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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 11, 2019

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Israeli security forces clash with Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Temple Mount briefly opened to Jews after temporary closure

Clashes break out on Temple Mount between Muslim protesters, Israeli police

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police use tear gas, riot control weapons on flashpoint holy site after worshipers make ‘nationalistic calls’ and riot; 4 cops, 61 protesters injured

Jews pray as Muslims yell in Arabic God is Great outside the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Erdan says record 1,729 Jews entered Temple Mount in one day on Sunday

Muslim worshipers perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayers at the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Police temporarily bar Jewish visitors from Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israeli security forces clash with Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

United Right blames Netanyahu for ‘shameful’ closure of Temple Mount to Jews

National-religious party calls decision on Tisha B’Av/Eid al-Adha ‘a national disgrace’ as source denies PM responsible; MK Ahmad Tibi says entry of Jewish visitors a ‘provocation’

Israeli security forces clash with Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israel media reviewCan we go back to Thanksgivukkah? 7 things to know for August 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli security forces clash with Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Jordan blasts Israel for using force in Temple Mount clashes

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, right, and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy with a delegation of members of the United States House of Representatives in Jerusalem, August 11, 2019. (courtesy, Hadari Photography)

Heads of Republican-Democrat delegation agree: Omar, Tlaib should visit Israel

By Raphael Ahren

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make their way to the Oval Office for a meeting at the White House on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Trump said to slam Israel’s decision to allow Omar and Tlaib to enter country

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

One of the suspects (R) in the murder of Dvir Sorek after being arrested by the Border Police and IDF in the West Bank on August 10, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Dvir Sorek’s dad praises alleged killers’ capture, ‘disappointed they’re alive’

Head of counterterror unit that nabbed suspects Nasir and Qassem Asafra relates details of the raid, and the cousins’ ‘complete shock… They didn’t believe we would get to them’

One of the suspects in the murder of Dvir Sorek after being arrested by the Border Police and IDF in the West Bank on August 10, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel nabs the two suspected killers of Dvir Sorek; one has Hamas ties

(L-R) Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Shtayyeh and President Mahmoud Abbas tour the Jalazone refugee camp in the West Bank on August 10, 2019. (Wafa)

For first time in years, Abbas visits West Bank refugee camp

By AFP

A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank near the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Hamas gunman shot after firing at troops in fresh Gaza border battle

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF shells terror group’s positions in response to infiltration attempt in northern Strip day after four Palestinian killed trying to sneak into Israel

Fire sparked in southern Israel by Gaza balloon, as border tensions heat up

By Judah Ari Gross

After foiled Gaza attack, minister says Israel will choose when to hit back

AnalysisResponse to foiled Gaza attack shows Hamas supports escalation, from a distance

By Avi Issacharoff

US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffery Epstein on July 8, 2019, in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Epstein suicide fuels conspiracy theories online — including by Trump

By David Klepper and AMANDA SEITZ

Speculation about death of well-connected sex crimes suspect runs rampant after apparent suicide on government’s watch

New York City medical examiner personnel leave their vehicle and walk to the Manhattan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, August 10, 2019, in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

As anger spreads, probes opened into how Epstein had chance to kill self

By AP

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein dies by suicide in cell

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former prime minister and leader of Israel Democratic party, Ehud Barak seen during an election tour in Tel Aviv on July 30, 2019. (Flash90)

Ehud Barak on Jeffrey Epstein’s death: I wish I’d never met him

Former prime minister had business dealings with the disgraced billionaire and was a frequent visitor to his homes, but denies he ever knew of any his sex trafficking activities

Jeffrey Epstein in New York City in 2005. (Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/via JTA)

FBI investigates as Epstein suicide raises questions, conspiracy theories

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Palestinian Muslims shout at Israeli security forces (unseen) in the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel rejects Jordan’s criticism over Temple Mount clashes, blames Waqf: report

By Michael Bachner

Islamic trust accused of deliberately pushing Muslim worshipers to stay in holy compound, prevent Jews from entering, sparking the tensions

6:12 pm

Iran's navy chief warns any Israeli presence in Gulf could 'spark war'
5:51 pm

Shaked said to reprimand Smotrich over 'exaggerated' attacks on Netanyahu
5:35 pm

Israel rejects Jordan's criticism over Temple Mount clashes, blames Waqf: report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, June 30, 2019. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Reeling from the last election’s failures, Netanyahu turns on the right

Into the weeds of the prime minister’s narrowing electoral prospects, as a cornered political animal seeks to carve a path to victory at the right’s expense

