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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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An Israeli reserve soldier packs his bag before leaving a deployment area near the Gaza border, November 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Jerusalem approves limited call-up of reserve soldiers

By Gavriel Fiske and Mitch Ginsburg

Thousands of soldiers tapped, but only a few hundred called-up Wednesday

Israelis carry boxes with gas masks at a distribution center in Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Jittery Israelis overrun gas mask distribution points

By Haviv Rettig Gur

As IDF moves missile defense batteries northward, authorities struggle to keep up with demand for protection against chemical weapons

Syrian officials’ ‘panicked calls’ prove culpability, US says

By Haviv Rettig Gur and AP

Syria said to clear out security installations ahead of attack

By Michal Shmulovich

20 hurt in Syrian gas attack Tuesday, opposition says

By Michal Shmulovich

US fighter jets flying in formation. (photo credit: Seaman Andrew Skipworth/US Navy, Department of Defense)

Analysis

‘A pity they both can’t lose’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Five insights on how US action in Syria might play out, and how Israel might want it to; and one battle-proven suggestion for an ultimatum to Assad

Ashira Konigsburg

The women’s section

The platform for egalitarian worship near the Kotel will be a first step toward making Israel a homeland for all Jews

Gabriel Mitchell

Don’t count on Turkey

Recep Erdogan’s harsh anti-Assad rhetoric is all talk, and when push comes to shove, Turkey will sit this one out

S#!t debaters say about Israel and ‘the Jews’

This year’s European Universities Debating Championship was rife with bizarre anti-Semitic assertions, so what else is new?

A child kisses the ground after arriving in Israel on Wednesday. (photo credit: Moshik Brin/Courtesy Jewish Agency)

After 30 years, final Ethiopian aliya flights arrive

By Michal Shmulovich

Last 450 Falash Mura land at Ben Gurion; hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis protest closing of immigration process

Netanyahu: Israel will hit hard if Syrian threat detected

Prime minister parries Syrian vow that it’ll strike Israel if US attacks; defense minister and chief of staff also warn Assad

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (photo credit: CC-BY Foreign and Commonwealth office/Flickr)

Syrian FM: We’ll defend ourselves with all means

The Syrian Electronic Army (photo credit: screenshot/File)

Syrian hackers take down New York Times website, attack others

By Martha Mendoza

Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army claims responsibility for ‘malicious external attack,’ as described by Times spokesperson

Satellite image of the Parchin facility, April 2012 (AP/Institute for Science and International Security)

UN, Iran agree to restart talks in September

Discussion to focus on Parchin facility, where the Islamic Republic is believed to have tested explosive triggers for a nuclear blast

Shlomo Artzi on the bimah of the Rykestrasse Synagogue, Germany's largest synagogue, earlier this week (Courtesy Spitz Magazin Facebook page)

Poignant performance

A night of firsts for Artzi in Berlin

By Jessica Steinberg

The mega-popular Israeli singer, a child of Holocaust survivors, performs in Germany for the first time, in the country’s largest synagogue

A member of the team demonstrating Hand Your Music, the app that won the Intel Israel Perceptual Computing Hackathon. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Intel readying computers to read our faces — and hands

By David Shamah

The Per-C computing platform is on its way, but what can we do with it when it arrives? A hackathon provides some clues

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)

Foreign Ministry, UNRWA spar over Qalandiya deaths

By Ilan Ben Zion

Jerusalem bashes refugee agency for its ‘rushed and superficial’ condemnation; UNRWA calls statement ‘nonsense’

Palestinian Khaled Zir sits with his children inside a cave in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Zir said the family moved into a cave after their home was demolished by Israeli authorities. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Palestinian family moves to cave after home demolished

By Alon Bernstein

‘I did not have any place to go to,’ says Khalid Zir, a father of five

Zubin Mehta, conductor of Israel's Philharmonic Orchestra. (photo credit Oded Altman/Flash90)

BDS groups protest Israel Philharmonic in Buenos Aires

By JTA

Zubin Mehta becomes a trending topic on Twitter

Nechemya Weberman was convicted and sentenced to 103 years for child sexual abuse, October 16, 2012. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

New e-book examines Brooklyn’s Hasidic ‘Devil’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, Syria. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s the final countdown

By Joshua Davidovich

Syrian soldiers at a check point on Baghdad street, in Damascus, August 21, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Arabic media reviewPrelude to a parley?

By Elhanan Miller

One Direction star Harry Styles had his older sister's name -- Gemma -- tattooed in Hebrew. (photo credit: Tumblr/Harry Styles Tattoo)

Stylin' headgearOne Direction star wears a kippah

Palestinian men work at a construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, May 4, 2010. (photo credit: AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Interior minister says talks won’t stymie settlement construction

Where some of the applicants in the Million Pound Start-up contest are located (Photo credit: Courtesy)

How a start-up can make a million overnight (almost)

By David Shamah

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