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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 1, 2017

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Jews visit the Old City of Jerusalem's Temple Mount compound on the Tisha B'Av fast day commemorating the destruction of the Jewish temples that once stood at the holy site, on August 1, 2017. (screen capture: Facebook)

In record, over 1,300 Jews visit Temple Mount to commemorate destroyed temples

Unprecedented number comes amid heavy police presence in Old City; thousands of worshipers mark Tisha B’Av at the Western Wall

A.B. Yehoshua: ‘Leave the Temple Mount to the Muslims’

Mourning movies7 somber films to stave off hunger on Tisha B’Av

By Yaakov Schwartz

In poignant Tisha B’Av message, Bennett calls on Israelis to cease name-calling

Madonna. (screen capture: Madonna, Instagram)

Tisha Bra'Av

Madonna mourns Temples’ destruction in racy Instagram post

Material Girl writes to 10 million followers: ‘9th of Av. This is a Day to stay inside. lay low. Keep Quiet’

Palestinian women hold a scarf bearing the Palestine name as Israeli youths carry their national flag in the "flag march" through Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations for Jerusalem Day on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Peace prospects faltering, poll finds recognition could change minds

By Raphael Ahren

Major survey of Israelis and Palestinians finds most favor a peace deal, and as many as half of the opponents would back one if other side recognizes their claims

Abbas initiates talks to restore PA control of Gaza, end sanctions on Hamas

China pushes four-point Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

By AP and ToI Staff

Top PA official Saeb Erekat treated in Israel as he awaits lung transplant

Israeli security forces fire tear gas to disperse Palestinians after clashes broke out at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on July 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Iran accused of helping fund Temple Mount unrest

By Alexander Fulbright

Islamic Republic said to have provided food packages to demonstrators protesting Israeli security measures at holy site

Participants in a July 31 Reforms Committee meeting on binary options (Times of Israel staff)

Key sections quietly dropped from binary options bill, Knesset panel learns

By Simona Weinglass

Watered down legislation would still bar binary options trading, but no longer requires companies that sell other online financial products to obtain licenses in the countries where they operate

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly appears at event where US President Donald Trump was to bestow the Medal of Honor to retired Army medic James McCloughan during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kelly flexes muscles on first day on the job at White House

By Vivian Salama and Jill Colvin

Not afraid to challenge Trump, new chief of staff to bring ‘structure, discipline and strength,’ spokesperson says

Trump reportedly dictated son’s statement on Russia meeting promising ‘dirt’ on Clinton

By Olivia Hampton

Trump comms director Scaramucci out as new chief of staff takes reins

By AFP

Reagan once fired his communications director after 5 days – and not because he was a former Hitler youth

Children waving Israeli and American flags at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, June 4, 2017. (Perry Bindelglass)

Why more Israelis are moving to the US

The Israeli-American diaspora is real, growing and leaving its mark with nearly 150 Israeli startups in Silicon Valley

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gives a speech during a meeting of Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 21, 2017, in front of a picture of Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In rare move, Abbas hosts Hamas delegation in Ramallah

By Raoul Wootliff

PA president praised by group’s officials for handing of Temple Mount crisis; Netanyahu’s former chief of staff will reportedly sign deal with prosecutor to provide details in corruption cases against PM

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with his Georgian counterpart following their meeting in Tbilisi on April 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Vano Shlamov)

Iranian FM to attend conference on Jerusalem in Istanbul

In this undated photo provided on July 19, 2017, an IDF soldier attends to a Syrian infant as part of the army's 'Good Neighbor' program to provide humanitarian for Syrian civilians on the Syrian Golan Heights. (IDF spokesperson)

25 Syrian children, all terrified of us

By Lieutenant Colonel A

The commander of ‘Operation Good Neighbor’ recalls the surprise of those being helped by Israeli soldiers

Artist's rendering of the VENμS satellite, Israel's first environmental research satellite, set to launch on August 2, 2017. (Israel Space Agency)

Fly trap

Men are from Mars, high-res pics are from Venμs

By Melanie Lidman

Israel to launch first environmental and agricultural research satellite from French Guiana on Wednesday

Illustrative photo of a protester holding up a Palestinian flag (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Curious case of Jewish camp’s disappearing apology about flying Palestinian flag

