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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 11, 2016

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Rescue personnel attend the scene of a stabbing attack in the A-Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 11, 2016 (photo credit: United Hatzalah)

Israeli teen moderately hurt in East Jerusalem stabbing

Suspected terrorist flees on foot after thrusting screwdriver into victim, according to police, rescuers

IDF said investigating shooting deaths of over 20 Palestinians since last fall

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinian mom of Israeli soldier in 21-year fight for citizenship

Duma survivor Ahmed Dawabsha rehospitalized with fever, infections

Michael Levin at his IDF swearing-in ceremony (Lone Soldier Center)

Remembering Michael LevinHis source of power was sheer determination

The American-born lone soldier who out-Israelied the Israelis

By Joel Chasnoff

How Michael Levin, who was killed 10 years ago on a Lebanese hillside, changed the Israel Defense Forces from within, by both inspiring and enabling thousands of lone soldiers to bring their passion for Israel into its ranks

The aftermath of the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. (Newspaper La Nación (Argentina/Wikipedia Commons)

Live updates (closed)

After 22 years, final AMIA bombing victim is identified

Augusto Daniel Jesus, 20, is named after DNA analysis by Argentina’s Special Investigating Unit into 1994 attack at Buenos Aires Jewish center

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, August 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

With gun comment, Trump’s bid to stay on message goes up in firestorm

By Eric Cortellessa

Just a day after the candidate showed he can restrain himself as his GOP colleagues have urged, Trump returned to classic form with rhetoric that reminded some of the sort that led to Rabin’s assassination

AnalysisHas the unsinkable Trump campaign ship run aground?

By Michael Mathes

Secret Service speaks to Trump campaign over apparent hint at Clinton assassination

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump accuses Obama of founding Islamic State terror group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Google Maps does label Palestine or the West Bank. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Contrary to claim, Google didn’t wipe Palestine off Maps

Internet giant never listed the area as a country, claims a glitch led to the removal of the West Bank

Luc Descheemaeker (back row, left) receiving an award from Belgium’s Queen Paola (in pink), in 2002 for his children’s puppet theater play based on Art Spiegelman’s cartoon Holocaust memoir 'Maus.' (Courtesy of Sint-Jozefs Institute/JTA)

Belgian school ‘proud’ of teacher honored at Iran Holocaust cartoon show

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Luc Descheemaeker drew the words ‘Arbeit macht frei’ over a wall with guard posts, presumably comparing the West Bank to Auschwitz

Naftali Bennett

Ancient Jewish Jerusalem is a fact

Ahead of Tisha B’Av, a day Jews mourn the loss of their holiest site, Education Minister Naftali Bennett slams Palestinian efforts to deny history despite ample archeological proof

For Hezbollah, media is a weapon

The Iran-backed militia has long grasped the strategic value of controlling the press by any means necessary

American Jewry’s Rorschach test: Zionism

Challenging the ‘given’ that progressive ideals and strong support for the Jewish state are inherently contradictory

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Why I am going gray for Tisha B’Av

She removed her Facebook photo (her identity), in favor of common ground (humanity), to reduce the hatred that divides

Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) on April 12, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Zionist Union implodes, Yesh Atid soars in latest polls

Center-left opposition mainstay collapses to 8 and 10 seats, while Yair Lapid’s centrist party doubles to 22; coalition parties also get a boost

Rabbinical students visit Hebron 2014 in a trip organized by T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (Facebook)

US rabbinic group, Breaking the Silence team up for West Bank tours

By ToI Staff and JTA

Partnership aims to ’empower more American Jews to meet both Palestinians and IDF veterans who have served in the territories’

File: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (screen capture: YouTube)

Turkey’s parliament to ratify Israel deal before end of month

By AFP

‘Israel has lived up to our conditions,’ says Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, wants reconciliation implemented ‘as soon as possible’

Ottawa police officers walk near the National War Memorial where a soldier was shot just blocks away from Parliament Hill, on October 22, 2014 in Ottawa, Canada. (photo credit: Mike Carroccetto/Getty Images/AFP)

Suspect killed as possible IS terror plot thwarted in Canada

Aaron Driver, reportedly linked to Islamic State, planned to carry out suicide bombing before police raid on home in small town south of Toronto, official says

