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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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Then-Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the ceremony for the opening of a new branch of his Agudath Israel party, ahead of upcoming elections, in the northern city of Safed, July 4, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Police recommend Litzman stand trial for bribery, aiding alleged pedophile

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

Jerusalem's City Hall. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Three held on suspicion of graft at Jerusalem municipality, utility company

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to journalists during a visit to inspect a naval Iron Dome defense system in the northern port of Haifa on February 12, 2019. (Jack Guez/Pool/AFP)

Most Israelis say PM tough on defense, but question his personal integrity

Illustrative: Girls arrive at their school. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police nab 2 Palestinians suspected of involvement in alleged rape of 7-year-old

It’s unclear how pair was involved in incident involving Israeli girl in West Bank settlement; arrests come more than month after police released suspect due to lack of evidence

6:06 pm

PM seeking to encourage Feiglin to bow out from race -- report
5:59 pm

Report: 2 Palestinians arrested in rape case of 7-year-old one month after initial suspect released
5:50 pm

Prosecution slated to recommend AG indict Litzman before elections -- report

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a URWP party conference in Lod, July 22, 2019. (Flash90)

Smotrich says Israel should follow Torah law, drawing ire of Liberman

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

United Right lawmaker says he is striving for religious state, echoing past incendiary comments; Yisrael Beytenu party chief calls remarks ‘unbelievable’

Blue and White party leaders, from left to right: Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Moshe Ya'alon, Gabi Ashkenazi. Tel Aviv, March 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Lapid’s jab at ultra-Orthodox exposes rift within Blue and White alliance

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then finance minister Yair Lapid attend a signing ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 23, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu accuses Lapid of ‘anti-Semitism’ in campaign spot on ultra-Orthodox

Men work on a new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Naale, January 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel advances plans for over 2,300 settlement homes, most deep in West Bank

Left-wing group blasts approval of project to be constructed right along security barrier after government demolished Palestinian homes in Wadi Hummus built just as close to wall

View of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya from Mount Scopus, December 15, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police sued for planting rifle in Arab man’s home for filming of TV series

Guns and ammunition found inside a backpack that was being carried into Israel by two Palestinian men from the northern West Bank on August 5, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests Palestinian men carrying guns into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Demonstrators costumed as US President Donald Trump and polar bears protest against the climate change during climate conference COP in Bonn, western Germany, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)

Israel media review

On the bear patrol: 6 things to know for August 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Warnings of a looming financial crisis go unheeded despite Israel being caught between Washington and Beijing and the government accused of not doing enough to protect the country

China's Vice President Wang Qishan, right, laughs as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a face as they tour the Israeli Innovation Summit in Jerusalem, October 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Foreign Ministry said to warn of clash with US unless China investments curbed

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

A protester throws a tear gas canister fired by riot police as they face off near the Legislative Council building and the Central Government building in Hong Kong, Monday, August 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Foreign Ministry warns Israelis in Hong Kong to stay away from protests

By AP and ToI Staff

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, second right, and a Hamas delegation, in Tehran, Iran, July 22, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran said increasing Hamas funding to $30m per month, wants intel on Israel

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In exchange for massive cash boost, Palestinian terror group will reportedly supply Tehran with information on location of Israel’s missile stockpiles

Blue and White vows to invade Gaza, kill Hamas leaders if it commands next war

Rouhani warns war with Iran will be ‘mother of all wars,’ calls for peace

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran unveils three new precision-guided missiles

By AFP

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

Ex-spy Pollard pleads for Netanyahu to convince Trump to ease his parole terms

By Tamar Pileggi

In appeal on TV, former US navy analyst who passed secrets to Israel says restrictions on his movement make it impossible to care for his sick wife

Israeli tourists at Aaron's Tomb in Jordan on August 1, 2019. (Courtesy of Roni Ayalon)

Guide raps Jordan’s ‘humiliating’ treatment of Israelis booted from Aaron’s Tomb

Ruby Rose participates in The CW "Batwoman" panel during the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Aug. 4, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Bat mitzvah

Actress hopes Jewish lesbian Batwoman will empower young people

Showrunner says scene referencing Judaism of Ruby Rose’s character was cut from pilot, but they are ‘trying to find ways of incorporating that without it being a huge thing’

Illustrative image of a doctor using a dermatoscope for a skin examination for melanoma (AndreyPopov, iStock by Getty Images)

Nano-vaccine against melanoma developed by Tel Aviv University researchers

By Shoshanna Solomon

New approach to deadly skin cancer has been effective in preventing and treating primary tumors in mice, study says

Sexual activity, in moderation, may boost long-term survival rates for heart attack survivors, according to a new paper in the American Journal of Medicine. (iStockPhoto)

Love drugWeekly sex could boost survival among heart attack survivors

Jonathan Frankel

A shot of truth about the anti-vaxx Orthodox

All that talmudic analysis should help the Orthodox grasp the truth of the medical science, but critical thinking skills are lacking in every corner

What will the new Knesset look like?

Now that the candidate lists for the September elections are closed, we can sketch the profile of Israel’s new team of parliamentarians

Scene from a Nazi documentary filmed in the Theresienstadt ghetto during the summer of 1944 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Reporter's notebook

74 years since liberation, a visit to Theresienstadt finds an eerie ghost town

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

David Kimowitz, left, with comedian Artie Lange, attends the grand opening of The Stand comedy club in New York City, September 20, 2012. (Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images via JTA)

Comedy club owner David Kimowitz and family nanny stabbed to death in NJ suburbs

A Tardigrade, also known as a water bear, is a microscopic life-form that can survive in the vacuum of space. (iStockPhoto)

Occupation forceCrashed Israeli lander may have seeded moon with ‘water bears’

Elissa Slotkin before a rally in Detroit, October 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The ‘Anti-Squad’: Rep. Elissa Slotkin and ‘gang’ offer Dems a more moderate path

Egyptians walk outside the National Cancer Institute in the capital Cairo on August 5, 2019, the morning after a car bombing. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Netanyahu condemns terror attack near Cairo hospital that killed 20

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: a group of students walk to their classroom at Kingsley Elementary School in Los Angeles, California, January 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

‘Anti-Jewish bias’ in proposed California school curriculum, legislators charge

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing the formation of Democratic Camp electoral alliance on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Neighbors say Barak frequently visited Epstein building – report

The Tel Hashomer military base outside the city of Ramat Gan, in central Israel. (Netanel Edri/WikiMedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

1 killed, 1 injured as fire extinguisher explodes on IDF base

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustration of the software developed by Cybereason in action (Courtesy)

Japan’s SoftBank pumps extra $200 million in US-Israeli startup Cybereason

By Shoshanna Solomon

An airplane takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 15, 2018. (Flash90/File)

Disruption of GPS systems at Ben Gurion Airport resolved after 2 months

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (3rd left) together with the Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land Fr Francesco Patton (2nd left) and fellow church leaders from different denominations hold an ecumenical prayer outside the Petra hostel at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 11, 2019. (GALI TIBBON/AFP)

Church renews legal battle over Jerusalem properties, citing new evidence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Police: Nava Elimelech’s killer still alive and living in Israel

Performance of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' by Jerusalem's Theater in the Rough. (Yitz Woolf)

Times of Israel PresentsJerusalem’s Theater in the Rough takes measure of society with Shakespeare

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