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What Matters Most On Monday, July 25, 2016

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, being interviewed at Quicken Loans Arena on July 20, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images for SiriusXM/AFP)

Democratic chief Wasserman Schultz quits amid Sanders email scandal

By AP

Florida congresswoman, seen as standard bearer for party’s Jews, to step down after convention following firestorm over hacked emails suggesting DNC backed Clinton

AnalysisAfter playing anti-Semitism card against Trump, Dem leader sunk by Sanders emails

AnalysisWasserman Schultz’s rise and fall

By Anne Flaherty

Kaine, accepting VP slot, cites Holocaust survivor who died in shooting

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at La Escuelita School in Oakland, California, Friday, May 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Analysis

Democratic convention could feature discord on Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

In Philadelphia, Democrats to struggle with party email scandal, differences on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the need to project party unity

CNN poll shows Trump leapfrogging Clinton by 5 points

Clinton campaign says Russia hacked emails to boost Trump

By AFP and ToI Staff

Thousands of pro-Sanders marchers hit Philadelphia streets

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MEGAN TRIMBLE

Cynthia McKinney, seen in a photo from 2008, was the Green Party’s presidential candidate that year. (Wikimedia Commons)

Ex-congresswoman claims Israel behind European massacres

Cynthia McKinney links to video ‘proving’ Israel responsible for Nice, Munich attacks because German photographer supposedly at both scenes is married to former MK

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump-backing ex-general retweets anti-Semitic comment

A Bernie Sanders supporter at a protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25, 2016. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Sanders calls to back Clinton as protesters mass outside convention

By Joshua Davidovich

Pro-Bernie demonstrators march across bridge into Philadelphia; FBI to probe Democrat email leak as party chair continues to face pressure; Israeli jets bomb Syria over errant mortar fire

The town of Manali Anoop Pandit, in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh , India. (CC-BY-SA - Anoop Pandit/Wikimedia)

Israeli woman, 25, says she was gang-raped in northern India

By Stuart Winer

Victim reports she caught an early-morning ride in a vehicle carrying six men, two of whom assaulted her

Spiritual leader Alex Armah (center) with community members at shacharit (morning) service at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, House of Israel Jewish Community. New Adiembra, Ghana. February 2014. (Courtesy Jono David)

Long isolated, Africa’s Jewish ‘islands’ bridged by photographer’s lens

By Melanie Lidman

Jono David, 50, completes a 4-year project capturing emerging African Jewish communities, now being shown at Tel Aviv’s Beit Hatfutsot Museum

Daniel Gordis, Trump is NOT Hitler

Taking on the demonizing comparison: You don’t have to like The Donald, but come ON! (Join the ReplyAll thread)

Shtisel: The good, the beard and the ugly

The acclaimed TV show depicts an ersatz Haredi world, missing the intense power and passion of religious Judaism

The Islamic elephant in the room

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks glosses over Islam’s inherent violence and also whitewashes Judaism’s violent dimension

Doomed to succeed

On Dennis Ross’ analysis of why a two-state solution always fails and isn’t the key to peace in the Mideast anyway

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi listens to US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo on May 18, 2016. (Amr Nabil/Pool/AFP)

Assassination plot reported against Egypt’s President Sissi

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Cairo strongman skips trip to Arab League summit in Mauritania amid unconfirmed reports of plan to kill him there

The scene of a mass shooting at the Club Blu nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, July 25, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

At least 2 killed in Florida nightclub mass shooting

By AFP and ToI Staff

14 people injured when gunman opens fire at Club Blu in Fort Myers, 6 weeks after deadly attack on Orlando dance hall

Police officers leave a former hotel where a Syrian man lived before the explosion in Ansbach, Germany, Monday, July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

German bomber was due to be deported to Bulgaria

By TOMISLAV SKARO and Kirsten Grieshaber

Syrian who killed himself and injured 15 was an asylum-seeker whose refugee request was rejected; Bavarian minister says it’s very likely to have been Islamist suicide attack

