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What Matters Most On Monday, August 7, 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)

66% of Israelis say Netanyahu should quit if indicted – poll

Channel 10 survey indicates Likud party would win election, with or without PM; 51% skeptical of his claims of innocence

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

Ari Harow said to tell friends he is no traitor to Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 30, 2017. (Ohad Zweigenberg/POOL)

More Likud support emerges for Netanyahu, but key allies mum

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

Dueling Bethsaida excavations: (clockwise from top left) Bronze coin from e-Tell, team member at el-Araj, mosaics found at el-Araj, city gate at e-Tell excavation site. (courtesy)

Sites vie to be seen as Christianity’s ‘lost’ city of Bethsaida

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Seeking the location of a myriad of New Testament miracles, excavations in area of important Second Temple-era town uncover conflicting finds

Screen capture from a promotional video for tee-shirts featuring the swastika as a symbol for peace. (Facebook/KA Design)

Cross purposes

Swastika T-shirts aim for love, spark anger

By Stuart Winer

Clothing company tries to reclaim Nazi emblem as a symbol of love, but consumers aren’t buying it

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside advocate Yossi Cohen (right) in the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Attorney general said to be bringing charges against Sara Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

PM’s wife accused of diverting public money for her private housekeeping expenses; Supreme Court orders prime minister to disclose dates of phone calls with Sheldon Adelson

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting to urge passage of bills to enforce federal laws on immigration in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2017. (Nicholas/AFP)

Trump lashes senator as liar, fraud in tweetstorm

US president calls Richard Blumenthal ‘a phony Vietnam con artist’ after calls for special investigation into collusion with Russia

Adam Bisnowaty at a minicamp practice at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, May 25, 2017. (Evan Pinkus/via JTA)

'One of the first things I tell people is that I’m Jewish'

New York Giants player shows Jewish pride on and off the field

By Gabe Friedman

Adam Bisnowaty is one of the NFL’s only Jewish athletes — and if his Hebrew tattoo doesn’t tip you off, maybe the matzah in his locker will

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on, as he attends a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul on August 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ozan Kose)

Iran’s Zarif hosts Hamas officials

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinian terror group seeks to mend ties with Tehran as it continues to struggle with possible loss of foreign backing

Rights group: Israel bans Gazans from traveling with laptops

Hamas said to accept Egyptian plan for Palestinian unity, Fatah holding out

Al Jazeera ‘deplores’ Israel decision to shut it down

Jordan's King Abdullah II and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas observe the honor guard during a visit in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Jordanian king tells Abbas Trump committed to peace process

In rare visit by monarch to Ramallah, two sides agree to form task force to prepare for any future Temple Mount tension

Jordan's King Abdullah II, center-right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center-left, observe the honor guard during a visit by the Jordanian king to the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 7, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad GHARABLI)

Jordanian king makes rare West Bank trip seen as message to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Katherine, played by Gilad Petranker kisses Petruchio, played by Annabelle Landgarten, in Theatre of the Rough's production of 'Taming of the Shrew.' (Courtesy)

In Jerusalem, a gender-bent production of ‘Taming of the Shrew’

By Yaakov Schwartz

The Theatre in the Rough opens its summer run this week with a laugh-out-loud, cross-dressing performance of the Bard’s classic comedy

A gay pride march in Jerusalem? Why yes!

Does a loud and proud LGBTQ+ parade in Israel’s capital makes you uncomfortable? Too bad

Sivan Rahav Meir

Take charge of your cellphone

Society’s technology dependency is going too far; people need to take time to smell the roses — and talk to their kids

Hadar Tennenberg

Popsicles for peace

What smiles you create when you hand over free cold, creamy goodness to all the warm people in Jerusalem’s Old City

Who decides whose life is worth living?

