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What Matters Most On Monday, July 31, 2017

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Jordanian protesters wave national flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for shutting the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Family of Amman embassy guard said fearing for safety after name leaks

Source says Jordan published Ziv Moyal’s identity, photo, in an attempt to ‘radicalize’ the situation, amid diplomatic dispute over shooting death of two at embassy compound

Israeli guard in Amman embassy affair named as Ziv Moyal

East Jerusalem residents charged for praising Temple Mount killers

Jordan’s king calls Abbas after hospital visit

Terrorists from the military wing of the Hamas terror group take part in a parade against Israel in Gaza City on July 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Austria sentences Hamas man to life for terror plot in Israel

Palestinian released in 2011 Shalit deal sought to enlist West Bank residents to carry out grenade attacks in Jerusalem

Former IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria sits in the courtroom at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on July 30, 2017. (Avshalom Sasoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Liberman urge pardon for Hebron shooter after sentence upheld

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister asks Elor Azaria to forgo appeal, as lawyers receive 10-day extension to address Supreme Court; ministers line up to call for clemency

As Azaria case roils politicians, IDF ethicist slams soft sentence

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Slain Palestinian assailant’s family surprised Azaria not exonerated

IDF chief to ‘seriously consider’ reduced sentence for Azaria

By Judah Ari Gross

Attorney Yoram Sheftel speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2016. (Flash90)

Pardon me?

Convicted soldier’s lawyer fat-shames IDF chief

By Judah Ari Gross

After losing appeal for Elor Azaria, who was found guilty of killing disarmed Palestinian stabber, defense attorney goes on TV, ridicules army head’s appearance

White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci talks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / TASOS KATOPODIS)

Live updates (closed)

Trump fires comms director Scaramucci after 10 days

Army source says Elor Azaria must express ‘real’ remorse for chance at pardon; Jerusalem police brace for Pride Parade, possible violence

Illustrative. Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners end a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)

PA payments to prisoners, ‘martyr’ families now equal half its foreign budgetary aid

While it expects $693 million from donors, Ramallah’s 2017 budget allocates nearly $345 million for the contentious stipends

PA said to offer $20 million in subsidies to East Jerusalem

Police arrest 33 suspected of instigating Temple Mount riots

East Jerusalem residents charged for praising Temple Mount killers

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III leads the Orthodox Easter ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 15, 2017. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Amid outcry, Church defends its sales of land in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Caesarea

MKs and homeowners are up in arms, Palestinian Christians say the multi-million dollar deals are illegal, and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate says ‘Israeli pressure forced us to sell lands,’ which are anyway ‘of no religious importance’

Meredith Rothbart

Kids4Peace and the two flags

How one can fervently desire peace with the Palestinians without forsaking Zionism

Avidan Freedman

Is Religious Zionism really religious?

When Israel exports weapons to human rights violators, it loses the moral bedrock without which Jewish sovereignty fails

At risk of being too personal

Israel’s diplomacy is being reduced to a one-man show by Netanyahu, and there’s no way that approach can endure

A general view shows protesters waving Turkish and Palestinian flags during a demonstration in Istanbul on July 30, 2017, to protest against measures taken by Israel in Jerusalem and to show solidarity with the Palestinians. (AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGUL)

Singing ‘hit, hit Zionists,’ thousands rally against Israel in Istanbul

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators wave Turkish and Palestinian flags; protest security measures around Temple Mount, removed by Israel last week

David Shimron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal lawyer, at a Likud press conference in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2015. (Flash90)

State witness in submarine graft case: PM’s lawyer was to get 20% cut

Miki Ganor reportedly tells investigators that David Shimron stood to make $9 million for ensuring certain clauses were included in defense deal

An IDF mobile siren that can be used in fields and other areas (IDF Spokesperson Office)

IDF upgrades siren system to pinpoint incoming rocket alerts

By Shoshanna Solomon

Warnings will be more tightly aimed, and will talk to citizens in their own languages

