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What Matters Most On Friday, September 5, 2014

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Steven Sotloff (R) and Brian Blondy pose with Nefesh B'Nefesh representatives as they land at Ben Gurion as Israelis for the first time, in September 2005 (photo credit: Brian Blondy/Courtesy)

First person

The day Steven Sotloff chose to become an Israeli

By Brian Blondy

A personal account of immigrating to Israel in September 2005 with the journalist murdered by the Islamic State

Sotloff died because he symbolized West, democracy, Netanyahu says

By Gavriel Fiske

Photos of Sotloff’s Israeli ID cards aired on television

By Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren

Florida to fly flags at half-mast for Sotloff

By AFP

Joan Rivers poses next to her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during her induction ceremony in Los Angeles, July 26, 1989. (photo credit: AP/Doug Sheridan, File)

Netanyahu mourns death of Israel-backer Rivers

By ToI Staff and AP

Hollywood celebrities also weigh in on passing of acid-tongued Jewish-American comedian

Proud JewessRivers, from ADL feuds to Israel rants

By Uriel Heilman

Celebrities reflect on Joan Rivers’ death

By AP

Jewish comedian Joan Rivers dies at 81

By AP and ToI Staff

Reclaiming the Sabbath

Israelis are welcoming Shabbat in gatherings that blur social barriers and fuse tradition and modernity

Why not once and for all?

Israel exercises restraint when fighting Hamas because otherwise Israel wouldn’t be Israel

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The mystery of Dani Tal: A love story

Seeking: A man in a photograph from a lifetime ago

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and former minister of Immigration and Absorption Sofa Landver pose with a family from France, who immigrated to Israel in July 2014. (photo credit: David Salem)

In 2014, France is new top source of immigrants to Israel

By AFP and JTA

Jewish Agency’s French office head blames anti-Semitic climate for uptick in aliya

Journalist Steven Sotloff (right) in Syria, 2012 (photo credit: Facebook/Oren Kessler)

Jewish reporters in Arab world keep heritage off the record

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar Province, January 2014 (photo credit: AP)

Analysis

How did a few thousand fighters on pickup trucks manage to frighten the world?

By Avi Issacharoff

While Western media highlights the Islamic State’s gains, and Obama seeks a strategy, the jihadists would be hard-pressed if faced with a conventional army

Newly confirmed US envoy to the UN Samantha Power testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., last month. (photo credit: AP/Cliff Owen)

US: Islamic State could get Syrian chemical weapons

By AP

Fighters of the Islamic State waving the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria, in August 2014. (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

Washington: Dozen Americans fighting with Islamic State

By AFP

Pentagon says some 100 US citizens are in Syria, though it’s not clear which groups they are aligned with

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, June 4, 2014. (AFP/HO/Iranian Supreme Leader's website)

Khamenei approves cooperation with US forces battling IS

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Iran’s leader gives authorization to Qods Force commander as Washington, Tehran hold nuclear talks in Geneva

Former Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas leader: No to Israel’s disarmament demand

By AP and ToI Staff

Ismail Haniyeh says group ‘cannot accept or deal with any international decision to disarm the resistance’

Then-economy minister Naftali Bennett speaks at an economic conference, on September 2, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Bennett said to be preparing Jewish Home to form gov’t

By Stuart Winer

Far-reaching changes in party’s legislation would diminish the national religious focus to increase votes

Illustrative photo of schoolchildren taking an exam. (Shutterstock)

If kids repeat words, they learn more, research shows

By Andrew Tobin

5-year-olds remember up to twice as many words if they say them aloud, Israeli study finds

The Wix team toasts its IPO on the Nasdaq trading floor, November 2013. (Photo credit: Courtesy Wix)

Wix founders invest in crowdfunding site give2gether

By David Shamah

The two Israeli start-ups are joining forces to help non-profits raise more money from donation campaigns

An OriginGPS Nano Hornet GPS chip (Photo credit: Courtesy)

World’s smallest GPS chip makes wearables more wearable

By David Shamah

OriginGPS, known for component miniaturization, developed Micro Hornet specifically for the wearable tech market

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Daniel Tragerman, 4, who was killed in his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on August 22, 2014. (Courtesy)

Parents of Daniel Tragerman urge Ban to denounce Hamas war crimes

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to Russia, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

State to drop graft probe against prime minister

Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)

Haifa HomeboyA KISS for the homeland

By Gavriel Fiske

The Beatles -- from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison -- letting off steam with a pillow fight. (photo credit: Harry Benson/JTA)

British invasionRingo Starr fuming over IS ‘Beatles’

By Lazar Berman

The poster for a commemorative Arik Einstein concert to be held in October 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Made in IsraelConcert to remember Arik Einstein

By Jessica Steinberg

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz near the border with Syria in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on August 28, 2014. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewIslamists on the doorstep

By Marissa Newman

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