By JTA and ToI Staff

Camp Solomon Schechter posted a letter containing apologetic language to its Facebook page, but that page is no longer available, and text of the letter elsewhere does not include words of apology

For these things I weep…

Children brought up to hate, those trapped in dictatorships, Jews who spurn their fellow Jews…

Jerusalem destroyed Jerusalem redeemed

This heart of humanity will be the seat of unconditional love one day, recompense for the hatred that left her in ruins

Rayna Rose Exelbierd

Hungary for more

Glorious synagogue architecture attests to the valiant Hungarian Jewry that once was

JNF-America’s integrity challenge

Two men of ability and integrity received personal loans approved by a board whose job should have been to just say no

Neda Amin (Courtesy)

Times of Israel Persian blogger faces deportation from Turkey, fears being sent back to Iran

Neda Amin, 32, who has written regularly from Turkey for The Times of Israel’s Persian website, appeals for a country to step in and give her safe refuge

Dan Halutz (photo credit: Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief calls Likud MKs ‘apes’ for criticizing Shin Bet

By Tamar Pileggi

Dan Halutz slams Regev and Bitan, who said the security agency was ‘delusional’ and ‘cowardly’ for urging rollback of Temple Mount security

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

IDF official: Hebron soldier must show ‘real’ remorse for chance of pardon

Army source says only Elor Azaria can bring chief of staff to reduce his sentence for killing a disarmed attacker

The Imperial Hotel at the Jaffa Gate, the lease to which was sold to the right-wing Ateret Cohanim organization and is the subject of an appeal by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Court sides with right-wing Jewish group in Old City church property dispute

In landmark ruling, judge says claims of real estate fraud made by Greek Orthodox Church over sale of two hotels are unsubstantiated

The Jerusalem pride parade, July 21, 2016 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Police okay anti-gay protest during Jerusalem pride march

Ultra-nationalist Lehava group to stage demonstration against LGBT community during Thursday’s parade

The homes in the West Bank settlement of Shaarei Tikva reportedly built on Area B. (Courtesy: Dror Etkes)

Five settlement homes found to have been built in Area B

Houses in Shaarei Tikva were constructed after signing of Oslo Accords, which gave the Palestinian Authority control over the land

Visitors wait at the entrance of the Flagellation Monastery, off the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City, for the Archaeology and Multimedia exhibition. (Courtesy of Tamschick Media)

Travel back in time at this secret cool oasis in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The parents of Avraham Avera Mengistu protest outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, September 11, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Amnesty International calls on Hamas to free Israeli hostages

In first, human rights organization publicly criticizes terror group, and campaigns for release of Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed

A view of the Elma Arts Complex in its latest incarnation, the work of two generations of Rechter architects (Courtesy Elma)

A historic hotel reclaims its cultural past in Zichron Yaakov

By Jessica Steinberg

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Women activists in front of Jordan's parliament in Amman call on legislators to repeal a provision that allows a rapist to escape punishment if he marries his victim. (AP Photo/Reem Saad)

Jordan parliament repeals ‘marry the rapist’ rule

A patient's relative draws a gun in the emergency department of a Jenin hospital, August 1, 2017. (Screenshot)

Man fires pistol in Jenin hospital, demanding care in Israel

Gamida Cell's lab manager Noga Goudsmid-Rosenheimer at work, July 16, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Cell therapy firm in flurry of activity as hope nears for bone marrow patients

By Shoshanna Solomon

The first 100 bottles of Israel's first malt whiskey, made by Tel Aviv's M&H Distillery, will be auctioned off on a Scottish whiskey site from August 11-21 (Courtesy M&H Distillery)

SlaintéFirst Israeli whiskey to be auctioned on Scottish site

By Jessica Steinberg

Irish journalist Kevin Myers appears in an interview on Ireland's RTE One on September 14, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Irish Jewish group defends columnist canned for ‘anti-Semitism’

Ruins of a gas chamber-crematorium facility at Auschwitz-Birkenau, known as Krematorium II, November 2015. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Austrian court convicts man who questioned gassing of Jews in WWII

By AP

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

Hebrew media reviewIn a sorry state

By Joshua Davidovich

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