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What Matters Most On Friday, September 2, 2016

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Herzl Shaul, father of late Israeli soldier Oron Shaul, stands at the protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on June 26, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Father of fallen soldier dies with son’s body still held by Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Herzl Shaul, who fought for 2 years for the return of his son Oron’s remains from Gaza, succumbs to cancer

Russia a ‘more balanced’ peacemaker than US, says PLO official

Palestinian journalist, a Hamas critic, arrested in Gaza

Palestinian woman stopped at checkpoint, says she planned attack

Smoke rises from a SpaceX launch site Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after an explosion during test firing destroyed a Falcon rocket and the Israeli Amos-6 satellite it was carrying. (AP Photo/Marcia Dunn)

Frustration, questions after satellite bringing Africa internet blows up

Facebook vows to soldier on with effort after SpaceX rocket explodes, destroying Israeli-made Amos-6 orbiter; blast expected to impact business for Israeli space firms, could imperil TV provider

Thick black smoke rises from an explosion at the SpaceX launch site at Cape Canaveral on Florida on September 1, 2016 (screen capture: NASA TV)

SpaceX rocket explodes, Israeli satellite on board destroyed

By ToI Staff and AP

Donald Trump Jr. speaking on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, July 19, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Donald Trump Jr. retweets psychologist who believes Jews manipulate society

Attack on Hillary Clinton by Kevin MacDonald, who is popular with Holocaust deniers, retweeted by Republican nominee son’s to 600,000 followers

Melania Trump sues Daily Mail over report claiming she was an escort

By AFP and ToI Staff

Bernie Sanders’ new movement endorses candidates with a range of Israel views

Donald Chump‘Great Schlep’ creators write anti-Trump musical

By JTA

Airplane with Wings of Lebanon livery (CC BY-SA Maarten Visser, Flickr)

Plane spotted in Israel not welcome back in Lebanon

Transport minister says ‘Wings of Lebanon’ jet will never be allowed to return after it was used by Turkish airline to fly to Tel Aviv

ILLUSTRATIVE - Simple straw huts at Big Dune Beach camp in Dahab, Taba, on the Sinai Peninsula (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

In ‘restive’ Sinai, Israelis once again finding a restful paradise

By Melanie Lidman

Despite terror warnings, Jewish Israeli tourism to Sinai is on track to reach pre-revolution levels, as the spartan beachside Bedouin camps again fill with the sound of Hebrew

Israelis warned to stay away from restive regions of Ethiopia

By Sue Surkes and AFP

Leora Eisenberg

Haredi Jews are not the best BDS target

That awkward moment when the MSNBC anchor tweeted something implicitly anti-Semitic

The deep power of joy

Jews know the valley of the shadow of death, yet simcha (joy) is the supreme, healing religious emotion (Re’eh)

Isn’t get refusal his only recourse?

Myths & facts about Jewish divorce, including why withholding the divorce is not a legitimate negotiating tool

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Break the sabbath in order to sanctify it

When concern for life mandates building the Tel Aviv Light Rail on Shabbat, celebrate the day at the work site!

The former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology buiding in Berlin. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Torinberl/Wikimedia)

Human bones found near former Berlin Nazi research site

By AP

Archaeologists uncover fragments of fractured skulls, teeth, and vertebrae close to where Mengele’s victims were studied

Illustrative photo of a construction site in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, on September 7, 2014 (Flash90)

EU: ‘Serious concern’ over new settlement construction

By ToI Staff and AFP

Continued building ‘steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution,’ Brussels warns after Israel announces over 460 new homes

Construction on an outpost near the settlement of Elazar. (Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

After 15 years of delays, High Court issues blunt demand to demolish outpost

Right-wing ministers blast justices’ decision to take down 17 homes in Derech Ha’avot south of Jerusalem as serving ‘the extreme left’

Palestinian terrorist Bahaa Allyan in a Palestinian Scouts uniform shown in a promo for the “Leader Bahaa Allyan Course” put on by a Scout troop in East Jerusalem, Aug. 25, 2016. (Screen capture: Palestinian Scout Association Website)

Scouts probing claim Palestinian branch lauded terrorist

By AFP

Terror victim’s son demands booting of East Jerusalem chapter that hailed Bahaa Allyan, who helped murder 3 Israelis in October, as ‘leader’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 20, 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA sees local vote paving way for presidential election within 2 years

Official says municipal vote must go smoothly next month for national election to follow; unclear if Abbas, 11 years into 4-year term, would run

An IDF soldier loading his weapon before he appears to shoot a disarmed, prone Palestinian assailant in the head following a stabbing attack in Hebron on March 24, 2016. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)

Police accused of ignoring threats to man who filmed Hebron shooting

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Top cop apologizes for Ethiopian comments, insists he was misunderstood

In meeting with community leaders, Roni Alsheich says he explained why cops discriminate in order to combat the phenomenon, not justify it

Women join a demonstration organized by "Stand up to Racism" outside the French Embassy in London on August 26, 2016 against the burkini ban on French beaches. (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis)

French city Nice ends burkini ban after defiance

By AFP

Coastal town imposed the restriction on the Muslim swimwear in wake of July 14 jihadist attack that killed 86

In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 photo, a Syrian refugee family brings their children to school in Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Alameen)

In Jordan, schools to open doors to all Syrian children

By Karin Laub and OMAR AKOUR

90,000 refugee kids weren’t able to attend school last year in kingdom, along with hundreds of thousands more in neighboring countries

Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in 'Maestro' (Courtesy of Hershey Felder Presents/via JTA)

Warts and all, one-man tribute to Leonard Bernstein opens off-Broadway

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Shmuley Boteach and Pamela Anderson linked the latest Anthony Weiner scandal to what they call the dangers of pornography. (Wikimedia Commons)

Hard on pornAfter Weiner flap, rabbi, Baywatch star urge smut rethink

Illustrative: A prison guard of Premier Custodial Services patrols the security fencing of Kilmarnock Prison on 26 April, 2005, Kilmarnock, Scotland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Diversionary Diet100 Scottish prisoners request ‘nice‘ kosher meals

By JTA

Milan Chatterjee is leaving UCLA because of the harassment he faced from pro-BDS groups. (Facebook)

UCLA campus leader leaves over ‘hostile, unsafe’ climate for pro-Israel students

By JTA

Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney delivers an address to city council Thursday, March 3, 2016, at City Hall. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Philly mayor: Cop’s tattoo ‘offensive,’ especially to Nazi victims

By AP and ToI Staff

A student dining hall at UC Berkeley. (UC Berkeley Office of Public Affairs via JTA)

UC Berkeley opens public system’s first kosher dining station

By JTA

Aerial view of Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, March 17, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Three Hadassah doctors questioned in bribery probe

Construction on the Tel Aviv Shalom rail line, August 27, 2016. (Israel Railways)

Hebrew Media ReviewDownbound train

By Adiv Sterman

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