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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 17, 2013

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Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

Ex-spy boss rails against Turkey’s reported betrayal of Mossad spy ring in Iran

Danny Yatom, former Mossad head, intimates Tehran may have executed Iranian assets whose cover was blown by Ankara

‘Turkey deliberately blows cover of up to 10 Iranians working for Mossad’

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisErdogan’s Turkey: Less nationalism, more Islam

By Elhanan Miller

Britain and Iran to restore diplomatic relations

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, left, talks to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, during a photo opportunity prior to the start of two days of closed-door nuclear talks on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Fabrice Coffrini, pool)

US says nuclear talks more substantive than ever; Israel mum

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran reportedly ready to reduce but not end enrichment, accept surprise inspections of facilities; sides to meet again in three weeks

Russia: Lift Iran sanctions in exchange for int’l control of nuke program

By Yoel Goldman

PM headed to Rome for meetings with pope, John Kerry

By Raphael Ahren

Beyond sanctions: Congress eyes alternatives to push Tehran

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Pew asked the wrong questions

The survey missed the growing number of Jews who go to synagogue and attend Chabad, but don’t call themselves Orthodox

Christiane, your Holocaust mistake isn’t ‘piffle’

It’s clear to almost everyone, Rouhani never said ‘Holocaust’ in his CNN interview. Time to broadcast a correction

An eagle flying over southern Israel (photo credit: Yoav Perlman/Israel Ornithological Center, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Illeagle activities

Lebanon nabs Israeli ‘spy’ bird

By Lazar Berman

Hunters catch eagle with Tel Aviv University tags and turn it over to authorities; unlikely to change regional balance of power

A worker at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim in March 2011 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Settlement construction rate rises 70% in 2013

Peace Now: In Jan.-Jun., construction began on 1,708 units — 180 in illegal outposts — compared to 995 over same period last year

This 1930 file photo shows former President and US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft in his judicial robes. (photo credit: AP Photo/Files)

Portly president

President Taft’s yo-yo diet has a modern feel, says historian

By Renee Ghert-Zand and AP

Medical historian Dr. Deborah Levine finds that like the obese leader, Jewish immigrants also ‘fat shamed’ in the 19th century

The UN Security Council chamber (photo credit: CC BY-SA Gruban, Flickr)

Saudi Arabia to join UN Security Council Thursday

By AP

Nigeria, Chad, Lithuania and Chile also running unopposed for temporary place on powerful panel

Montreal Jews protesting the proposed Charter of Quebec Values, which aims to restrict public displays of religious faith. (photo credit: David Ouellette/JTA)

Will rising nationalism renew Montreal’s Jewish exodus?

Washington Redskins training camp, 2011 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Keith Allison - CC BY-SA 2.0)

Jewish football owner under fire for ‘racist’ team name

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Cowboys’ owner comes to defense of Redksin colleague, citing Jewishness as making him culturally sensitive; ADL calls for name change

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher sharpening his tools. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Lithuania advances bid to keep ritual slaughter legal

By JTA

Polish ban has paralyzed its $500 million kosher meat export industry

A warming soup of vegetables, quinoa and tzafatit cheese (photo credit: Andrea Brownstein/Photoli Photography)

Food for thought

Soup up

By Shira Buzelan

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Detail from Austria's 100 Euro commemorative coin featuring the 'Beethoven Frieze.' (photo credit: public domain)

Survivor’s heirs sue Austria for Nazi-looted artwork

By JTA

A man is escort by police at Jerusalem District Court after being sentenced to prison as the head of sadistic cult on October 17, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sadistic cult leader sentenced to 26 years

By Stuart Winer and Spencer Ho

View of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on June 23, 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Talking trashPM’s neighbors lodge garbage complaint

By Stuart Winer

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, left, talks to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, during a photo opportunity prior to the start of two days of closed-door nuclear talks on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Fabrice Coffrini, pool)

Hebrew media reviewLooking for Israel in Geneva

By Joshua Davidovich

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton attend a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany on Thursday, September 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jason DeCrow)

Arabic media reviewMaking sense of those nuclear talks

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