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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 16, 2017

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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Trump Tower, August 15, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Israeli politicians reject Trump claim of two sides to Virginia hate march

Lapid and Livni slam US president for equivocating in criticism of anti-Semites and others, while justice minister calls for neo-Nazis to be prosecuted

Yair Netanyahu says leftists more dangerous than neo-Nazis

By ToI Staff and AFP

After 3 days, PM condemns Charlottesville in vague statement

By Raphael Ahren

ADL chief says Charlottesville car-ramming resembles terror attacks against Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin urges US Jews to ‘be strong’ after Charlottesville

By Tamar Pileggi

GOP lawmakers, US officials criticize Trump over ‘both sides’ remarks; Iran supreme leader mocks Trump’s response to white supremacist rally; Israel to revoke credentials of local Al-Jazeera journalist

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump doubles down on ‘both sides to blame’ in Charlottesville, says ‘alt-left’ was ‘very violent’

By Eric Cortellessa

In heated press conference, president says he took 2 days to specifically condemn white nationalists because he ‘wanted to know the facts’

North Carolina woman confronts neighbor flying Nazi flag outside home

White supremacists praise Trump’s ‘fair’ condemnation of ‘both sides’ in Charlottesville

By ToI Staff and AP

White nationalist groups plan to be ‘more active than ever’

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon steps off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on April 9, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump says ‘we’ll see’ what happens with top strategist Bannon

By Jonathan Lemire and Julie Bykowicz

Amid speculation that controversial adviser may be forced out, US president presents lukewarm defense of ex-Breitbart editor

Forced offline, Daily Stormer heads to the dark web

By JTA

Sheldon Adelson disavows campaign tarring H.R. McMaster as anti-Israel

By JTA

Michael Moore leads Broadway audience to Trump Tower protest

By AP

The southern Israeli city of Eilat and Jordanian city of Aqaba seen, December 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Experts say Red Sea-Dead Sea pipe dream isn’t worth its salt

By Melanie Lidman

Plan to ‘save’ the wonder of the world through multi-million dollar pipeline is criticized as a political tool to win international donor money

Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch, arrives at court in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2009. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

The rise of Raed Salah, Israel’s Islamist leader who wants Jerusalem at the heart of a caliphate

The recently rearrested preacher has built a career ‘defending’ Al-Aqsa against Israel’s purported planned takeover, building vast support among Arab Israelis

Court extends remand of top Islamic cleric by 2 days

Former IDF soldier Omri Dahan, left, killed in a street brawl in Brooklyn on August 13, 2017. (Facebook)

Former IDF soldier stabbed to death over parking space in New York

Omri Dahan, 23, knifed in the chest during altercation; police catch 41-year-old suspect at airport as he waits to board flight to Haiti

Players and coaches at a Basketball Without Borders training session at the Wingate Institute in Israel, August 14, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NBA players and coaches assist young hoopsters in Israel

Basketball Without Borders, featuring Omri Casspi of Golden State, seeks to nurture new talent while fostering understanding between diverse communities

Illustrative photo of a Mac laptop. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Israeli firm hacks the hackers, and has advice how to beat them

What are cyberattackers looking for, and what do they do when they find it? A report by cybersecurity company Imperva has some answers

Illustrative: Workers sitting on tractor on Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel, October 2016. (Courtesy of Ran Ferdman)

Can medical marijuana revive Israel’s kibbutz movement?

