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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 8, 2019

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Israeli security forces at the scene where the body of an off-duty, out-of-uniform Israeli soldier Dvir Sorek, upper-right, was found dead with stab wounds, near the settlement of Migdal Oz in the Etzion region, on August 8, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Victim identified as Dvir Sorek, 19, of Ofra settlement

Student found stabbed to death in West Bank terror attack; manhunt launched

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF searches area around Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem for killer, after body of off-duty soldier who studied at local yeshiva found on side of road

Yoav Sorek, the father of murdered yeshiva student Dvir Sorek, speaks to reporters outside his home in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on August 8, 2019. (Flash90)

‘Whoever didn’t know him missed out,’ says father of murdered student Dvir Sorek

Dvir Sorek, 18, a yeshiva student who was stabbed to death outside a West Bank settlement on August 8, 2019. (Courtesy)

Slain student Dvir Sorek, 18, had a ‘heart of gold,’ teachers say

Benjamin Netanyahu, center, laying a corrnerstone for new housing units in Beit El, August 8, 2019 (Courtesy: Sharon Revivo/Likud)

Netanyahu vows to push Israeli sovereignty in West Bank after terror attack

By Raphael Ahren

Prime minister lays cornerstone for 650 new housing units in Beit El, says terrorists ‘come to destroy, we come to build’

IDF raids Palestinian village as troops hunt for terrorists who killed student

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas and Islamic Jihad praise ‘heroic’ West Bank slaying of student

Lawmakers blame government policies, push for annexation after student killed

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Hundreds of people attend the funeral ceremony for terror victim Dvir Sorek in the West Bank settelemnt of Ofra, August 8, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Thousands attend funeral for Dvir Sorek, father mourns ‘positive’ son

By Michael Bachner

‘Evil lovers of death took your life, but they did not harm your innocence, light and love,’ Yoav Sorek says, addressing his son, murdered in West Bank terror attack

6:23 pm

Trump criticizes French president for sending Iran 'mixed signals'
6:21 pm

German ex-diplomat won't head Iran trade body after anti-Semitic past exposed
5:41 pm

Father of Dvir Sorek says he 'can't avoid smiling' when thinking about him

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)

Israeli binary options operative Lee Elbaz convicted in US in $145 million fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Elbaz oversaw fleecing of clients worldwide as CEO of Yukom Communications, one of 100+ binary options firms that ran from Israel until industry was banned after ToI reporting

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

TOI investigates'The operation became something of a secret weapon for us'

How Likud weaponized cameras in Arab polling stations and intends to do so again

Election czar to rule on ‘Operation Moral Standards’ as PM’s party bids to expand scheme, sending youths to ‘monitor’ Arab balloting despite accusations of racism, deterring voters

The Central Elections Committee convenes for a hearing on Likud's election day surveillance program on April 8, 2019. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Likud ballot cams create civilian database at risk of misuse, group warns

A family votes during elections in a predominantly Bedouin city of Rahat on April 9, 2019. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Attorney general says hidden cameras in polling stations could be illegal

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Early infestation of an Indian fig prickly pear. (Courtesy Prof. Zvika Mendel of the Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center)

Israeli scientists fight to save iconic Sabra prickly pear from devastating pest

Joint List MK Hanin Zoabi is removed by Knesset security during her speech at a plenum session in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Firebrand former MK Zoabi set to be charged with fraud, forgery

Attorney general reportedly intends to indict 35 additional suspects in Balad party over alleged multi-million shekel scheme

Welfare Minister Haim Katz speaks at a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset on March 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welfare minister reportedly set to be charged with fraud, breach of trust

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a farewell ceremony for Emi Palmor, the outgoing director-general of the Justice Ministry, at the Justice Ministry headquarters in Jerusalem on August 7, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police open probe into repeated harassment of attorney general

Avigdor Liberman, center, visits the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Analysis

Spinning heads: Could Liberman really become PM under a rotation deal?

