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What Matters Most On Friday, August 2, 2013

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Hassan Rouhani (photo credit: Mojtaba Salimi/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran’s new president Rouhani calls Israel ‘old wound’

Outgoing president Ahmadinejad says Jewish state will be ‘uprooted,’ at anti-Israel ‘Quds Day’ events attended by millions of Iranians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Rouhani reveals true face sooner than expected

Illustrative: IDF recruits at the IDF's Bakum induction base on their way to become soldiers. (Flash90)

Record number drafted by IDF, but are they Haredi?

By Mitch Ginsburg

The state touts uptick in ultra-Orthodox motivation to serve, but others say recruits hail from the fringes of the community

The farthest Muslims

Part 4 of A Muslim’s Requiem: Finding that the core of The Dome of the Rock suffers from decay that echoes the current state of Islam

After Egypt, pointless to negotiate with Iran

By abandoning Morsi, Obama showed Iran that talks were pointless; now the only way left to block the bomb is by force

uMoove technology at work (photo credit: YouTube)

Does the new iPhone feature Israeli start-up’s eye-tracking tech?

By David Shamah

uMoove, leading the field in enabling devices to respond to movements of the user’s eyes and face, is rumored to star in Apple’s next big thing

Palestininian women walk by an Israeli man on the beach in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

On Ramadan, seeing Israel for the first time

By Elhanan Miller

Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi get relief from the afternoon heat on Thursday with the help of water sprayers in a park in front of Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Morsi supporters defy police warnings to disperse

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Sarah El Deeb

John Kerry says Egyptian military is ‘restoring democracy’; top British diplomat urges for Morsi’s release

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso is surrounded by reporters at the ministry in Tokyo Thursday, August 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Kyodo News)

Japan foreign minister refuses to resign over Nazi comment

By Mari Yamaguchi and Elaine Kurtenbach

Taro Aso suggested country should follow Weimar example of how to change constitution stealthily and without public debate

A look at the city from the Chords Bridge (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

Top five

Take a ride to a view

By Leeor Bronis and Nicole Levin

US President Barack Obama speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January 2012. (photo credit: Peter Souza/White House/File)

Obama tells Netanyahu, Abbas to ‘move fast’ toward peace deal

By Yoel Goldman

US president calls both leaders to affirm his support for the resumption of final status negotiations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, during their meeting in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2013. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

‘Israeli diplomats say top EU official deliberately misled them over settlement ban’

In documents quoted by Maariv, envoy to EU David Walzer denies he was ‘asleep on the job,’ says he twice warned the government ahead of new directives

The US Embassy in Tel Aviv (photo credit: CC BY-Krokodyl/Wikimedia Commons/File)

US embassies to shut down Sunday due to terror threat

14 diplomatic posts across Mideast and Asia, including Israel, to close for the day because of al-Qaeda-related warnings

Eric Burdon dances with an enthusiastic fan who climbed up on stage early in his show at the Zappa Shuni Amphitheater in Binyamina on Thursday night. (photo credit: ToI staff)

Concert review

Eric Burdon rocks Israel — no misunderstanding

By David Horovitz

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Alma Deutscher in the recording studio (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Child ProdigyLittle Mozart plays the Galilee

By Jessica Steinberg

Israelis take part in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on August 1, 2013. (photo credit: Sarah Schuman/Flash90)

Jerusalem of gold, and all the colors of the rainbow

By Adiv Sterman

Gabi Ashkenazi, left, speaking to Ehud Barak at Defense Ministry headquarters in 2010. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Police to investigate former chief of staff

Emergency personnel surround a plane that crashed in the southern city of Eilat, Thursday, August 1, 2013 (photo credit: Channel 2)

Eilat plane crash kills one, seriously injures two

By Lazar Berman

Avrohom Mondrowitz, indicted for child rape in NY, climbs to his feet after being shoved to the ground by an unknown assailant in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Youtube/ screengrab)

Suspected NY child rapist assaulted in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian prisoner (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Shawspank redemptionPalestinian inmate beats penal system

By Lazar Berman

Gabi Ashkenazi, left, speaking to Ehud Barak at Defense Ministry headquarters in 2010. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewReturn of the Harpaz affair

By Aaron Kalman

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