Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Friday, August 9, 2019

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Yoav Sorek, father of Dvir Sorek who was murdered in a terror attack near the settlement of Migdal Oz late Wednesday, August 7, 2019, speaks with the media outside the family home in Ofra on August 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Father of slain teen hopes his son died before seeing ‘face of evil’

Yoav Sorek tells reporters he is clinging to belief that 18-year-old Dvir did not suffer prolonged struggle with his killers

IDF troops conduct search operations in the Bethlehem area after the body of a student, Dvir Sorek, later found near the settlement of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, on August 8, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel media reviewA search for meaning in tragedy: 9 things to know for August 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Friends and family members mourn during the funeral ceremony of terror victim Dvir Sorek, in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, August 8, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Thousands attend funeral for teen terror victim, as father vows to ‘choose life’

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspects the site where an off-duty Israeli soldier was found dead with stab wounds near the settlement of Migdal Oz in the West Bank on August 8, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Netanyahu: Security forces closing in on terrorists behind deadly stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

As manhunt expands in West Bank, PM says it ‘won’t take very long’ for IDF to apprehend killers of Dvir Sorek, 18; Palestinian reports say IDF finds car used in attack

Manhunt widens on 2nd day; security forces seek to nab killers, prevent attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Security forces dismiss suspicion Etzion stabbing attack was failed kidnapping

By Judah Ari Gross

At scene of terror attack, Netanyahu vows Israel will ‘settle the score’

Israeli author David Grossman (Kobi Kalmanovitz)

Author David Grossman eulogizes Dvir Sorek: He had the ‘soul of an artist’

Grief crosses partisan divides as renowned author and outspoken leftist, who lost a son in 2006 Lebanon war, reaches out to terror victim’s family

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

Israelis embrace next to the scene where Dvir Sorek was found stabbed to death, outside the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz, on August 8, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

UN, Western diplomats denounce murder of teenage Israeli student

Refugees, advocates and faith leaders rally in front of the White House to call for refugee protections on World Refugee Day, June 20, 2017. (HIAS/via JTA)

Jewish groups urge Trump administration to restore higher refugee quotas

By JTA and ToI Staff

‘Our parents or grandparents, neighbors or community members once faced a similarly callous and unwelcoming world, with fatal consequences,’ groups say in letter to Pompeo

11-year-old Sivan, the daughter of Filipina domestic worker Ramela Noel, speaks during an interview at her home in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2019. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Born in Israel, hundreds of Filipino children risk expulsion

By Clothilde Mraffko

Agnes Keleti performs a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

At 98, Olympic gymnast and Holocaust survivor Agnes Keleti is feisty as ever

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hundreds of descendants of Holocaust survivor Shoshanna Ovitz gather at the Western Wall to mark her 104th birthday, August 7, 2019. (Courtesy)

Holocaust survivor marks 104th birthday at Western Wall with 400 descendants

Shoshanna Ovitz survived Auschwitz, moved to Haifa and had 4 children; ‘Everyone had tears in their eyes,’ granddaughter says, as photo of gathering goes viral

A white supremacist leaves Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

White supremacists have murdered at least 73 since Charlottesville, ADL says

Rise in far-right violence, racist propaganda over past two years tied to Virginia rally, says report, which traces fallout among extremists

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One for a trip to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, August 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump heads for golf club holiday – but summer storms loom

By Jonathan Lemire

Cathe Hill wipes tears from her eyes during a vigil for victims of Saturday's mass shooting at a shopping complex, August 4, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Experts push for US domestic terrorism law after spate of massacres

By STEFANIE DAZIO and Eric Tucker

A still from the film 'The Fig Tree' by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Aalam-Warqe Davidian. (Courtesy Menemsha Films)

Interview

Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker shines the camera on life her community left behind

By Rich Tenorio

Israel’s warm ties with nations that duck their Holocaust crimes

Red-carpet treatment for Croatia’s president, whose approach to past war crimes is at best ambivalent, is an affront to victims of former Nazi collaborators

Shammai Engelmayer

The Torah demands decisive action against gun violence

We can do something to stop the devastatingly high incidence of shootings in the US: convince Congress to act responsibly, to protect all of us

Indifference increases suffering

When alleged sex abusers like Malka Leifer find a haven in Israel, shielded by the ultra-Orthodox in government, we must ask where is the outrage of our leadership?

