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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 17, 2014

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A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli flares illuminating the Palestinian coastal enclave, on July 7, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Mortar shell fired from Gaza at Israel

By Stuart Winer

Hamas denies it launched projectile; IDF searching for impact site in the Eshkol Region

Mortar explodes next to news crew in Golan

By Spencer Ho and ToI Staff

Hamas said to arrest mortar launchers

By Stuart Winer and Yifa Yaakov

More Gazans said risking sea passage for better life in Europe

By Tamar Pileggi, AP and AFP

Lady Gaga in Tel Aviv, September 13, 2014 (photo credit: Lady Gaga Facebook page)

AnalysisOP-ED

Lady Gaga, we f*cking love you too

By David Horovitz

A pop singer displayed more clear-headed morality than any international statesman could manage this terrible summer

A child plays with a pro-independence 'Yes' flag on the streets of Aberdeen in Scotland, on September 15, 2014, ahead of the referendum on Scotland's independence. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/BEN STANSALL)

Will an independent Scotland be a boost for Palestinian nationalism?

By Raphael Ahren

A yes vote in Thursday’s referendum could mean another critical voice in the EU and embolden separatists in the Middle East, say some Israeli officials. Others are unfazed

Donniel Hartman

To be a peaceaholic: A new year’s resolution

Israelis must ‘seek peace and pursue it’ even while knowing, every day, that somebody wants to kill them

A coalition of the unwilling

Israel will once again be America’s only true ally in the region

Aditya Divakar Karkera

ISIS is not Muslim

says a religion of 1.6 billion people cannot be judged based on the actions of a relatively small number

A ringing endorsement of our strategy

The Times of Israel missed the news that the Jewish Agency now puts more resources into aliyah than ever before

Illustrative photo of a kiosk selling Israeli beauty products at an American mall. The individuals in the photograph are not related to the content of the article. (YouTube Screenshot)

Exposed: The international scandal of Israel’s Dead Sea product hawkers

By Melanie Lidman

Then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. on December 1, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)

Israel’s power-starved left seeks its political fortunes in the center

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Shut out of government for a generation, Labor is shifting its tone, arguing that the right offers no hope of peace and, after this summer’s conflict, that it can’t win wars either

Former president Bill Clinton greets supporters after speaking to a large gathering at the 37th Harkin Steak Fry, September 14, 2014 in Indianola, Iowa. (photo credit:Steve Pope/Getty Images/AFP)

Bill Clinton doubts Netanyahu can make peace

By Stuart Winer

Yosef Abobaker speaking to CNN. (Screen capture: CNN)

From our archives

Sotloff’s fixer recounts abduction by Islamic State

In first interview, Yosef Abobaker describes their kidnapping by 15 gunmen and agony over the fate of the American-Israeli journalist who was his friend

Illustrative photo of a Syrian rebel sitting behind an anti-aircraft weapon, February 8, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Abdullah al-Yassin)

Exclusive

‘Israel has the opportunity to win the hearts of all Syrians’

By Elhanan Miller

FSA commander tells The Times of Israel that the IDF should establish anti-Assad no-fly zone, West not providing moderates with defensive weapons

An Israeli army tank is seen stationed near the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, March 19, 2014. (AFP/Jalaa Marey/File)

First they take Damascus, not Jerusalem

By Mitch Ginsburg

There have been no attempts by Syrian rebels to try and harm Israel, but cross-border action is possible, says Northern Command officer

A still from a propaganda video released on July 5, 2014, allegedly shows the leader of the Islamic State jihadist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, addressing Muslim worshipers at a mosque in the IS-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul. (AFP/HO/al-Furqan Media)

IS leader depicted as child of Jewess and devil

In promo for Iraqi satirical TV series, Islamic State chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi emerges from egg laid by Jewish woman

People pay their respects in front of a makeshift memorial at the entrance of the Jewish Museum in Brussels following a deadly terrorist attack, on May 25, 2014. (AFP/Georges Gobet)

Islamic State-inspired lone wolves pose ‘significant’ threat to Jews

Brussels Jewish Museum shooting made jihadist threat to Jewish community more evident, top security consultant says

Naftali Bennett (r) with former IDF chief rabbi Avichai Rontzki. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief rabbi denies leaking info to Bennett

Army boots Avichai Rontzki from reserves over alleged transmission of army data on Hamas tunnels to minister during Gaza war

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90).

Popular rabbi signs plea bargain in bribery case

By Gavriel Fiske

Yoshiyahu Pinto to give evidence against former top police official in exchange for lesser sentence

Maxim Vengerov, the peripatetic, creative violinist and conductor, is in Israel to launch the Vengerov Festival (photo credit: Courtesy Pixpix Photography)

Violinist Vengerov says his heart and soul belong in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

The virtuoso fiddler and conductor launches his festival in Tel Aviv this weekend

GetTaxi app screenshot (Courtesy)

$10 ride gimmick gives GetTaxi edge in NY ‘cab wars’

By David Shamah

Use of Israeli start-up’s app has shot up by 3000% because of the offer; company believes passengers will stick with it

Futuristic fashion (stock image) via Shutterstock.

Tech couture

Start-up Tel Aviv goes fashion forward

For the first time in Israel, techies and fashionistas team up to show off tomorrow’s threads

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

Damn you auto-correctPLO typo promotes ‘violent’ protest

Some of the Emojews created for Latet's holiday donation campaign (Courtesy Latet)

Iconic cornucopiaEmoji for the Jews

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative photo of graffiti featuring a swastika. (CC BY-HHA124L/Flickr/File)

NYC police look into swastika fliers in Brooklyn

By JTA

Author and tolerance promoter Zak Ebrahim at a TED conference in 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/TED)

Son of Kahane’s killer says Jews aren’t the enemy

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

Pope Francis waving to the people after a mass in the Manger Square, next the Nativity Church, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 25, 2014 (photo credit: Atta Jaber/Flash90)

Vatican downplays IS threat ahead of pope’s Albania trip

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies on Capitol Hill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Oct. 3, 2013 (AP/Molly Riley)

On eve of talks, US and Iran remain ‘far apart’ on key issues

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

The Coachella Valley High School Arab mascot before its make-over. (YouTube screenshot)

Mascot Make-overArabs become Mighty Arabs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset plenum, March 12, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBack to the battlefield

By Marissa Newman

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