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What Matters Most On Friday, August 5, 2016

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A screenshot of a now-archived page on worldhumanitarianday.org, which refers to Muhammad Halabi as a 'humanitarian.' Halabi is accused by Israel of siphoning off millions of dollars in donations to Hamas. (screen capture)

Gaza aid worker accused of funneling millions to Hamas was UN ‘humanitarian hero’

Muhammad Halabi, World Vision charity operations chief in the Strip charged by Israel for funding terror, says he dedicates his life to helping people

Australia suspends aid to charity over Gaza terror funding charges

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

World Vision says Gaza aid is audited, doubts Hamas pocketed millions

By Stuart Winer, Judah Ari Gross and AFP

Israeli minister: Gaza charity likely ‘turned blind eye’ to terror funding

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

US President Barack Obama speaks to the media in Arlington, Virginia, on August 4, 2016. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Obama: Even Israel now says we were right on Iran nuke deal

By Eric Cortellessa and AP

US president claims Israeli defense officials consider it ‘a game changer,’ calls on other former critics to issue mea culpas, defends $400-million payment to Iran

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford presents IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot with the Legion of Merit, outside the Pentagon on August 4, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

US Army ‘surprises’ IDF chief with Legion of Merit medal

By Judah Ari Gross

Tel Aviv's Carmel Market on October 22, 2010. (TijsB/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Panic at Tel Aviv market after mentally ill man spotted with knife

By Judah Ari Gross

Police arrest suspect at Carmel Market who is ‘known to health care professionals’; 2 treated for shock

IOC President Thomas Bach embraces Ilana Romano, right, and Ankie Spitzer, widows of Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics, during the inauguration of a memorial in their husbands' honor, ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Edgard Garrido, Pool)

IOC honors Israelis slain in terror attack at 1972 Olympics

By AP

Widow of one of the 11 athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at Munich Games says tribute brings ‘closure’

Homer Simpson juggling his Aroma hafuch and sandwich during one of his Israeli adventures, which will be discussed at the Animix Festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on August 2-6, 2016 (Courtesy Animix Festival)

Israeli flicks present a cool way to vanquish the summer doldrums

By Jessica Steinberg

From the Tel Aviv Cinematheque to NY’s Cinema Village, Israel-themed movies take center stage in August-September

The next Lebanon war will be horrific

If Hezbollah continues on its trajectory, that war is inevitable: The world must step in before it’s too late

Do you mean ‘1948 Palestine’?

When a friendly chat with a cabbie in the US becomes an education in Palestinian views of the Jewish state

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

On Av 1, a prayer to be ‘ruinable’

She doesn’t crave a rebuilt Temple; she yearns for the courage to commit to a life of meaning, though she risk failure

The complexity of human rights

The book of Bamidbar teaches how honor is due equally to community structures and individuals’ needs (Mattot-Masai)

Shami Chakrabarti, interviewed on J-TV, July 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

UK Jews slam peerage for author of probe that played down Labour anti-Semitism

Critics say Corbyn move to honor Shami Chakrabarti casts doubt on impartiality of her report; Labour No.2 calls it a ‘mistake’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine, on August 4, 2016. (Sarah Rice/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump, in fierce new broadside, says immigrants pose hidden threat

By AFP

GOP nominee tells supporters that Somalis and other refugees from ‘terrorist nations’ should be barred from US

Members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in the Egyptian Sinai read out sentences before they behead four men accused of spying for Israel, August 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Egypt says head of Islamic State affiliate in Sinai killed

By Stuart Winer

Airstrikes reportedly take out 45 members of Ansar al-Bayt al-Maqdis group, including commander Abu Duaa al-Ansari

Ayoub Sroor, accused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of child abuse after telling Israeli soldiers to shoot his young child, responded in a August 4th, 2016 video testimony. (Courtesy: YouTube screenshot)

Palestinian dad accused of child abuse fires back at Netanyahu

Father says clip of him shouting at soldiers ‘to shoot’ his 3-year-old was taken out of context, follows years of abuse by IDF

Israeli Air Force F-16B jets, June 2011 (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Israeli warplanes said to hit Hezbollah arms convoy in Syria

Lebanese media reports 4 trucks struck, no injuries in attack near Maarba north of Damascus; IDF declines to comment

Syrian Mohammed al-Haj Ali messages eyewitnesses in Syria for the news organization Syria Direct, July 18, 2016. (AP/Layla Quran)

After fleeing, Syrian reporters in exile give insider view of war

By LAYLA K. QURAN

Tapping into network of sources on the ground from Jordan office, Syria Direct provides granular perspective on conflict while seeking to influence decision makers

240 boxes of salmonella-infected cornflakes unaccounted for

Unilever fears the missing cereal, which should have been recalled, has been sold to customers across Israel

Samuel Kassow with his daughter Serena Kassow on the set of 'Who Will Write Our History?' in Poland, based on Samuel Kassow's book about the 'Oneg Shabbat' archive, May 2016. (Courtesy)

Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative: Heinrich Himmler in 1939. (AFP)

Himmler diaries reveal chilling details of Nazi wartime life

By AFP

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An elderly woman was tied in her wheelchair to a fence outside a Ramat Gan shopping mall for some 40 minutes, on August 2, 2016, sparking a police investigation after a passerby snapped a picture. (Channel 2)

Police arrest caregiver who tied up elderly charge in summer heat

Scott Gold (Facebook)

Funny, you don't eat JewishJewish writer first to pig out on bacon for Time

By Gabe Friedman

TV star Jeremy Piven (screen capture: YouTube)

TV star Jeremy Piven teams up with Omri Casspi on Israel trip

Yovel Levkovski, 18, was lightly injured in a stabbing attack in London on Wednesday August 3, 2016. (Yuval Levkovski)

‘My Israeli instincts kicked in,’ says teen knifed in London attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Katsav put on suicide watch after losing early parole bid

By Tamar Pileggi

HAWK University of Applied Sciences, Hildesheim (Screen capture: YouTube)

German university denies course used anti-Zionist material

By JTA

Hapoel Beersheba F.C. soccer players celebrate after winning the Israeli League championship for the first time in 40 years in Beersheba on May 21, 2016. (Danny Meron/Flash90)

The heat is onScotland’s Celtic to tackle Israel’s desert climate

By AFP

Hebrew media reviewCereal negligence

By Adiv Sterman

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