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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 26, 2016

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84-year-old French priest Jacques Hamel was murdered in an apparent Islamic State terror attack on his church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in Normandy on July 26, 2016 (Photo from Twitter)

Priest killed by knife-wielding assailants in French church

By ToI Staff and Agencies

2 men shot dead by police after taking several hostages in Normandy region, slitting throat of 84-year-old pastor; prosecutor treating incident as terror; second victim fighting for life

Church attackers claimed Islamic State link, France confirms

By AFP and ToI Staff

Islamic State releases video of German bomber

By Agencies and ToI Staff

2 more arrested over Nice truck massacre

By AFP

First lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ( Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images/AFP)

High-powered Democrats bid to dispel disunity as convention kicks off

By AP

Looking to push aside bitter infighting, Sanders, Warren and Michelle Obama in Philadelphia all call for party to rally around Clinton

Sanders: Clinton will be outstanding president, I’m proud to stand with her

By AFP

Michelle Obama: Clinton is only one I trust with presidency

By Julie Pace and Ken Thomas

Clinton scrambles to quiet Democratic firestorm

By Julie Pace and Ken Thomas

Israel's only Egyptian mummy goes on display at the Israel Museum on July 25, 2016. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Israel’s only mummy gets afterlife spotlight at Israel Museum

By Ilan Ben Zion

88 years after arriving from Alexandria, 2,200-year-old remains of Egyptian priest go on display in Jerusalem after thoroughly modern examination

French police officers and firemen arrive at the scene of a hostage-taking at a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, northern France, on July 26, 2016 that left the priest dead. (AFP PHOTO/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Church attacker was 19-year-old on furlough

French outlet identifies man by initials ‘AK’; says he became radicalized after 2015 attacks, twice tried to reach Syria

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone-laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23, 2012. AP/Mohammed Salem.

Analysis

As Qatar solves Gaza’s wages crisis, could Hamas have Liberman to thank?

By Avi Issacharoff

In early 2014, Israel’s then-FM prevented Doha from paying the salaries of 40,000 Palestinians in the Strip and slammed a UN official who tried to enable the transfer. Times have changed

Netanyahu not against Gaza port, if Israel has oversight

Bennett says PM in denial over Gaza tunnel preparations

Arab summit slams terror waged in name of Islam

By AFP

Two Bedouin children were stopped by police on Highway 60 on July 25, 2016 (Israel Police)

Born to rideBorn to ride

Israeli tots caught taking highway joyride on toy ATV

Tiny Bedouin cousins pulled over after zooming down Route 60 in southern Israel; father of one held for questioning

Love and justice at the Rabin Museum

In this era of so much zealous violence, prevail upon your relationships instead, as the best way to push for fairness

Are open primaries the answer?

The pros and cons of a system that would let every interested citizen take part in choosing party leadership

Claudia Kreiman

Do cry for me Argentina

Honor her mother and the other victims of Buenos Aires’ Jewish center 1994 bombing by living with hope and seeking justice

Rep. Hank Johnson speaks at Georgia Piedmont Technical College in Clarkston, GA, in February 2016. (Courtesy)

Georgia Democrat compares Israeli settlers to burrowing termites

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Rep. Hank Johnson apologizes for ‘poor choice of words’ after ADL pans his ‘offensive, unhelpful’ comments

Human cancer cells with nuclei (specifically the DNA) stained blue. The central and right-most cell are in interphase, so the entire nuclei are labeled. The cell on the left is going through mitosis and its DNA has condensed. (TenOfAllTrades/Wikipedia)

Researchers find way to spot tumor cells invading the brain

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv University study reveals early warning signal for brain micrometastases before they become malignant growths

Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on video to the Arab citizens of Israel, July 25, 2016. (screen capture: Facebook)

Netanyahu calls on Israel’s Arabs to ‘thrive in droves’

In online video, PM disavows controversial Election Day message; Arab MK rejects ‘hypocritical display’

Joint (Arab) List Ayman Odeh releases a video message on his Facebook page on July 26, 2016 (screen capture: Facebook)

Top Arab MK rebuffs Netanyahu: We’ve succeeded, no thanks to you

In video response to Netanyahu’s clip, Joint (Arab) List leader demands equal rights, says community doesn’t want to live in ‘racist, occupying’ country

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a press conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016 (AP/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinians gear up to sue the UK – over 1917 Balfour Declaration

By ToI Staff and AFP

PA top diplomat tells Arab League that Britain is responsible for all ‘Israeli crimes’ committed since the end of the mandate in 1948

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) attends a session of the State Control Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem. on July 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu says he’ll quit soon… as foreign minister

By Raphael Ahren

Questioned by Knesset panel, PM defends PR performance and battle against boycotts, says Israel making new allies worldwide, but acknowledges need for full-time top diplomat

Detail from the May/June 2016 Arabic cover of Jordan's My.Kali magazine, featuring ‪‎Jordanian‬ martial arts fighter Yara Kakish

Jordan gets its first Arabic LGBT-focused online magazine

After 8 years of publishing in English, founder says gay Middle Easterners asked for content in their native tongue

MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) speaks during the Interior Affairs Committee meeting on a law proposal for changing regulations for ritual baths, on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset approves law to bar non-Orthodox from ritual baths

By Marissa Newman

Legislation approved 41-35 after lengthy debate; Jewish Agency slams move that ‘circumvents’ High Court

Hundreds of Israeli Christians hold banners in a rally against what they said was state discrimination in funding their schools, at the foot of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on September 1, 2015 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Christian schools still unable to access much-needed grant money

Conditions for accessing NIS 50 million too strict, official says; government says criteria were known in advance

Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan, Iran's ground forces commander (YouTube screenshot)

Iran general: Our missile program deters US military strike

‘Roaring of our missiles’ keeps DC and its ‘proxy mercenaries’ from attacking the Islamic republic, says Iranian commander

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses the Knesset plenum on July 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman vows to improve conditions at West Bank crossings

By Marissa Newman

At Knesset Q&A, defense minister tells lawmakers he will be ‘flexible’ on diplomacy, but uncompromising on security

More Headlines

Pear's India Hackathon 22-24 July 2016 (Courtesy Sára Salamon Photography)

Dance, curries spice up drive for India health boost

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Bill reversing Haredi core curriculum reform leaps first Knesset hurdle

By Marissa Newman

People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto at a monument on the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

March in Warsaw commemorates ghetto doctors, nurses

By JTA

This photo illustration taken in Tokyo on July 13, 2016 shows the Pokemon official site through a Japanese internet website announcing the latest information for "Pokémon GO".(AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI )

Maybe don't catch em allTeen collapses while fishing for Pokemon in sea

An unrecognized Bedouin village in the northern Negev (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

New housing announced for Bedouin in Negev

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' during a match on January 26, 2013. (Flash90)

Dozens of nationalist soccer fans held in police crackdown

Bayzle Morgan (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Court face offVegas judge: Cover swastika tattoos for trial

By AP

From left: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Jonah Lehrer, Jessi Klein (Jesse Jiryu Davis/Leah Lehrer/Robyn Von Swank/via JTA)

7 books to make your summer more summery — and Jewy, too

By Victor Wishna

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

Hebrew media reviewOn the ropes

By Ilan Ben Zion

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