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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 17, 2017

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Chief Nazi-hunter of the US-based Jewish rights group Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, during an interview with The Times of Israel on Wednesday, August 17, 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Interview

Netanyahu was right not to condemn Charlottesville rally, top Nazi hunter says

By Raphael Ahren

A remark from the PM could be seen as an insult to the White House, Efraim Zuroff argues. But he’s perturbed by Trump’s ‘false equivalency’ of white supremacists with their opponents

Die-hard Trump supporters show no signs of straying

By Matt Sedensky

Citizens of many US allies trust Putin over Trump, poll finds

White supremacists, neo-Nazis cheer Trump remarks

By AFP

President Reuven RIvlin attends US Independence Day celebrations at the US ambassador to Israel's residence in Herzliya on June 30, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Rivlin: Israel stands with US Jews after Charlottesville rally

President calls display of Nazi flag ‘beyond belief,’ avoids mention of Trump’s comments pinning blame on ‘both sides’

Republican Jewish Coalition calls for ‘greater moral clarity’ from Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

Orthodox rabbinical group condemns Trump for ‘failing of moral leadership’

By JTA

White nationalist Richard Spencer tells Israelis that Jews are ‘over-represented’

This file photo taken on August 15, 2017, shows US President Donald Trump speaking to the press at Trump Tower in New York. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Trump denies equating neo-Nazis with Virginia counter-protesters

By AFP

US president accuses Lindsey Graham of pushing ‘a disgusting lie’ and misrepresenting his remarks on Charlottesville rally

Top Trump aide Bannon dismisses white nationalists as ‘clowns’

By AP and ToI Staff

Former US ambassador blasts Trump’s Charlotesville remarks

Jewish GOP congressman defends Trump’s response to Charlottesville

By Eric Cortellessa

In this Saturday, April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Too hot

KKK denied permit for cross burning at Georgia park

Stone Mountain Memorial Association says request rejected over fears event could lead to violent clashes

Protesters and counter-protesters clashing at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fighting facists: The group that battled white supremacists in Charlottesville

Everything you need to know about Antifa, the loose network of combative activists that Trump blames for the Virginia violence along with the far-right

Ivanka and Jared targeted with vivid anti-Semitic rhetoric in ‘Vice’ doc

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

As members flee, Trump disbands business advisory councils

By AP

Internet sites crack down on white supremacists

By Glenn Chapman

Security footage of a man in Philadelphia urinating on a wall next to the entrance of Congregation Beth Solomon on August 13, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Philadelphia man arrested for urinating on synagogue

Suspect turns himself in to police after footage shows him flipping off camera, relieving himself on Jewish house of prayer

Damage at the scene of a van that rammed into pedestrians in the Las Ramblas shopping district in Barcelona, Spain, August 17, 2017. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

Barcelona police arrest suspect in deadly terror ramming

As many as 13 said dead in Barcelona van-ramming attack, children said among the casualties; driver of van fled the scene, is holed up in nearby bar

This photo taken on June 23, 2015, shows a replica of a skeleton of a Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a bizarre genus of herbivorous dinosaur, exhibited at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)

Bones of contention

New find shakes up theory on dinosaur evolution

By Marlowe HOOD

Researchers say Chilesaurus, the ‘most bizarre dinosaur ever found,’ is a missing link pointing at a common ancestor for theropods and ornithischians

Defense Ministry dismantling Amona outpost in the central West Bank on February 6, 2017. (Courtesy Amona Council)

High Court freezes controversial outpost legalization law

By Jacob Magid and Stuart Winer

Following petitions, legislation allowing retroactive land legalization in West Bank delayed for two months until government responds

Foreign tourists train with a wooden gun as they participate in a two hour anti-terror course at the Caliber 3 shooting range, near the West Bank settlement of Efrat on July 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Israeli company offers ‘anti-terrorism’ adventure to tourists

By Michael Blum

Education Minister Naftali Bennett seen at the Knesset on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bennett defends lesbian aide amid national religious criticism

By Alexander Fulbright

Jewish Home leader says he won’t discriminate based on sexual orientation after rabbi quits party over spokeswoman’s employment

The blue vehicle attempts to pass the white truck by merging into the oncoming traffic lane, nearly colliding with the approaching vehicle on Route 60 in the West Bank. (Courtesy: Avraham Binyamin)

In the wild West Bank, traffic laws are mere recommendations

With car crash fatalities beyond the Green Line soaring, Palestinians and Israelis set out to change the driving culture and save lives

Screenshot from The Emoji Movie trailer.

