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What Matters Most On Friday, August 3, 2018

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In this image from video released by the CIA, Hamza bin Laden is seen at his wedding. The never-before-seen video of Osama bin Laden's son and potential successor was released November 1, 2017, by the CIA in a trove of material recovered during the May 2011 raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader at his compound in Pakistan. (CIA via AP)

Osama bin Laden’s family in first interview: Now we worry about his son

Hamza bin Laden has vowed to avenge his father, the arch terrorist who his mother describes as a shy boy who was led astray

Hebron Jewish settlers' council head Yochai Damari (left) with the Palestinian man who came to the aid of the Mark family after the July 1, 2016 terrorist attack in which Rabbi Miki Mark was killed (Har Hebron Regional Council)

Palestinian who saved Jewish kids after terror attack to be booted from Israel

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Tolpuddle, England, on July 22, 2018. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Jeremy Corbyn no longer scheduled to address Jewish audience

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish Museum not prepared to host speech after breakdown in talks over who would be invited, as the UK Labour leader looks to address charges of widespread anti-Semitism

The Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue in London (Courtesy)

London synagogue honors Ponzi scammer at Sabbath services

By JTA

British Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl. (Courtesy)

UK Jewish leader calls on Corbyn to make an ‘abject apology’ for anti-Semitism

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2r, meets with the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, 2l, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 27, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM walks out on Druze over criticism from leader who had warned of ‘apartheid’

Incensed over Facebook post from last month in which Amal As’ad said Israel was headed toward ‘apartheid,’ Netanyahu ends summit meant to solve nation-state law crisis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Druze regional council heads at his office in Jerusalem to discuss the nation-state law on July 29, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

US Jewish federations slam nation state law as ‘a step back for all minorities’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Druze regional council heads at his office in Jerusalem to discuss the nation-state law on July 29, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel media reviewTalking the talk: 9 things to know for August 3

By Joshua Davidovich

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump unveil the inauguration plaque during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Jerusalem fast-tracks approval of major US embassy expansion

Mayor signs permits for 700-square-meter annex at former consulate, including new offices, service areas and entrances

A leafy street in Arnona, where the Jerusalem municipality and local real estate developers are ready to build towers in order to create more apartment units (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

First person

As Jerusalem starts building into the sky, should my family be moving up too?

By Jessica Steinberg

An IDF soldier at the Mazor Ladach field clinic on the Golan Heights, where soldiers and foreign volunteers provided medical care to some 6,800 Syrians between August 2017 and August 2018. (Courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

As Israel’s Syria aid operation winds down, IDF begins dismantling field clinic

Move comes after Operation Good Neighbor ‘frozen’ amid Assad regime and Russian offensive that retakes control of border area

In this Monday, July 2, 2012 file photo, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat escorts a passenger ship, unseen, near the spot where an Iranian airliner was shot down by a U.S. warship 24 years ago killing 290 passengers. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran launches military drill in Persian Gulf — US

By AFP

Illustrative: Explosions in Syria's el-Kisweh region, south of Damascus, on May 8, 2018. (Twitter)

Syria claims to down ‘hostile target’ during airstrike near Damascus

Ephraim Talabi, right, and Mohammed Amin a-Sati meeting for the first time 36 years after the First Lebanon War, at a-Sati's home in Zarqa, Jordan, July 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)

36 years later, an Israeli POW meets the Palestinian captor who saved him

Ephraim Talabi, now 55, goes to Jordan to find the former Fatah fighter Mohammed a-Sati, who ‘brought me back to sanity, to my real life’ through simple acts of kindness

Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during a visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza truce proposal would ease blockade, end fire balloon attacks — report

Hamas leaders said to mull five-year, Egypt-backed ceasefire plan that could see international aid flowing into the beleaguered enclave

White House bolstering Mideast team ahead of peace plan rollout

By AP

Trump administration releases millions in frozen aid to PA security forces

By Eric Cortellessa

EU completes Gaza’s largest solar energy field

Prof. David Crane giving a lecture in October 2017 at Syracuse University (YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

