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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 2, 2017

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Police and medics respond to a stabbing in a supermarket in the central Israeli city of Yavneh on August 2, 2017. (United Hatzalah)

Man critically hurt in terror stabbing in Yavneh

By Judah Ari Gross

Doctors work to stop the bleeding before victim, 43, undergoes life-saving surgeries; Palestinian assailant captured by civilians

Palestinian suspected of murdering his pregnant Israeli lover

By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid

In Hebron, troops arrest parents who stashed bullets in kids’ rooms

By Judah Ari Gross

At Hamas summer camp, kids ‘liberate’ Temple Mount, ‘kill’ Israeli troops

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at an event in the White House on June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict may not be solvable, Kushner says on tape

By Eric Cortellessa

In leaked conversation with congressional interns, White House senior adviser says he doesn’t know what administration can do that is unique to bring peace

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to meet behind closed doors before the Senate Intelligence Committee, July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kushner says Trump campaign was too dysfunctional to collude

By Richard Lardner

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat in his Ramallah office, November 23, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian negotiator says US silence fostering ‘apartheid’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Some young Nicaraguans who converted to Judaism in July with the help of the Kulanu organization, July 20, 2017. (Bonita Sussman via JTA)

Tiny Nicaragua Jewish community doubles in size as 114 convert

By Josefin Dolsten

Mass conversion, 22 Jewish weddings performed by three Orthodox rabbis from Israel, US; at least half of participants claim Jewish ancestry

Likud MK Oren Hazan during a plenum session in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After Netanyahu steps in, badboy Israeli MK pulls out of bout with Jordanian lawmaker

By Raoul Wootliff and Dov Lieber

Denied satisfaction in Allenby Bridge border fight, furious Yahya Al-Saud says he’ll face Oren Hazan ‘in any country in the world’

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 activists celebrate repeal of ‘marry the rapist’ law

Israeli machines and workers build parts of the Israeli security barrier near the West Bank city of Beit Jala, outside Jerusalem, on April 17, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel completes new stretch of security barrier near Hebron

By Tamar Pileggi

US, Europeans push UN for action over Iran rocket launch; Jordan’s king to donate $1.4 million to Temple Mount Waqf; IDF seals off terrorist’s West Bank town after attack

Jewish visitors wait to enter the Temple Mount complex in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As record number of Jews visit Temple Mount, Jordan warns of more crises

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian officials and others, including chief rabbi, register disapproval after some 1,300 Jews ascend to holy site

Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who also was involved in Jewish outreach, was killed near his Washington, DC, home on July 10, 2016. (Facebook via JTA)

Lawsuit claims Trump pushed bogus Fox story on slain Jewish Democrat

Investigator says president approved fabricated quotes implicating murdered DNC staffer in WikiLeaks scandal to distract from Russia scandal

Customers walk to a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City, June 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Almost all artifacts sold nowadays were looted, expert says

Arrest of Jerusalem antiquities dealers opens a smuggling Pandora’s Box

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Use of Israel as a way station to legitimize sale of looted artifacts to Hobby Lobby prompts Antiquities Authority to seek ban on all dealing

The VENµS satellite and launcher at the launch site in French Guiana on July 31, 2017. (courtesy Israel Space Agency)

Israel launches first environmental research satellite Venμs

By Melanie Lidman

High-resolution photos from satellite will be used to track climate change-linked trends, such as desertification, erosion, pollution

Hadar Tennenberg

So glad that I kick like a girl

What she did to combat the sexist assumptions that had been pushed on her since childhood

One effective way to alleviate the inevitable stress (hint: it lies within)

How do Jews love?

The answer is: With everything they’ve got.

Racy or racist? It matters. A lot.

It was a Sunday Times editor’s job to know the difference, and veto publishing an appalling anti-Semitic libel

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks with journalists at a rally against the Iran nuclear deal at the US Capitol, September 9, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Here’s how Trump could scrap the Iran nuclear deal

US president appears to be leaning toward dismantling the accord. He has several options on how to carry that out

Hamas operative Saleh al-Arouri (L) meets with Iranian official Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Lebanon on August 1, 2017 (screenshot)

Senior Hamas leader spotted in Beirut for first time since Qatar expulsion

Photos show Saleh al-Arouri discussing ‘resistance’ against Israel in meeting with senior Iranian official

Ari Harow, former chief of staff of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a Likud meeting in the Israeli parliament, November 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM’s former chief of staff to turn state’s witness — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Ari Harow could aid police investigation into quid pro quo deal Netanyahu allegedly struck with Yedioth Ahronoth owner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City with his son Yair, a day after winning Knesset elections, on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu slams leftist group for scathing Facebook post

Taylor Force, murdered in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist in March 2016, gave his name to the Taylor Force Act, legislation proposing to halt US aid to the Palestinian Authority until the latter stops paying stipends to terrorists and their families. (Facebook)

US Senate unveils revised version of Taylor Force Act

By Eric Cortellessa

Legislation to pull PA funding over payments to terrorists now allows aid for humanitarian purposes, does not include waiver authority for US president

An ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)

Israel ammonia saga seems near end as 800 workers to be fired

By Shoshanna Solomon

In stinging message to Netanyahu, owner of Haifa Chemicals says all suggestions for resolution fell on deaf ears

ZAKA volunteers next to the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem following the July 14, 2017, terror attack. (courtesy ZAKA)

On the Temple Mount, priests take on a new sacred duty: Collecting bodies

By Melanie Lidman

Anita Diamant with a copy of “The Red Tent” in 2000. (David Bohrer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)

The good book

How ‘The Red Tent’ invented a new kind of fiction

By Erika Dreifus

Sacked journalist Kevin Myers speaks with Ireland's RTÉ's Today radio, August 1, 2017. (Screen capture: RTÉ's news)

Irish journalist apologizes for ‘anti-Semitic’ jab in article

Kevin Myers says career is probably over, but he has ‘genuine contrition for the hurt’ caused by column about Jewish female TV stars

Menashe Lustig, left, and Ruben Niborski in the film "Menashe." (Federica Valabrega/A24/via JTA)

Yiddish film is a rare look into Hasidic Brooklyn life

By Charles Munitz

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Former Nazi SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial on July 15, 2015 at court in Lueneburg, northern Germany. (AFP / POOL/ AXEL HEIMKEN)

96-year-old ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ ruled fit to serve sentence

By AFP

People enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a warm summer day on July 4, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Scorching July 2017 was one of Israel’s hottest on record

Murder suspect Tamer Hujirat is seen at the Haifa District Court on August 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Haifa couple charged with murdering neighbor to steal $20

In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Al-Azhar clerics wait to answer commuters questions inside a Fatwa Kiosk, at the Al Shohada'a metro station, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Quik-e-dictFirst-ever fatwa kiosk in Cairo subway stirs debate

Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters (Courtesy)

Nvidia sees Israel as a key to leadership in AI technologies

By Shoshanna Solomon

A newborn calf named Genie, with facial markings that resemble Gene Simmons, bass player for the rock group KISS, shortly after its birth in Kerrville, Texas, July 28, 2017. (Heather Taccetta via AP)

I was made for lovin' mooCalf with Gene Simmons face rocks Texas ranch

By AP

Mobileye, Intel deal clears last antitrust hurdle, paving way for share sale

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his then-chief of staff Ari Harow (L) arrive at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, November 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAn old political ally, a new threat to the PM

By Adiv Sterman

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