Wipe that smile off your screen if you want to be taken seriously

By Stuart Winer

Ben-Gurion University researchers discover that including an emoji in a work email can transmit incompetence

Treating the Charlottesville marchers is if they are real Nazis is an affront to America’s history

Andrew Silow-Carroll

President Trump’s absent moral clarity

The problem with the ‘neo-Nazi, neo-Shmazi’ news conference, for those who think the president has a point

‘If you were here, I’d kill you’

He’s making peace with the Arab world, one painstaking Instagram comment at a time

When you hate the beach as much as he does, you don’t expect the Zionist dream to manifest between surf and sand

A photo taken from the rebel-held town of Douma shows flames rising in the distance which are believed to be coming from Damascus International Airport following an explosion early in the morning of April 27, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)

Israel said to have hit Hezbollah convoys dozens of times

By AP and ToI Staff

In first, former air force chief Amir Eshel confirms mass scale of strikes, says over 100 targets struck since 2012

The Israeli Air Force launches a Patriot interceptor missile during an exercise on August 15, 2017. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF tests Patriot missiles in nighttime air defense exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Iran opposition leader hospitalized after going on hunger strike

By AFP

Mehdi Karroubi, candidate in disputed 2009 election, protesting being held under house arrest for last six years

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the inauguration of the IDF's new combat training base for mixed-gender units in the Negev desert on August 16, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman: IDF not pushing ‘feminist agenda’ with mixed-gender units

By Alexander Fulbright

Hitting back at religious criticism, defense minister says army’s only consideration is Israel’s security

IDF soldiers destroy the home of Palestinian terrorist Adel Ankush in the West Bank village of Deir Abu Mashal on August 17, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Office)

IDF blows up home of terrorist who killed Jerusalem border guard

Destruction of house in West Bank village follows demolition of other 2 attackers’ homes over fatal Jerusalem stabbing of Hadas Malka

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing, attend a memorial for Mohamed Zouari in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017, (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Hamas guard killed in suicide bombing at Gaza border

Terror group says IS-linked attacker blew himself up after forces tried to prevent him from entering Egypt

Gamida Cell's lab in Jerusalem, where umbilical cord blood is stored in tanks (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Coming of age, Israel biotech sector gets ready for market

By Shoshanna Solomon

After billion-dollar NeuroDerm sale, life science firms Gamida Cell, BiondVax, RedHill and Vascular Biogenics are gearing up for commercialization

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

Foreign Ministry warns against expelling Al Jazeera — report

By Alexander Fulbright

Communications minister, who supports the move, brushes off fears it would damage Israel’s reputation, saying his concern is citizens’ safety

A scene from 'Hamilton, An Israeli Story,' an educational project based on the award-winning play at Camp Ramah in the Poconos (Courtesy Noa Ayash)

Jewish camp transforms ‘Hamilton’ into Israeli history lesson

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

The entrance to the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, November 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rules women must be allowed to administer rabbinical courts

Aparthaus Paradies, Arosa (Courtesy)

Booking.com drops Swiss hotel over signs singling out Jews

By JTA

Louis C.K. participates in the 'Better Things' panel during the FX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, August 9, 2017. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

The secret life of...Louis C.K. to release previously unheard-of movie

By AP and ToI Staff

Memorial in Jedwabne, Poland dedicated to Jews who were murdered here on July 10, 1941. (Fczarnowski, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

Polish historian seeks exhumation of Jews murdered by neighbors in WWII

By JTA

Vice President Mike Pence, left, with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Metropolitan cathedral in Buenos Aires, August 15, 2017. (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images)

Mike Pence commemorates Holocaust, terrorism victims in Argentina

By JTA

Illustrative: Protesters listen during a 'Peace and Sanity' rally Sunday Aug. 13, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, during a rally about white supremacy violence in Charlottesville, Va. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

March for Racial Justice won’t change Yom Kippur date but wants to include Jews

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

Hebrew media reviewRally around controversy

By Adiv Sterman

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