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What Matters Most On Monday, August 12, 2019

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US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

ExclusiveAfter Jerusalem and Golan moves, now come the settlements

Before election, PM aims for Trump backing for Israel sovereignty at settlements

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Officials in Netanyahu’s office confident US president will make declaration ahead of September vote, shoring up right-wing support for premier; PMO denies report

A girl raises a Palestinian flag as another Palestinian boy holds a wooden key symbolizing the return, as they stand with others before the barbed-wire marking the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 13, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Right-wing MKs to congresspeople: 2-state solution ‘far more dangerous’ than BDS

By Raphael Ahren

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks to reporters at the Knesset as his party submits its electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz says he’ll consider joining Netanyahu government if he gets to be PM first

Interview

At the southern tip of the Red Sea, Iran poses a direct threat to Israel

Shaul Chorev, an ex-rear admiral who led Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, says the nuclear deal was ‘reasonable,’ doubts Trump will get a better one, and sounds a maritime alert

Illustrative: A picture obtained by AFP from Iranian News Agency ISNA on June 13, 2019, shows fire and smoke billowing from a tanker said to have been attacked in the waters of the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz. (ISNA/AFP)

Iran’s navy chief warns any Israeli presence in Gulf could ‘spark war’

Iranian pilgrims in Mecca call for Israel’s destruction, cry ‘Death to America’

Hezbollah-linked Lebanese lawmaker: Israel preparing to wage war on us

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks during an Interior Affairs committee meeting at the Knesset, January 1, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Smotrich apologizes for attack after Netanyahu threatens to can him

By Joshua Davidovich

Transportation minister says comments made from deep sorrow; Shaked launches Yemina (formerly United Right) campaign by saying she wants to lead country

6:29 pm

Police find 5-year-old tied up in shower and left alone; parents arrested
6:05 pm

Likud: Netanyahu told Smotrich to apologize or be fired
5:51 pm

Smotrich apologizes, says attack on Netanyahu came from 'deep sorrow'

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 could fire Smotrich from cabinet over scathing criticism – report

PM said to be under pressure to oust minister after Twitter storm calling government weak for decisions on Temple Mount and gender-segregated event

Israel media reviewThe minister of scathing tweets: 7 things to know for August 12

By Joshua Davidovich

After Smotrich slams Netanyahu on Twitter, Shaked likens her colleague to Trump

Netanyahu clashes with rivals on right over partial Temple Mount closure to Jews

Israeli troops measure the homes of two Palestinians suspected of killing Dvir Sorek, ahead of their planned demolition in the village of Beit Kahil in the southern West Bank on August 12, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF prepares to demolish homes of Dvir Sorek’s suspected killers

By Judah Ari Gross

Troops measure structures in southern West Bank village of Beit Kahil as first step before their destruction

In a picture released by the Israel Defense Forces on August 10, 2019, Israel soldiers search in the West Bank for the terrorists who killed yeshiva student Dvir Sorek. (Israel Defense Forces)

How security forces nabbed Dvir Sorek’s suspected killers in less than 48 hours

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the scene where yeshiva student Dvir Sorek was killed in a West Bank terror attack, near the settlement of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, August 8, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu says homes of Dvir Sorek’s suspected murderers will be razed ‘soon’

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a faction meeting of his Shas party at the Knesset on December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox party petitions against banning of gender-segregated concert

Shas points out that planned performance in Afula was for Haredi community, which prefers to separate men and women, calls decision ‘unreasonable’

Haredi demonstrators clash with police outside of a warehouse in the southern town of Arad on August 11, 2019. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Clashes erupt in Arad after police raid building that was turned into synagogue

A view of an Afula street (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Court forbids gender-segregated concert planned by city of Afula

I used to want to be a combat soldier

The Israeli police stop me and ask if there’s a knife in my backpack when I’m waiting for the bus; why should I put my life on the line for this country?

Counting those ‘lost seats’

Netanyahu blamed right-wing voters for squandering 7 mandates on parties that didn’t pass the electoral threshold. That’s not even close to being true

4 long distance hiking trails in Israel

Israel’s National Trail made National Geographic’s top 20 epic hikes in the world — don’t you want to see for yourself?