In this image taken from video, fire trucks and ambulances stand in the city center of Ansbach near Nuremberg, southern Germany, Monday morning, July 25, 2016, after a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 12 others. (News5 via AP)

Germany: Ansbach bar bomber was a Syrian denied asylum

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: A Haredi school in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, August 27, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministers back full state funding for schools that don’t teach math

By Tamar Pileggi

Panel okays law repealing requirement that ultra-Orthodox institutions teach core curriculum subjects as precondition for government subsidies

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. (Jessica Kourkounis, Jogn Sommers II/AFP)

Trump vs. Clinton: Is a 2017 ‘peaceful transfer’ possible?

Whoever wins the White House may face broad swaths of America questioning the very legitimacy of their election

Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who killed a Palestinian stabber in Hebron, is seen outside a military court in Jaffa on July 24, 2016 (Flash90)

At tense cross-exam, Hebron soldier says his superiors lied

By Raoul Wootliff

Elor Azaria, who killed an incapacitated stabber, tells court his commanders deliberately left information out of their testimonies

Ahmed Dawabsha, the sole survivor of a West Bank arson attack in Duma village, is carried by his grandfather Hussein at the Tel HaShomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel on Friday, July 22, 2016 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Arab group demands probe into Israeli hate messages on FB

Organization urges police crackdown after online users threaten 6-year-old Palestinian firebombing victim Ahmed Dawabsha

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reads a newspaper in the Knesset. Jan 06, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)

Analysis

How Netanyahu missed an opportunity to stick it to his media rival

By Marissa Newman

A bill by a former journalist would have targeted the Yedioth Ahronoth outlet for its ‘native advertising,’ but in the contest between transparency, revenge, and politics, politics won out

A film crew preparing to record at the former concentration camp known as the Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 12, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Lithuanian concentration camp is now a wedding venue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of a demonstration disabled people demanding better rights, Jerusalem, October 25, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Knesset advances affirmative action for disabled in workplace

By Stuart Winer

Bill would require public bodies with over 100 employees to boost ratio of of employees with disabilities to 5%

Illustrative: A school classroom. (Image via Shutterstock)

Tel Aviv principal, 5 teachers suspected of abusing dozens of kids

By Stuart Winer

One detainee at school arrested for serious sexual assaults against children aged 6-7, others for striking pupils

Gideon Grossman wants to use his drumming skills to raise money for research into a cure for Crohn’s disease, a condition he has had for years. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

This Jewish drummer, 24, is busking up the California coast to stomp out Crohn’s disease

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

Satellite dishes and receivers before being destroyed during a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran, July 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / TASNIM NEWS / HOSSEIN ZOHREVAND)

Iran destroys 100,000 satellite dishes in crackdown

By AFP

FST Biometric's identification technology (Courtesy)

Biometric startup sees surge in demand as security woes weigh

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jerusalem-based Zore has created a gun locking technology (Courtesy

Jerusalem-based Zore strives to make guns safer

By Shoshanna Solomon

This Sept. 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house , front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson,file)

Hitler’s hometown loathes link, but not his house

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, February 17, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Holy dutiesSports minister to skip Rio opening event due to Shabbat

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu, Kahlon reach compromise on public broadcast reform

By Raoul Wootliff

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during the C40 cities awards ceremony in Paris, France. Dec. 3, 2015, (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Bloomberg to endorse Clinton, speak at Democratic convention

By Agencies and ToI Staff

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sits inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, July 30, 2013. (AP/Sunshine Press Productions, File)

WikiLeaks posts, removes anti-Semitic tweets

By JTA

Gauzy's CEO and founder Eyal Peso (Courtesy)

Israel’s Gauzy to join Mercedez-Benz accelerator

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sgt. Elor Azaria, the IDF soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, seen at the military court in Jaffa, July 24, 2016. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSympathy for the devil?

By Joshua Davidovich

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