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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 8, 2013

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Undated photo posted on Syrian President Bashar Assad's official Instagram account showing Assad visiting with soldiers in Baba Armr, Homs province. (photo credit: AP/Syrian Presidency via Instagram)

Damascus denies rebel attack on convoy; president appears on TV unharmed

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Rebels claim they targeted motorcade with 17 mortar rounds; Syrian information minister calls report ‘wholly untrue’

US sending $195 million more in aid to Syria

Satellite images show Aleppo devastation

By Raphael Satter

Activists: Syrian troops ambush rebels, kill 62

Labor party Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Yachimovich, Likud MK to speak at J Street conference

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Left-wing lobby hopes growing participation in its annual event a sign its views are gaining traction in the Israeli mainstream

Women AT [of/for] the Wall

A group of women protested for peace and respect at the Kotel, and no, it’s not the group you might be thinking of

Stuart Weinblatt

A plea to rabbis: Be positive

High Holiday sermons should aim to make congregants feel good about being Jewish, especially when speaking about Israel

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Slide to the left

Inequities in Israeli society have finally caused this one-time rugged individualist to have a change of heart

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

Israel suspends new deals with EU over settlement ban

By Raphael Ahren

Massive scientific cooperation plan at risk unless Jerusalem receives ‘clarifications’ on new European directive that outlaws all cooperation with Israel in West Bank

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the middle in black, flanked by then-home front defense Minister Gilad Erdan, in blue, and then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg in May 2013. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

‘Pandemonium’ on the home front

By Mitch Ginsburg

Netanyahu will have to rule who, from among an array of ministries and organizations, has ultimate control over the civilian sector in wartime

US Secretary of State John Kerry with former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk at the State Department in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

US peace envoy to come to Israel next week

By Haviv Rettig Gur, Elhanan Miller and Stuart Winer

Former ambassador Martin Indyk will meet with diplomatic officials; PLO factions are refusing to support scheduled negotiations

An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA/Ruhollah Vahdati)

Report: Iran has built new missile launching site

Western analysts believe facility will be used for launching ballistic missiles, not satellites as claimed by Tehran

A picture published by Shi'ite terror group Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station shows Lebanese soldiers at the scene of an explosion which left four Israeli soldiers injured, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 (photo credit: Al-Manar News)

Hezbollah posts photos, hurls accusations over blast that injured 4 soldiers

By Adiv Sterman

UN peacekeepers open investigation into incident; Israel keeping mostly quiet, but officials don’t expect an escalation

Palestinian youths riot in the West Bank (illustrative photo: Wagdi Ashtiyeh/Flash90)

Palestinians riot in Jenin after terror activist’s arrest

By Adiv Sterman

Protesters throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers during raid; soldiers apprehend journalist in Nablus

Religious Zionist leader Rabbi Mordechai Elon at the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, August 7, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Activist confronts rabbi convicted of sexual misconduct

By Adiv Sterman

Students of Mordechai Elon block out accusations by singing and shouting; ‘I forgive’ him, says rabbi

An anti-Israel caricature published in the German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung showing Prime Mnister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a piece of bread for peace doves that he is poisoning with liquid from a bottle labeled "settlement construction" (photo credit: screen cap from the Stuttgarter Zeitung)

Major German daily publishes anti-Israeli cartoon

By Adiv Sterman

AJC demands apology from Stuttgarter Zeitung for depicting Netanyahu as an evil character from a folk song

Undated photo of a Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system on display in an undisclosed location in Russia (photo credit: AP, File)

Saudi Arabia tries to woo Russia away from Syria with arms deal

By Stuart Winer

Kingdom reportedly made $15 billion offer to buy weapons in return for reduced support of Assad and more cooperation at UN

Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, left, and Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical Centre of Europe have been at odds publicly over Schudrich's handling of the kosher slaughter ban in Poland. (Creative Commons/Facebook via JTA)

Rival rabbis’ knives come out over Polish shechitah ban

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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MK Meir Sheetrit (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hatnua demands that electoral threshold rise be gradual

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Channel 2 crime reporter Gilad Shalmor (screen capture: Youtube/resehttv)

OvertimeTowel-clad crime reporter traps burglar

By Stuart Winer

Hebrew media reviewScandals trump explosions

By Aaron Kalman

An Egyptian Muslim child rides on the back of a motorbike during a rally supporting former President Mohammed Morsi in Assiut, Upper Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Arabic media reviewEid in Cairo: Showdown looms

By Elhanan Miller

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