Joshua Hammerman

Russian revolutions

We Jews are old hands at fighting Russian hegemony, and we must defend democracy in the US and in Russia, just as Russian Jews are poised to do in Israel

Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld, center, with Liu Shaoqi, left, then-political commissar of the New Fourth Army, and Chen Yi, right, then acting commander of the New Fourth Army, in 1941. (Courtesy Austrian Institute for Research on China and Southeast Asia)

Historical Jews

How a Jewish doctor helped form backbone of revolutionary China’s medical system

By Ronen Shnidman

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

Autopsy performed on Jeffrey Epstein as speculation swirls over suicide

By AFP and ToI Staff

Chief medical examiner says determination of cause of death ‘pending further information’ as US lawmakers demand answers

Epstein wasn’t closely monitored, was left alone in cell before suicide — report

By ToI Staff and AP

Epstein dies in the dark, but abuse investigation carries on

By AP and ToI Staff

Epstein’s guards were working extreme overtime shifts on night of suicide

By Jim Mustian, Michael R. Sisak and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Guatemalan candidate for the Vamos (Let's Go) party Alejandro Giammattei waves to supporters after delivering a speech in Guatemala City on August 11, 2019. (Photo by ORLANDO ESTRADA / AFP)

Conservative, pro-Israel Giammattei elected Guatemala president

By AFP and ToI Staff

Candidate, who has pledged to keep embassy in Jerusalem, wins runoff but faces possible confrontation with Trump over immigration

Presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez addresses supporters at the "Frente de Todos" party headquarters after primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. The "Frente de Todos" presidential ticket with former President Cristina Fernández emerged as the strongest vote-getter in Argentina’s primary elections Sunday, indicating conservative President Mauricio Macri will face an uphill battle going into general elections in October. (AP Photo/Sebastian Pani)

Center-left nominee, running with ex-president Kirchner, wins Argentina primary

By AP and ToI Staff

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An online timetable on the Israel Airports Authority website on the morning of August 12, 2019, showing many delayed flights due to a malfunction with the baggage handling system at Ben Gurion Airport. (Screenshot: Israel Airports Authority website)

Due to malfunction, dozens of flights delayed at Ben Gurion Airport

This undated file photo provided September 19, 2017, by Russian Defense Ministry official website shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground at the Luzhsky Range, near St. Petersburg, Russia (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP/File)

Explosion fuels speculation Russia is testing a nuclear-powered cruise missile

Filipino children carry banners during a protest against deportation in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2019. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Deportation of Filipino worker, Israel-born son delayed after protest on plane

The Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency will work together to create a new "micro-satellite," the ULTRASAT, projected to launch in 2023 (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Israel eyes next-gen satellite launch to scrutinize universe under new light

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ehud Barak during a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

US court rejects appeal by parents who sued Barak over son’s death on flotilla

Polish officials and war veterans pay tribute to a World War II-era underground force that collaborated with Nazi German forces toward the end of the war in Warsaw, Poland, August 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland honors World War II group that collaborated with Nazis

Chabad Rabbi Zalman Heber. (Screenshot/Tacoma News Tribune)

Rabbi accused of sexually harassing Washington state women resigns from position

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Hearing scheduled Monday for Pittsburgh synagogue massacre defendant

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative. A hacker breaking into a computer. (gorodenkoff via iStockPhoto)

Digital cameras vulnerable to ransomware, Check Point researchers find

By Shoshanna Solomon

Emergency responders at the scene of a suspected murder in Netanya, August 11, 2019. (MDA)

Elderly man found stabbed to death in Netanya street

Creator of ‘Jerusalem District’ begs for forgiveness over gun-planting episode

Israeli security forces walk past the Dome of the Rock shrine, as they arrive at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019, after clashes broke out during the overlapping Jewish and Muslim holidays of Eid al-Adha and Tisha B'Av. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Saudi Arabia, Qatar condemn Israel over Temple Mount clashes

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