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What Matters Most On Friday, August 24, 2012

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The view of the Iraqi nuclear reactor as seen on the screen of one of the attacking F-16s. (Photo credit: IDF/AF via Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Attacking Iran now is perilously premature, former head of Israel’s atomic agency warns

By Mitch Ginsburg

Uzi Eilam says an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities at this point would be a historic mistake — just like the 1981 raid on Saddam’s Osirak reactor

Beyond oil battle, sanctions hit Iran’s merchants

By Brian Murphy and Nasser Karimi

US sending aircraft carrier back to Persian Gulf four months early

Now is not the time for Israel to strike at Iran, says former chief of staff

Guy Hever (fifth from right, with glasses) and friends several weeks before his disappearance in 1997. (Courtesy of Rina Hever)

The soldier who vanished

By Matti Friedman

Guy Hever, a 20-year-old artilleryman, walked out of his base on the Golan Heights 15 years ago this week. Despite searches, half-sightings, clues and theories that stretch the imagination, he has not been heard from since

Together, let’s turn back the rising tide of hatred

The time has come to change the discourse about Israeli racism and acknowledge — on a national level — the difficult plight of the country’s Arab population

Participants of JITLI at Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv promenade, overlooking the Old City (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

In Jerusalem, an inter-faith summer program bursts some bubbles

By Elhanan Miller

What do Jewish American teens from San Diego, Israelis from kibbutzim near Gaza and Bedouins from the Negev have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, swears in newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (photo credit: Egyptian Presidency/AP)

Barak and Egyptian counterpart reportedly come to terms over Sinai offensive

By Joshua Davidovich

New Egyptian defense minister el-Sissi reassures Israeli counterpart over military buildup in peninsula

FILE: Satellite imagery from June 7, 2012, which the institute for science and international security claims shows 'considerable vehicle and earth moving activity near the building at the Parchin complex that the IAEA suspects was used in high explosive tests related to nuclear weapons development.' (Institute for science and international security)

Slim hopes and new fears as atomic officials parley with Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

IAEA officials are looking for access to the Parchin nuclear site; Iranian negotiator says he hopes talks will bring progress

File: Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun rampage in Norway in 2011, in court, August 2012 (AP/Frank Augstein)

Breivik sentenced to 21 years in jail for Norway massacre

Terrorist, deemed sane, can be kept behind bars indefinitely under preventative detention ruling

The Tower of David. (Photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

At the Tower of David, a glimpse into a citadel touched by everyone but the legendary king

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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The Israeli nuclear reactor located in the Sorek valley in the Judean hills (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Syria can destroy Israeli nuclear facilities ‘with 20 missiles,’ boasts ambassador to Jordan

By Elhanan Miller

A Syrian man walks by a building destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria on Aug. 17 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Paris backs no-fly zone for Syria

By Bassam Mroue

Organizers of the Go Topless march argue that these women have the same right to bare their chests in public as this man does. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Grin and bare itTopless? That’s lawless, activist says

By Philip Podolsky

Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in 2010 (photo credit: AP/IIPA, Ebrahim Norouzi)

Hebrew media reviewBombs, bills, and back to school

By Ilan Ben Zion

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