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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 4, 2013

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Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey, March 2012. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson)

Top US general to visit Israel amid Iran, Syria worries

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Martin Dempsey to meet Israeli leaders next week; Netanyahu warns that new Iranian president won’t change policy

Report: Iran’s Rouhani says US wants confrontation

By AP and ToI Staff

Hariri says Hezbollah resistance against Israel outdated

Top US officials meet to discuss embassy threat

A Syrian patient named Bilal, injured in Daraa, southern Syria, speaks from his hospital bed in Israel (photo credit: Channel 10 screenshot)

Recovering in Israeli hospital, Syrian patient says he saw how war began

Heart-wrenching stories unfold in most comprehensive report to date on Israel’s humanitarian assistance to victims of fighting

Business ties that bind

More and more Jewish students see commerce and innovation as their pathway for connecting to Israel

Richard Friedman

When it’s time to shut up

Jewish leaders in the Diaspora should refrain from giving Israel advice in public, especially during wartime and peace talks

Why the appointment fiasco matters

The exit of two Bank of Israel governor candidates means something’s wrong with Netanyahu’s decision-making skills

FC Barcelona football player Lionel Messi at the Western Wall with the FC Barcelona team in Jerusalem's Old City, August 4, 2013. (Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

FC Barcelona shoots for peace on tour in Israel

World-famous soccer team, in Israel by invitation of President Peres, holds clinics with both Israeli and Palestinian children

Itay Tayas-Zamir (L.) demonstrates how to use a Woosh machine (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Start-up of the week

Remember when water was free? It is again in Tel Aviv. For now

By David Shamah

A view of the Bruchin settlement. (photo credit: Ariel Schalit, File/AP)

Ministers spar over prioritizing funding for outlying settlements

By Haviv Rettig Gur

‘It’s inconceivable that Kiryat Gat and Kiryat Malachi are not included’ while some remote West Bank areas are, Amir Peretz says

Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After 2nd choice for Bank of Israel chief withdraws, PM short of options

Netanyahu said not to share economic philosophy of acting governor Karnit Flug; Leo Leiderman backed out Friday after spate of allegations against him

Egyptian Armed Forces Commander in Chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, whom many Egyptians are urging to run for president, April 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jim Watson/Pool/File)

From the web

Rare interview with Egyptian Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi

Speaking to The Washington Post, Egypt’s most powerful man accuses the Obama administration of turning its back on his country and says the Egyptian people won’t forget it

Rafat Awad, a 23 year old Palestinian pharmacist, adjusts his glasses in while posing for a portrait at a shopping mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, July 31. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Arab atheists, though few, inch out of the shadows

By Diaa Hadid

Being a self-described atheist is rare in the Muslim-majority Arab world — but this tiny minority is taking small steps to emerge and find a voice

Police and rescue personnel seen at the site of an accident that left four people dead and dozens injured after a bus and a garbage truck collided on Route 6, Sunday, August 4, 2013 (photo credit: David Buimovitch/Flash90)

Four dead, dozens injured after bus smashes into parked truck

By Stuart Winer

Rescue services say some 35 hurt in accident between No. 377 Metropolin bus and garbage truck on Route 6

Yitzhak Berman (photo credit: Courtesy/Government Advertising Office)

Former Knesset speaker Yitzhak Berman dies at 100

By Haviv Rettig Gur and JTA

‘The pain at his passing is the pain over the passing of a generation,’ says Knesset Speaker Edelstein of the former Etzel fighter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Finance Minister Yair Lapid and former finance minister Yuval Steinitz (R) attend a Knesset session, March 19, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Steinitz: Lapid ‘pompous,’ Netanyahu ‘showed weakness’

Former finance minister lashes out at his successor in wake of run-in that saw him ejected from a cabinet meeting

Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Evan Falchuk of the United Independent Party speaking with voters at the Independence Day Celebration in Lowell, July 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy United Independent Party/JTA)

In Massachusetts, a ‘tikkun olam’ gubernatorial race

In a state where Jews make up four percent of the population, eyebrows will not be raised if the next governor is Jewish

Fearing outbreak, ministry to inoculate children in south against polio

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Vaccine contains live, weakened virus intended to spread from the children to their surroundings; decision next week over vaccines for all Israel’s kids

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Israel's ambassador to Chile, David Dadonn (photo credit: Israeli Embassy in Chile)

Ambassador to Chile’s wife said to admit embezzlement

By Stuart Winer

An underwater observatory in Eilat. (illustrative photo: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Exotic see lifeUndersea strip club sleeps with the fishes

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (AP/Hussein Malla)

Arabic media reviewNasrallah’s anti-Israel rhetoric finds few takers

By Elhanan Miller

Leo Leiderman (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Hebrew media reviewA tale of two Leos

By Aaron Kalman

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