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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 16, 2016

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday, August 15, 2016. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Proposing ‘extreme vetting,’ Trump says no entry to US for anti-Semites

By JTA and AFP

Toning down rhetoric, GOP contender also vows to work with Israel, but draws criticism from Jewish groups over test for would-be immigrants

Rabin’s son likens Trump rhetoric to incitement that led to father’s murder

By JTA

ExclusiveWasserman Schultz, challenger brawl over Israel amid heated primary

By Eric Cortellessa

Giuliani, mayor of New York during 9/11, appears to forget attacks

By AP

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

Egyptian judoka who snubbed Israeli opponent reprimanded, sent home

By AP and ToI Staff

Olympic officials say Islam El Shehaby’s refusal to shake hands with Or Sasson ‘contrary to the rules of fair play and against the spirit’ of the Games

Medalists arrive back in Israel to Olympic hero’s welcome

Defeated French pole vaulter likens Brazilian crowds to Nazis

By AP and Stuart Winer

Golden oldieJewish swimmer is oldest to win Olympic race in pool

By JTA

Michael Levin receives a package of Tastykakes, soon after he was drafted into the IDF, on March 20, 2005. (Tami Gross)

First Person

Why the life and death of lone soldier Michael Levin still resonates, a decade after the war

By Judah Ari Gross

‘If anything happens to me, I just want to say that I love you and miss you and wish you all the best,’ Levin said in a voicemail, just before something happened to him

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)

Live updates (Closed)

Egypt denies judoka sent home over Israel handshake snub

By Marissa Newman

Cairo says Islam El Shehaby ‘returned with his colleagues. The whole judo team returned yesterday at dawn’

Brunhilde Pomsel, former personal secretary to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, speaking during in new film about her life, A German Life. (Screen capture: YouTube)

'This is absolutely not about clearing my conscience'

Goebbels’ secretary, 105, breaks silence, claims ignorance, in new film

By Raoul Wootliff

‘We knew nothing’ of the horrors, says Brunhilde Pomsel, personal aide to the notorious Nazi propagandist, in ‘A German Life’

Melanie Takefman

Get over the boycott

BDS is wrong; instead of demonizing Israel, work from within to eliminate discrimination and the occupation

BDS is doomed to fail

Despite its aura of nonviolence, the boycott seeks to end Israel as a Jewish state, clouding any real hope of peace

Checkpoint bluff

Think those barriers are keeping you safe? Maybe, but consider their wide-ranging impact, depending on who you are

Natan Sharansky (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Analysis

Sharansky to Israel’s regulators: Shut down ‘repugnant, immoral’ binary options

By David Horovitz and Simona Weinglass

Jewish Agency chief urges all immigrants and other potential employees to steer clear of the industry, ‘which uses immoral methods to entice innocent victims’

Hezbollah terror cells, set up via Facebook in West Bank and Israel, busted by Shin Bet

By Judah Ari Gross

Nine Palestinians held for allegedly planning suicide bombings, ambushes, under orders from Shiite terror group’s handlers in Lebanon and Gaza

A sketch of a suspect is taped to a wall outside of a mosque up the street from the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque where Imam Maulama Akonjee and his assistant, Thara Uddin, 64, were killed in a shooting on August 13 in the Queens borough of New York on August 15, 2016 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Suspect charged in daylight slaying of New York imam and friend

Police recover revolver tying Oscar Morel to Saturday murder as community leaders at funerals decry rising xenophobia

A wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with the IDF in Al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, August 16 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Some 35 Palestinians injured in clashes with IDF near Hebron

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Army carries out overnight operation to uncover weaponry, ammunition in al-Fawar refugee camp

Michael Oren attends a political debate held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Interview

Michael Oren aims to fight boycotts with the help of poets and writers

By Raphael Ahren

In terms of public diplomacy, says PM’s new special envoy, often ‘we’ve been working backwards: We tell people to defend Israel without actually telling them what they should be defending’

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)

‘Temple Mount won’t be like Mecca, Medina,’ senior Likud MK says

Ex-Shin Bet chief says Israel won’t allow holy site to be exclusive to Muslims; Jordanian minister accuses Jews of ‘viciously storming’ compound

Palestinian mourners chant slogans while carrying the body of Mahmoud Shalan, 17, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Deir Debwan, near Ramallah, March 2, 2016. (Photo by Flash90)

PA agency: Israel to hand over Palestinian terrorists’ bodies

Prisoners group does not specify how many corpses will be released for burial, but says one shooter’s remains to be delivered to family Wednesday

A man holds up his cellphone with a screenshot of the Pokemon Go game in front of the White House in Washington, DC, July 12, 2016. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Pokemon No: The battle to declare Auschwitz off-limits

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Illustrative: An elderly man crosses the street in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2009. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Virtual reality can help prevent falls in elderly, Israeli team finds

By Dan Schwartz

Technion Israel Institute of Technology campus in Haifa (Courtesy)

Technion beats out Hebrew U in world ranking

By Stuart Winer

George Soros speaks at the Festival of Economics in Trento, Italy in 2012. (Wikimedia Commons, Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Soros email hack reveals plans to fight ‘racist’ Israeli policies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a deal to bring Yisrael Beytenu into the government coalition, May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Feeling fabNetanyahu’s health ‘excellent,’ doctor says

Fyvush Finkel poses, in the heart of New York's theater district, on Dec. 23, 1996. Finkel, the plastic-faced character actor whose career in stage and screen started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway and on TV in "Boston Public," died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2016(AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Emmy-winning actor Fyvush Finkel dies at 93

By Mark Kennedy

Writer and journalist Bambi Sheleg (Facebook)

Award-winning journalist, advocate for tolerance dies

Yarden Gerbi at Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on August 15, 2016. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewEvery bronze medal has a touch of gray

By Joshua Davidovich

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