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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 13, 2019

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An undated photo showing Rotem Amitai. (Courtesy)

El Al flight attendant dies 4 months after contracting measles on plane from NY

43-year-old Rotem Amitai, who had been vaccinated with 1 dose out of the recommended 2, becomes 3rd fatality in recent outbreak of highly contagious disease

A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by Merck, seen at the Salt Lake County Health Department in Salt Lake City, April 26, 2019 (George Frey/Getty Images via JTA)

Global reported measles infections triple in 2019, health body says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

Likud’s election cameras motivated by desire to suppress Arab vote, expert says

Israel Democracy Institute’s senior fellow says filming of a minority demographic at polling stations is no way to address ostensible fraud

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

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with Democratic Camp member Noa Rothman at the Mukatta compound in Ramallah on August 13, 2019. (Screen capture: Channel 13)

Live updates (closed)

Democratic Camp members meet with Abbas in Ramallah

Issawi Freij and Noa Rothman say they hope talks with PA chief will bring attention to Israeli-Palestinian conflict ahead of elections

6:16 pm

Trump says China is moving troops toward Hong Kong
6:00 pm

Iran's Khamenei urges support for Yemen's Houthi rebels
5:46 pm

Netanyahu said to dub Shaked 'the new Tzipi Livni'

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at an event hall in the Jalazone refugee camp on August 10, 2019. (Wafa)

Abbas: Settlements will be swept away, Palestinians came from ancient Canaanites

PA president says despite US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the city belongs to the Palestinians; charges Hamas’s leaders are working for Israel

US ambassador, Israel president pay condolence visits to family of slain student

Israel and Hamas both said taking steps to secure Gaza border after breaches

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Abbas aide fumes as Netanyahu eyes Israeli sovereignty over settlements

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich gives a speech at the Yamina electoral alliance's campaign launch, in Ramat Gan, on August 12, 2019. (Flash90)

'Things were said in a way that was inappropriate'

Facing firing, Smotrich apologizes to Netanyahu for calling him ‘weak’

By Alexander Fulbright

Transportation minister says his criticism was inappropriate as Likud warns it’s his last chance; re-branding United Right as Yamina, Shaked says she’s seeking to be PM

Israel media reviewSorry, not sorry: 7 things to know for August 13

Squabbling among right-wing parties persists after Netanyahu-Smotrich scrap

By Michael Bachner

AG to urge disqualifying extremist right candidates Gopstein, Marzel

Blast at pro-Iranian militia base weapons depot rocks Baghdad

By Judah Ari Gross

Explosion apparently sets off munitions in the storehouse, sending projectiles into surrounding neighborhoods

Explosions seen at a base south of Baghdad on August 12, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

Pompeo warns international arms embargo on Iran soon to expire

By ToI Staff and AP

US court throws out ruling allowing seizure of Iran-linked Manhattan tower

By ToI Staff and AP

Iraq rejects Israeli participation in US-led naval mission in Gulf

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Israeli Navy trains with foreign navies in response to a simulated massive earthquake striking northern Israel in the 'Mighty Waves 2019' naval exercise in August 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

In largest-ever drill, Israeli Navy prepares for massive, devastating quake

By Judah Ari Gross

Representatives from 9 foreign countries and NATO participate in naval exercise ‘Mighty Waves 2019,’ simulating aftermath of tremor

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi visits a large-scale exercise simulating a war with the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, in June 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF cancels exercises for reservists amid financial deficit

Israeli soldiers stand guard on a road near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel, on March 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF ombudsman report finds soldiers denied rights, disparaged by commanders

By Judah Ari Gross

British-Israeli Game of Thrones actress Josephine Gillan holds her daughter. Israeli welfare authorities have taken away the child. (Courtesy/GoFundMe)

‘Game of Thrones’ actress begs for help as Israeli child welfare takes baby girl

Josephine Gillan, who played prostitute Marei, says her 8-month old was in care of friend while she received treatment for postpartum depression; authorities acted on court order

Filipino children and their mothers carry a banner which reads in Hebrew "release Rohan and Rosemarie " during a protest against deportation in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2019. (Photo by Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Israel expels Filipino worker, Israel-born son after court rejects appeals

Illustrative photo of child abuse. (iStock Getty Images)

