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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 8, 2017

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An Israeli Air Force Apache helicopter (Hagar Amibar/ Israeli Air Force/Flickr)

Pilot killed, co-pilot injured as IDF chopper crashes in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Training accident comes two months after entire Apache fleet was grounded over safety concerns, and a week after another helicopter made an emergency landing

Major David 'Dudi' Zohar, 43, of Haifa was killed in a helicopter crash at a base in southern Israel on August 7, 2017 (IDF spokesperson's office)

Pilot killed in IDF chopper crash identified as Maj. David Zohar

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

An Israeli Air Force Apache helicopter (Mor Tzidon/ Israeli Air Force/Flickr)

Helicopter crash unrelated to earlier fault that grounded Apache fleet – IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive to the Magistrates Court in Tel Aviv to a court hearing against journalist Igal Sarna on March 14, 2017. (Moti Kimchi/Pool)

Netanyahu’s wife seen close to being charged over expense scandals

By Raoul Wootliff

Attorney general reportedly getting ready to indict Sara Netanyahu on four separate allegations of using hundreds of thousands of shekels of state funds for private use

Ex-deputy minister, other Yisrael Beytenu officials indicted in massive graft case

By Raoul Wootliff

Interior Minister Deri, wife questioned again in graft probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud organizes rally supporting Netanyahu amid graft probes

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

An illustrative photo of a breast cancer research laboratory. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Simple drug regimen could help prevent cancer recurrence, Israeli study says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Combining a stress-reducing drug with an anti-inflammatory helps reduce metastasis of cancer cells, researchers find

A photo from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border shows a smoke trail of rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 22, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)

IDF confirms rocket fired from Gaza lands near Ashkelon

Al-Qia’an family slams lack of indictments for cops at Umm al-Hiran; Gazan travelers face new restrictions

US President Donald Trump walks with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, June 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Israel, Iran take center stage in latest White House power struggle

By Jonathan Lemire and Bradley Klapper

Top Trump aides clash on direction of US foreign policy as conservative groups call for ouster of national security adviser over perceived lackluster support of Jewish state

Iran snickers at US push to inspect military sites

PM’s Iran speech to Congress left no bad blood, top Democrat says

By Raphael Ahren

US wants UN mission in Lebanon to report Hezbollah violations

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox protesters against the army draft gather in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem as Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman paid a condolence visit to a family in mourning in the area, August 8, 2017. (Israel Police)

Girl, 8, wounded as ultra-Orthodox extremists attack defense minister

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Protesters assault police as Liberman makes condolence visit to mourning family in Jerusalem neighborhood

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) meeting in Tehran with Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh. (AP)

Hamas said to meet with Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Tehran

A high-level delegation from the terror group is in Iran to open a ‘new page’ with old ally

Iran’s president proposes all male, near-same cabinet for his second term

Lebanon’s army prepares to clear Syrian border area of Islamic State

By Bassam Mroue

Iran arrests 27 IS suspects said to be plotting attacks

By AFP

On being a Jewish stranger

The convoluted path he found among the Jews, who were supposed to be loving, respectful, and inspired

Jordan’s retrograde leadership must go

The Hashemites are radicalizing their citizens and standing in the way of peace

Kenneth Brander

Fathering children postmortem

Question: What does Jewish law call the dead man who helps create life? Answer: A father, according to some

US President Donald Trump walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

White House says bill cutting PA funding must not harm peace efforts

By Eric Cortellessa

Administration official offers cautious support for marked up Taylor Force Act, says it will work with Congress as legislation proceeds

Israeli police stand next to a vehicle that crashed into police officers in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017. (Israel Police)

Police won’t be tried for killing Bedouin teacher – report

Despite concluding that Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an was not a terrorist, internal investigation clears officers who shot him before his car fatally ran into a cop during home demolitions in his village

Elor Azaria in the courtroom at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Court hears Hebron shooter’s last-ditch request to defer sentence

By Raoul Wootliff

Set to start 18-month prison term Wednesday, Elor Azaria asks for delay until army chief decides on clemency

