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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 22, 2019

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US President Donald Trump, right, and visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

As Trump questions loyalty of US Jews, Netanyahu is silent

By Josef Federman

Israeli leader refrains from commenting on US president’s remarks about Jewish Democrat voters, which many have criticized as anti-Semitic stereotyping

Rivlin sends message to Trump: Israel-US ties not dependent on one party

Jewish Democrats are ‘disloyal to Jewish people, Israel,’ Trump insists again

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewA loyal mess: 7 things to know for August 22

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump winks at a journalist while speaking during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, August 20, 2019. (Alex Brandon/AP)

'Wow!' adds Trump. 'Very nice words'

Trump tweets claim Israelis ‘love him like he is the second coming of God’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US president quotes radio host Wayne Allyn Root, who says Jewish state adores him as ‘the King of Israel’ but that US Jews ‘don’t even know what they’re doing’ anymore

ProfileThe evangelical conspiracy theorist Trump used to validate his comments on Jews

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, August 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump declares himself to be ‘the chosen one’

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, right, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, at a news conference, August 19, 2019 at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, after their planned trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank was blocked by Israel. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Before ban, ex-US envoy tried to set up meetings for Omar with Israelis

Dan Shapiro says he hoped to provide ‘some balance’ to tour; US congresswoman wanted to sit down with security officials, MKs, source says

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, August 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AnalysisTrump’s ‘disloyal’ jab may boost base, not Jews

By Jill Colvin and ELANA SCHOR

Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh speaks at a campaign launch event in Tel Aviv on August 20, 2019. (Courtesy)

Joint Arab List chief slams Trump for ‘disloyalty’ remark; other party heads mum

By Tani Goldstein and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen on Gaza City, early Friday, March 15, 2019. Israeli warplanes attacked targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday in response to a rare rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

IDF strikes fresh Hamas targets after 2nd rocket fired from Gaza Strip

Latest retaliation comes hours after several ‘sea-based bases’ were targeted by air force in response to earlier rocket from Strip, which struck an open field

Fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad terror group's military wing, take part in a military march in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Israel blames Islamic Jihad for Gaza violence, tells Hamas to clamp down

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A crop-dusting plane sprays a field in Israel's Negev Desert, Wednesday (Dror Garti/Flash90)

Soldiers mistakenly fire at Israeli crop-dusting plane, thinking it’s from Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani, left, reviews an honor guard as he is accompanied by his Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami during a ceremony to unveil Iran-made Bavar-373 air-defense missile system, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Unveiling missile defense system, Iran’s president says talks with US ‘useless’

‘Now that our enemies do not accept logic, we cannot respond with logic,’ says Rouhani in Tehran speech, amid rising tensions with Washington

In this photo from August 12, 2019, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)

Iran-backed militia walks back accusation that Israel, US behind Iraq strikes

By AP and ToI Staff

Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, speaks during a press conference in Nazareth, July 27, 2019. (Flash90)

Top Arab lawmaker says he is willing to join a center-left government

By Michael Bachner

Joint List head Ayman Odeh breaks with longstanding position, but sets conditions that include ‘ending the occupation,’ nixing nation-state law, fighting crime rates in Arab areas

Blue and White MKs rule out center-left coalition with Arab lawmakers

By Michael Bachner

Right-wing parties, left-wing parties ink vote-sharing agreements

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu seeks to install cameras at ultra-Orthodox voting stations

Palistinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressing Palestinian and Arab journalists in the PA presidential headquarters on July 3, 2019. (Wafa)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians say Israel agreed to partial payment of overdue taxes

PA minister says Ramallah exempt from paying fuel tax under NIS 2 billion agreement reached in bid to ease severe economic crisis

6:12 pm

Satellite firm releases images of Iraqi base destroyed by mystery blast
6:02 pm

NGOs urge Macron to call out Egypt's human rights record
5:34 pm

AG publishes guidelines for gender-segregated events

Jared Diamond, author of the new book, 'Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis and Change.' (Courtesy)

These four looming threats may bring the end of civilization, warns top scholar

By JP O’ Malley

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, stand at Babi Yar ravine where Nazi troops murdered tens of thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s praise of Kyiv’s Holocaust remembrance only tells part of the story

