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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 4, 2019

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Construction of new homes in the Israeli settlement of Shiloh. November 17, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Goodbye withdrawal, hello sovereignty: The triumph of the settlers

By David Horovitz

Even rightist Israeli governments used to subconsciously regard them as potentially temporary, settler leaders say. Now, they claim, that’s all changed. Next stop: Full integration

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

Poll: Palestinians prefer to ‘wait-and-see’ rather than reject Trump peace plan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Likud Party candidates and MKs attend an event as the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2019. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

TV: Despite loyalty pledge, Likud may yet unseat Netanyahu

Senior official quoted as saying party will be forced to make ‘difficult decisions’ if PM again fails to assemble coalition

6:16 pm

Netanyahu accuses Lapid, Liberman of hatching 'back-alley deal'
5:58 pm

Russian police using Israeli tech to breach protester's phones -- reports
5:51 pm

Ohio shooter's sister among 9 victims

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at his official residence in Jerusalem on March 17, 2015. The poster behind him reads: "It us or them. Only Likud, Only Netanyahu." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top 40 Likud candidates sign pledge not to oust Netanyahu after elections

By Alexander Fulbright

Opposition party mocks PM’s ‘paranoia’; initiator of loyalty pledge calls it ‘an answer to the libelous spin’ of Liberman, Blue and White

Liberman calls for televised ‘face-off’ with Netanyahu, slams PM’s ‘lies’

PM’s son alleges Likud coup attempt by Knesset speaker, deletes tweet

PM’s son tells court he didn’t choose public life, unlike his father and brother

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

AG said to oppose Likud plan to again hide cameras in Arab polling stations

At next week’s election committee hearing, Mandelblit will reportedly present opinion backing filming only during vote counting

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, right, visits the Gaza Strip border with the head of the IDF's Gaza Division Brig. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, center, and Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir on October 25, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel media reviewWhen you come at the kingmaker, you best not miss: 8 things to know for August 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Yisrael Beytenu party leader MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

New poll: More voters want a unity government without Liberman than one with him

Smashed and dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Reporter's notebook

Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past

By Raphael Ahren

Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress

Security cam footage shows gunman entering Walmart in El Paso, Texas, August 3, 2019 (screenshot)

Manifesto linked to El Paso gunman rails against ‘Hispanic invasion’ of Texas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Text purportedly written by suspect Patrick Crusius speaks of defending country from ‘cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion’

Authorities work the scene of a mass shooting, August 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

With body armor and rifle, gunman brings death to Dayton in second mass shooting

By Dan Sewell and JOHN MINCHILLO

From left, Melody Stout, Hannah Payan, Aaliyah Alba, Sherie Gramlich and Laura Barrios comfort each other during a vigil for victims of the shooting August 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

At least 20 killed in mass shooting at shopping complex in El Paso, Texas

By CEDAR ATTANASIO, MICHAEL BALSAMO and DIANA HEIDGERD

Israel's ambassador to Panama, Reda Mansour. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli ambassador to Panama, a Druze, decries treatment at Ben Gurion Airport

Reda Mansour says security guard delayed him and his family upon learning they were from Arab village

Israel's ambassador to Panama, Reda Mansour, lights a candle in memory of Israel's fallen soldiers and terror victims, May 8, 2019 (Facebook page of Israeli Embassy in Panama)

Foreign Ministry studying case after Druze envoy alleges mistreatment at airport

Young Israelis take part in a protest demanding action on climate change, Tel Aviv, April 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Interview

What role is Israel playing as the world heats up and CO2 reaches record levels?

Climate change envoy says Israel has negligible impact on planetary destruction, but is reducing pollution, is world water use champion, pioneers alternatives to plastic and more

Jerome M. Epstein

Ethiopian Jewish kids in summer camp dream of aliyah

To PM Benjamin Netanyahu: You say you want every Jew to feel at home in Israel, but you have turned your back on those in Gondar and Addis Ababa

Malka Himelhoch

Will this chained woman be freed on Monday?

When a couple approaches the rabbinical court to divorce, and the rabbis let years pass instead of expediting proceedings, they are not doing their jobs

Model Monica Joseph in an interviewed published August 2, 2019. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Sudanese model who grew up in Israel says she is living in fear of deportation

Monica Joseph, 19, survived harrowing journey to Jewish state and could ‘take over’ the world of modeling, but can’t leave the country without legal status or passport

A speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard trains a weapon toward the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, July 21, 2019. (Morteza Akhoondi/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Iran seizes third foreign tanker, says it was carrying ‘smuggled fuel’

By MEHDI FATTAHI and Aya Batrawy

Iranian media reports 7 crew members aboard ship captured Wednesday have been arrested; Revolutionary Guards commander says vessel was bringing fuel to Arab Gulf states

US still seeking allies for maritime coalition against Iranian threats

By Lolita C. Baldor

Iranian general says possibility of Gulf conflict decreasing

By AFP

Iranian fighter jet crashes near Persian Gulf

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A view of midtown Detroit, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit Jews caught between a rock named Trump and a hard choice among Democrats

More Headlines

This Oct. 7, 2016 satellite image released by the US Department of Defense shows Shayrat air base in Syria. (DigitalGlobe/U.S. Department of Defense via AP)

Blast kills 31 regime fighters at ‘significant’ Syria base, says UK monitor

By AFP

Indian Hindu pilgrims carry bags on their head as they trek up to Chandanwari in Kashmir, some 115 km southeast of Srinagar, during the annual Hindu pilgrimage on July 27, 2019 to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

Israelis warned to urgently leave India’s Kashmir region amid growing unrest

By ToI Staff and AP

The Amos-17 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 4, Israel time, atop of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (Raphael Mizrahi)

Launch of Amos-17 satellite delayed, SpaceX targets Tuesday

By Shoshanna Solomon

A crewmember of a Dvora patrol boat gets the ship ready in the Haifa port for the Israeli Navy's flotilla in honor of Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Navy hosts major multinational earthquake drill to prep rescue, recovery

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of a prostitute in Tel Aviv (Flash90)

Plan to rehabilitate prostitutes stalled by funding delay — report

This photo released August 4, 2019, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows Syria's first lady Asma Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, during an interview aired on state TV in Damascus, Syria (Syrian Presidency via Facebook)

Asma Assad, wife of Syrian dictator, says she ‘totally conquered’ cancer

By AFP and ToI Staff

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