Shayna Goldberg

Mourning… again

When it comes to the loss of the Temple, it’s too easy to lose focus; what I can’t ignore is the murder of an innocent teen, five minutes from my home

Supporters of the Hezbollah terror group raise their fists and cheer as they listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, via a video link, during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyr's Day in Beirut, Lebanon, November 10, 2018. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

US slaps Hezbollah financier with 5-year prison sentence, $50m. fine

By AFP

Lebanese businessman Kassim Tajideen, 63, pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to launder money as part of scheme to evade US sanctions

Former German diplomat Bernd Erbel is interviewed on the YouTube channel of Ken Jebsen in July 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Head of EU-Iran trade entity loses job after report on his Israel criticism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

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

Testifying at elections committee hearing on surveillance operation targeting Arabs, Israel Internet Association head warns data collected by cameras could fall into wrong hands

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 7, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Comptroller auditors resign amid row over Netanyahu legal defense

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK David Bitan (R) at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on June 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK says Netanyahu wants Gantz in next government, but not Lapid

By Alexander Fulbright

Zehava Shaul (center), mother of Oron Shaul, with supporters and family members protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence on August 9, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Mother of soldier killed in Gaza war says PM doing ‘nothing’ to return his body

Zehava Shaul says she will never give up efforts to bring home Oron’s body for burial, tells Netanyahu ‘you can’t run from this… Wherever you go I will follow’

In this July 1, 2014 file photo, family and friends of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed mourn over the grave of Eyal Yifrah, during their funeral in Modi'in. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

HBO drama looks at killings of teens that ignited Gaza war

More Headlines

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)

UK teen who accused Israelis of rape in Cyprus crowdfunding for legal defense

A police officer looks at an injured man being carried away on a stretcher from the scene of a terror attack at Jewish restaurant and deli Jo Goldenberg in Paris, France, on Aug. 9, 1982. The attack left six dead and many injured. (AP Photo/ Lionel Cironneau)

France did ‘no harm’ deal in 1982 with Palestinian terrorists who killed Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Democratic presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during the National Education Association Strong Public Schools Presidential Forum, July 5, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Pick up the BillBill de Blasio campaigns in Yiddish to save faltering presidential bid

David Berman performs with the Silver Jews in 2006. (Yani Yordanova/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

David Berman, indie rocker and Silver Jews frontman, dies at 52

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Vilnius's Choral Synagogue on August 26, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Lithuanian synagogue reopens after government vows to guarantee security

By AFP and ToI Staff

Families of victims of the March 2019 attack on mosques in New Zealand, arrive at Jeddah airport on August 2, 2019, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca. (Amer HILABI / AFP)

200 hit by New Zealand massacre take part in hajj pilgrimage

By Hamza Mekouar

Mulism pilgrims perform prayers around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 7, 2019, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. (Abdel Ghani Bashir/ AFP)

2 million expected in Mecca for hajj pilgrimage, a pillar of Islam

By AFP

Ben Kadish, now 25, was severely injured in a 1999 terror attack at a Los Angeles JCC. (Screenshot/KTLA news)

Child victim of 1999 LA JCC shooting attack visits the hospital that saved him

In this photo from September 19, 2014, retail mogul Leslie Wexner, right, and his wife Abigail tour the 'Transfigurations' exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

Retail mogul: Epstein misappropriated ‘vast sums’ of my wealth

By AP

A 94-year-old former SS guard holds his walking stick at the beginning of a trial in Muenster, Germany, November 6, 2018. He is charged with accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp. (Guido Kirchner/dpa via AP)

Ex-Nazi concentration camp guard, 92, deemed fit to stand trial in Germany

A street scene from the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Wikipedia/Luis Argerich/CC BY)

Historic Buenos Aires synagogue returned to Jewish community

By JTA

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

View Edition by Date

July	August 2019					September
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.