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What Matters Most On Monday, August 5, 2019

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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)

After El Paso massacre, liberal US Jews say Trump fueling white nationalism

By Eric Cortellessa

Reform leader accuses president of emboldening mass shooters by ‘demonizing asylum seekers and immigrants’

Netanyahu offers condolences after Texas, Ohio mass shootings

By ToI Staff and Agencies

AnalysisLife in public-shooting-era America: ‘You can’t just not go’

AnalysisDouble shootings heighten fears of ‘white terrorism’ in US

By Charlotte Plantive

Jonathan Pollard speaks to Channel 12 at his home. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Live updates (closed)

Pollard says he’s asked Netanyahu to call Trump on parole, due to wife’s illness

The former spy says his partner has been diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer: ‘I can’t take care of my wife, it’s a matter of life and death’

6:10 pm

PMO says Netanyahu continues to work on bringing Pollard to Israel
5:53 pm

Iran said to boost funding of Hamas to $30 million a month
5:29 pm

Army arrests two armed Palestinians in northern West Bank

Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid addressing party activists in the coastal town of Shefayim, July 14, 2019. (Jane Peimer)

Ultra-Orthodox leaders decry Lapid video as ‘anti-Semitic’; he rejects the claim

Yesh Atid leader tweets parody clip portraying Haredi politicians demanding ‘all the money in Israel’; some party colleagues distance themselves from it

Justice Minister Amir Ohana (L) with then-Justice Ministry director general Emi Palmor during a welcome ceremony for Ohana at the ministry in Jerusalem on June 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New Justice Ministry director approved after abrupt firing of predecessor

Shoes are piled outside the scene of a mass shooting including Ned Peppers bar on August 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP/John Minchillo)

Israel media reviewGuns n’ loyalty: 8 things to know for August 5

By Joshua Davidovich

A British teenager, hooded, who accused seven Israelis of gang rape arrives at the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus, to face charges of making a false allegation, July 29, 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

British teen who accused Israelis of rape says Cypriot police made her recant

Police recommend indictment on money laundering, tax evasion

Likud’s Gal Hirsch, who was nominated for top cop, accused of massive tax fraud

Four-year investigation into former IDF general, long panned by him as politically motivated, clears him of bribery suspicions in Georgia business deals

FILE: Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch gives a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing his entry into politics, December 26, 2018. (Flash90)

American billionaire Sheldon Adelson (left), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a ceremony at Ariel University in the West Bank, on June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Adelson said to have vowed to shun PM over reports he tried to curb his paper

Labor leader Amir Peretz signs party's commitment to human values, Tel Aviv, August 4, 2019 (Courtesy)

Mocking Likud ‘loyalty’ pledge, other parties set out their own vows

Labor affirms loyalty to human beings, Shaked to right-wing values; Liberman mocks PM’s ‘North Korea-style’ demand; Lapid says premier ‘is in total panic’

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)

Most Israelis oppose a Netanyahu-led unity government – poll

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman at a joint press conference on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu alleges ‘plot’ to unseat him by Liberman, Lapid and right-wing figures

The Central Council of Jews in Germany accused news magazine Der Spiegel of spreading anti-Semitic stereotypes with this recent cover illustration. (Twitter screenshot)

German Jews accuse Der Spiegel of spreading anti-Semitic stereotypes

By ToI Staff and AP

Prominent news magazine criticized for cover photo of Hasidim, weeks after coming under fire for article on ‘aggressive lobbying’ by pro-Israel group

Jeremy Corbyn leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party gives the thumbs up after voting in the European Elections in London, Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK Labour anti-Semitism ‘fueled by a flow of anti-Semitic tweets,’ says watchdog

A pug named Buddha, trained to do a Nazi salute as a joke by his owner's boyfriend in Scotland. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Jewish group pans BBC for covering man who trained dog to do Nazi salute

By JTA and ToI Staff

A tank prototype developed by Elbit Systems as part of the Defense Ministry's Carmel project, which was tested on August 4, 2019. (Defense Ministry)

