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What Matters Most On Friday, August 26, 2016

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Apple boosts iPhone security after Israeli spyware reveals startling weaknesses

By ToI Staff and AP

NSO Group, founded by alumni of elite IDF intelligence unit 8200, developed never-before-seen cyberespionage software capable of completely overtaking devices

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn joins steel workers following a protest march through central London, May 25, 2016. (AFP/Leon Neal)

UK Labour parley at risk as Israel-linked security firm it spurned rejects plea for help

Main opposition party, led by Israel critic Jeremy Corbyn, may have to cancel flagship conference next month if it can’t find last-minute replacement for G4S

Jewish Israeli BDS activist requests political asylum in Canada

By JTA

Portugal pulls out of policing project led by Israeli university

By JTA

Spanish municipality to cancel resolution boycotting Israel

By JTA

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau left a black dress in the Dead Sea, allowing it to crystallize. (Courtesy of Marlborough Contemporary)

A Work of Salt

Leaving a dress in the Dead Sea for 2 years causes this

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau transforms a 1920s-style black gown into a shimmering, salt-covered piece of art

Belgian cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker posted this image to his Facebook page after it won a prize at Iran’s widely condemned Holocaust mockery cartoon contest om May 2016. (Facebook)

First person

How my reporting about an anti-Semitic cartoon changed my views of Belgium — for the worse

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Luc Descheemaeker was denounced by UNESCO, Germany and the US, but his school says it’s ‘proud’

President Reuven Rivlin, left, takes a tour of the construction site for the new high-speed railway train being built between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, on June 1, 2016. (Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO)

Overriding religious parties, PM orders Shabbat work on train line

Netanyahu says construction on Sabbath is tantamount to saving lives; Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed rail project also sees closure of parts of Ayalon highway

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign even at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada on August 25, 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Clinton slams Trump for taking anti-Semitic hate groups mainstream

By Eric Cortellessa

Amid controversy over her emails and family foundation, Democratic nominee assails GOP rival for popularizing ‘alt-right’ fringe movement

Trump rejects Clinton claims he’s racist, calls her a ‘bigot’

By Jonathan Lemire and Lisa Lerer

In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox press, Hillary Clinton is invisible

By Daniella Cheslow

Trump campaign opens 3rd Israeli office in Ramat Gan

By JTA

Shabbat fought back valiantly and won

Reports of the Sabbath’s demise due to technology have been greatly exaggerated — an analysis of the Jewish law

Beer, songs, soccer and tears

Commemorating her friends Zeevik Etzion and Shachar Melamed, killed the day Operation Protective Edge ended

Why I left Shas for the Jewish Home

He left his first political home because the party led by Aryeh Deri had ‘forgotten what it means to be Sephardic’

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Wanted: Rabbis with knives in their teeth

A call for a grassroots upheaval of society by secular Israelis that seeks a new Judaism as the heart of Israel

Waheed Abd Allah Bossh, an engineer with the UN's Development Program, accused of using his position to aid the Hamas terrorist organization, on August 9, 2016. (Shin Bet)

UN demands Israel free staffer alleged to have funneled resources for Hamas naval base

By Judah Ari Gross

‘No immunity for terrorists,’ Jerusalem tells international body regarding engineer who allegedly pushed projects to benefit terror group

Illustrative: Soldiers patrolling near Nablus. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Palestinian who ran at troops shot dead near West Bank settlement

By Judah Ari Gross and Ilan Ben Zion

Soldiers fire on alleged terrorist who refused to stop after running at guard post near Silwad; no soldiers injured in incident

A photograph of Beersheba in the 1950s. (The Encyclopedia of Israel in Pictures/Wikimedia)

Beersheba, where Abraham and Isaac dug wells? The UN says it’s ‘Ber asaabeaa’

World body calls southern Israeli city by its Arabic name in letter demanding release of UN worker accused of aiding Hamas

Sea Secret’s 'Magic Marine' modest swimsuit (Courtesy of Sea Secret)

Burkini ban great for business, says Israeli-French modest swimsuits maker

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Orthodox activists, like these protesting outside a Brooklyn yeshiva on May 3, 2016, are asking institutions to do more to report and investigate allegations of child sexual and physical abuse. (Courtesy of Chaim Levin via JTA)

