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What Matters Most On Monday, August 5, 2013

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The polio vaccine at the Health Ministry office in Beersheba, August 4, 2013, (Flash90)

Mass polio vaccination gets underway in south

By Haviv Rettig Gur and ToI Staff

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

President Shimon Peres kicks the ball to FC Barcelona's Argentinian striker Lionel Messi during a football clinic session in Broomfield stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Pomp, circumstance and a whole lot of Messi

Soccer powerhouse FC Barcelona wraps up its two-day peace tour with a special match in Tel Aviv in front of 12,000 exuberant young fans

I am fascinated by Jesus

Reza Aslan’s well-researched biography recounts the life and times of a very Jewish rebel who was crucified for sedition

NYT and the missing peace

The New York Times is miscasting Kerry’s diplomatic goal as creating a Palestinian state, not ending the conflict

When pigs fly…the Star of David

Regardless of Roger Waters’ intentions, his use of the Jewish symbol mirrors both historical and contemporary anti-Semitism

Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick

The feminists of Zion

Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick, in the New Republic, write on how an unlikely alliance will save Israel from fundamentalism

A Yemeni soldier inspects a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

US reopens Tel Aviv embassy, but extends closures across region

By ToI Staff and AP

State Department cites ‘abundance of caution’ surrounding Eid terror warning, but notes no indication of new threat

Bruce Springsteen and Suki Lahav, on stage together in Philadelphia in 1974. (YouTube screenshot)

Was Springsteen’s Israeli violinist ‘The One’?

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad during a recent interview (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

UN accredits NGO whose head is ‘glad to be labeled anti-Semitic’

By Raphael Ahren

Decision to recognize organization chaired by Malaysia’s former PM ‘comes as no surprise at all,’ Foreign Ministry says

Former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer, right, is introduced to Pope Benedict XVI, left, by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, center, at a farewell ceremony at Sydney airport on July 21, 2008. (photo credit: AP/Andrew Brownbill)

Australian ex-deputy PM slams ‘Jewish lobby’ over Pius criticism

By Raphael Ahren

Tim Fischer’s assertions, published in new book, is ‘standard anti-Semitic fare,’ says head of Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office

A soldier seen kicking a Palestinian boy in Hebron (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

IDF soldier filmed kicking, shoving Palestinian boys

By Adiv Sterman

Military says it will launch investigation into Hebron incident, condemns violent behavior

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group, who was charged trying to spy for Iran, seen at the Jerusalem District Court in Jerusalem, August 5, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox man who offered to spy for Iran served in IDF

By Haviv Rettig Gur and ToI Staff

Suspect to be kept in jail at least two more days; lawyer requests psychological assessment

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi salute the members of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey in Sept. 2012 (photo credit: AP/Kayhan Ozer)

Egypt nixes Turkish PM’s visit to Gaza Strip

By Adiv Sterman

Cairo officials say Erdogan will be denied access to Hamas-controlled territory due to his support of Muslim Brotherhood

Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview broadcast on al-Manar television on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/al-Manar television)

Assad: Crisis can only be resolved by striking terror with ‘iron fist’

By ToI Staff and AP

Syrian president delivers national address slamming main opposition group as failure with no role in solving brutal civil war

File: Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau, July 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)

Senior rabbis: Lau cheated on 1993 ordination exam

By Lazar Berman

Affidavit claims new Ashkenazi chief rabbi brought forbidden material into test, was disqualified by Rabbi Dov Lior; Lau issues denial

Trax technologies presentation (photo credit: YouTube)

Start-up of the week

Your supermarket shelf, just the way you like it

By David Shamah

Israel’s Trax Technologies helps manufacturers and retailers keep an eye on what stores are doing with their products

Workers at an Israeli server center (illustrative photo: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel Aerospace to compensate spurned Sephardi job applicant

By Adiv Sterman

Michel Malka was turned down due to his ethnic-sounding name, court rules

(From left) Jacob Frenkel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Yair Lapid and outgoing Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer at a press conference in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu to consider vetting bank chief picks before nomination

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Move would come after two appointees to head the Bank of Israel withdraw from process over rumors of past misconduct

Charging a Better Place car in 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

Better Place’s new owners have until this week to pay the court

By Jessica Steinberg

The car owners’ consortium wants to sell 200 electric cars at cost to cover current operating costs

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Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube/File)

Ex factor‘Cowell was unaware of lover’s pregnancy’

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: A lotto card from Israel's Mifal Hapayis national lottery. (Flash90/Abir Sultan)

Soldier of fortuneIDF soldier wins NIS 27 million in lottery

By Lazar Berman

Left to right, Juice co-organizers Inna Yampolskaya and Igor Kozlovskiy, Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Rabbi Bleich and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Lilya Vendrova at a Juice event in Kiev, November 2012. (photo credit: Courtesy Juice/JTA)

In Kiev, a website reconnects young Jews one post at a time

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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)

Hebrew media reviewNo room to maneuver

By Ilan Ben Zion

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waves after his swearing-in ceremony at the parliament, in Tehran, August 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Arabic media reviewRouhani demands respect

By Michael Bassin

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