By Andrew Tobin

After decades of stagnation, the communities are betting big on the herb

I’m a rabbi and I was in Charlottesville

The play-by-play of her day as a ‘care-bear’ among the counter-protesters

The aftermath of Charlottesville

An open letter explaining why President Trump must condemn the events of last weekend as nothing short of horrifying

Trump should try my HIIT workout

A cycle of high intensity efforts and less intense recovery times, with kind words throughout, would do him good

Volunteers wait at the scene of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent, just outside of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, Tuesday, Aug. 15 , 2017. (AP Photo/ Kabba Kargbo)

Israeli aid arrives in Sierra Leone after deadly mudslides

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel’s envoy to West Africa says crates of food, enough for 10,000 meals, are the first international assistance to reach country

The sealing of the first floor of 19-year-old Omar al-Abed, the perpetrator of the deadly terror attack in the settlement of Halamish on July 21, 2017, in the northern West Bank village of Kobar, August 16, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Halamish terrorist’s home razed as family members face charges

Clashes in Kobar when security forces demolish first floor of building used as al-Abed family home

Heavy machinery works on a massive underground barrier that is expected to stretch along the entire 60-kilometer (40-mile) border when it is complete, on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, September 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Underground barrier credited with growth in Israeli towns near Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

With attack tunnel threat being dealt with, communities outside the Strip are seeing a population surge, official says

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: 'Advancing US Interests at the United Nations'. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Nikki Haley: Iran can’t use nuclear deal to hold world hostage

US envoy to UN says 2015 agreement must not become ‘too big to fail,’ as Iranian president warns Tehran could bail if US keeps imposing sanctions

Young US Jews who immigrated to Israel to join the IDF pose with executives from Nefesh B'Nefesh (center) after their flight lands in Israel on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (Shahar Azran)

New immigrants to Israel feted as miracles, and a threat to Iran

Buildings at a site near the northern Syrian city of Banias that are reportedly part of an Iranian missile factory under construction. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Iran building missile factory in Syria — report

Satellite photos seem to show facility in north of country said to be used for production and storage of long-range Scuds

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looks on during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 25, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas congratulates North Korea’s Kim amid nuclear tensions

By Dov Lieber and AP

Minister Naftali Bennett slams the PA president, saying it follows Palestinian support for Hitler and Saddam Hussein

Head of Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at the launch event for Libertad foundation. June 27, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Mossad chief leads delegation to brief White House on Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Teams set to discuss the Trump-Putin brokered ceasefire, which Israel has condemned as emboldening Iran

Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, Jan. 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)

US decries Islamic State ‘genocide’ of Christians, others

Tillerson says terror group carrying out ‘crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing’ in Iraq and Syria

Maccabiah at URJ Eisner Camp. (Courtesy Foundation for Jewish Camp)

Summer camps as super glue for binding Jewish identity to the next generation

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

A sign put up at a Swiss hotel calling on Jewish guests to shower before going swimming (Courtesy)

Switzerland decries anti-Semitism after furor over hotel sign

The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei.' (AP/Christof Stache, File)

Polish TV parodies Auschwitz sign in story about Germany

By JTA

French police officers stand guard outside the Palais des Festivals in the southeastern French city of Cannes on May 10, 2016 on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival. AFP/ ALBERTO PIZZOLI)

Knife-wielding motorist in France suspected of threatening to ‘kill the Jew’

By JTA

Left to right: Gillian Kay as Gremio, Andrea Katz as Baptista, and Susan Berkson as Tranio in Theater in the Rough's 2017 performance of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew.' (Courtesy/Merav Blum)

Theater reviewDress-cross’d production tames chauvinism in Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’

By Yaakov Schwartz

Former cabinet minister Moshe Nissim. (Wikipedia/שי דגני/GFDL)

Netanyahu taps ex-justice minister to review conversion policy

Comedian Larry David speaks on stage at the VIP Closing Dinner during Advertising Week 2015 AWXII at Sotheby's, New York City, October 1, 2015. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for AWXII)

Pretty, pretty rudeHBO hackers leak unaired episodes of ‘Curb’

By AP and ToI Staff

Mayim Bialik at the 67th Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, California on September 19, 2015. (Lily Lawrence/Getty Images via JTA)

Mayim Bialik calls out March for Racial Justice over Yom Kippur date

By JTA

A Bluebird Airways plane. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Plane forced to make emergency landing due to drunk, unruly Israeli

IDF soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade during a training exercise in southern Israel, on July 10, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewComputers over combat

By Tamar Pileggi

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