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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia in Istanbul, 2012 (photo credit: CC-BY-SA World Economic Forum/ Norbert Schiller, flickr)

Turkish PM accuses Israel of engineering Egyptian coup

By Gavriel Fiske

Erdogan says he has evidence proving Jewish state’s involvement in removal of Mohammad Morsi from power

US reportedly secretly suspends aid to Egypt

AnalysisFor Egyptian forces, executions will only bring more resolve

By Avi Issacharoff

Washington calls on Egypt to cease all violence, affirms ‘limited’ influence

Minister for Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

We’re like Switzerland — we don’t interfere, minister says

By Raphael Ahren

Yuval Steinitz denies claim that Israel is seeking support for Egypt’s military; cool on peace talks, he says Israel just couldn’t say no to Kerry

US letter guaranteed our preconditions, PA negotiator says

By Elhanan Miller

Livni-Bennett tensions escalate, spill over to Facebook

By Haviv Rettig Gur

PA official: New round of talks beginning Tuesday

By AP and ToI Staff

From the library of Dr. I. Grossman

Finding Yiddish treasures at a secondhand book sale and honoring their former owner, a certain doctor from New York

Bus route to coexistence, anyone?

Crowdsourcing a way out of intolerable conditions on bus lines used by Palestinians and Israelis from the West Bank

Ari Fruchter (photo credit: courtesy Ari Fruchter)

Salt of the (lowest place on) earth

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shaking hands with Ban Ki-moon in Jerusalem in August 2013. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90/File)

In reversal, Ban says Israel does not face bias at UN

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Michal Shmulovich

Secretary general appears to backtrack on comments made last week admitting Israel faces discrimination at the world body

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaking on state television, July 3. (photo credit: Screenshot AP/Egypt State Television)

Protocols, 2013

El-Sissi’s uncle, the Haganah member

Former Muslim Brotherhood official alleges that Egypt’s strongman — a devout Muslim — is a Jew acting in the Zionist interest

Egyptian youths line up before a procession at Al-Mahraq monastery in Assiut, Upper Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Egypt: Coptic church cancels Sunday mass for 1st time in 1,600 years

By Michal Shmulovich

Other churches also call off prayer services amid growing violence against Christians since clearing of pro-Morsi sit-ins

Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Interview

Top adviser says Iran will never suspend its nuclear activities

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

Ali Akbar Velayati, a confidant of Khamenei, says Rouhani is truly different to Ahmadinejad

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner speaks to voters during a campaign stop at the Nan Shan Senior Center, Monday, July 29, 2013, in the Queens borough of New York. (photo credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Wiener takes all

Get your ‘Carlos Danger’ dogs!

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Embattled ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner inspires non-kosher hot dogs named for his sexting pseudonym

A child being vaccinated in Jerusalem Monday. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry moves to calm fears over polio vaccines

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Some children with weak immune systems told to stay home from school, but others okay to mingle as long as precautions taken

A Palestinian throwing stones at Israeli troops in the West Bank in December. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian killed during overnight riots in Jenin

By Raphael Ahren

Two Israeli soldiers lightly injured after protests during IDF arrest operation turn unusually violent, army says

Roger Waters. (Wikipedia Commons/Alterna2)

Roger Waters calls on musicians to boycott Israel

By JTA

Long-expected letter from Pink Floyd front man to the ‘family of Rock and Roll’ blasts Israel for ‘apartheid’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’

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Some of the knives confiscated in Haifa (photo credit: courtesy Haifa Port Authority)

Blade runnerAn ‘American Ninja’ in Haifa

Illustrative photos of IDF soldiers training. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

IDF soldier, a recent US immigrant, collapses during training

Israeli children play in a water park in Beer Sheva in June. Starting Tuesday, Israeli families will receive fewer shekls for their children due to a cut in the Child Benefit Allowance (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDog days of Sinai

By Yossi Nachemi

Egyptian military and policemen carry coffins, covered with national flags, containing the bodies of off-duty policemen who were killed near the border town of Rafah, North Sinai, upon their arrival at Almaza military airport, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Arabic media reviewSaudi Arabia comes to Egypt’s rescue

By Elhanan Miller

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