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What Matters Most On Friday, August 23, 2019

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17-year-old Rina Shnerb, killed in a bombing in the West Bank, August 23, 2019 (Courtesy of the family)

Teen Israeli girl killed as family hit by bomb at West Bank spring

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Rina Shnerb, 17, succumbs to injuries as father, brother badly injured by blast at popular hiking spot near Dolev; army hunts for culprits as it decries ‘serious terror attack’

Israeli soldiers set up a roadblock as part of a search effort to find terrorists who set off a bomb near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in the West Bank on August 23, 2019, killing an Israeli teenage girl and seriously injuring two other people. (Israel Defense Forces)

After deadly attack, right-wing calls to annex West Bank, criticizes PM

Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas website)

Hamas lauds ‘heroic’ perpetrators of bombing attack in which Israeli teen killed

Illustrative: A Ural Airlines plane is parked on the tarmac at Sharm el-Sheikh Airport, south Sinai, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

Flight from Tel Aviv with 160 on board makes emergency landing in Sochi

By ToI Staff and AP

Ural Airlines plane manages to touch down with damaged wheel mechanism, no reports of injuries; same airline that landed in cornfield last week

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)

IDF on high alert ahead of Gaza protests, preparing for possible escalation

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Conflicting reports on Hamas’s intentions at weekly border rallies, as Qatari envoy said to enter the Strip with new cash infusion

Israel media reviewButter for the West Bank and guns for Gaza: 8 things to know for August 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinians agree to some tax transfers from Israel as cash crunch mounts

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian man shot after launching grenades at IDF soldiers on Gaza border

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

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)

US officials say Israel behind bombing of Iranian militias in Iraq

Comments carried by NY Times come a day after Netanayhu intimated IDF responsible for series of strikes targeting training camps and arms depots

File: Vice President of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki in St.Petersburg, Russia, July 25, 2017. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-Iraqi PM warns Israel of ‘strong response’ if it proves to be behind strikes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspecting an Adir F-35 stealth fighter at the Nevatim Air Force Base on July 9, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Netanyahu hints again that Israel attacked Iran-backed militias in Iraq

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Likud MK Avi Dichter meeting Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud on July 22, 2019. (Credit: Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Analysis

Ksenia Svetlova

As Saudi bloggers reach out to Israel, some see signals of a regional shift

A recent visit to the Jewish state by Mohammed Saud received major publicity after he was attacked by Palestinians. But is this a condoned political strategy, or more of the same

Illustrative: Protesters assembled by a majority Jewish group called Never Again Is Now walk through traffic as they make their way to Independence Mall in Philadelphia, July 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Growing coalition of Jewish groups speaks out against Trump immigration policy

By SOPHIA TAREEN

Activists spurred by reports of poor conditions at immigration centers liken US policies to Holocaust, past oppression of Jews

British opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London on April 4, 2019. (Tolga AKMEN / AFP)

Left-wing anti-Semitism has had British Jews debating loyalty for years

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Fall Gala, October 6, 2018, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Cory Booker shows off his Hebrew in response to Trump’s disloyalty comments

By Gabe Friedman

A view of Yeshiva University’s Zysman Hall (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

Dozens of former Yeshiva University students allege sex abuse, cover-up

By AP and ToI Staff

Lawsuit filed by 38 pupils takes advantage of new regulations extending statute of limitations, accuses New York high school and university of not taking action to prevent attacks

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan on March 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Attorney General: Gender-segregated events okay under certain circumstances

By Stuart Winer

Mandelblit issues guidelines for local authorities, saying separation permissible if it is desired by target audience and conditions for men and women are equal

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller said to nix further graft reports like probe into PM’s wife

Right-wing activists shout at Joint (Arab) List lawmakers and candidates (unseen) as they arrive at a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on right-wing petitions to disqualify their parties from standing in the September 2019 election, on August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court hears petitions against Otzma Yehudit, Arab parties

Justices expected to decide Sunday whether extremist Jewish party and anti-Zionist Arab ones will be allowed to run in September election

The Central Elections Committee counts ballots from soldiers and absentee voters at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

New anti-fraud measures will mean a (slightly) longer wait for election results

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Liberman reaches out to LGBTQ community after homophobic comments surface

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Meeting on a rock

By Haim Watzman

Farmer Guy Erlich shows ampules of scented oils extracted from plants and trees at a farm on a small hill near the settlement of Almog in the West Bank, on May 28, 2019 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israeli farmer remixes what he says are Cleopatra’s ancient scents near Dead Sea

By Michael Blum

Denis Michael Rohan sits inside a bulletproof glass box at his trial for setting fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque, at Binyanei Hauma convention center, Jerusalem, October 7, 1969. (Fritz Cohen/GPO)

First person

How an Australian sheepshearer’s al-Aqsa arson nearly torched Middle East peace

By Abraham Rabinovich

Those ‘heroes’ who massacred Jews in 1929

Nine decades after Arab riots left 130 Jews dead, the Palestinian Authority continues to lionize the perpetrators

Sharona Margolin Halickman

The miracle of slow fashion

What would you do if you had to pack for a forty-year trek in the desert?

More Headlines

Illustrative: An Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) at Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Vietnam. (Wikipedia/Tomáš Najer - BioLib/CC BY-SA)

Israeli toddler stable after mauled by leopard in Thailand

Britain's Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, leaves Crathie Kirk, after a Sunday morning church service, in Crathie, Scotland, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Email exchange indicates woman gave Prince Andrew foot massage at Epstein’s home

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A file photo taken on August 12, 2019 shows Palestinian boy Abdelrahman Shtewi, in a bed in Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Family of Palestinian boy shot in the head wants answers from Israel

US soldiers of Pennsylvania's 28th Infantry Division march along the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe in the background, on Aug. 29, 1944, four days after the liberation of Paris, France (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)

Invisible army set stage for liberation of Paris from Nazis

By Elaine Ganley

An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

US Justice Dept. sent anti-Semitic post to immigration judges

By Colleen Long and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Illustrative image of a computer hacker using a smartphone. (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel relaxing export controls on cyber weapons despite rights concerns

Israeli singer Arkadi Duchin performs at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Singers back out of Jerusalem concert series organized by right-wing group

File: A menorah and flowers are seen outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in preparation for a celebration service on the first night of Hanukkah, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, December 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Tree of Life to hold High Holiday services at local Episcopal church

By JTA

Anthony Rosenthal, Betsy Wolfe, Tracie Thoms, Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block, Brandon Uranowitz and Andrew Rannells in the musical "Falsettos," currently on Broadway. (Joan Marcus via JTA)

London musical about Jewish family censured for allegedly casting only non-Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

The New Jersey State House in Trenton, New Jersey. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Famartin/ Wikimedia Commons)

New Jersey state employee fired over anti-Semitic social media posts

By JTA

Andre Lajst during a lecture in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Dec. 4, 2017. (Courtesy of the Rio Grande do Sul Jewish Federation via JTA)

Brazil university cancels lecture after alleged threats by pro-Palestinian group

By Marcus M. Gilban

The Jerusalem office of Qatar-based news network and TV channel Al-Jazeera on July 31, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Al Jazeera anchor promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on Twitter

By Josefin Dolsten

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