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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 28, 2016

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Brig. Gen. Michael Edelstein, Gaza Division commander, inside a terror tunnel that leads from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in November 2013 (Times of Israel/Mitch Ginsburg/File)

Israel: Hamas digs 6 miles of tunnels each month

Unnamed officials say there is ‘no perfect solution’ to threat posed by subterranean cross-border network

Ya’alon: Netanyahu was prepared to cede Jordan Valley

By Ilan Ben Zion

Sanders campaign chair: Bernie wants ‘fresh thinking’ on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Eric Cortellessa

US slams ‘provocative and counterproductive’ settlement building

By Eric Cortellessa

In this April 6, 2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Analysis

Clinton prepares to sell herself in biggest political moment

Democratic nominee will seek to use her convention speech Thursday night to connect with voters, paint sharp contrast with Trump

Obama implores America to vote for Hillary Clinton: ‘Carry her like you carried me’

Democratic convention’s second night was all about the (Jewish) women

AnalysisAt DNC, rabbis (and a 14-year-old) draw from scripture to rebuke Trump

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the 95th Representative Assembly of the National Education Association July 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Clinton personally ensured pro-Israel platform, says adviser

By JTA

In talk to Jewish group at Democratic convention, Wendy Sherman reveals ‘very direct instructions’ from party nominee

Making a pointBill Clinton sports Hebrew ‘Hillary’ pin

By Stuart Winer

Clinton campaign condemns burning of Israeli flag

By JTA and ToI Staff

Tim Kaine among 36 senators seeking $320m more for Israeli missile defense

By JTA and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on February 21, 2016 in Amman, Jordan. (US State Department)

Live updates (closed)

Kerry, Abbas to meet Saturday in Paris on two-state solution

Watchdog to PM: Release Gaza war report or I’ll call for state probe; US warns Turkey crackdown could harm fight against IS

Israeli soldiers checking Palestinian IDs at the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, July 1, 2016. (Flash90)

Analysis

Israel has had success against ‘lone wolf’ terrorists — here’s how

By Andrew Tobin

A combination of tech-savvy data-crunching, targeted pressure and a large measure of restraint has helped dampen Palestinian support for escalation

French police identified 19-year-old Adel Kermiche as one of the assailants who stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray and murdered an elderly priest on July 26, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

French church attackers pledged allegiance to IS in video

By Fran Blandy and Gina DOGGETT

A pro-Israel rally in Johannesburg, at the time of the last conflict with Gaza, in August 2014 (Ilan Ossendryver)

In troubled post-Mandela South Africa, a fight or flight dilemma for the 70,000 Jews

By Geoff Sifrin

Next week’s local government elections amount to a referendum on ANC rule. With joblessness, inequality and violence all on the rise, many in the Jewish community are considering their future

Scottish Jews feeling more uncomfortable, less safe

By JTA

How a Muslim also became a Zionist

She discovered by accident that Israel was not the Evil Oppressor she’d heard so much about — now she builds bridges

David M. Elcott

Bring the Falashmura home!

The Israeli government’s cancelation of plans to bring over the last Ethiopian Jews is cruel and tinged with racism

Poland closes a door to survivors

A Warsaw court ruling that permits no restitution to those who lost their homes leaves a historic debt unpaid

Mr. Prime Minister, words aren’t enough

Netanyahu’s video message to Arab citizens contrasts sharply with his record of eroding democratic freedoms

Pope Francis greets the faithful in his popemobile as he arrives at the Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, July 28, 2016. (AFP/Wojtek Radwanski)

With Auschwitz visit, pope faces complex Polish-Jewish story

By Vanessa Gera

Francis to meet with Jews and Poles who survived Nazi concentration camp

Pope Francis takes a fall during a mass at the Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland on July 28, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Fall from His Grace

Pope trips, falls during Poland visit

Pontiff unharmed, goes on to deliver sermon to adoring crowds celebrating the church’s World Youth Day

