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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 3, 2013

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Yaakov Peri (left) meets air force troops at the Tel Nof airbase, April, 2013.( Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Iran’s cyber chief killed in ‘internal dispute,’ Israel speculates

Iran denies that Mojtaba Ahmadi, reportedly gunned down outside Tehran by two men on a motorbike, was assassinated; says he died in a ‘horrific incident’

Top minister: Makes sense for Israel, Arabs to cooperate on Iran

By Aaron Kalman

Kerry: ‘Diplomatic malpractice’ not to engage Iran

Netanyahu: Ayatollah Khamenei ‘heads a cult’

By Yoel Goldman

Birthright Israel participants at Masada, summer 2012 (photo credit: Courtesy Taglit-Birthright/JTA)

Rise of ‘Jews of no religion’ most significant find of Pew study, says director

Landmark new survey shows a whopping 22% of American Jews describe themselves as proudly Jewish by culture alone; 71% of non-Orthodox Jews marrying out

Finding, in her three young daughters, a chance to escape the stifling presence of her own damaged shadow

Jessie Kahnweiler

Dude, where’s my beshert?

Looking for love in all the holy places and finding an old Birthright soulmate

Eduardo Eurnekian and Baruch Tenembaum

The collective heroism of Denmark

Paying tribute to the unparalleled effort by the Danish people to rescue their Jewish compatriots from the Nazis

Tzachi Hanegbi (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel no longer certain Obama would ever use force against Iran, Likud MK indicates

By Raphael Ahren

Tzachi Hanegbi: In his UN speech, PM was telling Iran that Israel will take action ‘even if the Americans will be prevented from acting against you’

The Digmi family, one of the five competing families in reality show 'HaKfar,' with David Digmi, a convicted sex offender, on the left (Courtesy Channel 10)

Reality show grapples with sex offender star

By Jessica Steinberg

TV station screening ‘HaKfar,’ featuring five families battling for survival under ‘pre-state conditions,’ defends participant who abused a 13-year-old girl

Woman raped, branded in Jerusalem forest

19-year-old victim attacked, sexually assaulted near Sanhedria neighborhood; police launch special investigation into incident

Egyptian army soldiers stand guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, July 5, 2013. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Analysis

Egypt drafts plans to launch strikes on Gaza terror targets

By Avi Issacharoff

Drones reportedly gathering intel on targets in Hamas-run enclave; Egyptian general says military losing patience with jihadists in Strip

A Palestinian sits in one of Gaza's smuggling tunnels (photo credit: Hatem Moussa/AP)

Photo essay

A different view of Gaza’s smuggling tunnels

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

The formerly bustling underground route connecting Sinai with the Strip has been emptied by Egypt’s military offensive

Rabbi Asher Lopatin (JTA)

New yeshiva head articulates spirit of ‘open Orthodoxy’

By Uriel Heilman

The High Water Mark of the Confederacy at the Gettysburg National Military Park (photo credit: Robert Swanson, Wikimedia Commons)

Government shutdown stalls planned KKK rally

By JTA

Maryland-based group planned gathering at Gettysburg, but national park closures force cancelation of event

The Alcatel-Lucent's team outside the company's Israel headquarters (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Phone business revolution starts in Israel, says Alcatel-Lucent CEO

By David Shamah

Michel Combes describes his company’s vision of the telecom future – and how an Israeli-innovated project will be key for the phone networks of tomorrow

An oil portrait of the artist Hermann Struck by painter Lovis Corinth. (photo credit: Wikimedia)

Home of Haifa artist Hermann Struck is reborn as museum

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Joanne Ginsberg's 'Daughters of Israel, Do Not Dress Provocatively' T-shirt design (photo credit: Courtesy of Joanne Ginsberg)

Read my breastsThou shalt not dress provocatively

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A home phone (Illustrative photo credit: CC BY/tawalker via Flickr.com)

Hotline hysteriaMan busted after 5,170th call to 9-1-1

By Aaron Kalman

From the web‘My Nazi grandfather, Amon Goeth, would have shot me’

Illustrative photo of doctors at an Israeli hospital (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe profound and the prosaic

By Joshua Davidovich

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko/File)

Arabic media reviewCatherine Ashton’s Egyptian failure

By Daniel Isaac and Elhanan Miller

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