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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 3, 2017

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Police Superintendent Gabi Biton at an August 2, 2017 Knesset panel devoted to a proposed law to ban Israel's binary options industry. (The law passed in October.) Biton told the panel that organized crime in Israel had grown to "monstrous proportions" as a result of online investment fraud. (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Police: Binary options is run by crime bosses, has grown ‘monstrous’ in size

By Simona Weinglass

Saying his ‘eyes have been opened’ to size and complexity of widely fraudulent industry, superintendent tells MKs he’ll do everything possible to uproot the scam

Clockwise from top left, Majd Jaaba, Muhammad Maher Bader, Haron Nasser al-Din, Muasseb Hashalmon, Taha Uthman, Yusri Hashalmon, Umar Qimri, identified by the Shin Bet security service as the leaders of a Hamas operation to illegally bring money into Hebron. (Shin Bet)

Israel breaks up alleged Hamas Turkey-Hebron money laundering ring

By Judah Ari Gross

Terror group brought some $200,000 into the West Bank to pay salaries of its command, operatives, Shin Bet says

IDF soldiers conduct raids in the West Bank village of Yatta, near Hebron, on August 3, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

As victim’s condition stabilizes, IDF raids Yavneh terrorist’s hometown

By Judah Ari Gross

Police detain a man, suspected of instigating riots in East Jerusalem, during arrests carried out overnight August 2, 2017. (Israel Police)

15 more arrested on suspicion of instigating Temple Mount riots

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Analysis

The Temple Mount crisis ended Trump’s Palestinian honeymoon. The Kushner tape made things worse

By Raphael Ahren

Early flattery from Ramallah, as the president held back on moving the embassy and criticized settlements, has given way to increasingly public accusations that the White House is siding with Israel

Kushner says Trump campaign was too dysfunctional to collude

By Richard Lardner

Trump’s new chief of staff assures Sessions his job is safe

By AP

Trump reportedly describes White House as ‘real dump’

By AP

Elor Azaria in a live online broadcast, his first public comments about his trial and sentencing, on August 3, 2017. (Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

In first public statement, Elor Azaria thanks supporters, says he ‘loves this country’

Twelve years on, right-wing leaders return to evacuated West Bank settlement; Netanyahu rejects ‘witch hunt’ amid reports he is suspected of bribery, fraud, breach of trust

Participants at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, July 21, 2016. (Sarah Tuttle-Singer/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem gears up for gay pride parade under banner ‘LGBTQ and Religion’

4,000 expected to take part in annual event under heavy security; police to allow small anti-protest by far-right activists

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

Olmert’s son lashes Netanyahu’s son for ‘racist, homophobic’ Facebook post

Ariel Olmert mocks Yair Netanyahu’s lavish lifestyle, becomes latest to threaten to sue prime minister’s offspring

AG cites ‘progress’ in bid to enlist Netanyahu’s ex-aide as state’s witness

By Raoul Wootliff and Tamar Pileggi

Leftist group slaps Yair Netanyahu with pre-suit notice letter

By Tamar Pileggi

Sara Netanyahu grilled in fraud probe as PM faces threat from former aide

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli soprano Netta Or. (Sylke Gall Photography)

Divorcing music from anti-Semitism, Israeli soprano takes on taboo at Wagner fest

By Marc Neugroschel

Netta Or sees her performance in ‘Parsifal’ as an opportunity to show the world that the Bayreuth Festival is not ‘judenrein’

Jill Baker Shames

Why I gave my kidney away

It was something she was meant to do not for her cousin but for herself

P. David Hornik

A primer for Netanyahu-haters

How not to let facts disturb your absolute certainty the prime minister can do nothing right

No wedding is perfect without this

You guessed it, it’s the Halachic prenup. And if that makes you feel icky, then read this.

Holocaust survivor and Mengele twin Eva Mozes Kor in her Terre Haute, Indiana, CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center on November 7, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Survivor who embraced ex-Nazi guard decries jail term for 96-year-old

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Agencies

After court confirms ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ healthy enough for prison, Eva Kor says he should lecture in schools instead

Israeli police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during an anti-draft protest in Jerusalem on March 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protest campaign compares IDF draft to Holocaust

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Posters show Haredi recruits walking into Auschwitz, claim IDF induction targets souls whereas Nazis went after bodies

Construction workers begin work on the new settlement, Amichai, meant to resettle the evacuees of Amona, June 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State doubles budget for new settlement after shortfall — report

Housing Ministry offers to will bankroll Amichai to tune of NIS 120 million, and lift responsibility from Binyamin Regional Council

Screen capture of the National Library of Israel's online manuscript archive, August 2, 2017. (National Library of Israel)

Israel National Library launches digital manuscript archive

By AP

45,000 texts spanning the centuries and geography of the Jewish world, captured in over 4.2 million images, are available online

The Petra Hotel in the Old City of Jerusalem. (CC-BY-SA: Ranbar/Wikimedia)

Greek church to appeal against sale of Old City hotels to right-wing group

Palestinian Authority church committee claims court ruling upholding purchase by Ateret Cohanim is part of Israeli attempt to ‘attack Al-Aqsa Mosque’

Oren Hazan attends the Holon Purim parade, the largest in the country, on March 12, 2017. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

After bridge duel nixed, Israeli and Jordanian lawmakers feud over phone

Yahya Al-Saud tells Oren Hazan to go to hell when he refuses to apologize for tweet; Israeli says an actual meeting would have ended ‘with a hug and a selfie’

Illustrative: An IDF soldier holding a weapon. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

IDF soldier moderately hurt in training accident

Serviceman taken to hospital for treatment after being shot during military exercise

Israeli security forces stand before Palestinians on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 27, 2017, with the Al-Aqsa mosque appearing in the background. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Foreign Press Association files petition against police violence during Temple Mount crisis

High Court suit slams government for staying silent on the matter while boasting ‘that it is the Middle East’s only democracy’

'Jerusalem Ablaze' author, Orlando Ortega-Medina. (Courtesy)

Literary world fired up over debut short story collection by gay immigration lawyer

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Palestinian Muslims wave a national flag and flash the victory gesture in front of the Dome of the Rock atop the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on July 27, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

OpinionThe inevitable next conflagration

By Ami Ayalon, Gilead Sher and Orni Petruschka

President Donald Trump, flanked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R- Ark., left, and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, during the unveiling of legislation that would place new limits on legal immigration. (AP/Evan Vucci)

ADL slams Trump-backed GOP plan on immigration as ‘cruel, un-American’

By ToI Staff and AP

Emily Pomeranz’s dying wish was for a very specific milkshake. (Facebook)

Milkshake travels 400 miles to fulfill hospice patient’s last wish

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by former chief of staff Ari Harow (left) and former parliamentary adviser Perach Lerner as he arrives at a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli parliament, November 24, 2014. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMud in the front, knives in the back

By Joshua Davidovich

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