Police find 5-year-old girl chained to shower door in Lod apartment

Prof. Mary Rudolf and her grandchild in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Meet the fat-busting professor who would never slip her grandkids candy

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump gestures while answering a question during a joint press conference with Poland's President Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

White House refuses to say if Trump will visit Warsaw Ghetto in Poland

By Eric Cortellessa

In July 2017 trip, US president angered Polish and American Jews by skipping site of Jewish uprising in move seen as pandering to nationalist government

Some of the 600 members of the Jobbik created extreme-right wing "Magyar Garda" or Hungarian guard stand during their swearing-in ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on Oct. 21, 2007, wearing black uniforms bearing a variation on the red-and-white Arpad Stripes associated with Hungary's Nazi-aligned Arrow Cross party of WWII (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky

In Hungary, some left-wing Jews ready to work with party led by former neo-Nazi

By Cnaan Liphshiz

People enter the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp through the gate with the inscription 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) for commemorations for the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oranienburg, about 35 kilometer north of Berlin, April 23, 2017. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

Man who denied Holocaust at German concentration camp to face charges

A 2016 commercial showing Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball players promoting iTrader (Screenshot YouTube)

Israel announces groundbreaking indictment of binary options firm, owner, staff

By Simona Weinglass

Operatives of Gal Media Trade Ltd., which ran the website itrader.co.il, to be charged, pending a hearing, with aggravated fraud and offering investment advice without a license

I made sure my husband wasn’t a public safety threat

A 74-year-old who was neurologically impaired enough to shoot and kill a man was driving and carrying a weapon — someone didn’t do his or her job

Accessible surf: Helping those with disabilities reach the beach

The smiles of the boys with muscular dystrophies riding the waves of the Mediterranean on adaptive surfboards make the large, costly effort worth it

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A Russian military band prepares to attend the funerals of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by a rocket explosion in Sarov, 370 kilometers (230 miles) east of Moscow, which has served as a base for Russia's nuclear weapons program since the late 1940s, in this grab taken from footage provided by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM press service, August 12, 2019. (Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM via AP)

Radiation spiked up to 16 times normal after Russian nuclear missile blast

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Brooklyn Jewish school installs bulletproof doors in wake of mass shootings

The Metropolitan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held, on August 10, 2019, in New York. (Don Emmert / AFP)

Epstein said to have hanged self while guarded by substitute, wasn’t checked on

By Jim Mustian, Michael R. Sisak and Michael Belsamo

Omri Casspi holding a Maccabi Tel Aviv jersey upon announcing he is returning to the club after a decade in the NBA, August 13, 2019. (Maccabi Tel Aviv official website)

Casspi returns to Maccabi Tel Aviv after decade in NBA

By Michael Bachner

Guatemalan president-elect Alejandro Giammattei talks to supporters at his campaign headquarters after the polls closed on election day in Guatemala City, August 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Guatemalan president-elect is a ‘friend of Israel,’ says Netanyahu

Medical and rescue workers at the Jerusalem home of a local government official, who was under investigations for corruption, was found dead in a suspected suicide on August 12, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Jerusalem municipal official probed for graft found dead in suspected suicide

Comedian Sarah Silverman in a sketch on Comedy Central's "Sarah Silverman Program" in which she appeared in blackface. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Sarah Silverman says she was fired from film project over blackface clip

The Edmonton Journal apologized after Jewish organizations complained that this editorial cartoon, published in July 2019, was anti-Semitic. (Malcolm Mayes/ Edmonton Journal/ via JTA)

Canadian paper apologizes for cartoon seen as anti-Semitic

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Passersby rescue an infant from a sweltering car in Bnei Brak, August 12, 2019. (Twitter screenshot)

Passerby smashes window to rescue baby from sweltering car in Bnei Brak

Rabbi Reuven Hammer. (YouTube screenshot)

Reuven Hammer, pioneer of Conservative Judaism in Israel, dies at 86

Two youths were arrested for spray-painting swastikas and other graffiti on the walls of a street in Jerusalem’s Old City on August 12, 2019. (Israel Police)

Police arrest two youths for painting swastikas in Old City of Jerusalem

Beny Steinmetz. (Courtesy)

Israeli tycoon ordered to stand trial over alleged Guinea bribes

By AP

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