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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 10, 2016

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign event at Trask Coliseum on August 9, 2016 in Wilmington, North Carolina. (Sara D. Davis/Getty Images/AFP)

US governor: Trump comments like pre-Rabin assassination rhetoric

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘This is insanity, it’s a sickness, it’s an evil,’ says Dan Malloy after Republican nominee suggests gun supporters could stop Clinton

Trump suggests gun owners could stop Clinton

Democrats: Trump encouraging violence against Clinton

By Josh Lederman and Catherine Lucey

US Secret Service ‘aware’ of Trump’s 2nd Amendment comments

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel's Yarden Gerbi points to the Israeli flag after defeating Japan's Miku Tashiro to win the bronze medal in the women's -63kg judo contest at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Jack GUEZ)

Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi wins bronze at Rio Olympics

Athlete is first Israeli medalist since 2008 games, second female winner in history; Netanyahu, Rivlin congratulate her: ‘Today you are our hero’

Israeli emergency tech aims to make Rio attendees safer

By Dan Schwartz

Olympics: Sealed with a kiss as Phelps roars to record-breaking 21 golds

By Rebecca BRYAN and Talek HARRIS

Livid Lebanese judoka screams he was ‘robbed,’ apologizes

By AFP

Police outside of the Belgian Prime Minister's Office in Brussels on August 7, 2016. (AFP/Belga/Nicolas Maeterlinck)

Live updates (closed)

Brussels-bound planes land safely following bomb threats

One aircraft said diverted to Toulouse, France; both inspected for suspicious items after passengers safely removed

Police in Jerusalem's Old City during the second Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Old City, June 17, 2016. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Jerusalem Police act to end neglect of city’s East

1,200 new officers and six new stations will ‘strengthen rule of law’ and provide ‘quality services’ to city’s Palestinian residents

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Department of State in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2011 (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

In courting Kissinger, does Clinton risk losing the left?

As Democratic nominee seeks endorsements from Republican elders, she may further alienate supporters of Bernie Sanders

Trump aide meets with Netanyahu officials in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Parents of Benghazi victims file lawsuit against Clinton

By AFP

Evan McMullin, independent presidential hopeful, once studied in Israel

By JTA

Cuban civil rights activist Oscar Biscet in Jerusalem, August 2016 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Castro still Israel’s enemy, prominent Cuban dissident warns on rare visit

By Raphael Ahren

Undeterred by torture and prison, Oscar Biscet draws attention to the totalitarian nature of the regime in Havana. I may get killed when I return but I must continue my fight, he says

What BDS stands for

His lifelong ties to Jews and shocking brush with anti-Semitism showed him that dark place where hate comes from

10 observations on 10 years in Israel

Reflecting with characteristic humor on what it means to hit the decade milestone: “Once an oleh, still an oleh”

Eliya Stromberg

Don’t miss the bus

A concerned father grapples with how to make sure his own ambitions for his child don’t blind him to his son’s needs

It’s the best of times for aliyah

To critics who complain that new immigrants don’t get enough help: Not true, moving here is blessedly smooth

An Israeli couple after a civil marriage in Cyprus. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

68% of Israelis support civil marriage, poll finds

By Raoul Wootliff

Survey conducted by liberal Orthodox group shows widespread opposition to current religion-based laws, including from within religious community

An Iraqi woman walks past burnt incubators standing outside Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad on August 10, 2016 after an overnight fire tore through the maternity ward, killing at least 12 premature newborn babies. (SABAH ARAR/AFP)

Fire in Baghdad maternity ward kills 12 babies

By Sinan Salaheddin

Grief-stricken parents search for newborns in charred rubble after deadly blaze likely caused by faulty electrical wiring

File: The border fence along the Israel-Gaza border, August 10, 2014 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gaza man infiltrates Israel, evades capture for nearly a day

By Judah Ari Gross

Local residents warned to stay in their homes; soldiers eventually recover suspect several miles inside Israeli territory

Portraits of members of the Hamas terror group who are jailed in Israeli prisons, seen during a demonstration in their support in the West Bank city of Hebron, on April 15, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/HAZEM BADER)

Hamas official: Prisoner exchange talks with Israel underway

By Tamar Pileggi

Terror group says negotiations will advance only after hundreds of Palestinian detainees released; latest Gaza tunnel collapse injures 8

Palestinian construction laborers work on a water well at a Saudi Arabia-funded housing project executed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 9, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)

