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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 12, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the swearing in ceremony of the 23rd government in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

PM’s wife says she’s been battered, experienced ‘sexual violence’ from protests

Sara Netanyahu says she fears for her life, and urges all to condemn threats; womens’ group head accuses her of cheapening actual domestic violence

Netanyahu says AG ignoring threats to him, family; Mandelblit: A baseless claim

Anti-Netanyahu protests draw in angry, exasperated political novices

By Josef Federman

Netanyahu prosecutor to be quizzed by inspectors for alleged building violations

Then-senator Kamala Harris, left, hosted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Jerusalem office, November 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In Harris, Biden chooses a traditionally pro-Israel Dem as his veep candidate

By Eric Cortellessa

Senator has good relations with AIPAC, is closely aligned with running mate on Mideast policy and aid to Jewish state; voted against anti-BDS bill, citing First Amendment rights

5 Jewish things to know about US vice president candidate Kamala Harris

Joe Biden selects Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in 2020 election

By Alexandra Jaffe and Will Weissert

Trump ‘surprised’ Biden picked ‘horrible’ Harris for VP: Obama: Ideal partner

Palestinian fishermen take to the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City on June 18, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel restricts Gaza fishing zone after fire balloon launches

Military liaison to Palestinians says move due to ‘terrorist activities’ emanating from the Strip; airborne incendiary devices spark 24 blazes in the south since Wednesday morning

6:19 pm

PA to relax virus restrictions on gatherings, allow shops to reopen
6:17 pm

Likud MK said to call for removal of judge overseeing Netanyahu's graft case
6:02 pm

Nasrallah to give speech Friday to mark anniversary of Second Lebanon War

A sewing workshop in the Men's section in the Beau Bassin prison, Mauritius. (Courtesy Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives, Israel)

Mauritius wasn't Dachau or Auschwitz. It was something else

From Palestine to jail in Mauritius: When Britain deported 1,580 Shoah refugees

By Robert Philpot

They fled the Nazis to Mandate Palestine in 1940, only to be deported and, over Churchill’s objections, locked up for 5 years; August 12 marks 75 years since their release

Lapid: We can see the sweat from here; PM: You're a dictator

Your father knew better: PM, Lapid trade insults as bill to bar Netanyahu fails

Knesset debate gets personal with talk of both politicians’ late dads, as law to block any lawmaker under indictment from assembling coalition shot down; Blue and White skip vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid at the Knesset on August 12, 2020 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset gives preliminary approval for election-averting bill to delay budget

Benny Gantz speaks to the media outside his home on August 9, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media review

You scratch my back, or else: What the press is saying on August 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud appears to be getting what it wants out of Blue and White on one bill, as new demands rise to the surface and the specter of elections remains front and center

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to the media outside his home in Rosh Haayin, August 9, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Gantz out of surgery after ‘successful operation’ for back injury

MK Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of Likud, sign their unity government agreement on April 20, 2020. (GPO)

Netanyahu said demanding changes to deal with Gantz to keep coalition intact

Damage at a kibbutz close to the Gaza border after an unexploded IDF missile hits an agricultural structure, August 12, 2020 (Courtesy Eshkol Security)

Army investigating after IDF missile fired at Gaza lands by kibbutz cowshed

Missile, launched in response to arson balloon attacks, does not explode but damages structure; army investigating misfire by its chopper

Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza after over 60 fires sparked by arson balloons

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Mossad said to ask Qatar to keep funneling cash to Gaza in deescalation effort

Egypt-Gaza crossing opens, allowing Palestinians to leave for 1st time in months

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lebanese blogger and journalist Dima Sadek. (video screenshot)

After ToI covers her lashing of Hezbollah, Lebanese blogger says Israel a cancer

Reacting to reporting on her censure of terror group over Beirut blast, Dima Sadek says her comments were part of ‘internal debate,’ calls Israel an apartheid state

Former Lebanese justice minister calls Hezbollah a ‘murderous’ terror group

A week after blast, Lebanon’s street at war with its leaders

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

PM to Macron: Get Hezbollah arms out of civilian areas to avert more disasters

Daniel B. Shapiro

After Charlottesville, Trump violated George Washington’s promise to American Jews

The US president’s hateful rhetoric has spurred a rise in deadly attacks on Jews and others, while Joe Biden has denounced bigotry at every turn

Ashira Konigsburg

Jewish leaders: This year’s High Holidays need a new approach

We need to separate out our feelings of grief for how we had hoped this year would go, and shift our efforts towards the future

Nazis should be punished

SS guard Bruno Dey was judged, found guilty, sentenced, and… released, so what’s the point of the trial?

