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What Matters Most On Friday, August 17, 2018

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(From L-R) Likud MK Yehudah Glick, US Ambassador David Friedman and Har Hebron Regional Council chairman Yohai Damari at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on August 15, 2018. (Har Hebron Regional Council)

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US ambassador tells Israeli MK ‘no reason to evacuate settlements’ in peace deal

Hava Rozen. (Courtesy)

Woman killed in West Bank hit-and-run named as 42-year-old Russian immigrant

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IDF preliminary investigation finds it ‘highly likely’ Palestinian driver, who turned himself in to PA police afterwards, hit Hava Roizen by accident

Soldiers and paramedics are seen at the scene where an Israeli woman was run over and killed by a Palestinian driver, near the northern West Bank settlement outpost of Havat Gilad on August 16, 2018. (Roi Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)

Israeli woman killed by Palestinian car in West Bank; driver turns self in to PA

By Alexander Fulbright, Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

(From L-R) Shahar Glick, Shaun Vetshtein, Noam Hasson, Ayala Englander, Shay Nahum and Ofri Sela in the West Bank settlement of Peduel on July 18, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Their parents settled the West Bank for ideology. They’re staying for the vibes

Illustrative: A picture taken on August 17, 2018 shows tear gas canisters thrown by Israeli forces at Palestinian protesters during a demonstration along the border of the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Thousands of Gazans rally near border, two said killed

Despite reports of imminent truce, Hamas encourages public to join weekly clashes; around 250 said injured in violent confrontations with IDF; balloon sparks blaze near kibbutz

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2018. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitc/Flash90)

Liberman said to have met secretly with Qatari rep over Gaza

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 15, 2018. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas says Palestinian flag should not be raised in Tel Aviv

Interview

UK Jewish leader calls Corbyn premiership an ‘existential threat’ to community

Speaking to The Times of Israel, Jewish Leadership Council head Jonathan Goldstein says British Jewry’s collective fear is ‘unprecedented’

Jonathan Goldstein, chair of the Jewish Leadership Council, addresses the crowd in Parliament Square at the #EnoughIsEnough demonstration organized by UK Jewish leaders to protest anti-Semitism in the Labour party, March 2018. (Marc Morris/Jewish News)

Jeremy Corbyn addresses a crowd in London’s Trafalgar Square, July 13, 2018. (Niklas Hallen/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters see a ‘Zionist’ conspiracy against him

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member Maher al-Taher eulogizes George Habash, the founder of the terror group, during a commemorative celebration held in Damascus on Friday, March 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

New photo from Munich killers’ ceremony shows Corbyn beside terror leader

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 15, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Yedioth Ahronoth)

After questioning, Netanyahu ‘certain Case 4000 has collapsed permanently’

By Raoul Wootliff

Following 11th interview by police, PM says ‘data proves’ he had no influence on coverage at Walla news site; police reject assertion, say evidence of wrongdoing remains strong

From left to right, then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon sitting next to Sara and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a Memorial Day ceremony in the Knesset on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Yitzhak/Harari/Knesset spokesperson)

Ex-defense minister: Sara Netanyahu was involved in military appointments

Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman attends a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet head said to warn cabinet a Gaza truce without PA will strengthen Hamas

Melanie Thierry as Marguerite Duras in 'Memoir of War.' (Music Box Films)

Film review

In its search for a taken husband, ‘Memoir of War’ is haunting punch in the gut

By Jordan Hoffman

Analysis

‘Excruciating’: A Tonge-lashing from an anti-Semite

Jenny Tonge may have surpassed even her own toxic speech in asking why Jews need a safe haven 'when the going gets tough'

Miriam Herschlag

Stuff people leave on benches

A Tel Aviv tale of giveaways and takeaways

Stephen M. Flatow

Ronald Lauder’s love affair with The New York Times

Why does this Jewish leader opt to criticize Israel in the Times instead of making his case in a Jewish newspaper?

Devorah Schoenfeld

Judge, priest, prophet, and king

Even Moses was replaceable, but it took 4 different models of leadership to cover his job

To lead is to serve

The Torah is a sustained exploration of the extent to which a society can be organised not on the basis of power (Shoftim)

Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin in a recording studio in 1960. (GAB Archive/Redferns/via JTA)

How a Jewish music producer helped Aretha Franklin get her big break

By Josefin Dolsten

Jerry Wexler, a one-time journalist and the son of a German Jewish father and Polish Jewish mother, helped her record her 1967 breakout hit ‘Respect’

In this photo from January 19, 1993, singer Aretha Franklin performs at the inaugural gala for US president Bill Clinton in Washington. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)

From the webAretha Franklin’s secret Jewish history

In this photo from November 21, 2008, Aretha Franklin performs at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Shea Walsh, file)

‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin dies at 76

By Mesfin Fekadu and Hillel Italie

A rendering of the Ohel Moshe synagogue in Manhattan's new Moise Safra Center. (Courtesy Moise Safra Center)

Manhattan’s growing Sephardic community says new center a win for Ashkenazi Jews

By Cathryn J. Prince

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

White House says Trump, Putin agree in principle on getting Iran out of Syria

DC official says agreement came in July Helsinki summit, but adds Russia wary of taking action; Bolton to meet Russian counterpart for follow-up talks next week

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces the creation of the Iran Action Group at the State Department, in Washington, DC, on August 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Pompeo forms Iran Action Group to run policy after nuke deal withdrawal

California gubernatorial candidate John Cox, left, will face Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and the lieutenant governor, in November 2018. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

California governor candidate compares DMV wait lines to Holocaust

By JTA

Spokesman for Republican John Cox says he met a Holocaust survivor at motor vehicle office who said lines were ‘worse’ than concentration camps

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Tami the Hippo is pictured at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem on July 4, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Oldest hippopotamus in captivity dies at 59 in Jerusalem zoo

By AFP

Scene where a 78-year-old man died while rappelling near Karnei Shomron in northern Israel on August 17, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

78-year-old man falls to death while rappelling in West Bank

Muslim worshipers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 16, 2018, prior to the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

2 million Muslims expected in Mecca this week for increasingly hi-tech hajj

By Shatha YAISH

St. Sgt. Alon Segev, 40, an IDF reservist, was filmed on August 11, 2018 by a member of the Ta'ayush Jewish-Arab rights group in the Hebron Hills area striking the activist. (YouTube screen capture)

IDF reservist discharged after hitting left-wing activist in West Bank

Hikers swim at the Zavitan spring on the Glan Heights in northern Israel, April 18, 2014. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Lab results show Golan streams contaminated far beyond allowed limits

By Michael Bachner

Lana Del Rey performs during the LA to the Moon Tour at Philips Arena on February 5, 2018, in Atlanta. (Photo by Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)

Summertime happinessLana Del Rey to play Israel’s Meteor Festival

The cannabis ice cream sold in Israel is making waves. (pxhere via JTA)

Summertime munchiesIsraeli ice cream chain pushes cannabis flavored scoops

By Gabe Friedman

George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, at a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on April 27, 2017. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

Soros foundation to leave Hungary by end of August

By AFP

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi during an official state visit to India in September 2003. (GPO)

Former Indian leader who oversaw improved ties with Israel dies

By AP and ToI Staff

British and Israeli flags on a bonfire that was later set ablaze on August 15, 2018 in Derry, Northern Ireland. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Israeli flags burned by Northern Irish nationalists

By Michael Bachner

US President Donald Trump speaks about the economy on the South Lawn of the White House on July 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Breitbart editor calls for ‘national conversation’ on N-word amid Trump furor

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, August 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Former US security leaders blast Trump for yanking Brennan’s clearance

By Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey

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