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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 18, 2013

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US President Barack Obama (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin/File)

Analysis

Obama clogged up in the ‘heart of the Arab world’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

The president has been reluctant to leverage US aid to influence events in Egypt, despite mounting impatience of a growing number of Washington lawmakers

Cairo march nixed over ‘security concerns’; army chief says he won’t back down

By AP and ToI Staff

‘Israel undermining Western diplomatic efforts in Egypt’

EU to ‘urgently review’ its relations with Egypt

By AP and ToI Staff

2,700-year-old pottery fragment discovered in the City of David site in Jerusalem (photo credit: courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)

A link to Jerusalemites at the end of the First Temple period

2,700-year-old Hebrew inscription found in Jerusalem

By Gavriel Fiske

First Temple-era pottery fragment features name similar to Biblical prophet’s father, archaeologists say

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Can I just get a regular ol’ Triscuit?

A visit to America, the land of convenience, where you can get whatever you don’t need

Gabriel Groisman

Friday nights at the Kotel

We stood side-by-side and each closed our eyes with our hands resting on the stones which once surrounded the Holy Temple.

Take two drops and call me in the morning. An Israeli child receives the oral vaccination against polio in Beersheba in August 2013. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/FLASH90)

30,000 vaccinated against polio as national campaign kicks off

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Israel facing a ‘wild’ virus that’s passing from person to person, Health Ministry says, calling danger ‘real and imminent’

Illustrative. Centrifuges enriching uranium. (Public Domain/US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran’s ex-nuclear chief says his country has 18,000 centrifuges

By AP and ToI Staff

Figure is one-third higher than previously thought; announcement highlights nuclear program’s continued development despite sanctions

Micha Drori and his wife, Ora, watch their children play in the garden of their house at the settlement of Barkan in the West Bank. The fate of Jewish settlements took center stage in mid-August 2013 with the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks aimed at establishing a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Settlers defy stereotypes amid peace talks

Belying their prevailing image as gun-toting zealots, the majority of West Bank Jews are pragmatists seeking a better quality of life

View of the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

A look at Israeli settlers, by the numbers

By AP

Israelis and tourists look at a fire, caused by fighting in Syria, from an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Golan Heights and Syria, Friday, June 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

IDF retaliates after mortars fired from Golan Heights

Military fires Tamuz missile at Syrian post, destroying an army cannon; earlier explosions said to be random spillover

Image of Boaz Albert getting arrested by police. The subtitles read 'Give him the electricity already' and 'Why? Why?' (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Police suspend taser use after settler shocked multiple times

Commissioner orders investigation into use of electrical shock weapons

'Princesses: Long Island' was basically a 'Real Housewives' franchise with Manischewitz. (Bravo via JTA)

TV review

TV’s Jewish ‘Princesses’ should be throne out

US cable reality series did little but create and reinforce negative stereotypes

Aerial view of the Israeli coast. Israel was hit by a minor earthquake on Saturday, May 24, 2014. (illustrative photo credit: Courtesy Amos Meron/WikiAir Israel)

Israel’s latest invention: Free hi-res aerial photos for all

By David Shamah

WikiAir will let people around the world see the beautiful side of Israel — and their own countries — in high resolution

Barbi Paszternak-Szendy and Andras Paszternak tied the knot at a Central European summer camp intended to strengthen Jewish kids' understanding of their heritage. (Marton Karsai via JTA)

Jewlyweds! Former campers marry where they met

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Daytime rebbeKathie Lee wants rabbinical degree

Ex Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, who will be performing at this year's Sacred Music Festival (photo credit: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc./CCA 2.0)

Rites of summerSacred drummers and holy singers

By Jessica Steinberg

Palestinians in Gaza hold a rally against the violence in Egypt on Friday evening (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewEgypt in crisis: But is it bad for the Jews?

By Yossi Nachemi

Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013 (photo credit: Hussein Tallal)

Arabic media reviewThe Muslim Brotherhood and its ‘collective suicide’

By Elhanan Miller

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