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What Matters Most On Friday, August 25, 2017

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8-year-old Hallel Halevy holding her find of a rare 2,00-year-old half-shekel coin on August 23, 2017 in Halamish. (courtesy)

8-year-old girl’s 2,000-year-old ‘half-shekel’ turns out to be museum souvenir

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Coin found in Halamish, initially believed to be minted just prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, is actually one of thousands produced by children each year at Israel Museum, expert says

The Bei’r Al-Shaghala burial site in Dakhla. (Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)

Egypt archaeologists uncover Roman era tombs

By AFP

Putting skepticism on hold, Abbas backs US peace push in Kushner meeting

White House adviser does not mention two-state solution, according to official PA account, but Palestinian leader still expresses cautious optimism that deal can be reached

Netanyahu says meeting with Kushner ‘helpful, meaningful’

By Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright

After Kushner snub, Trump calls Egypt’s Sissi to affirm support

By AFP

Removed over security fears, Israel envoy said to visit Cairo

The fateful throw: Itzik Yakobovitch rolls the dice at the Jerusalem Backgammon Championships beneath the Old City Walls on August 24. At left is his rival Gadi Carmeli (Times of Israel staff)

Jerusalem backgammon contest rolls winning dice for Jewish-Arab coexistence

By David Horovitz

Months of competition, attracting 500 players from across the city, culminate in a final, fateful throw

People talk before the start of the meeting of the standing committee on rules at the Republican National Committee summer meeting, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Republicans to vote on condemning white supremacists

By Thomas Beaumont

Measure expected to pass overwhelmingly, but some RNC members say resolution drags them into debate on whether ‘we’re not racists’

German magazine slammed for Trump Nazi salute cover

Trump rips into ex-top spy who questioned his fitness for office

By AP and ToI Staff

Charlottesville mayor says he was shut out of security talks

By AP

Members of the Women of the Wall group praying outside the entrance to the Western Wall after they were denied entry to the site for refusing to undergo body searches, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing the searches. January 19, 2017. (Courtesy of Women of the Wall)

Netanyahu slams ‘unacceptable’ Western Wall body searches

By JTA

PM instructs police minister to look into accusations 4 female rabbinical students were asked to lift shirts, skirts when entering holy site

Clockwise, from left: Hubert Butler with daughter Julia in 1960; two couples Butler helped save from the Nazis. (Courtesy)

When Ireland rejected Jewish orphans fleeing Nazis, this man saved dozens

By Robert Philpot

A new film chronicling Irish anti-Semitism stars one WWII hero, essayist Hubert Butler, who was ostracized for speaking against the Catholic church

Hip-hop star Jay-Z performs in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006. (Obed Zilwa/AP)

99 problems but Jews ain't one

Jay-Z defends ‘anti-Semitic’ lyric as gross generalization

By JTA

Rapper says he knows Jews don’t own everything, after being criticized by ADL for line on new album

Center: Master mezuzah maker Ric von Neumann in his rural Ontario workshop where he makes his custom cases. Sides: A custom dancer mezuzah case, and a Gibson Les Paul replica mezuzah case. (Courtesy/Libby von Neumann)

'I work on total faith and confidence'

The non-Jewish mezuzah master whose custom cases are affixed to door posts around the globe

By Robert Sarner

Far removed from any Jewish community, Ric von Neumann makes some of the world’s most creative scroll holders — in the middle of a remote Canadian wilderness

A four-year-old Indonesian black macaque named Niv holds a young chicken at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv on August 25, 2017 after she adopted the bird when it wondered into their enclosure.
(Jack Guez/AFP)

Loveless monkey adopts chicken at Israeli zoo

By AFP

Four-year-old Indonesian macaque named Niv opts to adopt a fowl after having difficulty finding a partner at the Ramat Gan Safari

Trump a hero of Jewish history?