With no clear solution to an anticipated post-election coalition deadlock, the Yisrael Beytenu chief makes an audacious pitch to move from kingmaker to king

From left: Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz, Moshe Ya'alon, Gabi Ashkenazi of the Blue and White party at its official campaign launch in Shefayim, July 14, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Lapid defends controversial video, denies reports of rift within Blue and White

Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu pans Smotrich’s dream for Torah law in Israel as ‘pure BS’

Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt. (Courtesy)

Rabbi denies ‘secret’ effort to bypass US Jewish groups in dialogue with Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Report claimed interdenominational group of American rabbis were being enlisted by Israeli envoy Dermer to work around Conservative and Reform leaders at odds with Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with 41 Democratic Members of the US House of Representatives led by US Rep. Steny Hoyer on August 7, 2019 in Jerusalem (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Netanyahu meets with visiting delegation of US Democratic lawmakers

By ToI Staff and JTA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking to Democratic members of Congress on August 7, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

Abbas tells Congress members on AIPAC-linked trip he won’t accept US ‘dictates’

Michelle Blumenthal

Blessing dates & bananas, I found Jewish community in India

From Mumbai to Cochin, we may have prayed a little differently, but we were no less members of the same holy community

Driving ourselves to environmental disaster

When everyone has a self-driving car, the roads will be much safer, but whatever will we do with all our current vehicles?

Joshua Z. Rokach

A justice who guarded US Judaism

US Supreme Court Justice Stevens knew that entangling the state in religion causes trouble for the former and corrupts the latter

Flattery will get you

Dissembling in the face of evil because we don’t want to air our dirty laundry is indefensible and self-defeating. We can and must do better (Tisha B’Av)

Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish government invites top rabbi to event honoring accused Nazi collaborators

By AFP

Rabbi Michael Schudrich blasts ceremony for Swietokrzyska Brigade, held under auspices of Polish president; condemns ‘dangerous’ historical revisionism

Lithuanian Jews split over closure of only functioning synagogue in Vilnius

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Poland bans neo-Nazi group filmed celebrating Hitler’s birthday

By AFP

A general view of the Emmanuel settlement in the West Bank. 12, April, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

West Bank settlement resident facing over 100 counts of child sex abuse

Uriah Assis from ultra-Orthodox Emmanuel, 26, accused of string of charges including rape, sexual assault and possession of child pornography

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox girls in Modiin Illit cross the street on their way to school, October 19, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police release Palestinians detained in hunt for alleged rapist

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

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

More Headlines

A scuffle breaks out outside the Samaria Military Court in the northern West Bank on August 7, 2019, after Amjad Na'alowa is convicted of failing to prevent his brother Ashraf's deadly terror attack in the Barkan Industrial Park last year. (Screenshot)

Barkan terrorist’s brother given 1-year sentence for not stopping fatal attack

By Judah Ari Gross

In this file photo from March 2, 2019 US Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for a rally to kick off his 2020 US presidential campaign, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

2020: A space odysseyBernie Sanders vows to dish truth on UFOs if elected

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third right, and US Ambassador David Friedman, third left, aboard the US Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Ross, docked at Ashdod Port on October 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Iran says Israeli involvement in Gulf naval mission would be ‘disastrous’

By AFP and ToI Staff

ClickSoftware headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts (Hbucelew/CC Wikimedia)

Salesforce buys Israeli-founded ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion

Broadcaster drops production company over gun-planting episode

From left to right, Rabbis Ben Zeidman and Scott Rosenberg speak at an interfaith vigil with Msgr. Arturo Banuelas following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 4, 2019. (Jordyn Rozensky/ Frontera Studio via JTA)

‘We’ve lost a part of ourselves’: El Paso’s Jews grapple with mass shooting

By Josefin Dolsten

Israeli sisters Michal and Shira Sasson who were targeted with swastikas in their dorm room at the University of Indianapolis (Screencapture/ WTHR)

Israeli sisters at University of Indianapolis find swastikas in dorm room

By AP

Monica Lewinsky speaks onstage during The Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 Women In Entertainment at Milk Studios in Los Angeles on December 5, 2018. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images via JTA)

Monica Lewinsky to co-produce Clinton impeachment drama

Florida nurse Odalis Lopez, 56, is accused of stealing $110,000 from a Holocaust survivor and her husband. (screen capture: WSVN local news)

Police: Florida nurse steals $110K from Holocaust survivor

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A hacker at work. (supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

Researchers wrest control of one of world’s most secure industrial controllers

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Belgian daily drops ‘ugly Jewish noses’ from controversial op-ed

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israeli cybersecurity firm Checkmarx has found "multiple security vulnerabilities in the LeapPad Ultimate tablet for children developed by LeapFrog Enterprises. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli firm discovers security flaws in LeapPad tablet for kids

By Shoshanna Solomon

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