With no anti-Israel record, head of UN Gaza probe offers rare sliver of hope

Although appointed by ‘most biased agency in the world,’ David Crane looks like a better choice for the Jewish state than his predecessors; hence the silence from Jerusalem

In this photo from February 7, 2018, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein speaks at a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

UN rights chief leaves post with ‘no regrets,’ rejects anti-Israel bias charge

By Edith M. Lederer

Over 20,000 march in Jerusalem Pride Parade under heavy security

By Jacob Magid and Video by Luke Tress

Amid anger over gay parental surrogacy rights, nation-state law, large crowds gather in the capital, with many saying they are marching ‘for those who still can’t’

Protesters rail against against the annual Pride Parade in central Jerusalem, August 2, 2018. The signs read, "Jerusalem is the holy city," and "Jerusalem and Sodom are not twin cities." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right protests Jerusalem Pride Parade to protect ‘the normal family’

Today, I shaved my best friend’s head

She has no choice, I do, and in putting a kippah on my head, I am choosing to be visible

Chana Tannenbaum

You can change God’s mind

When Moses saves the Children of Israel through prayer, he teaches us one more way to know God (Ekev)

Irene Rabinowitz

Pride in Jerusalem

In a city known for its conflicts, 30,000 people marching in peace are a blessing

Listen, really listen

Stepping out of your bubble and opening yourself up to a mind radically other than your own takes courage (Ekev)

This combination photo shows Sacha Baron Cohen at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on January 15, 2007, left, and Cohen portraying retired Israeli Colonel Erran Morad in a still from the Showtime series, "Who Is America?" (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, left, and Showtime)

Israelis tickled by Sacha Baron Cohen’s grotesque caricature

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Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who also was involved in Jewish outreach, was killed near his Washington, DC, home on July 10, 2016. (Facebook via JTA)

Judge dismisses lawsuit brought by parents of Seth Rich against Fox News

By JTA

President Donald J. Trump singles out the media during his rally on August 2, 2018 at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. (Rick Loomis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump steps up attacks on ‘disgusting’ media, prompts crowd to jeer at reporters

By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

Illustrative. Members of the Minneapolis Community Kollel. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Minnesota rabbi charged in child sex sting operation

By JTA

Illustrative: A United Airlines Boeing 777 taking off, October 16, 2004. (Wikipedia/Solitude/CC BY-SA 2.0)

In first, United launches nonstop Tel Aviv-Washington route

Frame grab made available by the Warsaw Rising Museum shows Witold Kiesun taken from snippets of historical footage from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, enhanced by modern coloring and sound techniques (AP/Warsaw Rising Museum)

Blast from the pastVirtual reality brings Warsaw uprising back to life

By AFP

This undated file photo provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP, file)

Suspect charged with killing Jewish college student because he was gay

By JTA

Israeli youths march by the monument to some 900,000 European Jews killed by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944 at the Treblinka death and labor camp, at Treblinka memorial, Poland on October 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Israeli envoy joins Poles to mark 75 years since Treblinka revolt

By AP

A billboard in support of the Jewish community in Carmel Indiana, August 1, 2018. (screen capture: WISH)

Billboards erected in support of vandalized Indiana synagogue

By JTA

Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski, left, with President Rivlin in Jerusalem, August 2, 2018 (Twitter)

Rivlin welcomes new Polish ambassador with unsubtle rebuke over Holocaust law

By Raphael Ahren

A ship prepares to set sail for Gaza as part of an attempt to bust the blockade on the territory, May 22, 2018 (Courtesy: International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza)

Captain who tried to breach Gaza blockade says Israel broke international law

By AFP and ToI Staff

Apple becomes first private-sector firm with $1 trillion valuation

By John BIERS and Glenn Chapman

Police at the scene of a suspected murder in Beit Yael homeless shelter in Netanya on August 2, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

Suspect confesses to double murder in Netanya homeless shelter

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