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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 14, 2016

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Bronze medalist Or Sasson celebrates on the podium of the men's-over 100kg judo contest at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 12, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Bronze medal judoka: Muslim athletes often snub Israelis

By Stuart Winer and Dov Lieber

Or Sasson says he wanted to show ‘respect’ to Egyptian rival Islam El Shehaby, who says Sasson is ‘not my friend’

Olympics: Bronze for hijab-wearing US fencer Muhammad

By AFP

PM hails snubbed, bronze-winning judoka for showing ‘beautiful, strong face of Israel’

Israeli triple jump champion advances to Olympic finals

Prof. Shmuel Hauser, chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, seen at the Finance Committee in the Knesset. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Israeli regulator: Binary options fraud disgusting, ruinous to our reputation

By Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz

Shmuel Hauser, chair of the Israel Securities Authority, says Israel-based industry fleecing victims worldwide is a problem of national significance; vows to gather all arms of law enforcement to tackle it

The City Hall and the center of the old town in Brussels, Belgium on December 9, 2005. (Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC-BY Wikimedia commons)

In European first, Belgium bans binary options

By Simona Weinglass

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man reads Lamentations outside one of the entrances to the Temple Mount, during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, on August 14, 2016, in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Live updates (closed)

Soldier lightly hurt overpowering attacker in attempted stabbing

By Ilan Ben Zion

Trump blames media for plummet in polls; Abbas asks Arab MKs to mediate between Fatah, Hamas; 2 Jews arrested by police on Temple Mount

Gezahegn Dereve (left) and Demoz Deboch check out Times Square, NYC on August 6, 2016, on their five week speaking tour through the US to raise awareness about Jews in Ethiopia waiting to move to Israel. (courtesy Ryan Porush)

Canvassing America to drum up support for Ethiopian aliyah

By Melanie Lidman

Gezahegn Dereve and Demoz Deboch are traveling through the US for five weeks seeking backing to bring their community to Israel

Defense minister ordered end to soldiers helping migrant kids

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative photo of a psychiatric hospital. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Shabbat on the psych ward

By Hugo Schwyzer

Crushed to learn he was still too sick to go home, he found salvation in a paranoid schizophrenic’s wise words

History, written by survivors

When losers do the writing, there’s some nobility or purpose to their suffering; Tisha B’Av liturgy has none of that

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Baseless love, for children

Using Tisha B’Av to help instill in her kids emotional habits that will make them less prone to hatred in the future

What every Jew can mourn on Tisha B’Av

Many may even celebrate today’s absence of a Temple, but the rifts among the Jewish People are reason for all to lament

Israeli security forces stand guard as a group of Jewish men end their visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, during the annual Tisha B'Av fast day on August 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Police, Palestinians scuffle on Temple Mount as Jews flock to Western Wall for Tisha B’Av

By Raoul Wootliff

9 Jews detained for ‘disturbing the peace’ during visit to holy site on day marking destruction of the Temples

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

Abbas asks Arab MKs to mediate between Fatah, Hamas

At Ramallah meeting, PA president also says Israeli Arabs can be bridge for peace with the Palestinians

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 says Gaza employee diverted rubble on PA instructions

By AFP

Wahid Bossh, 38, is charged by Israel with transferring 300 tons of rubble to help build a Hamas naval facility

View of the stars during a meteor shower in the skies above the Negev desert, near Mitzpe Ramon on August 12, 2016. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Meteor shower dazzles thousands over Negev Desert

Astronomers, star-gazers flock to Mitzpe Ramon to witness one of the most spectacular displays of shooting stars in years

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during an Israel Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Defense minister ordered end to soldiers helping migrant kids

By Raoul Wootliff

Liberman reportedly told IDF chief of staff that servicemembers should volunteer with ‘Holocaust survivors or the needy’ instead

Children rescued from Nazi concentration camps in Europe arrive at the Atlit detention camp near Haifa in 1945. (GPO)

Ashkenazi babies, children of Holocaust survivors, also ‘disappeared’ by Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

New investigation into newborns abducted from Yemenite families reveals practice may have gone beyond Middle Eastern Jewish communities

Young men hold Lebanese national flags and yellow flags of the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah as they watch its leader Hassan Nasrallah deliver a speech on a screen in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on August 13, 2016 during a commemoration marking the tenth anniversary of the end of the Second Lebanon War. (AFP Photo/Mahmoud Zayyat)

2006 war delivered blow to Israel’s ‘spirit, arrogance,’ Nasrallah taunts

Lebanese terror leader says ‘defeat’ of Jewish state in Second Lebanon War serves as deterrent against further IDF operations

A sign which translates as "Charlie Hebdo - Sold Out" is displayed at a newsagents kiosk in Marseille on January 14, 2015 shortly after the latest edition of the French satirical weekly went on sale. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT)

France investigates death threats against Charlie Hebdo

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Year after deadly terror attack, satirical magazine files police complaint after new issue with Muslim-mocking cartoon cover sparks uptick in threats

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 13, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump promises a major push in blue state Connecticut

By Jonathan Lemire

Republican presidential nominee’s foray into Democrat stronghold raises questions; he says he has ‘so many friends’ there

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Kissimmee, Florida, on August 11, 2016. (AFP/Gregg Newton)

Frustrations mounting, GOP could be near breaking point on Trump

By Jill Colvin and Josh Lederman

One of the most active chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, organizing anti-Israel campaigns and events throughout the year (SJP at UOIT/DC Facebook page)

Canadian university accused of ‘banning’ Jewish students

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Sandals mark the scene of the crime, not far from the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where the leader of a New York City mosque and an associate were fatally shot in a brazen daylight attack, August 13, 2016. (AP/Craig Ruttle)

New York imam and associate shot and killed near mosque

By AP

Soldiers from the IDF's Golani Brigade seen during Krav Maga training at the Regavim Army base on April 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

After MP’s murder, UK lawmakers turn to Israeli martial art

By Raoul Wootliff

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

A woman wearing a burkini at the beach in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo)

Another French Riviera resort bans burqini swimsuits from beaches

By AFP

Pope Francis speaks to believers as he leaves the Porziuncola (Portiuncula) at Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, near Assisi, August 4, 2016, during a private visit to mark the 800th anniversary of the 'Pardon of Assisi,' in which the slates of sinners can be wiped clean. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Pope arrives for surprise visit to ex-prostitutes

By AFP

Robert De Niro arrives for the opening of the Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia, August 12, 2016. (AP)

You talking to me?De Niro compares Trump to ‘Taxi Driver’ madman

Aida Hadzialic, February 2015. (Flickr/Socialdemokraterna/Victor Svedberg/CC BY-ND 2.0)

Muslim, youngest-ever Swedish minister resigns over drunk driving

By AFP

The scene of a car crash in which two women and a young girl were killed, August 2, 2016 (Magen David Adom)

Trucker was on heroin when he crashed, killing 3 — indictment

By Stuart Winer

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

Hebrew media reviewFull medal racket

By Joshua Davidovich

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