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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 7, 2019

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Illustrative: A UH-1Y Venom helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Strait of Hormuz, July 18, 2019. (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dalton Swanbeck/Released)

Israel involved in US-led naval mission in Strait of Hormuz — foreign minister

By ToI Staff and Agencies

FM Katz, right, speaks at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, August 6, 2019 (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset)

Foreign minister says he’s working toward open ties with Gulf ‘frenemies’

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Omani Ambassador to Jordan Khamis bin Mohammed al-Faris embracing each other in Ramallah on August 6, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

Abbas meets with Omani delegation on opening West Bank diplomatic mission

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)

Exclusive

Senior Blue and White source: ‘Lapid is standing between us and winning’

By Shalom Yerushalmi

In harsh rebuke exposing ongoing rift, leaders of centrist party say Yesh Atid chair is ‘derailing’ its election campaign and chances of unseating Netanyahu

AnalysisLapid’s silence on Litzman highlights division in Blue and White leadership

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Former justice minister Ayelet Shaked poses for a selfie during a press conference in Ramat Gan, July 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

How Ayelet Shaked, a secular woman, came to dominate Israel’s religious right

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (L) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after being sworn in as minister in the Knesset plenum on September 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu reported to say he’ll stick with ultra-Orthodox no matter what

By Joshua Davidovich

Report comes after prime minister publishes op-ed vowing not to pursue unity government

7:07 pm

Palestinians grilled over alleged rape released
7:06 pm

Bulgarian man looking to return watch that survived 1955 El Al crash
6:25 pm

State Department official flagged as anti-Semitic white nationalist

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) speaks with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman (l) at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox back Litzman, Likud silent, after allegations he helped pedophile

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

Deputy health minister and UTJ party head receives broad backing from Haredi parties, while the opposition manages to muster only mild criticism for the key political player

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman gets his flu shot at the Efrata Elementary School in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel media reviewI will not shoot the deputy (health minister): 8 things to know for August 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Protesters demonstrate on March 13, 2019, outside the Jeursalem District Court during extradition hearings for Malka Leifer, a former girls school principal wanted for sexual abuse in Australia. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top pro-Israel group in Australia lauds police recommendation to indict Litzman

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

‘There will be no unity government,’ Netanyahu says, rejecting Liberman’s push

By Michael Bachner

PM dismisses notion of a coalition with rival Blue and White, though that may be the only option after September elections

Liberman doubles down on demand to pass ultra-Orthodox enlistment law

By Michael Bachner

Smotrich: PM wants a left-wing government, only we can keep him to the right

Yisrael Beytenu says member data was stolen in alleged hack

This March 25, 2019 file photo, shows houses in the Israeli settlement of Ariel, in the central West Bank. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP, File)

Israel accused of pushing ‘effective annexation’ after settlement homes okayed

UK FM and United Nations envoy warn that construction plans for 2,300 new homes are advancing ‘the effective annexation of the West Bank’

A campaign sign promoting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs from a house in the Jewish settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, on July 31, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

EU pans new settlement expansion, says move harms chances for peace

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)

Report shows hundreds of visits by Israeli MKs to jailed Palestinian terrorists

From 2010-2016, Arab MKs and several Jewish MKs, including Amir Peretz, met uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, a convicted murderer; Arab MKs met planners of deadly suicide bombings

Terror campaignTel Aviv residents wake up to Arafat, Haniyeh streets

PA slams Israeli ministers for plans to attend event honoring radical rabbi

Waqf guard injures police officer after being arrested on Temple Mount

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri hugs a Palestinian man after presenting him with Israeli residency on August 6 2019. the man came to the aid of the Mark family after the July 1, 2016 terrorist attack in which Rabbi Miki Mark was killed (Screencapture/Channel 12)

Palestinian who saved Jewish kids after terror attack gets Israeli residency

Man forced to flee West Bank after death threats for rescuing children of murdered Rabbi Miki Mark at scene of 2016 attack; has been homeless, living in limbo in Israel

East Jerusalem resident Samer Sleiman who is suing police for planting a gun in his house during the filming of a television docudrama (courtesy)

East Jerusalem man says he was threatened after cops planted a gun in his house

A bomb studded with pieces of metal that was created by a Hamas agent in the West Bank city of Hebron for a planned terror attack in Jerusalem, which was found and destroyed by Israeli forces in June 2019. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet busts Hamas cell planning Jerusalem bombing attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Never-seen handwritten Kafka manuscripts and drawings unveiled in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

National Library presentation seen as closing chapter in long battle over writer’s legacy; texts include a Hebrew article about a 1922 strike by Jerusalem teachers

A moment of revelation at Ben Gurion airport

Fate was not kind to Maimonides, but he didn’t let that stop him; could I create my own meaningful life too? Did I want to?

