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What Matters Most On Monday, August 1, 2016

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US President Barack Obama speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on March 22, 2013, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images/JTA)

Netanyahu ‘happy to work with whoever gets elected’ in US

By Raphael Ahren

PM tells reporters he’s being ‘very careful’ not to get involved in presidential campaign

Clinton says Trump’s Russia praise raises ‘security issues’

By Brian Knowlton

Russian TV shows what the Kremlin thinks of Clinton

Trump ally: Father of fallen US soldier is ‘Muslim Brotherhood agent’

By Stuart Winer

Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud MKs have ‘had enough’ of Jewish Home, top lawmaker says

By Tamar Pileggi

David Bitan says colleagues are sick of Bennett challenging Netanyahu, points to disparity in parties’ sizes

Jewish Home warns PM: We won’t be your punching bag

Herzog rejects Netanyahu’s latest unity government overture

By ToI Staff and Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says he’s still open to unity government

By Raphael Ahren

A JTA collage of some of the Jewish-Americans competing in 2016 Rio Olympics. (JTA)

2016 Olympics: 7 Jewish American Olympians to watch in Rio

By Gabe Friedman

Before the games open on Friday, a special shout-out to some of the members of the tribe in Brazil

As Rio Olympics prepare to honor Munich dead, still no envoy from Israel

By Raphael Ahren

80 years on, Jesse Owens’ daughter adamant he didn’t shake Hitler’s hand

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians file FIFA complaint over Israeli restrictions

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets then-US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on her arrival at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, pool, file)

Live updates (closed)

US cyber-security firms confirm Russian hacks of DNC

Culture minister demands probe into leak of cabinet comments; Khamenei: Average Iranian not benefiting from nuclear deal

Participants in Birthright Israel's Excel Ventures Program, June-July 2016 (Courtesy)

Birthright Excel fosters startups, strong Israel ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

Leadership innovation program aims to increase ties between young US and Israeli entrepreneurs

9 words Obama said at the DNC

The words were ‘through diplomacy, we shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program’ and they’re not true

Buchris: How the mighty keep falling

Citing King David to explain a war hero’s sexual crimes shows the Bible’s power, not to justify, but to teach

Avraham Bronstein

We, not Trump, are that Messiah

After the devastation marked on Tisha B’Av, Jews chose to believe that the future can be better than the past

Ariel Krakowski

Vouching for school vouchers

Enabling school choice is not just moral, it will help drive innovation and lower costs for everyone’s education

Government meddling in Israel’s news and information networks threatens the country’s essential well-being

The Israeli float at the Stockholm gay pride parade, July 30, 2016 (Facebook)

Official Israeli float at Stockholm pride parade omits the word ‘Israel’

By Raphael Ahren

Banners read ‘Tel Aviv’ in what envoy to Sweden calls an effort to promote city as travel destination for LGBT community

Palestinian students who support the Hamas movement take part in an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Hamas braces for Fatah crackdown, warns of undemocratic elections

Terror group official says arrests of its members in West Bank shows Abbas is not committed to fair vote

Hamas security forces patrol along the Gaza-Egypt border, April 14, 2016 in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Analysis

Egypt rankled by Hamas’s burgeoning ties to Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Cairo learns that IS fighters wounded in attack on its troops in Sinai were smuggled into Gaza via tunnels for treatment

Illustrative: Ethiopian-Israelis protest police brutality and mistreatment in Israeli society, Tel Aviv, June 3, 2015. (Flash90)

Dark-skinned dolls and history lessons: How Israel plans to tackle prejudice

Cabinet ministers to consider new report by high-level committee on addressing discrimination against Ethiopian Israelis

IDF troops remove weapon-making machinery from a workshop in the West Bank, in an image released August 1, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson)

IDF arrests 10 Palestinians over terror attack in which rabbi was killed

By Stuart Winer

Army says raid jointly conducted with police, Shin Bet, while 27 more detained in crackdown on weapons workshops

Cartoon posted on Fatah's Information and Culture Commission website on August 1st, 2016, which suggests Israel is taking advantage infighting between Muslims. (Courtesy: Fatah Information and Culture Commission website)

Cartoon on Fatah site shows Israel exploding Muslim world

Anti-Semitic drawing suggests the Jewish state is taking advantage of fighting between Sunnis and Shiites

US President Barack Obama, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Israel, US said to resolve key sticking points on aid deal

10-year defense package set to be signed soon; Israel will gradually increase the proportion of the money it spends inside the US

The Defense Ministry's "Eitan" ("Steadfast") armored personnel carrier. (Dana Shraga, Israeli Ministry of Defense)

Defense Ministry unveils newest IDF personnel carriers

PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 28: Khizr Khan, father of deceased Muslim US soldier, holds up a booklet of the US Constitution as he delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP

Slain soldier’s dad calls Trump a ‘black soul’ unfit to lead

Candidate says that while he ‘feels deeply’ for Khizr Khanson’s loss, Khanson has ‘no right’ to speak about him

Pope Francis waves during a press conference on the plane after his visit to Krakow for the World Youth Days, on July 31, 2016. (AFP/ POOL / Filippo MONTEFORTE)

Pope: Don’t equate Islam with violence

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pontiff says fundamentalists exist in almost every religion, subtly criticizes politicians fueling racism and xenophobia

A man stays next to a sign reading in Turkish language "Traitors' Cemetery" is seen in front of unmarked graves built specially by Istanbul municitality for the dead failed coup soldiers on July 28,2016. (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

Turkey arrests fugitive 11-man ‘death squad’

By AFP

Soldiers accused of involvement in raid on hotel where Erdogan was staying the night of the coup

An image purportedly showing the wreckage of a Russian military helicopter shot down over Idlib, Syria on August 1, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

5 die as Russian military chopper shot down in Syria

By Lynn Berry and Bassam Mroue

Moscow says Mi-8 transport helicopter downed over northern Ildib province was delivering humanitarian aid to embattled Aleppo

Thought of Train of Thought, at London's St. Pancras Station in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts (courtesy)

Israel’s darling of design dazzles London with four summer shows

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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)

Amar’e Stoudemire set to sign with Hapoel Jerusalem

Adrien Brody appears as Wladyslaw Szpilman in a still image from the Holocaust movie 'The Pianist' (screen capture: YouTube)

Real-life ‘Pianist’ family wins defamation suit

By AFP

Mechanical "metamaterials" created by researchers at Tel Aviv University, FOM Institute AMOLF and Leiden University in the Netherlands can be used in prosthetics. (YouTube screenshot)

New synthetic material may bring prosthetic relief

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, board their airplane to Africa for an official state visit in the continent on July 4, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Prime minister to get his own ‘Air Force One’ next year

Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris, during a visit to Tel Hashomer army base, November 22, 2010. (Flash90)

IDF general resigns amid rape indictment, denies charges

By Judah Ari Gross

Pokemon Go. (YouTube screenshot)

Pokemon NoIDF bans Pokemon Go on bases over security fears

By AP

A man poses for a picture with Leena Al-Arian, who is Muslim, after apologizing to her for racism in the US (Facebook)

Barnes and NobilityJewish man’s kindness to Muslim woman goes viral

By JTA

New York police take part in a surprise wedding proposal for Jewish couple (Screen capture: Youtube)

Engaged with the lawNYPD officers help Jewish man with wedding proposal

By JTA

Donald Trump, as envisioned by The Simpsons team (screen capture: YouTube)

D'oh-mocratic processSimpsons lampoons Trump in election spoof

By Stuart Winer

Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev in the Knesset on June 15, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRegev’s remarks rile right and left

By Ilan Ben Zion

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