, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Hours before deadline, far-right fringe parties walk back merger

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

Poll: Half of voters want unity government, as support for Liberman rises

Yisrael Beytenu chief retains his kingmaker status in TV survey, with both right-wing and center-left blocs unable to form majority without him

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks to reporters at the Knesset as his party submits its electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz appears to open, then abruptly closes, door to government with Netanyahu

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Hadash-Ta'al chairman Ayman Odeh speaks at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Tel Aviv Museum on May 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Top Arab MK says open to ‘joining’ Gantz

By Raoul Wootliff

Police officers escort a 19-year-old British woman, center, from the Famagusta court in town of Paralimni, Cyprus, July 29, 2019. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

British woman who accused Israelis of rape a victim of revenge porn, lawyer says

Attorney says leaked video of consensual encounter between 19-year-old complainant and group of Israeli teens in Cypriot hotel a bigger crime than false accusation

Women of the Wall at the Western Wall on August 2, 2019 (Courtesy Women of the Wall)

Protesters, worshippers skirmish at Western Wall during female-led service

Head of Conservative movement says he was accosted by ultra-Orthodox, had his kippa and prayer shall trampled on

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin speaking recently with indigenous leaders of the Tumucumaque region in northern Brazil. (Courtesy)

Interview

Ethnobotanist says life mission to save indigenous culture is native to Judaism

By Rich Tenorio

Illustrative: Saudi women walk during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometers east of Riyadh, January 19, 2018. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

In first, Saudi Arabia allows women to travel without male consent

Easing of guardianship rules marks potential sea change for rights in kingdom, although some restrictions still in effect

Illustrative: A Saudi man looking at Facebook at his Riyadh office on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Facebook says fake accounts linked to Saudi government taken down

By AFP

The arrival of 100 olim from France at Ben Gurion Airport on July 17, 2019. (Stéphanie Bitan / Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

On a flight to Israel, French immigrants share a new homeland, but not motives

By Stéphanie Bitan

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

Cummings program taking black teens to Israel lauded for forging community bonds

Democratic lawmaker, recently targeted by Trump, established fellowship that seeks to bridge gaps between African-Americans and Jews in his Baltimore district

Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks to the House Chamber, July 16, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pelosi calls Kushner ‘a slumlord’ in defense of Baltimore

By LISA MASCARO

US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on August 1, 2019, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump tears into Democrats, but mostly curbs racist rhetoric at rally

By Jonathan Lemire and Dan Sewell

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a security cabinet tour of the IDF's installations on the Golan Heights, February 6, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/File)

Netanyahu appears to confirm Israeli missile fire at Syrian Golan

Hours after Arab media report a strike on Hezbollah assets, PM says Israel acting against the terror group, and ‘you’re hearing about that now’

People watch a TV showing an image of North Korea's multiple rocket launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station, in Seoul, South Korea, August 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

US reports new North Korean rocket launch, amid rising tensions

By ToI Staff and AP

This file photo taken on May 23, 2019 shows smoke rising following reported Syrian government bombardment on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the southern countryside of the rebel-held Idlib province. (Anas Al-Dyab/AFP)

Syria says it agrees to cease-fire in rebel stronghold

By Albert Aji and Edith M. Lederer

Jennifer Lopez danced, dazzled and charmed a crowd of 60,000 at her long-awaited concert on Thursday night, August 1, 2019 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Erez Ozir)

J-Lo celebrates 50 with an adoring, dancing crowd in Tel Aviv

Pop diva continues global birthday celebration, and speaks a little Hebrew, with 57,000 ecstatic fans at her first performance in Israel

US singer Jennifer Lopez arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, ahead of her concert in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. (Flash90)

Big LeagueJ-Lo, A-Rod live it up in Israel

By Gabe Friedman

Sorelle Weinstein

Israeli parents should be proud

By kids for kids, this dusty summer camp in northern Israel is no manicured glamping experience. It is also a whopping success

Sometimes, children need a trip journal

The kids – and the Children of Israel – return to a travelogue again and again, discovering where they stand because of their experiences (Masai)

Bernie Sanders is wrong about leveraging aid to Israel

If the Senator supports Israelis’ right to live in peace, how can he jeopardize the funding that makes this possible?

Crash test dummies teach Torah

Who is held responsible for a preventable death caused by negligence? The blame goes all the way to the top (Parshat Masai)

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Jewish man is assaulted by taxi driver in Montreal, Canada, July 28, 2019 (Screengrab via Facebook)

Montreal taxi driver beats Jewish man, yells ‘won’t move for any f***ing Jews’

By JTA

A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank near the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Gazan who wounded 3 soldiers was in Israel for 2 hours – officer

In this photo from January 26, 2013, George Soros attends the World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort of Davos. (Eric Piermont/AFP)

George Soros donates $5.1 million to new super PAC ahead of 2020 election

By Gabe Friedman

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

Lee Elbaz arrives at federal court for jury selection in her trial in Greenbelt, Maryland, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jury hears closing arguments in fraud trial of Israeli binary options operative

By Michael Kunzelman

In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Thursday, May 24, 2018, the Russian nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky test-fires the Bulava missiles from the White Sea on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. (AP/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

US and Russia end weapons pact, sparking fears of new arms race

By Deb Riechmann

Yoram Cohen, then-chief of the Shin Bet security agency, attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on November 18, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former Shin Bet head warns of ‘bloodshed’ that West Bank annexation would cause

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, meets with US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, second left, and Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt on the latest stop in a regional tour to discuss a blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, in Cairo, Egypt, on June 21, 2018. (MENA via AP)

In Cairo, Sissi tells Kushner Egypt supports establishment of Palestinian state

US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson touches a barbed wire fence at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate 75 years since the killings of the Sinti and Roma at the camp in Oswiecim, on August 2, 2019. (Alik Keplicz/AFP)

Long ignored, Roma genocide mourned 75 years on at Auschwitz

By Vanessa Gera

People light flares as they observe a minute of silence to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II on August 1, 2019, in the Polish capital Warsaw. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

Poles mark 75 years since Warsaw Uprising against Nazis

By AFP

A man mourns the dead in the Bar Noar shooting in Tel Aviv, August 2, 2009. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

A decade on, parents of LGBT center shooting victims still waiting for answers

A damaged car after a deadly accident on Route 90, August 2, 2019. (Israel Police)

Three killed in separate crashes in Israel, West Bank

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