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to go on an official state visit to Poland on June 12, 2013. (Kobi Gideon / GPO /Flash 90

Netanyahu to visit Ukraine a month before elections

By Raphael Ahren

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint press event at the State Department on August 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images/AFP)

Pompeo slams Iran leader’s ‘sick’ threat against Israel ahead of Tisha B’Av

US secretary of state hits back at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his ‘faux concern’ for Palestinians, says America has given far more aid

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with a group of clerics, in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran leader urges Muslims to block Trump’s ‘doomed’ peace plan

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A school classroom. (Image via Shutterstock)

Liberal groups charge Orthodox ‘indoctrination’ in Israel’s secular schools

Reform movement says Education Ministry has changed guidelines to favor Orthodox religious outreach over pluralistic Jewish studies, is hiding the activities from parents

Shayna Abramson

Why was the Third Temple destroyed?

The sages of the Talmud consider terrorism, settlements, the Women of the Wall, and the Pride parade, as they debate the culprit (Tisha B’Av)

Why I will not fast on Tisha B’Av

With so much baseless hatred in contemporary society, the symbolic suffering of the day is meaningless

Tisha B’Av: Should we still fast?

For 2,000 years, we were in no position to repeat past mistakes; these days, we need the ’national flashback’ to remind us what happens if we fail again

Andres Spokoiny

Condensing our victimhood (Tisha Be’Av 5779)

Reserving 24 hours to mourn all of the tragedies of Jewish history protects us from the self-pity of a victim mentality contaminating the whole year

Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

Finding myself as a parent on Tisha B’Av

Sitting on the floor with my brood of 5 is not a stretch, but prayer and reflection have become a challenge, and I know I’m not alone. Here’s my new approach

Aryeh Ben David

Rethinking Tisha B’Av

The 9th of Av is a good time to throw off our insecurities and find our personal and collective ’excessive chutzpah’

Ilana Sober Elzufon

Can we hear each other?

Israelis and Palestinians deny the other’s foundational story, which makes dialogue difficult, but it is essential to reaching any resolution (Tisha B’Av)

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

A Tisha B’Av of coexistence

When an Arab family barbecued near our reading of Lamentations in Jerusalem, and the police asked them to move, we asked them to stay

Iris, a 32-year-old Jewish Icelandic singer with "the voice you wish the cantor at your childhood synagogue had but they truly did not." (Image via Iris's Instagram/JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Meet Iris, the Jewish Icelandic singer with the voice of an angel

By Jordana Lipsitz

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This Sept. 22, 2016, photo from video from KTNV 13 Action News shows Conor Climo during an interview while walking a Las Vegas neighborhood, heavily armed. (KTNV 13 Action News via AP)

Las Vegas man tied to white supremacists planned to bomb synagogue

By AFP

Illustrative: Eagle's Nest, designed as a present for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday and built on the Kehlstein mountain overlooking Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 10, 2007 (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Israeli hiker dies after slipping off cliff at Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’

Michael Eisenberg of Aleph VC, left, and Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, during the recording of the Firewall Special Israel Edition podcast (Courtesy)

PodcastLISTEN: How countries, individuals can help make world safer from cyber attacks

A Norwegian cop walks past a robot in front of the al-Noor Islamic Center mosque, where a gunman armed with multiple weapons went on a shooting spree in the Oslo suburb of Baerum on August 10, 2019. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix/AFP)

Norway treating mosque shooting as ‘attempted act of terror’

By AFP

Corals at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences coral farm in the Red Sea city of Eilat, southern Israel, January 17, 2019. (Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences/Dror Komet via AP)

Israel to host 27 US students in new marine sciences exchange program

By Shoshanna Solomon

People watch a television news screen showing file footage of North Korea's missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 10, 2019. (Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

North Korea’s Kim tests new weapon as Trump pushes nuclear talks

By AFP

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a ceremony for new Justice Minister Amir Ohana at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on June 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG Mandelblit seeks new rules to prosecute government leaks

Contestants congratulate new Miss Universe Catriona Gray, center, from the Philippines during the final round of the 67th Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand on December 17, 2018.(AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Israel reportedly seeking to host upcoming Miss Universe pageant

Illustrative: In this Jan. 27, 2018, file photo, US Army soldiers speak to families in rural Anbar on a reconnaissance patrol near a coalition outpost in western Iraq. (AP Photo/Susannah George, File)

US military says service member killed in Iraq mission

By AFP

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Israeli indicted for sexual abuse of 45 underage girls

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