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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 10, 2017

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Iranian-born journalist Neda Amin at the The Times of Israel's Jerusalem office, August 10, 2017. (Tamar Pileggi/TOI)

Safe in Jerusalem, Iranian blogger thanks Israel for ‘saving’ her

By Raphael Ahren

Hours after landing in Israel, ToI Persian’s Neda Amin, who feared she faced deportation to her native country, says she has Jewish roots and would love to stay here

Neda Amin is welcomed by Times of Israel's David Horovitz at Ben-Gurion Airport, August 10, 2017 (Times of Israel staff)

Times of Israel Persian blogger arrives safely in Israel

Neda Amin is welcomed by Times of Israel's David Horovitz at Ben-Gurion Airport, August 10, 2017. (Times of Israel staff)

First person

How Neda Amin came to Israel

By David Horovitz

Fearing deportation from Turkey, possibly back to Iran, a Times of Israel Persian blogger pleaded for Israel to let her in. Our country’s response was admirable

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Likud supporters at a rally designed to deliver a powerful show of force as he battles a slew of corruption allegations, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

At solidarity rally, Netanyahu accuses left and media of trying to overthrow him

By Raoul Wootliff

In a fiery speech to some 3,000 supporters, embattled PM dismisses the expanding graft investigations against him as a vast conspiracy

After rally, opposition slams Netanyahu as corrupt dictator clinging to power

Full text of Netanyahu’s speech at Likud rally

Thousands rally for Netanyahu as scandals multiply

By Raoul Wootliff, AP and ToI Staff

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)

Reporter's notebook

At Netanyahu’s chilling rally, echoes of Trump’s war on the media

By Raoul Wootliff

Emulating the beleaguered leader, attendees fume at coverage of the PM’s graft probes, shouting insults at journalists and even threatening violence

Thousands rally for Netanyahu as scandals multiply

By Raoul Wootliff, AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara and Likud party members at a rally in his support, in Tel Aviv, on August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

42% of Israelis agree with Netanyahu that media is against him

French Jews call for extradition of Palestinians accused of terror attack 35 years ago; Islamic Waqf denies Israeli forces stole documents in Temple Mount raids

Illustrative photo of a rally in North Korea (Shutterstock)

The curious tale of Israel’s short-lived courtship of North Korea

By Raphael Ahren

25 years after the Foreign Ministry and Mossad each sent a delegation to Pyongyang trying to stop it from selling arms to Israel’s enemies, the episode still stirs up bitterness and controversy

North Korea details plan to fire missile salvo toward Guam

By Eric Talmadge

N. Korea says it is finalizing attack plans, calls Trump ‘bereft of reason’

By AP

US warns N. Korea that nuclear drive could spell regime’s destruction

By Thomas WATKINS

Cranes and other machinery are seen on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza Strip, on September 8, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Revealing details of Gaza tunnel-thwarting barrier, IDF says it could spark war

By Judah Ari Gross

Army warns Hamas not to attack construction of underground protection system, says it will be built ‘at any price’

IDF destroys homes of terrorists who killed border guard, soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF threatens to blow up Gaza houses covering Hamas tunnels

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian Authority slashes permits for sick Gazans, UN health body says

By AFP

Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man examines a citron (etrog) in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Italy’s citron crop fails, an archaeologist looks to fruit’s 2,500-year history in Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After a disastrous frost that looks to wipe out the majority of this year’s etrog yield, Chabad Jewry braces for a crisis ahead of the Feast of Tabernacles

Illustrative image of chocolate coins used during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. (tomertu/iStock via Getty images)

A bit of gelt

Russian launches world’s first Jewish cryptocurrency

BitCoen to conform to Jewish law, offer interest-free loans and be administered by a council made up of community members

Dr. Yonatan Adler on-site at the stone quarry and tool production center excavations at Reina in Lower Galilee. (Samuel Magal/IAA)

2,000-year-old stone workshop discovered near where Jesus turned water into wine

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Because it was immune to ritual impurity, the use of stoneware was rife among Jews during the Roman era

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

My favorite street in Jerusalem

It’s a street with two names, an injured artery from Jerusalem’s holy heart

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Saeb Erekat’s staggering hypocrisy

The PLO official has done untold harm to the Jewish state, and now he wants Israel to save his life?