Members of the Palestinian Authority security forces take part in a graduation ceremony for a Palestinian youth training camp in the West Bank city of Jericho, January 25, 2017. (Flash90)

Abbas issues new demands of Israel, but is quietly still arresting terror suspects

By Avi Issacharoff

While formally maintaining freeze in security cooperation, PA nabs relatives of assailant shot dead trying to stab soldiers

American billionaire Sheldon Adelson (left), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a ceremony at Ariel University in the West Bank, on June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Supreme Court: Netanyahu must reveal when he talked to mogul Adelson

By Raoul Wootliff

Reversing lower court decision, judges rule that PM’s discussions with billionaire owner of Israel Hayom daily a matter of public interest

Sheldon Adelson is seated prior to the inauguration of then President-elect Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards)

Sanders claims Adelson brags about being greedy. Here’s what Adelson really said

Former US presidential hopeful takes aim at Las Vegas casino magnate, but his criticism uses past quotes out of context

Intel completes acquisition of Mobileye shares in tender

By Shoshanna Solomon

Companies say Ziv Aviram, a co-founder of the Israeli firm and its current president and CEO, to retire effective immediately

Illustrative photo of a Meuhedet Health Services clinic (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

In first, healthcare provider to subsidize HIV medication

Decision by Meuhedet to help fund drug expected to drive dramatic price drop, increase availability

Actor Jonathan Lipnicki at the Western Wall during his Birthright trip on July 28, 2017. (courtesy Jonathan Lipnicki)

Jerry Maguire scene-stealer, all grown up, has Israel at ‘Shalom’

By Melanie Lidman

Screen capture of the vdos-s.com website that offered cyber attack services to clients around the world. (Israel Police spokesperson)

Police bust cyber attack ring accused of causing millions in damage

By Stuart Winer

Pair of key suspects believed to have earned over $600,000 from website offering service that crashes internet servers on demand

President Reuven Rivlin (C) presents the Shield of Honor prize to Eli Ohana (L), the chairman of Beitar Jerusalem soccer club, during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Beitar Jerusalem wins anti-racism award for reducing anti-Arab chants

By AFP

Soccer club, known for far-right elements in fan base, praised by President Rivlin, a longtime supporter

Tova Saul, an Orthodox Jew, feeds stray cats in a neighborhood in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

At midnight, Jerusalem Old City’s ‘cat lady’ prowls

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Israel's Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko competes in the final of the women's triple jump athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London on August 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Andrej ISAKOVIC)

Israeli triple jumper clinches 4th place at world championship

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: The Jerusalem office of Qatar-based news network and TV channel Al Jazeera on July 31, 2017 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Rights group condemns Israeli move to shutter Al Jazeera

An Egyptian protester holds an anti-Israel slogan near the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Netanyahu said happy to leave Israel-Egypt ties hanging on security

By Stuart Winer

9/11 Pentagon exterior (FBI photographs of the Pentagon, after the terror attack)

9/11 victim’s remains identified after nearly 16 years

By Jennifer Peltz

Memorial at the site of the Lety concentration camp in the Czech Republic. (Public domain, Max, Wikimedia Commons)

Czechs strike deal to move pig farm from Roma Holocaust site

By AFP

This image released by HBO shows Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in an episode of "Game of Thrones," which aired Sunday, Aug. 6. (AP)

Hackers demand millions in ransom for stolen HBO data

By TALI ARBEL and Frank Bajak

The owner of England's Chelsea Football Club, Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, as he leaves court in London, October 4, 2011. (AP/File)

Chelsea owner Abramovich splits from wife – spokesman

By AFP

The waterfront at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires includes a wide variety of inflatable toys and surf kayaks. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Ramah camp in the Rockies evacuated due to fire

By JTA

The performance of La Tosca at Masada barely utilized the mountain, only lighting it at a few points. The enormous stage swallowed performers when there were only two or three during most of the show. (courtesy Israel Opera/Yossi Zwecker)

Opera al frescoSì, sì, ‘Tosca’ is free in Tel Aviv this Thursday

By Jessica Steinberg

Benjamin Netanyahu walks out of a helicopter in Jerusalem on July 20, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewA crack in time

By Joshua Davidovich

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