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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 9, 2016

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Waheed Abd Allah Bossh, an engineer with the UN's Development Program, accused of using his position to aid the Hamas terrorist organization, on August 9, 2016. (Shin Bet)

Israel charges UN employee with aiding Hamas in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

In third such case in a week, Shin Bet claims Development Program engineer directed resources to Palestinian terror group

Save the Children probes claim employee recruited by Hamas

By AFP

Palestinian woman held for pulling knife in Hebron

Gaza portrayed as idyllic paradise in new Hamas propaganda video

Newly appointed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman alongside IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot during a ceremony welcoming him to the Defense Ministry, May 31, 2016. (Ariel Harmoni/Ministry of Defense)

Defense Ministry half-apologizes for likening Iran nuke deal to Munich agreement

By Raoul Wootliff

Liberman’s ministry says it is sorry if earlier statement was understood as comparing Obama-backed accord with Tehran to Europe’s 1938 pact with Nazis

Leaders of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan discuss closer ties

By Stuart Winer and AP

Trump alleges Clinton emails linked to Iranian’s execution

By AP

Swiss court orders Israel to pay up for Iranian oil

Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi battles Brazil's Mariana Silva in the Olympic women's judo under-63 kilograms competition in Rio de Janeiro, August 9, 2016. (screen shot Channel 55)

Live updates (closed)

Gerbi beats China’s Yang, putting her one match away from Olympic bronze

Likud: Bill to shield PM from investigations won’t apply to current inquiries; 2,000 new police officers, 6 new stations for East Jerusalem

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an economic policy address detailing his economic plan at the Detroit Economic Club August 8, 2016 in Detroit Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images/AFP)

50 GOP national security officials repudiate Trump

By ToI Staff and AP

Former members of Republican administrations warn nominee would be ‘most reckless president in American history’

Trump heckled by protesters during economic speech

By AP

Trump alleges Clinton emails linked to Iranian’s execution

By AP

GOP Senator Collins ‘dismayed’ by Trump, won’t vote for him

By AP

Israeli judoka Sagi Muki lies on the mat after he loses to Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia in the fight for the bronze medal in the men's under 73kg judo competition at the Olympic Games in Rio on August 8, 2016 (screen shot: Channel 56)

Israeli judoka loses out on Olympic bronze

Sagi Muki, European champion in under-73 kg class, goes down to Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia in battle for medal

Triumph over darknessGold medalist swimmer inspired by her Jewish history

By Gabe Friedman

Cover storyUS Muslim makes history, wears hijab in Olympics

By AP and ToI Staff

Stoudemire: I turned down a lot of NBA money to play in Israel

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu meets with then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, 14 September 2010. Moshe Milner/Flash90)

Analysis

Watching from an Israel aghast, president Trump is just unthinkable, while Clinton has started to look invaluable

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: As the Republican candidate proves capable of turning on anyone, that hitherto problematic Democratic nominee grows increasingly appealing for a tiny country, in a nasty region, dependent on its ties to the US

Ban Lebanon from the Olympics

The delegation from his country of origin broke the rules by displaying bigotry toward Israeli fellow athletes

Ukraine contains multitudes

Where personal heritage and professional responsibilities merge: the Jews of Kiev, who are living on love and courage

Eduardo Eurnekian and Baruch Tenembaum

Mr. Putin, let us bury Raoul Wallenberg

An open letter asking the Russian president to help locate the Swedish diplomat’s remains so they can be given a proper burial

An Alternative BDS

Presenting a new idea to fight the campus campaign to divest from Israel: Donate Israel bonds to schools

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Konstantinovsky Palace outside Saint Petersburg, August 9, 2016. (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)

‘We all want to restore relations,’ Putin says at Erdogan meet

By Raziye AKKOC

In first talks since Turkey downed Russian jet last year, Turkish leader says bilateral ties now in ‘very different phase’

Illustrative: Then-US vice president Joe Biden waving as he boards his plane at Ben Gurion Airport after a two-day visit in Israel on March 10, 2016. (Matty Stern/US Embassy of Tel Aviv)

Signaling priority shift, Biden omits Israel from foreign policy adieu

By Raphael Ahren

Jewish state barely gets a mention in US vice president’s parting treatise on ‘opportunities for the next administration’

MK David Amsalem of Likud votes at a polling station in Jerusalem on the method of elections within the Likud party for the upcoming Knesset elections. June 14, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Lawmaker proposes immunity for PM over ‘minor’ infractions

By Raoul Wootliff

Legislation would block police investigations into offenses that carry punishments of less than six months’ prison time