Gail Bendheim and Yardaena Osband

The coronavirus may hold the key to unchaining agunot

If mental health is a life-or-death issue in Jewish law (it is), then Orthodox rabbis need to free women who are kept suffering in dead marriages by get-refusers

Prof. Zeev Rotstein, CEO of Hadassah Hospital, speaks during a press conference to introduce the new medical team at the hospital's hemato-oncology department, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Israel’s Hadassah says it’s involved in development of Russian COVID-19 vaccine

Medical center’s CEO Zeev Rotstein says its clinic in Moscow is conducting trials that will ‘take time’; Putin has claimed vaccine ‘passed all the necessary tests’

11 new coronavirus deaths take toll to 633; 1,819 cases diagnosed in 24 hours

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

As jobless soar amid virus, experts urge government to invest in training

By Shoshanna Solomon

Virus czar: Businesses that violate limits on gatherings will be shuttered

US 2020 presidential race

Jewish students mobilize young Americans — and their grandparents — for Biden

A failed bid for student body vice president led Ethan Wolf to launch Jews 4 Joe, a push to get young Jews to vote blue, which now has hundreds of volunteers across 65 campuses

Harris’s selection as Democrat VP nominee seen as triumph for Black women

By Kat Stafford

VP nod the latest in a career of firsts for Kamala Harris

By Chris Lefkow

Harris under scrutiny for tough-on-crime prosecutor past

By Laurent Banguet and Jocelyne ZABLIT

Illustrative: Knesset Member Merav Michaeli speaks during the 'Economic Independence = Women Empowerment' conference ahead of international Woman's Day, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Behind the headlines

Join MK Merav Michaeli for an inside look at Knesset chaos, Labor’s unraveling

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member today

Rabbi Peter Finali speaks at a Budapest synagogue in 2016. (Peter Finali/YouTube via JTA)

Hungarian Jewish group expels rabbi who said Zionism will cause 2nd Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rabbi Gabor Finali kicked out of Mazsihisz umbrella organization for a statement he later retracted; has also said Jewish state appropriated money of Holocaust victims

Dozens of Jewish headstones discovered under Polish town’s market square

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US congressional candidate deletes pictures from vacation at Hitler’s retreat

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia, despite racist videos

Times of Israel Jewish World and Archaeology editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, left, with Lobby 99 lobbyist Rachel Gur. (Times of Israel)

TOI podcast interview

LISTEN: Crowdfunded ‘anti-lobby’ takes on Knesset legislation for the little guy

Rachel Gur of nonprofit Lobby 99 explains the issues her lobbying collective is urgently pushing for, and how the devil is all in the details

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Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar addresses media after lunch at the Mercado Central in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 11, 2020, primary election day in Minnesota. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Ilhan Omar holds off well-funded primary challenger in Minnesota

By Steve Karnowski and MOHAMED IBRAHIM

Border police officers during operations to demolish illegal structures at Shevach Ha'aretz outpost in West Bank, August 12, 2020 (Israel Police)

Far-right extremist settlers injure cop in clash at flashpoint West Bank outpost

Power lines next to Moshav Bnei Re'em in central Israel, April 26, 2010. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90/ File)

Government seeks to nix half of planned gas power stations as renewables rise

UNIFIL peacekeepers hold their flag, as they observe Israeli excavators attempt to destroy cross-border tunnels dug by Hezbollah, near the southern Lebanese-Israeli border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon, December 13, 2019. (Hussein Malla/AP)

UN Security Council at odds over peacekeeping operation on Israel-Lebanon border

An Israel Railways train passes the Ayalon Highway, near the Arlozorov Street 'Central' train station in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM’s economic adviser: Invest natural resources income in Israeli infrastructure

Palestinians protest against the detention by Israel of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa in the city of Ramallah on August 11, 2020. (AFP)

Ramallah protesters demand release of Palestinian BDS activist

By AFP

Israel's then-Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mark Regev delivers a speech at the annual Holocaust Memorial Commemoration event, co-hosted with the Israeli Embassy, in central London on January 23, 2019. - The Foreign Secretary will deliver a keynote speech and unveil the Frank Foley bust. Frank Foley was a British Secret Intelligence Service Officer who in the late 1930s saved thousands of Jews by helping them escape Nazi Germany. (Tolga AKMEN / POOL / AFP)

After four years in the UK, Mark Regev returns to Netanyahu’s office

By Raphael Ahren

United States ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US revises proposed resolution to extend UN arms embargo on Iran

By Edith M. Lederer

A griffon vulture. (Yosef Avgana, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

On the ascentIsrael’s griffon vulture population reaches eight-year high

Singer Yaakov Shwekey performing live during a concert at the Yad Eliyahu Arena in Tel Aviv, January 2, 2012. (Mendy Hectman/Flash90)

Singing his praiseUS Orthodox singer performs musical endorsement of Trump

A residential area in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, the scene of an alleged assault against a Jewish man visiting his parents. (Xavier Testelin/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish man called ‘dirty Jew’ and beaten unconscious in Paris elevator

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A screenshot from ChaiFlicks, a Jewish-themed streaming platform. (ChaiFlicks via JTA)

Chai timeChaiFlicks, ‘Jewish Netflix,’ launches with over 150 titles

By Stephen Silver

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