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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 23, 2016

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Palestinian militants of the Islamic Jihad movement arrive to inspect a crater on August 22, 2016 in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli airstrike the day before that targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave hits the Israeli city of Sderot.
AFP / Mahmud Hams

Israel targeted ‘key Hamas strategic assets’ in Sunday’s barrage

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF takes advantage of rocket fire from Gaza to take out terrorist infrastructure; Liberman: ‘We won’t allow them to rearm’

Liberman: We won’t stand by while Hamas arms itself

By Stuart Winer

AnalysisEyeing elections, Palestinians vote to tamp down on Gaza flare-up

By Avi Issacharoff

UN to exhibit drawings by soldier whose body is held in Gaza

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks out across the Negev during a special cabinet meeting at the Sde Boker academy to mark 40 years since the passing of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, November 10, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

A deeper political agenda behind Israel’s soaring housing market?

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Tackling rocketing house prices with new taxes and various harebrained schemes, the government seems to be ignoring the obvious solution: free up more land. Or has the goal all along been to encourage people to move to settlements?

This combo shows two examples of some of the social media postings by Trump campaign staff members discovered by the Associated Press in an online search. (AP Photo)

Trump staff’s online posts weave dark web of racism, conspiracy theories

By Jeff Horwitz

A review of junior campaign employees’ social media accounts finds Islamophobia, talk of religious war and anti-immigrant sentiment

Rep. Steny Hoyer: Trump as president would be ‘dangerous’ for Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Jeb Bush’s son visits Israel, urges US support

By JTA

Republicans to query firms that ran Clinton’s private server

By Michael Biesecker, Eileen Sullivan and CHAD DAY

IDF soldiers, along with the police and Shin Bet security service, seize dozens of illegal weapons in Bethlehem and Hebron on August 23, 2016, as part of a large crackdown effort on illicit guns in the West Bank. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Dozens of illegal guns seized in West Bank crackdown

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF, police, Shin Bet conduct raids in Bethlehem, Hebron as part of ongoing campaign against illicit weapons

Police bust forger who made hundreds of fake Israeli documents

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian police beat suspect in custody to death

By AFP and Stuart Winer

Dozens of Hasidim detained after entering Joseph’s Tomb without IDF

By Stuart Winer

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, gestures as he welcomes Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto for a meeting in Ankara on August 23, 2016. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)

Live updates

UK aid agency says it won’t fund accused Gaza charity until probe

By Joshua Davidovich

Secretary says Development for International Development already does not give money to World Vision, suspected of funneling money to Hamas; move praised by UK Jewish group

Archaeologists work a Second Temple era chalkstone vessel factory in the Galilee excavated by Ariel University and the University of Malta. (Courtesy of Yonatan Adler)

Jewish ‘Stone Age’ factory from time of Jesus surfaces in Galilee

By Ilan Ben Zion

Near site where biblical figure is said to have turned water to wine, 2,000-year-old workshop for stone vessels comes to light

Gerald M. Steinberg

The New Israel Fund and Black Lives

The NIF has been evasive regarding Adalah’s connection to the anti-Zionist plank in the BLM platform

Israel’s phoney war

Why did the Israeli Air Force launch 50 strikes against Gaza without hitting a single terrorist?

Stephen Oryszczuk

I will not return to Babi Yar

At the site of the atrocity, wondering if he had relatives among those massacred and those who helped massacre

Yakir Englander

Hasidic tales in Palestine

The revered rebbes of his childhood taught him that love for fellow Jews and for non-Jews is not a zero sum game

illustrative: A man asks for money on the streets in the center of Jerusalem, March 17, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Trafficking ring of hearing, speech-impaired beggars busted

6 suspects accused of compelling Eastern Europeans to ask for donations; allegations include forced labor, assault, rape, withholding passports

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy giving a speech during the LR National Council in Paris, February 13, 2016. (AFP/LIONEL BONAVENTURE)

