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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 6, 2017

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Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives to a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, trailed by aide Ari Harow, far left, on December 8, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Harow ‘incriminates’ Netanyahu in corruption case – TV report

Ex-chief of staff said to tell police that he was asked to advance illicit quid pro quo deal between PM and top publisher

Likud ministers offer lukewarm support for PM in hot water

By Raoul Wootliff

Under pressure from probes, PM thanks those few ministers openly backing him

By Raoul Wootliff

Demonstrators square off over Netanyahu graft probes

By Alexander Fulbright

Palestinians prepare to cross from Israel into the Gaza Strip at the Erez Crossing, September 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

NGO says Israel banning Gazans from traveling with laptops

By Tamar Pileggi

Al Jazeera ‘deplores’ Israeli moves to close broadcaster; Hebron shooter Elor Azaria asks to delay prison sentence; Arab Israeli’s citizenship revoked over 2015 terror attack

Suspect Alaa Raed Ahmad Zayoud at Haifa Magistrate's Court (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

In first, court revokes citizenship of Arab Israeli car-ramming attacker

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Measure called for by interior minister; judge rules that by committing a terror attack, Alaa Raed Ahmad Zayoud removed himself from society

From Berlin to New York, Israeli expat writers are moving well beyond the Israeli market. (Jessica Steinberg/The Times of Israel)

'New writers of Jewish fictions face huge challenges'

Got a Jewish novel in your drawer? Now might be the time to pull it out

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Although it’s still tough to find an interested publisher, several new outfits offer increased opportunities — online and on shelves

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 25, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas vows to keep up financial pressure on Hamas

By ToI Staff and AP

Palestinian leader blasts Gaza’s rulers for lighting up tunnels despite power shortage, accuses US of trying to block reconciliation

Gaza man crosses into Israel, is apprehended by soldiers

Shots fired at IDF soldiers in West Bank, no injuries

Democratic leader Schumer cosponsors Taylor Force Act

By Eric Cortellessa

Jordanian security forces stand on guard in front of protesters during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for the shutting down of the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Jordan said to launch diplomatic offensive over Israeli Embassy shooting

Amman’s three-pronged approach reportedly includes a message to Riyadh warning of Netanyahu’s ‘mocking’ and his efforts to influence their relations

Lament of an unlikely hockey mom

Why won’t Jerusalem support the sport that would flourish were it only able to use the city’s new ice rink?

We need to talk about Gaza

Israel may pay a terrible price for ignoring the dire humanitarian crisis in the Strip

A day in Area ‘A’

On the Palestinian view of terror, refugee camps, and contradiction between seeking peace and rewarding martyrs

US President Donald Trump's senior adviser for policy Stephen Miller speaks during a daily briefing at the White House on August 2, 2017 (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Trump adviser Stephen Miller said eyed for comms chief role

Aide reportedly made an impression on the president when he told CNN reporter that the Statue of Liberty isn’t about immigration

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with US National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster on May 22, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Israeli officials say under-fire McMaster a great friend of Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Source tells Israeli paper that security figures are ‘constantly impressed by how pro-Israeli’ the US national security adviser is

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a corner stone laying ceremony for a new neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit on August 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Opposition leaders call on Netanyahu to resign over corruption cases

After ex-aide to PM turns state’s witness in investigations, Labor head Gabbay says Israelis ‘deserve a different leadership’

Illustrative: A Saudi executioner displays his sword. (YouTube/MEMRITVVideos)

Set to execute 14 dissenters, Saudi Arabia defends its judicial system

By AP and ToI Staff

Rights group says convictions handed down by a ‘secretive’ counterterrorism court using ‘confessions extracted through torture’

The Reichstag building in Berlin on May 15, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Berlin: 2 Chinese tourists detained for making Nazi salutes

By AP

Pair fined, face criminal investigation for using symbols associated with illegal organizations

Muhammad Harouf, a Palestinian resident of Nablus in the West Bank, suspected of murdering his romantic partner Michal Halimi, is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, August 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian charged with murdering pregnant Israeli girlfriend

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prosecutors deny suspect’s claim of nationalistic motive, indict him on criminal, not terror charges

Despite all the public awareness about the dangers of sun exposure, the number of people being diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has skyrocketed over the past three decades. Jews are at higher risk than most. (DESEO/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli scientists offer rays of hope in fight against skin cancer

By Michele Chabin

With high rates of melanoma among Jews, researchers single out cells that can help counter cancerous sun exposure

Touro Synagogue, nestled in historic Newport, Rhode Island, is the oldest extant synagogue in the United States, seen on September 2, 2004. (John Nordell/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images/via JTA)

Who owns America’s oldest synagogue? It’s a 350-year-old argument

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Screen capture from video of journalist and co-founder of the Women's Equality Party, Catherine Mayer, during a television interview with the BBC, October 2015. (YouTube/Mike Buchanan)

Former top Time journalist sues over sexual discrimination

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers with a trained army dog during a drill, April 2, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash 90)

Modi's best friendIndian PM’s security goes to the (Israeli) dogs

By Stuart Winer

A swastika found on a sign outside Temple Beit Torah in Colorado springs on August 4, 2017. (Screen capture/KKTV)

Police investigating Nazi graffiti at Colorado synagogue

Rescue workers from the Magen David Ambulance service are seen at the scene of a stabbing in Kiryat Yam on August 5, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

Man shot dead in suspected gang hit

In this file photo, partygoers take a nap during a nature party in the forest of Mount Carmel. (illustrative photo; photo credit: Alana Perino/Flash90)

Woman in critical condition after collapsing at nature party

Israeli athlete Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko captures the silver in the women's triple jump final during the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, on July 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI)

Israeli triple jumper qualifies for finals at world championship

Israeli swimmer Avishag Turk swims across the English Channel on August 1, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

In first, Israeli woman completes grueling English Channel swim

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)

Hebrew media reviewThe beginning of the end of King Bibi?

By Tamar Pileggi

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