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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 13, 2016

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Israel's Or Sasson celebrates after defeating Cuba's Alex Garcia Mendoza to win the men's +100kg judo bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / Toshifumi KITAMURA)

Or Sasson wins Israel’s second judo bronze at Rio Games

Hours after being snubbed by Egyptian opponent, Israeli judoka powers through to beat Cuban rival in battle for third place medal

Israel’s judo bronze medalist says he shrugged off Egyptian’s snub, focused on winning

IOC to probe Egyptian judoka’s refusal to shake Israeli’s hand

By AP

Etiquette of judo integral to Japanese martial art

By AP

Egypt's Islam Elshehaby (blue) refuses to shake hands after defeat by Israel's Or Sasson in their men's +100kg judo contest match of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016. (AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)

Egyptian judoka loses to Israeli, refuses to shake hands

By ToI Staff and AFP

In latest snub of Israel by Arab participant at Olympics, Islam el-Shahaby booed by Rio crowd for breaching judo tradition of respect following defeat by Or Sasson

Israel's Or Sasson (white) competes with Egypt's Islam El Shahaby during their men's +100kg judo contest at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016. (AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)

Egyptian judoka quits sport after refusing to shake Israel rival’s hand

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative photo of a remote home in Norway (CC BY-supervillian, Flickr)

Fasting in the lands of the midnight sun

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Extremely long summer days in Norway bring challenges for Jews and Muslims when observing fast days like Tisha B’Av

The Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem, as seen from the Israeli Air Force's annual fly-by on Independence Day, May 12, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Israel ups Jerusalem security for Jewish mourning day

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hundreds of extra police to be deployed for Tisha B’Av as advocates of prayer rights on Temple Mount call for mass visits

An aerial view of the Acre harbor (Israel Tourism/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Port city of Acre is making a comeback, one acre at a time

By Jessica Steinberg

With a luxury hotel and plans to revitalize the harbor area, one of the world’s oldest settlements is undergoing a modern-day renaissance to the benefit of Arabs and Jews

Why I want the Temple

Envisioning a place that is the source of worldwide peace and prosperity; not the epicenter of controversy

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Europe’s flawed diplomacy

EU players must stop helping Palestinians delegitimize Israel and start nudging them towards peace talks

Sir Sassoon Eskell (center, in fez) sits directly on the left of King Faisal I of Iraq (with dark beard) in Baghdad in a photo from the 1920s. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dismay, poetry as home of Jew who helped found modern Iraq is destroyed

By JTA and Dov Lieber

Tourism Ministry, historians and a poet decry demolition of 100-year-old villa of Sir Sassoon Eskell

Former Saudi general Dr. Anwar Eshki (center, in striped tie) and other members of his delegation, meet with Israeli Knesset members and others during a visit to Israel on July 22, 2016. (via Twitter)

Some in Saudi media criticize anti-Semitism, warm up to Israel

Tangible shift comes weeks after visit by former senior Riyadh official to Israel, West Bank; improving ties likely influenced by Iran deal

The Hilton Taba, rebuilt after the 2004 bombings (NYC2TLV / Wikipedia)

Terrorists who killed 34 in Taba in 2004 may have used Nazi-era landmines

12 Israelis died in Sinai hotel attacks; IS now also said to be extricating landmines in area, using the explosives to build IEDs

Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Chile Imad Nabil Ghadaa quotes anti-Semitic 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' text in a speech on May 15, 2015. (Screen capture)

Obama’s final religious freedom report slams Palestinian anti-Semitism

2015 review notes rise in assaults on Israelis over tensions at Temple Mount, retaliatory attacks by Jews on Muslims and Christians

A Syrian woman hugs a Syrian Democratic Forces fighter after the coalition force freed the town on Manbij from IS control, August 13 2016. (Screenshot/K24)

Syrian civilians rejoice after being freed from IS control

Coalition forces retake former terror group stronghold of Manbij; operations continue to root out remaining militants

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)

IS frees hundreds of abducted civilians in north Syria

Illustrative image of Syrians evacuating a body on a stretcher following airstrikes on the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Maysar in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on July 17, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

Airstrikes in Syria’s Aleppo hit hospital, market, kill 18

By AP

Celebrated member of volunteer rescue group, famous for saving baby from ruined building in 2014, killed in bombing Wednesday

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a gathering of the National Association of Home Builders in Miami Beach, Florida, on August 11, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

On the national stage, the Trump train stalls

By Ivan Couronne

Republican candidate’s team is struggling to transform his winning primary campaign model into an unbeatable election machine

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at Trump Tower in New York, May 10, 2016. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Trump taste for exaggeration begins at home

By AFP

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton being introduced prior to her speech at Adams City High School in Commerce City, Colorado, on August 3, 2016. (AFP/Jason Connolly)

Clinton releases tax return, blasts Trump for not doing so

By AFP

Democratic party nominee and her husband Bill, the former president, report $10.6 million in income for 2015

Portrait of Rabbi Chaim Richman, the International Director of the Temple Institute, which is dedicated to the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The third Jewish Temple is coming to your Facebook feed

By Andrew Tobin

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US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined by (from left), Washington City Council member Jack Evans, Uprising Muffin Company owner Donnie Simpson, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., at the muffin store in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2016. (AP/Alex Brandon, File)

First personVideo proves Clinton suffering seizures? Not so, I was there

Singer Achinoam Nini, known internationally as Noa, meets Pope Francis in Krakow, Poland in late July. (Screen capture Achinoam Nini Facebook)

Pontifical embraceIsraeli singer Noa has a hug for the pope in Poland

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Haredi father who blocked son’s divorce to serve time in Israel

By JTA

This undated photo released Aug. 10, 2016, provided by the Greek Culture Ministry, shows the 11th century BCE skeleton of a teenager excavated recently at Mount Lykaion in the southern Peloponnese region of Greece, the mountaintop sanctuary of Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods. (Greek Culture Ministry via AP)

Chilling find on Greek mountain may confirm dark legend of human sacrifice

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS

Illustrative: Israeli shoppers buy food from the frozen section of Rami Levi supermarket in Talpiot, Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Frozen veggie maker recalls all potato products amid listeria fears

Grant Smith, the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (screen capture: YouTube)

Lawsuit claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a burqini (YouTube screen capture)

Rights groups in uproar over French resort burqini ban

By AFP

Rep. Hank Johnson speaks at Georgia Piedmont Technical College in Clarkston, GA, in February 2016. (Courtesy)

‘Termites’ congressman toured West Bank with pro-Palestinian group

By JTA

Medic Daniel Klughaupt dons his clown costume when treating an Israeli boy who was hit by a minibus in central Israel, on Thursday August 11 2016. (Courtesy United Hatzalah)

Clown princeMedic dons clown costume to treat Israeli boy hit by bus

By AFP

The underground galleries, part of the Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, in Walbrzych, Poland, on August 28, 2015. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)

Needle in a haystackHunt for Nazi ‘gold train’ resumes in Poland

By AFP

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