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What Matters Most On Monday, August 15, 2016

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Doctors at Wolfson Medical Center perform open heart surgery (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

With cardiac surgery, Israeli team saves Afghani boy’s life

Unlikely Facebook friendship crossing enemy lines leads to lifesaving treatment for baby born with heart defects

Donald Trump speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Donald Trump courts US expats in new Israel campaign

Republican Party looking to gain swing state votes from US-Israeli citizens, estimates 85% will go with its candidate

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump acknowledges the high temperature, after addressing supporters on August 13, 2016 in Fairfield, Connecticut. ( John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)

Ignoring Clinton, Trump goes on tear against media

By Laurie Kellman

Israeli security forces stand guard at the Gilboa/Jalama checkpoint, located north of the West Bank town of Jenin, on October 24, 2015. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinian woman stabs, lightly wounds IDF soldier in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Assailant pulls knife at Shaked checkpoint, is overpowered by security forces; female soldier suffers mild injury

Israeli troops take part in the demolition of the family home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed a 13-year-old girl while she slept in her bed in Kiryat Arba in June, in Bani Na'im, August 15, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF demolishes home of terrorist who killed 13-year-old in her bed

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Mehmed Younis Ali Abu-Hanak, 21, arrested by the Shin Bet security service on July 19, 2016, for allegedly stabbing a police officer in 2013. (Shin Bet)

3 years later, Palestinian arrested for attacking cop

By Judah Ari Gross

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sacred Heart University, Saturday, August 13, 2016, in Fairfield, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Trump: Clinton lacks ‘physical, mental stamina’ to beat Islamic State

Biden: Trump ‘has no clue’ about foreign policy, weakens US alliances; Rabin’s son warns Republican nominee: Same kind of ‘incitement’ led to murder of my father

Members of Women for the Temple visit the Temple Mount (Facebook photo)

The women waiting, and weaving, for the Third Temple

By Itamar Sharon

A group of religious activists is diligently laying the groundwork for a renewed sanctuary. ‘Step by step, patiently, we are preparing,’ one says

Jordan’s king: Israel ‘blatantly’ changing Jerusalem status quo

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

By Raoul Wootliff

Evangelical Lutherans to US: End Israel aid if settlements stay

By JTA

Maayan Davidovich in action in Rio on August 12, 2016 (Courtesy)

Israeli windsurfer misses out on medal at Rio Olympics

By ToI Staff and AP

Finishing in 7th place overall, Maayan Davidovich says she ‘wanted to leave Rio in better style’; family say they are proud of her

Regev: Memorial for athletes killed in 1972 must be part of Olympics opening ceremony

By ToI Staff and AP

Olympics: ‘Lightning’ strikes thrice as Bolt completes 100m hat-trick

By Rob Woollard

After judo medals, Israel basks in success of new ‘national sport’

Hazy, lazy days of summer

The Knesset may be on vacation, but the flurried backroom deals have just begun — and they warrant Israelis’ scrutiny

A wedding different from all others

A marriage symbolizing the incredible and rapid revival of Jewish life in Ukraine

Olim chadashim: The ‘suckers’ of the IDF

The wholesomely stupid young fools — she’s one too! — who gain so much in the army that it’s worth the hectoring

Bara’a Abed, a 20-year-old from East Jerusalem. She is part of a growing trend of Arabs joining Israel's national service. (Dov Lieber / Times of Israel)

More Arab Israelis join national service, discovering state benefits, patriotism

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands in front of 16 soldiers who represent the 16 Turkish states founded in the past at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey on January 12, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ADEM ALTAN)

Abbas to meet Erdogan by the end of the month

By Stuart Winer

Turkish and Palestinian leaders reportedly to discuss situation in Gaza and ‘the recent Israeli escalation in the region’

Hard disk drive (Pixabay)

Hard drive noises could betray sensitive data, says BGU team

By Dan Schwartz

Malware to manipulate the clicks and clacks of disk drives is the latest example of how hackers could steal information from a computer, even one unconnected to the internet

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy defense minister: African migrants don’t need helping hand

By Tamar Pileggi

Eli Ben Dahan hails decision barring soldiers from aiding refugees in Tel Aviv, says IDF should focus on programs ‘that benefit Israelis’

Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, January 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)

For IS recruits, Islamic knowledge is a disadvantage

By Aya Batrawy, Paisley Dodds and Lori Hinnant

Terrorist organization preys on those with minimal connection to Islam, because the more they know the less likely they are to endorse its methods

A woman burns a full-body covering in the street as residents celebrate the retreat of Islamic State in Manbij, Syria, August 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Liberated from IS, Syrian women burn burqas, men buzz beards

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In terror group’s former stronghold of Manbij, one cheering woman shouts as she sets veil alight: ‘To hell with whoever invented this thing’

Demonstrators protesting outside the Spanish Government Delegation in Barcelona, on October 20, 2015. (Albert Llop/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/via JTA/File)

Why Spain is standing up to BDS — for now

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Matisyahu (left) and Kekoa Alama perform together at the Hollywood Palladium in California on August 12, 2016 (screen capture: Facebook)

Maui MenschMatisyahu performs with viral video singer at LA concert

By JTA

Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (Zack Snyder/Warner Bros)

Ranting for GadotDirector springs to defend ‘Wonder Woman’

By Stuart Winer

An Israel policeman's uniform, illustrative (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

2 cops indicted for sexually harassing female complainants

Mayor of Ashkelon, Itamar Shimoni, on July 28, 2014. (Flash 90)

State to indict Ashkelon mayor on bribery, drops rape charges

File: Singer Leonard Cohen during a concert in Ramat Gan on September 24, 2009 (Marko/Flash90)

Hallelujah! For 82nd birthday, Leonard Cohen has new album

By AFP

Technion Israel Institute of Technology campus in Haifa (Courtesy)

Technion beats out Hebrew U in world ranking

By Stuart Winer

The century-old photo of Siegfried Lamm, a German soldier killed in action during World War I. (Courtesy of Noam Efron/via JTA)

Picture perfect: German soldier’s World War I photo leads to family link

By Hillel Kuttler

Rafi Refaeli, father of Israeli model Bar Refaeli, in 2007 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Bar Refaeli’s father arrested for assaulting police

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