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What Matters Most On Monday, July 18, 2016

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Illustrative photo of an armed Turkish police officer at Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara on July 17, 2016. (ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP)

Over 16,000 purged in Turkey as West warns Ankara over crackdown

By AFP

Some 7,500 people have been arrested and another 9,000 fired after failed putsch; US and EU urge Ankara to respect rule of law

EU official: Turkey prepared arrest lists before failed coup

By AFP and ToI Staff

Erdogan said to have been target of assassination attempt during failed coup

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hizmet: The Turkish global network accused of launching a coup

By Raziye AKKOC

Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

Live updates (closed)

AP: Secret document lifts Iran nuke constraints

Republican National Convention gets underway in Cleveland; Turkey ex-air force chief in court, denies planning coup

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd at a campaign rally March 7, 2016, in Concord, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP)

Several prominent Republican Jews have jumped ship

GOP convention promises delegate drama, Israel dissonance, and guns

By Eric Cortellessa

As Donald Trump’s improbable nomination becomes official in Cleveland, there’s plenty of reason to expect the unexpected

Cleveland’s GOP Jews close to the action, but far from united on Trump

By Chad Weisman

Trump ready to complete improbable rise at GOP convention

By Steve Peoples

GOP convention apologizes to Sheldon Adelson for funding appeal

By JTA

A Facebook ad for an Israel-based binary options firm posted April 19, 2016 (Screenshot)

Analysis

13 sickening truths about Israel’s huge binary options fraud

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Far too slowly, Israel is waking up to the massive theft being perpetrated worldwide by a criminal industry shamefully allowed to fester here. It’s been snowballing for a decade. Every day, it ruins more lives

A man sits next to a heart-shaped sign reading "Stop the massacre...Our children massacred for a war...Mr. President?" on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on July 17, 2016.(AFP PHOTO / Valery HACHE)

French Jewish woman hurt in Nice attack dies of injuries

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Raymonde Mamane, 77, remembered as a ‘wonderful woman, dedicated to her family’; sister Clara Bensimon still critical

Nice attacker was recruited by Islamic State, his uncle says

By AP

Police tell of showdown with Nice truck killer

By AFP

Nice truck attacker visited site twice before attack

Moshe Fuksman Shal

A historian distorts Begin’s legacy

Before you knock the Israeli leader as anti-peace, take a good long look at that agreement he signed with Egypt

A decade on, ready and filled with dread

The CEO of northern Israel’s trauma hospital sees a looming threat that dwarfs the destruction wrought by Lebanon Two

Want to run away and join the circus?

Trapezes, juggling, and creative physicality capture the hearts of those who sign on for this radically different life

Tolerance for dissent is an essential condition for preventing democracy’s all too easy slide into dictatorship

Staff Sgt. Hussam Tafesh,who was killed on July 17, 2016, when a grenade he was holding apparently discharged accidentally at an IDF base on the Golan Heights (via Facebook)

Hundreds attend funeral for Druze soldier killed by grenade

By Stuart Winer

US-born Shlomo Rindenow, second victim in the accidental blast, to be buried later in the day

Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow (courtesy)

‘All he wanted to do was help,’ says brother of US-born soldier killed in Golan blast

By Ilan Ben Zion

Illustrative. IDF soldiers at the Al-Aroub intersection near Hebron, July 18, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

2 soldiers stabbed, lightly hurt near Hebron

Attacker shot in attack on highway north of Hebron; victims receiving medical treatment

An illustrative photo of a firefighter extinguishing a fire in a field near the Gaza Strip that was sparked by a flaming object flown from the Palestinian enclave, on June 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF fails 3 times to bring down drone over Golan

By Ilan Ben Zion

Apparent air-to-air strike and two Patriot missiles couldn’t take out UAV that flew into Israeli airspace from Syria

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein speaking at the 'Zion and Jerusalem' convention, July 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Bennett chides rabbi who called gay people ‘deviants’

Yigal Levinstein under fire from activists, rabbis and former students over speech that said LGBT people ‘lost the normalcy of life’

