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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 3, 2019

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This illustration shows one interpretation of what new planet GJ 357 d may be like. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith)

Planet known as GJ 357d deemed particularly intriguing

NASA discovers possibly habitable super-Earth 31 light-years away

By ToI Staff and AFP

US space administration’s exoplanet-hunting telescope finds new solar system, including 3 planets orbiting a star about a third of sun’s mass and 40% cooler

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman on May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman eyes premiership, ambivalent about rotating top spot with Netanyahu

As Yisrael Beytenu strengthens in polls, party leader says he is interested in holding post of prime minister but it’s an ‘option rather than an obsession’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference hosted by the Israel Hayom newspaper in Jerusalem's Old City on June 27, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Netanyahu may look to enlist Yisrael Beytenu or Labor-Gesher in coalition

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Iran’s Zarif was invited to meet Trump at White House last month — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Invitation extended by Rand Paul with US president’s blessing, New Yorker reports; Tehran said to say no, after its FM worried such a meeting would just be a photo op

A technician at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, February 3, 2007. (AP/Vahid Salemi/File)

Iran says will take ‘third step’ to reduce nuclear deal commitments

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)

Netanyahu reportedly requests meeting with Jordan’s Abdullah, is rejected

Amman said to even refuse phone call between leaders ‘in light of difficult relations’; Jordan won’t attend reported Camp David meet if it’s ‘just a photo op,’ says Arabic paper

Jordan shuts holy site after Israelis visit, says they prayed without permission

White House demands info on any misuse of American funds by UNRWA

By ToI Staff and AFP

6,000 protest at Gaza border, rioters hurl explosive devices toward IDF troops

In this photo from July 17, 2004, tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters the 'Wolf's Lair' in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, where his chief of staff members made an unsuccessful attempt at Hitler's life on July 20, 1944 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Critics say revamp of Wolf’s Lair will turn Hitler HQ into neo-Nazi ‘Disneyland’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A list of displaced people, including victims of Nazi persecution, published online by genealogy research company Ancestry on July 31, 2019. (Screenshot)

Ancestry publishes millions of Holocaust records online in free database

The Jewish cemetery in Osoblaha, the Czech Republic (CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish cemetery vandalized in the Czech Republic

By JTA

Wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum in the High Arctic. (Susan Friedman)

Planet EarthHis dangerous wild subjects are now endangered

In Arctic, polar bear is final frontier for famed Israeli wildlife photographer

By Rich Tenorio

New documentary ‘Picture of His Life’ shows award-winning Amos Nachoum shudder at the idea of missing his Moby Dick; filmmakers Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir capture the expedition

Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann addresses students on a recent lecture tour of multiple cities across Germany. (Courtesy)

As Holocaust memory fades, survivor asks German youth to be justice ‘upstanders’

By Karen Goldfarb

During a recent multiple-city speaking tour, lecture halls filled to capacity to hear Sami Steigmann talk about what happens when their country doesn’t stand up to bigotry

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, May 7, 2015 (AP /Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Sen. Jeff Merkley quotes Anne Frank in criticism of US refugee policy

By Josefin Dolsten

"Being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an ugly nose," wrote Dimitri Verhulst. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Jews have ugly noses, Belgian journalist writes in column attacking Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth. (Cheryl Mazak)

Israeli composer’s new double concerto is a gift to Zukerman — and the world

By Penny Schwartz

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

Binary options

Fraud trial of Lee Elbaz to enter third day of jury deliberations

By Simona Weinglass

As the prosecution and defense await verdict, jury members ask for sticky notes, paper clips and a definition of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’

UNRWA: Canada’s $110 Million Problem

We need a new strategy that will lift the Palestinians out of ’refugee status,’ align them with Israeli standards, and promote science, trades, and industry

In this time of constant addictive stimuli from screens and sounds, there is no better place than the desert to stand still and live in the moment

Sir Ben Kingsley in a screenshot from 'The Red Sea Diving Resort' trailer. (Netflix)

Analysis

Netflix’s ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ misses the real story of Ethiopian Jews

The movie is about the plight of African Jewish refugees, but they’re tangential to the storyline. Also, Israelis don’t wear suits and ascots

Actor Rachel Brosnahan plays Miriam 'Midge' Maisel in 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' now in its third season. (courtesy Amazon Prime)

Midge's marvels‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ exhibit to open in New York in August

By Josefin Dolsten

In this May 6, 2019 file photo, Gal Gadot attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the 'Camp: Notes on Fashion' exhibition in New York (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

A Hedy undertaking‘Wonder Woman’ Gal Gadot to play Hedy Lamarr in miniseries

By AP and JTA

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Jennifer Lopez visits the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 2, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Jenny's Jerusalem jamAfter thrilling Tel Aviv, J-Lo visits the Western Wall

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

Illustrative: homes in the northern town of Jisr az-Zarka, May 26, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

15-year-old girl in moderate condition after stabbing in northern Israeli town

The scene where a suspected drunk driver mowed down a family in Kiryat Gat, August 3, 2019 (Israel Police)

Father, 2 kids seriously injured as suspected drunk driver mows down family

An unarmed US Air Force LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, December 17, 2013. (DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Yvonne Morales, US Air Force/Released)

US to accelerate missile program after ending weapons pact with Russia

By AFP

US House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, at a hearing ahead of testimony by US President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 27, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump mocks Baltimore congressman after break-in at his home: ‘Too bad!’

By AP and ToI Staff

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas., questions former special counsel Robert Mueller as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 24, 2019 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump pick for national intelligence director withdraws

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Jonathan Lemire

Ady Barkan attends the Los Angeles Supports a Dream Act Now! protest at the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on January 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli-American activist says US must have better conversation on healthcare

Shayeh Dov is awaiting sentencing for exploiting Orthodox Jews in Florida in a Ponzi scheme. (Broward County Sheriffs Office)

Florida man targeted Orthodox Jews in $3 million Ponzi scheme

By Josefin Dolsten

Bahr in 1998, after a successful strike by Communications Workers of America in the fallout of the split of AT&T and Bell Labs. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

ObituaryMorton Bahr, who led Communications Workers of America, dies at 93

By JTA

Scouts from all over the world at the World Scout Jamboree in 2007 in Chelmsford, England. This year’s edition took place in Glen Jean, West Virginia. (Cate Gillon/Getty Images via JTA)

Reform rabbi is in charge of 10 religions at this year’s World Scouting Jamboree

A picture taken on January 19, 2018 shows Saudi women clad in the Abaya robes and men walking during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometers east of Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)

Saudi Arabia wins praise, ire as guardianship rules eased

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