There’s lousy precedent in Charlie Gard’s parents not being allowed to care for their 11-month-old as they saw fit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé during the ECOWAS summit in Monrovia, Liberia, June 4, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel dismisses efforts to derail upcoming Africa summit

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinians, Moroccans and South Africans dismayed over Togo gathering, at which PM will seek to boost diplomatic and economic ties

A general view of TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries in Jerusalem, Israel, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva slide could draw vultures but it won’t be easy prey

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli drugmaker has regulations in place meant to protect it from a takeover and preserve its Israeli identity

A net greenhouse in Los Pinos, Mexico, the largest greenhouse tomato project in the country, developed with Israel's Netafim drip irrigation and greenhouse technology. (courtesy, Netafim)

Mexican firm to buy Israel drip irrigation pioneer Netafim for $1.5 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mexichem has signed a deal to buy 80% of Netafim in a deal that values the drip irrigation pioneer at $1.895 billion

Illustrative: A view of the upscale Mamila neighborhood in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

In blow to Kahlon, High Court strikes down third apartment tax

By Marissa Newman

Top court sends finance minister’s signature bill back to Knesset committee, citing faulty legislative practices

A Palestinian boy uses a slingshot to launch rocks at Israeli troops in the al-Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem on August 6, 2017. (Screen capture: Israel Police)

Israeli forces nab firebombers, rock throwers in West Bank, Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

Police rescue civilian security guards attacked with Molotov cocktails in the capital; 16 Palestinians arrested

IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria, a soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting an injured, disarmed Palestinian attacker in Hebron, seen during an appeal hearing at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2017. (FLASH90)

Prosecution rejects Hebron soldier’s request to defer sentence

By Tamar Pileggi

Elor Azaria, who killed a disarmed terrorist, seeking leniency from IDF chief after court rejected his appeal of manslaughter conviction

A soldier in the IDF's Combat Intelligence Corps operates a new drone purchased by the military for company commander. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

US Army forbids use of Chinese-made drones also flown by IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli military says it’s aware of DJI drones’ vulnerabilities to hacking, uses them only for non-classified missions

Illustrative: Dr. Jari Louhelainen conducts DNA testing in 2014. (Jari Louhelainen/AFP)

DNA match leads to arrest in 5-year-old attempted rape case

37-year-old Nigerian national identified as attacker from 2012 assault thanks to victim who turned in his skin, blood cells to police

Illustrative: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America marching at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, September 2011. (CC BY David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons /File)

Democratic Socialists of America launch into anti-Israel chant at convention

By ToI Staff and JTA

Attendees at gathering for ‘largest socialist organization in US’ chant ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ after passing BDS motion

Prof. Jonathan Gershuny in his north London home office. (Jenni Frazer/Times of Israel)

Meet the Oxford researcher whose work is — literally — on time

By Jenni Frazer

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Illustrative: A group of American Birthright tourists visits the Dead Sea on July 10, 2015. (Matt Hechter/Flash90)

Police bust thieves who preyed on Birthright tourists

By Stuart Winer

German right wing extremist Ernst Zundel in a court in Mannheim, southern Germany, at the beginning of a trial to face charges including incitement libel and disparaging the dead, November 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Notorious neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel dies at 78

By AP

An Israel Electric Corporation power plant situated on the Mediterranean coast in Hadera, Israel. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

BadatzzzzUltra-Orthodox party proposes ‘kosher’ electricity plan

By JTA

Gal Gadot in a scene from 'Wonder Woman.' (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman slated to appear in ‘Flashpoint’ film

By JTA

Actor Moshe Ivgy delivers a statement regarding sexual harassment allegations against him, at the end of a theater show in Tel Aviv on Sunday, February 7, 2016 (Flash90)

Israeli actor to be indicted for sex crimes

A mask, gloves, and a pistol allegedly used by a US man suspected of carrying out a string of armed robberies in Tel Aviv and who was arrested on July 18, 2017. (Israel Police)

US-Israeli indicted for ‘old man mask’ heists

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara Netanyahu, kayaking in the Jordan river on August 24 , 2010. (Hamad Almakt/ Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSupport fishing in the yes-men

By Joshua Davidovich

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