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What Matters Most On Friday, August 19, 2016

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Illustrative. A French soldier stands guard in front of the Great Mosque in Strasbourg, eastern France, during Friday prayers on November 20, 2015. Muslims gathered here to pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 attacks. (AFP/Partrick Hertzog)

French religious Jew stabbed in possible Islamist attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Hasidic victim in Strasbourg lightly injured by knifeman shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ according to witnesses; attacker, said to have mental issues, arrested

Illustrative photo of Muslim women wearing burqas (AFP/Torsten Blackwood/File)

German interior minister calls for partial ban on burqas

By AFP

Former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2005 (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Trump adviser allegedly bragged about firing Jews from Pentagon jobs

By Eric Cortellessa

Former Defense official Joseph Schmitz also accused of making anti-Semitic remarks such as: ‘Ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews’

Clinton campaign attacks Breitbart News as ‘anti-Semitic’

By JTA

In a first, Trump says he regrets painful comments

By Steve Peoples and Julie Bykowicz

Kaine visits Touro Synagogue, takes aim at Trump

By JTA

Former director-General of the Foreign Ministry Dore Gold at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, July 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry bans contact between diplomats, local press

By Stuart Winer

Prohibition issued following leak about Arab states’ decision to refrain from crackdown on Israel’s nuclear program

Daniel Behrman and Jenna Kruger met at a weekend conference in Jerusalem through their Masa internship programs. They are to marry in September 2016 (Courtesy of Behrman and Kruger/via JTA)

Tu B'AvThey didn’t stay 'just friends' for long...

For ‘Jewish Valentine’s Day,’ meet 5 couples who found love on Israel trips

By Gabe Friedman

The Land of Milk and Honey served as matchmaker for these diverse Diaspora Jews

Human bones from a middle finger dating back 90,000 years found in Saudi Arabia, according to an announcement August 17, 2016 by the country's Commission for Tourism and National Heritage.

Archaeologists dig up Middle East’s oldest middle finger

In joint Saudi-UK project, excavations in Arabian desert uncover human bone believed to be some 90,000 years old

Louis C.K. appears onstage at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs" at the Beacon Theatre on February 28, 2015 in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Analysis

2 dead cats and 9 eleven deniers add up to comedic alchemy from Louis C.K. in Jerusalem

By David Horovitz

I thought he’d be grouchy, I assumed he’d be offensive, I knew he’d be rude. Wrong, wrong, and, yes, but…

‘Hamilton’ prepared me for aliyah

Binge-listening to the musical while packing to move to Israel, she found commentary on her experience in its lyrics

Color my world with hope

It was time to live life fully again; she’ll start by climbing Kilimanjaro to raise money for Shalva’s disabled kids

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Tu B’Av love is a long-term relationship

Some historical perspective to replace the teddy bears, hearts and balloons with real commitment to the Jewish People

Gideon D. Sylvester

Rabbi Cardozo, there’s reason to mourn!

As long as the world holds tragedy, inequality, and cruelty, Judaism’s saddest day inspires national self-improvement

Emergency and rescue services stand by as an El Al makes an emergency landing back in Tel Aviv after one of its tires exploded during take-off. (MDA)

El Al plane lands safely back in Tel Aviv after tire explodes during take-off

Several passengers treated for shock when flight to Kiev turns around; airport crew discover tire remains on runway

Ahmad Abughaush, of Jordan, left, battles Alexey Denisenko of Russia, in men's 68-kg taekwondo gold medal match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, August 18, 2016. (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Israeli town celebrates as golden son grabs Jordan’s first-ever medal

By AP and ToI Staff

Taekwondo fighter Ahmad Abughaush, reportedly born in town of Abu Ghosh outside Jerusalem, makes unexpected run to win Olympic gold

A party thrown for Sufyan Abdu, who had just been released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence for attempting to poison Israelis during the Second Intifada, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on August 15, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

3 days after ending 14 years jail for poison plot, Palestinian rearrested for incitement

By Judah Ari Gross

Sufyan Abdu, who planned to kill Jerusalem cafe-goers in 2002, nabbed for ‘incitement’ after Hamas flags flown at his welcome home party

Illustrative: Palestinian police take part in a training session of the Palestinian special police force in the West Bank city of Ramallah in 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Four dead in Nablus as Palestinian police battle gunmen

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Four Paws worker treats a monkey at the neglected zoo in Gaza. (Four Paws)

The latest Gaza operation: Rescue inhabitants of ‘world’s worst zoo’

By Rich Tenorio

US State Department spokesman John Kirby briefs reporters on August 18, 2016. (screen capture/US State Department)

US says $400m cash delivery to Iran was ‘leverage’ for release of prisoners

By ToI Staff and AP

In first, State Department admits connection between payment, prisoner swap and implementation of controversial nuke deal

A Syrian civil defense volunteer carries a wounded child following a reported airstrike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Qatirji in the northern city of Aleppo on July 23, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Thaer Mohammed)

Young Aleppo bomb victim who shocked world just one of many, rescuers say

By AP and ToI Staff

Medical workers and photographers describe working to save 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh from collapsed building, and say his case is anything but unique

In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (Aleppo Media Center via AP)

Russia: Rebels behind Aleppo attack that wounded young boy

By AP

It will be difficult to provide the feeling of summer camp while social distancing, but camps are pivoting to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak. (Courtesy the Foundation for Jewish Camp/via JTA)

Jewish summer camp: A safe space to encounter ‘Hebrew’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the arrest of an IDF draft-dodger, in Jerusalem August 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

8 arrested as ultra-Orthodox clash with cops over army draft

Dr. Johann Schiller holds a replica of a nearly 200-year-old drawing, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, in Washington, after the original was returned to his family from the National Gallery of Art's collection decades after his relative was forced to sell it during World War II because of her Jewish heritage. 'A Branch with Shriveled Leaves' by the German artist Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld had been owned by the artist's descendants until Dr. Marianne Schmidl sold it under duress in 1939. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Gallery returns drawing to heir of Holocaust victim

Baltimore cuts ties with lawyer after neo-Nazi links revealed

By JTA

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters and members of the media after attending a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee in London on July 12, 2016. (AFP/Chris Ratcliffe)

Corbyn billed at confab alongside writer who threatened Jewish journalist

By JTA

A bus in the Czech Republic advertising the Nazi death camp Auschwitz as fun holiday destination that was originally made as a film prop seen on the website of the Auto Xaver bus company on August 16, 2016. (autoxaver.com)

Short workCzech bus owner to remove Auschwitz design

By JTA

Iranian youths sit at a cafe in Tehran (AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Spread the wordIran’s language watchdog goes to war against ‘Nutella Bars’

By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani

MassiveImpact CEO Sephi Shapira (L) in an interview at Mobile World Congress, February 25, 2013 (Courtesy)

Taiwan’s GMobi buys Israel mobile ad giant MassiveImpact

By Dan Schwartz

In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (Aleppo Media Center via AP)

Hebrew media reviewBleeding and leading

By Ilan Ben Zion

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