Former French president Sarkozy announces new bid for old seat

Ousted leader writes in forward to new book he has ‘the force to wage this battle at tormented time of history’

The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel strikes Syrian army after mortar shell hits Golan Heights

Stray round reportedly caused by errant fire during clashes between warring factions across the border

A resident of the Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, inspects the damage caused by reported air raids that targetted rebel-held areas in the northern city on August 16, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED)

UN: Syria has become ‘greatest crisis of our time’

By Edith M. Lederer

Humanitarian chief says situation in Aleppo is ‘apex of horror,’ as city faces desperate need for aid

Israel's Consul-General in Istanbul Shai Cohen (left) meets with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director-General Dore Gold and Bureau Chief Gilad Cohen on March 21, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. (MFA)

Israel: Turkey needs to think twice before leveling criticism at us

After Ankara’s denunciation of Gaza strikes, Jerusalem issues acerbic retort saying detente doesn’t mean Turkey can issue ‘baseless condemnations’

Turkish artillery fire from the border toward northern Syria, in Kilis, Turkey on Feb. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Halit Onur Sandal)

Turkey hits Islamic State with fresh artillery strikes

By AFP

After two mortar rounds hit Karkamis in Turkey, cannons blast jihadist positions in Syria’s Jarablus

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks to journalists during a press conference at the Lebanese foreign ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, August 16, 2016. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Cairo: Reports that minister said Israeli policies not terror are distorted

By ToI Staff and AP

Egypt says media mischaracterized Foreign Minister Shoukry’s comments, denies he spoke about Palestinian children’s deaths in talk with high schoolers

Celtic fans display Palestinian flags during match with Hapoel Beersheba in Glasgow, August 17, 2016. (Screenshot)

Israel watching for Palestinian flags at Celtic-Beersheba meet

By AFP and ToI Staff

All national banners to be banned at Champions League soccer match after political protest by Scottish fans at last week’s game

Israeli and Palestinian peace activists marching outside Jerusalem's Old City July 15, 2011 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Incentives could boost slim support for two-state deal, poll finds

While thin majority of both Israelis and Palestinians two-state accord in theory, fewer back an agreement under current terms

A melanoma lesion (YouTube screenshot)

Tel Aviv University study may lead to melanoma cure

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli researchers have discovered how the skin cancer spreads and found ways to stop the metastatic process

Illustrative: Hasidic Jewish men celebrating a wedding in Israel, where marriage and divorce is legally under the authority of the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

How Israeli women are gaining in the fight for Jewish divorce

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

US President Barack Obama, right, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Barbra Streisand during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 (AP Photo via JTA/Evan Vucci)

Biting the AppleBarbra Streisand takes Siri problem to the top

By Julie Wiener

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds up a Donald Trump branded tie, which isn't made in America, as she speaks at Knotty Tie Company in Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

May the best mensch win7 best Jews to play Trump in Clinton debate prep

A stray dog runs behind Chile's Daniel Estrada (L) and South Africa's Sibusiso Nzima as they run towards the finish line of the Men's Marathon during the 2016 Olympic Games, August 21, 2016. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)

Olympic spiritJordanian runner beaten by stray dog in Rio

By Alastair Himmer

Anthony Weiner in the documentary 'Weiner' (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Anthony Weiner says NY Post set him up for new online sex scandal

By JTA

Israel Police, December 22, 2010 (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Galilee man held on suspicion of murdering pregnant wife

The Jewish Kurdish woman who fled Iraq for Israel after claiming her Muslim husband threatened to sell her to the Islamic State speaks to Channel 2 in August 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Husband claims Kurdish woman who fled to Israel lied for asylum

By Tamar Pileggi

EZSpeak - screenshot of the software in action (Courtesy)

Israeli startup targets China with learn-English software

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Cover storyCanadian PM defends ‘burkini’ swimsuit

By AFP

Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)

Hebrew media reviewThe ‘breakthrough’ that metastasized into lazy journalism

By Joshua Davidovich

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