The eight Jewish Supreme Court Justices, clockwise from top left: Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer; Abe Fortas; Louis Brandeis; Benjamin Cardozo; Felix Frankfurter; Arthur Goldberg; Elena Kagan. (Photos of Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan by Steve Petteway, others by Harris & Ewing/ all from the Collection of the Supreme Court of the US)

Justices served

The 8 Jewish justices who made the US Supreme Court jump

By Rich Tenorio

Former Israeli Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara (photo credit: Flash90)

Minister seeks to strip citizenship of fugitive ex-MK

Aryeh Deri consults with AG on move against ex-Balad head Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel in 2007 amid allegations of spying for Hezbollah

Police prepare to search for evidence at a block of flats in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba on July 31, 2017, after counter-terrorism raids across the city at the weekend. (AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST)

Australian plane plot may have involved bomb or toxic gas — reports

By Martin Parry

Four men, reportedly of Lebanese origin, allegedly planned to carry ‘non-traditional’ device on board flight to Middle East inside meat grinder

Golda Tencer, standing, at a Shabbat dinner during the International Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture, July 7, 2017. (Katarzyna Markusz/JTA)

Yiddish comes alive in Warsaw every summer

By Katarzyna Markusz

Muslim pilgrims from all around the world circle around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi city of Mecca on on September 9, 2016, a day before the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Saudi Arabia: Calls to ‘internationalize’ holy sites ‘declaration of war’

Riyadh accuses Qatar of keeping its citizens from hajj, but Doha says Saudi putting too many restrictions on Qatari pilgrims, as religion mixes into Gulf rift

Mobileye says Intel purchase of shares delayed again

By Shoshanna Solomon

Deadline for Intel Corp. to buy Mobileye shares now pushed to August 11 even as most requirements seem to have been met

Repair the World volunteers assisting with food preparation at Masbia Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn. (Alli Lesovoy/via JTA)

How volunteering became outreach for millennials distanced from the Jewish community

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Rabbi David Seidenberg (Courtesy of Seidenberg/via JTA)

How Tisha b’Av can help us understand the refugee experience

By Josefin Dolsten

Coins confiscated from a suspected antiquities thief's home in Beit Shemesh, December 2014 (photo credit: Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

East Jerusalem antiquity dealers arrested for tax fraud

By AP

Cheryl Saban (left), Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman (center) and former Member of Knesset Shachiv Shanan (center, right) watch as Friends of the Israel Defense Forces National Board Member Haim Saban (center, left) breaks ground at the site of the new FIDF Druze Soldiers Heritage Center, July 2017 (Scally photography).

Haim Saban, wife fund Druze Soldiers Heritage Center in northern Israel

By JTA

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) flashes the sign for victory at the interior ministry's election headquarters in Tehran on April 12, 2017. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad faces punishment over misused billions

By Stuart Winer

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. (Screen capture/YouTube)

North Carolina governor signs anti-BDS bill into law

By JTA

Illustrative: A US Air Force B-1B bomber, left, flies with a South Korean fighter jet F-15K over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea, Sunday, July 30, 2017 (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)

US says time for talk on N. Korea ‘is over’ after second ICBM test

By Olivia Hampton and Park Chan-Kyong

A screen shot from an AFPTV video shows the road outside a hotel along the beach promenade where a stabbing attack took place in the Red Sea Resort of Hurghada on July 14, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / AFPTV / STRINGER)

Egypt officials: Red Sea resort knife attacker sent by IS

Illustrative photo of foreign currencies. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Private equity investment in Israel drops 67% in 2Q

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a supine, injured Palestinian attacker in 2016, waits before the start of his appeal sentencing hearing in the Kirya military base, Tel Aviv, July 30, 2017. (Avshalom Sasoni/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewA parting shot for the Hebron soldier?

By Tamar Pileggi

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