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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 31, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Netanyahu accuses France of funding anti-Israel groups

By Tamar Pileggi

As Paris weighs ban on foreign financing of mosques, PM orders probe into French-sponsored organizations that ‘incite’ against Jewish state, encourage boycotts

Normandy mosque refuses to hold funeral for terrorist who killed priest

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bennett stands by criticism of PM over Gaza tunnels

By Stuart Winer

State said to approve land to relocate Amona outpost

By Tamar Pileggi

This file photo combination shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (left) on April 4, 2016, and Republican challenger Donald Trump on February 16, 2016. (AFP/dsk)

Analysis

Why the two presidential nominees left Israel in the backseat at their party conventions

By Eric Cortellessa

Both candidates briefly pledged firm support for Israel in their lengthy acceptance speeches, but neither so much as mentioned the divisive, potentially alienating issue of peace-making with the Palestinians

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event, Davenport, Iowa, July 28, 2016. (Joshua Lott/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump’s claim NFL ‘rigged’ games to coincide with debates denied by officials

By AP

Israeli security forces keep position during clashes with Palestinian protesters at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 11, 2015. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Herzog holds on as Labor leader as party votes for 2017 primaries

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian shot dead attempting to stab IDF soldiers; Egypt bombs IS arms factory in Sinai, killing at least 46

Ruth Lawrence-Naimark (Hebrew University)

UK math prodigy who graduated Oxford at 13 is now Orthodox mom of 4 in J’lem

Ruth Lawrence was 5 when her father began cultivating her for academic stardom. She is a math professor, but much of her life has played out most unexpectedly

Qur’an. Calligrapher, Ali b. Mahmud al-Havavi. Iran, Tabriz, Safavid period, January 15, 1516. Ink, color, and gold on paper. (Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul)

Amid fraught election rhetoric, Smithsonian to open first major Quran exhibition

By Rich Tenorio

After years of false starts, 48 historical folios spanning a millenium of Islamic history will be shown in Washington in the fall

Nothing gold can stay

When the ego-fueled pissing matches are done, true leaders know the future depends on what they do, not who they are

Spielberg’s Roald Dahl problem

The children’s books invite movie-making, but the author’s anti-Semitism should give any director pause

Patricia Lahy Engel

The Start-up Nation’s brain gain

When Israel’s new immigrants become entrepreneurs, their ability to remake themselves yields innovative companies

Playtika's games, including the popular slot game Slotomania, are played daily by more than 6 million people in 190 countries. (Courtesy)

China consortium buys Israel’s Playtika for $4.4 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Chinese group includes game developer Shanghai Giant Network Technology and Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma

US Secretary of State John Kerry and PA President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Paris on July 30, 2016. (Screenshot/Euronews)

Erekat compares IS-claimed attacks in Europe to Israeli actions against Palestinians

Speaking after ‘very constructive’ Kerry, Abbas meeting in Paris, Palestinian negotiator says international supervision needed for restarting peace talks

Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian stabber, seen during a court hearing at a military court in Jaffa, July 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Hebron soldier in hot water over 2014 Facebook post against PM

Likud fumes after offensive social media statuses surface; Netanyahu’s FB page manager calls on Azaria to apologize

The Trans-Samaria Crossing. (Defense Ministry's Land Crossings Authority)

Palestinian held after axes, knives, bullets found in his car

Search of vehicle with Israeli plates yields weapons cache; four arrested at Hawara carrying large knives

Yemenite immigrants in a camp near Ein Shemer in 1950. (Pinn Hans/GPO)

Hanegbi says hundreds of Yemenite children were kidnapped in 1950s

Minister overseeing probe into classified documents linked to controversial affair says public may never know the full truth

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 releases boastful documentary on attack that sparked 2006 war

Al-Mayadeen, a TV channel affiliated with the terror group, says 3-part series will offer new information on kidnappings of Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev, subsequent prisoner exchange

Illustrative photo of police in Dallas, Texas. (AFP/Laura Buckman)

Woman killed, 3 hurt in downtown Austin shooting

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Victim in her 20s dead in Texas capital assault; three others being treated for wounds

Khizr Khan, right, accompanied by his wife Ghazala Khan, speaks about their son US Army Captain Humayun Khan who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq 12 years ago, on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AFP/Robyn Beck)

Father of slain US Muslim soldier says Trump ‘has no soul’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Republican presidential nominee’s criticism ‘proves that this person is void of empathy,’ Khizr Khan says

A man holds up a photo of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a pro-Erdogan rally in Taksim Square in Istanbul on July 22, 2016, following the failed military coup attempt of July 15. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

Erdogan seeks constitutional change to control army, spy agency

By AFP

Post-coup crackdown continues as Turkish president says he will propose law further boosting his power

Soldiers of the IDF's signal (C41) corps (Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF looks to a ‘one-network’ army to fight future wars

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Mexican-born US guitarist Carlos Santana performs on stage during a concert at the Starlite music festival in Marbella on July 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JORGE GUERRERO)

At Tel Aviv gig, Santana urges Israelis to pray for peace on Earth

Magen David Adom ambulances evacuating wounded people to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after a brawl in the Bedouin community of Kuseife, July 31, 2016. (YouTube/Times of Israel)

Two dead, 16 hurt in car-ramming at brawl in Bedouin town

By Stuart Winer

An IDF search and rescue team searching for the bodies of the victims from the helicopter crash in Romania on July 28, 2010. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Memorial to Israeli airmen defaced in Romania

Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Ze'ev Elkin arrives for the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, June 19, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Likud, Kulanu swap ministries in cabinet reshuffle

By Stuart Winer

People walk past a mural of US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton clad in a swimsuit, created by street artist Lushsux, in West Footscray, Melbourne on July 30, 2016 (Paul Crock/AFP)

Offensive candidateSwimsuit mural of Hillary Clinton creates stir in Oz

By AFP

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacts as he holds of three-month-old Kellen Campbell, of Denver, right, while holding six-month-old Evelyn Keane, of Castle Rock, Colo., after Trump's speech at the Gallogly Event Center on the campus of the University of Colorado on July 29, 2016 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Joe Mahoney/Getty Images/AFP)

Make elevators great againTrump rescued from stuck elevator in Colorado

By AP

An aerial view of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Jordanian hotel workers in Eilat come to blows over ‘king’s honor’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Writer J.K. Rowling talks to media on arrival at the gala performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, at the Palace Theatre in central London, Saturday, July 30, 2016. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Theater magicJ.K. Rowling hopes Harry Potter play goes global

By Jill Lawless

US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton addresses delegates on the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016. (AFP/Robyn Beck)

Hebrew media reviewWhen history met herstory

By Joshua Davidovich

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