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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 12, 2017

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Torch-wielding white supremacists march at the University of Virginia on August 11, 2017 (Screen Capture/ YouTube)

Torch-wielding white supremacists march in Virginia university

By ToI Staff and AFP

Marchers beat counter-protesters in Charlottesville, chant ‘You will not replace us’ and ‘Jews will not replace us’ ahead of large Saturday far-right rally

Members of the Ku Klux Klan protest on July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chet Strange/Getty Images/AFP)

Virginia governor urges people to avoid far-right rally

By AFP

Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally Saturday, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Secessionists push for South to break away from US again

Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)

World’s oldest man, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

Yisrael Kristal, who last year marked his bar mitzvah 100 years late, passes away a month before his 114th birthday

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump's special envoys Jason Greenblatt (left) and Jared Kushner (center) meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the PMO in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Seeing ‘opportunity’ to renew talks, Trump sends three envoys to region

By Eric Cortellessa

With Temple Mount crisis resolved, Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Dina Powell are heading back to Mideast

Man stabbed, lightly wounded in Jerusalem attack

Temple Mount saw record number of Israeli visitors last month

By JTA

Jordan continues to block Israeli ambassador’s return

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press on August 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster,New Jersey (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

Trump: N. Korea ‘will regret it fast’ if it acts against US and allies

By Jonathan Lemire and Eric Talmadge

Germany, Russia express concern over escalating rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang, call for cooler heads to prevail

Japan deploys missile defense over North Korea threats

By AFP

Xi urges Trump to avoid exacerbating N. Korea tensions

By Yanan WANG and Olivia Hampton

US, North Korea have reportedly had secret contacts for months

By Matthew Pennington

Igbo mother and child. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)

Messianic Jews to Nigerians: You’re not ‘real’ Jews

By Melanie Lidman

Religious group from Arizona claims DNA testing proves that Igbo tribe are not genetically Jewish, drawing ire

Margret and H. A. Rey in Hamburg, Germany, May, 1973. (Ullstein bild/Getty Images via JTA)

How Curious George’s creators saved the beloved monkey from the Nazis

By Gabe Friedman

New documentary to detail daring escape of Jewish authors Margret and H. A. Rey, who fled Europe in 1940 on homemade bicycles carrying their unpublished manuscripts

ADHD, LD and the IDF

At the end of the day, she’s the mother of a proud soldier who embodies Ben Gurion’s vision for Israel’s fighting force

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Sebastian Gorka and Jeffrey Lord on trial

The People’s Court for People Who Make Holocaust Comparisons is now in session

Embarrassed to be Israeli?

Despite those who hide their nationality or religion, but he feels greater optimism for the Jewish future than ever

This file photo taken on August 05, 2017 shows a banner that reads, 'Stop Human Trafficking' attached to the side of the C-Star vessel as it sails in the Mediterranean Sea, 20 nautical miles off the Libyan coast. (AFP PHOTO / Angelos Tzortzinis)

Far-right anti-migrant ship ignores help from rescue activists

By AFP

The C-Star says it is exposing ‘collaboration’ between privately funded rescue ships and people traffickers

Tunisian fishermen hang banners as they gather on August 6, 2017 in the port of Zarzis in southeastern Tunisia to protest against a possible berthing of the C-Star vessel, hired by far-right activists from a group which calls itself 'Generation Identity' to prevent would-be migrants from reaching Europe. The writing in Arabic reads: 'No to Racism' (AFP PHOTO / FATHI NASRI)

Europe’s far-right Generation Identity, fighting immigration at sea

By Nora SCHWEITZER

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Health Ministry to probe hospitals that made women get rabbis’ OK for sterilization

By JTA

Officials at Netanya and Bnei Brak institutions recorded telling women who sought tubal ligation to obtain permission from religious authorities

Stray dogs roam the Babi Yar monument on March 14, 2016 in Kiev, where Nazis and local collaborators murdered 30,000 Jews in 1941. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Researchers find dozens of Jewish headstones at Babi Yar

By JTA

At least 50 slabs from a local Jewish cemetery were thrown into ravines where more than 150,000 Jews perished during Holocaust

Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a demonstration against the blockade on the Gaza Strip, near the border fence east of Jabalia refugee camp on June 5, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

At least 3 Palestinians said wounded in riots along Gaza border

One man reportedly in serious condition following clashes with Israels troops; Palestinian man wounded by gunfire in Israeli Arab town

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a press conference in Berlin on June 27, 2017. (John Macdougall/AFP)

Iran accuses Trump of ‘bad faith’ on nuclear deal

By AFP

US president ‘always wanted to kill the deal,’ Iranian FM tweets. ‘To avoid isolation, he’s trying to blame it on Iran’

Fighters from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army), the foremost rebel group in Damascus province who fiercely opposed to both the Syrian regime and the Islamic State group, hold a position in the rebel-held town of Douma on April 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)

Syria suicide blast kills 23 rebel fighters near Jordan border

By AFP

Monitor says another 20 in critical condition after bomber detonates explosive belt at base used by opposition group

Egyptian officials and emergency personnel remove the wreckage of a collision between two trains on August 11, 2017 near Khorshid station in Alexandria. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)

Death toll in Egypt train collision reaches 43

By Mohammed Wagdy and MENNA ZAKI

Another 122 injured in crash between two passenger trains near Alexandria in country’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade

Saudi King Salman, right, and Defense Minister and then Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wave as they leave the hall after talks with the British prime minister, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 5, 2017 (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Nobel laureates urge Saudi king to halt 14 executions

By Edith M. Lederer

The youths were arrested for taking part protests in 2012; letter also accuses Riyadh of coercing confessions

A performance of 'This City' hosted by Beit Mazia. (Gaya Turtle)

Israel travels

From classrooms to theaters: Historic schools host arts, support culture in Jerusalem

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

Joshua Cohen, 27, sought by London police in connection with double murder in Golders Green. (Met police)

UK police launch manhunt for suspect in North London murders

In this August 10, 2017, photo, whiskey is poured at the Milk and Honey whiskey distillery in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

L'chaim!Israel, the land of milk and honey — and now whiskey?

By Ilan Ben Zion

Denis Shapovalov of Canada reacts after scoring a point against Adrian Mannarino of France in day eight of the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium on August 11, 2017 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel-born teen Shapovalov wins again, into semis in Montreal

By AP and ToI Staff

David Berkowitz, AKA Son of Sam. (Fair use)

‘Son of Sam’ serial killer says he expects to die in jail, be redeemed by God

By JTA

The current building housing Shearith Israel in Manhattan was built in 1897, though the congregation itself dates back to the 17th century. (CC BY-SA Gryffindor/Wikimedia Commons)

Court allows lawsuit over firing of synagogue staffer

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a Muslim woman adjusting her hijab. (AP/M. Spencer Green, File)

Payout for US Muslim woman whose hijab was removed by police

By AFP

Narges Mousavi, an Iranian artist and daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, stands during her exhibition in 'House of Free Designers' art gallery in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

The green movementIran opposition head’s daughter displays paintings

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