300 Orthodox rabbis pen call for crackdown on child abuse

By JTA

Clerics say religious Jewish communities ‘could have responded in more sensitive ways’ to help victims, punish offenders

Firefighters gather in the damaged central Italian village of Amatrice on August 26, 2016, two days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region killing at least 267 people. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)

Aftershocks rattle Italy as death toll climbs to 267

By Paolo Santalucia and Nicole Winfield

Hopes of finding more survivors from Wednesday’s quake dim, but rescue workers in central Italy press on

In this July 14, 2009 file photo, the US guided missile destroyer USS Stout enters Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi. (AP/ Shakh Aivazov)

US warship fires warning shots at Iranian boats

Iran navy and IRGC vessels harass US naval ships in series of recent incidents that risked collision, escalation, US officials say

An Iranian oil worker rides his bicycle near an oil refinery south of the capital, Tehran, December 22, 2014. (AP/Vahid Salemi/File)

Iran wants pre-sanctions share of oil market, minister says

By AFP

Tehran claims it’s doubled oil and gas exports, boosted overall production since signing nuclear deal last summer

The aftermath of a car bomb detonated outside a police station in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre on August 26, 2016. (screen capture: CNN Turk)

Blast tears through police station in southeast Turkey

By ToI Staff and AP

At least 11 police officers killed, 70 people injured after car bomb explodes outside headquarters in Cizre; state news agency blames PKK

A ship named 'Lady Leyla' is seen as Turkish government sends humanitarian aid to Gaza after Turkish-Israeli reconciliation deal, in Mersin, Turkey on July 1, 2016. (Photo by Sezgin Pancar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Analysis

Hamas, natural gas and other good reasons Israel and Turkey should stick together

By Andrew Tobin

Economic and security cooperation would benefit both states as former allies thaw out frozen ties, get set to exchange ambassadors

Top left, clockwise: Mila Kunis (Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons), Adam Sandler (Diane Freed/Getty Images), Scarlett Johansson (Solarpix/PRPhotos)

Jewish actors on highest-paid list bear witness to Hollywood’s wage gap

Scarlett Johansson out-earned by Adam Sandler, as Forbes listing reveals disparity between male and female stars

Lior Suchard and Barbra Streisand (courtesy)

When Barbra Streisand went ‘mental’ for an Israeli mind-reader

By Matt Lebovic

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Illustrative photo of jellyfish. (Richard Kim/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

On stranger tidesIsraeli study: Lunar calendar holds key to jellyfish arrival

By AFP

Illustrative photo of cocaine and heroin confiscated by Israeli police in 2012. (Israel Police)

Ultra-Orthodox men busted at airport with 7.5 kilos of coke

A view of a 2015 Sacred Music Festival event at the Tower of David Museum (Courtesy Noam Shognovsky)

At fall festival, Jerusalem is keeping the faith

By Jessica Steinberg

A car that was accidentally driven into a bakery in the central Israeli city of Ramle on August 24, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Takes the cakeLoaves fly as woman plows car into bakery

Laziz, Gaza's last tiger from Khan Yunis zoo, known as the 'world's worst,' waits in a cage at the OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg, on August 25, 2016, before being transported to the Big Cat Sanctuary Lionsrock in South Africa. (AFP PHOTO/MUJAHID SAFODIEN)

Tiger rescued from ‘world’s worst’ zoo in Gaza arrives in South Africa

By AP and AFP

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-minister Ben-Eliezer hospitalized for heart problem

Kamel Badawi demonstrates his solar umbrella, August 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Cool pilgrimsSaudi-Palestinian solar umbrella takes heat out of Hajj

A lifeguard cuts off a platsic bag that had become tangled around a sea turtle's flipper on an Ashdod beach on August 25, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube/Danny 'Goofy' Adler)

Free the turtleKayaking cop, lifeguard save turtle tangled in plastic bag

By Judah Ari Gross

Ilustrative. An industrial robot at work (Pixabay)

Israeli students win 2nd prize at international robotics contest

By JTA

Dill Pickle Challah (Shannon Sarna/via JTA)

Deli-cious recipeA shtickle dill pickle challah will tickle your tastebuds

By Shannon Sarna

An illustrative photo of a man holding an iPhone (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

hebrew media reviewStartup spyware nation

By Adiv Sterman

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