Avrohom Gordimer

Homosexuality and the Jewish condition

A response to Rabbis Riskin and Greenberg: No, the Torah does not permit Homosexual relations

When the Rebbe sent me to the desert

On advice from the Chabad leader, he moved to the polar opposite of New York City, and founded a college

Villagers attending a fake Jewish wedding in the Polish village of Radzanow, August 5, 2017. (Jonny Daniels/From the Depths/via JTA)

Polish villagers hold Jewish wedding… without Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

13-year old Palestinian Ahmed Manasra (c) at the Jerusalem District Court on October 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court reduces sentence for 13-year-old Palestinian stabber

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prison service says Ahmed Manasra, who along with his cousin carried out 2015 knife attack in northern Jerusalem, is being rehabilitated

Illustrative: students seen during their break at the University of Haifa, on April 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Dangling cash, Israel pushes universities to woo foreign students

By Shoshanna Solomon

Council for Higher Education earmarks NIS 300 million over six years to promote English courses, mentorship programs

Amnon Shashua, co-founder and chairman of Mobileye arrives to a Mobileye and Intel Workers Conference in Jerusalem, March 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Intel readies first self-driving cars after buying Israeli firm

By AFP

Day after closing deal for Mobileye, tech behemoth says initial fleet of 100 vehicles to roll out by end of year

Illustrative photo of an Israeli Air Force Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter, June 8, 2012. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Condition improves of pilot injured in fatal chopper crash

Helicopter crewman responds, moves arms and legs, days after incident that killed other serviceman

Police gather at 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/Stephane De Sakutin)

French Jews say car attack shows indifference to anti-Semitism

By JTA

CRIF questions if authorities will accept insanity plea from suspect in Paris car ramming as they did for killer of Sarah Halimi

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office, Monday, July 31, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Former top security officials urge Trump to stick to Iran deal

By JTA

Responding to reports that US president may refuse to sign JCPOA, bipartisan group says war ‘more imaginable’ now than in past five years

Welfare and Social Services Minister Haim Katz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 25, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Police grill Likud minister for 3rd time in aerospace graft probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Haim Katz’s son Yair, a senior executive at Israel Aerospace Industries, also suspected of coercing employees into joining the governing party

Visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, July 30, 2009. (AP/Eric J. Shelton)

Losing side wants review in fight over oldest US synagogue

By Michelle R. Smith

Local community challenges ruling putting Rhode Island building, and $7.4 million decorative silver bells it houses, under control of NY-based congregation

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

Direct message

Twitter erases hateful tweets after Israeli artist’s stunt

By Frank Jordans

Shahak Shapira spray-painted offending posts in front of the social media giant’s German headquarters

Workers at the al-Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Danes to Israel: Don’t shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau

By AP

Journalists’ union appeals to ambassador ‘to do whatever is in your power’ to keep Qatar-owned broadcaster open

A scuba diver in one of the tanks of the Jerusalem aquarium, which is still experiencing adjustment problems with its sea creatures (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Troubled waters

Jerusalem aquarium yet to open amid acclimation setbacks

By Jessica Steinberg

A wave of fish and shark deaths has postponed the unveiling of the landlocked capital’s first-ever sea center

Illustrative image of a crime scene (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Police say lawyer murdered for NIS 50,000 in revenge killing

Father of man killed over land dispute orders hit on Adam Jum’ah al-Hawashla in wake of soured deal

More Headlines

This file photo taken on May 31, 2013 in Paris shows Helene Martini, nicknamed the 'Empress of the night,' who overlooked 17 cabarets and directed the 'Folies Bergeres' cabaret for 37 years, posing for a photograph in her room decorated by Franco-Russian artist Romain de Tirtoff, also known as 'Erte'. (AFP / JOEL SAGET)

La FinShowgirl who became ’empress’ of Paris night dies at 92

By Fiachra GIBBONS and Charlotte Durand

A screenshot from the Israeli TV show 'The Final Four.' (Screenshot/Armoza Formats)

An Israeli takeFox picks up new singing show based on Israeli format

Illustrative image of dance party. (Anna_Om/iStock via Getty images)

Revolutionary life guards Iran detains 64 ‘half-naked’ youths at pool party

By AP

Zumba dancers, illustrative (YouTube screenshot)

Dirty dancingIran arrests six for teaching Zumba dance – report

By AFP

In this Nov. 7, 2016, photo Bruce Springsteen performs during a Hillary Clinton campaign event at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Dancing in the darkBruce Springsteen plans series of Broadway fall concerts

By Mark Kennedy

Josh Rosen #3 of the UCLA Bruins calls a play at the line of scrimmage during the first half of a game against the Arizona Wildcats at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, October 1, 2016. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images via JTA)

Hit the booksUCLA QB Rosen says ‘football, school don’t go together’

By JTA

Musician Glen Campbell at the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney on January 30, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. (Gaye Gerard/Getty Images via JTA)

Brisket cowboyMusician Glen Campbell was a Messianic Jew

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Likud supporters at a rally designed to deliver a powerful show of force as he battles a slew of corruption allegations, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hebrew media reviewThe king’s speech

By Adiv Sterman

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