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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 4, 2013

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In this July 12, 2013, photo, Egyptian policemen hold a picture with portraits of Army Chief Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser at Tahrir Square, in Cairo. Arabic in the picture reads,'Salutation to the great men of Egypt,' (photo credit: AP)

Analysis: Rosh Hashanah 5774

Areas of anxiety: 9 New Year challenges for the IDF

By David Horovitz

From a new Nasserist Egyptian strongman, via an unpredictable West Bank, to a nerve-gas-firing dictator in Syria, concerns are multiplying from every point of the compass

Netanyahu, in Rosh Hashanah clip, says Iran nuke ambitions ‘must be stopped’

‘US pressure nixed Israeli strike on Iran last year’

By Adiv Sterman and Mitch Ginsburg

Clip shows former Iran president accusing Assad of chemical attacks

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of Israeli security forces on the Temple Mount (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

15 arrested as Palestinians, police clash on Temple Mount

Security forces stop 100 Muslim worshipers from accessing site for fear of further disturbances

Peace talks with Israel ‘futile,’ says top Abbas aide

Bennett: International peace guarantees are meaningless

By Adiv Sterman

Supporters of peace deal have no place in Likud, says MK

By Aaron Kalman

5 Rosh Hashanah customs that make you go hmmm

Fish heads for the faint of heart and other oddities that unite the Jewish people at New Year’s

Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Auschwitz Nazi suspect said living in Israel

By David McHugh and David Rising

German prosecutors office won’t name the ex-guard, one of over 50 facing charges

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, listens as Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama faces tougher Syria test in House

By Bradley Klapper

Several conservative Republicans and some anti-war Democrats have already come out in opposition to the president’s plans

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview earlier this month, ahead of the G-20 conference (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin: We won’t ‘exclude’ UN-backed Syria action if chemical weapons use proven

By John Daniszewski, Lynn Berry and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian president warns West against one-sided moves, says delivery of S-300 missiles to Assad suspended

US President Barack Obama addresses the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC, March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Cliff Owen)

Jewish organizations in US support Syria strike

By JTA and ToI Staff

‘Barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass,’ says AIPAC; ADL cites ‘moral and national security grounds’ for attack

Women of the Wall chair Anat Hoffman at the Western Wall, August 18, 2004. (photo credit: Flash90)

Interview: Rosh Hashanah 5774

A gadfly on the Wall

By Raphael Ahren

Karnit Flug (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Acting bank governor says sexism may be behind PM snub

Karnit Flug thinks Benjamin Netanyahu should explain why he overlooked her for top spot at Bank of Israel

Finance Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem. July 15, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Lapid most ‘disappointing’ politician of the year, poll finds

By Ilan Ben Zion

Survey of Israeli adults finds massive public faith in military, far outstripping trust in Knesset, police and justice system

Lee Zeitouni (photo credit: Courtesy)

French court indicts driver for hit-and-run in Israel

By ToI Staff and JTA

Eric Roubi faces up to 10 years in prison for 2011 death of Lee Zeitouni. Second suspect expected in court on Thursday

An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013 (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper)

Analysis

El-Sissi’s army goes to war in the Sinai

By Avi Issacharoff

A ferocious helicopter assault, and efforts to establish a security zone, underlines Egypt’s determination to ‘clean out’ the Gaza border area

Gary Matzdorff during a recent trip to Shanghai (via Youtube)

Holocaust refugee seeks long-lost love in Shanghai

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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BlogLiving for the lulls

By David Morgenstern

Illustrative photo of an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holding a chicken later to be slaughtered as part of a Kaparot ritual (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman /Flash90)

Chief rabbi urges better treatment for chickens in kapparot ritual

By JTA

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90/File)

Ariel Sharon undergoes surgical procedure

By Yoel Goldman

Caught in the actMcCain plays poker during Syria hearing

By AP

Anne Frank, at age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941

Anne Frank displayed at prestigious wax museum

By JTA

Apple in honey (illustrative photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLooking back and forth

By Aaron Kalman

In this citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians pray during the funeral of a man killed from a shell in Arbeen town, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewPreparing for a strike

By Elhanan Miller

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