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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 31, 2022

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid addresses the weekly cabinet meeting, July 31, 2022. (GPO)

'Our obligation as a government is to eradicate this'

PM: Violence against women is ‘stain on the country that cannot continue’

Lapid vows action over IDF soldier who says she was raped by terror convict; cites recent murders of women and soccer stars accused of sexually abusing teens, says it’s all linked

Illustrative: A woman looks out the window of her room in an abused women's shelter in Beit Shemesh, July 15, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Judge rules woman to be placed in shelter against her will amid ex-husband’s threats

Then-minister of foreign affairs Yair Lapid and his wife Lihi Lapid attend their son's graduation ceremony at Ariel University on June 28, 2022. (Flash90)

PM Lapid’s wife said to get emails hoping she and family die in car crash, of cancer

Mahmoud Abbas celebrates the return of released Palestinian security prisoners in August 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel to withhold NIS 600 million from PA over its payments to terrorists’ families

In the past, Jerusalem has offset its freezing of PA funds, which is required by Israeli law, with loans to keep Palestinian government afloat

Ahmad Rashdan is brought for a court hearing in Tel Aviv District Court on July 31, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Palestinian charged with terror for paving stone attack that seriously injured man

File: A military post near the Huwara checkpoint, outside the West Bank city of Nablus, May 17, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian dies days after being shot by IDF while nearing West Bank military post

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds a cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2022. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid urges UN chief to disband Gaza probe over investigator’s ‘antisemitic remarks’

In letter to Antonio Guterres, prime minister says Commission of Inquiry ‘fundamentally tainted’ after member says social media ‘controlled’ by ‘Jewish lobby’

6:02 pm

Zelensky's wife to Israeli TV: 'Your resilience serves as an example for us'
5:46 pm

Lapid issues letter to UN secretary general calling to disband Gaza war probe over member’s ‘antisemitic remarks’
5:23 pm

Death toll in Kentucky hits 26, with renewed flood threat

Jewish men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 31, 2017 to mark the beginning of Tisha B'av. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From The Hartman Institute

Why Isn’t Tisha B’Av Working?

This day of national reckoning with our collective failures asks us to mourn as a means of preventing future tragedy. Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi discuss its current relevance.

Analysis

Hezbollah hints it’s ready for a war over gas — but knows Lebanon can’t afford one

By beating war drums and ramping up military provocations, Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group has been doing everything to indicate it is ready to wage war with Israel over offshore gas extraction near a disputed maritime border between the countries. Israel, meanwhile, has become increasingly concerned by the ever-escalating rhetoric of the Iranian-backed group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and has been preparing... Continue Reading

File: Hezbollah fighters raise their hands as their leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

This screengrab from a Hezbollah video publication on July 31, 2022, shows Energean's floating production system at the Karish gas field. (Screengrab: Telegram)

Hezbollah renews threats on Israeli gas field: ‘Playing with time is useless’

By Emanuel Fabian

The state of the campaign

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman

If not Netanyahu, then who?

In 2 new polls, Zionist Spirit cleared the threshold, potentially handing the Likud leader a majority. But Shaked’s party may well slip back, so who else might break the deadlock?

Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked speaks during a press conference with Derech Eretz's Yoaz Hendel to announce their merger into the new Zionist Spirit party, in Ramat Gan, on July 27, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shaked: I won’t abandon the right wing to Netanyahu and Ben Gvir

Former State Attorney Shai Nitzan speaks at the Calcalist conference in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-top prosecutor hits back at misconduct claim, says axed cop motivated by revenge

Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Tel Aviv, October 9, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Plan to slash medical residents’ 26-hour shifts delayed until September 2023

Burden of 26-hour shifts drove thousands of trainee doctors to threaten resignation last year; promised change to 18 hours was never implemented

A watch said to have been owned by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. (Alexander Historical Auctions)

Adolf Hitler’s purported watch sells for $1.1 million at US auction house

By Michael Horovitz and JTA

Rejecting criticism, Alexander Historical Auctions also auctions candy dish, dog collar and beer tray it claims belonged to Nazi dictator and wife

Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban attends a joint press conference with Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer at the Federal Chancellery during Orban's official visit to Austria in Vienna, Austria, July 28, 2022. (Alex Halada/AFP)

EU parliament leaders slam Hungary’s Orban for ‘openly racist’ remarks

By AFP

Interview

Ksenia Svetlova

Exiled oligarch in Israel: Putin doesn’t want to annex Ukraine, but to destroy it

Next year Leonid Nevzlin will mark 20 years since his escape from Russia and immigration to Israel. When he fled Russia in 2003, Yukos, the oil giant at which he served as vice president, was forcibly broken up and Nevzlin's associates were arrested and thrown into Siberian prisons on what many claim were trumped-up... Continue Reading

Zelensky calls to evacuate civilians from Donetsk frontline amid Russian ‘terror’

By AFP

US Secretary of State Blinken resisting branding Russia as ‘terrorist state’ — NYT

