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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 7, 2013

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Amos Yadlin, former director of military intelligence, January 2012. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Former IDF intel chief: US coming around to an Israeli strike on Iran

By Haviv Rettig Gur and AP

Amos Yadlin’s comments follow calls by Iran’s new president for new ‘talks, not threats,’ and demands by Netanyahu for increased pressure and sanctions

A view of the northern city of Safed (Alana Perino/Flash90)

Israelis fleeing from north and south, heading for West Bank hills

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Study shows steady decline in Negev and Galilee, population hike in settlements; MK in charge of strengthening the ‘periphery’ blasts government

Simcha Jacobovici

Rafael Nadal: A Jewish story?

Decoding the secret past of the tennis legend, whose is linked by name to Jews who were forcibly converted by the Inquisition

Shmuley Boteach

Voices of the dead in Rwanda

In Rwanda, a country of stunning beauty with a horrific recent past and a vocal admiration for Israel

Her boyfriend’s religious devotion was his most attractive quality, and the main reason for their breakup

Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border (illustrative photo credit: Flash90)

Four soldiers injured by explosion on Lebanese border

By Aaron Kalman and Haviv Rettig Gur

Lebanese army claims troops were hurt by landmine after crossing border fence; Netanyahu sends wishes for speedy recovery to wounded soldiers

Donald Duck (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Quack attack

Donald Duck tweets anti-Zionist vitriol

Egyptian man behind the Arab voice of the popular Disney character can’t keep his beak shut when it comes to Israel

EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in June. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

EU, Israel headed for showdown over settlement rules

By Raphael Ahren

Brussels insists it won’t back down on West Bank ban, as Jerusalem considers balking at research cooperation program

Dani Dayan (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler leaders look to influence US policy

Sensitive to Republican mistrust of Obama’s foreign policy, Dani Dayan tells House leaders that the peace process would harm US interests

Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi hold his posters with Arabic writing which reads 'Yes for legality, No for the coup' during a protest outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque on Tuesday. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Cairo declares failure of talks to end Brotherhood standoff

Interim president expresses thanks for flurry of international help, but is mum on next step against anti-coup Islamists

Rabbi Mordechai Elon (right) at the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Popular rabbi found guilty of sexual misconduct

By Aaron Kalman and Mitch Ginsburg

Court says Mordechai Elon committed an indecent act against a minor in 2005, but acquits him of sexual assault and harassment

Filipino penitent Ruben Enaje, who has portrayed as Jesus Christ for 27 times, grimaces as he is nailed to the cross during Good Friday rituals on March 29, 2013 at Cutud, Pampanga province, northern Philippines (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

For Christ's sake

Kenyan suing Israel over Jesus’s death

By Aaron Kalman

Taking Rome and Jerusalem to the ICJ, Dola Indisis says the trial 2,000 years ago included ‘judicial misconduct, abuse of office bias and prejudice’

Alma Deutscher at an open rehearsal during the Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee (photo credit: Courtesy official Facebook page)

Raising little Mozart

By Jessica Steinberg

Sylvie Goy-Chavent (photo credit: screen capture CercleDesVolontaires/Youtube)

French senator threatened over anti-kosher slaughter stance

Sylvie Goy-Chavent supports ban on ‘shehita’ and labels for products from beyond the Green Line

A jeweled ring, part of the $136 million jewel theft.(photo credit: AP Photo/Lloyds of London)

Carat and stick

Have you seen these diamonds?

Insurer releases pictures of jewelry snatched from Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, offers $1.3 million reward

Two members of Women of the Wall lead the Rosh Hodesh prayer service (Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

Facing jeers and whistles, Women of Wall forced to back of Kotel plaza

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Then-US president Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside an Iron Dome missile defense battery during Obama's visit to Israel in March 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel may forgo millions in US missile defense budget aid

By Mitch Ginsburg

Supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi pray during a protest against the Egyptian Army near Cairo University in Giza, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Bodies found near Egypt sit-in create mystery amid tumult

Mohammed Assaf, from Gaza's Khan Yunis, on Arab Idol. (Screenshot)

Israel lets Arab Idol winner move to West Bank

File: Bottles ready to be poured at the tenth annual Israeli Wine Tasting Festival at the Israel Museum (Sarah Sheafer)

Fine time for wineCapital uncorks a fete for oenophiles

By Sarah Sheafer

Postal workers hand out gas mask in Jerusalem in January 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPublic but no longer primary

By Yossi Nachemi

A rebel fighter stands guard at a checkpoint flying an Islamic banner near the front line in Aleppo, Syria. (photo credit: AP/Narciso Contreras)

Arabic media reviewRebels hit Assad close to home

By Michael Bassin

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