The president can transform his legacy by using his exclusive power to change US policy on Jerusalem’s status

The consent of the governed

The Torah is systematically skeptical about politics, for ideally, God alone would rule, but this is reality (Shofetim)

Yair Lapid and me

If you only knew the Yesh Atid head like he knows the Yesh Atid head…well, now is your chance

A Syrian rebel commander, known only by his nom de guerre, Abu Hamad, speaks to journalists in Jerusalem from Syria via Skype on August 23, 2017. (Media Central)

Taking Israeli aid, Syrian rebel says crisis on Golan overrides old hatreds

By Judah Ari Gross

Militia commander says Jewish state’s assistance is life-saving, as pro-regime groups, Islamic State besiege Syrian Golan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Coalition Chairman David Bitan (R) attend a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on January 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rebellious New Likudniks are crashing Netanyahu’s party

By Andrew Tobin

Amid multiple corruption investigations linked to PM, officials accuse ‘leftist’ camp within ruling Likud of attempting a ‘coup’

Menny Naftali (C), the former housekeeper of Prime Minister's Residence, and Israeli activist Eldad Yaniv (2R) outside the courtroom of the High Court in Jerusalem, August 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court okays limited protests outside attorney general’s home

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Palestinian schoolgirls chat as they head to school on the first day of a new academic year, at a United Nations-run school at the Al-Shatee refugee camp in Gaza City on August 23, 2017 (AFP/ MOHAMMED ABED)

Police bar Palestinian textbooks from Temple Mount school

Students reportedly not allowed to reach school on holy site while carrying books; police spokesperson says materials banned over ‘incitement’ fears

Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)

Official leading efforts to return captive Israelis in Gaza quits

By Raoul Wootliff

Retired IDF colonel Lior Lotan steps down from role; family of slain soldier Hadar Goldin says Netanyahu has ‘forsaken’ them

A member of Algeria's small Ahmadi community sits at a house in Tilpasi, west of Algiers, near a photo of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, on June 30, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ryad Kramdi)

Algeria’s Ahmadis, an ‘Israeli plot,’ forced to worship behind closed doors

By Amal Belalloufi

Pacifist Muslim sect, which operates freely in Israel, is accused by Algerian government minister of working with Israel to destabilize country

Gen. Joseph Votel, the top US commander for the Middle East, right, gets a briefing on the USS Nimitz, from Lt. Cmdr. Vern Jensen, the aircraft handling officer for the ship, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

In the Persian Gulf, Iran’s drones pose rising threat to US

By Lolita C. Baldor

American naval officials warn Iranian UAVs could collide with planes flying missions from aircraft carriers

Illustrative: Police cars are seen near the concert venue Maassilo after a rock show was cancelled due to a terror threat, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on August 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/ANP/Arie Kievit)

Was Dutch concert canceled because of a single chat message?

Police continue to question detained man over suspected terror plot, but doubts grow about authenticity of threat

Larissa Raphael showing off her potato-onion knishes in Brooklyn, August 2, 2017. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

The Michelin star pastry chef who makes knishes better than bubbe

By Josefin Dolsten

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Musicians Kayus Bankole (L) and Alloysious Massaquoi of Young Fathers perform onstage during day 3 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 2 at the Empire Polo Club on April 24, 2016 in Indio, California. (Mike Windle/Getty Images for Coachella via JTA)

Artists drop Berlin festival over Israeli Embassy funding

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli lawmakers and South African Jewish leaders meet with ANC party official and African Union chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, center, in Johannesburg on August 14, 2017. (Embassy of Israel in South Africa)

First-ever delegation of MKs visits South Africa

Brodsky Synagogue on 13 Shota Rustaveli Street in Kiev, Ukraine. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Fedotto/Wikipedia)

Israeli man shot dead near synagogue in Kiev

By JTA

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv as a heatwave hits Israel. May 16, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel braces for weekend heat wave

The front page of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, September 2017.

Zero to heroGal Gadot opens up about ‘sheltered’ Israeli upbringing

AppsVillage aims to help businesses, from the small nail salon to the coffee shop and larger businesses, create their own app quickly. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli startup helps businesses get an app ‘in a snap’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Soon to be Hebrew-speaker/footballer Kobie Whiteside (YouTube)

The whole 'tesha' yardsIncoming college football player tackles Hebrew

A picture taken on August 24, 2017 in the West Bank city of Ramallah shows a Palestinian holding a burnt flyer depicting US President Donald J. Trump defaced with cartoon shoes on his head, during a protest against the arrival of a US delegation headed by senior White House advisor Jared Kushner. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Hebrew media reviewJared who?

By Joshua Davidovich

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