Recent years have seen efforts to reframe Ukraine’s involvement in Nazi atrocities; local Jewish groups say its historical memory policy is deeply problematic and revisionist

Illustrative: From left, Maria-Karnilova, Tanya Everett, Zero Mostel, Julia-Migenes and Joanna Merlin backstage at opening night of 'Fiddler on the Roof' at the Imperial Theater in New York City, September 22, 1964. (AP/Courtesy of Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films/via JTA)

Fiddler’s miracle: How unlikely musical about Jewish tradition lit up Broadway

By Curt Schleier

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier stands at the entrance to the Allenby border crossing, the main border crossing for Palestinians from the West Bank traveling to neighboring Jordan and beyond, Monday, March 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Palestinian tries to strangle off-duty IDF soldier at border crossing

Soldier escapes unharmed after man tries to garrote him with cellphone charger cable; suspect arrested

Ramy Shaath, who is the son of Palestinian politician Nabil Shaath. (Screencapture/Youtube)

Egypt arrests son of PA official, a BDS activist, for aiding ‘terror group’

By AFP

A photo provided by Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar shows his painting of a rainbow flag on six slabs of the West Bank security barrier in the West Bank city of Ramallah. June 29, 2015. (Khaled Jarrar via AP)

Rights groups slam Palestinian police for banning LGBTQ activity

By AFP

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The grave matter of a chained wife’s plight

When Jewish mothers fear what marriage could bring for their daughters, it is the rabbis’ job to find a solution

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Disloyalty dat loyalty: What Trump really meant

He wasn’t so much accusing Jewish Democrats of being bad Americans as he was accusing them of being bad Jews

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A nurse taking a blood test, with the OLO device developed by Sight Diagnostics in the background. (YouTube screenshot)

Startup’s 10-minute blood test device shifts focus from lab to doctor’s clinic

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture of the Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue. (Google Maps)

Suspect in Florida synagogue shooting arrested, charged with attempted murder

By AP

MDClone's software liberates data from privacy shackles by creating an exact replica of the original data, without the patient's information (YouTube screenshot)

Startup that clones patient data gets $26 million from investors

By Shoshanna Solomon

President Mario Abdo Benitez, center, talks to Israel's new ambassador to Paraguay, Yoed Magen, left, as Foreign Minister Antonio Rivas Palacios, right, listens, during official ceremony, at Lopez Palace, Asuncion, Paraguay, August 21, 2019. (Anibal Ovelar/Paraguay's Government Press Office via AP)

Israel appoints ambassador to Paraguay after embassy dispute

By AP and ToI Staff

Yisrael Meir Kin says he did not agree to grant his wife a religious bill of divorce after the rabbinate delayed his mother's funeral in order to pressure him into complying. (YouTube video screengrab)

Man denies he agreed to divorce wife after rabbinate delayed his mother’s burial

A protest group called Hot Mess holds up posters of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse in New York City, on July 8, 2019. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

With his will, Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave

By Curt Anderson

US film director Quentin Tarantino (L) and his wife Israeli singer Daniella Pick arrive for the screening of the film "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France, on May 21, 2019. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Once upon a time...Tarantino and Israeli wife Daniella Pick expecting baby

By AP

Women with the Filipino community group United Children of Israel, which helped organize the protest against deportations, in Tel Aviv on June 24, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Filipino couple and Israel-born daughters lose appeal, to be deported

Yonatan Heilo is seen leaving the Sharon Prison on July 23, 2018.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Man freed after killing his rapist to return to jail over parole violations

Amin Yassin, left, and Ali Armush, right, who were indicted for allegedly joining the Islamic State terror group on August 22, 2019. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet nabs two Arab Israelis for joining Islamic State

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Jewish residents of Monsey, Rockland County, New York state, April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

Ridesharing startup Via to manage NYC school bus system

By Shoshanna Solomon

South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee (L) and Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen stand after signing a free-trade agreement between Israel and the Republic of Korea in Jerusalem on August 21, 2019. (Photo by Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Israel inks free-trade deal with South Korea despite settlement row

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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