An Israel Aerospace Industries drone crashes into a home in the northern village of Zalafa, in Wadi Ara, August 9, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

25 lightly injured, family narrowly escapes, as military drone crashes into home

Israel Aerospace Industries says aircraft was on test flight; mother and children were downstairs as building’s top floor destroyed

Rabbis Yechiel Eckstein, left, and Moshe Sebbag at the Grand Synagogue of Paris, June 27, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Raising Christian money for Jewish causes, star rabbi earns praise and scorn

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hebron Jewish settlers' council head Yochai Damari (left) with the Palestinian man who came to the aid of the Mark family after the July 1, 2016 terrorist attack in which Rabbi Miki Mark was killed (Har Hebron Regional Council)

Settler leader intervenes as Palestinian loses job for saving terror victims

Head of Har Hebron Regional Council urges Israel to issue work permit to man who rushed to aid of slain rabbi’s family

The Palestinian Hathaleen family seen at the ruins of their sheds demolished by Israeli troops in the West Bank village of Um Alkhair, south of Hebron on August 9, 2016. The sheds were demolished for the 9th time as Palestinians don't have the Israeli building permits required, near the settlement of Karmael. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ????????
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Israel razes three EU-funded Palestinian homes in West Bank

Demolitions follow Brussels’ promise to continue funding shelters even in areas under full IDF control, despite Israeli objection

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, July 17, 2016. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Interior Ministry gives academic standing to religious studies

By Stuart Winer

Men who hold rabbinic ordination or who studied Talmud will qualify for municipal jobs that demand college degrees

Soldiers from the Givati Brigade attend the funeral of Lt. Hadar Goldin at the Kfar Saba cemetery on August 3, 2014. (Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

2 ministers belatedly say they’ll attend service for soldier slain in Gaza

Family of Hadar Goldin, whose remains are believed held by Hamas, earlier slammed state for not promising to send a representative to memorial event

Illustrative photo of Palestinian protesters waving Hamas and Islamic Jihad flags as they take part in a demonstration is support of Gaza in the West Bank (AFP/HAZEM BADER).

Islamic Jihad to boycott Palestinian local elections

By AFP and ToI Staff

Islamist terror group says upcoming vote not ‘appropriate’ way to solve political deadlock, urges Hamas to reconcile with Fatah

Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six people at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade on July 30, 2015, is seen in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on July 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pride parade killer hospitalized after provoking prison fight

Yishai Schlissel beaten up for tearing up photos of a fellow inmate’s daughters because they were ‘dressed immodestly’

Rachmiel Gurwitz meets with Damayan members, many of whom are human trafficking survivors. (Courtesy)

Good fellows

Rabbinical students learn to make social justice a reality

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Israeli former President Shimon Peres at the launch of a a new Israeli Innovation Center, which will be established at the Peres Center for Peace, July 21, 2016. (Yair Sagi/POOL)

Teen spiritPeres, turning 93, joins Snapchat to celebrate

By JTA

Galit Nakash at the Tel Aviv District Court, August 9, 2016. (Flash90)

Woman, baby held at airport for days over suspicion she isn’t mother

Illustrative: A Filipino caregiver walks with an Israeli man sitting in a wheelchair on April 22, 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Nepalese caregiver arrested on suspicion of elder abuse

A library official shows celebrated author Franz Kafka’s Hebrew vocabulary notebook at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Kafka’s manuscripts are Israel’s property, court rules

By AFP

Children from families of African migrants gather at a so-called day-care center in southern Tel Aviv, on May 28, 2015. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Army bars soldiers from volunteering with migrant kids

Members of the band Queen with Adam Lambert (in gold lame), standing in for the beloved and deceased Freddie Mercury (Courtesy Queen)

Don't stop me nowWhen Queen comes to town, show goes on with local singers

By Jessica Steinberg

The Innoviz Team. (Credit: David Garb)

Innoviz promises $100 solid-state automotive Lidar by 2018

By Dan Schwartz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waiting for government ministers to join him before a special cabinet meeting for Jerusalem Day in Jerusalem, June 2, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu’s chief of staff resigns as promotion scuppered

By Raoul Wootliff

Diamonds (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jewish jeweler sues insurer over diamonds he dumped in trash

By JTA

Israeli judoka Sagi Muki lies on the mat after he loses to Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia in the fight for the bronze medal in the men's under 73kg judo competition at the Olympic Games in Rio on August 8, 2016 (screen shot: Channel 56)

Hebrew media reviewDeath blow

By Ilan Ben Zion

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