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What Matters Most On Monday, August 22, 2016

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Palestinians look at a water tower that was first damaged during the 2014 Gaza war and appears to have again been struck by Israeli fire on August 21, 2016 in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Israel strikes 50 times in Gaza after rocket attack

By Judah Ari Gross and Tamar Pileggi

Israeli official urges calm as Hamas blames Jewish state for escalating violence; 2-5 people lightly injured in raids

Turkey: Restored ties won’t halt criticism of Israel on Gaza

By Tamar Pileggi

Turkey detains 5 protesters trying to enter Israeli consulate

By AP and ToI Staff

Hamas threatens to abuse Israeli hostages, renew fighting

A Palestinian man loads stones on a cart next to a crater in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 22, 2016, following an Israeli airstrike the night before that targeted Hamas positions in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave that hit the Israeli city of Sderot. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Analysis

With 50 raids in 2 hours, has Liberman begun to implement his new security plan?

By Judah Ari Gross

In first major display of force under new defense chief, IDF conducts largest bombardment since 2014 war in response to rocket strike; that doesn’t mean a new war is imminent, however

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks to a group of high school students at the foreign ministry headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on August 21, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Egypt FM defends Israel, says policies not terrorism

By Tamar Pileggi

Weeks after surprise visit to Jerusalem, Sameh Shoukry tells high school students Israel has strong security concerns given its history

Putin said willing to host Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

Israeli delegation in Cairo to discuss peace push — report

PA, Hamas recycle lie ‘radical Jew’ set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque

Palestinian children stand next to a crater in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 22, 2016, after an Israeli airstrike targets Hamas positions in response to rocket fire on Sderot. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS)

Live updates (closed)

Turkey backtracks on claim wedding bombed by Islamic State teen

Ankara says it has ‘no clue’ who carried out the bombing in Gaziantep that left 51 dead

Judoka Yarden Gerbi celebrates after winning a bronze medal on August 9, 2016, left, and Or Sasson celebrates after securing his bronze medal in judo on August 12. (Jack Guez, Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP)

Israel’s Olympic tally: 2 bronzes, 7 finals, a delegation with more than half women

Rio saw a better-than-average showing for Israel, though with only 9 medals since 1952, that’s no great consolation for Israeli athletics

Israel rhythmic gymnastics team misses out on medals in Rio

Samba, reflections and pride in final Rio Olympics party

By PETER PRENGAMAN and Mauricio SAVARESE

Israeli gymnastics coach says politics worked against team

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Shmuley Boteach

To my daughter the bride

A wedding involves parents organizing a party and celebrating their growing irrelevance to their own kids

Aryeh Ben David

Meeting the worst person in the world

He loves the aisle seat, so how did he find himself in a battle over who would get to take the middle seat?

World Vision: Eyeless in Gaza

Charities turning a blind eye to diversion of aid to terrorists will be shunned by governments and donors alike

Illustrative: Joseph Goebbels with his daughters, Hilde (center) and Helga, at a Christmas celebration in Berlin, 1937 (JTA/German Federal Archives)

Goebbels’ wife had Jewish father, new document shows

By JTA

Residency card shows that father-in-law of Nazi propagandist was businessman Richard Friedlander, murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp

A Jewish settler sits outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israel said planning to build several Jewish homes in Hebron

For first time in a decade, government reportedly approves handful of units for West Bank outpost adjacent to Jewish neighborhood

Illustrative: Israeli police officers frisk a Palestinian young man at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem Old City on February 15, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Poll: Slim majority of Israelis, Palestinians still favor peace deal

By Josef Federman

51% of Palestinians, 59% of Israelis want two-state solution, but fear and distrust strong, with 89% of Palestinians finding Israeli Jews ‘untrustworthy’

The shoe of a young victim and a piece of metal lay near the scene just hours after Saturday's bomb attack in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey, early Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, targeting an outdoor wedding party in southeastern Turkey killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more. (IHA via AP)

At least 22 kids among dead in Turkey wedding bombing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ankara scrambles to identify child suicide bomber who killed 51; majority of victims are under the age of 18; Rivlin condemns ‘barbaric’ attack

Women cry during a funeral for a victim of last night's attack on a wedding party that left 50 dead in Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border, on August 21, 2016. (AFP Photo/Ilyas Akengin)

Israel sends condolences to Turkey over wedding bombing

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Russian Tu-22M3 bomber stands on the tarmac at an air base near Hamedan, Iran, Monday, August 15, 2016. (WarfareWW Photo via AP)

Iran says Russian raids from its airbase ‘over for now’

By AFP

Hours after lashing out at Moscow for being ‘inconsiderate, showing off,’ Tehran says Russians ‘gone now’ from military site

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the arrest of a Jewish seminary students who failed to comply with a recruitment order, next to the army recruiting office in Jerusalem on August 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters clash with police over arrested draftee

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Three detained as demonstrators throw stones, try to block road outside Jerusalem IDF recruitment office

Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg in the Knesset, February 24, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New bills seek to criminalize fat-shaming, discrimination

Proposed legislation would outlaw denial of employment or entry into clubs to people on basis of their weight

File: Immigrants taking their oath of US citizenship at the Federal Building in Newark, New Jersey, Nov. 20, 2014. (John Moore/Getty Images via JTA)

Is Donald Trump’s proposal to keep out anti-Semites practical — or ethical?

More Headlines

Dr. Amit Goffer's UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd. has developed a system that enables paraplegics to stand up straight, walk and climb stairs. (Courtesy)

UPnRIDE aims to help wheelchair users stand tall

By Shoshanna Solomon

Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, whose father was a Jewish refugee after fleeing the Nazis in 1933, conducted Israel’s Philharmonic Orchestra during the playing of the Peruvian national anthem. (via JTA)

Peru’s half-Jewish president conducts Israel’s Philharmonic in Lima

By JTA

In this June 27, 2007, file photo Lou Pearlman poses outside his office's at Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys founder, dies in prison

Britain's opposition Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn (C) leaves after delivering a speech at a Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) rally in north London on August 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS)

Voting begins in bitter Labour leader contest in UK

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2015. (David Ramos/Getty Images via JTA)

Mark Zuckerberg and wife sell $95m in shares to fund philanthropy

By JTA

Temple Israel Cemetery in Blauvelt, in Rockland County, New York. (screen capture Google streetview)

Last respectsDozens help bury NY woman they never met

By JTA

Students at Herzliya's IDC. (Courtesy)

Herzliya’s IDC, Mayo Clinic join forces for new medical tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Palestinian children stand next to a crater in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 22, 2016, after an Israeli airstrike targets Hamas positions in response to rocket fire on Sderot. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS)

Hebrew media reviewOf rockets, ribbons and the wrath that follows

By Joshua Davidovich

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