Defense Ministry unveils 3 prototypes for Israel’s tanks of the future

By Judah Ari Gross

Carmel program yields first fruits as defense contractors offer proof of concept for a two-person tank, loaded with AI and improved visibility

Myanmar military officers march during a parade to mark the 74th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Israel among 7 nations faulted in UN report for arming Myanmar army

By ToI Staff and AP

The lost moral compass of Israeli politics

Back in 1984, the Knesset rejected Meir Kahane’s racist views; now, we’re at risk of a government that will welcome them, for a few thousand votes

Happy birthday, President Obama

I believed everything the right-wing talk show hosts said about the 44th president, even the birther conspiracy. I couldn’t have been more wrong

Eduardo Eurnekian and Baruch Tenembaum

Raoul Wallenberg — remembering a hero on his 107th birthday

To save tens of thousands of Jews, Swedish diplomat bribed, cajoled, persuaded and even threatened German and Hungarian officials; what happened to him remains unclear

These curious non-elections

With a clearly apparent outcome, the campaign is tiresome, superfluous, and inevitable — but the vote isn’t over, after all, and the results may yet surprise us

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2019. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

PA premier: Ramallah to treat all of West Bank as if it were Area A

Mohammad Shtayyeh’s spokesman says his comments mean PA will begin to issue building permits to Palestinians in Area C

The security barrier near Beit Horon, on Route 443 in the West Bank. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

App aims to help Palestinian drivers find their way around checkpoints

Howard and Jean Somers testify about their son's suicide following during a House Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill. Washington, DC, July 10, 2014. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

6 years on, parents of Jewish Army vet who took own life still fight for change

By Josefin Dolsten

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Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, before a House Financial Services committee hearing on the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Legislator says three Jewish billionaires bought control of Congress

By JTA

Nava Elimelech, 12, who was murdered in 1982. (Yossi Aloni)

37 years on, 90-year-old mother of murdered girl clings to hopes of justice

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Illustrative - A sea turtle laying eggs on the beach. (Yaniv Levy, Israel National Parks Authority)

Line in the sandDon’t drive on the beach: It’s turtle hatching season

Illustrative image of a computer hacker using a smartphone. (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startup targets phone scammers with new biometric trap

By Shoshanna Solomon

Toronto skyline in 2008. (John Vetterli via WikiCommons)

Police suspect hate crime after Jewish boys assaulted in Toronto

By ToI Staff and JTA

Israel's Ambassador to Croatia Ilan Mor, center, at a reception for Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović hosted by President Reuven Rivlin, July 30 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Serbia slams Israeli envoy for celebrating Croatian ‘pogrom’

By Raphael Ahren

Police inspect a car and a bus that were damaged by an explosion, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 19, 2019. (AP/Mohammed Salah)

17 killed, 32 injured in Cairo road accident explosion

Dr. Simon Fishel's firm ProFam says that it has developed a procedure that can delay menopause by up to 20 years in some patients. (Wikipedia, Creative Commons)

Researchers say they can now delay menopause by up to 20 years

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)

Ministers to honor rabbi who praised Hebron massacre perpetrator

William Daroff, vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), gives testimony at a hearing by the United States House Ways and Means Committee on 'Oversight Plan for the 113th Congress and Tax Reform and Charitable Contributions' in Washington, DC, on February 14, 2013. (Ron Sachs)

William Daroff to succeed Hoenlein at helm of Conference of Presidents – report

By ToI Staff and JTA

15 lucky couples will get to propose marriage against the backdrop of Tel Aviv's City Hall, decorated for the upcoming Tu B'Av, Israel's version of Valentine's Day (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Incandescent proposalFor this challenge, all you have to say is ‘I do’

By Jessica Steinberg

Stargazing near Kfar Hanokdim, during the annual August meteor showers. (Courtesy, Yoni Gritzner)

Summer starsHead south for stargazing and some Hebrew music in August

By Jessica Steinberg

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