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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 6, 2016

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Then US President Barack Obama, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on November 9, 2015. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Netanyahu rejects Obama’s assertion that Israel now supports Iran accord

By Raphael Ahren and Eric Cortellessa

PM politely says Israel’s position on nuke deal unchanged; Defense Ministry bitterly compares it to Munich Agreement with the Nazis

PMO calls US envoy to clarify opposition to Iran deal, play down Liberman critique

By ToI Staff, Raphael Ahren and Eric Cortellessa

Israeli minister hits back at Obama: We’re more worried now by Iran deal than a year ago

By Raphael Ahren

Trump admits he never saw video of US cash payment to Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

United States' Sam Dorman takes part in a training session at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Olympic spectacle gives way to chase for gold

By Rob Woollard

First medals up for grabs Saturday as athletes begin to compete in shooting, swimming, cycling, judo and more

Rio’s poor watch Olympic opening from rooftops of slum

By Adriana Gomez Licon

Lebanese Olympians ‘refuse to ride in bus with Israelis’

As Olympics start, 7 useful facts about the Jews of Brazil

By Marcus M. Gilban

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) March 21, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump backers launch push for American Israelis’ swing votes

By Andrew Tobin

Republicans Overseas Israel claims most Israelis with US citizenship back GOP candidate and could even help tip election

For Hillary critics, Clinton Foundation is a weapon

By Jeremy Tordjman

Lawmakers vote in the Knesset plenum, July 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NGOs, paternity leave, media reform, oh my! A look at Israel’s newest laws

By Marissa Newman

As Knesset goes on 3-month break, here is some of the legislation that made it through — and the controversies that are sure to follow

Why being pro-Trump is anti-Israel

Israel supporters who fight for the GOP candidate undermine the moral authority needed to defend the Jewish state

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

My passport weighs a lot

It’s a potentially lethal identifier and it’s also a ticket home

Michael Melchior, 2012 (courtesy Michael Melchior)

Ex-cabinet minister says Israel-Saudi peace ‘in the cards’

By JTA

Israelis will be able to travel to Gulf state ‘much sooner than you dream about,’ Rabbi Michael Melchior says, following visit by Riyadh delegation

Mist sprinklers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 2016 (Rafi Ostroff, via Facebook)

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, controversial sprinklers are back

By JTA

Installed at parking lot to cool visitors, misters draw criticism as reminiscent of the decoy ‘showers’ used by Nazis to murder Jews

Workers are seen at the Shalon gas mask factory in Kiryat Gat, Israel, in August 2013 (photo credit: AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel buys gas masks from firms that outfitted Nazis at Auschwitz with protective gear

Companies who kept SS guards safe from the Zyklon B they used at gas chambers now sell to Israel’s Defense Ministry, police, fire department

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

German university drops Palestine class amid anti-Semitism claims

Naftali Bennett on the Israel-Gaza border, on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, July 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF officers said to leak intel to Bennett during 2014 Gaza War

Army official confirms Jewish Home leader broke protocol, received sensitive information from senior commanders

Former grand mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa. (Public domain via Wikimedia Common)

Senior Egypt pro-government cleric escapes assassination

By AFP

Former grand mufti and Muslim scholar Ali Gomaa survives shooting in Cairo suburb in third unsuccessful attempt on his life

llustrative photo of security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport. (Meir Partush/Flash90)

US raps Israel for ‘unequal treatment’ of Arab-Americans at Ben-Gurion Airport

By JTA

Repeated rebuke comes after Israel denied entry of five pro-Palestinian BDS activists last month

A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London on December 6, 2015, a day after three people were stabbed by Zakaria Bulhan, a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man (AFP/LEON NEAL)

UK police charge 19-year-old with London stabbings

By Jill Lawless

No links to terrorism in case of Zakaria Bulhan, who murdered an American woman, injured five including Israeli

US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters advance into the Islamic State's bastion of Manbij, in northern Syria, on June 23, 2016. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

Arab-Kurd alliance said to capture IS Syria stronghold

By AFP

US-backed militia seizes Manbij 2 months after beginning operation against jihadists in key city

South African president and African National Congress (ANC)'s president Jacob Zuma delivers a speech during the Party official launch of the Municipal Elections manifesto in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, April 16, 2016. (AFP/Michael Sheehan)

South Africa’s ruling ANC shaken by losses at polls

By AFP and ToI Staff

Local elections results show voters appear to be turning away from party that led anti-apartheid fight

GOP congressman rapped for charging Obama is ‘playing for some other team’

By Eric Cortellessa

J Street calls Rep. Lee Zeldin’s implication about the president ‘appalling’ and ‘unacceptable,’ NJDC demands he apologize

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

To name or not to name: Jewish organizations grapple with the Trump question

Tax laws prevent nonprofits from endorsing or opposing a presidential candidate, leaving groups to navigate how to voice criticism of Republican nominee

US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla. 23rd District) Dec. 19, 2015. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images via JTA)

Email questioning Sanders’ Jewish faith ‘unacceptable,’ Wasserman Schultz says

By JTA

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Georgia's Ushba Mountain (YouTube screenshot)

2 Israelis killed in mountaineering accident in Georgia

An image from 'Curious George' (YouTube screenshot)

A curious taleThe Jewish refugees behind ‘Curious George’

By Hillel Italie

Teen rape victim in Morocco sets herself on fire, dies

By AFP

A picture taken on August 6, 2016 shows the damaged Au Cuba Libre bar after a fire in Rouen. (AFP/Matthieu Alexandre)

At least 13 killed in birthday party fire at French bar

By AFP

Likud MK Oren Hazan attends a meeting in the Knesset on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud’s Oren Hazan undergoes emergency operation

An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Hamas prisoners end hunger strike in southern jail

By AFP and ToI Staff

A woman holds a banner during a protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in New York on July 09, 2016. (AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)

Jewish pro-BDS group endorses anti-Israel Black Lives Matter platform

By JTA

The interior of the Sublime House, believed to be the seat of a 12-century yeshiva in the city of Rouen, France. (screen capture: YouTube)

France to rescue Europe’s ‘oldest Jewish building’

By JTA

In this August 2, 1936 photo, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering are seen watching events at the Olympics in Berlin. (AP)

Torched Memories80 years ago, Hitler kicked off the Berlin Olympics

By Gabe Friedman

Natalie Portman at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2015 in Cannes, France. (JTA/Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

HomegirlPortman teams up with Israeli ‘Homeland’ producer

By JTA

Iranians play on the Pokemon Go app in northern Tehran's Mellat Park on August 3, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Sanctions be damnedIranians hunt Pokemon despite ban

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