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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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LGBT members surrounded by hundreds of Israeli police officers march on Jaffa street in Jerusalem on August 14, 2015, following the stabbing attack at the annual Jerusalem pride parade on July 30, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor says he’ll avoid pride parade to not offend religious

Nir Barkat accused of insensitivity to gay community in light of teen’s murder in parade last year; defends move by saying he supports other LGBT activities; police beef up security

Brother of pride parade killer held on fresh attack suspicions

MK: Knesset dropped transgender rights bill due to Haredi pressure

IDF mulls cutting ties with rabbi who called gays ‘deviants’

Marc Daniels sells yarmulkes outside Quicken Loans Arena amidst the 2016 Republican National Convention (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

'I asked him to sign my kippah, and he did'

Outside the Republican convention, Jews talk Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

While some Jewish activists converge on Cleveland to voice disgust with the Republican candidate, others want to cut a deal with him

Jewish Republicans wonder how to vouch for Trump when he won’t help out

Capping improbable nomination, Trump vows to ‘go all the way’ for GOP

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At its last Cleveland convention, the GOP nominated a friend of refugees – and Jews

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)

Knesset approves controversial law to remove lawmakers from office

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Legislation to allow 90 MKs to oust colleagues who support armed struggle or incite racial hatred passes 62-47; Netanyahu praises vote

Joint List party member MK Hanin Zoabi in the Knesset plenum on July 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

AnalysisIsrael’s right-wing laws: A threat to democracy or much ado about symbolism?

By Andrew Tobin

Donald Trump posing with his wife, Melania, after she delivered a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention, July 18, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images, via JTA)

Live updates (closed)

Trump staffer admits ‘mistake’ in Melania speech

By Marissa Newman

Meredith McIver says she offered her resignation, but Republican nominee rejected it; Democrats blame Trump for growing anti-Semitism

Mike Appel, New York, June 2016 (David Horovitz / Times of Israel)

Interview

Why Springsteen never made another album like ‘Born to Run,’ and other questions only Mike Appel can answer

By David Horovitz

The Boss largely stopped pushing music’s boundaries after his epic third album, which happened to be around the time he fell out, spectacularly, with his original manager. Coincidence?

I close my eyes and I see you smiling

Shlomi Rindenow, killed Sunday in an army accident, was the beloved little brother she never had

Melania Trump’s speech and Stargate

The plagiarized script and that anti-Hillary tweet with a Star of David have this disturbing common denominator

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The chaos theory of Halacha

Jewish law handles the whole host of unpredictable factors facing humanity — it was designed for people, not angels!

Leora Eisenberg

I am your tour group’s worst nightmare

A tell-all: there’s more to a teenager’s summer in Israel than clubs and bars

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York, April 22, 2016 (AFP/Bryan R. Smith)

‘The US cannot do a damn thing’ against us, Iran’s foreign minister scoffs

By AP and ToI Staff

As secret ‘add-on accord’ leaks, Zarif says Tehran got what it wanted from nuclear deal — an America impotent to intervene in its affairs

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) in Vienna, Austria on January 16, 2016 (AFP/ POOL / KEVIN LAMARQUE)

US denies existence of ‘secret document’ on Iran

By JTA and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Professor resigns over censorship of nude ‘justice minister’ painting

By Stuart Winer

Student’s painting of naked woman resembling Ayelet Shaked causes commotion at Shenkar art school

Illustrative: Smoke rises following an explosion in Syria's Quneitra province as Syrian rebels clash with Assad regime forces, seen from the Golan Heights in 2014. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)

Syria post near Golan border bombed, unclear if Israel involved

By Ilan Ben Zion

IDF declines to comment on report of jets hitting Assad government-held building near Quneitra; Hezbollah points finger at Nusra Front

Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold standing on Zion Square in Jerusalem, where he witnessed a deadly terror attack in 1975 (screen grab YouTube)

Dore Gold: The way it is now, peace talks won’t go very far

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry chief recalls witnessing 1975 terror attack in Jerusalem, whose perpetrator was recently honored by the PA

A Palestinian police member inspects the damage inside a burned-out house belonging to a key witness to an arson attack last year by Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian family, in the West Bank village of Duma, after fire broke out in the home in the early hours of March 20, 2016. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Year after Duma killings, Palestinians report fresh firebomb attack

Relative of Dawabshe family lightly hurt as home set ablaze in West Bank village; Palestinians blame Jewish terrorists, initial Israeli probe suggests local perps

A boy captured by Syrian rebels before being beheaded, in a video released June 19, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Video shows ‘Palestinian’ boy beheaded by US-backed Syrian rebels

By AFP and ToI Staff

Teenage boy accused of belonging to regime-supporting Al-Quds Brigades; Washington says it may stop funding group that captured him

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish seen during a signing for his new book in Amman, Jordan, February 23, 2008 (AP/Nader Daoud)

Broadcast on Palestinian poet Darwish puts Army Radio in crosshairs

Senior ministers slam public radio station over educational program that featured nationalist writer Mahmoud Darwish

Daniel Gurevich holding a bottle of wine he won for catching a Pokemon at the Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, July 2016. (Courtesy of Jewish News Petersburg)

Shul Smash

Russian synagogue with dark past invites Pokemon hunters

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Gamers invited to catch animated creatures in St. Petersburg ‘meeting place where fun is permissible’

Saudi men play with the Pokemon Go app on their mobile phones in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital on July 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Pokemon No!Saudi revives fatwa on ‘Zionism-promoting’ Pokemon

Mahin Khan was charged with terrorism-related crimes on July 19, 2015 in a federal court in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP)

Arizona terror suspect eyed attack on Tuscon JCC

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

FBI says Mahin Khan swore allegiance to Islamic State, told undercover agent plans to attack DMV, Tucson Jewish Community Center

Police officers walk along train tracks in Wuerzburg southern Germany on July 19, 2016 a day after a man attacked train passengers with an axe.
(AFP / DANIEL ROLAND)

Ax attack in Germany demands ‘early warning system,’ say Jewish leaders

By JTA and AFP

After IS-inspired assault in Wurzburg, head of Jewish community in Bavaria says cooperation from Muslim groups needed to root out Islamic extremism

'Liquid Seder Plate' alcoholic drinks from 'Tippling Through The Torah' blog. (Courtesy)

Torah study turns cocktail party as blogger pairs spirits with spiritual

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Linda Lingle served two terms as Hawaii's governor from 2002 - 2010, and is Hawaii's most-known Jewish politico. (Wikimedia commons)

A small island of Judaism in Hawaiian politics

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara speaking to the press at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 4, 2016, at the start of a trip to Africa. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Police probe said to check if Sara Netanyahu received gifts

Steven Spielberg speaking at the Harvard University commencement ceremony, May 26, 2016. (screenshot: YouTube)

From our partnerSteven Spielberg, director of Roald Dahl’s The BFG: ‘There’s no limit to anyone’s imagination’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on March 16, 2016. (AFP / ADEM ALTAN)

Erdogan returns to Turkish capital for first time since coup

By AFP

Moshe Katsav (left) leaving prison for his first home visit, May 2012. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav may win early prison release at hearing

VRPhysio headset (Courtesy)

VRPhysio uses virtual gaming to help pain in neck

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Workey team (Courtesy)

Israeli startups scramble for workers as skills fail

By Shoshanna Solomon

Australian Ambassador Dave Sharma, third from left, at opening of Landing Pad in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Aussies to storm Start-up Nation in search of innovation spark

By Shoshanna Solomon

Melania Trump, wife of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, addresses delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK)

Hebrew media reviewA deafening din of outcries

By Ilan Ben Zion

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