Russia says 6 injured in Ukrainian explosive drone strike on Black Sea Fleet HQ

By AP

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss in Jerusalem, July 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Funeral of anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox leader, 95, draws thousands to Jerusalem

Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss was head of the hardline Eda Haredit group; mourners clash with police officers in two reported incidents

Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, Chief Rabbi of the Eda Haredit faction, attends a protest outside a construction site in Har Gillo, claiming the construction site is desecrating Jewish graves, on October 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, a prominent hardline ultra-Orthodox leader, dies at 95

Kenneth Jacobson

The UNHRC’s anti-Israel obsession escalates

We knew the council was anti-Israel, but the antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories spouted by a member of a commission of inquiry mark a new low

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Can Jews agree to disagree? The hunt for ‘viewpoint diversity’

How much do we censor ourselves, fearful of what might hit the fan if what we say about gender, race, politics, or Israel rubs those who hear us the wrong way?

Elchanan Poupko

Brooklyn and Manhattan sending BDS to Congress?

The high polling numbers for this Democratic primary candidate in America’s most Jewish district signals a deep crisis for pro-Israel voters

The Netanyahu Doctrine on the Meron disaster: The safety of ignorance

The refusal to accept responsibility for a disaster of this magnitude displays an astonishing absence of leadership

Netanyahu denies story, says he 'voiced great appreciation'

In book, Kushner says Netanyahu was unenthusiastic on Jerusalem recognition

By Michael Horovitz

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior advisor to former US president Donald Trump, reveals in an upcoming book that when Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy there in 2017, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction was decidedly tepid. The book, "Breaking History:... Continue Reading

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the prime minister's Jerusalem residence on December 21, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

US President Joe Biden during a meeting with CEOs about the economy in the at the White House complex in Washington, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Newly confrontational Biden no longer shy in singling out Trump, the ‘former guy’

By Seung Min Kim

An Israeli technician stands in front of an F-35 fighter jet ahead of an air force exercise in Italy in June 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli military halts F-35 training flights over faulty ejector seats

By Emanuel Fabian

In wake of problem reported in US, IDF says Air Force commander orders entire fleet examined, will approve operational activity on case-by-case basis

Illustrative image of a car being refueled at a gas station, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Gas prices to drop significantly at midnight due to tax breaks, lower price of oil

By Tobias Siegal

As of Monday, Israelis will pay an estimated NIS 6.54 per liter of gasoline, down from NIS 8.08; newest tax discount limited to month of August

Israeli food tech startup SavorEat makes 3D-printed pork, turkey, and beef burgers. (SavorEat)

Israeli startup SavorEat serves up 3D-printed kosher pork patties, turkey burgers

By Ricky Ben-David

Rehovot-based food tech company launches new vegan products that can be customized via ‘robot chef’

Elvis Presley performs on stage in an unspecified location, 1973. (AP Photo)

Always on his mind

‘Bless this concert’: Book reveals depth of Elvis’s Christian faith

By ToI Staff and JTA

Star’s stepbrother Billy Stanley describes how religion was a source of comfort for king of rock, whose heritage had Jewish roots

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Tottenham Hotspur's English striker Harry Kane, 2nd from left, vies for the ball with Roma's Brazilian defender Roger, center, during a friendly match between England's Tottenham Hotspurs and Italy's AS Roma at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, July 30, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

AS Roma beats Tottenham in Haifa soccer game; Messi and PSG meet Israeli nonprofit

Police officers search for Raid Mahmeed (insert), 49, who went missing in the Sea of Galilee, July 30, 2022. (Israel Police; courtesy)

After 8 days, search teams locate body of missing Umm al-Fahm man in Sea of Galilee

By Emanuel Fabian

Britain's Prince Charles sheds a tear as he follows the coffin as it makes its way past the Round Tower during the funeral of Britain's Prince Philip, inside Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, April 17, 2021. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP/ File)

UK’s Prince Charles took £1 million charity donation from bin Laden family – report

Healthcare workers with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene help people register for the monkeypox vaccine at one of the City's vaccination sites, New York, July 26, 2022. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

‘Epicenter’ New York City declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

By AP

The Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt retweeted a Twitter thread that singled out New York progressive group Jews For Racial and Economic Justice this week. (Getty/Courtesy via JTA)

ADL condemns ‘out of touch’ NY progressive group Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Home and structures are flooded near Quicksand, Kentucky, July 28, 2022. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)

At least 25 dead in Kentucky flooding, with toll expected to rise

By AP

A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pennsylvania, December 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Sealing deals with vaccine makers, US plans Omicron booster rollout in the fall

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD

Illustrative: US President Joe Biden talks on the phone with his national security team from the Treaty Room in the residence of the White House in Washington, July 22, 2022. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again, returns to isolation

Supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr, protesting against a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister, gather inside Iraq's parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, July 30, 2022. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)

Sadr supporters refuse to leave Iraqi parliament amid political standoff

A sign displays the Mega Millions lottery jackpot in Detroit, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Lucky numbersLottery ticket bought at gas station wins $1.28 billion jackpot

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