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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 7, 2016

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Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)

Stalin ordered Wallenberg’s ‘liquidation,’ KGB boss’s diary reveals

Document provides first confirmation that Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during Holocaust was executed in Soviet prison

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign an agreement bringing Liberman's party into the government, May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu said blindsided by Liberman’s Iran-Munich deal comparison

By ToI Staff, Raphael Ahren and Eric Cortellessa

PMO rushed to stress vital ties with US, called US envoy, after Defense Ministry likened nuke pact to 1938 agreement with Nazis

Iran says it executed nuclear scientist for spying for US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Energy minister: Iran has respected ‘bad’ nuclear deal

By AFP

Opposition MKs slam Defense Ministry’s harsh rebuttal of Obama over Iran deal

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

The hands of a man who tried to cut off his fingerprints after he was arrested in a failed attempt to avoid identification by police in August 2016. (Israel Police)

Caught red-handed

Biker slices off his fingertips to avoid being ID’d

By Judah Ari Gross

Despite his efforts police identify suspect, who was caught running red lights while driving with a suspended license

Illustrative: An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man stands by the intersection at the entrance to the Jewish religious site of Rachel's Tomb, surrounded by the Separation Wall, near Bethlehem, on June 26, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police disarm pipe bomb near Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem

By Judah Ari Gross

Officers close off shrine after explosive device discovered in parking lot, launch investigation

Police find pistol in 13-year-old E. Jerusalem boy’s bedroom

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas member killed in Gaza tunnel collapse

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas prisoners end hunger strike in southern jail

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel's Golan Pollack (in white) competes with Zambia's Mathews Punza during their men's -66kg judo contest match of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 7, 2016. (AFP/Jack GUEZ)

Live updates (closed)

Disappointment as Israeli athletes fail to shine in Rio

By Joshua Davidovich

Judokas and swimmers all fail to advance, continuing lackluster showing by blue and whie team at Olympics so far; millions gather in Istanbul for possibly largest ever Turkish rally; ministers launch effort to crack down on BDS supporters in Israel

A soldier poses with a gun, with the word "revenge" written on his chest (The Nation of Israel Demands Vengeance! Facebook page)

While police tackle Arab inciters, are Jews given a free pass?

50% of online threats are made by each population against the other, but law enforcement maintains they aren’t equally likely to be carried out

Elyse Goldstein

Why I’m not fasting on Tisha B’Av

She can’t help but wonder what the place of women would be in a rebuilt Temple, given the current strife at the Kotel

Second Lebanon War changed the rules for fighting terror

The bloody clash made Israelis safer and proved the need to bolster military responses with intel cooperation and creative diplomacy

Jeremiah Unterman

Judaism’s role in human history? Major!

Yuval Harari, the popular historian who counseled Jews to be more modest should follow his own advice

Driverless cars belong in Israel

The technology saves money, reduces oil reliance, and advances values of sanctity, safety, and responsible innovation

Sir Sassoon Eskell, a Baghdadi Jew who served as Iraq's first finance minister and was a key player in the founding of the early kingdom. (Courtesy: wikipedia)

Baghdad to destroy home of Jew who helped found modern Iraq

Illustrative photo of a UAV, June 2010. (Ofer Zidon/ Flash90)

Russia, not Hezbollah, sent drone into Israel — report

Three weeks after IDF failed to bring down UAV that crossed over from Syria, Moscow officials acknowledge it was theirs

A tank bearing an Islamist flag is seen in a field as a Syrian coalition of jihadists and Islamist rebels seized key positions south of Aleppo in a major offensive to break the government siege of the city, on August 6, 2016, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (AFP/Omar haj Kadour)

Rebels turn tables on regime as IS loses Syria bastion

By Rouba El Husseini

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at Windham High School in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 6, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump says Clinton not ‘all there,’ will ‘short-circuit’

Blasting Democratic rival, Republican candidate claims Islamic State ‘salivating’ at prospect of her presidency

Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, gather in a street in the northern city of Aleppo on August 6, 2016, in celebrations after rebels said they have broken a three-week government siege on the northern city.(AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED)

Syrian rebels breach regime-imposed siege on Aleppo

By Sarah El Deeb

Alliance of opposition fighters, Islamists and jihadists announce breakthrough against Assad’s Russian-backed forces in northern city

Culture Minister Miri Regev in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Regev blasts ‘racist’ Lebanese athletes for refusal to travel with Israelis

Culture and sport minister calls on Olympic committee to denounce ‘anti-Semitic’ incident; Lebanese team leader praised in Beirut press

File: Israel's Dudi Sela during a Davis Cup match. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israeli tennis champ defeats Bosnian in Olympic round 1

After 6:4, 6:4 win, Dudi Sela faces higher-ranked players, either from Belgium or Australia, in next round

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)

Likud minister insists far-right rapper won’t be in his party

Tzachi Hanegbi says Yoav Eliasi’s views ‘incompatible’ with Likud, but doesn’t explain how he’ll block his membership

Police stand as they secure the area around a police building in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi following a machete attack on August 6, 2016. (AFP/Belga/Virginie Lefour)

Belgium PM announces terror probe into machete attack

By AFP

Man who attacked policewomen while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ identified as Algerian national with criminal record

Muslim American comedian Dean Obeidallah, who was born in New Jersey to an Italian mother and a Palestinian father, performs at Jimmy's N° 43, a bar and club in the East Village, in New York on July 29, 2016. (Thomas Urbain/AFP)

An American Muslim fights bigotry with laughter

By Thomas URBAIN

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Jill Stein waits to speak before announcing that she will seek the Green Party's presidential nomination, at the National Press Club, June 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via jta)

Green Party nominates Israel-critic Jill Stein for president

Lawmakers call for inquiry into salmonella-tainted cornflakes

A sign in Chicago paid for by the non-profit US Muslim group Sound Vision. (Courtesy Sound Vision)

Road sign rageUS Muslim group slams IS in billboard campaign

Israeli Ambassador to Peru Ehud Eitam (Embassy of Peru)

New offices in Peru, Chile cement trade alliances for Israel

By Dan Schwartz

A bag of marijuana seized by the Jerusalem Police in August 2016. (Israel Police)

In new crackdown, cops arrest Jerusalemite for selling marijuana

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative image of a gun and bullets. (A gun and bullets via Shutterstock)

Six civilians held for shooting practice on IDF base

L to R: Snappers Chelsea Handler (Mark Davis/Getty Images), Bob Saget (Trisha Leeper/Getty Images) and Debra Messing (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Jewish stories10 Jews you should follow on Snapchat

By Lior Zaltzman

Neta Rivkin carries the flag of Israel during the opening ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Hebrew media reviewOn the bus from Rio to Chelm

By Joshua Davidovich

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