Netanyahu said to have urged Trump to hit Iran after he lost presidency * Israeli Olympic hopes * Podcast: Temple Mt sifting on 9 B’Av * Zsa Zsa’s fashionably late burial

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, July 16, 2021 [Netanyahu urged Trump to attack Iran after he lost the presidency — report]( By [TOI staff]( [General Mark Milley said to have battled against former US president’s push for a missile strike, facing down his ‘circle of Iran hawks,’ including VP Pence and the then-Israeli PM]( [Protests rock restive Iran province over water shortages]( By [Jon Gambrell]( [Facebook: Iran-based spies targeted US, European defense workers]( By [AFP]( Tokyo Olympics 2020 [From gymnastics to judo, Israel primed to strike Olympic gold in Tokyo]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Israel’s 89-athlete delegation, its biggest-ever by far, includes top contenders, returning champions and no shortage of inspiring stories]( [Israel to bar travel to Spain as all arrivals start isolating for up to 24 hours]( By [TOI staff]( [Travelers must now quarantine for a day or until negative test result; on July 23, Spain, Kyrgyzstan will enter no-go list while returnees from UK, Turkey will need full quarantine]( [Daily COVID cases top 850, but serious cases appear to plateau]( By [TOI staff]( [Ministers announce new ‘Revelry Pass’ for weddings, large events]( By [TOI staff]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: On 9 B’Av, find evidence of destruction at Temple Mount Sifting Project]( By [TOI staff]( [What better way to commemorate the razing of the First and Second Temples than by ‘rescuing’ artifacts from Judaism’s most holy site that were dumped as garbage by the Muslim Waqf?]( Top Ops [Leslie Ginsparg Klein]( [It’s #MyOrthodoxLife and I’m standing up for it]( [Hey, Netflix! My peers and I are not dowdy, backward, uneducated, or oppressed. We are Orthodox women leading happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives]( [Ron Kaplan]( [When Orthodox Jewish players make it to baseball’s big leagues]( [With MLB accommodating their religious needs, Jacob Steinmetz and Elie Kligman are in uncharted territory; still, the real question is how well they’ll play]( [Chaya Passow]( [Use your words]( [Just as God created the world using words, so we use words carefully to establish relationships, communication, education, and emotional connection]( [Lili Eylon]( [‘A voice called and I went’: Hanna Szenes’ centenary]( [The famous parachutist was a hero and a martyr, but those who loved her wish she’d been neither, and instead had come home to grow old with them on kibbutz]( [As more US Jews call Israel apartheid state, organizations struggle to counter]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Mainstream groups say disconnect between Diaspora youth, reality in Israel result of ‘deficient education’; liberal counterparts argue Israel’s faults being glossed over entirely]( [After causing uproar, Israeli musician Noga Erez clarifies she doesn’t back BDS]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( [Biden’s Mideast point man said to urge Israel to aid a teetering PA]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Hady Amr proposes several measures Jerusalem can take to strengthen governing body in Ramallah, which is at one of its lowest points yet due to pandemic and election postponement]( [In memo to President Herzog, Egypt’s Sissi hopes his election will bolster peace]( By [Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff]( [Shaken but steadfast, Palestinians not backing down as PA suppresses dissent]( By [Joseph Krauss]( [COVID infection rates up worldwide, top half a million in each of past 2 days]( By [AFP]( [AFP tally finds highest daily increases in new coronavirus cases since late May, with much of the rise attributed to the Delta variant]( [EU disease agency anticipates Delta variant surge in coming weeks]( By [AFP]( [COVID vaccine for kids under 12 expected in winter, FDA official reportedly says]( By [TOI staff]( [Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ashes make fashionably late return to Budapest for burial]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [In a festive memorial service five years after her death, remains of the Jewish-Hungarian actress are interred in one of her native country’s most prestigious burial grounds]( [Joint List said ready to consider helping government pass budget]( By [TOI staff]( [Predominantly Arab party reportedly recognizes coalition is better than alternatives; willing to offer assistance to a Bennett-Lapid government desperate for extra votes]( [Likud backers seen stabbing photos of Bennett, Lapid at anti-government protest]( By [TOI staff]( [Death toll climbs to 118 in Germany, Belgium as devastating storms ravage Europe]( By [Michelle Fitzpatrick and Deborah Cole]( [Around 15,000 members of German emergency services, police and army on the ground in worst-hit areas; in battered Ahrweiler district, around 1,300 people unaccounted for]( [Intense heatwave to hit Israel over weekend, peaking on Sunday’s Tisha B’Av fast]( By [TOI staff]( Profile [Impact of mathematician who overcame Nazis, sexism still felt 100 years later]( By [Tamar Lichter Blanks]( [Colleague compared Emmy Noether’s premature 1935 death to ‘echo of a thunderclap’ but her contributions to the field through her paper on ring theory continue to reverberate]( [Following Hariri departure, US says Lebanese leaders ‘squandered’ last 9 months]( By [Agencies]( [Secretary of State Blinken calls resignation by PM-designate ‘disappointing,’ raps political class over failure to provide citizens with basic services as economy is in freefall]( [Lebanon PM-designate Saad Hariri steps down after months of deadlock]( By [Sarah El Deeb]( [IDF says drone crashed in Lebanon due to malfunction, no data leaked]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [NJ co-op owners sue board over refusal to allow Shabbat elevator]( By [Shira Hanau]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Shelling out / In 1954, Israel’s 1st PM apologized to salesman for not paying for eggs]( By [TOI staff]( [92 of Florida condo’s 97 confirmed fatalities identified, as recovery nears end]( By [AP]( [Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi named IDF’s next top lawyer, 2nd female major general]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Microsoft blocks Israeli hacker-for-hire company’s spyware]( By [Alan Suderman]( [Bennett meets with family of fallen IDF soldier held by Hamas]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu’s trial delayed once again, won’t resume until mid-September]( By [TOI staff]( [Renowned Dutch crime reporter dies days after being shot in Amsterdam]( By [Mike Corder]( [Non-clinical hospital staff suspend strike after 3 days]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel said delaying extradition case of wanted Mexican over nation’s UN votes]( By [TOI staff]( [Polish nationalists disrupt commemoration for Jewish pogrom victims]( By [Katarzyna Markusz]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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