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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 2, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday October 1, 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in New York (photo credit: AP/Andrew Gombert,Pool)

Analysis

Netanyahu sets out on a ‘charm defensive’

By Raphael Ahren

Following his UN speech, the PM is engaged in a media blitz to show the real intentions of the duplicitous Rouhani. After that, though, all he can do is wait for diplomacy to play out

Ya’alon: Diplomacy with Iran must not be based on ‘wishful thinking’

By Gavriel Fiske

Yachimovich steps up attack on ‘isolationist’ Netanyahu

By Adiv Sterman

Netanyahu ‘sabotaging diplomacy,’ NY Times warns

By Gavriel Fiske

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, at the United Nations headquarters in New York (photo credit: AP/Andrew Gombert,Pool)

Israel will stop Iran by itself if necessary, Netanyahu tells UN

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Sanctions have put Iran ‘on the ropes,’ and now Rouhani is trying to ‘fool the world’ to get them lifted, PM tells General Assembly. ‘It’s a ploy. Don’t let up,’ he urges

Iran responds to Netanyahu: Don’t even think about attacking us

‘If diplomacy with Iran won’t work, we’ll do the job alone,’ says deputy FM

By Raphael Ahren

UN chief: Iran has window to show nuclear program peaceful

'Rising Star' utilizes second-screen technology, giving viewers power over the action. (photo credit: Courtesy Keshet Broadcasting)

Is Israel’s next ‘Homeland’ a singing competition?

‘Rising Star,’ a new Israeli reality show, is soaring in the ratings, and shaking up the market, by putting its viewers in the judging seat

The bell tolls for American Jewry

The Pew survey’s bleak outlook for American Judaism contrast sharply with findings that Israeli Jewish life is thriving

New poll: US Jewry totally screwed

Other results found American Jews surprisingly unified on the taste of bagels

It’s time to do what we must

Worse even than the left’s relentless attacks on Jewish settlement is the right’s failure to put forth a viable one-state plan

Labour leader Ed Miliband (right), with Prime Minister David Cameron at the State Opening of Parliament in 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire, Pool)

UK Labor leader denies his Marxist father ‘hated Britain’

By JTA and Miriam Shaviv

Ed Miliband, son of Belgian Jewish immigrant, leads polls to become UK’s next PM; is under attack from right-wing Daily Mail

Syrian rebel fighters in gas masks against a chemical weapons attack, 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/MrMrAsi)

Defected Syrian general: Assad sending chemical arms to Hezbollah

By Stuart Winer

Assad ‘will not give up’ his chemical stockpile; truck convoys also carrying weapons into Iraq, Zaher al-Sakat alleges

Smoke rises from buildings due to heavy artillery shelling in Barzeh, a district of Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. (AP/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Fighting in Damascus as weapons inspectors begin work

By Barbara Surk

Riot police gather in Gezi park, engulfed in tear gas, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, June 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Amnesty International accuses Turkey of gross rights violations

First-person reports of police brutality underscore call for impartial investigation and an end to prosecution of Gezi Park protesters

Israeli President Shimon Peres and King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands pass by the honour guards at Noordeinde Palace on October 1, 2013 in The Hague, Netherlands (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90/GPO)

Peres: Poverty more dangerous than terror in Mideast

By Elhanan Miller

At Dutch parliament, president appeals for shelving of EU guidelines on settlements, rejects idea of interim deal with Palestinians

Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions addresses the audience at the Zochrot conference, September 29, 2013 (courtesy/Zochrot/ Ele'onor Merza)

On the ruins of a village in Tel Aviv, Jews dream of Palestinian return

By Elhanan Miller

‘Merely addressing the return of Palestinians helps Jews overcome their phobia,’ one conference participant says

Yair Lapid. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid invokes Holocaust in deploring Israeli expats

By Adiv Sterman

Facebook commenters excoriate finance minister, saying he’s behind the austerity measures that drove many out of the country

A preschool in Helez that was set on fire, allegedly by dissatisfied parents of a student, Tuesday, October 1, 2013 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Parents allegedly burn kid’s preschool, teacher’s car

By Adiv Sterman

Teacher had complained to police of threats from parents of a child in her class

Illustrative photo of a neo-Nazi (CC BY-SA 3.0, by Froofroo, Wikimedia Commons)

US neo-Nazi movement said to be in decline

Once the largest such group in the country, the National Alliance has suffered a ‘near-total collapse,’ ADL says

Lingua.ly in action (photo credit: Courtesy)

Start-up of the week

Israeli start-up presents an online ulpan

By David Shamah

More Headlines

Explosive consequences Palestinian turned into ‘terrorist’ by typo

Charles Aznavour at a 1997 concert in Paris (screen capture: YouTube)

Golden oldieCharles Aznavour to play Tel Aviv in Nov.

By Elhanan Miller

The opening ceremony for London’s first Jewish community center, September 29, 2013 (photo credit: Blake Ezra)

No gym, but lots of Jews: A JCC opens in London

By MIRAM SHAVIV

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, at the United Nations headquarters in New York (photo credit: AP/Andrew Gombert,Pool)

Hebrew media reviewIcing on the yellowcake

By Joshua Davidovich

Arabic media review‘Lavrov, the evil Russian fox’

By Elhanan Miller and Daniel Isaac

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