Saul Dreier, right, and Reuwen 'Ruby' Sosnowicz, left, from the Holocaust Survivors Band during a rehearsal before a concert in Warsaw, Poland, July 26, 2016. (AFP/PAP/ JAKUB KAMINSKI)

Holocaust Survivor Band returns home to Poland, pays musical tribute to those who died

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Dani Dayan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, on July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli settler-turned-diplomat takes up top New York next week

By Josef Federman

Incoming consul general Dani Dayan will become the face of Israel to largest Jewish community outside Jewish state

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd as he takes part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas's founding, in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas ready to pounce on weak Fatah in local elections, experts say

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Khartoum's airport, July 19, 2016. (AFP/Ashraf Shazly)

Fatah, Hamas to hold talks in renewed bid to bury hatchet

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Abbas also accuses US of stalling search for solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on during the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

Trump doesn’t rule out possible pre-election Israel trip

By JTA

Nominee says he backs Jewish state ‘100%’ but hasn’t set schedule yet, claims Obama ‘single worst thing’ to happened to Israel

Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., speaks Tuesday, July 26 at a J Street panel held near the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. At left is journalist Peter Beinart, and behind him pollster Jim Gerstein. (JTA)

PM’s speech to Congress backfired, NY congresswoman tells J Street panel

Netanyahu’s DC bid to block Iran deal was unseemly, Yvette Clarke says at Democratic convention event. ‘We were asked to choose for the leader of another nation’

A Turkish man reads a newspaper to check the results of elections in Diyarbakir on June 8, 2015. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)

Turkey shutters dozens of news outlets in media crackdown

By ToI Staff and AP

1,000 officers, including over 100 generals and admirals, dismissed from military in post-coup purge

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians inspect damages after twin bombings struck Kurdish town of Qamishli, Syria, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (SANA via AP)

Islamic State claims Syria bombings that killed 44

Jihadist-run news outlet says IS behind powerful twin explosions that struck Kurdish town near Turkish border

A French flag flying at half-mast at an empty beach on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice a day after a terrorist attack in the French city killed 84, July 15, 2016. (David Ramos/Getty Images)

For Jews of Nice, terrorist attack came as no surprise

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Venice Jewish Ghetto (YouTube screenshot)

How I do honor thee!Merchant of Venice opens in city’s historic ghetto

By JTA

Gal Gadot's Twitter page. (Times of Israel)

Under fire‘Wonder Woman’ attacked as ‘Zionist’ on Twitter

By JTA

Conservative author Ann Coulter addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Ann Coulter: Did Clinton have Sanders supporters ‘gassed’?

By JTA

Egyptian religious affairs official Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa. (screen capture: YouTube/Al Nahar TV)

Egypt’s scholars reject government-written sermons

By AP

Illustrative photo of a tennis net. (CC BY 2.0 DaveMontPhotography/Flikr)

Belgian tennis player to Jewish opponent: ‘You should have been gassed’

By JTA

Beitar Jerusalem fans protest the decision to sign two Chechen Muslims players Zaur Sadayev and Gabriel Kadiev, February 1, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police make more arrests in Jerusalem soccer hooligan crackdown

By Raoul Wootliff

Amar’e Stoudemire playing for the New York Knicks in a game against the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center in Houston, Nov. 24, 2014. (Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

Goodbye to Amar’e Stoudemire, the NBA’s Jewish star

By JTA

Freightos' online marketplace for international freight (Courtesy

Freightos aims to make shipping easier, cheaper

By Shoshanna Solomon

Noam Banai, the latest of the Banai musical dynasty to join the family business. (Courtesy Noam Banai)

A Musical DynastyAnother Banai emerges from famed musical family

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

Israel’s Matific raises $45m to expand math games

By Shoshanna Solomon

An image of Hamas terrorist Muhammad Fakih, who shot dead Rabbi Miki Mark and was killed by Israeli troops on July 27, 2016 (Hamas's Twitter account)

Hebrew media reviewDespite closure, the pain remains

By Adiv Sterman

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