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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Israeli intelligence seen as central to US case against Syria

Netanyahu to hold second security cabinet meeting on crisis in two days; top minister says it’s unthinkable for Assad to be allowed to go on gassing children

US forces ready to act on Syria, defense chief says

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

Syria, Iran issue first explicit warning to Israel if US attacks

By Stuart Winer and AP

Syrian FM: We’ll defend ourselves with all means

Preparing for life in Israel: An ordinary day at the Jewish Agency's synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

Inside story

The last of the Falash Mura?

By Michal Shmulovich

On Wednesday, a final flight will ostensibly complete the aliya of 7,500 members of a Jewish community that had converted to Christianity. Is this really the end of a hugely controversial mass immigration process? Should it be? The Times of Israel reports from Ethiopia

Assad wants Assad dead

The Syrian president’s younger brother probably unleashed the deadly gas attack and killing him could help stop the violence

The Code of Jewish Coexistence

Golden rules to follow whenever we start wondering where someone fits on the religious spectrum and whether that’s OK

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington, Monday, August 26, 2013, about the situation in Syria (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kerry excoriates Assad regime for ‘inexcusable’ chemical strike

By Adiv Sterman, Asher Zeiger and AP

In unequivocal remarks that portend military intervention, secretary of state says Syria destroyed evidence of ‘obscene’ attack

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington, Monday, August 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Full textJohn Kerry’s speech on Syrian chemical attack

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, shakes hands with worshipers at a mosque last October. (photo credit: AP)

Families of Syrian brass ‘fleeing’ ahead of feared US strike

Exit of regime chiefs’ relatives under way via Latakia Airport, Israeli TV reports; US said likely to warn Israel before attack on Assad

The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (photo credit: Times of Israel staff)

Israel ranks 4th globally in health care efficiency

Asian countries claim top three spots; US places 46th; Israelis have longest life span in Middle East and Africa

Turkish citizen and suspected murderer Eidan Damirhan, in court in Tel Aviv. (photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Turkish citizen indicted for TA ‘suitcase murder’

By Gavriel Fiske

Eidan Damirhan, 47, accused of beating girlfriend to death and hiding her dismembered body parts in Tel Aviv trash bins

Hundreds attend the funeral of three Palestinian men shot dead by Israeli troops in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, Monday, August 26, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Palestinians don’t care if ‘soldiers felt threatened’

By Avi Issacharoff

Deadly clashes with Israeli troops underline a groundswell of resistance in the West Bank, a rise in terror alerts, and flagging faith in the peace process

Journalists protest security crackdown in Ramallah, August 25, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian journalists boycott PA security

By Elhanan Miller

Protests against freedom of the press infringements registered against the PA, Israel and Hamas

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (front row, right) in elementary school. (photo credit: via Facebook)

First day of school brings out politicians’ sentimental side

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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A deep-sea oil-drilling rig. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Signs of new oil, gas in Mediterranean off Ashdod

By Adiv Sterman

Herzog announces candidacy for Labor chairmanship

By Asher Zeiger

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington, Monday, August 26, 2013, about the situation in Syria (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Hebrew media reviewKerry on (and don’t keep calm)

By Joshua Davidovich

In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, Syrian army soldiers are seen deployed in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media review‘Foreign intervention is the only option on Syria’

By Elhanan Miller

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