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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 31, 2016

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A general view of the settlement Avnei Hefetz, east of Tulkarem, July 31, 2009 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israel’s West Bank governing body okays 466 settlement homes

By ToI Staff and AFP

Planning committee approves new units in several communities, retroactively legalizes 179 homes in Ofarim

William Jennings Bryan giving a speech during his 1908 presidential campaign. (Public domain)

In US elections, a history of anti-Semitism

By Chad Weisman

Both Trump and Clinton currently stand accused of bigotry, but from the Civil War era through to the 1990s, there were other presidential candidates who unapologetically denigrated Jews. A survey of their rhetoric and their mixed results

Anti-immigrant and white supremacist, maybe. But is the alt-right anti-Semitic?

In robocall, ex-KKK leader Duke urges vote for Trump

By AFP

Why do Florida’s Orthodox Jews back Trump? Because they fear Clinton

Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ethiopian-Israelis seek apology, resignation of police chief

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Police spokeswoman defends Alsheich’s suggestion that it’s ‘natural’ for cops to suspect immigrants, says Ethiopian youth ‘just like our kids’

Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police chief: It’s ‘natural’ to suspect Ethiopians, Arabs more than others

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Live updates (Closed)

Ex-IDF general: We have elevated occupation to art form

Former head of Central Command, which includes West Bank, says overseeing Palestinians diverts attention from real threats

Joseph Harmatz sits in his apartment in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)

Lethal loaves of bread should have caused thousands of deaths

Jewish avenger’s sole regret: No Nazis died in post-war arsenic plot

By Aron Heller and Randy Herschaft

70 years later, it’s still not clear why bid to poison 12,000 SS men held by the Americans in Nuremberg failed; Joseph Harmatz, 91, is adamant that it was his ‘duty’ to try

Hitler’s Aryan beach resort transforms into luxury playground

By Deborah Cole

Hadassah Silberstein

Putting the Rebbe’s words into practice

She became the change she wanted to see, empowering Orthodox women to delve into Torah studies with the rigor of men

Yonason Goldson

Fighting political correctness, civilly

On U of Chicago’s policy: The freedom to disagree is what keeps a society — and a college campus — healthy

She’ll always feel connected to America — but it’s not home

5 hidden gems in Tel Aviv

Little known treasured neighborhood sites that enrich her take on the White City

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the inauguration of the Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge in Istanbul on August 26, 2016. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

Turkey’s Erdogan ratifies Israel reconciliation deal

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

As relations thaw, countries set to exchange ambassadors, reset ties

Israeli Ambassador to Egypt David Govrin at his home in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s new Egypt ambassador presents credentials to Sissi

David Govrin, career diplomat, previously directed Jordan and North Africa Department in the Foreign Ministry

Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo talks to reporters in Daliyat al-Karmel on August 30, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Israel ‘at risk of civil war,’ says ex-Mossad chief

Internal threat ‘more worrying’ than external one, warns Tamir Pardo; complains some Israelis ‘more interested in emphasizing what divides than what unites’

Gene Wilder, right, in a scene with Cleavon Little from the 1974 comedy “Blazing Saddles.” (JTA/Warner Bros./Courtesy of Getty Images)

In ‘Blazing Saddles,’ Gene Wilder helped recall a fading black-Jewish alliance

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Former DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaks during a Florida delegation breakfast, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, during the first day of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Debbie Wasserman Schultz holds onto House seat after bruising primary fight

By Eric Cortellessa

Clinching roughly 57 percent of the vote, the former DNC chair defeats Bernie Sanders’ darling Tim Canova

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 15, 2016 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

FBI to release report about Clinton email probe

30-page document to be published along with notes from FBI interview

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Bennett claims Netanyahu attacking him in media briefings

Comments come a day after Jewish Home leader attempts to bury hatchet with PM following public feud over handling of Gaza war

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri (right) speaks with United Torah Judaism leader MK Yaakov Litzman (left) during the opening session of the 20th Knesset, March 31, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Religious parties agree to a committee to discuss Shabbat construction

Compromise comes after ultra-Orthodox leaders voice outrage at decision to allow work on high-speed rail line at weekend

A woman with breast cancer undergoing a CT scan, June 18, 2012. (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Study shows female oncologists feel more burnout

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ben-Gurion University researchers look at gender differences in professional exhaustion, emotional distress among clinical cancer physicians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the funeral of former parliament member Binyamin 'Fuad' Ben-Eliezer, who died on Sunday at the age of 80, August 30, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel bids farewell to ‘fearless fighter’ Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

Netanyahu and Peres have warm words for ex-general, defense minister, Labor leader; his US-based son opts not to fly in for event, for fear he might be arrested

Ofir Ben-Eliezer, the son of deceased former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer speaks to Channel 2 via Skype on August 30, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Police corruption probe killed my father, claims Ofir Ben-Eliezer

Actors John Hurt (left), Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Olivia Thirlby in 'Damascus Cover,' Howard Kaplan's 39-year-old novel (Damascus Cover)

From Damascus to Jerusalem, a 39-year-old novel reaches the big screen

By Jessica Steinberg

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Baby Aharon, in Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Small miracle22-week preemie is youngest ever to survive in Israel

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka arrives for a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin (unseen), at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 22, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Czech textbooks drop Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix

Bare breasts ‘symbolize freedom,’ French PM declares in latest burkini twist

A woman walks next to an advertisement for Golan Telecom in Jerusalem on November 05, 2015. Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Flash90

Golan Telecom fined NIS 31 million for licence violations

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers conducting training in a field near the border with Gaza in southern Israel, on July 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF soldier stays behind in firing zone, gets shot at by comrades

Working on a giant banner of loving kindness, at the back-to-school celebration in Jerusalem's YMCA on Monday, August 29 (Courtesy Dasee Berkowitz)

Lessons in loveBack-to-school party celebrates the ABCs of coexistence

By Jessica Steinberg

Tahini production (illustrative photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

More tahini recalled as factory tests positive for salmonella

The giant, 3,000-meter Tetris game set up on the side of Tel Aviv's City Hall in August 2016 (Courtesy Guy Yehieli)

Back-to-backIt’s a lockdown to a t-spin, for Tetris fans in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Freightos' online marketplace for international freight (Courtesy

Israel’s Freightos buys Barcelona’s WebCargoNet

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ethiopian students at the Bereshit school in Jerusalem in 2012. Not suspects. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewHit the books, not the blacks

By Joshua Davidovich

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