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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 3, 2016

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SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum photographed at the SodaStream factory near the Negev city of Rahat. (Dan Balilty/AP Images)

Interview

For SodaStream chief, frustration with Netanyahu’s ‘politics of hate’ bubbles over

By David Horovitz

The carbonated drinks maker used to employ 500 Palestinians at its factory in a West Bank settlement. Relocated to the Negev, it now employs none. This has nothing to do with BDS, charges CEO Daniel Birnbaum, and plenty to do with the PM. (Not true, says the PMO)

An Israeli F-16I fighter jet during an exercise in the United States in 2009. (Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald/US Department of Defense/Wikimedia)

Israel to fly alongside Pakistan, UAE in US Air Force drill

By Judah Ari Gross

IAF pilots will take part in Red Flag exercise later this month in the Nevada desert to hone skills and make connections

Former Saudi general Dr. Anwar Eshki (center, in striped tie) and other members of his delegation, meeting with Knesset members and others during a visit to Israel on July 22, 2016 (via Twitter)

Saudi ex-general says Israel visit is not sign of normalization

By Raoul Wootliff

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman speaks at a press conference in New York on November 2, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD)

Live updates (closed)

Top GOP fundraiser defects to Clinton over ‘demagogue’ Trump

Billionaire Hewlett Packard chief Meg Whitman tells NYT she will donate to and raise money for Democratic nominee

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on August 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, at variance with Republican platform, tells GOP senators he favors two states

By Eric Cortellessa

After visit to Israel, Sen. Steve Daines says PM is ‘cautiously optimistic’ agreement on defense deal will be reached next week

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds two thumbs up during a campaign event at Briar Woods High School August 2, 2016 in Ashburn, Virginia. Trump continued to campaign for his run for president of the United States. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump: Obama is ‘perhaps worst president in US history’

By ToI Staff and AP

After president says he is unfit for office, GOP nominee accuses Obama and Clinton of ‘single-handedly’ destabilizing Mideast

Trump makes ‘you want to retch,’ says Hollande

By AFP

Jewish vets group slams Trump over attacks on Muslim war hero’s family

By JTA

Wail of a taleTrump kicks crying baby out of Virginia event

Trump vs the Khans: Sharks gotta swim

Shut up. That’s all anyone should do when confronted with this unimaginable pain that she knows too well

Emily B. Landau

Iran deal supporters’ slippery logic

One year to the JCPOA, its defenders manage to sidestep Teheran’s increasing aggression and hard-line leadership

Jewish Republicans’ needless hyperbole

The RJC flag burning ad should’ve targeted Democratic Israel ambivalence, instead of the rogue element

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The purpose of Halacha is to disturb

Jewish law is designed to rile up the very people who grow apathetic in a world turned complacent and self-indulgent

Photo from 'The 770: Lubavitchs of Brooklyn' series by Sacha Goldberger. (Courtesy)

French Jewish photographer trains wry eye on Brooklyn’s Lubavitchers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Picture of wheat (Courtesy)

NRGene eyes human genomes with ‘game changing’ tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli startup is confident it will have hundreds more plant and animal genomes sequenced by year’s end

Team at Panoply (Courtesy)

Intel Capital invests $25m in 3 Israeli startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on video about recent footage showing a Palestinian father telling soldiers to shoot his son, August 3, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

PM ‘shocked’ by clip of Palestinian father urging soldiers to kill son

By Raoul Wootliff

In latest video, Netanyahu says Palestinian Authority must stop encouraging parents to ‘call for the death of their own children’

Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi (Avi Hyman Communications)

Interview

Facing peace push, Israel’s settlers present a new face to the world

By Andrew Tobin

The Yesha Council’s new chief foreign envoy, Oded Revivi, wants to show how the ’ecosystem’ in the West Bank, where Israelis and Palestinians live, actually works

In this photo from Sept. 26, 2015, US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

US sent Iran $400m as prisoners were freed — report

Cash said to have been airlifted in unmarked cargo plane; administration says payment unconnected to release of prisoners

Former defense minister Amir Peretz interviewed for Hezbollah's Al-Mayadeen TV (YouTube screenshot)

Hezbollah fools Israeli leaders into appearing in Lebanon war TV feature

Ex-defense and foreign ministers, wounded veteran told footage was for Italian TV; reporter also claims to have been misled

A photograph from a deleted tweet by Virgin Ticketing Box Office showing an Israeli soldier. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Troop blooperLebanese Army Day ad shows photo of IDF soldier

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative photo of an Israel police car (Flash90)

Police nab ‘major’ crime boss in underworld murder case

9 arrested as cops investigate killings in which victims are invited to a ‘meeting’ and then executed

Israeli rap singer Yoav Eliasi takes part at a right wing demonstration in support of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 9, 2014. (Flash90)

Far-right rapper ‘The Shadow’ joins Likud

By Stuart Winer

MK Oren Hazan says musician is worth 5 Knesset seats, could replace some current lawmakers

Iranians display their smartphones using the Telegram messenger application on December 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Secure message app Telegram said hacked by Iran

Phone numbers of 15 million users publicized and accounts of a dozen activists compromised in alleged government attack

Illustrative: Shaul Bassi, coordinator of the Venice Ghetto 500 anniversary committee, on the Ghetto Nuovo bridge in Venice, Italy, July 2016. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)

Venice welcomes back Shylock in marking its Jewish history

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

More Headlines

Israeli women smoke cigarettes while spending time at a cafe in central Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Israel medical conference quits cigarette company’s sponsorship

Hasia Diner (Screenshot from YouTube)

AnalysisDoes an American Jewish historian’s rejection of Zionism signal a broader trend?

Before and after images of a mural depicting Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Melbourne, Australia. (YouTube/Lushsux)

It's a cover-upHillary graffiti goes from bathing suit to niqab

By Stuart Winer

A sheep named Yarden takes a gander out the window as the truck crosses the Canadian rockies on August 1, 2016. (courtesy Gil Lewinsky)

Where there's a woolBarreling down the highway with 120 sheep

By Melanie Lidman

British American porn star Candy Charms (screen capture/YouTube)

Plastic fantasticPorn star visits Iran… for nose job

By AP

Egyptian Grand Mufti Dr. Shawki Allam (Screenshot/YouTube)

Egypt’s top cleric says he opposes harming gays

By ToI Staff and AFP

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

Partners in crimeNY cops who aided wedding proposal won’t be disciplined

By JTA

The scene of a car crash in which two women and a young girl were killed, August 2, 2016 (Magen David Adom)

2 women, 2-year-old child killed in crash near Haifa

Donald Trump speaking during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, July 21, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hebrew media reviewNewspaper wars and burying the Trump lede

By Ilan Ben Zion

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