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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 22, 2013

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People run from the Westgate Mall, where shooting erupted when armed men staged an attack, on Saturday, September 21, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jason Straziuso)

Israeli special forces said to be aiding Kenya rescue operation

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Second security source says Israelis advising in negotiations, but not involved in ‘storming’ mall

Soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces carry a wounded colleague, following the sound of explosions and gunfire, out of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, September 22, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)

Fresh gunfire in Kenya mall as death toll climbs to 59

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set out his 'red line' for Iran on a cartoon-bomb drawing during a speech to the UN General Assembly, on September 27, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

Rouhani’s new tune, and Netanyahu’s broken record

By Raphael Ahren

However skeptical Israel may rightly be about ostensible change in Iran, the arguments that proved effective against Ahmadinejad do not work as well when facing his far more sophisticated successor

Iran to assume control of Bushehr nuclear plant

By Lazar Berman

Iran warns its leaders to be cautious in dealing with US

By Lazar Berman

US reassures Israel it won’t fall for Rouhani’s charms

By ToI Staff and AP

Israelis move to shelters as Iran attack nears

The appearance of numerous hastily-constructed ‘God Pods’ is a clear sign the population is bracing for an attack

Robert Nicholson

They have come to bless

The Feast of Tabernacles assembly may unnerve some Israelis, but these Christian believers seek only to show their love

Gilad Shalit on the day of his release from Gaza (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Analysis

Reaping what the Gilad Shalit deal sowed

By Avi Issacharoff

The exchange of 1,027 terrorists for one soldier bolstered Palestinian motivation for more kidnappings. Tomer Hazan may be only the first to pay the terrible price

Liberman: Soldier’s murder shows PA doesn’t want peace

Archive footage: Nur al-Din Amar, brother of Nidal Amar, flashes a victory sign at the camera. (photo credit: screen capture, Channel 2)

Killer’s brother serving 29-year sentence for terrorism

Nur al-Din Amar, whose brother kidnapped and killed a soldier to bargain for his freedom, has been in Hadarim Prison for 10 years

An Egyptian army watchtower on the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, July 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt shuts Gaza border crossing ‘until further notice’

Hamas officials say that nearly 130 smuggling tunnels have been closed in recent months as well

University of Warwick (Wikimedia Commons/Mike1024, public domain)

British university to compensate Israeli after bias claims

By Lazar Berman

MA student Smadar Bakovic complained her anti-Zionist thesis supervisor was prejudiced against her

Matisyahu on a visit to Israel. (photo credit: courtesy)

Just don’t ask him about the beard

French diplomat Marion Fesneau-Castaing pushing an IDF soldier during the September incident. (Screenshot/YouTube)

EU demands answers after IDF seizes aid from diplomat

By Yoel Goldman and Joshua Davidovich

Claiming it carried materials to illegally rebuild Palestinian homes, army took truck during Friday clash between troops and activists

The annual priestly blessing at the Western Wall, on Sunday, September 22 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo gallery

Tens of thousands attend priestly blessing in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Both chief rabbis also in attendance at semiannual festival event

Playwright Ethan Coen. (photo credit: AP photo/ Ronny Hartmann/dapd)

Playwright Ethan Coen fears he’s selling out

By Mark Kennedy

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A man rides on a donkey in the village of El-Aziyah near the southern Egyptian city of Assiut on Tuesday. (Illustrative photo: AP/Petr David Josek)

Donkey wrongFarmer makes ass out of el-Sissi

By AP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)

Merkel vies for third term in German elections

By Geir Moulson

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (photo credit: Flash90)

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, back in hospital

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani delivers a speech during his campaign for the presidential election in Tehran, Iran, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Arabic media reviewRouhani — a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

By Elhanan Miller

Tomer Hazan (photo credit: Channel 2)

Hebrew media reviewKidnapped and murdered

By Aaron Kalman

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