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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 9, 2017

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Former soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months, later commuted to 14 months, for killing an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, arrives at the Tsrifin military prison in Rishon Lezion, on August 9, 2017, to begin serving out his sentence. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Hebron soldier goes to prison after months of legal wrangling

By Alexander Fulbright

Accompanied by family and supporters, Elor Azaria arrives at Tzrifin base to serve time for killing a wounded Palestinian attacker

US President Donald Trump speaks about North Korea at a meeting with administration officials on the opioid addiction crisis at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2017. AFP/ NICHOLAS KAMM)

Trump, North Korea trade escalating threats of fire

By Foster Klug and Matthew Pennington

Pyongyang claims it’s examining plans to attack US territory of Guam as president warns threats will be met ‘with fire and fury like the world has never seen’

Trump vows to counter North Korea’s threats with ‘fire’

By Thomas WATKINS

Report: North Korea capable of putting nuke on missile

By AFP

American fighter jet avoids collision with ‘unsafe’ Iranian drone

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, blows a kiss to the crowd as he's surrounded by activists during a gathering to show support for him as he face corruption investigations, held at the Tel Aviv Convention Center, August 9, 2017. (AFP/Jack GUEZ)

Live updates (closed)

Opposition leader slams PM for ‘horror show’ solidarity rally

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu accuses left-wing, media of trying to oust him; Trump warns N. Korea that US nuclear arsenal is ‘more powerful than ever’; knife-carrying Palestinian arrested in Hebron

MK David Bitan (Likud) and MK Rachel Azaria (Kulanu) (Photo credits: Flash90 and Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Unhappy with bill, Israel’s coalition chief won’t rush binary options ban to Knesset

By Simona Weinglass

After committee approves already watered-down legislation, Likud’s David Bitan tries to reopen debate, is told he’s too late, rebuffs committee chair’s plea to bring law urgently to parliament for final approval

The Jerusalem aquarium, which wasn't supposed to open until sometime in July 2017, has fish placeholders in many of the tanks, as other fish are adjusting to the their new habitat in the aquarium's quarantine area (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Not going swimmingly

Shark deaths said to tank Jerusalem aquarium opening

By Jessica Steinberg

Spokesman cites unspecified issues with fish, and lack of enough creatures, as new attraction stalls

A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli flares illuminating the Palestinian coastal enclave, on July 7, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Israeli jets hit Hamas targets in Gaza following rocket strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

IDF says two of terror group’s ‘posts’ struck in Palestinian enclave, hours after projectile lands in southern Israel; three Palestinians hurt

Family of fallen soldier threatens legal steps to secure return of son’s body

By Alexander Fulbright

Palestinians fire rocket from Gaza into southern Israel

By Alexander Fulbright

New Israeli policy allows East Jerusalemites access to Gaza

Police and rescue workers gather near the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack on French soldiers on patrol in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret on August 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thierry Chappe)

Car rams soldiers near Paris in ‘deliberate’ attack

Police say six people injured in incident, including two in serious condition; officers hunt for vehicle and driver

French memorial honoring deported Jewish children vandalized

Brussels police open fire on car in Molenbeek suburb

By AP

Trump aide Gorka says no such thing as ‘lone-wolf’ attack

Israeli Air Force Apache helicopters, file (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Steering malfunction likely caused helicopter crash – military source

By Judah Ari Gross

Problem seems to have been technical, not human error; pilots were right to return to base instead of landing, officer says

Liberman rips rumor mill after IDF chief said killed in crash

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldier moderately hurt in overnight arrest raid in West Bank

Defense minister slams violent ultra-Orthodox rioters

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

A screenshot from a video released by Israeli-German artist Shahak Shapira on August 7, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish artist takes on Twitter for enabling anti-Semitism

Best known for shaming Berlin memorial goers with ‘YOLOCAUST,’ Shahak Shapira stages protest over social media giant’s failure to delete offensive messages

What Israel’s new prostitution bill does

The legislation incriminating ‘johns’, which jumped a hurdle towards passage, prioritizes women’s rights

Steven Greenberg

Homosexuality and the human condition

Rabbi Shlomi Riskin’s daring empathy places him at the forefront of shifting Orthodox views on what it means to be gay

Golan oil gives China a new Mideast role

The superpower wants in on a gas bonanza in the Heights and has a vested interest in settling the sovereignty issue

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Donald Trump isn’t funny. Sad!

Trump’s lack of humor is a clue to his polarizing presidency

Yehoshua Elitzur during his initial trial (screen capture: Channel 2)

Brazil to extradite settler who fled Israel after killing Palestinian

Court decision comes two years after Yehoshua Elitzur was arrested in Sao Paulo, ending a decade-long manhunt

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and his wife Yaffa, seen leaving their home in Jerusalem, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interior Minister Deri questioned by police for six hours

By Raoul Wootliff

Shas chairman’s wife also interrogated on suspicion of money laundering, fraud, breach of trust and tax offenses

The Eli settlement in the central West Bank (Courtesy: Dror Etkes)

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Illegal homes going up in settlement across street from Liberman aide

Homes in outpost of Hayovel lack permits, but construction taking place under nose of settlement policy adviser Kobi Eliraz, who insists he has no connection to the ongoing work

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)

Ex-Netanyahu aide received money from group tied to billionaire Lauder — report

Ari Harow said to have received $105,000 upon resignation from PMO in 2010, an unusually large sum for the US organization

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on September 17, 2013. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Leftist group sues Yair Netanyahu over Facebook post

Molad seeking NIS 140,000 from PM’s son for calling it anti-Zionist and ‘humiliating it publicly’

Emily Paster, author of 'The Joys of Jewish Preserving.' (Courtesy)

The ancient Jewish art of preserving — kept fresh

By Rich Tenorio

Participants at a Wednesday night event hosted by Meor Manhattan. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

Where young secular Jews go for drinks, socializing – and Torah

By Josefin Dolsten

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Gretchen Rachel Hammond first reported hat three Jewish women carrying rainbow flags emblazoned with Jewish stars were kicked out of the June 24 march. (Courtesy of Hammond)

Tablet hires reporter who broke story of Jewish women booted from Chicago Dyke March

By JTA

Likud MK Oren Hazan attends the Holon Purim parade on March 12, 2017 (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Unruly Likud MK says state prosecution ‘full of’ excrement

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Part of a platform being taken from the coast of Israel towards the Tamar gas field in this undated photo. (courtesy Noble Energy)

Two Israeli natural gas fields to start pumping in 2020

Sgt. Ayin, who shot and injured a terrorist who killed three Israelis at the Halamish settlement on July 21 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Soldier who stopped Halamish terrorist to get commendation

By Judah Ari Gross

Flags at the Knesset fly at half mast in honor of former president and prime minister Shimon Peres as his body lies in state at the Knesset, September 29, 2016. (Yizhak Harari/Knesset Spokesman's office)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s mourning in Israel

By Joshua Davidovich

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