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What Matters Most On Monday, August 3, 2015

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Yishai Schlissel attacking people with a knife during a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem Thursday, July 30, 2015 and inset Shira Banki in a picture dated November 2013 taken from her Facebook page. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner and Facebook)

16-year-old girl stabbed at Pride Parade dies of wounds

By Adiv Sterman and Tamar Pileggi

Shira Banki, one of six people hurt in Thursday attack on Jerusalem march, succumbs to injuries, hospital says

Israelis take part at a vigil in remembrance of Shira Banki at Zion Square in Jerusalem on August 2, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds hold vigils for victim of pride parade attack

Friends of Shira Banki mourning at the Leyada school in Jerusalem on August 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Friends and family mourn ‘precious flower’ killed at gay pride march

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinians carry the body of one-and-a-half year old Ali Dawabsha during his funeral in Duma village near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, July 31, 2015. The infant was burned to death in an apparent 'price tag' attack by Jewish terrorists. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Analysis

How Israel handcuffed itself in the fight against Jewish terror

By Judah Ari Gross

Preferring not to acknowledge the extent of the Jewish extremist threat, authorities did not empower investigators to use all the tools they employ to thwart Palestinian terror. After the killing of Ali Dawabsha, that’s beginning to change

Cabinet okays jailing Israelis without charge in crackdown on Jewish terror

Palestinians file ICC report over deadly Duma firebombing

By Elhanan Miller and Marissa Newman

IDF soldier said to have pointed gun at senior PA official

By Adiv Sterman

An Israeli woman enters the burnt home of the Dawabsha family in Duma, August 2, 2015, following a terror attack the week before. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

In a charred Palestinian home, sorrow and deja vu for Jewish peace activists

By Elhanan Miller

Hope is in short supply as Israelis come to Duma to offer apologies and take a moral stand over the violent death of baby Ali Saad Dawabsha

A firebomb hurled into the heart of a Palestinian village

By Avi Issacharoff

Settlers gather for interfaith vigil, but find few Palestinian takers

By Melanie Lidman

After Palestinian baby’s death, Israelis say condemnation not enough

Meir Ettinger, wearing a white skullcap, is escorted by IDF soldiers out of the West Bank village of Qusra, January 7, 2014. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

Live updates (closed)

Police hunting Jerusalem firebomb perpetrators

Two hurt when car is hit by Molotov cocktail near Beit Hanina; We will defend Israel against Iran attack — US official

The house is burning

Only an all-out reassessment will stem Israel’s rising bigotry and get the country back on solid moral ground

Rachael Risby-Raz

Shards of light

What can help balance out the heavy weight of murdered innocents? Random acts of kindness for strangers

Emily B. Landau

Roll out the ex-security chiefs

The claim that Israel’s defense establishment backs the Iran nuclear deal is neither credible nor persuasive

The us-them politics of baby-burning and teen-stabbing

Left and Right have taken terrible leaps of illogic in turning horrific murders into partisan issues

File: Members of Israel's Maccabi team at Berlin's so-called 'Maifeld,' where the Nazis once held mass rallies, on July 28, 2015. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)

Reporter's notebook

79 years after Nazi Olympics, Jewish athletes find Berlin welcoming, not entirely safe

By Ilan Ben Zion

Illustrative: Israel Nature and Parks Authority workers try to extinguish a brush fire near Moshav Even Sapir, just outside of Jerusalem, on August 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem-area fire Sunday was arson

300 dunams of woodland burned; crews managed to contain the fire before it spread to residential areas

Illustrative photo of Israeli security forces at the site of a terror attack at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank. April 30, 2013. (Photo credit: Flash90.)

Palestinian man shot by IDF south of Nablus

By Ilan Ben Zion

Man reportedly tried to flee security inspection, lightly injured; in separate incident, police arrest Palestinian with ax

The Hadera coast line with the largely coal-fired Orot Rabin power plant, April 16, 2013. (Flash90)

In bid to keep cool, Israelis break power use record

With no sign of heatwave subsiding and AC on full blast nationwide, electric company says country was gobbling up 12,800 megawatts Monday at 2:09 p.m.

File photo: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, December 5, 2014 (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Democrats say Iran deal all but secure in Congress

Leaders confident they can deny opponents of nuclear accord a veto-proof two-thirds majority in both chambers

Ahmed Shaheed, Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Iran at the launch of Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report in London, 15 April 2013. (Wikimedia/OGL/UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

From the web

Iran uses fabricated WikiLeaks cable to smear UN rights rapporteur

By Saeed Kamali Dehghan

State-run agencies and semi-official websites run articles in effort to discredit Ahmed Shaheed, The Guardian reports

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Jerusalem District Court after the court agreed to postpone his imprisonment until after an October appeal, July 8, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Prisons Service prepares VIP wing for Olmert, others

Ma’asiyahu Prison complex to offer safe setting for high-level convicts, including former mayors, security agents

Illustrative: A Jewish counter-protestor confronts demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian rally in London, July 2015. (Courtesy)

Pro-Israel ‘lone warrior’ stares down weekly anti-Israel protests in London

By Jenni Frazer

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Republican presidential candidate, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, July 18, 2015. (AP/Nati Harnik)

Trump fires Jewish aide after racially charged Facebook posts

By ToI Staff and AP

In this Dec. 23, 1965, file photo, Walt Disney poses for a photo with an Irish setter. Talking to TV critics Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, about PBS' "American Experience" September documentary on Disney, composer Richard Sherman (Disney's "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book") dismissed lingering criticism of Disney. Disney was a complex figure, both celebrated and condemned, but allegations that he was a rabid anti-Semite are unproven, Disney experts said. (AP Photo, File)

Walt Disney experts rebut dogged anti-Semitic allegations

By AP

Israelis take part at a memorial ceremony in memory of Shira Banki at Zion Square in Jerusalem on August 2, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewA song for Shira Banki

By Marissa Newman

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