Against Jewish conversion therapy

Non-Jews should not have the right to define how Jews should be Jews, which is what Labour activists do when they advocate for anti-Zionism

Before you head to campus, read this

When it comes to Israel, if you don’t want to be an activist and you don’t want to say nothing, you can engage with nuance and sophistication. Here’s how

Sherwin Pomerantz

Too many guns and too little respect for human life

When a society takes no action in the face of the kinds of the current statistics of gun violence, its leadership is as guilty as those who pull a trigger

Illustrative: In this photo taken on Thursday, July 28, 2016, two Syrian refugees, left, concentrate during an English lesson with a volunteer teacher in London. As the UK struggles to implement its commitment to resettle more than 20,000 Syrians, the government is counting on charities and community groups to help the newcomers adjust to life in Britain. The Home Office has for the first time set up a program to allow local organizations to sponsor refugees and the agency’s website directs volunteers to migrant charities that need their help. (AP Photo/Adela Suliman)

Interview

UK Jewish organization honored for helping Syrian refugees find long-term jobs

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)

Lawyer for British teen who accused Israelis of rape in Cyprus quits

By ToI Staff and AP

Judge orders that woman, who accused police of coercing her confession, remain in custody until her next court appearance

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox girls enter a school in Beit Shemesh, on September 8, 2014. (Flash90)

2 Palestinians held for suspected involvement in alleged rape of 7-year-old

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, December 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit to petition to stop Lapid from running in election due to ‘racism’

Blue and White No. 2 says it’s ‘an honor’ that fans of Hebron massacre perpetrator Baruch Goldstein want him disqualified

Judge to rule whether Darkenu’s election campaign activities are political

Judge says advertisers can’t refuse homophobic party’s campaign ads

Smotrich: IDF measures to integrate transgenders are evidence of ‘heatstroke’

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In this photo from July 16, 2019, Lee Elbaz arrives at federal court for jury selection in her trial in Greenbelt, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

In bizarre twist, juror in binary options trial dismissed after overhearing talk

By Simona Weinglass

Lev Tahor girls walking in Chatham, Ontario, in December 2013. (Screen Capture/YouTube)

4 members of Hasidic cult indicted for plot to kidnap 2 kids from their mother

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Steny Hoyer, D-Md., speaks at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, Monday, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrat Steny Hoyer to lead larger than usual Israel tour

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

Egypt BDS group calls for J-Lo show to be canceled because she played Israel

Foreign workers, their children and supporters take part in a protest against the deportation of the children of Filipino workers in Tel Aviv, on August 6, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands rally against deporting Israel-born kids of foreign workers

Lithuanian Jewish men pray, during a morning service in a Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuanian Jews indefinitely shut community center, lone synagogue after threats

By Raphael Ahren

Actress Rona Lee Shim'on demonstrates to her audience how to move with a Rodin sculpture, in 'Moved by Art,' a new program at the Israel Museum (Courtesy Barak Aharon)

Israel Museum visit offers audiences a chance to be moved, literally

By Hannah Harnest

Illustrative image of an undercover intelligence agent (Artem Peretiatko; iStock by Getty Images)

A ‘private Mossad for civilians’ goes worldwide to make its clients secure

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A man in London calls a Jewish couple 'dirty Jews' after they protest him shoving their baby's stroller, August 5, 2019. (Screen capture: The Independent)

Man filmed calling UK couple ‘dirty Jews’ says he was first called ‘dirty Arab’

SpaceX launches Amos-17 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 6, 2019 (Screen grab)

Israeli Amos-17 satellite successfully launched into space

By Shoshanna Solomon

The faces of Adolf Hitler, right, and Joseph Goebbels, left, are projected onto 3D canvases as part of an art installation during a rehearsal for the 'Berlin Leuchtet' (Berlin shines) festival in Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Historians cast doubt on Hitler Jewish heritage claims

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

Belgian editor defends publication of column saying Jews have ‘ugly noses’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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