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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 22, 2013

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Four rockets fired into north by al-Qaeda-inspired group

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Elie Leshem

One of the projectiles downed by Iron Dome; northerners told to remain near bomb shelters; IDF denies reports it retaliated, doesn’t expect attack to lead to wider conflagration; Netanyahu: ‘Anyone who harms us… should know we’ll harm them’

MK Binyamin Ben Eliezer (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former defense minister calls Syrian war ‘holocaust’

By Adiv Sterman

Ben-Eliezer says Washington ‘not reading the map correctly’; US condemns alleged chemical attack, calls for UN investigation

From the webSyrians retrieve ‘sleeping’ dead

AnalysisThe US should sit tight on Syria — for now

By Avi Issacharoff

France: Force is an option in Syria if gas attack confirmed

By Aaron Kalman

A baseball player before his accident, Ethan Kadish remains critically ill in a Cincinnati hospital. (Courtesy of the Kadish family via JTA)

Slow recovery after lightning strike at Jewish camp

Instead of a traditional bar mitzvah, Ethan Kadish’s family will mark his 13th birthday in a hospital

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Where are the naked fat women?

Clothing retailers are ignoring the rising demand from Israel’s, er, expanding population

Forget Waters, we’ve got much finer wine

One high-profile boycott hasn’t deterred a slew of top flight performers from rocking the Israeli arts scene

Shmuley Boteach

Approaching the Roof of Africa

In an ascent of Kilimanjaro, discovering a dreamy moonscape, hearing the sound of silence and probably not hallucinating

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli (photo via Shutterstock)

Refaeli takes on Waters over boycott letter

By JTA

Israeli supermodel tweets former Pink Floyd frontman to stop using her image at his shows

Mickey Hart (photo credit: courtesy)

Interview

Mickey Hart to put brain on display at Jerusalem show

By Jessica Steinberg

Grateful Dead drummer will cap the Jerusalem Season of Culture with a concert that combines music, science and the body

Hamas forces on the Gaza-Egypt border (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatab/Flash 90)

Analysis

Egypt’s ire raised as Hamas harbors Sinai jihadists

By Avi Issacharoff

Ties between terrorists on both sides of the border are frustrating authorities in Cairo, especially after a recent bloody attack

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, pictured in March 2010 (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber/File)

Egypt to place Mubarak under house arrest

By Sarah El Deeb

Interim PM orders the restrictive condition on former leader’s release, in move that seems orchestrated to deflect criticism

11-year-old Nada Al-Ahdal, who ran away from home to avoid a forced marriage, makes a video plea, in Yemen, July 8, 2013 (photo credit: screenshot via YouTube/MEMRI)

Forced to run

Yemeni girl video reaches millions

By Yoel Goldman

11-year-old Nada Al-Ahdal tells of running away from home to avoid a forced marriage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Letter to PM warns: ‘We’ll hurt you like Rabin was hurt’

By Aaron Kalman

Extreme right-wing activist sends threatening missives to Netanyahu from prison; police investigating

Israel's 'green house' entry in the 2013 Solar Decathlon (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel’s ‘green’ house cleans up in world contest

By David Shamah

Academics build a home that produces more energy than it consumes, and come in near the top in the Solar Decathlon

Molester Andrew Goodman (photo credit: courtesy)

Child abuser claims he and teen victim had Jewish wedding

By Stuart Winer

Andrew Goodman tells federal court that he united with teenage boy in matrimony and should not be charged

A close-up of the Tammuz missile system, which is equipped with day and night cameras. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

The ground-based squadron guarding the Syrian border

By Mitch Ginsburg

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Sigal with her still-unnamed newborn. (photo credit: Tibor Jeger)

Who's your daddy?Cuckolded baboon kept in the dark

MK Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Keeping it reelLiberman wants Al Pacino in Arad

By Adiv Sterman

This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies of Syrian citizens in Arbeen, near Damascus, on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Local Committee of Arbeen)

Hebrew media reviewCrying uncle Sam

By Joshua Davidovich

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Arabic media reviewMubarak the free man

By Michael Bassin

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