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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 30, 2016

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Pope Francis prays in front of a memorial at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, July 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP)

After Auschwitz trip, pope says ‘same thing happening’ today in many places

By JTA

Human cruelty didn’t end with the Holocaust, Francis says after meeting survivors of Nazi death camp, Poles who rescued Jews

Pope Francis meets with camp survivors in the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano /Pool Photo via AP)

Auschwitz survivors tell pope tales from the abyss

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Haim Saban interviewed by Channel 10 minutes before Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, July 28 2016. (Screen capture Channel 10)

Israeli-American mogul Haim Saban: Trump win would be ‘disastrous’ for Israel

Billionaire calls Republican candidate a ‘conman, liar, cheat and thief,’ says he gave Clinton campaign ‘eight-figure’ donation

Six Jewish moments from the DNC’s final night

Clinton, Trump take gloves off in White House slog

By Ivan Couronne and Jennie Matthew

AnalysisOn her big night, Hillary Clinton stresses Israel’s security, not quest for peace

Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)

Interview

Between ‘martyr’ and murderer: Abbas’s top cleric takes on a most emotive term

Mahmoud Habbash, the PA’s supreme sharia judge, defends honorific for Palestinian attackers, says Hamas ‘uses Islam,’ urges Israel away from religious war

Muslim worshippers walk out after the friday prayer at the Yahya Mosque, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, France, Friday, July 29, 2016 (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

After French priest’s slaying, Muslim cleric blasts extremists at joint prayer

By ALEX TURNBULL and Elaine Ganley

At interfaith event in Normandy, imam says jihadists are not real Muslims and ‘not part of civilization’

Belgian police arrest 2 suspected of plotting attack

By AFP

Security stepped up at Amsterdam airport over threat

By AFP

First charges filed over jihadist France church attack

By Sophie Deviller

The sculpture in Brender Park was created by contemporary artist Yaakov Agam. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

From British battles to Bauhaus, touring a century’s stunning Tel Aviv architecture

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

On a walk through 100 years of development in the White City, track Allenby’s arrival in 1917, visit Hill’s Hill, and see stilts, ‘sliks,’ turrets and portholes

A widow, a princess … Jerusalem

A new art exhibit illustrates the story of Jerusalem’s layers of progress and destruction, conquest and erasure

Beyond the lines

The YESHA Council of Judea & Samaria’s new foreign desk will work to win hearts and minds on the world stage

Palestinian diggers dump sand into a truck at the site of Al-Isra 2 housing project in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 20, 2016 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In financial plight, Hamas hands out former settlement lands

The cash-strapped group is hoping giveaway of Gaza plots will help appease civil servants owed millions of dollars in salaries

File: People gather around the rubble of a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on February 15, 2016, after the building was hit by suspected Russian air strikes. (Ghaith Omran/Al Maarra Today/AFP)

Syrian maternity hospital bombed, casualties reported

By AFP

Blast hits entrance to facility supported by Save the Children that delivers 700 babies monthly in Idlib province

Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah speaking in southern Beirut, November 3, 2014. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Nasrallah slams Saudis for ‘normalization with Israel for free’

Amid whispers of warming ties between Jerusalem and Riyadh, Hezbollah leader says Arabs nation have abandoned Palestinian cause

Hezbollah's preparations for the cross-border raid that sparked the 2006 Second Lebanon War, from a screenshot from a promo clip by the Lebanese al-Mayadeen station. (al-Mayadeen/YouTube)

Hezbollah to air ‘new footage’ on raid that sparked 2006 Lebanon war

Israeli Druze from the village of Majdal Shams attend a demonstration in support of their Syrian Druze brothers in northern Israel on June 15, 2015 (Jule Gamal/Flash90)

Golan Druze leader disputes UN statement on ‘hardship of Israeli occupation’

By JTA

Mayor of Majdal Shams says local residents enjoy a good life, always find ‘attentive ear’ with government

A police officer patrols inside Rio de Janeiro International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Rio readies for worst as terror threat hangs over Olympics

By Joshua Goodman and Mauricio SAVARESE

With a half-million visitors heading to Brazil for Games from August 5, experts worry security is inadequate

Three dead, one hurt in shooting north of Seattle

By AP

Police say suspect arrested, but give no further details on circumstances surrounding attack

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg takes the stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Trump trashes Bloomberg, calls him ‘little’ on Twitter

By JTA

Republican nominee snipes at former NYC mayor, says he lacks ‘guts’ to run for president, after media mogul tells DNC that Trump is ‘risky, reckless and radical’

Trump says he ‘wanted to hit’ Democratic convention speakers

‘I was gonna hit one guy in particular… so hard his head would spin and he wouldn’t know what the hell happened,’ boasts Republican nominee

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Donald Duck under Nazi rule in Disney short. (screen capture: YouTube)

Propa-ganderRussia cancels ban on film of ‘Nazi’ Donald Duck

Carlos Santana lands in Israel for his July 30, 2016 concert (Courtesy Orit Pnini)

SupernaturalCarlos Santana in Israel ahead of Saturday concert

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: In this photograph taken on July 28, 2016, an Afghan girl stands in the Hari Rud river on the outskirts of Herat. (AFP/Aref Karim)

Child abuseAfghan cleric arrested for marrying six-year-old girl

By AFP

Firefighters in Jerusalem, file photo (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem club, Eilat restaurant burned down in suspected arson attacks

Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner is pinning a man to the ground who is suspected to have stolen a friend's mobile phone, in Stockholm Sweden, July 27, 2016. (Jenny Kitsune Adolfsson via AP)

Under-covered copSwedish policewoman makes arrest in bikini

By AP

Head of the Lower Galilee Regional Council, Moti Dotan, February 7, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Galilee council chief sorry for saying Arabs shouldn’t use Jewish pools

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrtive photo of a swimming pool (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Gender-segregated swimming at NJ community makes waves

By JTA

Rabbi Eliezer Berland participates in a mass prayer session at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, on January 25, 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

In custody in Israel, fugitive rabbi indicted for sexual assault

By JTA and ToI Staff

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