UN vows ‘thorough review’ after Israel says staffer aided Hamas

Israeli troops demolish 5 sheds in the West Bank village of Um Alkhair, south of Hebron on August 9, 2016. T(Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

US ‘troubled’ by demolitions of EU-funded Palestinian homes

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

State Department says ‘provocative’ razing of West Bank structures ‘part of an ongoing process of land seizures’ and ‘denial of Palestinian development’

Israeli police arrest Palestinian protesters during a demonstration against administrative detention and in support of Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed, who has been fasting for 53 days over his detention without trial, outside the Ashkelon hospital where he is being held on August 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

13 arrested as Jews, Arabs clash over Palestinian hunger-striker

By AFP

Demonstration outside Ashkelon hospital where Bilal Kayed is being held turns violent; prisoner has refused food for 56 days

Ayelet Kaufman speaks at a memorial service for her brother, fallen soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin, at the Kfar Saba military cemetery on August 9, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Hundreds turn out to honor IDF soldier whose body is held by Hamas

Sister of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who died in 2014 Gaza war, remembers her brother as a ‘lighthouse’ now extinguished

Youssef Kobo (Facebook photo)

Belgian official apologizes for calling Israel ‘identical twin’ of IS

By JTA

Youssef Kobo, a Muslim adviser on diversity, says he was ‘young and stupid’ when he wrote Facebook post during 2014 Gaza war

Eliraz Fein, a 22-year-old Israeli settler from the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, is brought to court in suspicion of "inciting violence against soldiers" on May 7, 2014. (Meital Cohen/Flash90)

Settler charged with incitement for advocating attacks on soldiers, Arabs

Yitzhar resident Eliraz Fein, 24, also praised the murders of teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, Dawabsha family

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman announce a coalition agreement, May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Liberman didn’t tell PM before Munich statement, or later apology — TV report

Channel 2: ‘Complete disconnect’ between defense minister, who only joined the coalition in late May, and Netanyahu

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

‘Everything I have is gone,’ says homeowner after drone crash

25 lightly hurt as Israel Aerospace craft on test flight hits house in Zalafa in north, narrowly missing family; authorities launch probe

MK David Amsalem (Likud) in the Knesset, on June 28, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud distances itself from PM immunity proposal

Officials say MK’s suggestion for legislation blocking police probes on ‘minor’ infractions was not discussed with Netanyahu

Illustrative: Amar’e Stoudemire is surrounded by young fans at his youth basketball camp in Jerusalem, August 8, 2016. (Andrew Tobin)

With Amar’e Stoudemire’s help, Jerusalem looks to overtake Tel Aviv as Israel’s basketball capital

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

Anti-Semitic graffiti in Chinatown, Washington DC (Screen capture: Twitter)

Vandals scrawl ‘Jew’ on rats in DC art display

By JTA

American Jewish singer Matisyahu, performing at the Sacred Music Festival in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 4, 2015. (Eric Cortellessa/ File)

'One Day,' on FridayHawaiian coffee shop singer to perform with Matisyahu

By JTA

IsraAID's Navonel Glick (Facebook photo)

Israeli aid worker wins Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award

The final of the 2015 Miss Universe competition in Las Vegas, December 20, 2015. (John Locher/AP)

Islamic State threatens to bomb Miss Universe pageant

By AFP

Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt (screen capture: YouTube)

‘Sauna rabbi’ providing counseling at NY health center

By JTA

A vigil in Buenos Aires on the first anniversary of Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death, January 18, 2016. (Omer Musa Targal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Argentine judge seeks to revive Nisman’s probe into ex-president

By Almudena Calatrava

Illustrative: Young ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys sit in the streets in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on September 16, 2010. (Nati Shohat / Flash90)

3 arrested for fabricating pedophilic Christian cult to defraud donors

By Tamar Pileggi

Stutthof concentration camp (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

Germany tracks down 8 more Nazi camp suspects

By AP

The Jewish community in New York held a vigil and action in support of police accountability and the Movement For Black Lives. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

Black Lives Matter platform author defends Israel ‘genocide’ claim

A film crew preparing to record at the former concentration camp known as the Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 12, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Lithuanian city defends parties at former concentration camp

By JTA

Israel's Yarden Gerbi points to the Israeli flag after defeating Japan's Miku Tashiro to win the bronze medal in the women's -63kg judo contest at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Jack GUEZ)

Hebrew media reviewIn Rio, all that glitters need not be gold for Israel

By Joshua Davidovich

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