Refugees are provided a place to sleep, a breakfast, and a to-go lunch before leaving for the day at the Holocaust Memorial beneath Milan's Central Train Station. (Rossella Tercatin/ Times of Israel)

Italian Holocaust memorial begins second year as migrant shelter

By Rossella Tercatin

Illustrative photo of Twitter user on December 11, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ANDER GILLENEA / AFP / ANDER GILLENEA)

US judge rules Twitter not liable for jihadi content on site

By AP

Lawsuit against social media giant by families of Americans killed by Islamic State gunman in Jordan thrown out of federal court

Illustrative: Doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem performing surgery, Jerusalem, March 5, 1990. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Court orders striking Hadassah doctors back to work

Other public hospitals remain on weekend footing to protest Finance Ministry reforms; late-night talks between doctors, Treasury break down

Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere delivers a statement to announce new anti-terror measures in Berlin, on August 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)

German interior minister: Jihadists should lose citizenship

By AFP

Berlin unveils tough counterterrorism measures after spate of Islamic State-claimed attacks

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Khartoum's airport, July 19, 2016. (AFP/Ashraf Shazly)

Abbas rejected US call to meet with Netanyahu — report

At Paris meeting last month with John Kerry, Palestinian leader said to demand settlement freeze, prisoner release as precondition for talks

Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a rally in Kissimmee, Florida on August 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Gregg Newton)

Clinton: Trump gun comments ‘incite violence, crossed a line’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Trump team tries to douse latest firestorm as Secret Service reportedly says GOP campaign approached about remarks suggesting gun advocates could do something about rival

Developer Aby Rosen’s Instagram account features a photo of a billboard at one of his Lower Manhattan building sites that seems to urge voters to turn away from Donald Trump. (Screenshot from Instagram)

Kushner’s occasional business partner posts anti-Trump message

By JTA

Yakov Toumarkin competes in a Men's 200m Backstroke heat during the swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 10, 2016. AFP/ Odd Andersen)

Israeli swimmer Toumarkin fizzles out in Rio semifinals

Yakov Toumarkin finishes 15th in 200m backstroke, after barely squeaking past first round

A fresco showing a tiger's tail found in Tzippori, dating from the early second century CE (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Rare Roman-era frescoes uncovered in Galilee

By Stuart Winer

More Headlines

USA's Michael Phelps, showing circular marks from cupping treatment on his skin, as he looks at the results board in the Olympics swimming pool, Rio de Janeiro, August 9, 2016. (AFP/Martin Bureau)

Sucking it upThe Yiddish secret propelling Michael Phelps

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Chelmsford Crown Court (CC BY-Stuart Axe, Flickr)

Laying down the lawUK judge raps neo-Nazi in profanity-laced exchange

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn makes his keynote address on the third day of the annual Labour Party Conference in Brighton, England, September 29, 2015. (AFP/Leon Neal)

UK Labour event drops Israeli-linked firm, loses security

By JTA

Illustrative: Ethiopian Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against violence and racism directed at Israelis of Ethiopian descent, May 18, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘No Ethiopians wanted’ job ad sparks outrage

A painting of Adolf Hitler wearing a hat with Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," by Portland Jewish artist Matthew Abelman, was been taken down from the Night Light Lounge on August 7, 2016. (screen capture: KATU)

Furor in a beer cupOregon bar removes painting linking Trump to Hitler

By JTA

Police grab an unidentified man scaling Trump Tower using suction cups on August 10, 2016 in New York. (AFP/ Bryan R. Smith)

Suck-upPolice collar climber trying to scale Trump Tower for meet

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a plate of hummus (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Salmonella-tainted tahina recalled, but Israelis likely already exposed

File: Then-senator Joe Lieberman, right, talking to Gen. David Petraeus at the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters in Afghanistan during a congressional delegation tour, Nov. 10, 2010. (Joshua Treadwell)

Joe Lieberman says he will vote for Clinton

By JTA

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Briar Woods High School, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Say what?9 times Trump said he didn’t say what he said

By Ivan Couronne

Yarden Gerbi celebrates after winning third place in the women's under-63kg judo contest at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 9, 2016. (AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)

Hebrew media reviewOlympic fever

By Ilan Ben Zion

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