President Reuven Rivlin and his wife meet with members of Shira Banki's family and leaders of the Jerusalem LGBT community on July 17, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Ahead of Jerusalem pride parade, Rivlin urges end to anti-LGBT incitement

By ToI Staff and JTA

A Russian air defense missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, August 27, 2013. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Iran gets first missile shipment for S-300 system

Projectiles indicate Russia is selling a more advanced model to Tehran, Iranian reports say

Coptic Christians walk outside St. Markos Church in Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt, January 2015. (AP Photo/Roger Anis)

Muslim mob stabs Christian to death in Egypt over feud

By AP

Police arrest 4 people after the families of 2 priests are attacked with knives and batons

Illustrative: Peter Beinart, left, marching with other activists from the Center for Jewish Nonviolence through the West Bank city of Hebron, July 16, 2016. On the right is the movement’s CEO, Ilana Sumka. (Andrew Tobin)

Peter Beinart joins US Jews for civil rights-style protest in West Bank

By Andrew Tobin

Activists stage sit-in, refuse military order to leave Palestinian property in Hebron; Israeli police detain 6

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Hizme Checkpoint, July 17, 2016, talking to officials about improving conditions at West Bank Crossings into Jerusalem. (Courtesy: Facebook)

Liberman visits West Bank crossings, vows to make improvements

An IDF ambulance that was attacked by Druze Israeli residents in the Golan Heights as it ferried Syrian war casualties into Israel for medical treatment, June 22, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Two Israeli Druze plead guilty in killing of wounded Syrian fighter

By Cliff Churgin

Golan Heights residents attacked ambulance bringing injured fighters into Israel for medical care

Irina Bokova speaks with reporters in New York on April 12, 2016. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

UNESCO head: Jerusalem is sacred to all three monotheistic faiths

Vote on resolution that plays down Jewish connection to Jerusalem postponed until October due to failed coup in Turkey

Samsung's Young Sohn speaks at Samsung Innovation Summit in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Samsung sees ramping up of Israeli investments

By Shoshanna Solomon

South Korean giant’s top strategist Young Sohn lays out the firm’s tech vision to a packed audience in Tel Aviv

An Indian guard stands beside the Assembly Building, designed by Le Corbusier, in the Indian city of Chandigarh. UNESCO on July 17, 2016 listed Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's works -- including the Indian city of Chandigarh which he planned in the 1950s -- among its World Heritage Sites. (AFP PHOTO / NARINDER NANU)

The dark secrets of the man who opened architecture to the light

By Sandra Laffont and Fiachra GIBBONS

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Actor Alden Ehrenreich arrives at the premiere of Universal Pictures' "Hail, Caesar!" at Regency Village Theatre on February 1, 2016 in Westwood, California. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)

Hollywood breakAlden Ehrenreich introduced as the new Han Solo

By JTA

Goel Ratzon, a polygamist cult leader, attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 29, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme court upholds polygamous cult leader’s 30-year term

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: An IDF soldier holding a weapon. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Israeli Arab held for attempt to steal soldier’s weapon

Joint List party member Hanin Zoabi is removed by Knesset security from the plenum session after refusing to leave the podium, February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bill to remove lawmakers from office cleared for final votes

By Marissa Newman

A Lebanese gunman during the funeral procession of Hamad al-Moqdad, one of the Lebanese victims of a car bomb attack that killed dozens in a Beirut stronghold of terror group Hezbollah on August 16, 2013.(AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO )

Silver bulletLebanon’s celebratory gunshots come under fire

By Layal Abou Rahal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by former chief of staff Ari Harow, left, and former parliamentary adviser Perach Lerner, right, as he arrives at a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli parliament, November 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-Netanyahu chief of staff grilled for second time on fraud suspicions

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves his home in London on July 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS)

Boris's bumpy startBritish FM makes emergency landing en route to Brussels

By AFP

Israeli soldiers evacuate a wounded soldier following a grenade explosion near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 17, 2016. (AFP / JALAA MAREY)

Hebrew media reviewThe fault in our arms

By Joshua Davidovich

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