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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, waves with the released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 14 , 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Celebrations in Gaza, West Bank for freed Palestinian prisoners

By Asher Zeiger and Michal Shmulovich

In Ramallah, Abbas greets ex-inmates, released under deal to resume peace talks, and vows to liberate all prisoners from Israeli jails; US-brokered negotiations resume Wednesday

AnalysisThe worst of both worlds

By David Horovitz

All 26 Palestinians freed were involved in killing Israelis

Reporter's notebookIn Ramallah, prisoners return to a hero’s welcome

By Elhanan Miller

Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa)

Cairo under curfew as nearly 150 killed in Egypt clashes

By ToI Staff and AP

Muslim Brotherhood says death toll over 2,200 in fighting between between Morsi supporters and security forces; Jerusalem-based cameraman among casualties; month-long state of emergency declared

When the killers go home

Wondering if his son’s murderer had been among the released prisoners, would he be tempted to take justice into his own hands?

Peaceful construction?

Until an agreement is achieved, building — even in areas expected to remain Israeli — only defers peace

Palestinian children in the Balata refugee camp at storytime in a summer camp run by the United Nations Relief Works Agency. (photo credit: Youtube/ screengrab)

Palestinian kids taught to hate Israel in UN-funded camps, clip shows

By Lazar Berman

Teachers at UNRWA summer camps filmed declaring ‘Jews are the wolf,’ telling young campers they will return to Haifa, Jaffa, Acre

Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs (photo credit: Courtesy)

Movie review

‘Jobs’ proves too big a task for Ashton Kutcher

By David Shamah

Illustrative. An Israeli tank overlooks the Gaza Strip. (Courtesy: Yad L'shiryon)

IDF launches airstrike after Gaza rockets target Israel

Air force hits concealed rocket launchers hours after projectiles from the Strip fired into Israel

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

UN head to visit in bid to push along peace talks

By AP

Ban Ki-moon will meet with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders in Amman, Ramallah and Jerusalem

Mahmoud al-Zahar attends a demonstration in Khan Yunis in 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90)

Hamas says it won’t be bound by peace negotiations

By Elhanan Miller

Mahmoud Al-Zahar says Abbas should be deposed; Hamas spokesman accuses Fatah of inciting Tunisian media against it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem. Aug 13, 2013. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu: Threat from Iran ‘dwarfs’ other challenges

Prime minister, hosting US army chief Dempsey, says Washington and Jerusalem are working together to prevent a nuclear Iran

Iranian President-elect Hasan Rouhani (center) arrives for a meeting with lawmakers at parliament, in Tehran, Iran, July 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Office of the President-elect, Mohammad Berno)

Iran’s new FM vows to fight for nuclear program

By AP

Mohammad Javad Zarif promises parliament he won’t capitulate to Western pressure

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks as Colombia's Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin looks on during a joint news conference in Bogota, Colombia, on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Fernando Vergara)

Kerry says PM warned him and Abbas about new settlement projects

By Michal Shmulovich

Netanyahu ‘was completely upfront’ about additional building ‘in places that would not affect peace map,’ US secretary of state reveals

Former prime minister Ehud Barak (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Barak accuses ex-army chief of ‘criminal behavior’

Former defense minister charges that Gabi Ashkenazi led group that campaigned against political echelon in Harpaz affair

Protest signs displayed in London over the weekend liken Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Will Olympics in Russia be a second ‘Nazi Games’?

By Matt Lebovic

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Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Russia to give $1 million for Auschwitz preservation

By Stuart Winer

Adult backup dancers join Sam Horowitz for his grand entrance at his 2012 bar mitzvah party. (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube)

Dance man‘Insane’ bar mitzvah clip goes viral

By Nathan Burstein

Woody Allen (photo credit: CC-BY-David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons)

Take a lookWoody Allen ‘Gigolo’ preview debuts

By Nathan Burstein

Screenshot from a BBC report on the acid attack on August 8, 2013 on two young British Jewish girls volunteering as teachers in Zanzibar.

Teen victim of acid attack in Zanzibar leaves hospital

By JTA

Relatives of Israelis killed in terror attacks demonstrate ahead of the cabinet vote to free 104 Palestinian prisoners, outside the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem in August. The poster reads 'Prisoner release form.' (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPrisoners aplenty

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, waves with the released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 14 , 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Arabic media reviewPalestinian prisoner release makes few waves in Arab press

By Michael Bassin

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