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What Matters Most On Friday, August 9, 2013

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US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference at Queen Alia International Airport in Jordan on Friday, July 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

Kerry tells US Jewish leaders he fears for Israel’s future if no peace deal

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

At White House, secretary highlights Israel’s growing isolation, demographic challenges; Jewish leaders call for Abbas to moderate tone in upcoming UN speech

Talks to resume Wednesday amid grumbles over settlements

By Deb Riechmann

US decries settlement activity, confirms Indyk headed to Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Iran says US can’t be honest broker in peace talks

Then-prime minister Shimon Peres presents a sculpture of the dove of peace to Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said El Said in the palace in Salala, April 1, 1996. (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

Analysis

Israel and the Gulf states: It’s complicated

By Raphael Ahren

They have many common interests, but now more than ever, any rapprochement needs to remain secret, some officials say. So why did Jerusalem open a ‘virtual embassy’ in the Gulf?

John McCain ♥ Samantha Power

Interventionists from both of the major US parties are uniting to push an agenda that serves Israel’s interests

Say it aint so, polio

Why the government is checking our poop, how it’s blocking the spread of a deadly virus, and why everyone should vaccinate

Illustrative. An airplane taking off from Eilat's airport, December 2012. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)

‘Warning over Sinai terrorists prompted Eilat airport closure’

Senior Egyptian official says Salafis armed with missiles with range of 70 km planned to target Israel

The world’s first lab-grown burger could be parve and thus paired with dairy products. (David Parry/PA Wire)

Has the era of the kosher cheeseburger arrived?

A soldier at the border fence between Israel and Lebanon (photo credit: Hamad Almakt/Flash 90)

Amid the ‘deceptive quiet’ of the Lebanon border

By Mitch Ginsburg

A tour of the region, conducted not long before Wednesday’s mine explosion, peeled away some of the layers beneath the silence that has reigned there since 2010

(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)

PM settles on new candidates for central bank chief

By Asher Zeiger

After Frenkel and Leiderman withdraw amid scandals, names of four more senior economists to be sent to the vetting committee

Dr. Ernesto Joselevich (left) and a student near carbon nanotube synthesis reactor (photo credit: Weizmann Institute)

Nanotech’s ‘small world’ inching ever closer

By David Shamah

A breakthrough technique developed by an Israeli team could allow for the development of microscopic devices that will help millions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Immigration Minister Ze'ev Elkin. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel won’t join EU research program, top diplomat says

By AP and ToI Staff

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin says Jerusalem will forgo lucrative Horizon 2020 partnership unless Europe changes new settlement rules

Legendary '70s-era Israeli rock band Kaveret at the group's farewell concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday, August 8 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Kaveret takes a bow — band performs final concert in Tel Aviv

40 years after joining forces, Israel’s favorite pop group retires its microphones in sellout performance

Young Israelis drinking alcohol mixed with energy drinks. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Health Ministry mulls raising drinking age to 21

Officials propose legislative blitz to battle binge drinking and drunk driving

The flower-filled fake-grass garden of the Si espresso stop at the Kibbutz Einat Dor Alon gas station along Highway 444 (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel

Top Five

Road-trip eats: It’s a gas

By Jessica Steinberg

Where to stop for some good food when you’re on the road

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Website of Italian winemakers showing their series featuring Hitler and other dictators. (photo credit: screen capture)

Wiesenthal Center calls for boycott of ‘Hitler wine’

By Lazar Berman

Filipina independent film director Hannah Espia, who directed and cowrote 'Transit,' poses next to the poster of the film at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines. (photo credit: AP/Bullit Marquez)

Film about workers deported from Israel hits far from home in Manila

By Teresa Cerojano

Prof. Daniel Kahneman (image capture: YouTube)

Kahneman to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Salita hopes to train Israeli boxers after making aliya. (YouTube)

Zionist pugilistOrthodox boxer will make aliya

Peruvian Prime Minister Juan Jimenez, center (photo credit: CC BY-Congreso de la Republica del Perú/Flickr)

After sending back judge, Peru wants Israel to extradite arms dealer

Israeli rock legends, Kaveret, play their farewell concert Thursday night in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewGoing nowhere fast

By Yossi Nachemi

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